"Oh really? Well here's just a few links to folks who disagree. It took about 2 minutes to find hundreds of articles and studies documenting a nationwide decline in both hunting and fishing license sales. Here's just a few "

Declining at OVER TWICE the national average isnt something to just shrug off as "the norm". Lost voice against antis and currently more important, against the ecofreaks, lost income to manage our wildlife, all thanks to our "fine" deer program.

Rsb says: "I think it might also be of some interest to point out that many of the bucks that should have been available for harvest since 2005 died within days of being born following the harsh winters that limited the survival rate of fawns born in the spring of 2003 and 2004."

Completely unfounded theory of yoursand actually rediculous imho. Obviously grasping for excuses where no legitimate onesexist.

"Certainly no data shows that the rack size didn’t increase for 2 ½ year old bucks. No one ever said the rack size would increase for the same age bucks."

No.. Many have stated it would DECREASE as occurred in Miss. and in the Texas Kerr studies.Pgc has had plenty of time to refute these concerns, but as of yet seems to be unable to do so. Seems quite probable the maleffects may be the case, but at the very least the possibility exists. That much is irrefutable until shown otherwise. This isnt a new issue and PGC Im sure must be monitoring it to some extent with measurements. Funny that they havent released any findings when they know many are concerned. Im guessing the results arent any more favorable than the other reproduction data etc. that countered their predictions in that area already.