RSB knows EXACTLY what he is doing and why. Using three and five year averages covers up the current decreases. I have tried to get him to at least us a rolling average on HPA and was close to being banned for that. Anyone with half a brain knows what he is doing and that the current years harvest is the most important and the previous years gives you the trend.

If you use RSB'swayof calculating our current economic indicators, those without jobs are too lazy to work, housing starts are slightly down and gas has probably averaged a little over $2 a gallon, etc., etc.

To me, RSB is full of it up to his ears and the rest is toilet paper. But with all the brown nosers around, he will soon be full of it up to his eyebrows. I'm just thankful we have some dedicated hunters that read and keep tract of current study and information provided by the PGC.

For those that live out of state and want to hunt here in PA. Don't bother coming unless you have some private land to hunt on as the PGC has no idea what is harvested on private land vs public.

Based on the harvest totals, you have a one in four chance of harvesting an antlerless deer, with a 50% chance of that harvest an adult doe and a 50% of it being a fawn. If you hunted here before AR and HR, your chance of seeing a deer are 50% less now and somewhere around %55 of harvesting a buck.

Welcome to PA wilds, leave your guns and ammo at home, come and enjoy our forests and gameless lands. I won't stop hunting PA after 54 years, because I have Senior Lifetime License, but I'm looking forward to hunting N.Y. next season for the first time.