Let me see if I understand the wholier than thow attitude here.

Its my tag I paid for it. I see a deer which looks and fits my tags definition of doe. I take it because its brown and 1st deer within gun range. I find out it's actually a button buck!! I didn't pay any attention with my 9x scope - or - I just don't give a crap cause it's my tag and I paid for it.

What has my self serving act just accomplished? You've got your meat Bubba. You've just shot a 6 month old button which might have been next years 6-8 pnt or following yrs 10+ at 18-20" spread.

Deer hunters in PA as in many other states create their own problems then blame it on every Tom Dick and Harry within ear range. My personal experiance with many(NOT ALL) PA hunters is the "Brown it's Down" mentality. If you shoot anything,everything brown than you might have the deer problem your proclaiming to have and blame it on politics and ALT.


If I would have passed on the button and taken Doe,and assuming she had twins, we have just reduced density by net of 3 deer the following year. This would depend on when/if the button now at 1-1/2 is harvested. That's just basic math if I don't make any other assumptions.