• There are some exceptionally unlucky hunters who just don't seem to be able to get drawn under the current deer tag drawing system. (Editor's note: I'm definitely one!)

• There will still be unhappy hunters no matter what system DFG decides to go to. There were 23,000 tags in 1999 and 44,000 applications — that means at least 21,000 hunters were unhappy.

• There are no free bucks. If hunters want an extra hunt or a hunt later in the season, then bucks that would be killed in these new hunts have to be subtracted from the number that can be killed in other hunts.

• Preference points should be used to hunt PLM properties.

• 82% of the A Zone bucks are killed on private land.

• A study of radio-collared deer in the desert areas of X9c, D12, and D17 showed that some deer traveled 50 miles a night between water and feed.

• Over one-half of successful hunters in some zones do not return their tags.

• Mountain lion/bear impact: There is no control of mountain lions — lions kill deer, bears take the lion's kill and the lion has to kill another deer thereby increasing the predation rate. An increase in the number of bears may be increasing this predation.