RE: Rifle season 2008 is history
cant think of any other reason that they have told me over years.
IT IS NOT DO TO LOTS OF DEER HERE, THATS FOR SURE.
i think clinton has 10,000 camps alone, not sure on that .
i could find that out and you could compare
tradition too
i too was shocked on number of hunters i saw the 2 weeks of season.
about 25% were same hunters i saw each year, 75% were all different hunters from as far as harrisburg and almost ALL other than locals stayed at a CAMP this year.
only negative for ME is now that buck that did get away the second week is now being shot on saturday/monday of second week.
this is what i saw this year, about half of say 10 bucks killed locally were shot second week do to large crewws pushing the buck to LOCALS in treestands.
many crews werte mad that us treesitters were still in woods and they drove a nice buck to LOCALS.
those treesitters sat and saw very few if any deer even when large crews came in on sat/mon and drove pee out of the woods.
5 bucks forfor about 4 townships is not a lot of deer to be lost to someone in your drives.
we used to get 3 buck drive and still lose a buck or 2 to treesitters in our drives.
today, its like ,1 buck lost per 5 crews in area but those crews did not see deer.
so, i can see why they aremad and empty their gun at doe so a stumpsitters dont get it first.
this is why its going to be hard to have any deer to hunt when no one cares if a doe is left.