What PA Residents Have Had Small Game Success?
01-08-2005, 06:46 AM
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RE: What PA Residents Have Had Small Game Success?
That is because of farm and woodlot practices. Buy a chainsaw see more game, I gurantee. Most woods looks like a city park. Great for squirrels. Bad for upland game birds and bunnies. Also, ask an farm how many rabbits they find dead after they blast the fields with fertilzer in the spring when rabbits are whelping. I see it while shooting g-hogs in the spring. Take time and look around.
I also look around at all the firetowers on the mountains in PA and wonder when the last time any of them were really used for anything ther than cellphone antennaes. My father said the mountains or portions of them used to burn yearly in the 40's and 50's. Seems the forest is just evolving to me.
Fritz
01-09-2005, 05:40 PM
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RE: What PA Residents Have Had Small Game Success?
Yes, it's call forrest sucession. What PA hunter need to do instead of complain about lack of game is to complain about helping the state manage the land. Up north they call it boreal forests. Must be a old indian name for no game.
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Yea, I had heard that before. The fertilizer also softens the pheasant eggs making it impossible for them to hatch. Add to this the fact that our forests don't seem to burn anymore and it's no wonder small game has taken a dump here. Not to turn this into an Alt bashing thread, but forest undergrowth decimation was attributed to the "out of control deer population".
I also look around at all the firetowers on the mountains in PA and wonder when the last time any of them were really used for anything ther than cellphone antennaes. My father said the mountains or portions of them used to burn yearly in the 40's and 50's. Seems the forest is just evolving to me.
Fritz
That is because of farm and woodlot practices. Buy a chainsaw see more game, I gurantee. Most woods looks like a city park. Great for squirrels. Bad for upland game birds and bunnies. Also, ask an farm how many rabbits they find dead after they blast the fields with fertilzer in the spring when rabbits are whelping. I see it while shooting g-hogs in the spring. Take time and look around.
I also look around at all the firetowers on the mountains in PA and wonder when the last time any of them were really used for anything ther than cellphone antennaes. My father said the mountains or portions of them used to burn yearly in the 40's and 50's. Seems the forest is just evolving to me.
Fritz
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