PA Deer Management is Almost OK
I think they almost have the right idea. The one huge problem is they treat allof the land the same in each region. I hunt in 3D, and on private land there are tons of deer all the communities are loaded with deer. State land is barren. We have never in 30 years seen so few deer. I lived in VA for 5 years and they had different regulations for public and private land. They also broke it down by counties not huge regions. Counties with too many you could shoot doe all season on private land. You could also buy bonus doe tags for 5 dollars. Public land it was only open for one weekend. If the public land had a large deer population doe was open for a week or two.The only thing they were missing was AR's. I wish PA would wake up and realize 90% of hunters hunt on Public land, all of the areas where the deer are a "problem" are areas you can't hunt.