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<blockquote data-quote="FrogFire7" data-source="post: 2966562" data-attributes="member: 101482"><p>Also a PA hunter here. Antler restrictions have definitely improved the buck age. We are seeing more big bucks than we ever have. Hopefully the herd ratios are more even now, although I think we have quite a ways to go, there.</p><p></p><p>This has also been promoted by the QDMA (or whatever it is now) which helped promote herd management, which is a good thing. And, changed people's thinking about what deer to shoot. Mostly all good things here.</p><p></p><p>The negatives (in my own mind anyway) are that bigger bucks (combined with social media influence and hunting shows to some extent) mean that nobody wants to do anything that would compromise their chances at getting "their" big buck. Fewer hunters for the same ground, nobody pushing deer (God forbid that "my" big buck gets pushed onto somebody else's property and shot), and so on. A lot of the social aspects of deer hunting that we grew up with and loved has been exchanged for sitting in a blind all season and getting the social media "likes" minutes after the shot.</p><p></p><p>Would this have been a natural progression without antler restrictions? Very well could be. I think it was a perfect storm of big bucks coming up about the same time as the social platforms.</p><p></p><p>Maybe this is more of a social media rant for me than antler restrictions, sorry if I derailed myself <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😅" title="Grinning face with sweat :sweat_smile:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f605.png" data-shortname=":sweat_smile:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FrogFire7, post: 2966562, member: 101482"] Also a PA hunter here. Antler restrictions have definitely improved the buck age. We are seeing more big bucks than we ever have. Hopefully the herd ratios are more even now, although I think we have quite a ways to go, there. This has also been promoted by the QDMA (or whatever it is now) which helped promote herd management, which is a good thing. And, changed people's thinking about what deer to shoot. Mostly all good things here. The negatives (in my own mind anyway) are that bigger bucks (combined with social media influence and hunting shows to some extent) mean that nobody wants to do anything that would compromise their chances at getting "their" big buck. Fewer hunters for the same ground, nobody pushing deer (God forbid that "my" big buck gets pushed onto somebody else's property and shot), and so on. A lot of the social aspects of deer hunting that we grew up with and loved has been exchanged for sitting in a blind all season and getting the social media "likes" minutes after the shot. Would this have been a natural progression without antler restrictions? Very well could be. I think it was a perfect storm of big bucks coming up about the same time as the social platforms. Maybe this is more of a social media rant for me than antler restrictions, sorry if I derailed myself 😂😅 [/QUOTE]
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