germain,I killed a doe in Parker dam state park on the first day of archery this past year at 8:00am.She was the sixth deer I had in range that morning.I hunted private property for the remainder of archery season and killed a buck.I saw a total of 3 doe and 9 legal bucks during the rest of archery season on private property.Ispent the rest of the year hunting in Ohioand didn't hunt Pa again until the last day of rifle season.I had a dmap tag for an area in southern Cameron county so I headed up there despite everyone telling me I was wasting my time.I killed a doe that morning and saw around 20 deer by 10:00am.When you add it up,I hunted for about 5 hours on state forest land this year and killed 2 deer and saw at least 25 deer.That's far more than I saw on private land or in Ohio for the entire season.Hunting the state forests is much easier than hunting alot of private land in my opinion.The habitat is so poor on most of the state forests,all you have to do is key in on the small amount of available food and cover.Find an area with some recent logging and you'll generally find the deer.

Once again,the next time you're up this way give me a call.I'd like to show you some area on state forest landwhere they're not even fencing the timber harvests anymore because the regeneration is so good,do to less deer.Some of these area were loaded with deer just 5 years ago and the old timber harvests never regenerated.The herd was dramatically reduced prior to the more recent cutting and boom,regen all over the place.the deer herd is also making a strong comeback in these area over the past year.