I just wanted to take the opportunity to wish the rest of my fellow Pennsylvania bowhunters the best of luck tomorrow on our season opener. The weather channel was predicting an 80% chance of rain and a thunderstorm the last time I checked but lets all hope that holds off for as long as possible....like Sunday.
I'll be tree'd for the first 3 hours and then I guess I'll be moving around a bit. At least I had picked a stand in a hollow and with the rain, that's where they should be.
It looks good for the first couple hours in the morning so far. I'll be set up on a oak laden bench between two huge bedding areas....one of mountain laurel the other all saplings and blowdowns. They usually feed there last before bedding in the morning. It's been good to me in the past....hopefully it'll be good to me tomorrow. When the rain hits I'll sneek around and do some scouting and then set up again on stand for the evening. Hopefully all goes well.
A wish of luck and safety to all my fellow hunters as well.
Just checked weather.com..........no rain until 12PM now. That may actually be a blessing in disguise if it gets the deer moving for the first 6 hours of the day. [:-]
Local weather here is calling for rain in the morning but clearing up in the afternoon with temps dropping 5-10 degrees with a cold front moving through. Sounds like there will be some good activity tomorrow.
I hunted Sullivan County on Saturday at an elevation of around 2400 feet. It was drizzling in the morning and raining in the afternoon. Around 2:00-3:00 the fog moved in and visibility stunk. Then torrential downpour for the last hour. We even had some thunder. As I was walking out in defeat, I walked right up on a big 6-point. I managed to draw and aim while he was trying to figure out what I was through the fog. I released and the arrow found his marked. He dropped 50 yards from where he was hit but we couldn't find him that night in dark. The blood trail was completely washed away and we kept searching into the night looking in the area where I thought he ran. I didn't realize that he doubled back and dropped not too far from where I was standing. We found it right away the next morning but had to shoo off two coyotes. If we waited a couple hours there'd be nothing left but some hair and bones.
Pennsylvania Bow Opener!
