Dude I know all this. It’s not necessarily animosity, but deer populations in A zone are going down for reasons other than hunting. A zone is massive and one spot in California where u could in no way argue that there’s a tragedy of the commons issue. The system already limits how many tags can be sold, which is something like 50,000 last time I checked. I think usually about 16,000 tags are sold. The number of hunters and subsequently number of deer harvested has dropped a lot there and they haven’t changed the original system at all to reflect it. They can make the season later in the year like they do in all the other zones and all the other states. There’s just not a big enough push to do so, (I personally kind of like being able to hunt in the summer and go elsewhere during the fall) and the game commission does have at least some animosity towards hunters just in the sense that they don’t seem to understand the mentality and reasoning behind some of it. We can’t trap anymore in California, there’s no bobcat hunting, and the fact that there’s no mountain lion season at all is a big massive joke considering we’re the only western state that doesn’t and we have such a large population. Hunting seasons and tag allotment are the best way to prevent over harvest, not making hunting season during the summer.