ORIGINAL: rybohunter
Casual hunters don't drive 4 countys either and they still by licenses. If antlers mattered to casual hunters wouldn't they shoot deer with bigger racks instead of the spikes and 4 pointers?
To casual hunters in PA, it only matters that they HAVE antlers. From what I have seen here, these people care WAY more about antlers than the QDMers.
That's just it though. Casual hunters everywhere shoot anything with a point on its head. If they really cared about antlers wouldn't they be buying in to all the QDM and TDM? I do understand what you and Germ are saying but it doesn't seem they care about antlers so much as shooting a buck regardless of antler size. I don't see these casual hunters taking a spike to the taxi. If there was a way to distinguish bucks from does (if no antlers) wouldn't these same casual hunters still shoot them?