Another rainy, crappy weather opener in PA
12-01-2009, 07:54 AM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 1,926
Remember one rainy opening PA day
Years ago and got soaked. I was deep and saw no other hunter. Then he appeared. I was dumfounded. How did he get this far. He was lost. He was looking for his car parked on the road. I set him up and later led him out of the woods, in the opposite direction to his car.
If PA ever got to 200.000 hunters, total, they might think about having archery season during a rut. States, especially PA, still depend on gun hunters to keep the deer population down to stable numbers.
If PA ever got to 200.000 hunters, total, they might think about having archery season during a rut. States, especially PA, still depend on gun hunters to keep the deer population down to stable numbers.
12-01-2009, 09:34 AM
#13
Banned
Join Date: Sep 2008
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Naa. They dont need Guys from other states that dont even hunt here to come up with conspiracies. They F up stuff enough without em.
Besides, if anything, theyd want the weather conducive to slaughtering a higher percentage of the deer, not less. According to pgc, Cant fill enough of those 800,000 plus doe tags + kill enough dmap + enough farm damage control kills + red tags + etc etc.... With us having rain on one day of the season dont ya know! lmao.
Besides, if anything, theyd want the weather conducive to slaughtering a higher percentage of the deer, not less. According to pgc, Cant fill enough of those 800,000 plus doe tags + kill enough dmap + enough farm damage control kills + red tags + etc etc.... With us having rain on one day of the season dont ya know! lmao.
Last edited by Cornelius08; 12-01-2009 at 09:56 AM.
12-01-2009, 10:06 AM
#14
Fork Horn
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 159
That was about as nasty as it gets, it was fairly warm early but here in the Laurel Mts, mid state and high it started to spit sleet, snow and rain mix.. and let's not forget about the fog.. I've attended 42 sunrise services in a row and this one was about as nasty-mean-worthless as most, did see 3 bucks and 12 doe and a dozen long beards but it wasn't fun... shooting was almost totally non-existant and I'm sure we'll here it was a record kill but I can assure you it was not.. hunting pressure is done, numbers of hunters is way down, places to go are almost non-existant these days and the game lands and national forests are getting low on animals.. otherwise, it was a loverly day in paradise !!
12-01-2009, 11:41 AM
#15
Spike
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Posts: 55
i was very fortunate, i was in mercer county and only had a little rain very early in the morning and some very short periods of snow/sleet, nothin to complain about, and the sun came out alot until the afternoon. i thought it was a pretty nice day, got a 6 point at 730 and saw 3 other buck and 1 doe
12-01-2009, 02:57 PM
#19
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Join Date: Sep 2008
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You hate them Rybo? If you are a hunter, thats not surprising. Unless someones cousin, or friend of a friends brother works for em or they belong to audubon, thats usually a given these days. I hear that several times a week, but usually not put quite as politely.
Last edited by Cornelius08; 12-01-2009 at 03:03 PM.
