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Originally Posted by GRIZZLYBEAR
The Game Commission got there reduction of the deer herd, Alt was under fire by many sportmans organizations and he's gone, but the DAMAGE has been done and the only way to increase the size of the deer herd is do what was done in the 60s and 70s. No doe permits for 3 or 4 years (no doe permits were sold for several years during the 60s) then as the deer herd increases go to a 1 day doe season after the buck season, and as the keeps increasing eventually go back to a 3 doe season after the rifle buck season. What's needed is a reductions of doe permits.
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True, perhaps for most of the state (which is why they didn't issue anterless tags in most WMUs this year), but completely untrue in the SE Pa. WMUs.
We (in southern Chester county) have too many anterless deer, if anything. Herds on herds of the damn things. Crapping all over the place, standing in the road, destroying gardens. It's insane how many we have. I only bothered to get one anterless tag this year. Had I wanted to, I could have taken at least a dozen anterless this past season simply by walking out in my back yard, pointing a finger, and yelling "BANG!"
Hell, my husky/whippet cross almost caught (I kid you not) an 8+ point buck in Oct. I let her out at about 6:30 am or so. All of a sudden she goes tearing off the deck and out of sight. Next thing I know, she's in full chase of a buck, gaining, and gets within 2 feet of him, just as he crosses the electronic fence and she breaks off. If we hadn't had the electric fence she would have had him down within a second or so. I just about peed myself laughing -- I've never seen a deer look so terrified.