RE: Lawsuit challenges policies on PA deer
 

If you guys had to hunt on public land I bet you would change your tune, go do a little archery hunting on your local game land this year. I know you would rather hunt in your back yard but try it for one week and let us know how you did. ;)

RE: Lawsuit challenges policies on PA deer
 

I hope you aren't in the scope again?

RE: Lawsuit challenges policies on PA deer
 

That's pretty bad when you got to be a clone to someone's thinking.

DO NOT POST ANYTHING NEGATIVE ABOUT ALT'S PLAN

Why?

This forum won't have to ban me. I quit... Out of here, stay and be a clone.

RE: Lawsuit challenges policies on PA deer
 

I never hunt on private land anymore, but on State Gamelands 100% of the time. What is your point? I hunted eight days of the rifle season last year and saw only four other hunters. My buddy who hunted with me all eight days saw only one other hunter. Where are all these guys you think are overhunting the public land? They sure aren't where I'm hunting. I hunt the steepest, roughest, thickest part of the mountain. That is where the deer go after the first hour or so. I saw ten bucks last rifle season, seven of which were AR legal. Sorry, but it's true. You gotta get away from the road a bit to see deer.

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You are exactly right patrkyhntr!;) I thought the Mcdonalds lawsuit was crazy over the hot coffee. This one tops that off! I guess I will have to sue all the outfitters I hunted with over the years. I didnt shoot a trophy buck. That sounds like they broke their end of the deal!:D I am going to contact my attorney I should become a millionaire by archery season:)

RE: Lawsuit challenges policies on PA deer
 

well they all must be hunting in my area.. i dont know where your from but around here people hunt and everyone hunts and they hunt hard..
now for your get off the road statement is a bunch of crap, i hunt 3 miles from the truck. last year the first day there was 5 of us within 100 yards of each other.. now i bet you say well you need to move.. well my dad was a mile away from me and he had the same thing, my brother was 2 miles from me and same thing, and another guy same thing..
and hey i believe ya that u hunt all puplic land, thats great and im glad u found a place no one knows about YET... but most other people here that talk this talk, they are all private land hunters, dont let them fool ya

RE: Lawsuit challenges policies on PA deer
 

I don't know where you hunt, but I could use the company. As to your hunting over three miles from your truck, I won't question that, but I doubt that there are many places in the state that are three miles from any roads. Where in Blair County are you huhting that has that much land away from roads?
I hunt state gamelands number 81, nearly all of which is in Huntingdon County. Here is a link to a PDF map of the gamelands.
http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/lib/p...es/maps/81.pdf
I don't think I ever get a mile away from the road, but do sometimes walk well over three miles from my cabin when still hunting. If you are hunting in an area where you can't get more than a hundred yards away from other hunters, try my gamelands, but be prepared to climb some steep and rough stuff. It isn't too far from Altoona. Now, on the negative side, our buck/doe ratio is quite low. I saw ten bucks during rifle season, but only thirty total deer. This suits me just fine, but it might not suit you. I did talk to some of the guys who usually hunt in this gamelands and they were complaining that they weren't seeing any deer at all. I have no reason to dispute what they or you are saying.
Here is a photo of a buck taken by a youngster I took out the first day. It was his first. He is 14.

RE: Lawsuit challenges policies on PA deer
 

bullmoose38, I know where you hunt and it's not public land. ;)
patrkyhntr, did you get one of those 8 bucks?Sounds like you hunt a spot like I hunt up in Lebanon Co. so many rocks that the deer cant even get through them, when I do get a buck their most of the hair is gone off the deer by the time I get it back to the truck. :D

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Yes, I did, lost horn. I was hunting by myself on the second Thursday. I hadn't got much sleep the night before, so when I got to my spot, I decided to take a nap. I slept until 10:30. Something woke me up, and as I was clearing my eyes of sleepy dirt, I caught motion out of the corner of my eye. This one is the tenth buck I saw, and I decided that you don't have to take the first one, but you have to take the last one. Looking back on it, I wish I had let him go by. I think he would be really nice this year. You can see what the rocks did to his hide by the right-rear quarter.

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Yep you sure did patrkyhntr, nice buck, that right side brings back a lot of memories from those rocks, It's a shame we have to hunt that rough stuff just to find a deer and get away from the crouds, I don't know about you but I am getting a little bit too old for some of those rocks but as you said that is where the deer are so I guess I will keep crawling through them.