Deaddeer:

"PA hunter could expect to harvest a buck once every five years. With AR and herd reduction a hunter will only harvest one buck for every ten years of hunting"

A buck every 5-10 years???? Man, If I lived in PA I would be a golfer. I cant imagine odds like that, I see atleast 10 bucks everytime I sit in a stand. But this goes to show why they implemented AR restrictions, they are trying to improve your odds of killing a buck. It is not going to happen over night, but it will happen. Once AR's have been in place for a few years, your odds are going to be alot better. That statement "with AR's, hunters will harvest 1 buck every ten years'' to me that dosent make sense. How could it?? You are not allowed to harvest bucks, so that means there will be more bucks out there, which means your odds get better, not worse.



"PA needs every hunter we currently have to control the herd"

Well if this is true, then why are all of ya'll complaining about all the does that are killed?? It sounds like Pa needs to close buck season for a year or 2 and only sell doe tags.

"PA needs every hunter we currently have, but we won't retain the hunters we have and recruit new hunters"

PA is a small state, yet there are over 1 million guys who hunt there each year, so yes you could afford to lose some hunters. And the hunters that you lose would be the ones that like to kill 1 1/2 year old spikes, so losing them aint no big deal.


"What sense does it make to save 38K 1.5 buck when at the same time we increased the BB harvest by 33K?"

That statement makes no sense.... It kinda sounds like a firefighter saying "what good does it do saving that house, that one next door is going to burn down". Why dosent PA make it illegal to shoot button bucks?? That would solve that problem. And besides, why would somebody want to shoot a button buck when they could shoot one of the millions of does that are running around????


Another thing, why do so many people like killing 1 1/2 year old bucks? Shoot a doe, let the bucks grow...................