Longer Archery Season in Pa
 

There has been preliminary approval given to the extention of thePa archery/antlerless seasonin WMU's 2B, 5C and 5D (my unit) for '07. The extra weeks are, drum roll please,[8D] Sept 15-28 & Nov 12-24! UNREAL!!! It just keeps getting better. ;)

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yup i cant wait 5C for me

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Sounds good, I hope you guys get it! Here in Wisconsin we can hunt from Sept 15th - November 15th, Nov 26th - Jan 6th! We have quite the season! Good luck!

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Yea too bad its not statewide and for bucks also.

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It's just a matter of final approval @ the PGC meeting in April.
Should be a slam dunk vote.
I hope it opens the door for the rest of the state.

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id personaly like to see the season pushed back 2 weeks and run 2 weeks later. i understand the expanded season though in those WMU's as they claim they have way to many deer. I'm stuck here in 2c so its just the same old.

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Why push it back? Archery should come in and stay in until the end of the year. Longer archery season is not going to kill off the deer.

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i personally dont care for the new seasons. its a DOE season incase you guys didnt know. in my part of 2B i wont be shooting any does any time soon unless i find an area that HAS alot. the farm country i hunt just got pounded in the recent years. i hear if i hope a county over i will see more deer..getting permission to hunt will be hard..

personally its too hot for me to hunt preseason....and hunting after the season during the peak of the rut with a unfilled buck tag only being allowed to take does would be like torture!!

and rybo is right...a couple weeks of a doe bow season wont have hardly any impact if at all.

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:) My thoughts as well but I was being greedy. :)

As mentioned the point of the extensions is for herd management, aka a reduction in doe numbers in special regulation areas. I am just outside of 5C but have permission to hunt a few small plots in the northwestern corner of it. I may take advantage of the early season if everything works out. I do agree it will probably have only a minimal impact on herd reduction but far be it from me to argue with the opportunity for more time in the woods.

As for moving the season back two week, honestly, I would be totally against it. I hunt public land and with so many overlapping seasons (muzzleloader, junior/senior rifle, junior pheasant hunt, small game season) the opportunity to hunt deer in an undisturbed environment is only available really during the first week of the season. Adding two weeks to the beginning of it is wonderful in my opinion. As stated it would be nice if it was elsewhere in other areas that could support it.

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I live in 5c, I hope it does what it is intended for and helps to fix this terrible buck to doe ratio we have.

Shane

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If I was running the show, bow season would come in on the last saturday in September, and continue non-stop through new year's weekend.

Rifle season would become shotgun/muzzleloader only, and I would quickly become the most hated man in the State of Pennsylvania.

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If I were running the show, I would implement "earn-a-buck". For those of you whoaren't familure with this program, you must kill a doebefore you canshoot a buck. In my area, 5-D, there are unlimited antlerless permits. Obviously there's too many deer in this region, so with "earn-a- buck" hunters would focus more on killing a doe than they would if given a choice. Make sence?
Also, the fact that there are antler restrictions says that they want morebucks to be able to mature and have bigger racks,once again "earn-a-buck" would help to acheivethis goal.
The only problem I can think of is how to enforce the program?What do you folks think about this?

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Early in I'd be all for that, they gotta do some thing. They are now considering a bill (550 in yesterdays daily local)that would allow a farmer to hire guns to thin herds for crop damage. I don't know if I like that Idea.

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I hear you brother... I'm in the farm country in 5C and the doe have taken a real beating here too... In all of archery season last year I saw 4 adult doe... Yeah, it nice we get some extra time, but a lot of good it does when all you get to see is squirrels. Two strait months of rifle doe season has taken its toll...

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Mauser,
I was refering to having a statewide archery buck and doe season that runs a long time. I think in the hard to reach areas the extended doe season will help out. I plan to get at least 3 more tags than normal with the extra time.

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That will be nice to get a few early doe in the frezzer. There thick a ticks on a hound on some of the farms I hunt in 5c-5d. More BOWHUNTING YEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

Hatchet Jack