I could see this being debated in so many direction it isn't funny.
Are you guys saying Management by the hunters or the DNR ?
As Hicks said, People are starting to get in their heads they need to let younger smaller bucks walk and that doesn't stop just because it's PA. I'm sure they have more then a few that are in that mind set.
IMO this is what they should do as a starting point.
1) Stop selling BUCK only tags and go back to an either sex tag.
2) They need to go with shotgun only state wide instead of only a few counties that are shotgun and the rest being rifle.
3) Shorten their firearms season if they don't do option #2
Option #2 would do a couple of things.
2a. It would put some deer out of effective range allowing them to live longer
2b. It would take away some of the pressure on the deer. PA is a great place for people such as myself that don't get to head out west and hunt rifles so we just move next door and NY does the same thing. Go to a shotgun only and alot of the NR's will have no reason to go there.
I bet if you ask the NR's past and present that you will find out that about 90% of them only hunt PA because of the rifle season. Surely they aren't hunting it for the quality bucks they have there. They just want a chance to blast a deer (any deer) with a high power rifle just the same as I want to
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