This year our check stations were cancelled because of corona. Other years we are required to check them in during gun season, and they ask for permission to sample. A deer to be mounted can't be sampled by them. I know a few guys who don't allow the sample. My dad and I have taken the stance, right or wrong, to allow them to sample, which then puts a dot on a giant wall map of where you killed the animal. Our section and adjacent sections have already been determined to be CWD sections. Hence, why we have snipers. Our theory is the DNR needs to be seeing some dots show up on that map showing the landowners are taking matters in their own hands and at least making an effort to work on the herd a little. We have a few sets of neighbors who won't shoot does anymore, thinking the herd is getting too small and the snipers are making it even smaller. These are probably guys who miss the days of seeing big herds of deer in every field in the fall and winter. Those days are gone, the dnr doesn't want them back, and frankly I agree in that regard. To me, in a perfect world, all the nearby farms would take a few does each year, and the dnr would leave. Some guys won't allow their deer to be checked because they don't want the dnr thinking or knowing where a sick deer came from, and doing more sniping. But if they don't check it, then they don't put a mark on the map, thus making it look like no one is taking any deer in that area. I might have it all wrong. It's an ongoing thought process.