WOW I guess I need to tune in on the weekends. I always miss the good ones..where was this when I was bored on Thursday-Friday..lol

Speaking as a PA hunter.. My family has had a camp in Clarion since 1968. In our hey-day we had as many as 14-16 hunters. Sadly as time marched on we are down to a precious 6, hard-core, year in and year-out hunters. Sure a few friends or friends of friends may drop in for a year or two but our 6 man core is strong! As a group we LOVE AR. We have seen more and much better Bucks as a result. Our camp record fell the first year of AR..so it cannot be claimed to have been a benefit of AR. We took a big 8 & 10 point last year, my so-so 7pt would have been a whopper in previous years

From my obesrvation and talking to the local Hunt Club that is right up the road from our Camp (we attend their dinner, by invitation,yearly, the Sunday before Gun Season) Most like the AR. The complaints seem to stem from the mass killing of antlerless deer. The days of seeing 60-80 deer opening day, are replaced by numbers in the teens or less. Yet, most of these hunters complaining, have a pocketful of antlerless tags.

The Tuesday of Gun Season we just got my cousins buck back to the truck, and the Game Warden came by and stopped. After checking the buck we gabbed about the "over-all kill" he said what "Kill". He said numbers are way down, No one wants to go into the woods andhunt anymore. When I told him of 3 gut piles at the corner of the road. He said "I know" I made them gut the 3 does there. A group of hunters were shooting deer from the truck. He made them gut them and then took the deer and replaced the deer with a fine! He said the "needy" will eat good this year!