RE: Doe shooting in Pa
 

Truly deep woods is relatively rare anywhere in Pa. I think the point though is that there are a lot of hunters who don't put much effort into their hunt any more. The results of the PGC survey where guys carried a GPS and knew they were being tracked were pitifully embarassing. Those guys barely left sight of the road!!

I know that when I hunt rifle season on public ground in the ANF I'm going to have to go deep, steep or ugly to have a successful hunt. My experience (only talking about mine here) has been that very few hunters are willing to do that and they (the ones who wont go where it's deep steep or ugly) are the ones that I hear complaining the loudest about no deer.

RE: Doe shooting in Pa
 

Pa doe liscences are $6 for resident not $7 i could be mistaken but thats what i paid last year!

RE: Doe shooting in Pa
 

I like it that way, I know when I am in the "steep and ugly" and see another hunter he is A true hunter.

RE: Doe shooting in Pa
 

not true, up the road on our good old, well managed game lands, we can walk for 2 miles without coming to a road. by the way we live in NW PA

RE: Doe shooting in Pa
 

i know what you mean. not very many people will get off the roads

RE: Doe shooting in Pa
 

I think controlling the deer herd is up to us "The Hunters" now. IMHO it's all about the money for the PGC,,,so give em their friggin money & buy as many tags as you can possibly buy, and then just dont fill them. The area that i hunt in clinton co. has been so overkilled it's pathetic. In as little as 5 yrs ago i could set in my treestand and see 30-50 deer per day,,,granted i never saw a so-called trophy buck but it was nice to see deer,, it was nice to see does with fawns,,and it was a good feeling when you shot a doe in hopes you were doing the herd some good by taking the doe. This year i sat from 6:30 am until 5:15 pm everyday of the opening week and i seen 15 deer. maybe i should feel lucky...some didnt even see that, but of those 15 deer i did see none of them were yearling fawns,, 4 were nonlegal bucks,,,2 of which wre 3.5 yr old spikes (educated guess on the age) and who knows how many times i counted the other 11 deer twice in 6 days. to me ,if you dont have fawns you dont have deer, period! I may be wrong in doing so,,,but im gonna buy tags and leave them in the gun cabinet and tell my great grandchildren one day that i spent alot of money making sure they would have a deer to shoot at.

RE: Doe shooting in Pa
 

if u buy tags and not fill your still helping the PGC. i say dont buy and let them feel the pinch. im not buying , im giving my money to md. id rather pay out of state for better hunting and be one of the statisical numbers not buying pa license

RE: Doe shooting in Pa
 

If you duy a tag, that is a tag that another hunter can not use, that tag saves 1 maby 3 deer if not used, if it was about money they would of raised the fees for the tags, like they did for all other license.

RE: Doe shooting in Pa
 

Hey rem, not saying your a liar or anything, but 30-50 deer a day? If I saw that many deer in one day, I'd give up my job and become photographer for Field and Stream. How many of those deer might be the same deer just milling around and coming back to their "yard" or "staging" area?

I've been hunting archery here( NW Pa) for 10 years and haven't seen that many deer in a week.:D

RE: Doe shooting in Pa
 

i know what you mean, ive only seen 10 in one day, i do have a friend who claims to have seen 25+ deer in one day, this last season, he only saw 46 deer all season though