ORIGINAL: NorthPA

Pahick, I don’t see it as an argument. I see it as you making off the wall claims and accusations and me posting the fact and truth and you not wanting to face up to those.
I’ve provided all sorts of facts for you.

You accuse the PGC of guessing and yet you’re guessing at what the “majority” thinks.
If the majority is in agreement with you then why did the doe licenses sell out so fast in some WMU’S?
Why are license sales still strong, even though all across North America they have declined worst than here?
That should tell you that the “majority” still have a positive outlook and still want to hunt does.

A good look at how you think, is this ridiculous statement you made: “I simply cannot believe you live there, or even have any direct contact with the area. You sound more like a PGC employee than anything.”

You cannot believe it only because you “don’t want to believe it.”
If you are familiar with the Mansfield area, you only need to go a little further east to find me. My eye doctor is in Mansfield, (Stroehecker), I often eat breakfast at grandma’s in Mansfield, and sometimes lunch at the Vets Club in Troy. Warner tractor in E. Troy does the work on my track loader and backhoe. Oh yeah my log splitter is getting warranty work by the E. Smithfield Hardware right now.

I am not and have never been a PGC employee. For a while in the 70’s my attitude was just like yours is. I hunted hard and saw few deer for a few years in a row on SGL 12 and 36. I whined and complain and even wrote letters to the PGC. Then I “grew up” and learned a little bit about wildlife and hunting instead of relying on luck, at the same spot, all the time.

You really should make an effort to get away from your little circle of unhappy friends. Go to Judson’s Feed Mill in Columbia Crossroads and talk to those guys or to Columbia Crossroads Equipment, (My Massey Ferguson Tractor dealer) and ask those guys how the hunting is.
You’ll find that there are very many who support real deer management and who look forward to good hunting year after year.
Be the guy who has the stuff to actually look at both sides.

ORIGINAL: sproulman



DOE licenses went because hunters want MEAT..
look at rabbits here, hunters killed them off and never left some for next year..

go to sgl252,miles of the best habitat but very few rabbits, no deer,no squireaals,no grouse, few pheasants,no turkeys..

whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?

hunters cleaned them out...

same with DOE..people will hunt until there is not 1 deer left..
i am not in majority, for sure..
i dont kill doe in wmu2g but i do get a doe permit, i feel it keeps 1 deer alive...

our whole family gets doe permits BUT we dont use them....
there are lots like us ,health, age.work,no doe ,they dont even use permits..

this is why the real meat hunters get 5 doe each, i know many that did..

they even lost 500 dollars a week at work so they could get their 5 doe...
then they went to new york and shot 5 more doe,some went to so.caro;ina, 5 more..

are these people sportsman, no way ,they are aftyer MEAT....
so, its MEAT and doe are getting rapped because of it....