ORIGINAL: Cornelius08

RSB, you said compare pa and ohio fairly but you didnt. A general license in Ohio to deer hunt is 43$. Not 60 some. Most hunters are DEER hunters. But if you want to compare everthing included in the license, And if you are gonna compare by ADDING what pa's base license includes to the price of ohios! Id say ONLY FAIR if the intent isnt complete deception, to add the prices of what is included with ohios general license to PA's as well. Ohio includes muzzleloader and bowhunting on the general license. That brings the tally for Pa at $47. Yet for some reason that ridiculous price comparison chart that was used to fool legislators at the meetingsseems to have neglected to do so, since I suppose 20 had alot more "shock value" than over twice as much?.[:'(] It also neglected to mention ANY of the cheaper states to hunt.[:'(]


Ok, so if an Ohio hunter only wants to hunt deer instead of turkeys too they only have to pay a little over twice as a Pennsylvania hunter. I would be perfectly fine with just doubling the price of a Pennsylvania hunting license then, even without adding the cost of a turkey license too.

As for you comments of neglecting to name states where license are cheaper then Pennsylvania, I can ’t find any. Can you?



Ohio also doesnt fabricate estimated harvest. The number used is the actual number of deer reported.


Pennsylvania’s deer harvests numbers aren’t anymore fabricated then Ohio’s numbers are.

Both states have a long time proven method that works just fine to meet the needs of each state’s deer management program. The fact that Ohio is going to start doing it more like Pennsylvania this year should be an indication that even Ohio thinks the Pennsylvania deer harvest estimates are pretty accurate.




Also you say: "In Ohio their Conservation Department is not self funded, like here in Pennsylvania. They got their money, to operate, directly from their state general fund tax dollars every year."

Yet it shouldnt make any difference because we have nearly double their hunter numbers to pay the bills.


Sure but their hunters are each paying about two to four times as much to hunt each year as what the Pennsylvania resident hunter has to pay. Plus all of their state residents kick in their fair share for the wildlife management programs as well.

If we had that in this state we could most likely have better wildlife management programs too, maybe we could even afford enough research to have smaller management units. But, since hunters don’t want to pay for better management so they have what they have and that is even becoming less with each passing year of no money.



If paid according to "what its worth" compared to ohio, we would be paying $4.30 for a license. Because we are getting about 1/10th what they are.


That is justyour opinion. But, if things are that bad here by all means go ahead and spend your money where you get the most satisfaction out of it.