Why? Do you want the average rack size of 2.5 + buck to decrease?

The thing about this poll,Is how many people that voted was from PA? I am from NY and just voted on it to skew it up. You know PA people are not the only ones who are going to vote on it. Let everyone who voted on this poll post their name and what state they are from. Then you can see the accurate numbers much better. If I put up a poll about NY,I know everyone would be voting on it also. This is not about what other persons from otherstates thinks,But what people in the PA state thinks. So this poll is junk.

Plenty of guys on here from other states that hunt PA. Are you saying they shouldnt be able to vote?

If you hunt PA thanks for your vote. If you don't, why would you bother voting just to "skew things up" ?

i agree, very dumb idea.

AR should be for all of us in wmu2g

A lot of guys who support Ars do so because they simply don't understand how much it reduces the buck harvest. In 2006 we harvested 75,762 ,1.5 buck and if ARs saved 50% then we carried over 75,762, 1.5 bucks. but in 2007 we only harvested 34,114, 2.5 buck which is only 45% of the bucks that were protected by ARs. How many of the 41,648 2.5 bucks that weren't harvested were lost to non-hunting mortality,weren't AR legal,were killed as antlerless or survived to be 3.5 buck.

livbucks, you are right but we must THROTTLE back a lot because sprouls interviews showed that say out of 10 hunters in crew , only 3 got a doe.

so, you still have 7 without doe.

ONE DEER AND YOUR DONE WOULD HELP SOME BUT STILL WOULD NOT IMPACT MUCH/

we need 3 day of doe only and no doe hunting rest of season.,

AR didnt reduce the buck harvest, HR did. The idea that the bucks would die anyway if we dont kill most of them as 1.5 year olds is simply ridiculous and no credible research supports that notion.

So it is possible to save does for mature breeding stock, but it is not possible to save bucks past 1.5?
Funny way of saying you want to sit on a stump, see 35 does/fawns and shoot a spike, all before 9am opening day of rifle season.

Ya know Greg, I bet almost everyone on this MB could find a lot more common ground if not for the constant pot stirring and distortions from Blueboy. Even when threads seem to be heading toward a consensus..... Bam.... we get hit fromthe skyby some more Bluebird poop

This deer was taken on water authority land open to the public for hunting. I hunted this area as a kid and the guy who took it hunted the area for 49 years. All the guys who hunt this areasay this is by far the biggest buck taken outof there. I firmly believe antler restrictions along with responsible hunters allowed this deer to grow to the141-4/8 monster that he is.