My wife texted me this evening while I was still at work that there was a good buck in the neighbor’s field that had a doe run up to it and he just ignored her and kept grazing.

 On the way home from fishing this evening almost hit two different heavy racked buck chasing doe a 1/2 mile up the road. Then there was a group of 14 deer 30-40 yards from the rd. about 300 yards from home before I pulled in the driveway. Only a short drive to the lake.
 
 Have a bucket of Perch and some Crappie on ice for the night.

Nice morning, though a little warm.  Too bad the sightings weren't too good.  Saw a fawn, a unicorn spike and 4 turkeys (hens).  Thought it would be much better as I saw over a dozen deer along the road edge and in fields on my short drive to my spot.  Walked up on a buck on the gas well road I walk in on.  Just enough moonlight to see his tail wagging up in front of me before he moved off over the edge.  Got up to that spot and could smell his buck stank...
Got warm pretty quick and they ticks must be enjoying this weather.  Picked several off of me...clothes are in the wash now...not sure my treatment from the beginning of the season was going to be enough so, I grabbed the dog's flea shampoo and took a quick shower with it...lol.  I HATE ticks.

Hoping to get to archery hunt in the snow tomorrow morning.  Just hope the wind is manageable or, from a direction I can get out of it in the spot I plan on going.  

Still in here in 2B, been slow on stand and on cameras.

Looking like snow and bitter cold for the opener up here in the Northern part of the state. Gotta love the snow tho, easy to spot em and makes tracking a breeze. Gonna be deer running everywhere as the hunters wont be able to sit still in this cold. Good luck everyone.
 
BH

How big of an area is the management area?

That’s quite a deer density. No wonder they want they culled.

Those two typically go hand in hand.

DarDys
Is there any estimate of the deer density there?

Nothing official that I know of. We have a new hunt manager for the past two years and he has been requiring the hunters to keep much better records of every outing to try to establish some data points. The prior manager kept very poor records and the borough basically kicked his crew out and went with this new crew looking for more data. On every hunt I have to record date, time in, time out, property hunted, deer seen, does seen, bucks seen and deer harvested. A doe has to be shot before a buck can be shot and so many deer have to be donated to HUSH.