ORIGINAL: livbucks
ORIGINAL: sproulman
ORIGINAL: livbucks
when dad took us hunting,he would only let us kill a few doe in each area.
this was publicland.
A lot of the problem with things is the longer season on antlerless. Hunters have far more opportunity to fill those tags now. I've never cared for concurrent seasons personally. People also seem to take no peronal responsibility for their actions. Many areas need hunting pressure and some need a break. The GC has a limit to how small they can break down the WMUs. This is where the common sense should kick in on the hunter's part. Instead of sitting in the same spots that aren't producing, why not go where the deer are actually at? This is why the longer concurrent season's are messing with you guys. A hunter will wait out a spot in a low density area and shoot the last doe there. instead of hitting a more productive area that can use the harvest. Scouting and productive efforts are lost when hunters are no longer under the gun to fill that tag within a three day window.
It all works out to an inconsistent use of the harvest as a means of controlling the herd across the landscape. Some hunters are unsatisfied and the GC does not get the harvest
that is warranted in the denser pockets of concentration.
RESPECTFULLY, HERE IN CLINTON/POTTER COUNTY THERE ARE NOT MORE PRODUCTIVE AREAS.
THEY WERE GONE OVER 10 YEARS AGO AND LONGER.
But my point is that the longer concurrent season allows guys to wait out those thin areas and pop that very last doe. You are reading me wrong Sproul.
If they only had three days, they might look elsewhere.
BTW, I hunted clinton years ago and never went back...know why? Too hard a walking up those mountains to see yote tracks, buzzards and no deer all day. And that was near the herd's peak years.
Livbucks, those mountains do test you don't they? Hunting there has been an addiction for me since the mid 60's. And when I introduced hunting to my son a few years ago, he too became entranced bythe beauty of those mountains and cabin life. We have scratch hard to find deer, but that's only part of the reason why we hunt there. I will be hunting Berks/Schuylkill some during archery season this yearas well as Clinton County. But when December rolls around, I'll be at my cabin.