There used to be guys who came to pa for years from NH, to hunt in the camp three doors down from ours. They stopped coming down in the 2003 season. The camp was in a state forest and was severaly affected when concurrent seasons, AR and HR started. As the populations were not large in mature state forests, these were the guys first affected. You heard from them last year, but people tried to blow it off.

Now it has effected more areas, more hunters saw it this season and you see letters and emails pouring into state offices as a result.

Even if some of the regs were reversed today, the damage done will take a loooooong time to fix. Not just deer numbers, but in the lost hunters, and the lost trust that hunters once had in the state leaders.

Much of that will never be reclaimed...