ORIGINAL: fellas2
RSB, your arguement about the loss of hunters is about as lame as it can get.No one ever disputed the number of hunters compared to other states,but it has nothing,and I mean nothing to do with a reduction in license sales in PENNSYLVANIA ! That is a FACT that you cannot argue with. As far as road hunters,it only renforces my arguement that there are so few deer in many areas combined with the inability to find permission to hunt on private property that many hunters have resorted to road hunting in hopes of at least seeing a deer.I'm not condoning it,just explaining it.
Your explanation of why road hunting has declined in recent years don’t make sense when you look at it realistically.
We had far more road hunters when deer were easier to find and nearly anyone could find one to shoot from the road. I’d have to say that some hunters have dropped out now because they were never hunters to begin with and were only out there to kill a deer as quickly and easily as possible. Many of them did just that from the roads and ended up giving hunters a black eye and bad image in the process. I am glad to see the road hunters declining and even gone from the hunter’s ranks. We didn’t and don’t need them; they did far more harm to hunting then the any benefits realized from the small amount of money their license sales provided.
Anyone that dropped out of hunting due to not being able to kill a deer was into hunting for the wrong reasons in the first places, so I am confident we will be just fine and maybe even better off without them.
Private property being posted to hunting doesn’t even enter into the road hunting equation in this area of the state since this area is almost all public land with it being almost hard to find a posted area.
R.S. Bodenhorn