Flintlock season

dpms, Tues. 26th  sam

Dardy, you forgot to list "NO FUN". Can't do it anymore but one of my best memories is crawling into range of a deer, in snow, taking aim squeezing the trigger and hearing a click and nothing else. Flintlock was always my first love, even for small game.

I'll be out. Most likely hunting solo on the 26th, then group of us doing drives on the weekends

Schizammm-
Missed a monster this AM- a shot too far.

I still have a doe tag and will get the crossbow back out.  Never owned a flintlock or never even shot one.   Been thinking of getting one and giving it a try though.

Congratulations R3. Looking forward to pictures and the story.

BloodyHand
 I love to do the spot and stalk/still hunt while it's snowing in full dress snow camo.

 
Yep. Primarily how I like to hunt the flintlock season. Only problem is it seems snow is a rarity in this corner of the state. If we do get some, lucky to have it for more than a few days. 

For Christmas I want an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot muzzle loading range rifle, so I can hunt PA. flintlock too!

But my betterhalf says "no stupid, you'll shoot your eye out".

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.......................
 
BH

Should be excellent hunting this week!!

  I will take a couple excursions with sparky. I have a doe tag for 2f. I was out to take a doe during rifle season and sitting in a tree. Along comes a fawn size doe and I am looking for one bigger. Then out comes momma and comes up to little fawn. Little fawn sidle's up and starts licking mommas face and nuzzling her and back and forth. Well I still have the tag. I have an easier time harvesting Bucks as they are kind of sleazy. They have nothing to do with child rearing, and do not even pay child support. They spend time fighting, and I suspect they spend lots of nights imbibing in fermented apples.
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Headed out tomorrow for the first hunt of the season with the flintlock. They are calling for 1-3 inches by mid morning. Looking forward to the hunt, not so much the drive to get there on all of the back roads. 

Very warm.  A lot of layers,good socks,big pack boots,thermos, insulated bibs,and hooded parka,face mast,good gloves. Heat pack help. I don't have one but it would be nice to have one now those big body suit that you get into. I know you can get a deer anytime but would limit myself to hunt the most productive time of day Early morning,or late day,but I've seen deer up and feeding at 12:00-1:00 pm this week. 

Panfisher
How does one dress for the artic cold to sit in a tree?   I haven't been out yet and next week looks colder still.  Would like to go out but don't want to get frost bite.

 
Buy the battery powered warming socks.  They do work but definitely, test em before trekking out.  Nice thing bout the battery powered is ya can turn em off until ya reach your stand and or turn em on/off as you need em.  Nothing worse than swinging frozen feet in a tree while waiting for them cute elusive PA White Tailed Deer.  Take along some them chemical foot warmers too just as a back up, and get the ones with the sticky tape to keep em around your toes.  Damed if I know how those things without tape, end up around my knees.  Just make sure you give the the chemical warmers time to warm before stickin em to the bottom of your socks.  They need oxygen to start the warming process but seem to continue producing heat once buried in your boot.   Few them stuck inside your gloves on the backside of the hand work nicely too.  Just be cautious of the heated pack against bare sensitive hands/skin, I wear thin glove liners.  Heyyy, not my fault I'm a sensitive type of guy!
 
Sat in my high-rise ground blind for several hours when less then a hour passed before I wished I could learn to heed my own advice.    Monday, I not only will wear the heated socks and use the hand warmers but shall include my long insulated pantys as well.   Good grief it got cold fast and no I didn't see any stupid deer. 
 
 
Good luck if you make it out.

I was out all day Saturday. Yes, it was bitter cold but I managed to keep it to a slow shiver most of the day. The deer were moving. I ended up seeing 12, but none offered a shot. I sat in my normal spot in the morning then moved on from there. On my way out, the tracks of 5-6 deer walked right past my morning setup within 10 yards of where I was standing. Ugh!
 
I had a bottle of water and an apple in my fanny pack and when I grabbed them for a noontime woods lunch, the apple was frozen and the water was slushy. That didn't help me warm up any!
 
Roads were horrible in the morning. I had about an hour drive but it took me almost double that. I left early figuring the roads would be bad. One of the roads close to my destination was not plowed yet and I was the only tire tracks on it.  Made it there with just enough time to get settled in at daylight.