well I can see his point to an extent. IF you are entering this season with the inclination to shoot a mature buck, then Iwould not go putting heavy pressure on my best areas that may hold one. However, if you are just out to kill some deer and don't care what size the bucks are, then have at it and hunt where you want.

Since you are talking about public land that is going to get pressure anyway, I say go for it. It sounds like you may get a jump on some guys and get to put some meat in your freezer before you have to worry about horns.

As far as gut piles go, I haven't seen a gut pile stay around long enough to spook deer. The foxes and turkey vultures usually have that taken care of in a day.

It dont work that way, evedently your buddies think deer think like humans, " a mature buck isnt going to walk up to a gut pile and think my gosh that was Sally" Ive shot too many deer that have walked up to one that was laying on the ground shot just five to ten minutes earlier. I shot my biggest buck within ten feet from a gut pile, go out and tag your doe and enjoy the solitude from no one else in the woods.

Too hard to read your broken grammar[:@]

Thats funny, I never asked you to critique my grammer!

If you intend on shooting a Doe any ways I would go out and hunt,if your waiting to get a Big Buck then don't shoot any Doe's because they will help draw in a Buck.A Gut pile will not scare off any Deer and after a day or 2 you will never know it was there depending on how many coyotes,crows and vultures you have in your area.


Whats the deal with Early Doe Season in PA....?Explain it to us who live out of state from You.

Go for it! Shooting a couple of doe is great practice, period. Just don't disrupt the areawhere you will bebuck hunting. Oh yea, your grammar is deplorable.

He wasn't talking to you I don't think.

Deer smell dead things in the woods everyday. Its part of nature.

This is basicly in the "special regulations" WMU's, mostly in the SE part of the state, where there are too many deer and not alot of public land to hunt them. You can get unlimited "antlerless" tags in some WMU's such as 5-D, where I hunt.