My observations from this year.....(Bradford County)

* In archery season deer where everywhere where I hunt.
* Rifle season 1st day I saw 9 of which 1 was a buck that I could not tell how big it was cause he was in the brush and a couple of the does where huge!!.
*We hunt the 2nd week and we had snow one afternoon. Very few tracks but lots of deer sign.
* Little or no mast crop this year. BUT there were acorns on the ridgetops only none on the sides of the mountains, and that was were there was alot of deer and sign (on top). In areas alot of the previously timbered land has grown up to the point there is nothing for the deer to eat. (Pole timber) In those areas there is little or no deer sign at all.
*We also found the deer in the "THICK" brush. We drove one section of thick slashings and there were deer everywhere. Trying to get one by a watcher in that thick stuff is another story.

We ended up with 1 buck and 6 doe taken the 2nd week out of 7 guys. The buck scored 123 It was an 8 point with a a 18" spread, 10 inch g2's and 5-1'4" bases. This was the largest buck I have ever taken out of camp in 25 years of huntin up there. Now I saw numerous basket racked 8's. 7's and 6's in archery season. To my knowlege none of these deer were taken. Various camps in the area had fewer deer hanging. Most that did had Nice bucks and few does because our area does not have alot of doe hunting being done. All together on the game lands the 2nd week I saw 2 different vehicles parked !! thats it! n Little or no huntin pressure except for the first 2.5 days. Hardly anyone was out on either saturday!!

Are there fewer deer?? In our area maybe but I dont think so. I think they are concentrated in Thick cover, Ridgetops where there are acorns and ALot of deer moved off the mountain to the farm land where they were feeding in hayfields at night. We saw 3 buck at night in the head lights!!

I get a kick out of the numerous people in our area who come up to their camps....Shoot 20 times in to sight there rifle in on Sunday, spend the day walking thru the woods looking for there "spot", riding there 4 wheelers around all day (cant anyone walk more than a 100 yards anymore) then go up 100 yards behind camp, not see any deer and presume....Ah no deer this year, doe huntin killed them all????????
(AND I HEARD THIS ALOT THIS YEAR!!!!!)

Yah it was a tougher huntin this year...but we killed just as many as we always do. We just hunted till we found em and did not give up.