i don't know if you guys are trying to imply that i'm a bad hunter or what, but i can assure you i know what i'm doing. i have a bunch of trophys from both PA and WV. both rifle and bow kills. i've seen deer this year, passed some up hence why i don't have a buck yet this year. a 13" wide 8 point will make a great buck next year.

if i wanted to kill a deer i would, but im just telling you what i've noticed the past few seasons. it's getting harder and harder just to SEE a deer let alone pass some up. i'm just wondering what its going to be like 5-10 years in the future if this keeps up. i'll be working and won't have every single day of the week all season long to sit on stand just to see a few doe and possibly a buck. a small handful of deer all season is ridiculous.

mikey, i hunt the carmicheals area a good bit and there are still a good bit of deer left there. some spots around masontown and greene county still have a good number of deer, but everywhere else doesn't. this is probably why you think the deer herd is no danger. i own a farm in central fayette and theres hardly any left. also, saturday evening the woods were PACKED with hunters. they might have all been road hunting where you are, but in connellsville the woods were so crowded you always had blaze orange in sight no matter where you went.

just because there were no deer back in the day doesn't mean we should go back to that. that doesn't mean it was right. if we can avoid going back to the days where "just getting a shot off" during a rifle season was common i think we should do so. i promise you, at the rate we are going, you won't have to worry about buying more than one box of shells every four to five seasons. as far as bow, a half dozen of arrows will probably do in that time.