I am near the hookstown area and toward the border of west virginia where we were working the other day dead deer were lying everywhere, it was disgusting as a life long deer hunter because i have never seenanything like this, It is getting pretty bad as a friend of mine told me yesterdaythat a favorite spot of his is now off limits because they are finding deer lying and the farmer doesnt want to completely wipe out the herd near his land,


In response to the report of the deer herd being too large as it is i can only laugh, i have been hunting all of my life and own acamp near the allegheny forest and the fact is the deer herd is well diminished compared to5 10 or 20 years ago. We wouldgo spotting and have no problem seeing 300 deer in an hour or two, now we are lucky to see 70 or 80, The same is true around my home in beaver county, The fact that pennsylvania has more deerhunters than any other state probably has a lot to do about it, butcome hunt PA for as long as i have and tell me that this states deer population is too large, as for this mite thing it makes me sick