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Old 12-12-2004 | 07:14 AM
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ulysses
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deadeer that was on 1 sq mile not 100 acres

CHICKORY: I wouldn't want to play poker with you! You my friend are able to read between the lines too well!! My nephew comes here to my place to hunt he to this day is 110% pro Alt. He just cannot or will not admit he was duped.
I too was taken in momentairily by the " whirlwind talks" I was to 3 of them. After a year I preached just give it a chance after 2 yrs I began to have doubts after 4 and the pieces of his deception began to amass I became bitter now after 5 yrs I'll do anything I can possibly do to save deer hunting in the area of the state I hunt which is 3A WMU.
The occasional hunter may think ," sure another bitter old timer whom wants to see 100 deer a day and maybe 1 or 2 little scrubby bucks" or " just another sour grapes weekend warrior that didn't kill a deer this season because of poor skills". Well I'm neither. I killed a nice rack buck every year I've hunted and that began back in 1933 on this same farm. Alt wasn't even born then!
The apathy of Pa's deer hunters is shocking to me. How could they possibly allow items that have been proven to stlip by without going to Harris burg in mass and demanding truthfull answers? i.e., Alt not disclosing whom the private donators to the deer reaserch were until years AFTER his plan was implemented. Also why do they not throw this line back in Alt's face" hunters will need to face the fact they are going to have tough hunting and there less mature 2.5 yr old and older bucks,even though numbers in general are declined"

The truth be known the forestery and farming concerns were ready to take legal action to force the state to lower deer numbers rather than manipulate them for what hunters wanted. Until that point Pa didn't even have a deer management biologist, everything was either BEAR or ELK management .
I've said it before what some WMUs need to happen is to have the majority of private landowners post their property against all hunting. When enough weekend warriors get fed up with this and realize it is the direct reaction to Alt/PGC succuming to the farmers an foresters rather than hunters wishes, they will take action against the programs.
Nothing wrong with controlling overpopulations of deer where they need to be controlled but not statewide
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