ORIGINAL: Buck Hunter 1

I'm hunting in PA, don't worry about that one my friend. I spend a ton for deer licenses to fill the freezer and have ground there. Again, my and other more modern hunters will buy what we need, enhance the hunting opportunities to more than am elite few bow huntersm and get deer. It's funny how you say OH deer buck population is great.
If I had to choose either hunt only 2 days in Ohio or 2 weeks in Pa- my answer is an unequivocable I'll take 2 days in Ohio. I hunt both states, only because I live in Pa do I hunt Pa.You make absolutely no sense to me. You live in Ohio and caneasily travel to the other midwest states"land ofGiants" and youpay taxes on Pa land, Pa licenses and spend the time to travel here to hunt???? WHY?
Yea, I know crops etc. but look in eastern and SE OH and you will see habitat same as PA. Did you think maybe it's the way the program and people have run the deer program in the past, closed minded and using antiquated systems and ideas that might have done that?
You have it better in Ohio so again... Why waste your time and money in Pa???
An example isthe OTC license sales, states all around you have them installed and running for years, PA well that is it's own story.......
Completely agree, your system in Ohio isfar better than ours.
Maybe w/ progressive thinking and ideas that outsiders bring to the table PA can make a deer herd comeback, however w/ feelings and thoughts as expressed by a few here who seem to think the majority should be listening to them only, I beleive you will still be complaining,and maintaining your "the woods, it's mine, mine all mine" attitudes as your game hunting keeps going down hill. I will always hunt in PA, no matter where i live. But that does not mean I will not be lobbying w/ what resources I can to see and make change that I and others feel would be for the betterment of the game program.

http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/lib/pgc/deer/pdf/antlerless_allocation_handouts.pdf
Here is where you are making an incorrect assumption. Pa's deer herd is not what Ohio's was when Xbows were implemented. Our herd is stable at best inmost of the wmu's according to the PAGC (19 of 22 wmu's). Only 2 wmus (1B,5D) show an abundance while the last wmu (3D)shows a below target population. So PLEASE explain how adding an additional weapon to the archery season is going to cause some "betterment of the game progam". We have reduced our herd far enough using the current methods and there is nomanagement advantage to add a weapon preferred by those with no work ethic in hunting or pride in what archery is supposed to be. Once again if you can pull the weight use a real bow, if you can't then you deserve the special considerations given to the disabled and handicapped. If the hunter is lazy I don't want him anywhere near me in the woods b/c I take pride in what I do andI work hard at it all year long. I enjoy having less idiots in the woods during the archery season spooking more deer than they will ever see. I know once Xbows are allowed the season as we know and love it will be over and just because others want to take the easy way out and as always we have to cater to the lazy. Ain't it Great!!