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Old 04-06-2005 | 07:20 AM
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Default RE: If you KNOW, then why don't you?

Matt sorry about the bitchen.

Here in PA the state decided on a plan to lower deer #'s. PA is a huge state but we took the one size fits all approach, now everybodys pissed .Some areas the deer kill has fallen 50% other areas people are over run with deer. People in the middle of the state hunt for days not to see a deer then people down state tell them they don't know how to hunt because they have deer feeding in their yards. It is a mess!
Around here the state says we can support 15 to 21 deer per forested square mile. This area is 50 % forested . So with their #s 1280 acres divided by 18 you get one deer per 71 acres. So on my 150 acres the PA.G.C. thinks I can support 2 deer. The people that followed this plan blindly and shot a doe with every tag they could get , now bitch the loudest. We have people in some counties that take their kids out to hunt but with no deer it is hard get them interested.
I have between fifteen and twenty deer feeding at my house now. If half are does that will have twins I will have between 25-40 deer this summer. That means I will need to buy 2050 more acres to support them.

Maybe that will help explain my lack of support for goverments plan to regulate our deer.

I too am sorry about some comments I have made to you.

If you follow blindly make sure you are not following a lemming!!!!!!!

Good hunting. Jim
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