CRAPPIE_SLAYER
Holy crap!

What he said..😲

Wow, I heard ehd hit Linesville pyme area hard this year. Hunted last night seen 5 does 2 does at 25 2 steps away from a iron will threw the chest and then the wind swirled. Corn will be off tomorrow so I'm going to move a stand in the rain to the kill tree. Pending on ducks or deer in the am. Got off to late to hunt or move that stand but I got the a frame brushed let's go migration daddys waiting

Eyes your story brings back memories, so keep em coming. We'll be rooting for ya. 🤞

Saw a pretty good buck this morning prior to legal light. I know his beams were outside of his ears but too dark to tell much more about him. Ended up seeing 7 does as well but all too far for a shot. 

Sat 330 til dark this evening. Temps made it feel like it should've been a good night, but the deer thought otherwise.

Saturday evening I had a doe run under me at 530 by the time I grabbed my muzzy I couldn't get a shot off. Had a million black birds over me making noise I never heard her coming. This is the longest iv went into season having not shot a deer getting pretty worked up lol

Welp, daughter and I got the big skunko last night in the ground blind.  Pretty warm.  Did see a black squirrel and a pileated woodpecker entertained us for 10 min. or so.  My daughter did get annoyed with it after 5 min. and the racket it made but I told her, still not as bad as a red squirrel that picks you out and menaces you for the remainder of your archery hunt..........weather forecast stinks for the next several days.....and I still have 21.5 days of vacation to use....hopefully some of the rain days next week are just light rain and not too windy....

Out last night saw a spike that was on the search for love, and a doe that ran right in under the stand and stared at me like " I see you".
Different property tonight saw another spike and about 50 squirrels/chipmunks. Was hot out this afternoon for sure.

👍 Good luck everyone. 🤞 I'll keep my finger crossed for yinz.

Hot and breezy tonight. Seen a doe and fawn right after I set up and then a button buck about 20 min. Ago. When the breeze does calm down, hard to hear anything but the squirrels and chippies in the dry leaves.

Moses that was too much... 🤭


.... hot and breezy tonight, cold and breezy tomorrow night.

78 degrees🥵 at Erie International this evening and 35 degrees, forecast for tomorrow night.🥶

Perhaps this cold front will get the big boys movin a little more.

Strong storms with high gusty winds forecast tonight, maybe knock some leaves off the trees. Lightning flashing as I type.

Good luck everybody.

Ending up having a spike come in and check out a scrape.  I think he was harassing a doe that came through 10 min early huffing and puffing.  As it was getting dark, several deer were coming in but I had to jet and ending up spooking them on my climb down.  There were 3 or 4 so hopefully just some doe and fawns.   Kicked out 3 or 4 more on the walk out.....better night than I expected....

Saturday morning I decided to not hunt in the steady drizzle and instead put on my rain jacket and checked my rut stands. Moved one ladder stand to an area I have a gut feeling about. One bench down from the top of a ridge that connects two bedding areas. I can see this bench from one of my other stands and often see deer scooting along it in November. 
 
Saturday afternoon I hunted a different area and seen 6 doe. Too far for any shooting. 
 
Its getting closer fellas. It about to bust loose here in another week, hopefully. 

Keep this under yinz hat but I still get the urge to do a little still hunting, when the conditions permit, so late this afternoon I did a little shoot and release.

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I didn't see any buck but from the looks of the tree between these two antlerless deer, there certainly must be one around.


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Passed this fella 2 times earlier in the day on Saturday. So tempting me a third time I gave in to the offer. A what I consider a nice PA average 8 point (really a 7 with a broke off brow tine). I was alone, and photo was taken as soon as I walked up to him.

Every year I attempt to expand my tools in hunting. Last year I wanted to get comfortable hunting high lock on stands, I spent a lot of time in them and tagged last years buck from one.

This year I wanted to try saddle hunting, so all my sets were set up for saddles. Forcing me to either hunt a blind or my saddle. This is my first deer from a saddle. I enjoyed hunting this different approach and I hope to be able to keep doing it.

This was also my 2nd deer from permission property. After the mess my first deer on permission ground caused I didn’t hunt permission ground for 12 years. Bad taste in my mouth. So it was nice to have some permission ground to keep pressure lower on family ground.