RE: How sad hunting is becoming...
"Once again you are shuffling the numbers, not every one that buys a license is a deer hunter,or hunts deer at all.
I know several older guys who only shoot woodchucks during the summer and squirrels in the early fall,they can't take the cold or drag deer out of the woods. "
Those guys are a great rarity. Here in Pa the HUUUUGE majority deer hunt. Pgc keeps statistics from surveys on how many hunters hunt what. Its posted in the game news yearly. Those that hunt "other" species areVERY low compared to the overall hunter numbers and that doesnt even take into account and subtract the number of those that hunt deer ALSO among the smallgame, grouse, etc. hunters. So the numbers that hunt no deer is TINY. Personally, I know of none either.