ORIGINAL: PABuckbuster12

Bruce,

In the last few years, PA's deer heard has been thinning in a hurry. The idea for AR's is to allow bucks to mature, giving you more buck who will expand and reproduce. I understand the point that as you know from my posts, that people are using this as an excuse and wacking away at the doe population. Which in years past was to great. We had few bucks, to many doe. Now we are creating more buck, but thinning the doe. If you are from PA in every game news issue or your local game news in different areas especially upstate in the big woods areas, you can read a dozen articles in a month about what is happening. That is why the Game commission is catching so much heat right now. It will be interesting to see how it pans out.

You are right, just having AR's does not create for a bigger population while you are giving unlimited doe tags or huge numbers of doe tags. But its a start....... which hopefully PA continues to iron out and get right.