The fact of the matter is, with the small amount of time you have to spend scouting preseason and hunting as a non resident being in PA for a week in archery season, you have no reason to expect a high degree of success. The problem is, non residents as well as residents of the state were so use to having far too many deer that it was laughable to call it deer hunting, especially in the rifle season. We are now getting back to where we should be in deer numbers and the habitat is responding to the reduction in deer numbers and slowly the herd will be allowed to expand some. However I hope I never see the number of deer and the amount of damage done to the forest habitat by those numbers again and I hope no one else ever sees it. Even after the reduction, there are more deer in the state than there were when I started in 1957 and I am very content with the nubers I have been seeing even after the herd reduction was begun. I am also seeing buck with larger bodies on the while, than I have ever seen in over 50 years of hunting in PA. There was a reason the number of hunters from the New England states came to PA to hunt deer, and that reason was nothing to be proud of.