PA Makes Progress

[MrMajestic]

In our school district the teachers and students got Monday ,the first day of buck, and Tuesday off. It’ll be interesting to see how that shakes out but I cannot see the teachers giving up two days off

but it's all for the kids...

 

[hogpatrol]

Not sure I would call that single day opening, "Progress".

Sunday hunting would be progress. Just opening the buck season on a Saturday will do little more than satisfy a few casual hunters and piss off lots of wives, students and businesses. First it means hunters will bolt out of Thanksgiving early or immediately after to get to cam and clean things up. Wood needs cut, supplies brought in, stands checked and built, hunters accommodated and all with just that one Friday to do it. Impossible for quite a few, especially those traveling.

Next is that Friday before the first day is a traditional shopping day. Now it's a mess of confusion with many different interests in a hunting family.

Kids will no longer be getting the "first day" off school. Guess how that feels for both them and their hunting teachers. Sure they get to hunt Saturday in what may well be a crowded day afield. Mixed on how that will work out.

Sunday shopping for camp is now over. Stopping at the Moose to watch the Steeler/Eagles game before the season with buck pools and camaraderie now gone.

Sure there may be an extra Saturday in the buck season, assuming it will also end on a Saturday. It does add one more day to the traditional buck season. I doubt it will add any more than a few "weekend warriors" to the overall hunting interest. Far from progress to me.

Agree with those points but aren't those traditions dying anyway? In my own instance, we had a cabin in central PA and I started hunting with my father and uncles, all WW2 vets plus a half dozen cousins. The WW2 guys are long gone, the boomers are pushing or are in their 70s and their offspring are too busy raising families and working to have the time to hunt or take their kids out. You can see that in the youth license sales dropoff. We let our cabin go last year. I was the last and only person out of thirteen to still use it and that was only for a couple days of trout fishing season. The Saturday opening and Sunday hunting should have been done as soon as license sales started dropping. At this stage of the game no matter what the legislature and game commission do, it's too little too late.

 

[hogpatrol]

In our school district the teachers and students got Monday ,the first day of buck, and Tuesday off. It’ll be interesting to see how that shakes out but I cannot see the teachers giving up two days off

They'll knock it off at the end of the school year.

 

[ACF]

Personally I 'm not going to like this Sat. start. This will only give us a half a day at camp to sight in, clean all of our hunting spots, and find spots for the last minute hunters.

We'll be running around because of the lack of time to prepare. People could come up prior to Friday, but I know this isn't going to happen.

In my opinion, the reason the number of hunters is declining is because THERE'S NOTHING TO HUNT.

The grouse are on their way to becoming dinosaurs, and the deer numbers are falling. CWD is on the rise and when it kicks in that sure isn't going to help the situation.

I really don't think the gameless commission is doing what is best for the animals or the hunters, their number one concern is the almighty dollar.

Call me old fashioned, but I'm not going to like the Sun. hunting when it comes about.

This is just my opinion YMMV.

Chris

 

[Bojo]

I think just as all things cycle in life.
The hunters will come back some what once PA becomes more modern.
The sat start without the sunday hunting was done completely ass backwards in my opinion.
One of the real problems I see where I live is the lack of good paying jobs and the what seems to be all too common is parents having to work Saturdays either mandatory or just to make ends meet.

 

[hogpatrol]

I think just as all things cycle in life.
The hunters will come back some what once PA becomes more modern.
The sat start without the sunday hunting was done completely ass backwards in my opinion.
One of the real problems I see where I live is the lack of good paying jobs and the what seems to be all too common is parents having to work Saturdays either mandatory or just to make ends meet.

That problem is nationwide. We now have a lot of sports that don't take the time and expense of hunting. More of the younger generation, due to parental time restraints, are taking part in soccer, ju-jitsu, karate, lacrosse, field hockey and other sports instead of hunting.