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".
Spending more time in the woods during the off season won't change the fact that we harvested fewer 2.5+ buck in 2007 than in 2002. It won't change the fact that breeding rates and productivity decreased instead of increasing. it won't change the fact that we are high grading our buck and that there is no evidence that ARs have increased the rack size of the average 2.5+ buck.
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
Nice cheap shot sport. Just wait until you have 5 years left to hunt and see how much big racks mean to you then. When you are 70's will you have a buck mounted so they can bury it with you? Or will you have it placed in a glass case above your grave instead of a tombstone?
I see the benefit of AR here as well as the other states I hunt.
Would you care to tell us about the benefits of ARs in Miss. where rack sizes decreased across the state or would you prefer ARK. where 2 out of 3 regions voted to repeal ARs? Maybe you want to tell us about ARs in WMU 118 in Mich. where ARs were repealed after 5 years. Or would you prefer the 6 western states where ARs were tried and repealed? Then there is NY where ARs failed too increase the number of 2.5+ harvested and support for ARs is decreasing.