Live from the stand!
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Finally got a small break in my schedule today. Just settled in for a evening hunt. Sun is just starting to peak through the overcast. Surrounded by acorns. Should be up and feeding soon.
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PA Bandit
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I know that feeling, sorta. The nostalgia. I had never hunted in a group until I married my bride. Her dad, along with a swarm of local guys and landowners did drives around here every year. I was invited to tag along after marrying in. I did, gladly. I've never seen anything any more fun, though it wasn't really hunting, more like a social gathering with plenty of shooting mixed in. Most of those guys are passed on now and there are way too many houses on the grounds where all that took place. Heck, Mason's best friend lives on a property we shoot the heck out of those years.The houses and swingsets weren't there then. We drive by some of those former farms on our way to hunt. There is a really nice house with a well-manicured yard right where my FIL shot his biggest buck that year. Things change...some of it sucks.
Where I call home back in western PA driving is still a commonly used practice. I tell others of this method and they gauck at the thought. To me it is what I know and love the most (especially PA bear season). 20-25 Grown men hooting and haulering through the woulds like a well oiled machine. Posters strategically placed for optimal killing efficiency and drivers pushing brush that any normal man would never think could be bodily entered. Personally I like coming home with my legs/face/hands destroyed from briars knowing that I was able to help someone else fill their tag. I enjoy this more than I do shooting an animal myself.
The reality is though it is a very effective means of ousting big bucks out of the thickets. The biggest bucks I have seen in my life have come from the nastiest thickets known to mankind. My group has killed many large bucks using this technique.
The shame is over the years though these groups have dwindled. It use to be there were mulitple groups and it was almost like a competition to see who could have the highest efficiency. But today guy's would rather sit in their enclosed blinds (what I call houses) with a electric heater and propane grill on their private ground. Now it seems as though the amish are the only one's who want to participate.
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PA Bandit
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In western PA the Amish culture owns a significant amount of land all of which they allow public access......as well their are state game lands............and a lot of landowners dont post..........tresspassing is not needed.
Although they have a bad persona of shooting "all the deer" as people say. They are good hunters and not as negatively viewed as the intial vibe I am getting in Ohio.
In my neck of the woods, Im lucky to have in all honesty, thousands of acres to hunt in Hancock, thousands in Wood, and several hundred in Hardin. I prefer bowhunting to anything. But I enjoy driving deer with 4-5 of my buddy's during gun season. Hell, I've been tagged out since Early November, and I still took the entire week off just to push for everyone. It's a social event for us and our families. Every morning we meet at my house for breakfast. Then We'd come back for lunch if we weren't on deer. And then supper in the evenings. Our wives all take turns making the meals, or just throwing an already prepared meal to some heat for us. We are mostly mature buck hunters, so there are more shenanigans going on with us than shooting. A couple guys took does for the freezer. One nice buck taken in our group, and a crapload left for seed. The only thing I don't like about it is most of our areas are shot to hell for bowhunting the rest of the year. Im thinking after Muzzy of putting out some corn in front of the camera to see how many bucks Im able to draw back
bthompson1004
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Just got locked in 30 mins ago, wind in my face and feeling like something good might happen, not sure why, but going to stay positive
Big_Holla
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Good luck!! Heck this thread died off, thought maybe deer season got closed or something LOL!!
bthompson1004
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Heck if there aren't any deer out there after gun season...only saw an opossum, no deer on 3 trail cams for the whole week. Found tire tracks everywhere though....here we go again
teenbowhunter
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Saw zero, my dad saw zero. Found one of the bucks I was after dead next to the tree. Tonight was kind of a kick I the nuts.
bthompson1004
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Dang teen, sorry to hear that...are you going to call the game warden and get a tag to keep it?
x2. Sorry to hear. Make sure you get the WO to provide a tag for you. Could you tell how it died?
Good to hear Hoyt and BThompson and Teen getting out there. Good luck fellas.
teenbowhunter
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Ya I'm gonna do a euro. I couldn't see an arrow or any shattered ribs from a shot. He was down in a deep ravine with very steep sides so he could've been trapped by yotes but I doubt it. Just as I got down to look at him after dark what sounded like 10-15 yotes started howling within 100 yds of me and I panicked because I couldn't get out of that ravine for the life of me lol. I would get up five feet and just slide back down. Made me feel very bad for that deer if that was the way he went. Kind of sad to find him dead but at least I found him.
I'm lookin forward to Friday and Saturday because with the north and east winds I'll be able to hunt my best spots.
Hopefully there are a few deer left, the LOs told me of at least ten different deer taken off his place this year and half the people don't even tell him when they get a deer.
I'm lookin forward to Friday and Saturday because with the north and east winds I'll be able to hunt my best spots.
Hopefully there are a few deer left, the LOs told me of at least ten different deer taken off his place this year and half the people don't even tell him when they get a deer.
Strother23
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Went Out this morning and got skunked. My dad hunted the property yesterday and seen 12 deer.
BlueSpruceOutfitters
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I'm chomping at the bit. Don't want to eat tags this year but I'm worried. Went out last Wednesday on a spot and stalk with my buddy. Chose a bottom between two soybean fields. Bumped two does off the field at like 2pm. Kept on trekking but it was too crunchy. Ended up back at the field around 4:30 and look into the field. At least 18 deer and a heavy horned eight point. Tried to make a bold stalk on him, closed the distance from 180 yds. to 90 yds but then it got too dark. Will try to get out again to that field and using the spotting scope and see where they are coming out from.
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