that must be true because we have a ton of hunters from lancaster hunting where i hunt.. i never understood why they came all the way up here and leave all that farm land.. but now i see its posted.. seems to be more and more of that going on..

Posted ground can mean an opportunity for the hunter who cares enough about his sport to devote some time in the off season. I've found that many posted signs go up in response to the weekend warrior who shows up in the season and fails to show the proper respect and courtesies due to the landowner. The dedicated sportsman who takes the time to let the landowner get to know that he will treat the land he's priveleged to hunt on with respect gets a relatively uncrowded and unspoiled place to hunt as his reward. It aint always easy but it is worth the time and effort!

that is true or else you can find those places that have lots of deer and no one is around cause the owners of the property live 100 miles away. and they use the land for family getaway.

that is a great point, and i hope more people do that. that kinda land owner usually says "i like to see deer but only when there're heads are up" meaning when the heads are down they are eating his/her crops. i heard a farmer say that not too long ago, i liked it.. but where we have problems are when you have woodlots that boarder farms that someone else owns and its only for hunting bucks. just a small hunting party of like 5 hunters, and they will only take a few bucks and wont let anyone hunt it. what they should do is help the heard and the farmer that is next to them and let people on to shot some doe. because thats where the deer numbers start getting really high.. and people drive by the farms in the evening and say "wow look at all those deer, people are crazy when they say that the deer numbers are down".. i just want to tell those people to drive on public ground and u wont think that ...

i dont think deer are as rare as everyone is making them out to be. we see them around heree all the time. i think the PGC is doing a good job of managing ther deer herd. i also think that some people need to quit complaining about no deer

hum . makes you wonder!

I personally havent seen that but that would be a problem. Its hard to understand how we can still have that "bucks only" mentality in this day and age.

i totally agree. if people would get off the thinking of "i want the big one, but im just gonna sit here and wait for it", and start focusing on actually getting into the woods, scouting for any sign of deer including DOE, shooting does when they come by, and then, if the see a nice legal buck, killing it. personally i think if some people would just get out of their treestands, they would see that there really are some deer in the woods.

As an archer , you should have no problem understanding the bucks only mentality. In 2004 archer harvested 28K buck and 34K anterless . since the anterled to anterless ratio is approximately 1:3 , it is pretty obvious that archers are mainly hunting for buck.

Rifle hunters ,on the other hand ,harvested 96K buck and 251K anterless. So , it is obvious that the rifle hunters do not have a problem with harvesting doe, but archers are still relying on the rifle huters to manage the herd.

but what im saying is the "buck clubs" those hunters are seeing deer. i think the people that arent seeing the deer have been outta the treestands.. when u can walk for miles and not see a deer or "much" sign of deer then thats a low spot..