It seems as though hunters have been killing some very nice white-tailed deer over the last few years.
Game Commission officials would not say if its recent scoring sessions produced any new records, though it's already known that Washington County archer Jerry Simkonis' non-typical whitetail -- taken with a bow last season and measured previously over the winter -- is the new standard bearer in that category.
But some nice deer were measured nonetheless.
In the northwest region, for example, Walter Schuckers of Reynoldsville took in a 12-point typical killed in 2006 that scored 1714/8. That's high enough to rank the Jefferson County deer in the top 15 all-time in the state right now.
The biggest typical deer taken with a firearm measured at the commission's southwest scoring session was a Greene County animal. Taken by Keith Dolan of Carmichaels in 2007, it scored 1566/8. The largest non-typical taken with a firearm was a Beaver County deer killed in 2000 Marlane Waddingham of Beaver Falls. It scored 171. The largest archery typical buck was a Chester County deer killed in 2003 by Dennis Johns of Natrona Heights. It scored 1387/8.
Some even bigger deer may yet show up in the record books, however. Regis Senko, information and education supervisor in the commission's northwest region office, echoed the comments of his colleagues in several other regional offices when he said that he suspected this fall's ceremony to showcase the biggest deer will reveal some even larger-racked animals.
"What we saw, compared to the deer we've seen at taxidermists and in the papers and in person, was not indicative of what's been taken out there, I don't think," Senko said.
Could it be that the rack sizes of our 2.5+ buck are actually decreasing just as they did in Miss.? Why hasn't the PGC released the results of their annual antlered buck survey?
__________________ In Miss. ,ARs reduced the average rack size of 2.5+ buck across the entire state
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Could it be that the rack sizes of our 2.5+ buck are actually decreasing just as they did in Miss.? Why hasn't the PGC released the results of their annual antlered buck survey?
So HOW do you get that 2.5's racks are shrinking from the above article?
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WELL, how are they going to hype their nasty programs now... I can still see ALTIE holding up those two racks..and now the proof, there are very few enteries apparantly in the new lists.. you would have thought by listening to them over the last few years, the book should have been rewritten, NOT !!!!
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So HOW do you get that 2.5's racks are shrinking from the above article?
I ask a question, I did not say 2.5 rack sizes were decreasing because the PGC hasn't released the results from the annual antlered buck survey since ARs were implemented. However, as yet I have not seen a logical explanation why we wouldn't have been high grading our bucks in the same way that reduced rack sizes in Miss.
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[quote][Was that intended as tongue in cheek or were you serious? If you were serious ,explain how antler growth is different in Miss. than in PA?/quote]
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It seems as though hunters have been killing some very nice white-tailed deer over the last few years.
Game Commission officials would not say if its recent scoring sessions produced any new records, though it's already known that Washington County archer Jerry Simkonis' non-typical whitetail -- taken with a bow last season and measured previously over the winter -- is the new standard bearer in that category.
But some nice deer were measured nonetheless.
In the northwest region, for example, Walter Schuckers of Reynoldsville took in a 12-point typical killed in 2006 that scored 1714/8. That's high enough to rank the Jefferson County deer in the top 15 all-time in the state right now.
The biggest typical deer taken with a firearm measured at the commission's southwest scoring session was a Greene County animal. Taken by Keith Dolan of Carmichaels in 2007, it scored 1566/8. The largest non-typical taken with a firearm was a Beaver County deer killed in 2000 Marlane Waddingham of Beaver Falls. It scored 171. The largest archery typical buck was a Chester County deer killed in 2003 by Dennis Johns of Natrona Heights. It scored 1387/8.
Some even bigger deer may yet show up in the record books, however. Regis Senko, information and education supervisor in the commission's northwest region office, echoed the comments of his colleagues in several other regional offices when he said that he suspected this fall's ceremony to showcase the biggest deer will reveal some even larger-racked animals.
"What we saw, compared to the deer we've seen at taxidermists and in the papers and in person, was not indicative of what's been taken out there, I don't think," Senko said.
Could it be that the rack sizes of our 2.5+ buck are actually decreasing just as they did in Miss.? Why hasn't the PGC released the results of their annual antlered buck survey?
I gotta hand it to you. You ARE the ultimate spin doctor!
I doubt that Barrak Obama reads this board but if he did, I bet you'd get a job offer in a New York Minute!
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