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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Aragorn243: [QB] BuyTex, I'm assuming you're from Texas. Totally different in PA. My inlaws used to live in Houston and told me some of what your hunting is like. Pennsylvania is nearly all open to hunting, no leases. Only thing holding you back is when the private landowner posts his land, which does occur quite a bit. We have huge state game lands that were purchased by hunter dollars and are maintained by hunter dollars. No taxes are used in either the Game or Fish Commissions. With no leases are no fences. Quite a bit of federal land and national forest that's open to hunting as well. The deer are free to roam. Population estimates put the deer herd at about a million and in many areas they've overpopulated themselves so that food is limited and antler development limited as well. Add to that, unrestricted buck hunting and the bucks never were allowed to mature enough to get large racks. It's not that the genes weren't there, the aveage age of harvested bucks was 1 1/2 years old. The big racks don't start until age 3. They've now stopped statewide the harvesting of bucks with less than 3 1" points on at least one side. The western portion of the state requires at least 4 points on one side. Prior to that, a legal buck was anything with at least one three inch antler. We've had huge deer kills every year but very few make it into Boone and Crocket. The goal is to get the sexes back into a more appropriate balance and to increase the age of bucks killed. The balance is supposed to prevent overpopulation and the age to increase the quality. It's been in effect for three seasons now. Still to early to tell for sure but it does seem to be working. My daughter shot an 8-point last year which I rough scored at 110 B&C, not huge by any means but pretty darn big for where we hunt. She said there was another almost as large with it. Last year I saw a 6 point with an 18 inch spread and this past season the only bucks I saw had branched antlers. Usually, spikes were the norm. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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