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If the harvest is that high in your county, then the DNR needs to address that specific need. But the PA experience and the results on balancing habitat/numbers/age classes/sex ratios is pretty darn impressive.
You seem to equate AR/QDM and restrictions as all related to "rack hunters". That ignores an awful lot of science and progress in understanding deer management.
I will have to do some data searches to look at the data in PA. Your perspective is interesting but does not seem that they would continue that program and those tag totals unless they had good reason and statewide data to support that program.
pretty darn impressive...based on what? And article you read in Outdoor Life? As you said you will have to do some searches to see what Penna is going through. YEP! thats for sure, because you seem to have pre-conceived notions of what we have, and a dose of reality might be very, very good for you.
On paper Pa's plan and QDM methodologies sound like the second coming, but it REALITY that we deal with everyday here, not paper pushing bureacrat plans.
We have 900,000 buck hunters in pa, and 22 bloated oversise wmu's. You do your reading and then come back and we'll have a nice civil discussion about how AR's are for sissy's.