ORIGINAL: BTBowhunter
ORIGINAL: petropedro
ORIGINAL: BTBowhunter
ORIGINAL: petropedro
ORIGINAL: livbucks
The fair solution would be reducing the length of firearm buck hunting to compensate.
See ya.. I'm getting my gear on and heading out with the flintlock now.
i say combine all season into one for 30 days. no seperate rifle archery smokepole. use what you choose. do this in october and that way you know the does you see after season are most likely bred.
That is one of the most ridiculous ideas I've ever heard.[:'(]
so is 54 huntable days of archery season. [:'(]
First, Pa's bow season among one of the shortest of all the states.
Second, Bowhunter numbers represent about a third of all hunters. The season is longer simply because bowhunting is a much more challenging method of harvesting deer. Bowkills are not anywhere near that percentage. Until the percentage of bowkills becomes commensurate with their percentage of total hunters, it would be more appropriate to say that the bow season is unfairly short.
Third, a 30 day gun season is simply not remotely feasible with 900,000 hunters.
we are not other states. remember that from other posts on this forum? about how many deer we can hold compared to other states? but i guess some people like to use other states when it helps their agenda.
more challenging? how many hunters are competing for a deer on the first day of rifle season? that is a challenge for the last 3 years.
rifle hunters have only 2 maybe 3 days to hunt because of work.
from what the pgc said,most deer are harvested on the first 2 days and there after does not have a real impact on deer. so from what the pgc says, it doesn't matter the length of time after the first 2 days. it wouldn't be a real factor.