ORIGINAL: AJ52
If this 40% reporting data is "fact"(nobody has posted it yet??)sounds to me hunters might very well be the biggest part of the alleged problem caused by everybody else but themselves
How the hek is PA supposed to draw a wildlife management plan if only 40% of hunters return report cards.Or maybe the 40% is the true harvest (lame excuse) because there really isn't 1.6M deer in PA as the PGC claims because nothin they say is ever true.There all morons and idiots.
Maybe the PGC claims there are 1.6m deer because only 40% of hunters report - Hello - Knock Knock - Anybody Home. Geeezzzz
From reading most of these posts it seems hunters in PA want PA to "fix it"
when in fact hunters seems to be a large part of the problem.
Whackin BB's,Spikes at will,only return 40% of report cards.
sadly the 40% number is fact as published by the PGC. They put a bandaid on things by checking deer at processors and determining a reporting rate based on those deer checked by WCO's vs the cards that come in.
As I see it there are a few reasons for the low reporting rate:
1 Hunter Apathy. This is by far the biggest part of the problem
2 lack of ability by the PGC to accurately police those who don't bother to report
3 due in part to their to the lack of ability to be accurate, the PGC doesnt pursue those who dont report
4 If you are busted for not reporting, the fine is not meaningful
5 Misguided protests. Some huntesr who arent happy with one thing or another refuse to report their deer. In some cases it's a direct result of 2,3 and 4