ORIGINAL: RonM
I was up there for hunting and never saw a deer, I rode on Sunday in parts of Sproul SF and Beech Creek mountain road and out on 144 for 6 hrs in a Jeep, got out walked around, never saw a deer, Never saw a deer for 4 days, saw lots of rubs in Sproul along trails and gas line roads, but never saw a deer the entire time I was in Pa. DCNR told me to go to Coon Run Rd and all those surrounding roads....I would see deer , no such luck....
my camp was in coon run rd area when we had deer..i grew up in that area..i have friends there in camps..
lets start with BUCK RUBS..do to lack of doe,the bucks that are left are traveling great distances to find a doe in heat..
i have never seen this in my lifetime hunting..i saw buck this year that was at least 3 miles from where i saw him a week ago..that buck rubbed trees for 3 miles..bucks used to stay within 1 mile in that area, not anymore..
the hunters, which i interviewed as most are friends in that area said, sproul, we never saw this before in our life, bucks ,we cant pattern them as they dont stick around in 1 area..
we saw scrapes this year that we felt bucks never came back to check out and saw bucks at night 3 miles away from where we saw them weeks ago...
now for seeing deer in that area..only people that see all these deer are DCNR and pennstate boys/girls..of course, they are better hunters than us,hmmmmmmmmm..
here is what is interesting, if there was so many deer in that area,why dont the DCNR friends i know HUNT THERE??hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm,interesting, isnt it..
you proved that what you hear is not,TRUTH..i am not saying there is not some deer in that area..that area NEVER was great deer area here in clinton county..
look at ground when you walk the pipelines or trails..
this is where you will see deer POO..if no poo,no deer..
i was hunting deer in HYNER RUN AREA..i bet i did not see more than 6 piles of deer poo all season there..i asked other hunters if they saw any, most never saw a pile or only 1 pile..
i guess deer are WAYBACK,thats it, WAYBACK..only a fool would believe that buzzword..