RE: Disgusted with PA
If no one out there understands Pennsylvanias Game Commission laws you can read my post I made titled "Pennsylvania Hunters." The game commission due to MR. GARY ALT... yeah thats his name so we can all blame him... well they say the deer are destroying the forests. But, if you ask around in PA you will notice that there have not been any logging of any sort to make up new forest and they blame the deer for grazing too much and destroying newly grown trees. Well I am also sick and tired of the game commissions BS about the deer population and how they will destroy the forests if they aren't brought down toa good population. If you look at the game commission they want a ONE SINGLE deer in 100 acres and I have a 300+ acre farm and that means there can only be 3.4 or so deer per my farm. You can tell us it's called hunting, but you can't hunt what's not there. If this continues by shooting off the does the deer population will become extinct and we'll have to do what we did hundred or so years ago and that's reintroduce the whitetail into pennsylvania.. if there was any way of getting the game commission to understand the situation they would have knocked off doe season for the next couple years so that the herds get bigger.. i know there are nicer bucks now because of the antler restrictions but they are only nicer because you only see that buck in a single outing a day.. so far after hunting all archery and gun season i have seen 4 deer. In previous years I would have seen a total of close to 100 by now.. it may have been the same deer but it kept me aware and awake while i was hunting and it made me wanna go back out to hunt.. but now only seeing 4 deer in the past 2 months is a disgrace and is making people want to quit hunting... that is why the game commission is thinking about raising license prices... if they do this i don't know what will happen.. PA is going through a bad time right now with deer management and we have kicked off Gary Alt from the board for the game commission but this won't help us, we need something better, we need to save the does.. you might even see no hunting or the 2 week season going back to one week and no does allowed... this would be great for a couple years... but thats just my two cents and what the hell do i know