Pennsylvania Hunters,
Are you disappointed with what the game commission has been doing these past few years? I know there are nicer bucks, but there are no more deer and when you do see a buck you do think he's nice because he's the only deer you'll see. I live on a 300+ acre farm and we were lucky to see 5 deer feeding a night throughout the summer in our fields. We even plant food just for them and they barely touched it. When I scouted for archery season I knew there were less and less deer because of how many acorns were still on the ground throughout the entire season. My point is, do you think the game commission is going to allow this to go on much further, after reading their issues they want atleast 1 deer per 100 acres. That means we are allowed 3.4 deer on our farm. It used to be we would see groups of deer a day while hunting, it was nothing to see 20+ deer in a day of hunting and there were still good bucks back then. This deer management they are promoting is more like making the whitetail extinct from Pennsylvania. If they don't stop the issuing of doe licenses in certain areas, the deer will be very scarce and depleted. Hunting as we know it has ended and I know there will be some of you critics out there saying it is called hunting for a reason.. well you can't hunt what there isn't and there isn't any deer and with the game commissions "game management" they are going to just hurt the deer population unless they stop the doe licenses or people become smart and stop shooting does. I heard the game commission is going to raise prices for licenses because people aren't buying them anymore... well people aren't buying them because there isn't any deer.. if they do raise the prices they should make licenses separate such as, bear, small game, turkey, deer, etc. So people don't have to buy the main deer license to hunt small game or turker or bear. Anyways what is your concern and point of view on this?