So basically you are of the opinion that as long as deer are plentifull in your area, you do not care about your fellow sportsman, who are not experiencing the same overpopulation.

And YOU term anyone who shows a concern and wants hunters to have input to the Game Commissions meetings, and input to 'thier' hunting.......as a whiner. Hmmmmm. Speaks volumes about your character.

As for being in an area of overpopulation, you have all the tools you could ask for to address the problem. Liberal doe tags, DMAP, Red tag, crop damage are all ways to eliminate that problem. But what program is there to address an underpopulation? Oh, thats right there is only the "cross your fingers and wait" program. In a few years your population might rebound.

Those who have not experienced the reductions in thier back yard are very flippant about the concerns of anyone else. But when it eventually comes to their area, they sober up in a hurry. Its only a matter of time. The reductions have just started in pa, and they will get to your area eventually......... so you have the luxury of being rather snotty now and calling people whiners, but remember "ye reap what ye sow".

One thing that has is not based on opinion in pa. Dropping buck harvests of a huge scale.

203,000 2001
165,000 2002
142,000 2003
1XX,000 2004


If we drop this season to the 130,000 neighborhood then that is a 35% reduction in the harvest under the current regs. And you are seriously attempting to attribute that drop to "Let's face it, PA hunters are getting OLD - going blind, deaf, and have increasingly limited physical capabilities. Of course their success rates are going to decline, it's common sense.


Yeeeeeeeaaah, Pa's harvest drop has nothing to do with herd reductions. Its just that older hunters are now forgetfull, and young hunters can't hunt as well?

Puhhhhlleeease!