Originally Posted by 4evrhtn

I have never once blamed anything other than our Game Commission for the current state of our deer herd. You have provided me with nothing I haven't already known but thanks for the attempt to clarify the obvious.
My issue is with the PAGC and their carefree attitude towards the deer herd. For your information.... I have never shot a doe until I started managing my own property. I have never shot a doe on public land and I did not contribute to the slaughter. The issue is this.... we did not need a new weapon when our deer herd is in a "stabilization program" across the majority of our state. What was needed was the herd reduction to have ceased before we got to the point we are currently in. If the PAGC would have been doing right by the majority of hunters all along there wouldn't be half the anger there is towards this lastest kick in the guts we received. We need emphasis put on timbering for habitat instead of profit and getting back to doing what the PAGC's sole purpose was when being created= protecting and managing the game animals in Pa, not just turkey and bear where it seems the majority of their efforts have gone while the #1 big game animal in N. America (which more hunters are interested in hunting has been managed so wrecklessly.

You can never underestimate the damage the human factor will inflict. People cannot be expected to do what's right, they will always do everything to the limit they are allowed hence the need for a game mangement agency.