Originally Posted by
bluebird2
Your myoptic view of deer management is precisely why you can't relate to the average PA hunter. You think that just because you can kill multiple deer in an area with low deer densities you assume thousands of other hunters could do the same if they just hunted like you do and that is simply ridiculous. You apparently live in a fantasy world where there are unlimited deer to be harvested with no adverse effect on future harvests. That level of ignorance is really hard to deal with.
That's not true at all.I killed 5 deer in an area that has a ridiculous deer density and some of the worst habitat around.I killed another one on state forest where there were no other hunters that day and between two of us,we saw over 32 deer by lunch time.Incidentally,I hunted the same spot on the first day and ran into a few guys.Everyone complained about the lack of deer.I knew the deer were there because the sign doesn't lie but nobody was moving them the first day.I killed another one WITH MY BOW on public property where there's no shortage of deer.It's a tough place to hunt and see alot of deer because there's several huge clearcuts and loads of mountain laurel.The mast crop was huge and the deer didn't have to leave the security of the laurel.
I didn't effect any hunter's future chance of killing a deer by the one's I shot.I rarely ever see another hunter in the places where I hunt so I doubt I've ever had an effect on anyone's future harvest.