The first day of rifle season last year had heavy fog here in central PA. So between 9am and noon I counted every audible shot, and it was over 150 in just three hours. Some people close by were hunting down in the creek bottom and were setting off volley after volley of shots. You'd think they were fending off the Mongol hourdes or something. By 12:30 I did manage to bag a doe that had slipped by their gauntlet with a single shot as it stopped running for a second while she checked her backtrail. I dragged it out of the gamelands only to realize I had the only deer that day. Makes one wonder where all that lead went. Multiple shots are just irresponsible fools putting holes in trees or making cripples, hear just one single shot and you know that fella got his deer.
Antler restrictions will help reduce that nonsense as far as buck is concerned, but have a group of doe run through and it's back to BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
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try being on a PA state game lands this coming monday! slugs dont go 1/4 as far as a 300 mag will..me and my dad were talking to a guy on our way to our setup and he had a pump gun...he was standing there deciding where to go and still was when we left...we go about 50 yds..just out of sight around a bend to hear him dump his magazine and hear the bullets ripping through the sappling thicket...i love listening to them guys on the first morning...i just know more deer live than die and i setup so they make the deer run to me...last year i quit counting at like 65 shots and that was when my dad got a doe at like 8....this year i will try to remember and count..last year we didnt see anyone else dragging out(we have like a mile and half drag) and seen no drag marks or anything...camoe back the end of the week nobody there but us and not much drag marks still! i love the PA war!
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