Late PA season over for me. I started out about 8:00 this morning and it is now 3:21 as I write this. I was walking this whole time and covered maybe 6 or 7 miles basically looking for fresh tracks in the ice covered snow. This was the same as the last 2 years. The usual haunts where I always see deer or tracks there was almost nothing. All I was able to see were about 5 sets of very old tracks and only 1 of those I could determine that it was a deer. The other 4 could have either been deer or coyote. Zero definition in the tracks and half filled.
I wish I knew where these deer go when the weather gets nasty. I have a suspicion that they head over the next valley where there are some farmlands.
The muzzy is all cleaned up and put away.

I had a senior citizen once tell me the deer all go into a cave when the shooting starts...lol.

Our camp had an overall good PA Season.

But I didn't. I took one little doe the last day of the rifle season. Never saw a legal buck. And after the first day we didn't take any bucks at all.

Our numbers are a little skewed as we took two 7 points and a 5 point off one drive the first afternoon. Without getting "lucky" there it would have been our worst season ever.

I did see allot of doe and plenty of small buck. So hopefully next year looks a little better. One afternoon I saw five illegal bucks. So there's hope.

-Jake