Originally Posted by
bluebird2
That is precisely why you have no empathy for the average and why you can't relate to their frustration. You wouldn't be seeing all those doe and passing on 8 pts. if you lived and hunted in an area with 12 PS DPSM. Some are lucky enough to live and hunt in areas where HR has had little if any effect , but the vast majority of hunters live or hunt in areas where the herd has been reduced by at least 40%.
You base you opinions on your personal experience and success rather than on what the PGC stats tell you and what other hunters are experiencing. I base my position on PGC stats , the history of our herd ,over 50 years of deer hunting and common sense. And common sense says that when you have a lot fewer deer a lot more hunters will be unhappy and unsuccessful no matter how hard they hunt.
When hunting becomes work , that's when I'll quit!!! Cutting firewood would be a much more productive type of work and I actually enjoy it and it gets me out in the woods just like hunting.
I base my opinion on all the criteria you just listed. Frankly, I think you need to take a hard look at some of your rationalizations. You claim my results are because I live in a higher DD WMU than you do but, of course, you really don't know the DD of MY hunting spots now do you? You tend to ignore the fact that I also hunt in WMU's and on public ground with lower deer densities too. You cant address that in a way that satisfies you so you call it luck.
When DougE tells us that he finds plenty of deer on public ground in 2G (generally agreed to be the lowest DD in the state) you explain that by claiming he benefits from a lack of hunters.
we get accounts from various other hunters in other WMU's including yours with far better results than you claim.
You have many varied rationalizations for hunters successes all over the state. The truth is you don't really know any of these guys personally (or very few if any ) and dont have any right to make the generalizations you do. I sems to me that maybe you need to examine your hunting area and your tactics and commitment level before you offer baseless guesses as to the explanations for the experiences of others.
It's always easier to simply say the other guy has it easier, luckier, better than you etc etc than it is to really sit down examine why your results arent the same.