Originally Posted by
bronko22000
I agree that hunting pressure changes their movements. And also, unlike 10 years ago, at least here in PA, the numbers are down drastically from the PGC allocating far too many anterless tags with the excuse of 'reducing the herd to habitat capacity'.
I do agree with that to a degree, at keast in PA because I used to Hunt there on the First Monday after Thanksgiving, Opening Day. I'd see HERDS of Does go by, with the ocassional Buck mixed in. Then after they started to issue Doe Tags for the Beginning of Opening Day insted of the Last Two Days of Hunting Season, the Deer Herd went Way Down. I Quit Hunting PA, the PA Hunters started to come to NY just to see Deer.
We Spotlighted a Corn Field the other night that is Hunted by ONLY US, we saw 72 Deer in the Field with 13 different Bucks. We Hunted the Woods and Corn Field the next Morning and only saw 3 Fawns feeding in it and in the Woods bordering it. The Deer Wer'nt there, we used to be able to Pass on Many Deer, now were Lucky to see a Fawn.......there Smart and Gone.
(BP)