Everyone is screaming for better quality deer
Ehhhhhh. Wrong answer.
Not if you are speaking of pa. You must be reading too many glossy magazines and not talking to enough real people on the street.
Nooooooo...... not all pa hunters, probably not even a majority want "bigger bucks" no matter what the cost. We in pa have been shooting more antlerless than antlered for over ten years. Looooong before the fad of qdm blew into Pa TV. And that means a lot of pa hunters,
before Dr. Cut n' Run did not care about any rack on the head or whether the deer was 110lbs or 170lbs.
We always were taught our role as hunters was to harvest the excess populations to control them.....
....not to manipulate it for our own gain.