Tony, that is a great post.

But for me, I have no hunting "traditions". I am self taught, raised by a single mother and like GMMAT, one of the strongest women I know. God bless her. I taught myself to bowhunt since I was the age of 15. Never really was taken out rifle hunting and when I was, it was "if you don't shoot, you don't get" and I remember hail mary'n shogun slugs across a field...disgusts me now that I was told to shoot when I had no business shooting.

I think in PA anyway, too many of that happening. I like my bowseason, I've come to loath the rifle season opener but I still like seeing my friends here have success and traditions.