Atlas and CharlieP are both making the same arguments that every old timer in PA has been making since they instituted ARs here.

"My rights to hunt the way I want are being infringed upon"

"I should be able to hunt however I want in the woods."

"If I want to shoot a little buck who are you to tell me I can't."

Guess what, boo hoo. The state institutes laws that it feels will make hunting better (and more profitable) for that state. That is why there are seasons, that is why you can't jacklight, that is why there are bag limits. They have woken up and smelled the dead carcasses of piles of 1.5 year old bucks and since most hunters cannot control themselves enough to stay off the trigger when a spiker walks by they are doing it for them. The state needs money from hunting, they realize they will make more of it if there are more and bigger bucks to hunt, so they instituted the laws to make this happen.

I've said it, I like hunting bucks that are bigger than those I've shot in the past. This makes it easier for me to find those bucks (note I said find, not hunt or kill, the challenge is still the same as before there).

If you feel that the state doing this infringes on your rights too bad. I'm done with this conversation and hearing how there is nothing wrong with shooting 1.5 year olds and stalking up on what amounts to a12 year old child is a great feat. Keep shooting what is legal and have fun doing it, I do not frown upon what you do. However, I refuse to try to justify what I want to do to you because you don't share the same interest.

Atlas, go ahead and pull whatever quotes out of here you want and use your emoticons to express yourself. I don't expect you to accept my point of view as your own, but I'd hope that you'd at least respect it.