Hunting PA

The experiences of a Pennsylvania hunter and trapper.

Browsing Posts published in December, 2009

College has kept me busy, but now with Christmas break I have time to trap again. Today I put out one hay set in the same area where I got my two Grey Foxes last year. Maybe tomorrow I’ll get a few more sets out.

What a day! My Father, three brothers, and I all started the last day of deer by putting on two drives at SGL.105. We saw quite a few other hunters, but the drives produced no deer. At noon we decided to give someplace else a try. One of my brothers left for home which then [...]

Went out and watched a nearby farm field for the evening. There was at least one squirrel in the fence row behind me, but no deer. Tomorrow will mark the start of the combined antlered and antlerless deer season here is 2D so maybe hunters will start moving the deer around some more.

Got home from college today just soon enough to get about 30 minutes of hunting in before dark. I took one of my brothers out with me who just recently turned 12 years old so he is working on getting his first deer. We set up in woods line that connects two patches of larger [...]

Today my Father and I went to a nearby farm and drove a wooded ridge out to a field were my Father was watching. I saw quite a few deer tracks, however, neither of us saw anything and none of the tracks looked recent. It was pretty wet and raining; as my Father and I [...]