RE: PA question?
I have to agree with bearklr, the bucks are 100% better than 7 years ago. I can't even tell you how many people I know that used to shoot spikes and fork horns, now with the antler restriction the same people are shooting more mature deer. I have always been against shooting button bucks and spikes and typically when we are hunting when the spike walked by it was with a doe. Another thing that has changed is that when you check out a local deer processor you don't see that scrap pile of little racks that the hunters don't even want to take home, they just tell the processor to keep it. I think over the next few years you see a steady decline in the number of doe tags available. I can't speak for eastern PA but in western PA the hunting is still good. When we go spotting we typically see 60 deer an evening (1-1/2 hours) and a lot of nice bucks.
JMO