Let's see your LAST deer killed with a muzzleloader!!!
09-09-2013, 06:48 AM
#23
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Penns Woods
Posts: 1,628
My wife took a doe in the early season with her .54 Hawken percussion and I took one on New year's day during our Late season with a .50 Firestorm flintlock.
Our herd has been pounded relentlessly in the past decade. The days of sitting in the woods and seeing 40-50 deer are long gone. Nowadays seeing a half dozen is a good day. I apply for as many tags as I can get each year just to keep them out of the hands of those who feel "obligated" to fill every tag in their household just because they can. My wife and I still love to hunt and we never take more than we will use up between us. Property in the area I grew up in is so broken up anymore there aren't many of us "natives" left and many of those who come in from other parts of the state or from other states could care less about how we feel about conserving our local deer herd.
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Our herd has been pounded relentlessly in the past decade. The days of sitting in the woods and seeing 40-50 deer are long gone. Nowadays seeing a half dozen is a good day. I apply for as many tags as I can get each year just to keep them out of the hands of those who feel "obligated" to fill every tag in their household just because they can. My wife and I still love to hunt and we never take more than we will use up between us. Property in the area I grew up in is so broken up anymore there aren't many of us "natives" left and many of those who come in from other parts of the state or from other states could care less about how we feel about conserving our local deer herd.
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Last edited by Blackpowdersmoke; 09-10-2013 at 06:54 AM.
09-09-2013, 07:59 AM
#24
Spike
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 80
My wife took a doe in the early season with her .54 Hawken percussion and I took one on New year's day during our Late season with a .50 Firestorm flintlock.
Our herd has been pounded relentlessly in the past decade. The days of sitting in the woods and seeing 40-50 deer are long gone. Nowadays seeing a half dozen is a good day. I apply for as many tags as I can get each year just to keep them out of the hands of those who feel "obligated" to fill every tag in their household just because they can. My wife and I still love to hunt and we never take more than we will use up between us. Property in the area I grew up in is so broken up anymore there aren't many of us "natives" left and many of those who come in from other parts of the state or from other states could care less about how we feel about conserving our local deer herd.
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Our herd has been pounded relentlessly in the past decade. The days of sitting in the woods and seeing 40-50 deer are long gone. Nowadays seeing a half dozen is a good day. I apply for as many tags as I can get each year just to keep them out of the hands of those who feel "obligated" to fill every tag in their household just because they can. My wife and I still love to hunt and we never take more than we will use up between us. Property in the area I grew up in is so broken up anymore there aren't many of us "natives" left and many of those who come in from other parts of the state or from other states could care less about how we feel about conserving our local deer herd.
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09-10-2013, 07:34 AM
#27
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Penns Woods
Posts: 1,628
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09-10-2013, 09:04 AM
#28
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Hayes, Va.
Posts: 2,332
I guess we are lucky here in Virginia. We get six tags, three anterless and three any sex. Our season start the first saturday in Oct for archery and then go to two weeks of ML in the first weeks of november. Then gun season starts in the middle of November until the firs saturday in January.
I have never tagged out, because I don't have room in my freezer and I only take what I need. I usually take maybe two deer a year and then maybe two for friends who could use the meat or hunters for the hungry. I can say we have plenty of deer here in Virginia and I see plenty of deer during the season.
I shoot more photos then bullets!!! I love the outdoors and love sitting in the woods in the early hours of the day and just love to watch and listen!!!
I have never tagged out, because I don't have room in my freezer and I only take what I need. I usually take maybe two deer a year and then maybe two for friends who could use the meat or hunters for the hungry. I can say we have plenty of deer here in Virginia and I see plenty of deer during the season.
I shoot more photos then bullets!!! I love the outdoors and love sitting in the woods in the early hours of the day and just love to watch and listen!!!
09-10-2013, 10:14 AM
#29
Spike
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 80
You folks that are allowed to take a buck in the early ML season are fortunate. I doubt that we'll ever see that here in PA. The archery and rifle hunters would strongly oppose it. I think that ALL of the primitive seasons should precede the regular firearms seasons.
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Tn laws are so relaxed. Basically we can kill 3 Bucks per season. Its crazy the number of Does we can kill. Something like a doe a day once the season kicks in. Maybe more. I have never have been in a position to test it.