Hopefully, this will not get locked or deleted.

I have been watching, occasionally posting and reading other articles about the situation here in PA. In all the years of hunting I participated in I have never seen this state in such turmoil. Yes, the changes were very dramatic and a lot of people were directly affected. Our heritage here in this state is at stake. Not because of one managers decision to cull the herd back into a normal balance, but because of the reaction of sportsman across this state. Just because we are told we can harvest more antlerless deer doesn't mean we have to. Self control goes a long way.

I am very concerned about our sport, our lifestyle, that so many of us love. Comments about conspiracies and derogatory remarks about individuals does nothing for us but make our fellow hunters look bad. Now, we are turning on one another, not in constructive critisism, but taking cheap shots at each other just because we disagree. There's nothing wrong with disagreeing on topics, I do all the time. But lets think before we speak. Others, not just the people you are responding to, but those from outside hunting.net, maybe even the Game Commission itself could be viewing these threads. I for one don't want PETA, or any other anti-hunting organization taking a quote from something i said here and using it as a campaign slogan showing how hunters are blood thirsty villains upset because we don't have anything or not enough of something to kill. Now, who wants that?

Its our sport, we can either take matters into our own hands and show self restraint or continue to harvest as much as they allow us. Us as hunters have an image to uphold to the general non-hunting public. Arguing, fighting, and in some cases shooting people over a deer does nothing but convey a bad image for us. We have to stick together or we may be in serious trouble in the futere. Not from the game commission, but from anti-hunters just dying to get their hands on our heritage.