I am totally amazed at how people blame the deer population for all the forest regrowthproblems, especially the people on here. Seldom is it mentioned about the canopy or acid rain.


You brought up a good point, bowhunter2117, when you said about the tornado.

I hunt in Greene Co. and there is NO problem with forest regrowth there. some places are so thick that you can't even get down and crawl through. { I have first hand experience in this area}


The PGC uses the excuse for selling so many doe tags is because of the over browsing of deer causing forest regeneration problems. Why then, is the PGC selling so many licenses in WMU 2a? There is no forest regrowth issue in that area. They sell doe tags to make money, lots of money. Now that all the hunters aren't seeing deer they say that they had to stop the over browsing to save the trees.

Before they wanted to decrease the doe population to help the deer herd be more healthy and to make way for Gary Alt's super bucks and to balance the buck to doe ratio. Everyone remembers Gary holding up those antlers and showing the size difference, as he tried to sell the AR idea. What's Gary doing now? Selling used cars?


I understand that the price on everything goes up, and the PGC needs more money. But I also have a hard time paying more money to the PGC for how bad of a managment job they have done. They bit the hand that fed them.

They tried to lie and say hunters weren't going off of the road far enough to find the deer that they said were definitely there. Now theyadmit that maybe there weren't as many deer as they originallythought there was. ( Mismanagement at its finest



I'm to the point that I would like to see the PGC fold up and the DCNR take over. The hunting here is already bad. I'll just start hunting West Virginia again. I might even take up my buddy's offer to hunt Maryland and to hell with PA. At least I'll be paying the game commissioners of those other states for a job well done.


The PGC is the laughing stock of the United States, for their mismanagement practices.

Just a few years ago they were on the news forpublic relation issues and how they treat people. I even heard that Johny Carson had a joke about the PGC in his monologue.

When I hunt in other states and meet their Game Commission officials, they always treat you nice and ask how the hunting is going. Here in PA they act like you are a criminal right off of the bat. One time I actually got interregated for being in the woods armed only with a camera. They checked the camera all out and checked my license. Ask me all kinds of questions of why I had a camera. I had to show ID to match the license on my back. I had a camera for crying out loud. It should not have mattered whose license was on my back. I was on private ground, I might add.

I think the PGC would get what it deserves if they went belly up.

I know some of you will preach of how bad it will be when the dcnr is holding the reins, but right now, I don't care. I'll just hunt in one of my neighboring states and gladly pay the extra money to them instead of the idiots who manage things in this state.