How can I put this - so that you will understand?

I am a forum moderator at another site.

While doing a goggle search for information for an article that I was writing I came across this site. It seemed like a pretty nice site so I joined.

I made3 or 4posts and left.

A day goes by and instead of people saying
"Hi and Welcome to the Forum"

You said look at his post - he must be somebody else and changed his name or something.

What a bunch of bungholes.

I live in Pennsylvania;most of the land in Pennsylvania is public property.
There is no way that you can control who shoots what. They can go wherever they please, as long as they stay off posted property.

People can shoot anything they want - as long as it has the right amount of points.
There are an almost unlimited number of doe tags ( 1 Buck tag + 1 doe tag + a bonus tag if you applied and your application was picked ) + DMAP tags and RedTag Farms - with free antlerless permits, and very few deer left because of it.

You got to shoot them when you see them, and if you shoot it - you gut it. This is not hunting on a farm or a game preserve or a lease like you must be doing.

I live in a 4-point area. That means that unless the BUCK has 4 points on one antler, a point beingmore than 1 inch long - you cannot shoot it.

It could be a MONSTER 6 point - 3 x 3 and you cannot shoot it unless you are a disabled hunter or a youth - below the age of 18!

The problem with leaving does walk is that even if you let it go, the next hunter down the trailwill probablyshoot it anyways.

Our Rifle season is only 2 weeks long and you cannot hunt on Sundays. That means that you have no more than 12 days to get your deer and there is no exceptions for the weather.

That means that if you have a job, do not have any vacation, the only time you can hunt is the first day and the two Saturdays. 3 days to get a deer.

My family takes off the whole first week.


The first day of Rilfe Deer Seasonin Pennsylvaniais a State Holiday.

The Steel Mills and the Coal Mines and the Timber Industry all close down for the day, along with most of the factories and the manufacturing industries.

In my section of woods, I heardabout 400 shots the first day of Rifle season and only saw 3 deer.

The second day I heard about 150 shots before noon and only saw 2 deer.

The third day I heard 40 shots and only saw 1 deer.

When I went to the grocery store, the bank, Church: -everyone was bragging how they shot a doe right off the bat on the first day so they would have some meat in the freezer.

Then if they wanted to - they could go out and hunt bucks the rest of the season. All they wanted was the meat.

Funny thing was as soon as it got cold or wet or windy - they were the same people that stayed home.

My family will not shoot a doe until the first Saturday and will not shoot one unless the person is going to use the meat and it is cold enough to put it in storage or take it to a processor that can cut it for us.

Our processor is Amish and he does not have refrigeration - so if it gets above 50* outside - chances are that you are going to loose your deer.

This Amish mancuts a deer for $25 and he makes jerky and bologna and wieners and kielbasa and pepper sticks for $1.50 a pound.

So the next time you buy that little 4 oz bag of jerky at Wal Mart for $5 - you can just remember that I got 3 pounds of meat for the same amount of money.

I had whole deer cut up and processed for $80!

Thanks for welcoming me to your forum!