BLAH BLAH BLAH,

Food plots as bait? Okay, so a guy sitting on private land overlooking the farmers corn-field or a guy sitting in a big white oak tree that is dropping a ton of acorns is somehow better than a guy who will plant a patch of clover to hunt over? Give me a break. Food is food and planting a food plot doesn't mean that every deer in the state is going to be hanging out in it during the day. You guys need to get off your couch and stop watching the hunting shows and actually do a little research. The food plots I have planted get very little action during the day. I have game cameras set-up on them (is that another crime?) and these food plots definetly get used by doe more than bucks. Setting a camera on a well-traveled trail will usually get about 40% buck pictures and 60% doe pictures. Setting one up on a food plot will get about 90% doe pictures and 10% buck pictures with about 95% of the pictures being at night!

Sunday hunting. Well, I hear the religion card played alot yet these are the same guys who work on Sundays or drink beer while watching football on Sunday, ect... Sunday IS a day for relaxation (atleast it should be), but I find no better way to relax than to sit in a treestand!

As far as semi-auto rifles go. I personally don't like the idea, not because it is some new idea but for safety reasons. Rob's picture of PA rifle hunting is right on parr with what I see. Heck, the gamelands that border my hunting property sound like a war in the early morning. You can hear gun shots unload (probablly as a deer busts out into a field), and you can hear shots right in a line that get further and further away as the deer is running until one lucky soul puts a bullet in the thing! I really wonder what the hit/miss ratio is for rifle hunters in PA. I would be willing to bet it is around 7 misses for every 1 hit!

ATV's..... well, they aren't my favorite thing but I am not going to tell a guy he is wrong for using one (where legal). ATV's aren't solely used for the "lazy" man. They are used to haul deer out of the woods (who hasn't had a loooooong drag with a heavy deer and wished that they had an ATV?). They also help guys that can't walk get out there.

The problem with PA's "traditions" is that they weren't helping the deer out and they were driving future hunters and old-timers away. I think that things are looking better in PA, much better than they use to be. Yes, there is ALOT of improvement to be made, but these things take time. Getting doe tag allocations figured out is one of the more important ones, much more important than any nut-job telling me that I am a lazy slob because I hunt my own property (private property yes, posted no), and I plant food plots for the deer to help give them that extra nutrition they need for the winter.