I was born and rasied in SW Pa. Where i came from is all high hills and steep valleys. When i started hunting and was taught how to,you could go where you wanted and no one posted any ground! My clan where and are Rednecks. They were very tough folks from the coal mines and the steel mills.
After a few hours of opening day they would meet and start putting on drives. Up and down those ridges and thru the valleys. Some times as many as 20 hunters pushing and standing? It use to be we always had snow on the first day! This was in the late 1950's! That seems to have changed? They would do this all day!
At the end of the day,they would meet and tell stories [ mostly baloney],on the big one they jumped and missed. There was some beer drank and some stuff in clear jars. I could not hang with them for long and would go home and fall asleep. I was so tired [ 12 years old].
Now days,the mills are gone,the coal mines are prety well gone and my Redneck famialy are are 99% gone.
You can't go hunt where you would like to,its posted. No one puts on drives and for the most part,good sized groups of folks are no more.
I would see deer,some time 20 of them together,running from the drivers! Mostly does,but they were deer and got me all woked up hopeing for buck to come by!
I am in my late 60's now,but these hunts run in my head like old movies and i wish i could show them to my sons and gransons.
Do You Recall these days??????