Well your wrong on that point also Waynzee.
A friend of mine hit a decent buck with his pickup on opening morning a few years back and all he did was gut it, tag it, then call the warden. He was told he could either keep it or turn it in and go hunt another one. He chose to keep it.
Fact is license sales have dropped significantly in all states, including those allowing sunday hunting, and the use of ARs for hunting. So again your argument is all about what you want, and little to do with actual facts.
I don't remember exactly how long ago it was, but no doubt over 10 years now the PGC legalized cross bows for handicap hunters in PA.
Well within about 3 years the numbers of handicap hunters skyrocketed because of all the serious back issues everybody wanting a cross bow had developed, and all it took was a letter from a friendly doctor.
So now anybody can have a cross bow, which in essence gives them about a 6 week
head start with a rifle type device before the actual rifle season begins.
The buck kill numbers by (ARCHERY) hunters has risen so drasticly as a result of this that even the liberal PGC is concerned over it.
They now also have 9 days to harvest a bear, when average rifle hunters get 3, or excuse me it might now be 4 I'm not sure, but that due to them caving on the opening day now being on a Sat. instead of Monday.
And in some areas, it still remains open into the rifle buck season.
They have also reset the doe season so that you can shoot both buck and doe during
the whole second week of the buck season. And I'm not sure since ours is a bucks only
camp, and yes that goes even for the young kids, but the doe season might actually start now on the first Saturday of buck. But again I'm not certain, and frankly I don't even care.
So the fact is that over the years the PGC has complied with hunter demands in quite a few areas. But they will never be off the hook completely by some groups of hunters regardless of what they do or don't do.
I do know this much, this year due to personal issues, I didn't arrive at our camp until
Wed. evening of the first week of buck season. Holy week if you will in PA for my entire life and long before that. A place where schools would be closed statewide for the first 3 days of buck season when I was in school.
Yet at least 8 out of 10 camps in one of the premier regions of the state were in total darkness.
Many never get opened at all any more during the entire fall hunting seasons.
Regardless of what people like Waynzee here are shouting about, it has nothing to do
with hunting and the diminishing lack of interest among a growing number of young people.
Hang on folks, it wont be over after the present hurdles have been conquered.
We will then be arguing over sending drones out scouting for us, so that we have more
beer time and less wasted time looking for a deer to whack with our ARs.
Don't laugh.
