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deer, where I saw them, what they were
doing. All these things are fresh and
vibrant in my mind. Ask me about all
of the days when I did not see a single
deer (and there were many) and the
memory is - for all intents and purposes - non-existent.
The average deer hunter has hunted
deer in Pennsylvania for 29 years.
Given this, if we go back over the
last three decades and look at buck
harvests, we can better understand the
good old days and the perspective of
deer hunters today.
Let's turn the clock back to 1982.
For today's average hunter, this would
have been one of the first years he or
she hunted deer in Pennsylvania. The
statewide deer population surpassed the
management goal; a record number of
hunters - 1.3 million - purchased
licenses that year; the hunter success
rate was 9 percent, resulting in a harvest of 122,000 bucks; only 25 percent
of bucks taken were adults; and harvest

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densities were generally fewer than five
bucks per square mile.
Fast-forward to 1992. Ten years into
the hunting career of today's average
hunter, deer populations continued to
increase and remained above the management goal. Despite the deer population increases, fewer hunters - 1.1
million - purchased hunting licenses,
but those hunters harvested 163,000
antlered deer for a success rate of 14
percent with 20 percent of the bucks
taken being adult bucks. Buck harvest
densities increased across most of the
state, except in large parts of northcentral and northeast Pennsylvania.
The turn of the century - 1999 - was
the last year of the traditional 12-day
buck season followed by the 3-day
antlerless season. Today's average deer
hunter had been hunting for 20 years
and was experiencing the highest deer
populations in memory. In fact, deer
populations were nearly twice the
management goal. However, fewer
hunters - 1 million - purchased
hunting licenses. Those hunters
harvested 194,000 antlered deer
for a success rate of 19 percent,
and 20 percent of bucks taken
were adults. Buck harvest densities across most of the state
exceeded five bucks per square
mile, with 10 or more bucks being harvested per square mile in
the west and southeast. However,
buck harvest densities in parts
of northcentral and northeast
Pennsylvania remained below five
bucks per square mile.
Back to the future - 2012;
the average Pennsylvania hunter
is a veteran with three decades
of hunting under his or her belt.
Sweeping changes have been
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