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Old 11-18-2005 | 09:13 AM
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jhoffman
 
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Default RE: St.Mary's PA - Insight into the Buck population

No the j stands for Jim - My camp is the old Connely camp and the area where we are located is off the Million Dollar Highway between St.Marys and Weedville. We did some research on the property a few years back and it used to be known as the Old Dodge Farm and used to actually have a school house and small community on the property but they strip mined the top of the mountain probably about 30-35 years ago now and the community was gone way before that not sure of the dates though. Nice chunk of land though. Bear and Elk are through the property on a regular basis and I normally see a fair amount of deer on the property two but have only seen a handfull of bucks but until this year I am normally there in the summer months and the deer are back further in the woods in all the mountain lorell - that stuff is pretty thik all over the property. Lots of white Oak and big stands of lodge pole pines all over too - the back side of the property is owned by the PA power authority and they patrol that land pretty heavy but they let you hunt it just no ATVs or permanent tree stands that cause any damage to the trees. There was a guy caught up there a couple of years ago and was sitting in a stand that had been there for as long as I can remember and was caught by a game warden and got fined - They said that it didn't matter that he was not the one that put the stand up he was in it so he was liable and the fined him the market value of the tree which came out to a couple hundred $$$. Overall we have close to 500 acres of land to hunt on and don't really have to worry about anyone else on the property.
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