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Petey,
I fully agree with your last paragraph of your recent post here: Let us go back 10 years. Back then archers had 4 weeks in October for deer in PA, we had a two week rifle buck season and a 3 day doe season. For whatever reason the PGC decided to go on a deer-killing spree and we now have damn few deer per my daily inspections "on the land" here on my 60-acre farm and adjacent farms.
I think we need to assess the deer-wounded-factor decreed by archery deer hunters. The PGC ignores the ARCHER wounded-deer factor, but many archer-wounded deer are taken in the rifle deer season. Last year my hunting buddy nearly severed a finger because a broadhead was in the gullet of his rifle-shot deer he was field dressing. The 270,000+ PA archery deer hunters in PA take many deer and wound many more that the rifle deer hunters find with festering wounds or broadheads that cut their fingers when they field dress their rifle deer.
Archers do take many deer and wound how many more? I do belive we need to shorten the PA archery season a few weeks and let the muzzleloaders have an equal chance for either deer, with less leathal results.
Adam
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Adam Helmer
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