4 pt. restriction 117/121

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Here would be my perfect plan.  Allow youth and seniors to shoot any deer.  Everyone else 3 point not counting eyeguards.  I cannot fathom why people wouldn't support this.      

I have yet to talk to a local hunter ( and I talk to many, many of them ) who didn't support the APR.  But hey let's just keep slaughtering future giants when they are fork horns!      

I agree with this.

I simply do not support killing young deer. Its a personal preference. Give the little guys a chance to live, get to breeding age.

They're generally to stupid to get out of the way. So yes, let the young hunters, disabled, elderly have a chance at them. But if you are an able bodied man or women and just want to take the fastest kill then you aren't really out there for the experience of hunting. You want to "slaughter" something, anything.

I just don't get it. Maybe because I've been hunting longer then most people. There's never been a year in my life where I couldn't of harvested a younger deer. Yet success rates are atrocious relatively.

My advice to the spike killers of the world. Start learning the woods, learning to hunt, and quit looking to just slaughter.

I hope this ruffles some feathers, because while I understand someone has differing opinions, the opinion to kill young animals disgusts me.

I spent a lot of years feeding my family  on a low income, my wife stayed home with the girls, 5 daughter's. It was about putting meat on the table. You can't eat horns. And I doubt you hunted longer than most and you must be a Democrat by the way you want your way for everyone.

Couldn't agree more PA Ben, Not everyone give a rats a$$ about horns, I have killed many, many deer in my 51 years, esp back when I was in my 20s and 30s I generally killed an elk and a deer every year (Mostly with archery and ML) but after starting a family and the massive amount of time/money that's involved with that along with being a year round fastpitch coach I have had reduced time in the woods, my family loves venison and TBH, I have no problem dropping a 2, 3 or small 4pt in the late WT season if that is what is out in front of me, do I take big un's when they give me a chance, you bet, would I prefer too, you bet, but when all is said and done, I want some meat for the table and if a smaller buck comes along during the later part of the hunt its a no brainer for me, this shaming of those who decide to put some meat on the table as opposed to being a "Trophy hunter" first to make your self sound like someone important is exactly the reason so many of these hunting show types are getting busted for unethical hunting practices, just so they can take a big buck. No one is in the wrong with the choice they make, been there done that, shaming someone because they want to put some meat on the table is just wrong IMHO 

[PA BEN]

There were only 2 units with the apr, plenty of any buck units left to choose from.  So the people who wanted the apr gone also must be "democrats who want their way for everyone."
Those of us who wanted the apr just wanted the option of having our way, while still leaving the option of hunting any buck units to the brown is down guys.

That's not what I meant, this guy talks like it's his way or the highway no middle ground. At first I didn't want the 4 point rule. I know the process that took place to get it in, it started back in the 90's when a local group of gun hunters started having meetings and invited all hunters to attend in the local news paper. I was a bowhunter and they bashed our way of hunting and the poor muzzleloader guys didn't have a chance. Well they ran us off, that group said they were for all hunters and we need to come to common ground, but it was all smoke. They wanted to push the 4 point rule and shorten all the other seasons and add days to the gun season. So I was pretty bitter about it when it started. I hunt so I saw what it has done for the buck population, I do support it now. BUT, back then and I still do now, I would like any buck for youth, seniors and disabled.