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Title: PA opener
Post by: Nate N on October 04, 2010, 09:07:00 AM
Anybody have any luck in PA on Saturday?  I saw two does and a whole lot of squirrels.
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Post by: BMejia on October 04, 2010, 09:21:00 AM
I was only able to hunt the morning (brother's wedding) but I saw 3 does and no bucks.
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Post by: magreene13 on October 04, 2010, 09:45:00 AM
Saw five doe in the afternoon and four nice bucks early Sunday morning going to work right next to the road.  I guess I'm going to far into them there woods.
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Post by: PA Bones on October 04, 2010, 09:53:00 AM
I saw 7 does and jumped a nice buck bedded near my evening stand.
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Post by: Randy Koleno on October 04, 2010, 10:16:00 AM
I had a cool morning. I saw a Coyote stalking one of this years fawns. The deer came running towards me, stopped and looked behind it a couple of times, ran by me, stopped and looked again. Then I saw the Coyote about 50yds out. It was definitely focused on the deer. Once I realized what was playing out, shooting never occurred to me. About five minutes after they left, a jake turkey left it's roost, landed about three yards from me, spent about ten seconds on the ground with me before realizing I was there, then took off rather quickly for a turkey. Later that morning, in a spot fairly close to my original stand, 3 deer ran by me with what I assume was the same coyote in tow. That was a pretty good day.

I'd rather not talk about a doe that is running around unscathed in the same area.
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Post by: Nate N on October 04, 2010, 11:05:00 AM
Nice Randy,  I see you are from Snow shoe.  My dad and I have a cabin outside of Howard.  Good luck to all
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Post by: Randy Koleno on October 04, 2010, 11:50:00 AM
Nate, there are some nice places around Howard, good luck.
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Post by: deaddoc4444 on October 04, 2010, 12:07:00 PM
I saw three deer all day   BUT   they were all LEGAL bucks     two, not much to write home about,  but one was prety nice.  He was a nice 8 pointer.    NO nearer  than 80 yards so no shot and same  with the other two .
My son saw 7 total all day     3 buck  4 does  all in the evening all near his ground stand     could have shot the does and yearlings  but held off knowing the bucks were there too   allin all a pretty good day and the weather was gorgeous
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Post by: deaddoc4444 on October 04, 2010, 12:14:00 PM
SORRY   forgot to add    That was in Bradford county   South portion real close to SUllivan
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Post by: bushytail on October 04, 2010, 05:20:00 PM
In the morning I seen 2 doe,1 buck,and I think another buck acting like he was in rut.It had it`s head down to the ground walking very fast across the cut corn field like it was on a scent trail.About 150yrds. away.(couldn`t tell if it had a rack)And I heard it grunting too.
In the evening I seen 5 doe,red fox,turkey.The one turkey roosted about 10 yrds. from me.
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Post by: ArrowAtomik on October 04, 2010, 05:20:00 PM
I'm in Allgeheny County and have been hunting for couple weeks now unsuccessfully (only seen a few deer far out of range). I took my first serious hunting trip into the acorns in the morning and randomly climbed a white oak in the dark.  The acorns are white hot!  I saw 21 deer in 2 hours.  One of which got an Abowyer through her heart in mid-crunch.  Also watched a dandy 5x5 bullying around some subordinates for 20 minutes. Perhaps we'll meet again at closer range sometime.
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Post by: ScottinPA on October 04, 2010, 06:19:00 PM
Not a deer on Saturday.  Have trail cam pix of a bear 5am Sat morning which may be why.  Kinda goofy as the yard deer weren't even around the last few days.
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Post by: jsweka on October 04, 2010, 06:59:00 PM
No luck yet.  My Saturday morning was cut short when my nephew arrowed a six point.  He was using a compound, but it was his first buck with a bow and I was glad to be there.  Saturday evening found us croweded out by other hunters.  I guess our secret hot spot wasn't so secret.  This morning I got wet.

Looking forward to next weekend.
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Post by: customcrester on October 04, 2010, 07:03:00 PM
I had a nice little 6 point buck walk up to with in 2 steps of my ground blind,i let him walk.  :bigsmyl: