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What is wrong with one season, use anything? How about only blacks and asians are allowed to hunt during the rut? We need to lobby more to have inner city people the chance to hunt and feed their families. We should bus loads of blacks into rural PA for a 2 week, black only hunt.

Only one here, but not out there....many are fed up with the bow hunters having their ass kissed....

Friend says the same...get a crossbow...Ah there was another concession..Another friend bought one, got it sighted in about 30 minutes. Now checks it for another 30 minuters each year and has killed a Buck with it the last three years...Now tell me how hard archery has become? It's a joke....

Remember, it started with a week season for traditional bows....That was before the BH got the manufactures lobbying and spending cash on the GC and lawmakers...

My camp is on Denton Hill Potter County and we have over 3 inches and it's still snowing, right now we are at 22 degrees. Years ago the low temperatures never bothered me but this year I added my little buddy heater to the raised blind.

Hoping to take another buck with the old Savage model 99, IMHO the 300 SAV is perfect for the short shots in my food plots.

I’ll be toting a custom Ruger No. 3 9.3x62 to dad’s old stand here shortly, with two of his grandsons, my boy and a nephew. Never done this with two kids before, should be interesting…

BTDT.... it is interesting!
I used to set my kids each up to watch different direction. I would be centered if possible. Should be good memories made with the kids, that's what it's all about!

Howdy neighbor! I’m truck camping up on Sunken Branch ATV parking lot. I saw a real good one this morning on the state forest but he got the drop on me. He was harassing does in a clear cut so hopefully he’ll be there in the morning.

Well, what did you see.

Work makes my opener to be Monday…and the rest of the season.👍🏻

I didn't see a thing but my Son shot a large Elk County doe this morning with his model 88 Winchester 308. We did see a Bear driving out

Elk County and you saw zero. Damn shame.
And I know you are one of the ones out there.

Ends up my BIL made it and I just had my kid. We saw 10 deer total, including two spikes, a fork, a five point, and a little seven point. The kid passed all of them up, hoping for something bigger and wanting his younger cousin to have a chance at them. Crawford County.

Great PA opener for me.

It took all day but I connected with this 7 point late in the day..



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Congrats….nice Buck!!!!

Congrats!

Congrats on the buck

Dad was thw only one to see a shooter but couldn't get a shot.
Gage saw 7 does waiting on a buck..
Konnor saw 5 does... I know a buck walked past him but he said he was sleeping.. lmao!
Caitlin and I saw 7. One was a forkie but couldn't put brows on it.

Heading back out for day 2 shortly

Congrats Romac!

Yeah I stayed out in the Woods all day. Not seeing so much as a tail makes for a long day

GC needs to thin the herd down some more…you guys are seeing way too many.

Quickest way is to kill the Does off. Buy every tag they sell and do your best to cut it.

A few years back a warden told me the goal was for the average hunter to tag a Buck every 5 years on average. That should even PO the crossbow crowd. And that is hard to do.

(The GC power heads wouldn’t come out of their house if they pulled this on those boys now long gone. Today we are more civilized….or is it complacent????)

One Bud saw 7 and the Amish shot 4 Does. Another 7 also on his farm. All Does. He didn’t kill one. Someone needs to talk with him about Deer management.

Long live the Pa Deer tradition….
Sheeese!!!!!

My boy got a nice 8 andi saw about 20 deer.
Conditions were perfect here.

Nice one Romac!

Battue I do agree with much of what you say but personally I like it this way - it’s more like hunting than shooting. I can “still hunt” areas that are more remote (remote to most hunters today is no more than 1/2 mile from transport😁) and see no other hunters and have killed some large racked bucks in recent years in gun season…..and at least in Forest, Elk and Warren counties there are plenty of deer.

Now upland birds is a whole other story🥴

PennDog

Penn Dog..

And I know pretty much what you are referring to...and would prefer to hunt the same way as you...Although the years have cramped my style a little as far as the getting them out is concerned. Still can do it, but it takes longer.

And if you want to find Bigger Bucks, then an area with fewer Does is often the key....and in many cases a 1/2 mile off the road is further than they are willing to go.

That being said...there has to be a compromise. We can't expect to bring around future generations of hunters, if they go into the wood and see none or only a few. The young need a fire and seeing something and thinking they have a chance is one of the igniters.

My blame with the GC is they have gone too far with herd reduction, along with allowing almost 50% of the Bucks to be shot off by the time rifle season comes around.

Yet the blame lies with us...Most every Doe tag is sold, and most try to fill at least one or two..It would only take a couple years of the hunters holding off on Doe tags and the turn around would be quick.

And yes, another ot their management failures has been for years to sit on their ass and watch Pa Bird hunting go into the trash....

And they brag about bringing in Eagles and Fishers...as mentioned they don't eat fish..... "Fishers are carnivorous, feeding primarily on small and mid- sized mammals such as snowshoe hares, squirrels, mountain beavers, mice and birds. They also eat other foods, including insects, fruit, fungi and winter- kill deer and elk."

Hunters buy a license to hunt, not to have their money spent on making Pa more Eagle friendly..Let the birders and leaf peepers do that if it is so important....Makes you wonder whose side they are on.

Addition: With the Eagle cams, individuals can comment and oooh and ahhh about what they seeing as the eggs hatch...I made the comment that hunters dollars are the reason they can watch live...You would have thought I dropped the F bomb in church...Hunters are getting absolutely zero return on the money being spent on Eagles. Either in good publicity or an increase in fish and what we hunt.