The last BUCK that one of my friends shot, he was standing at the edge of the Gamelands - public ground, smoking a Camel Cigarette with a pair of old blue jeans on that he wore the day before at the saw mill and a orange vest he bought the day before at Wal Mart. Using a old 30/30 rifle with open sights and a box of shells that his grandfather bought him when he was 12.

The gun was never sighted in - since they bought it for him on his 12th birthday and he was 34 years old at the time.

Forget about all the scent loc stuff and go out and hunt. Get in an area where they put on drives and kick out a lot of deer.

The worst thing that happened to Pennsylvania hunting is when people started enclosing tree stands and putting in windows and heaters. It made it more like sitting in front of the tv and less like hunting deer.

Now the deer hole up in the thick stuff and the hunters sits in the fields and people don't see the deer unless they get a good snow - which makes the deer stick out and move around - because they cannot hide as easily as when the woods were all brown.

Get your buddies together and put on drives!

Sometimes you have to make your own luck!