I might have to buy another climing stick for next season and move my stand up another 10 feet. Tear flood waters are rising. I just ordered a new snorkel on ebay.
Chickory - they are whining - whining because they're seeing 4 deer instead of 7, seeing 10 instead of 15, seeing 50 instead of 75. What you call "voicing opinions," I call "whining."
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.
I am simply making that argument that those problems, paired with the woods having a few less deer in them, makes for a tougher (and less successful) hunt. Read the numbers, look at the average ages. PA hunters are entering their golden years, it's no secret.
Besides, I said I changed my mind (mostly due to the whining) and now support a rollback of Herd Reductions. I feel that certain tracts of land have achieved adequate herd levels to achieve adequate regrowth of native plant species.
Deer aren't gonna become extinct. They aren't endangerd species. You won't have to go to a zoo to look at one.