dipper, I have to ask, have you personally taken your relatives to task over this? I find it very offputting when you come on here and take these guys to task over something that very many of them have no personal connection with and many only have a very basic knowledge of the disease and the situations. Do you rub your families faces in it EVERY time you see them at a family reunion? Wedding? Graduation party? EVER? Your family appears to be a pretty substantial "violator" where CWD is concerned. By "violator", I don't mean they violate any statutory laws, because we all know those are a joke and they won't be getting changed anytime soon to force these deer farmers to do anything that will cost them money or their livelihoods. I mean they "violate" the common sense rules and apparently the "dipper code of CWD ethics", likely on a daily basis. Do you call your family(who are directly involved) out on it as often as you call the guys on HT out on something they have no control over or even have a direct connection to? If you do call them out every time you see them, then I commend you for it, if not, you might want to look in the mirror before calling out the members of a forum who are not deer farmers and likely don't have any type of relationship with deer farmers and little knowledge of deer farming other than rhetoric from others. You think it is an effort in futility for guys to try and get better hunting by calling out their DNR and taking them to task, and those DNR folks "work" for the taxpayers(the hunters) of their state, so they should be answering to the taxpayers. How futile do you really think it would be for these guys to go in front of their legislators and ask them to stop deer farming and having to fight against the big money that would be thrown against them in that fight. Especially in a situation where they have no control over the actual people they are trying to stop and those people do not owe the hunters any explanation at all because they will argue they are just trying to make a living. It is not fair to call these guys out if you are not doing EVERYTHING in your power to stop your own relatives from being one of the primary problems you are asking these guys to remedy. I have gotten into fist fights for calling out guys for shooting too many does in the bar, have you went to blows over the deer farmer/CWD issue with your relatives? Those family fights are some of the best ones from my experience. Time to put up or.......
