BTBowhunter - Your saying that the PGC's deer management has more positive aspects than negative. Can you please elaborate? My grandson can't wait to go hunting with me but if things keep going the way they are now, he is going to get discouraged real fast from not seeing any deer.
I've heard that the PGC has stated that they may have errored in their program. IMO they should go back to the one deer and done for a while. Give the hunter the option of harvesting either one buck or one doe. And in areas with a lot of public land with numerous deer, develop a landowner co-op system where the landowner get a monitary refund for each deer taken by legally licensed hunters. You could have a 'landowner coupon' attached to your license and if you harvest an animal on his property, give the coupon to the landowner. Then at the end of the season, he can send them in to the PGC for refund. They do this out west and it seems to be working.