ORIGINAL: patrkyhntr
Since you and your buddies play games with the harvest reporting system, please tell us how you would fix it. Also, since you don't believe or trust the blame commission, how about a source for some facts that you do trust. It seems to me that you are all gripe and no solution. I'll see if you post something worth reading in your next post, and if you don't, I have better things to do than to read this sort of trash.
It is interesting to me that most "sportsmen" in Pa. seemed to enjoy taking two or more does every year for about five years, but are oh so surprised when this resulted in a reduced deer population. I sat through one of Gary Alt's traveling dog and pony shows, and while he was busy rattling those nice antlers on stage, he was also talking about the need to REDUCE THE HERD. I keep coming back to the same thing. What part of "herd reduction" don't people understand?
So the population in your area is down 70% is it? Let's take the WMU I hunt in, 4A. Just in the past two years, 2004 and 2005, the doe harvest dropped from 22,000 in 2004 to 7600 in 2005. That is a pretty big drop in harvest. Now, if the blame commission was falsifying numbers, cardeer, don't you think they could have done a better job and made this look better? I sure could have. The total deer kill in 4A was down 28% in those two years. Wouldn't you have made it look better than that, cardeer? You are one of those who looks for a conspiracy where there is no logical reason for there to be one, but don't let that stop you.
If the harvest figures are not accurate, us "sportsmen" have nobody to blame but ourselves. Playing games with harvest report cards is so blatantly stupid that it defies anything in the way of common sense.
AGAIN I SENT IN MY CARD,bUT YES IDONT TRUST THE PGC
I WOULD HAVE MANDATORY CHECK IN STATIONS TO START,FINES FOR NOT CHECKING IN A DEER WOULD BE 2000.00 AND LOSS OF HUNTING PRIVILAGES FOR 5 YEARS.
UTILIZE OUR COLLEGE STUDENT.OTHER STATES DO.COLLEGE STUDENTS IN A ENVIROMENTAL FIELD RECIEVES COLLEGE CREDITS FOR COUNTING DEER IN THE FIELD.
PLANT FOOD PLOTS IN ALL GAMELANDS,OTHER STATES DO
KEEP ANTLER RESTRICTIONS BUT BACK TO A SEPERATE DOE SEASON IN GUN.
PAY LAND OWNERS WHO DO NOT ALLOW HUNTING TO OPEN THEIR LAND TO 1 HUNTER FOR EVERY 20 ACRES
PGC TO ORGANIZE BOW HUNTS IN THE BURBS AND FEDERAL PARKS
MICROMANAGE UNITS TO BIG RIGHT NOW
ONE DEER PER PERSON WHERE NUMBERS OUR DOWN ACCORDING TO A BETTER COUNTING SYSTEM
WITH PROPER GAMELAND FOOD PLOTS AND PRIVATE LAND OWNERS WHO MOST ALREADY PLANT FOOD FOR THE DEER A 18 DEER PER SG MILE WOULD BE NO PROBLEMS.
PRY SOME MONEY FROM THE PA HUNTER THAT JUST TAKES FROM THE SYSTEM AND PUTS NOTHING BACK INTO IT
RAISE THE LICENSE TO 35.00 TO SORT OUT THE WELFARE STYLE HUNTER
AFTER THE DEER POP IS BACK UP TO HIGHER LEVELS AND A GOOD COUNTING METHOD HAS BEEN USED THEY CAN CUSTOMIZE THE ALLOCATIONS
CUT THE TIES WITH THE TIMBER COMPANIES AND THEIR PAY OFFS
GET SOME COMMISSIONERS THAT ARE AVID HUNTERS,NOT SATURDAY AT A SPECIAL PAY PRIVATE HUNTIN CLUB
I FORGOT 20.00 ARCHERY TAG,20.00 MUZZY TAG AND 20.00 PER DOE TAG