1. 3" rule worked fine, however during that time a smaller percentage of buck equalled the size of the buck more hunters are harvesting today. This isn't saying more buck are being harvested just a higher percentage of those buck are larger.

2. Gene Pool Harm: Larger bucks breeddoes. Smaller buck with inferior genetics are left out. In short... better genes being passed on = good thing.

3. Breeding Rates Decrease: Less Deer = Less deer being bred. Unassociated with the size of a bucks antlers.

4.Reduced Buck Harvest: Less Deer being harvested across the state because there are LESS DEER!

5. Less License Sales: Less deer = less hunter satisfaction. More meat hunters than trophy hunters. Again population unrelated to antler size. Why would an out-of-stater pay for a Pa license when you can go to states like Ohio for similar cost and increased odds of harvesting bigger buck?

6. Pa Game Commission Lost Credibility: I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH YOU. So.... STOP QUOTING THEIR ESTIMATES!

7. "Why aren't people bragging about all the Big Buck Harvested" My question is this... Why aren't people bragging about all the deer in general being harvested? There aren't as many deer. And further more most guys don't have the time or the desire to sit for lengths of time sometimes needed to catch the older wiser buck making a mistake. They want to shoot the first thing they see that meets the base requirement. I wouldn't have harvested any of the dozen deer which scored over 110" if I shot the first 6 pointer I saw.

I enjoy this discussing of viewpoints. And I can see you have your mind made up and there is nothing anyone is going to say or do to change that. I havea studied biology and I have spent enough time in the woods to see the good and the bad of the PAGC's policies. The whole system needs scrapped and priorities need to be changed. Work needs to be done for the betterment of the deer herd. This costs money and Executive Director Roe will continue to sell pipe dreams and make empty promises till the commission implodes and the commonwealth struggles to resurrect a sunken shipwreck. It seems this is the natural course of government and state agencies.