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Good luck tomorrow. Last day, get out there and move some deer

I'm with you!

My family has land Dad bought in 57, mom got remarried after he died, and my step dad who raised me hunted his old stomping grounds. We always left anyone who ask, hunt. Allowed locals to hunt when we caught them there, only running off outsiders.

Eventually (step)Dad and I lost more and more of the places we hunted, as did others.
So we started hunting our own ground.

And It got...interesting.
Folks had hunted that land for generations, without actual permission, and wouldn't accept no. Even doing damage to our gates out of spite. (Here is where opinion starts) the PGC played their own chicken crap games. "We aren't authorized to deal with trespassing, call the cops". The cops have other business not hunting related, and show up too late.

Detailed rules about marking property, $50 fines for
Plain trespass (one guy told me "Simple trespass is a $50 fine. Most landowners
just run you off. It's hard for the others to prosecute, if they do...$50🤣🤣🤣
so maybe i get fined $50 every 2 or 3 years. That's a cheap fee to hunt wherever
I F'ing want to. Guys pay hundreds to share 200 acres. Every year!🤣🤣🤣"


I really believe that if PGC had protected landowners 30-40 years ago, more land
might be open today. But PGC figured trespassing hunters bought licenses,
land owners didn't give them as much $$$.

Owners got tired of trespassers, the guys who asked for their kid and them, then brought 15 people. The 2 roster drives that clean a place out. The gate riders, fence cutters, litter bugs, drifting their 4x4 through the alfalfa, rutted up fields, gut piles in the fields...and they just went full POSTED.

it's what we did to control our little slice.
Nobody but immediate family.
Not friends, not cousins, not the very same people we used to hunt with.

I've got a decent chunk that I can hunt, and the BS has ruined it for me.
Untold times I've went there, to hunt, for solace, to think about my deceased
Father and Grandfather. Only to confront some SOB who skirted the gates, ignored the signs, and as often as not gets snotty with me when ask who they are and where they are from. That remote property is where I first started making a point of carrying a handgun. For protection, against "fellow" hunters who shouldn't even be there.


What a post on a thread about our deer season. A happy thread!

Finally figured out the pictures on this forum. These are the 3 bucks from our camp. Good luck to everyone on the last day. Congratulations to the hunters who have filled tags

Flhoundhunter congrats!

That last pic is a dandy!!!!

Nice deer. That last buck is solid

Yeah he's the #2 all time buck for our camp now. Most times we shoot the first legal deer we get a shot at and are happy with the average ones. From time to time we get one of those whoopers. All in all it's not about the inches of antler for us but the chance to get together and laugh a lot while gaining a couple inches on the waist size

Those are nice buck. Deer camp in Pa?

28 that is how Pa. hunting or all hunting should be if that suits your fancy. I am sick to death of trophy hunters.

Excellent!

Our "deer camp" is the old family farm house. It was built in 1940 and is in Crawford county north west Pa. We are a rocks throw from Ohio.

You can't be far from Pymo.... My fishing camp is on the Ohio side of Linesville, not far from Ohio. Fish Pymo and Erie (out of Conneaut Oh) all summer.

I live and hunt in 2E tho, Cambria county.

10 mins from the spillway

I hunt on the other side of Crawford County - our lease border is Warren Cty. I've hunted on both sides of the border on the western end of Crawford County - some nice bucks in that area.

Sure are.

Where in Cambria, I’m just outside Bedford.









No pics, saw what’s almost certainly my biggest buck ever while hunting Saturday. 125yards in the brush.
Was with my daughter, he only gave us 1 chance walking through a 4 foot opening. She couldn’t make that shot, and was in front of me. I wasn’t happy to do it, I wanted her to get a chance. So, we watched him walk out of our lives for about a minute. Not a bad deal for two folks walking up deer, actually HUNTing.
Maybe a missed opportunity, but a priceless hunting experience.

I'm not posting mine, any who want to hunt it can. If I make it off limits I become part of the problem that I don't like. It is primarily locals anyway and other than the first day I can hunt theirs. Which gives me around 500 acres or so. Although I have some timber guys working on making it more attractive. Left the good nut producing trees and essentially opened places for new growth...The one bordering neighbor saw what was going on and went in also. Be interesting to see how it works out.

Know the area very well, I love it up there. I'm in a private campground that's only open 6 months out of the year so I don't get to spend time up there during hunting season. I have tons of state gamelands to hunt here in the mountains where I live too so I have it pretty good.

LOL Karl you and I have PM'd, you know where I'm at.

Good on you battue, I'm assuming you're land is outside Pittsburgh? Not much not posted out that way.