RE: pa antler restrictions yes or no?
Thanks for posting your opinion based on EXPERIENCE over the years. If only those who are whining about AR would spend more time in the woods off-season and during and having had seen the changes taking place the good and the bad then they could also speak from experience instead of reciting PAGC "stats and reports". It gets me... some have no faith in AR yet they have faith in the PAGC to give verbatim dictation from their reports.In my life I have spent many more days in the woods than not in the woods and I see the herd decrease and I also see a higher percentage of larger buck now than before AR. I also work in a Taxidermy shop part time and have contact with more deer after harvestthan most who work for the Game Commission. I don't need a report to tell me what to think, I see the benefit of AR here as well as the other states I hunt. I agree with Sproul and whoever mentioned limiting jr. hunters to only2 non AR buck. Once those 2 bucks are shot than it's time to up the standard for youth. I take my fiance's boy out and he is not allowed to shoot anything under a 4pt for his first buck, the reason is... that what I shot for my first deer and i can't tell him to do what I didn't do myself.And the truth is he doesn't want to shoot spike bucks or even a 4 pt for that matter, he wants a 6 or better. Amazing to see a 12 year old have higher standards for himself when he has never shot a deer than older men who have killed numerous deer and still want to shoot whatever they see. I'm proud of him and I know he will kill nicer buck in his first few years than almost all of those who cry about having tohold out for an adult or larger racked deer.