ORIGINAL: wvdeer4u

The only reason we ar not going to see statewide AR in WV is because the DNR is already poor and they make too much money off of the extra buck and extra bow tags. And most out of state hunters buy there extra buck tag for the gun season too. Until they cut way back on managers, biologists and game wardens or really increase the cost of the license and tags they are going to continue the multiple bucks per year.
Since they can't go one buck statewide they have to just do little areas like WMA's under different rules. We don't need or want AR in WV. We just need one buck per year. Down state areas maybe most people don't kill more than one buck per year legally but up here in the Northern panhandle it is nothing to kill 3,4 or 5 bucks a year. We have the best habitat up here, the most deer but the smallest. Its no fun when you go out that you know you can kill a deer but its going to be little. I would much rather go out knowing that I had a big buck in the area and wait for him.
Unfortuneatly I live to far from the bowhunting counties to drive there and hunt but luckily I live 15 minutes from Ohio. I saw more big bucks and killed a bigger buck thanI have ever killed in WV last year in Ohio in 13 days of bowhunting. It brought the excitement back into hunting for me last year knowing I was going to have to hunt and that there were big bucks around. Ohio only allows one buck a year and the difference between those two riverbanks is only a thousand feet but the deer management is worlds apart.