I buy as many doe tags as I can get in WMU 3A as do my family and friends. WE FILL NONE OF THEM by choice!
Alt sold this "management program" to the vocal minority of hunters that are horn happy and are pleased with seeing less deer but nicer bucks.
The vast majority of deer hunters in Pa still want higher but manageble numbers off deer and are more than pleased with a spike or Y buck.
In 3A acorns and browse ar not in shortage yet all ALT says is "the forsts must regenerate..." I ask when did the oak trees stop dropping acorns? and when did recently timbered woodlands stop producing rasberry bushes..both mainstays of deer feed.
BTW 6 of us killed 5 bucks the first week of gun season, none were bigger than a scrubby 8 pt. that should have been a Y buck, and all these bucks were 2 1/2 yrs old or older...where are all these big bucks ALT promised with lower deer numbers?