congrats Ryan!!! thats a feat!! in 2B thats about the only way to see deer is if someone else moves them...i can drive around my township any day and find a crew of rifle hunters...pressure is still rough...
a guy stopped down my buddies farm the other day asking for permission and places to hunt...a crew of them are coming clear from Altoona to rifle hunt! they seen all the coop farms in the area and thought it was worth the trip....they are in for a bit of disappointment i do believe....
we been doing some new and some OLD pushes we havent done in a long while the last week....finding some deer...i managed another small doe with the flinter today! was a good bit of "shrinkage" mainly due to the lead deer being even SMALLER...i figured the 2nd one was the mother just looking at size at first glace...did a button check best i could and dropped her....yearling doe...im happy...will be great eating! and came from a herd that thrives because in the regular season they hide in a housing development...all summer they kill my buddies corn, but once bowseason starts they move out and become pretty nocternal and stay close to the houses...2 buddies pushed for me today and caught a group in our woods doing a push we havent done in a long while...
bucks must still be in hiding...only seen a couple small bucks this flinter season...
without the deer having houses to hide behind, we wouldnt have deer left in the area...between the long rifle season and the coop maps online, guys seem to flock to the area...the area glows on the coop map because all the farms are enrolled...thats the reason me and the crew i hunt with wont take does anymore in our regular woods...few exceptions like wounded, a jrs first deer etc...we havent pushed our regular woods at all when we do have someone with us thats buck hunting just because we dont wanna push them into rifle hunters...when we have noone but me shooting, we are in woods we dont regularly hunt and areas that still have a good population so if i do take one, its not from an area that isnt looking so good...