RE: PA, The deer are gone........
I agree 100%. Actually that's why I logged on this morning is to start a topic on the exact same thing. I live in Warren County, PA and have hunted the same land for 17 years and I've NEVER had a hunting season like this EVER!!! In 4 days of hunting (aproximately 31 hours of being in the woods) I saw two deer !!! That's right TWO. My dad saw TWO deer. My dad's buddy saw 6 deer total in three different areas. I knew the deer heard in the county was down before the season even started because on an average night of spotting three or four years ago we would stop counting at 100 deer being spotted in a 15 mile stretch. Last year an average night consisted of maybe 40, this year we were lucky to spot 20 in the same stretch. Dr. Alt and the PGC are holding hands with the insurance companies to lessen the number of claims turned in due to vehicles hitting deer. If they keep going down the path that they are going in the present time, our kids will be lucky to see a deer, let alone hunt them. I know of two people personally from my community that has bagged a deer this year. Usually just about everybody I know gets atleast one deer. In the 17 years that I've hunted those same woods, it wasn't unusual to see 60 deer a day a few years ago. Also, I've always been the type to not shoot the first deer that I saw, I got to the point that I was hoping just to be able to get a shot at one, then I just wanted to see one up close, then I got so disgusted, I came out of the woods yesterday and told my wife " I no longer wish to continue contributing to the extermination of the pennsylvania whitetail deer herd". Anyways, I would like to go one step further and boycott the PGC and not purchase a liscense at all next year. It would be hard for I've been hunting for a long long time and I love it, but something has got to be done. Could you imagine if only half of the hunters agreed to do this. Can you say " PANIC".................those guys would have an absolute fit. They wouldn't know what to do. A lot of game wardens would lose their jobs, the PGC would lose a TON of money. I'm not a big fan of the PGC anyways. They say that this is a democracy but we as citizens of the state of PA, never get to vote on PGC and QDM laws and regulations. It's all a bunch of political BS and it needs to stop. In 10 years seeing a deer is going to be like seeing a bear.......... A real TREAT.