RE: DEER Population ,SHOCKER
I have to say BS.... I have lived in PA all my life and it is truly idiot comments such as this that truly ruins our hunting. I could givea S^& about being thrown off this site any longer.. I own a farm in PA in the Murrysville area.. And since the regulations I have never seen it better. My farm as well as the game lands I normally hunt were totally eaten... Lately I am seeing new growth..
What bothers me is that if you were a farmer and your had 10 acres of pasture and your were going to run 200 head of cattle on it everyone would say you were an idiot not to mention sending the humane society.. In this case,PA is thesame( lots of deer and little food)... I went this last season to various areas we have hunted for years, and the areas were Westmoreland, Venago, McKean, Tioga, Center and several others... I saw deer out the yang....
Now I listen to bleeding hearts complaining about how bad it is and I question how much exposure you have had to other systems...Hunt somewhere else for a change...Get some experience..Harsh, you know what I am sick of this debate.. Cardeer, you do nothing but complain and it is about nothing... we reduced doe tags by 50+k as I have seen and that means 100k more deer in the spring..Half will be bucks and they will be too small to kill yet they eat... now those additional 50k does will pop out a min of 50k in young.. now we have 75k extra deer.. Where do they eat in my F$%^&*() yard on my porch etc.. .. I have lived outside of PA and seen several deer management systems that work and they were exactly what we were doing...
No problem my farm will be part of a sub-division and I will buy a farm to match it in Ohio or Iowa to really hunt some deer...