RE: I' m seeing some nice bucks in PA!!!
sounds like some nice deer running around down there, but just to throw a monkeywrench into things, the reason so many of of are against ar' s are for regions where i live, where it can be very hard, at times, to even see a buck during the season, let alone tag one. penn. has always, at least up here, been known to harbor a lot of deer, and a lot of bucks, just not large in weight. don' t forget, yes, you may see more bucks for the moment, but this doesn' t mean you will tag one, in fact, following qdm guidelines, your buck harvest will decrease, and never be the same as what you were shooting before. in vermont, i have heard the average hunter goes seven years in between tagging bucks. how would you like to be in that catagory, and then have AR' S put in place that will prolong your tagging out even longer. how? by taking away the age class of deer many put their tag on. one troublesome aspect also is that many states rely on yearling deer for their pop. information on the health of the deer. AR' S just took that tool from the biologist. and don' t forget, article after article since the mid 1960' s has trashed AR' S, and most states that adopted them in the past, have dropped them because they don' t work.