PA Public land bucks, please post your pics!
02-09-2007 | 07:55 AM
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RE: PA Public land bucks, please post your pics!
ORIGINAL: BaileyHill
Ahandful of pictures of deer taken on public/private land does little to impress anyone as to how good a job is being done by the GC on deer management. Though those bucks are in the category of nicea better question to ask is what % of bucks from the total kill yearly fall into the "nice" category. There is little question if AR work...yes they do. But in the overall picture there are always some "nice bucks ' killed every year always was always will be.
Ahandful of pictures of deer taken on public/private land does little to impress anyone as to how good a job is being done by the GC on deer management. Though those bucks are in the category of nicea better question to ask is what % of bucks from the total kill yearly fall into the "nice" category. There is little question if AR work...yes they do. But in the overall picture there are always some "nice bucks ' killed every year always was always will be.
02-09-2007 | 07:59 AM
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RE: PA Public land bucks, please post your pics!
BT- so you are saying all of those bucks where shot on private?
around here there are some big bucks on public but not anywhere close to the numbers that are on private land.
none the less they are all nice bucks and ive seen big bucks taken on public land
around here there are some big bucks on public but not anywhere close to the numbers that are on private land.
none the less they are all nice bucks and ive seen big bucks taken on public land
02-09-2007 | 07:59 AM
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RE: PA Public land bucks, please post your pics!
ORIGINAL: villeman
Thanks guys. I probably will let a buck like that walk from now on. I have a 7 pt taken in 2001, and an 8pt taken last year (both in rifle season) up on the wall already, about the same size racks. Need to let these little guys grow up.
Thanks guys. I probably will let a buck like that walk from now on. I have a 7 pt taken in 2001, and an 8pt taken last year (both in rifle season) up on the wall already, about the same size racks. Need to let these little guys grow up.
02-09-2007 | 08:09 AM
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RE: PA Public land bucks, please post your pics!
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BT- so you are saying all of those bucks where shot on private?
around here there are some big bucks on public but not anywhere close to the numbers that are on private land.
none the less they are all nice bucks and ive seen big bucks taken on public land
BT- so you are saying all of those bucks where shot on private?
around here there are some big bucks on public but not anywhere close to the numbers that are on private land.
none the less they are all nice bucks and ive seen big bucks taken on public land
The point is that all three of the bucks I posted were available to hunters withoutany special permission on private land that has been open to the public for years. As a matter of fact, two of them had previous supeficial woundsfromother hunters. One wound was from an arrow and the other from a gun.
02-09-2007 | 08:13 AM
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RE: PA Public land bucks, please post your pics!
BT- for real im not trying to start anything. but i do talk alot about the differences between puplic and private IN MY AREA.
my question is the land you talk about open to all hunters noted that way. or do you need to ask to hunt.. most areas around here have the yellow signs everywhere, but every now and then i see a place that dont, but i dont just walk in and hunt. just because its not posted doesnt mean you can hunt it right?
my question is the land you talk about open to all hunters noted that way. or do you need to ask to hunt.. most areas around here have the yellow signs everywhere, but every now and then i see a place that dont, but i dont just walk in and hunt. just because its not posted doesnt mean you can hunt it right?
02-09-2007 | 08:19 AM
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RE: PA Public land bucks, please post your pics!
To tell y'all the truth, the private but open land I hunt near home gets hammered by slug hunters every yearbut I seldom run into a hunter on public land up at camp. Always makes me wonder. More expansive land and fewer hunters makes hunting the big woods more of a challenge, and not because there are no deer there because there are. I think the old school stump sitters relied too much on the young and the restless to push deer to them. There are fewer hunters in the big woods to push the deer all over. Just a sign of the times and not related to deer density. Time to get up off the stump.