Buckeye,

I love the antler restrictions, they have been long needed. Let the little guys grow and not only that, but it makes hunters take a better look at the deer before they shoot, this increases the safety of the woods.

Now, the doe herd reduction. I had been saying that it was a great thing and I still say that it WAS needed, but the amount of doe I have seen this year in all my scouting is shocking..... 1 doe. I have saw alot of bucks, but the does aren't around. I have got about 8 rolls of film off my game cam this spring and I have got 1 picture with a doe in it, the rest have all been bucks. Yeah, this may be awsome for hunting for a good buck, but what is it gonna do next year?

My problems really lies with the PGC and their claims of deer numbers. I have read that my area is supposed to still have between 30-35 dpsm and I dought that the number is over 20 dpsm! PA has over a million hunters and these guys are pretty much all able to get a doe tag. You put that many tags out into that many guys hands and they can do some serious damage to the herd, but the PGC refuses to see this. They are severly under-estimating the amount of doe that PA hunters can kill.

This year doe tags in my management unit were "cut back" by 2000 tags. My management unit is about half of one county and half of another and they were giving out 54,000 doe tags for this area. Cutting it back by 2,000 isn't gonna do a thing.