I feel the same way.

Where do they hire the snipers? Just curious.

Earn a buck is as dumb idea as saying trailer courts cause tornadoes.
If you want to shoot does ,then shoot the damn things,but for Christ sakes don't tell the rest of us we have to.
I'm sick of managing the whole state to please you blacktop dwellers. Get the hell out of the neon & concrete world ,you know the places that trees still grow and farms still grow row crops, not pumpkins for your minivan driving soccer moms brat kids.[:@]
If you have to many does in your subdivision then maybe you should go to your home owners association and get permission to hunt from your community play ground.

Have any of you ever hunted far enough from the city where you didn't have to put money in themeter when you parked your car?

I know some of you have never seen it but it even snows in our part of the state.

I've been hunting Pa for the last 10 years , every year . I would not like the earn a buck regulation , if thinning the heard is their goal , my suggestion would be give 2 or 3 free doe tags with every license

Another thing that lessens the numbers of does harvested is the fact that extra doe tags are AREA SPECIFIC , you can kill only 1 buck in any county , substitute a doe for your buck during a specific season , but doe tags are site specific .

I like Georgia's quotas , when you buy your license , you get 2 buck tags and 10 doe tags , good anywhere in the state , there are different point and spreed regulations for different areas , and slightly different seasons north to south in the state , but their rules make since . In my home state I can kill a buck and a doe every day of bow season , a buck a day during gun seasons , overkill .

Jim, I think you mightneed to become more educated on the subject.It's got nothing to do with blacktop, neon, or minivans. It has all to do with public land, or the lack there of. The problem in my area is that there is VERY LITTLE public land to hunt. There's plenty of woods, just private,and hunting isn't allowed. The deer just keepreproducing, and their numbers keep going up. In Delaware County for example where there is plenty of wooded land, there is only ONE, just ONE piece of public land (1200 acres)to hunt, period. This presents a big problem in keeping deer numbers down. If you can't access the land, you can't keep the deer numbers inline.
Philadelphia County has a very similar problem, plenty of woods/deer withNO public land to hunt. It's not like the rest of Pa, where the deer just aren't there! Southern Montgomery County has this same problem to a certain extent as well. That's why they have these countieslisted as Special Regs WMU's. Earn A Buck would work for these area's.

Antlerless tags are a mere $6 each, so I really don't think cost is an issue at all. They have basically unlimited tags available in most Special Regs WMU's. They need to MAKE a hunter take a doe before they can kill a buck if they want to get the over-all deer numbers down in these area's. Buck numbers aren't the problem, it's the does!

Here a news flash , this is America ,its not the goobermans job to buy you hunting land,you are free to do it your self.[:-]

The states deer management program is designed for suburbia ,there is far more to PA than the treeless world that some chose to live in.
My part of the state has more deer habitat than blacktop, we even like the deer here. They eat acorns that fall from the oak trees that we see no reason to cut down and replace with lamp posts.
Be Careful what you wish for when it comes to government intervention in what should be a common sense approach to wildlife management.

I honestly think this regulation would be IGNORED by over 1/2 the deer hunting population.....if the right situation (or wrong....depending on your perspective) presented itself.

Just my opinion.

GMMAT , you are saying what I was thinking but did not want to type , I know there are some that go out the first Monday after thanksgiving looking for a buck , any buck , to shoot , thankfully most of the guys I hunt with are not like that and like to eat venison , The reason I mention free doe tags is I know of some who did not get their doe tags because they were sold out or they missed the draw . It would be nice to have them included with you licence , and not something extra to worry about .

It wouldn't work well in my area, southern 2C, since most land owners have been restricting doe hunting since they expanded the 3 day doe season, to full season years back. Right now if you ride around my area 2/3 of the private land that is not fully posted has sings hanging every 50 yards that says NO DOE HUNTING. After they expanded the doe hunting, they got hit really hard in this area, of course down here there is a lot of hunting pressure. I know it is a lot different in other areas of the state, but I don't think it would work down here.