Then what is your excuse for not having any chances at a 2.5 year old buck? You have the run of the woods, like you own the place.

Few OW deer produce very few 2.5+ buck. Reduced hunting pressure during the concurrent season makes it harder to harvest an older buck. In our area we have a significant amount of land in safety zones which provides secure areas where no one can access those deer. Archers harvested over 50% of the buck in 5 C in 2007 ,before the concurrent season.

That could be your problem right there. You are locked in on old ways of stump sitting and letting others force the unnatural movement of deer past you. I have finally put together your anger issue with the GC. Less deer means less effective (fun) stump sitting. And now there are less hunters as well. This is really throwing a monkey wrench into your way of taking advantage of other hunters and an overpopulated herd. The new improved way requires hunting now. That means you need to get up and go find deer. That is very uncomfortablefor you, isn't it? Like anybody that has been receiving entitlements, when it is taken away, the result is extreme unconsolable anger.

You simply have no idea what you are talking about. I actually despise sitting on stand for endless hours without seeing anything. That is why I am the designated dog in our group and the one that does all of the drives. I actually prefer pursuing the game I harvest rather than ambushing them from 20 Ft. up in a climbing stand, which at times i consider to be more like poaching then hunting.

Now that you have made a total fool of yourself, crawl back under your rock and lick your wounds.

Now you wish to start a war of factions of hunters?
Placing stands to hunt the natural movements of deer is hit or miss, and anyone that does so is a very dedicated hunter, willing to invest huge blocks of time for the chance at a mature deer. Stump sitting along an escape route, knowing that hordes of orange blobs will push hordes of spikes and forkies past you in arms reach by 8 am opening day requires one only to wake up in time to be there. Commence to a lickin', yurself.

Well bend over and kiss your butt goodbye , because over 800,000 hunters that sat on their favorite stump in 2007 didn't harvest a buck.

So what are the ramifications of that, and what impact does that have on me?
I didn't tag a buck in '07. And as a matter of fact I passed on several legal bucks and yet I had no negative feeling toward my hunting in '07. I rather enjoyed the seasons as usual. I place the sharing of time in the woods with family above the tagging of a deer. Tearing out my tag is only the icing of the cake, and it takes a biggun' to get me shooting.

Obviously it has no effects on you because you don't give a rip about your fellow hunters. It is all about:"me" and that is a major problem with PA hunters.

stop acting like me,i thought there was not many like me around.

no doubt in todays hunting deer in WMU2G,you better be out there to ENJOY yourself, not to harvest a buck every year or you will be very sad.

this is worst year i have had in my life, I HAVE NOT SEEN A DEER in 8 days.

i hunted HARDER this year than i did in last 3 years.

But yet I passed on legal bucks, knowing and accepting that they very well may be taken by other hunters, yet you peg me as the one with a problem. Seems to me that I sacrifice my own short term gratification for the sake of future opportunities that may not be paid to me personally. What do you contribute besides negative rabble and now damning of factions of the sporting public?