Pennsylvania Deer Camp

[Yoder]

I did some still hunting this morning until about 11 in the crunchy snow. Just moving real slow, blowing a grunt call as I moved. I was hunting ridge tops. I saw 4 doe. One came up a drainage and popped out at 20 yards. I had my scope on 6x, all I could see was brown in the scope. I rushed the shot and missed! I could have almost no scoped her. She spun around and dropped down the drainage. Never got a second shot. I had another one in my scope but no shot. Last one I took a shot at one running at about 60 yards but missed again. That one wasn't surprising. Didn't kill anything but a great day.

 

[Seips]

Was lucky enough to be invited to the PA opener and camp this year, Best 100 bucks I’ve spent, had a great time, saw lots of deer, looking forward to next year.

 

[Mr. October]

Don’t take it for granted

I don't.

 

[Mr. October]

Tobyhanna - I got a good doe first hour Saturday morning. Only buck I saw was a 1 horned spike sunday morning.

We aren't too far from there. Camp is Lake Harmony/Albrightsville.

 

[Mr. October]

I was in camp from the Friday after Thanksgiving until this past Sunday and hunted every day. I filled my buck tag in archery and was hoping for one antler less deer to top off the freezer. I had multiple opportunities that didn't work out early on and wound up having to make the 2 mile hike on Saturday to fill my tag. Ultimately, we had a good camp with 6 deer taken. 1 buck and 5 antler less deer. Several people didn't have buck tags.

 

[summs]

I was in camp from the Friday after Thanksgiving until this past Sunday and hunted every day. I filled my buck tag in archery and was hoping for one antler less deer to top off the freezer. I had multiple opportunities that didn't work out early on and wound up having to make the 2 mile hike on Saturday to fill my tag. Ultimately, we had a good camp with 6 deer taken. 1 buck and 5 antler less deer. Several people didn't have buck tags.

That's so crazy to me that PA has 1 buck tag for the year and not 1 archery and 1 rifle at a minimum.
We hunt the SGL's around Toby, it's loaded with bear and coyote sign, lacking for deer I find, also it's just to flat for my liking, I prefer ridges. I only do the opening weekend.

Im across the Delaware river in NJ, we have 6 buck tags and unlimited does for most of the state. Just have to shell out the $$$.

 

[CMP70306]

That's so crazy to me that PA has 1 buck tag for the year and not 1 archery and 1 rifle at a minimum.
We hunt the SGL's around Toby, it's loaded with bear and coyote sign, lacking for deer I find, also it's just to flat for my liking, I prefer ridges. I only do the opening weekend.

Im across the Delaware river in NJ, we have 6 buck tags and unlimited does for most of the state. Just have to shell out the $$$.

We also have 840,000 hunters that only kill 160,000 bucks, those numbers don’t lend towards supporting a second buck tag. Not to mention the rifle guys would flip if the archery guys were given essentially two buck tags when they already have 7 weeks in the early season, the entire rut and as of this year every Sunday in the early season to hunt.

 

[summs]

We also have 840,000 hunters that only kill 160,000 bucks, those numbers don’t lend towards supporting a second buck tag. Not to mention the rifle guys would flip if the archery guys were given essentially two buck tags when they already have 7 weeks in the early season, the entire rut and as of this year every Sunday in the early season to hunt.

Valid opinion, although I don't feel the same about potential rifle hunters complaints (as someone who only rifle hunts PA)

Rifle hunters kill 60% of the total harvest (476,000 total harvest)
Archery kill 35% for the total harvest, yet they kill the same amount of bucks at 85,000 a piece.

IMO the rifle guys opinion would be weakened on the matter when you kill nearly 2x the amount of deer. Angry at archery hunters for being what, more successful at harvesting bucks.

The 90/10 rule comes into effect, where 10% of the population kills 90% of the game.