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Old 03-12-2004 | 08:29 AM
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Jason N
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Default RE: PA Deer Management

Maybe you can explain why previous biologist were able to control the herd with many fewer anterless tags and only a 3 day anterless season.
They didn't do a very good job of it. Not much to explain....seeing 60-80 doe and 1 or 2 spikes the first day of rifle season isn't good management. Now in archery season I see half as many deer as I used to 5 years ago.....but close to half are bucks now and frankly the bucks I'm seeing are bigger. I imposed AR on myself starting the year pror to the statewide restrictions becasue I wanted something more than a dink....I kill plenty of doe as well. Every hunter I've talked to about AR has a different approach to their philosophy....some like it, some don't, some like it becasue of the better bucks they're seeing and some hate it becasue there isn't a deer behind every tree anymore.
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