Personally.....anyone thinking we are going to see more and more large racked bucks in PA is kidding themselves. Unless you have a large tract of private property to manage for just that, big bucks, I don't think you'll see the array of big bucks Alt is promising. For starters, there are simply too many hunters in this state. Look at it this way... if your figures are correct, and we harvested over 80% of the bucks carried from the previous year, we have 20% left. What do you think that 20% is mostly comprised of? Bucks that weren't legal from the year before. In most of the state, these bucks don't grow large racks overly fast. So, by the next year, they are mostly minimum legal bucks and get whacked by hunters because, of course, they are legal.

I'm not saying we arent' going to get a few more large racked bucks, but I just can't see us ever being an Illinois, Kansas type state the routinely produces Booners or even 150 class bucks for that matter.

Hope I'm wrong.