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<blockquote data-quote="CMP70306" data-source="post: 2974049" data-attributes="member: 36999"><p>Fellow PA hunter here down in 4A, I've been hunting since 2004 shortly after antler restrictions were put in place and I look at the history of our hunting camp based on the mounted bucks vs box of racks we had in the garage. Prior to AR most guys at camp had a single 80 to 100" 7, 8 or 9pt mounted and a bunch of spike through basket 6 skull caps in a box in the garage. After AR the number of large bucks and their overall size has increased drastically. </p><p> </p><p>My dad hunted for 20 years before killing his first nice 8pt that he got mounted and that became the family benchmark for my brother and I. The rule was my dad would only pay to get the buck mounted if it was a big 8pt like his. It took me three years and my brother 6 years to kill an 8pt as big as our dad's and since then the three of us have killed a dozen more bucks as big and substantially bigger than that first 8pt.</p><p></p><p>Here is a good comparison showing the difference between a monster buck then vs now. My grandfather's biggest buck on the right just prior to AR and my now second largest buck on the left, that is the third or 4th largest taken at our camp.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]521140[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>As for the AR acceptance I see it breaking down along two lines, generational and how invested you are in hunting. The guys that only hunt a couple days a year and the older guys from the "it's brown, it's down" years would go back to shooting spikes and forkies in a heartbeat if given the chance. On the other end the younger generation and guys that hunt a lot are far more likely to pass on smaller bucks to let them get larger regardless of AR. I personally am at the point where I'm only looking to shoot personal bests or larger so AR is irrelevant to me as I'm not shooting bucks that small anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CMP70306, post: 2974049, member: 36999"] Fellow PA hunter here down in 4A, I’ve been hunting since 2004 shortly after antler restrictions were put in place and I look at the history of our hunting camp based on the mounted bucks vs box of racks we had in the garage. Prior to AR most guys at camp had a single 80 to 100” 7, 8 or 9pt mounted and a bunch of spike through basket 6 skull caps in a box in the garage. After AR the number of large bucks and their overall size has increased drastically. My dad hunted for 20 years before killing his first nice 8pt that he got mounted and that became the family benchmark for my brother and I. The rule was my dad would only pay to get the buck mounted if it was a big 8pt like his. It took me three years and my brother 6 years to kill an 8pt as big as our dad’s and since then the three of us have killed a dozen more bucks as big and substantially bigger than that first 8pt. Here is a good comparison showing the difference between a monster buck then vs now. My grandfather’s biggest buck on the right just prior to AR and my now second largest buck on the left, that is the third or 4th largest taken at our camp. [ATTACH type="full"]521140[/ATTACH] As for the AR acceptance I see it breaking down along two lines, generational and how invested you are in hunting. The guys that only hunt a couple days a year and the older guys from the “it’s brown, it’s down” years would go back to shooting spikes and forkies in a heartbeat if given the chance. On the other end the younger generation and guys that hunt a lot are far more likely to pass on smaller bucks to let them get larger regardless of AR. I personally am at the point where I’m only looking to shoot personal bests or larger so AR is irrelevant to me as I’m not shooting bucks that small anyway. [/QUOTE]
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