ORIGINAL: buckeyebuckhntr
Antler point restrictions are flat out retarded. All you're doing is letting fork bucks and small bucks with inferior genetics pass their genes on and shoot out 2 1/2 year old bucks that could grow big. You don't get bigger bucks shot. It's probably worse for your herd. I do agree with thinning out does. Thinning out does is a necessary evil. I love the ideaof earn a buck. It's really a great management tool combined with free doe tags like we have here in the CWD units. The Average Joe Hunter doesn't know a damn thing about deer management other than what he's read on the can in Outdoor Life. most of the information average guys know is pretty vague and basic. I think the state cannot institute a program like Antler Restricions or minimum spread to grow bigger bucks, as you can't make people happy. if a guy wants to whack a fork buck, let him. Deer management should only be done on private land. makes everyone happy.
I find it funny were are getting deer biology lessons from a youngin whom has one doe bow kill to his credit. Look sonny, you obviously got your opinon of AR's in a magazine article from some one crying sour grapes. I live 20 minutes from PA and we have numerous monster bucks in my area. In case you didn't know the famous Hole in the horn came from a mere 20 minutes from the PA border. Western PA has the potential to produce the same world class deer as Oh, Il, Wi, IA, KS, etc...
AR's have greatly improved PA's deer herd. You wait and see I bet PA produces some great bucks this year being 4 years deep into AR's. Alot of those little spikes and fork horns are now 3.5 to 5.5 years old.
That's thanks to Ohio's 2 restrictions. 1 buck with 3" or more horn. Sonny. According to your logic, Pa hunters need to hunt the Oh. border not the other way around. In the last season Pa took 70,000 less deer than they did 4 years ago. If Pa implemented it's policies because of deforestation and they are taking less deer, where's the logic in their plan? Get a few more years under your belt sonny, and you'll understand how things work. IT'S ABOUT MONEY. Some of the other states are already proving it. You don't think these guys just all of the sudden see how they can charge more for something. They plan these things for years.
Have you seen the new Star Wars movie. Some 25 year old thought he had all the answers and was used to push a destructive agenda. It's the way the world works and is done in schools and universities non stop. How is it they found cwd in 2 managed herds in NY.? Those deer should have been seed for the deer population that is getting so out of balanced. No, weight, we took record bucks here last year, but that won’t last, just you weight, you’ll see.
Push your fear some place else.