ORIGINAL: brucelanthier
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.
I don't see how this makes a healthier herd. Does can have twins or even triplets so, if you shoot a Doe, you have potentially taken out 3-4 deer. You shoot a buck and the Does will still get bred by other bucks, just not bucks with "huge" racks
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Unfortunately you didnt read the post all the way through where I said the Game Commission gives unlimited doe tags or a rediculous amount of doe tags. If we stop that, and no one can shoot doe is that healthy? A billion doe and a few buck? Or if we llimit the doe tags, and equal out the number of buck and doe, is that a healthy deer heard. AR's are for the buck side, PA has yet to figure out the doe. Hence why I know many PA hunters are taking matter into their own hands and buying doe tags and sitting on them. Correct me if I am wrong, is an equal amount of buck to doe a bad thing? Is that unhealthy?