ORIGINAL: Kengston
ORIGINAL: BTBowhunter
Well we can agree that some places have lots of deer and others don't. I would suggest they give out lots of tags next year for these areas so we can let the areas that are low on deer repopulate.Me and maybe another 200,000 hunters might see you next year where you hunt them. You or othrs who seen all these deers in your area wouldn't mind would you?What WMU are you hunting?
2B 2D and 2F for me and my gang. I've heard basically the same story (from the same type of hunters) in all three.... no deer, they're killing all the does and yet the folks I hunt with see and harvest deer in all three of those WMU's. Do we have hotspots and coldspots in each? You betcha! But we've managed to find the deer on public , or open to the public, land in all 3 WMU's. In some cases, we are not hunting all of our traditional honey holes but we've found new ones.
I really believe that the bulk of the complaints are coming from hunters who want it "to be the way it was WHERE it was" no matter what.They either won't or can't adapt. Guess what? You may have to try a new spot! Not neccesarily a new WMU but maybe a new area. You might even have to do some off season scouting and a little homework to gain permission but the deer are out there and available for those willing to work for them.
What do you tell the people who have jobs and only get out maybe 3 days to hunt? What are you goanna tell the kids who hunt with these main majority of people? Believe it or not, these are the majority of hunters who buy their license. I hope the PGC will see it like this instead of catoring to the ones who don't bring them in the most income. Ask a child what they want to see? Deer of any kind. To cater to the minority is really bad bussiness. If a store doesn't sale a product of popularitythat the majoritywants, Are theygoanna shop there for that product? Not a chance.
No trying to be a pain. But let me ask...Did the majority not speak up?? How did it pass with such a small minority??
Well,I huntin New England, which never had nor ever will have the PA herd.I startedhunting as a kid. Yeah, I got lucky my early years but still hunted for several seasons in a row seeing little to no deer. In fact,I never lost interest despite not harvesting a deer in my state foran embarasingly long time. My father taught me how to hunt the tough MA public woods, and taught me that effort would yield its rewards, not luck. The deer don't come easy. They never do up here.
For faster "action" he would take me upland bird or small game huntingas a kid. Where lots of game is sighted, lots of shooting and walking to keep it fun. It was a better way to keep a kid interested in hunting.
For deer, a kid has to learn to become patient, because its part of deer hunting. If not, they grow into adult deer hunters with little patience and unrealistic expectations of the forests capacity and the species itself. Off course they want to see deer. I am in my 30's and still feel that way. But if he can't stand going a day or two w/o seeing one maybe deer hunting is not for them.
I also don't feel the AR is a trophy regulation. Years ago, our size limit for bass was at 10" to keep. They raised it to 12" in the early 80's. Was it because a 13" bass was a trophy?? Or that all the people watching B.A.S.S. wanted to make my state a trophy bass destination?? Nope. It was a simple way to protect more of the adult breedingpopuation. I see AR in PA as the same. Its not perfect, but there had to be a change IMO.