deer

anyone been seeing any deer while driving spotting or anything

Saw 8-10 that Crappie missed this evening.

Long live the scrubbies!!  wooa  hooo!!  Already got brite eyes for him. 




Here's some others just for fun.

Seen 6 deer in my front yard yesterday morning at 630am , And that is the first time in a long time seeing deer in my yard. I live right in the middle of cranberry.  Almost had to bust out the HOYT just on principle   LOL  Maybe i should run a corn cumm line to the back yard  LOL 

hunted last Friday and Saturday in 2B saw over 20 deer each day on land open to public. No one else out except my group. We managed a few each day.

ORIGINAL: spoonchucker

Saw 8-10 that Crappie missed this evening. Actually I see some most every evening that I'm out & about.

 
  Mike,
 
I didn't even take a shot this year & last year I shot a mature doe & it didn't drop right away. Got the boys rounded up together for a exp. on trackin without snow about 20 min later. Took alittle while to find blood then it was purdy easy. We ended up about 40 yrds. away from where she layed & a man & a little boy ran up to it & claimed it. 2 of my boys went up to it & told me it only had one hole through it. I've droped em on the spot & some wackos shootin at em runnin across fields would claim em also. I just shake my head & grin alittle.
 
  My son Matt wacked a buck about 10 days ago with his truck behind the house. That makes 9 bucks that I know of taken from behind the house (within 300 yrds.) this year from the boys & friends (some of the antlers were already sheded) I don"t even hunt back there  
 
  But on a good note if you want some Hick or He snack sticks stop over I made a batch Sat. (yesterday)
 
  I quit my job on Tues. so I'm thinkin bout taken the next 5 -6 months off for some fishin. The old lady aint buyin it as of yet. But schel come around. Too bad she don't eat fresh fish or wild game or it would be a piece of cake. Aint goe'n back till atleast after the night bite.
 
  Stop over for some snacks./ o/K.?
 
  Crappy

Been seeing a lot on my daily drive to and from work from West Mifflin to Hempfield Twp. in both Allegheny and Westmoreland Counties.  Of course, lots of sightings on posted ground but have had several sightings on or near ground that was open to hunting.  Also, lots of the posted land is accessible if you take the time to research the Owner and ask. 

I was wondering if he was your new hero or you were just trying to rub it in to someone.

What kind of camera do you have SilverKype?  It take very good pictures.

That is a stealthcam I390.  About $100 on ebay.
 
I used it from July - November.  Ended up the original batteries had 3/4 left.  wow!!  I don't like -- trigger speed is 4.5 seconds.
 
I was onto a real nice buck, waited until the rut to get some pics of him.  Went in .. in the pourin' rain to set the camera up, 4 days later, pourin' rain took it out. Got 15 pictures.  Slipped out of my hand and broke walking to the house!!!  Never got the pics!!!  dumas!!!
 
Stealth cam charged me for $80 for a refurbished one.  I got to pick what I wanted.   That's their policy.  Got a WD2, haven't got a pic yet of deer.  Trigger speed is like 2 seconds.  I do question the pic quality though.  I'll take the tradeoff.   WD3, I hear is a good one.
 
Never going to catch me spend a bunch of money on trail cam's as long as I hunt public ground.

I've seen a couple of does in the yard this year, not as many as usual, or as often, but I know of at least two "local" deer that were killed.  I've gone out with fresh snow on the ground twice this year and I'm sure the deer are still around.

When do you think the PA game commission will shut down hunting to bring back the deer heard - or do you think they want to exterminate the heard all to gether and start fresh

ORIGINAL: Pgh Kid

When do you think the PA game commission will shut down hunting to bring back the deer heard - or do you think they want to exterminate the heard all to gether and start fresh

 
Go back to your Playstation kid!

The reason there are still so many in allegheny is that the game comm doesnt have control there. Too much posted land to save deer......All around the state high deer populations are found around high concentrations of posted land.

The numbers in Allegheny county will never get cut down as low as other places because the deer thrive in places where they cannot be hunted.  Not just posted lands, but industrial properites that are totally fenced and patrolled, or woodlots so small, they are all technically within a safety zone entirely, or small thickets that are completely surrounded by homes or businesses.  Airport properties which are guarded.  Most places like this can only be hunted by archers and they'll never get all those deer.