I don't know the circumstances regarding Ryan's deer. I just know that he lives near Allegheny County. The point was, Rybo has killed as many PY-caliber deer in PA as anyone I know (2), and that feat was not accomplished overnight.

PA has approximately1,000,000 hunters, and the vast majority of them hunt deer with either gun or bow. The point is that if PA was crawling with booners, somebody would've shot a few of them by now.

It's not that everyone hunting inside the confines of the Commonwealth is a bumbling clueless idiot. They just can't shoot what isn't here.

Go back to this acquaintance of mine. This is a guy who has never killed a deer over 120 in his entire life- he goes on a pay-hunt to Illinois and shoots an absolute freakshow buck 3 days later. What happened? Did he just wake up one day and learn the inner secrets to slaying monster bucks? Should I expect him to shoot a booner back here in PA next fall, now that he has learned these new-found skills?


Yes - I did indeed bear witness to the big buck that Rybo bumped out of the scrape that he was supposed to be hunting over. [:@] I only saw it briefly, but it was a definite shooter.