I predicted the 2003 buck harvest within 2 K of the actual harvest while Alt said the buck harvest would return to normal after the 2002 season. Actually the PGC releases a lot more data on the net than most states, in fact I haven't found a single state that provides more data than PA.


While you may be lucky enough to hunt in an area where you have the luxury to pick and choose the deer you harvest ,we are not so lucky. Between 6 hunters we had 8 ethical shoots at legal deer during the 2003 season. We killed seven and had one miss ,which happened to be a shot at an adult doe during archery. No one had a shot at a buck and we only saw 1 AR legal buck in all 3 seasons. We don't target BB ,but we don't shed any tears when we harvest 1 or 6. BB will eat just as much of my garden as a female deer and Alt says we have to reduce the herd to 6 DPSM ,so we harvested 6 BB off of our .05 SM of land in order to help reduce the herd. We did our part to reduce the herd, did you?