Ya man! I started doing that over the last year or two really looking into the background of the photo and seeing the type of habitat these bucks are getting killed it and usually it’s not over an open field or food plotSome really nice bucks here. Anyone else catch themselves looking at the habitat these bucks are photographed in just as much as the buck itself? I find it very interesting.
The biggest buck I chased after over the years are in the lowest deer density areas. Check out that steep thick cover, they don’t get old and big by letting people see them in public.I’m not sure if I’m in an area of anomaly with some hunting pressure but very difficult steep/thick terrain and the bulk of the flat land being unhuntable housing. I have seen some very nice ones in my travels across the state so I think it’s more like the result of AR but have only lived here 4 years and as a kid in the ‘Dax/Berkshires I’d heard PA had higher densities and more bucks.
That's a PA brute! Congrats.2019 archery Allegheny national forest
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Here is my 2020 PA public land buck. Had pictures of this deer throughout the summer. Narrowed down a ridge I thought he was bedded on. Was able to kill him on my second time in the stand on October 8th at 12 yards. My arrow hit high due to the angle at that range and it buried down into him almost up to the fletching. The blood was minimal due to high hit and no exit but was able to slowly follow the trail and recover this buck about 200 yards from impact site. I was over 2 miles back up and down multiple ridges so I had to quarter and pack him out to get back to the truck. Couldn’t be happier but sad my season here in PA is already over.
That's a. Nice buck2017. 6x4.
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