livbucks

Give me the coordinates to your stand, BB2.
I wanna come check it out.
There must be very few hunters there.
Right up my alley.

bawanajim

Doesn't sound like your group can kill much of any thing ,maybe fawns would be a good starting point. With spikes off limits ,maybe its time for another past time,maybe something that you findmore enjoying than you do deer hunting.

bluebird2

Based on your original post it appears that you haven't filled a tag just like the six members in our group. I guess you don't like eating venison anymore than you like your fellow hunters who aren't rack hunters like you.

bluebird2

Don't be a wise guy. You are the one that admitted to violating the game laws not me.

BTBowhunter

3 deer in 10 days of hunting? Mostnon hunters in PAsee more than that in 10 days on their daily commutes to work!

You and your buddies ARE the omega hunters! You guys really ought to consider golf there BB! Just think, if you could get as good at golf as you are at hunting, you could shoot a 150 every day

bawanajim

No bucks tagged in PA,but I was quite effective in another state. nothing you would likely shoot any ways, it was old and tough with big knarly horns that kept getting hung up on the brushwhile I was getting him out of the woods.

BTBowhunter

Congrats on the buck Jim! Where'd you get him? Got any pics?

bluebird2

Most non-hunters don't see deer unless there are draped across the hood of their car. And , BTW my wife saw over 20 deer within the city limits just 6 miles from where we hunt and that observation has absolutely no relevance to the hunting conditions in our area.

As I recall you haven't filled your buck tag just like the six members in our group.So are you an omega hunter or an alpha hunter or just a pain in the butt?

rybohunter

Rifle season wasn't too bad. I hunted 2B for the opener and only saw one small spike. [&:]

1st saturday I took a doe with my revolver in 2D. Saw 18 does, no bucks. My Dad got a doe too & saw 30 deer, 1 small buck
2nd Friday I saw 8 more doe in 2D
Last day in 2DI saw 11 deer, 1 decent looking buck, only saw him for a flash though.
My biggest concern was not seeing any small bucks during gun season. Last few years I'd see 2-4 small ones being pushed around each day. This year, buck sightings were WAY down. (In gun season only...I saw bunches in archery) Which makes it more shocking not to see them again in rifle.

I'm not sure how much I will get out the rest of the year, I have 3 2B tags still left, a 2A that I never even went down to hunt in, and of course my buck tag. I have no real intentions of even trying to pick up a buck during late archery, after last year, I'd be better off sitting here arguing with BB2[8D]

BTBowhunter

Never give up Rybo!! It's never over till the last miniute of the last day! My two best bucks in PA have been taken in late season. Last year I finally took the buck I hunted for three years on the next to last afternoon.
I saw that particular buck only in the late season each of three years. Once I had him at 15 yards on the LAST day but my buck tag was already gone.

Yes, the odds are long, but I happened to be in his "inner core area" when pressure from the late season 2B gun hunters put him there.

Ya just never know......