TheKid wrote:

It's not totally unrealistic to expect license sales to go up in the two months because it happened last year. The article in the Patriot News said "By Sept. 30, license issuing agents across the state had reported 628,077 licenses sold, compared to 661,059 on the same date last year." And on the game commissions website it said that there were 964,158 total license sales heres the link. I'm not denying that license sales are down and I'm not saying it's a good thing, but the situation isn't as bad as it looks.

Okay "Kid" , I'm glad you think so !

kokopelli_ll wrote:

TheKid wrote: It's not totally unrealistic to expect license sales to go up in the two months because it happened last year. The article in the Patriot News said "By Sept. 30, license issuing agents across the state had reported 628,077 licenses sold, compared to 661,059 on the same date last year." And on the game commissions website it said that there were 964,158 total license sales heres the link. I'm not denying that license sales are down and I'm not saying it's a good thing, but the situation isn't as bad as it looks. Okay "Kid" , I'm glad you think so !

Here's the link : http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?a=511&q=159015 Scroll all the way down, more info follows .

kokopelli_ll wrote:

I don't believe overall there was an overall decrease in the number of antlerless tags issued state wide , but possibly in certain counties only ; I think there was an overall INCREASE . I could be wrong on that one ' I couldn't access the figures on that ; I'm going from memory . Maybe some of the others can supply specifics on that .

There was a decrease of 20,000 from 2005 till 2006 and most of those decreases were in the central part of the state.
2C 4,000
2G 10,000
3C 5,000
4A 6,000
4B 4,000
5A 3,000
5B 3,000
2F 2,000

1A 1B 3A 3B 5C actually went up and 2A, 2B, 2D, 2E, 3D, 4C, 4D, 4E, 5D stayed the same.

Here are the links...
For 2005 http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/lib/pgc/digestpdfs/2005/deer_season.pdf
For 2006 http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/lib/pgc/digestpdfs/2006/deer_season.pdf

It's at the top of the 3rd page.

It isn't much but I expect that we'll see more reductions in 2007.

With all the road kills there are supposed to be... maybe this is what we will be seeing more of.