Resident. I rate PA private land as fair on average. Of course it varies considerably but it would be hard to ever rate private land hunting as poor without a chuckle for the sake of irony. Public land I have hunted in four WMU's since the deer plan have all been rated as poor, though several I would have rated good to excellent right up till 2000-2001. Glaring example. One gentleman just stated that he rated 5B as excellent. I live in 5B and it has very limited public land which is way overhunted and DD are quite low subsequently. I have to believe he was hunting private land...which still boasts some excellent opportunties but cannot be fairly compared with the small parcels of public land available. This poll I fear, is not going to paint much of a fair portrait of anything other than deer hunting in PA (public land) is a tattered remnant of what it used to be, and no AR's cannot make up for the lack of deer, just because there are a few more older bucks running around wondering where all their girlfriends disappeared to. The gap between public and private land quality has never been so wide, and comparing the two is night and day.