deer situation???? that makes it sound like deer are a threatened or endangered species lol......PA hunters ran Gary Alt out of the state....i dont think they could hire a true "Deer biologist" if they wanted...you guys would run them outta the state if they didnt bring the deer herd back to the point of what it was or better lol. i know i wouldnt want the job!!!!


i kinda wish PA hunters could have seen the long term negative effects of having such a large deer herd...hunters may not like deer numbers now....but science does back that the state herd overall is much healthier. not only would the deer eat themselves out of a home, but disease and many other factors would have wiped out the herd. thats how mother nature deals with over population. disease and starvation is alot worse than having a smaller, healthier herd IMO. here in the SW we seen what overpopulation and disease can do. that was mother nature reducing the population plain and simple. it was far from something pretty. i'll take a smaller, healthier herd over disease and starvation and whackin deer with my truck, etc etc any day!

but, PA hunters for the most part do not understand any of that, as simple as it is...they will argue that the herd was healthy and there was food, blah blah etc.... probably 90% of the hunters would go back to not shooting does and shooting the first 3" spike or better that they seen....

hunters are a wildlife management tool plain and simple. probably 98% of the hunters do not understand that.

for yearsssssss and years the PGC were not using the hunters properly as a management tool and were letting hunters shoot bucks and pretty much ONLY bucks....they are taking steps in the right direction and guys are upset. i really hope the whinning and complaining is falling on deaf ears and the PGC never gives in. now we need age structure in our buck herd, which were slowly getting. i hunt in a few WMUs in the western part of the state...private and public land. its time to stabilize the deer numbers and work on age structure. its not about trophy hunting, its about the health of our deer herd. when hunters realize that, they might stop crying.

sorry, i just cant take the whole "Deer situation" stuff! instead of argueing and bickering about it, take the time to do some research...the facts are out there...it NEEDED done....giving in now would be throwing away all the work and time..would be a terrible idea IMO.

i might not be a wildlife biologist, but i do have some background in wildlife management and ecology. not real tough stuff to figure out though...mostly common sense...the hard part is WANTING to see the facts...