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Old 12-31-2004 | 09:06 PM
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Default RE: GREAT DAY FOR SPORTSMEN OF PA

Why would you say that when the PGC has said that the harvest of 352K anterless didn't reduce the herd and the 2003 harvest of 323K anterless only kept the herd stable? Why would the PGC reduce anterless allocations if after two years of 1M anterless tags and two years of record anterless harvests the PGC is still claiming we have had zero HR?
Why would I say that? Cmon! Everyone realizes that sooner or later, HR will have an effect. If, as I think you're implying HR has already had a real effect, then we'll see a drop in doe harvest numbers. We've all heard claims for years (since the first bonus tags came out) that the doe are being wiped out yet the kill numbers continue to indicate otherwise. Sooner or later, the kill will drop or level off and at that point antlerless tags will have to be cut.
We've been hearing that the sky is falling for so long from the Unified/Slinsky/Karl Power types that it rings hollow.
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