I certainly take no offense at your question. I aged the buck in the photo by tooth succession and you are correct PA Gobbler. He was an eight-point and was 1.5 years old. I think this indicates that where I hunt, the deer are reaching their genetic potential and that they obviously have enough food to do so. I shot this buck on the Thursday of the second week of rifle season. During the first week, I held out for one of the ten-points I saw during early seasons, but they must have crawled under a rock and pulled the rock in after them (LOL). I guess a buck doesn't get to be three or four years old without getting a PhD in hunter avoidance, does he. When this guy walked past my rock, I made a decision to harvest him. I guess some might have passed him up, but I didn't. This is the second year in a row that I waited until Thursday of the second week to take a buck. There must be something magic about the second Thursday.

For the record, I am not an alpha hunter, and I hope I am not coming across like one. I am not a great hunter, but I am persistent. I stick it out longer than most do and sometimes get rewarded.

My point on the "complainers" is that they are blaming the game commission for having less than perfect harvest data when they should put the blame where it belongs. It is the slobs that refuse to send in report cards that make it necessary for them to use the system they use. Still, I understand that we have to blame someone. Isn't that the American way?