Great post. Speaking personally, my feelings are this... Our Game Comission has promoted the excessive slaughter of our deer herd. Alot of us are upset with the direction the Pagc policies have taken us. I havea conservative mindset in which I want to see more deer in the wmu's surrounding where I live. We have come to the point where we need to bond together not for our own personal interest but for the overall benefit of the experience and more importantly thegame animalswe hunt. This is a double edged sword- save our sport and get others into hunting but also stabilizing or maintaining the deer populations. More hunters = more deer killed. The trend has been oppositemeaning- less deer killed = less hunters purchasing licenses. I feel having an AR is necessary for managing bucks however, the current system is flawed and while I am seeing bigger bucks thedecrease in the population due to Herd Reductions is beginning to make me wonder if the trade-off is worth it. Anyone reading that last statement and has read my prior AR posts will see this is the first time I have ever written anything that would show me having doubt in AR.And that is only because of the way the PAGChasimplemented it.I mainly hunt private land because the PAGC's policies have less impact on the areas I manage on my own. I do not have faith in our Game Commission to do anything other than what is best for their pockets and pensions. I feel the Game Commission needs to get their s#!+ together and worry about managing wildlife instead of implementing new methods of killing more animals that we do not have. Let's work on restoring rabbit , pheasant, woodcock and other species to a self sustaining population before killing off more deer and continuing to let these other species dwindle in numbers reducing the desire for current hunters to continue hunting. TRY TO SATISFY YOUR CURRENT and HISTORICALLY LOYAL CUSTOMERS BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO GET NEW ONESBY LURING THEM WITHNEW LIBERAL WEAPON SCHEMES. Fix what you have broken before creating a bigger hole in your sinking ship. The sad part is you know as well as I do the hunters will never join together in great enough numbers for anything to be done. We each have our own "special interest" that we feel is more important while others want to fight against us to get their "special interest" met. It's a losing battle for us when we have to deal with an organization which is independent and members of which are chosen from inside and not chosen by us who pay for their greed guided agendas. I would love to see the whole Commission get scrapped from top down and rebuilt by an electoral process. The dead weight has done nothing good for long enough, time for an overhaul!