Just pointing out that KY's gun season is at the height of the rut and the KY bucks seem to be gittin'-r-dun.
Is there something different about PA bucks?
Don’t know about the bucks being different, but yes, hunter participation and hunting pressure is much different in PA. The 2017-18 deer harvest in PA was 367,000 deer (that’s more than the total number of licensed hunters in KY) while in KY it was 130,000 deer (with MUCH more liberal bag limits). As previously stated a firearms season during peak rut would decimate the PA buck population. Just ask a PA rifle hunter what impact they think bow season during the rut has on the overall buck population.
A buck must be alive to git-r-dun.
PA has double the deer population too, correct?
I think that’s probably right.
Further, I’d interested in seeing a comparison of hunter and deer densities between the states an provinces where whitetails are hunted, but none of this has a lick to do with moving the PA rifle season opener from the first Monday after Thanksgiving to the first Saturday after Thanksgiving.
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