Lilred,
I'm telling ya, if it's non-human and is PA, then the PAGC believe they "own" it!
Plain and simple fact. A live deer on the hoof is worth $500. How do I know that? Well try to enclose an area in PA and you'll find out. A local had inclosed 150 acres and based off of their formula of how many deer per acre their are, he had to drive out 21 deer before he closed it off or he had to pay $500 for each deer that was mysteriously hiding inside the fence. We drove it off with over 50 people almost hand in hand blowing whistles and manged to scare off 6 in total the first go around. 2 more times produced nothing and the poor gent had to pay $7500 for the 15 deer that the PAGC said were still in there. (even though you could see from one side to the next) 150 acres isn't much, especially when 100 of it is field. Their claim "Oh they hold real tight and you have to kick every bush"
Another buddy that enclosed 1000 acres paid for a helicopter and counted the deer with heat sensors to prove the PAGC have their heads up their rear and to get out of their stupid forumla of X amount of deer per acre. I'm sure it paid for itself with that much acerage.
Not that I'm for enclosures or canned hunts by any means, but their laws and ideas of how all animals belong to them is about a crock. Unfortunately they get a bad rap around these parts b/c of a few super cops. I know of many that have stopped hunting all together b/c of plain downright harrasment. They had a special on the news the other night about a local CO about how he held a couple college girls in their underwear for over an hr b/c they were swimming and he suspected them of underage drinking. He wouldn't let them put their clothes on either. What "game" laws were they breaking? Well of course they threw the case out and I think they were filing civil suit. Good for him, hope he gets what he's been dishing out the past few years.
The DA is fed up with him as most of his so called arrests just waist time in the courts. Even had the governor saying it was a bit extream.
Anyhow, I digress. I just believe they are hurting themselves and the future of hunting in PA with morons like these packing and wearing a badge thinking they are holier than though art. Got plenty of State Cops that are buddies and relatives and they can't stand the guy either.
Typical PAGC, and it's a shame. So much for their moto of "SPORT"
Sportsman Pulling Our Ranks Together. Sportsman my rear... It's obvious their more concerned about making a buck than "Conserving" anything in PA.
I may sound like your typical outlaw that has a chip on his shoulder b/c he got pinched doing something wrong, but the fact is I'm not and I haven't. It's just how I see it and how I feel about our lovely PAGC. I'm sure that's how many see it too and why they chosen to give it up. I hunt too many other states to have my hunting season ruined.