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My wife saw a large Bear on Saturday but it was a little over a hundred yards which is beyond her comfort range with her open sighted muzzleloader. I've had a tough week so far having only seen a spike buck
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we have been watching sevral good bucks. now the woman we buy pheasants from is whining that she wants all pheasants gone by thanksgiving. so the bog guys in our club are releasing birds on opening day of Bear, despite everyone else being pissed and saying to hold off on it. retort was well she will sell our birds, counter retort: we have alrady paid for them let her sell them and we charge her, then sue her
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Ill be in Sullivan Co also. Some nice deer around this year!
Godd luck! Yeah you'll be in Hillsgrove just like me. I know the Ogdonia Camp im only a bit farther than a stones throw from there
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opening day I plan to be overlooking a cut corn field. usually I have my daughter with me but this year she ahs an all day dance rehearsal. she is going to go with me on the second day and we will probably sit in an elevated blind. the first Monday will likely find me sitting on the uphill side of some thermal bedding cover watching some escape routes
The government plans these shootings by targeting kids from kindergarten that the government thinks they can control with drugs until the appropriate time--DerbyDude
Whatever. Tell the oompa loompa's hey for me. [/quote]. LtPPowell
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Ill be in Sullivan Co also. Some nice deer around this year!
Godd luck! Yeah you'll be in Hillsgrove just like me. I know the Ogdonia Camp im only a bit farther than a stones throw from there Cool!
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Tend to agree with battue on the crossbow impact in PA. What many predicted would happen with full inclusion, has come true.
Not really a factor where I hunt in rifle season, primarily because there isn't much activity around there in archery seasons, never has been. So the number of bucks remaining for rifle seasons remains pretty good. Never handled a crossbow, no interest in them..If I can shoot the compound well enough to suit me, I bow hunt. Past the 3/4 century mark and shoulders get worse each passing year.
I just wait for rifle season. Best wishes for all those heading out this season.
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Game Commission publication says 40% of Bucks have been killed by archers before rifle season. About time we let the rifle hunters have first go. Didn’t say anything about the Does.. you boys keep pounding them and there is soon to be a revolt. And keep beetching about how those who own the land are messing up your hunt. While your preferential treatment removes 40% of the what is available to the rifle hunters. And you have a 2 month??? season to hit the right day(s). Correction: 36 % of the Buck kill....Archery Bucks...59,550.Total Buck Kill....163,240. For 36%... This a major increase since the original archery season was implemented based on the argument getting a Deer with a recurve was very difficult. Which it was. Now that 61% of the archery kill is with crossbows...It is no longer your Granddad's difficult short archery hunt.. https://lancasteronline.com/sports/...4f9bf4a-ba75-11e8-bcaf-8b4d704746d0.htmlThe majority of big mature bucks in my camp's neighborhood are killed by archery hunters or in the other early seasons. All these early seasons, leased and posted timberlands, and a vastly reduced hunter participation in the once storied PA rifle season has really changed things.
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I'm in Sullivan County, PA which was always a big hunting county. There were always bow hunters in the county but in the past gun hunters out numbered them by a big number. Not so today. The old hunting camps are disappearing being replaced by private homes and younger people and those younger people tend to be bow hunters if they hunt at all.
I am seeing way more big bucks being taken by bow hunters than gun hunters in the past few years and I think that trend will continue.
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I'm in Sullivan County, PA which was always a big hunting county. There were always bow hunters in the county but in the past gun hunters out numbered them by a big number. Not so today. The old hunting camps are disappearing being replaced by private homes and younger people and those younger people tend to be bow hunters if they hunt at all.
I am seeing way more big bucks being taken by bow hunters than gun hunters in the past few years and I think that trend will continue. To your point due to all of the new neighborhoods going up the only thing you can do is bowhunt. I know where I am at it is all slowly turning over to bowhunting only due to the proximity of houses. I know a guy who has a farm here and he can't gun hunt on it due to how close the houses are now.
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Crossbows have changed archery season forever. I welcome hunters to the game I just disagree with crossbows for the healthy and able bodied.
Someday my archery hunting will be done with a crossbow. But only when I can no longer draw 45-50lbs bows.
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