Bradford, Pa.:  John Dzemyan, Leader of the Kinzua Quality Deer Cooperative (KQDC), thanks all the cooperating hunters that brought deer to the two Deer Check Stations staffed by volunteers. 

John McClintick of Lewis Run won the $500 raffle for bringing in an antlerless deer (doe) on Saturday, 12/2.

Stanley Zawatski of Bradford won the $250 raffle for bringing in a buck on Saturday, 11/25.

The heaviest buck weighed in at 170# dressed; the heaviest doe weighed in at 130# dressed.

The oldest deer recorded for both sexes at the two Check Stations were both 5.5 years old.

Twelve points was the most points recorded on a buck.

The widest, inside, antler spread was 18 and ¾ inches.

The buck with the largest diameter on the pedestals had a 40 mm girth on the left antler and a 39 mm girth on the right antler.

Of the antlerless deer brought to the check station, 32% were harvested with DMAP tags and 68% were harvested with WMU antlerless tags.

The KQDC is managed for Quality Deer and a Quality Forest Ecosystem to provide a Quality Hunting experience.  Other goals are to provide quality forests for landowners to manage for timber products, local employment, numerous outdoor recreation activities, and quality habitat for all wildlife.

The Kinzua Quality Deer Cooperative is an on-going demonstration, begun in 2000, of how hunting can be used to meet the goals of multiple publics for managing deer.  A partnership of forest landowners, forest managers, biologists, hunters, and local businesses developed the program which relies on hunters to manage deer density on a representative forested area.  The program is conducted on a 74,000-acre forested demonstration area in northwestern Pennsylvania.