dpms
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Rifle season success?
Anybody out toting the bang stick around? Our crew in Washington County struck out. No snow and very few deer seen. We got crushed by EHD so we knew going in it would be slim picking. Nobody will shoot a doe cause the numbers are down. One guy passed up a small legal buck. I saw a grand total of two deer in three days and I was doing small pushes for everyone else.
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DarDys
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Re: Rifle season success?
2024/12/04 13:23:33
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I took a 5-point (no brow tines) in Clearfield County, too darn cold to pass it up, and my wife harvested a swamp donkey doe at our house.
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eyesandgillz
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Re: Rifle season success?
2024/12/04 15:38:41
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Thinking about taking the bow out, but, haven't been out during rifle season, yet. Friday looks doable, maybe, and hoping there is some white stuff around here in the PGH burbs. Don't have high hopes but, I have gotten a couple bucks with my bow during rifle season so it is possible.
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Re: Rifle season success?
2024/12/05 07:28:59
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DarDys I took a 5-point (no brow tines) in Clearfield County, too darn cold to pass it up, and my wife harvested a swamp donkey doe at our house.
Congrats on the successful hunt. Yes it was cold for sure.
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Re: Rifle season success?
2024/12/05 14:07:37
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Was out the first day and only saw 2 does. Not much shooting either. Was out two other times and had a deer snort behind me in mountain laurel. Probably won't go back out til Saturday. Snow and wind are too nasty for me to hunt in.
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Re: Rifle season success?
2024/12/06 17:37:18
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Saw one black squirrel Saturday morning, the wind up in the 2F area was ridiculous. Sunday morning at daylight I dropped a doe, we had it quartered and in the fridge before kick off.
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Re: Rifle season success?
2024/12/08 19:26:31
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My crew managed a 10 pt and a dozen does the first week in 2F. One good sized 8 pt and a few does missed as well. No shortage of deer around but the weather was brutal some days. Doing deer drives in clear cuts and dragging deer miles in knee deep snow had us pretty beat up by Friday night
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Re: Rifle season success?
2024/12/09 07:35:27
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No deer again for our crew Saturday. A few doe presented shots but no shots taken by our crew to try to allow the numbers to build back up after EHD. I was the only one to see a legal buck, of course. Very little shooting.
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eyesandgillz
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Re: Rifle season success?
2024/12/09 19:36:00
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Took the bow out here in 2B Friday afternoon. Got to the stand much later than I hoped and around 3pm, was I was getting to the top of the hill, above the bench I climb my tree at, saw deer moving already, right by where I would have been. So thick with the honeysuckle but did put binocs on 2 baldies. Took 2 more steps to get a better view and deer were scattering. At least 6 and if so, likely the same group of 6 does/fawns that are always in this area but could have been more. Pulled my camera card and decided to go a little father in since I boogered up that bench. Get set up and around 430 heard deer moving down below me but too thick to see them or what they were. Checked my card and the day before, at 11:42 am, the other shooter (very tall, long tined but not wide 8 pt) was on the card with the group of 6 doe/fawns. Who knows if he was with them Friday. Anyways, may try to get out later this week after the weather settles but no rush. Hate wearing orange in the 2B suburbs where I am so late season will be more pleasant for me anyways.
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dpms
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Re: Rifle season success?
2024/12/09 20:13:39
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eyesandgillz Hate wearing orange in the 2B suburbs where I am so late season will be more pleasant for me anyways.
Same here. Most of the places I hunt in 2B, the potential hassle of wearing orange just isn't worth the hunt to me. In the late season I am often sitting right under peoples noses and they have no clue.
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Re: Rifle season success?
2024/12/13 19:54:49
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My crew did some drives yesterday and today in the big woods, a 7 pt and 5 does harvested. Had a lot of deer moving both days. No sign of anyone hunting more than a few hundred yards off the roads.
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Re: Rifle season success?
2024/12/15 12:43:26
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First year in a long time where not one buck was taken at camp. One legal seen but was passed up. Pretty slim pickings this year with EHD.
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eyesandgillz
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Re: Rifle season success?
2024/12/15 13:32:10
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Spent the last day of rifle up skiing. Had fun doing that. Took the bow out Friday afternoon. Saw lots of turkey and deer, just no bucks. Will hit the woods a bit in the late season.
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Re: Rifle season success?
2024/12/15 13:51:42
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I saw two different likely shooter bucks in 2B in gun season but too far in thick stuff to get a good look or even begin to consider a shot. Passed on a couple younger does.
Daughter got married in SC last weekend, so yesterday was the first my son and I had been out since opening weekend. He shot a nice doe on the back 40 of my daughter’s new in laws in 1A. Third deer of the year for him.
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Re: Rifle season success?
2024/12/16 20:01:17
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Congratulations to those who were successful. Finalized my numbers in my log book for rifle season. Got out for 11 sits 1 of which was an all dayer on the 1st day. Had a total number of sightings of 58. Only 2 legal bucks out of the 9 I saw and I couldn’t get a shot at either. Passed a whole bunch of does and now looking forward to muzzleloader season to try and fill tags
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