Originally Posted by Gunplummer

Pay attention to the guy from maryland. I hunted there for about 15 years, maybe longer. When Maryland went to the liberal deer slaughter, the hunting where I went was done in 3 years. In the beginning the herd did need thinning. I used to hunt Indian Springs and there were always plenty of deer killed there. The last time I hunted there was on a first day of rifle. Around noon time I heard 2 fast shots. That was it the whole day. The Doe tags used to be a lottery. I still hunt in West Virginia, and they have gone the same way. The WMA I hunt went from no doe tags to lots of doe tags. It slowed the buck kill down like crazy.
In PA I have seen areas go dead. Places you could always count on seeing doe have no sign of them and I am not talking 100 yards or less off a road. It is getting better. Nobody wants to hunt the mountains anymore, so it is taking the pressure off some of the deer. I did a slow hunt across one of the mountains here the last day of rifle and did not see a single hunter and did have a deer get up and sneak off on me. I don't know what it was, but I would not doubt that there were more that did the same and I did not catch them.

The thing that pisses me off is the way the Game Commission talks down to hunters as if we are retarded children. Over the years they have told plenty of lies and they simply deny it.
That aside, there are still plenty of deer in PA, they are just not accessible to most hunters.