ORIGINAL: J Pike
Rick said
Huh..........unusual. All of the property I hunt (huntington and Bradford counties) are absolutely crawling with deer.
what does your property that you hunt and manage have to do with seig's thread? With only harvesting 6-8 doe's per year and only bucks 3.5 years of age or older have to do with wether or not deer hunting will continue to get worse on PA.? Just because HR. hasnt affected your property or area yet doesnt mean it isnt going to in the very near future,
Do you support the PGC.'s, DCNR's, Audobon Society's deer management plan? Pike
My responses purpose is to show that while some areas have been affected within the state, many areas have not been. The areas I hunt have done nothing but improve.
I don't support everything that PGC has done. I do think there are several WMU's that are mismanaged and have had too many does taken. I do think that they should have supported their changes with a tremendous amount of habitat improvement as well. I think PGC has taken an unbalanced approach to the management with only implementing the HR and AR. I do think that AR is great, and I don't have any issues with that. I do also think the HR should have been better managed in a lot of WMU's.
All I am saying is that we have done our own thing while following the laws we are all bound to and experienced some great hunting, the hunting has actually gotten better over the last 6 years not worse. Before this no one ever shot deer older than 2 1/2 years on this property or the property I hunt in Huntington County.
I also lived in York County for 5 years, and only moved up north a little less than a year ago. I know a lot of places there are overhunted, however there is some great hunting in and around there also. Most of the places I used to hunt up until the 04 season in York County were public land too.