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<blockquote data-quote="thekyrifleman" data-source="post: 1176471" data-attributes="member: 67984"><p>Last season I completed my 62nd consecutive year of hunting in PA. Actually, 65 years if I count the pre legal years on my granddads farm!! Squirrels and rabbits were a given. Limits in the early season and then second season were a given. A reasonable number of grouse. Then the bounties were lifted, foxes were suddenly everywhere... Deer in SW area were scarce, in Washington and Greene counties, virtually non existent. On the farms, pheasants were like lemmings going over a cliff. I can remember seeing hundreds upon hundreds in cornfields feeding, then the PGC began their stocking programs......I haven't killed one in 30 years. I refuse to support the put and take no tailed chickens that are released today. Deer began to show up in SW PA in the 70's and then the population exploded. Then several years back, blue tongue showed up and the population was decimated, in addition to that ridiculous antler restriction program.....Yea, I am older now, eyes not as sharp, but I can still hit a running deer at at 100 yds with the best of them. In all my years I only killed two spikes, and that was on purpose. We decided to take them out of the gene pool! </p><p></p><p>Food plots on game lands are gone, mowing is non existent, that **** multi flora rose that was planted and now is 30 feet high and so thick that no sane person would ask his dog to try and go through it is choking out almost all the other cover. Coyotes everywhere...yea, maybe some migration from Canada, whatever, but the PGC refuted claimed sightings, until one was killed in Greene county, a female WITH A PGC COLLAR around its neck!!!!! Purpose was to reduce the deer population by fawn predation!!</p><p></p><p>I guess I could go on for days...now living in FL since retirement, make the trek back every year essentially for deer and bear, to hunt with family and long time friends. No rabbits, no birds, no squirrels, turkeys supposedly declining......separate license fee for almost everything, regulations changing like the weather.......my first license cost $3.00 and I could hunt everything except does...that fee was a buck I think and there was plenty of small game to hunt. How many orange coats do you see in the fields today during small game season??....IMHO....the PGC is doing way too much micromanaging, the input and the influence of the "Commissioners" who are elected and pay way too much attention to getting reelected should be eliminated. Let the professional game biologists do their jobs and make responsible decisions like they are trained to do. So is the cost to hunt in PA a good value, depends on your perspective I guess......just sayin'.....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="thekyrifleman, post: 1176471, member: 67984"] Last season I completed my 62nd consecutive year of hunting in PA. Actually, 65 years if I count the pre legal years on my granddads farm!! Squirrels and rabbits were a given. Limits in the early season and then second season were a given. A reasonable number of grouse. Then the bounties were lifted, foxes were suddenly everywhere... Deer in SW area were scarce, in Washington and Greene counties, virtually non existent. On the farms, pheasants were like lemmings going over a cliff. I can remember seeing hundreds upon hundreds in cornfields feeding, then the PGC began their stocking programs......I haven't killed one in 30 years. I refuse to support the put and take no tailed chickens that are released today. Deer began to show up in SW PA in the 70's and then the population exploded. Then several years back, blue tongue showed up and the population was decimated, in addition to that ridiculous antler restriction program.....Yea, I am older now, eyes not as sharp, but I can still hit a running deer at at 100 yds with the best of them. In all my years I only killed two spikes, and that was on purpose. We decided to take them out of the gene pool! Food plots on game lands are gone, mowing is non existent, that **** multi flora rose that was planted and now is 30 feet high and so thick that no sane person would ask his dog to try and go through it is choking out almost all the other cover. Coyotes everywhere...yea, maybe some migration from Canada, whatever, but the PGC refuted claimed sightings, until one was killed in Greene county, a female WITH A PGC COLLAR around its neck!!!!! Purpose was to reduce the deer population by fawn predation!! I guess I could go on for days...now living in FL since retirement, make the trek back every year essentially for deer and bear, to hunt with family and long time friends. No rabbits, no birds, no squirrels, turkeys supposedly declining......separate license fee for almost everything, regulations changing like the weather.......my first license cost $3.00 and I could hunt everything except does...that fee was a buck I think and there was plenty of small game to hunt. How many orange coats do you see in the fields today during small game season??....IMHO....the PGC is doing way too much micromanaging, the input and the influence of the "Commissioners" who are elected and pay way too much attention to getting reelected should be eliminated. Let the professional game biologists do their jobs and make responsible decisions like they are trained to do. So is the cost to hunt in PA a good value, depends on your perspective I guess......just sayin'..... [/QUOTE]
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