Search results

Doing my part for herd management here in my little slice of PA. Saw 33 today and decided to fill my last doe tag in the last 15 minutes of the day.

I rigged this up for this season in my box blind. An office chair took up to much space, the kids got me a blind chair but it sat to high. I was using a wooden folding chair but after a couple of hours I was hurting. Had this old hammock chair laying around so I gave it a go. Works great. I’ll...

Back in the box after walking to the house for a couple of bowls of venison stew. I think I'll leave the heater off. Full belly, heat and this hammock chair may have me taking a nap all afternoon. Saw 4 bucks (2 legal) 3 doe and a red fox this morning.

I'm up to 21 for the day. This is #18 she came in with no fawns being followed by 3 - 1.5yr bucks and made the mistake of stopping to sniff my boot tracks from this morning.

Beautiful morning here in NW Pa. for the start of my 47th rifle season. 25*, calm wind and 6" of snow. Seen 10 doe so far

Swamp, I always extract right into the bucket no filter and then filter it later through a 5gal paint strainer. Having done exactly what you did I made myself a promise never to do that again.

The Mrs grew some from seed. They take forever to germinate and are slow growers the 1st year or 2 at least for us.This was year 3 for them and I think the biggest was about 16” tall. I’d buy seedlings if I was going to do it again.

SwampCat, I'll be honest about it... Never.. It's a bucket list thing now. I would have never even considered that spot but I have a spot about 70 yds away in a grapevine cluster and have watched a lot of deer walking through that little 100 yard wide section that I had to give it a go. So far...

Sitting on the lower edge of a saddle with a 5 acre MFR thicket behind me. Hoping to catch a cruiser coming from the bedding on the other side of the ridge. Got busted drawing the bow back on a nice one at 1st light and had a small 4pt within 10 feet. The joys of ground hunting with the longbow...

Mortenson, 90% of the time I try to get something behind me like brush, tree tops,etc or multiple trunks. If that's not possible I go with the biggest tree available. Buck, It's actually a little thicker than the picture shows. For whatever reason mature bucks have no hesitation about crossing...

Dressed up in the ghillie suit sitting in my sling chair on the edge of a travel corridor between 2 bedding areas trying to get a buck with my longbow. Beautiful morning in the mid 30s with a light breeze. I've only seen a small doe and a flock of turkeys so far but the Mrs is 300 yds south and...

Well the Mrs is happy with the new water hole in front of her cabin. She watched this small buck come in and get a drink, munch some rye and acorns before wandering off. Gonna have to take the leaf blower out and give the poor rye a chance to grow. It’s had a tough go of it with the lack of...

SD, I started stacking my piles this way a few years ago and knock on wood I haven’t had one fall yet. I’ve tried a bunch of different ways and even 6’ T-posts move and this way I don’t have to work around them building or tearing down the stack. This pile is on 4 plastic pallets. You just...

Congratulations to Mrs Newbie. That’s a great trophy in PA.

Sitting on the ground next to a fallen giant with a 5 acre MFR thicket 50 yards behind me. Seen a few does, currently have 2 small ones bedded 40yds away. While taking this picture a little fork horn walked in 10-15 and passed by headed to the roses

Ended up seeing 10 total including my target buck and one his small companions. The bucks came in with about 10 minutes of shooting time but of course only the smaller one got close enough.

Opening day in my part of PA... Sitting on the edge of the grapevines 20yds from this oak tree that is just raining acorns. Nothing but squirrels so far

Saw the picture of the alleged shooter… Kinda looks like that kid who claims to have survived the Parkland school shooting… David Hogg

Well strange things happen, I’m glad the outcome was favorable for you. It looks like a good hit in the photo but may have been a bit low for the lungs. Description of shot and the timeline for the follow ups says liver but lack of blood on the shaft is a puzzler. I hope the pup got an extra...