This is not about our activities, it's about PA Hunting License Sales or lack thereof. Your deliberately trying to take this off an an unrelated tangent to bash the USP.

Has the PGC legislative laision been silenced by the agency from responding to the question or are the figures so bad that the agency is embarrassed toproduce them? As I previously stated, I expect the figure to be smaller than the previous July figure of 40% for resident license buyers.

Again, what is the figure for August as to the figure for the previous year?

My hunting exoperiences are not any more limited than anyone else's.The thing is,I get satisfaction out of harvesting game that I actually have to hunt for.I hardly call shooting farm raised birds hunting,especially when they've been left out of their cages for just a few hours or days.Theneed for instant gratification and put and take hunting is far more harmful tothe future of hunting than having less deer than we had in the good ole days.Teach kids about conservation and about the effort it takes to become successful.Those that grasp that conceptwill be hunters for life.For those that are unwilling to hunt and expect the rest of the hunters to dish out $14/bird, can alsways go to a preserve.You may even find a few that will dress them out for you.No sense getting your hands dirty.

Thank you for your input.

Where are the hunting license sales figures for August?

I've heard the overall sales are down 9%.

I posted that part of the cause of the countrywide decline is the fact that were not recruiting our youth. It was very relevant to anyone who really cares about the declining numbers. Since the USP has such a problem with the declining license sales, I would think they'd want to do whatevr they could to help recruit our youth. Or is their motivation really from something else.....


This quote says volumes about you and the USP. You bought your license for twenty bucks and by damn you expect the PGC to solve anything that you dont like for that twenty. According to you, It's not your job, its not my job, the PGC should put a deer behind every tree and a pheasant behind every bush. Cut all the trees to pay for it and stop puting and by the way, stop putting any money effort into our elk herd.

Settle Down Fella's.Stop the Bickering.

One of you has already been warned.

Joe I don't understand..."I've heard the overall sales are down 9%."
I think that many of us were expecting to see the figures for all catagories,Adult Resident, Youth Resident, Non-Resident, etc.

In any event what do you attribute this negative figure to?

Do these figures correspond with what you've heard Joe?

Adult Resident Down 9%
Senior Down 19%
Non-resident Down 13%
Non-Resident JR Down 38%
Landowner Down 10
MuzzleloaderDown 7%

Total General Hunting Down 9%

I challenge you to back up that statement!

Post youth hunting figures nationwide.

It's a step in the right direction.