He he. Yes bluebird, thats EXTREMELY funny. Wonder how many "more and bigger" bucks were harvested last year with our whopping 109k buck harvest? (LOL)

Funny thing is, the harvest was blamed on ONE DAY of weather by pgc at first... Now seems theyve reconsidered.

Rosenberry has come out and stated our deer numbers this season should be about the same as last year,(not higher), and he also stated hunters shouldnt expect the hunting to be any easier because of it.

Now correct me if Im wrong bluebird, but if we were supposed to stabilize the herd last season, yet we harvested less deer than anticipated due to the weather as was SUPPOSEDLY the case, shouldnt we have MORE deer this season? Not that I think that the case, because I think the small harvest was due to one thing....Far fewer deer and too much reduction.

An excerpt from PGC press release #100-08

There is no reason to believe that deer hunting will be any easier this fall, although drought-like conditions in some areas of the state may make it easier to pattern deer movements to food and water sources. An early leaf drop also may increase your ability to see deer at a distance. Gypsy moth caterpillar defoliation on hundreds of thousands of forestland acres again has limited acorn production in stands of oak.

“Hunters should expect to find deer populations similar to those they encountered last year,” said Dr. Christopher Rosenberry, who supervises the Game Commission’s Deer Management Section.

Ahhh. Our fine wildlife management agency never fails to amaze me!