RE: Do you think your fellow HNI'ers would be surprised?
Yes. I think a lot of HNI guys would be really shocked to see the amount of hunting pressure that public (or open-private)land in SW PA receives. In the farmland that I hunt after work, I feel like you can't move 300 yards without running into a tack line, an old treestand, a pile of deer bones, an estrus bottle, a scent wick or a tree with climber tracks running up it. But hilly farmland really isn't anything unique.
In the gamelands, it's your standard laurel highlands - which is quite unique, and would be really neat to a lot of people who've never seen that type of terrain.It can, however,be intimidating, and not exactly conducive to great bowhunting.