Hunting the PA Flintlock season

[Buff1958]

I booked a hunt for the late PA Flintlock season. I will be hunting out of Equinunk PA right up on the NY state line.

I am not really expecting a trophy buck. Coming up from TX and I just want to hunt in the snow and hoping to see a lot of deer.

What should I expect in that part of the state?

 

[oldramrod]

Either snow or rain be prepared for either.

 

[GANGGREEN]

I was just up that way a few weeks ago to do some fly fishing and there were a LOT of deer in the area. No idea where you'll be hunting, private, state land, etc., but I'd anticipate a decent hunt in that part of the state.

 

[Buff1958]

private farm land

 

[flconch53]

private farm land

I had access to a hunting camp just across the line in New York for a few years. Took alot of deer most of the bucks where big body smallish racks. January in that part of the world expect snow. Even during regular season 2 ft of snow was possible

 

[Buff1958]

I had access to a hunting camp just across the line in New York for a few years. Took alot of deer most of the bucks where big body smallish racks. January in that part of the world expect snow. Even during regular season 2 ft of snow was possible

I hope for snow. Being from Texas we rarely get any and if we do it is just a couple of inches

 

[snakebit]

Hope you have a safe trip up, and a great hunt

 

[Buff1958]

Hope you have a safe trip up, and a great hunt

thanks

 

[NotDanielBoone]

I booked a hunt for the late PA Flintlock season. I will be hunting out of Equinunk PA right up on the NY state line.

I am not really expecting a trophy buck. Coming up from TX and I just want to hunt in the snow and hoping to see a lot of deer.

What should I expect in that part of the state?

Expect to freeze your a&& off.

 

[oldwood]

Dress for bad weather. Don't be afraid to go out in bad weather. Deer tend to be at a slight disadvantage if it's storming , windy , snowing. Nicer weather makes "still hunting" more difficult. Still hunting in snow , is when you follow deer until you catch up , and then may get a shot. And by all means , use a flint lock cover to keep priming dry.. LOL to ya.

 

[GANGGREEN]

I'm curious how the hunt went. I didn't go this year because I took a nice buck in archery season and because I just didn't have time over the last week to mess with a deer should I have taken one, but the weather in northern PA has been pretty ideal, cold at times, but mostly still, snow on the ground for at least the first several days of the season. No snow here in northcentral PA today (New Year's Eve), but it's about 30 degrees as day breaks and dead calm, really a nice day to hunt if you needed or wanted to harvest one with the flintlock.

As I mentioned earlier in the thread, I was up that way a month or two ago to trout fish and saw TONS of deer, so I'm hopeful that the OP had a nice hunt.