RE: IMPORTANT!!!!! UPDATE on ALTS POLL< TELL ME WHY !!
Someone on an ealier post that I read said that in some of the midwestern states the guys out there wouldn't be caught dead with a small buck in the back of their truck, it's almost taboo out there to kill a scrub. You know, I've hunted Illinois and that's such a true statement and I couldn't help but think about how PA's culture is so totally the opposite. No, we are never going to be the midwest but it wouldn't hurt to try a little as long as it doesn't go overboard. In most areas come gun season if it's brown it's down in PA. That's a culture thats been beat into this state's hunters for a long time. Can you even imagine a guy on the first day of rifle season on a mountain passing up a buck cause it was a 1.5 year old and not yet mature, that's just not PA. There are a lot of guys in this state who hunt a couple days a year and when they do all they care about is killing something and they could care less about having a healthy deer herd in this state or about letting some of these bucks God for bid live a couple years. That mentality is going to be a hard one to change. I've seen some people during gun season that are so out of control and so wrapped up in killing something that they do some pretty scary things. In other words, I'm for the changes, go Alt ( on most things anyhow) but good luck in convincing the 1.3 million hunters in this state.