RE: PA harvest #'s?????????
Here are the 2002 results
Hunters took 486,014 deer during Pennsylvania's 2001-2002 hunting seasons, according to figures released by the Pennsylvania Game Commission today. In the 2000-2001 deer hunting seasons, hunters harvested 504,600 deer.
The 2001-2002 antlered (buck) deer harvest was 203,247, compared to 203,221 during the 2000-2001 deer hunting seasons. The 2001-2002 antlerless (doe) deer harvest was 282,767, compared to the 2000-2001 deer harvest of 301,379.
2002 -203,247 bucks versus 109,200 now (with 2001 203,221)
2002 - 213,870 does versus 282,767( with 2001 being 301,379)
We are just about done killing deer. Past years it was about a 50% chance of a deer, now it is 25%. How could this be the goal. The doe kill is still going strong. They have to keep it this way to keep the numbers going down. Shooting a buck in PA is going to be near impossible soon. I assume these numbers mean the herd is down at least 60% since 2002. If not how could higher allocations be producing less kills. OMG this is scary. Glad my daughters are not hunters, that will give me something to talk about when they try to remember seeing deer as kids.
Illinois & Ohio here I come. This plan is great for tourism for other states.