RE: THATS IT!!!!!!!!!! I give up!!!!!!! WHY ME?
Pennsylvania boy here too, down in Huntingdon County. So far only skunked one morning, but nothing to show for what I have seen either.
Their movment this year is all skewered. They just aren' t moving, we have acorns and good hickory nuts around here, and they are not moving much at all in the evenings, I have watched them and they feed their way to the fields, but it takes them forever to get moving down the mountain to where I am. In the mornings they are coming off the field way early. This past saturday, they were moving past me a shade before 7am, and the saturday before that, i was walking in at closer to 6 something and I looked in front of my for my bright eyes and found a set of deer eyes looking at me......that was the morning i saw nothing. As far as does go, there seems to be enough of them but many many younger fawns, and as far as bucks, I only have one completely confirmed and one other possible that could have been the one I am seeing or a totally new one.
I feel for ya, and it isn' t just you, take a little comfort in that.
Sidenote: the landowner drove the area i hunt last saturday for early muzzleloader, and they got skunked, and in fact they got skunked for the entire day, not even a shot fired.