ORIGINAL: Coalcracker
Who do you think you are, coming on a site and telling me that my way of thinking is wrong because you feel that you deserve a bigger racked buck. I saw on the PGC controlled site that you grew up in Schylkill County, well I grew up on the border between Carbon and Schylkill Counties.
Your not going to come here and tell me that you shot 10 and 12 point bucks between the stripping holes, scrub oakof the Broad Mountain and Springhouse Mountain. I have hunting Schylkill and Carbon for many years, there never were enough bucks that you even pass one up every year, no less multiple sighting over the course of a season,because there were few hunters that got a buck each year.
I now own my own land in Lehigh County, with one of my neighbors we don't shoot buck unless they have seven or eight points andantlers wider than the ears. That is our choice and we did it before AR was established, but I feel it should be the hunters choice, not so people like you can have the head mounted at some other hunters expense.
With your attitude, were you a fast runner in high school or did you ride the bus?
My attitude? Are you kidding me? I merely question the old guard and I don't know crap because why? I'm YOUNGER?
I do love how the older generation immediately gets up in arms whenever the wise ones are questioned in their thinking.
Who do YOU think YOU are telling me MY way of thinking is wrong? LOl It's a 2 way street.
Where did I say I DESERVE a big racked buck? Because that's what I choose to hunt and question someone else what they would TRULY prefer?
You stated in 54 years of hunting you've never seen or shot a 10pt buck. Correct?
54 YEARS!! [:-]
I asked a simple question........do you not think there is something possibly wrong with the game management in this state over that time period for you to have neverseen a buck of that caliber. It's because of the mentality of the hunters not because they couldn't possibly live in those areas. I grew up just like 99% of the hunters in this state probably did......if it had spikes 3 1/2" long it ate a bullet. We didn't know any better, we never questioned it.......it's just the way it was. Some of us grew up, looked around and saw that there might be more to this game.
I grew up in Minersville hunting those stripping pits. Not exactly big buck USA as you know, and I took my share of small bucks when I was younger......but like I illustrated in my fishing example I moved on to another stage in my hunting.
And guess what? I didn't start seeing bigger bucks consistently until AR's were implimented. No change to my hunting ability or stretegies......but they don't work.
Good for you that you wanted to do something better for your land and the deer and the quality of the experience........however the rest ofthe majority of the state needs to be told to do something similar for a reason.
Tell me this WHY did you adopt those standards for your own personal hunting ground? Bigger bucks and a higher quality experienceor you felt it was best for the herd?
In either case you are voluntairly implimenting a strategy that themajorityof the state is resisting.
And don't worry about ME having to run from anything. LOL Funny stuff.
