ORIGINAL: Germ
So again I ask
If you are missing out on the best time to see bigger bucks in PA, because you want to spend your time in Ohio(I completely understand why) how do you know what is there? This goes to my point in my first post, most of us simply do not know, the time it takes to know is just to much for most of us. That is a big me included on this one. I know there are more bigger deer than what I saw last year. I was just not smart enough to see them
When you can admit that Fran, your're on your way
Because, while I'm spending time in Ohio on weekends, I'm STILL residing here in PA for theother 5 daysofevery week. I get out doe hunting after work during the rut - not so much to hunt for doe - but moreso just to be out in the woods and see what I see.
There are plenty of other guys who hunt the same areas as I do - and they're not seeing booners. I'm not seeing booners when I run the spotlight. Nobody else is killing booners or seeing boonersin the area. I'm pretty sure that they just aren't there. Short of quitting my job, I really couldn't be looking much harder.
Gary, when you don't see them spotting, you don't see themfrom the tree, you don't see them in the summer, nobody finds their sheds, nobody kills any, and nobody finds the deads - it's more than reasonable to assume that they just aren't there.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I see at least 5000 deer per year in my travels. I've passed morebucks than I can even imagine. I'm in the woods or watching deerin some capacity or another for at least 100 days per year, and have been following the same routine for at least 8 years. I feel like that gives me a pretty fair idea of what makes a big deer for the area, and what expectations are "realistic."
If there's anyone out there who thinks Fayette County, Pennsylvania is Booner Country, feel free to come on out. I've got stand sites out the ass.