Pa AR changes pos

nicerack said:

It’s the same legislation that passed the bill to eliminate the pink mail in application for doe tags
No one’s complaining about.

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welllll...it's not June yet. Just wait till that fiasco.
Letting older hunters having an option to choose to shoot a Sub AR buck or not is nothing compared to what awaits us on that topic of doe tags.

octagon said:

We on the West side of the state have different rules with the 3 Up rule. That is definitely political. Just not sure which group had the pull to get that one thru. I say 3 points to a side, state wide.

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...probably because the west side of state has better, more skilled, and proficient hunters than that of the eastern 2/3s of the state that are used to killing bucks from 1980 standards. I mean just look at the pictures in the book they use for examples...I can't remember the last time I saw a buck that small in the wild....

bohunr said:

antler restriction for all, regardless of age. and no reduced price licenses. no one group should be treated any better / different than the other ones.

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...this is America dangnabbit...we're ALL created equal!!!

...can't eat the antlers.....or "horns" to some of ya'll. ....plus big racks are wayyyyy over rated- been around them my whole life..More to it than the "nostalgia" a big rack.....

...less scent?....not from the seniors I know.

....wait a second...
Then why was Gary tramping around with a small rack in one hand....and a wayyyy bigger rack rack in the other .. saying you want left hand or right hand?.....
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....what's next Bearded hens ?

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RegularJoe said:

A cub is legal to shoot, as is a yearling deer, bears stay with mama 2 years, in that time, a fork horn buck is deemed as killable by an old man by some, while a bear that has not lived past his second year is somehow taboo to kill. Still trying to understand why it is ok to raise trophy bear but slaughter all deer with a rack.

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..wasn't the expert PA bear guy...also the PA expert deer guy?.....asking for a friend.

…the PAGC isn’t allowed to do anything on their own without mom’s approval.

....my son passed up spikes..forks...and 3x3s his whole mentored youth and junior seasons....thats what he chose to do. He even passed on bucks I would have shot in a second.
Funny how people think that 65+ year old hunters with over 50 years hunting under their belt, shouldn't have the mental capacity to choose what they want to shoot....whether it a fork...a 3x3 or a 5x5....almost all of the senior hunters(10ish) I asked the past 2 weeks would pass on 1970's legal bucks..... I even asked them if the saw them on last day...they said still wouldn't shoot them.....only 1 said would shoot a rack of any size and is the same one that said he shoots a doe...the others do not shoot doe.

IN RESPONSE TO LETTER
Dear good sir, I am writing today to ask you for your kindness in letting me see past my second birthday. I will make you proud one day, I promise you, the only thing I lack is a chance to reach my full potential and you shooting me with my first set of antlers will not let me achieve this. So again, I ask you good sir, in your haste to get home quickly please let me get past my first birthday.

Signed: Yours sincerely a spike with potential.


Dear spike with potential....
While you have had a history of having a bad reproductive rap...I fully understand your concern. But unfortunately the bottom line is you still have a negative effect on the forest and crops of this great landscape....your antler size makes not a difference ...for I am here for population management purposes.....and your spikes matter not in my soup.

Signed: A good Sir.