ORIGINAL: R.S.B.

I am going to post the number of hunters and the deer harvests for each of those states in per square mile of land mass data so everyone can see just how many more hunters and deer harvested Pennsylvania actually has.

State………………….Hunters/sq. mile……………….Deer harvest/sq. mile
Pa……………………….20.8.…………… ………………7.49
Va……………………….8.9.……………⠀¦â€¦â€¦â€¦â€¦â€¦.6.41
NY……………………..10.4.……………†¦â€¦â€¦â€¦â€¦â€¦.4.72

As you can see Penna. Not only leads the three in hunters but also in deer harvests.

Now lets put the hunter success rates into some comparable perspective. Let’s look at the success rates of those other states if you were to put all of Pennsylvania’s hunters in there competing to get the same deer harvest as they had last year.

Last year the Penna. Hunters had a 36% success rate.

The Virginia hunter success rate, last year, was 72%. But if you were to put all of Penna’s hunters there to get that same harvest the success rate would have only been 27%.

New York hunters had a 45% success rate, but if all of Pa’s hunters had been there the success rate would only have been 24%.

So, based on the real apples to apples comparisons Pennsylvania does still have one of the best deer state’s in the nation. Pennsylvania just has more hunters competing for all of it’s deer and that means not everyone can get a deer every year.