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Our season starts in Oct. an there are not but 3 people that bow hunt for many acres. Muzzleloading comes in middle Oct. then gun on the second saturday of Nov. The deer are pretty wellcrawled in a hole by the end of Thanksgiving hunt weekend. Everything starts to wind down by Dec. 1 just about everyone duck hunts. Then it is back to bow hunting but the stamina all depends on the luck that has came our way. If I have had a decent season I am finshed by about my 2nd or 3rd deer. I would say that the deer get hard pressured for about 1 1/2 months.

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The area I hunt most of the time isState land and is bowhunting only, thank God.There's a bit of pressure in the early season but not bad at all, I consider myself fortunate.:)

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I feel like my chances of successareslim after Thanksgiving weekend an the leaves fall off the trees.

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I think everyone's chances drop considerably after that time, the rut has slowed if not halted in alot of areas by then. Except in some more northern reaches.

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Pressure isn't the word I would use on the public land I hunt.
Bow stares the 1st of October.Then youth squirrel/pheasantstarts the second week of October for a full week,followed by a full week of in-line muzzleloader about the 15th of Oct. ,then at the end of that week 3 days of youth/senior RIFLE. Small game for grouse,rabbits,pheasant is next andin late October for the rest of monthuntil the end of archery wethrow in turkey 3 weeks. Excluding special reg. areas,the ONLY time an archery hunter is alone in the woods in PA is the first week of the season.

Oh ,I forgot , gun season starts the monday after Thanksgiving for 2 weeks.

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Only pressure my hunting grounds gets is from me. I'm buffered on one side by a few hundred acres no one can hunt.

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My family has 120 acres or so owned by us. Neighbor to the other side owns about 100 more, and we are the only ones on that too. Only pressure thissees is me, APAJaws, and my dad. My dad doesn't have much time to hunt these days unless I am there so it is primarily weekends and the first full week of November for archery. We only hunt weekends (saturdays) during rifle season, and hunt late archery pretty hard again on all weekends. We turkey hunt it quite a bit too.

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the public land I hunt on most gun openers is hunted as hard as just about any land in Minnesota. I'm lucky, I've found a spot that is near a main road that most other hunters overlook. I don't think i've ever gun hunted that stand w/o having deer walk right under me. while other people, less than a mile from me consider themselves lucky if they see deer at all.

i just bought 40 acres in november. I don't think it gets hunted too hard based on the number of deer in the area. I saw 123 all within just a few miles of my land a couple weeks ago. i'm excited to see how much (little) pressure the land gets.

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The ground I hunt gets a huge amout of gun hunting pressure.

We have a youth weekend,a muzzle loading weekend,gunseason for 2 weeks and 3 weekends,then a muzzle loader season.

There are several that hunt thos times throughout the season.Includi9ng me with my kids soI can't complain.


We have a huge gun hunting party opening weekend with many hunters participating.


Hunting isn't just about the time in the field.;)

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We have a few folks that bowhunt the property surrounding us but don't begin to pressure it until late October then they stay on it until the Gun season opens in mid Nov. It's pounded by several guys during the first Gun season the weekend before Thanksgiving and then pounded again the weekend after Thanksgiving, our second half of Gun season. Then the weekend after the second Gun season is the Muzzleloader-only season and again several guys from northern Illinois come down and pound the property, shooting at anything they see. By the time the guns fall silent and the smoke clears they don't bowhunt anymore but instead wait for the special Antlerless-only Gun season during the second weekend in Jan and again a group of guys show up to pound anything that they may have missed earlier in the season! Every season during the past 4 that they've hunted our boundry I've found atleast 1 dead deer on my property that they lost or simply didn't even make an attempt to track. This past season it was a beautiful 10 pointer and a small Doe lost. [:@]

This "if it's brownit'sdown" attitude certainly makes my serious QDM attempts frustrating at best! :([:@]

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I agree,we have a big opener on gun season too, our camp is all family has been since 1946.

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How many of you are starting to see tons of Outfitters and NR lease pressure in your area? Some of the areas I hunt have properties that may see over 50 bowhunters per season! [&:]:(

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Oct 10th through Dec 1 RIFLE SEASON... The whitetails and elk here get pressured hard anywhere there is a logging road..

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There is little to no hunting pressure from the opener of bow (second weekend in September)until opener of Firearms season (first weekend in November) on the public and private land I hunt in MN. Deer are usually very skittish after firearms, after the army of pumpkins have been through. It seems like within a couple weeks after firearms has closed, it will again pick up a little.

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PA game lands. Need I say more.



Zach

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I hunt public and private land in NJ. The public land gets hit, but only close to the roads. Once you get back in a ways you have some good action. The private land is some that a friend has exclusive rights to and is good enough to bring me along. Some very nice hunting there.

In PA I hunt both public and private too. The public land gets slammed, but I still see deer. Again, the further you get off the beaten path the better off you are. The private land also sees some pressure, but from fewer people.

If it were easy, it wouldn't be hunting.;)

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We have a lot of seasons and a lot of hunters in PA so in general things get slammed. My personal areas that I hunt are as follows
Area #1-light to moderate bow hunting pressure, but its not that big so if you don't know what you are doing you are going to alrert the mature bucks early. Light small game pressure during the bow season. Rifle season is a 3 ring circus with the place being pushed 8 days out of our 12 day season, and at least hunted every day. Late season-non existant pressure. The surrounding properties are moderate to heavily pressured in bow, small game and rifle.
Area # 2- Despitethere being stands hung every 50 yds covering the entire property, I rarely see anyone during archery season. Gun season I'm not completely sure about as I don't spend the popular days there, but the gun seasons in that unit are incredibly long so its a TON of pressure.

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In my area, besides family/buddies, there is very light bow season pressure. Come gun season though all hell breaks loose. After gun season, the bowhunting isnt very good.

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QDM Only Works if your neighbors practice it too.
People that shoot at anything they see are Redneck Trailer Trash and normally hunt anywere they so please wether its posted or public.
Prosecute all Trespassers and this will stop the problems.
Conseravtion is the key to Trophy Bucks

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There are areas that get quite a bit of preasure, but then again there are so many fricking deer it doesn't really matter. I have a few places to myself for the most part.

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Do you feel better now? Some those people might have just started hunting, but I have saw what you are talking about.

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bow season not to bad excecpt i have to tell the bow hunters in the woods next to were i hunt thiers a reason a fence seperate to two woods i realy don't think they get it or just don't care. gun season a whole different thing al together if a deer crosses the line it's every hunter for himself or another words the guns are unloaded on the deer they either kill them or scare the hell out of them.so i if i don't get him during bow it's pretty much over unless they don't show up .

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I wouldnt consider mine to terrable i guess. 800 acres and about 5 gun hunters at the most.

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oh i forgot to say i hunt in Indiana

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In this area of IL, the pressure isn't too bad until the out of state hunters and outfitters start piling in during late october up until and through gun season and for a few weeks after, and after that the smaller and more secluded parcels of landwill be fullof deer. I would have to say I live in one of the most pressured areas in the state, mostly due to the infiltration of NR hunters and outfitting which is HUGE here. Every year more and more local hunters are being pushed out of old hunting property and into another place that is already being hunted by others. You simply cannot find a property that isn't already hunted by other or isn't already leased for top $, I have looked far and wide. Pressure=HIGH.

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I moved to a new State and new hunting area last year and had a rude awakening in the hunting pressures in my area.

Archery season.. two words "A ZOO!"

Rifle season... one word "Duck!"