the last day of season

[adkmountainken]

well fellers its the last possible day to hunt here in the Great Adirondacks. i have a good friend coming up to hunt with me this morning and i'm pretty excited. as i have some meat in the freezer i will be trying to push a deer by him today. looks like a beautifull, cold morning. i hate to see the last day get here this quick but i can't complain as it has been an eventfull year with the flinter. i will be trying to take ole wiley coyote with my flinter this year right after the hollidays when i have a chance to do some yote calling. good luck to all that are out today and keep yer powder dry,
Ken

 

[KyFlintlock]

Ken,

Good luck and safe hunting.

wess

 

[bob1961]

good luck to ya both....we still have 3 weeks to go starting the 27th to jan 15th for flintlock season here in PA...........bob

 

[Randal Zartman]

Bob, 3 weeks for late season? For some reason I thought we only had 2 weeks to hunt last year. Am I wrong or did they change something. I got to get the book out. Let me know please!!!!!
Zman

 

[Randal Zartman]

Bob, I went to the PA Game Comission web site. Dec 27 - Jan 15. Go figure. 3 weeks for Late muzzleloader season.
Zman

 

[adkmountainken]

now i'm jelous, 3 weeks of late season for you fellers!!!!!

 

[bob1961]

i think it depends on the x-mass date and the day after it starts....it usely ends on the 15th of the month or there a bout's....next year i think x-mass is on a friday so we get one more day added to it think....i still have to check with a guy i know that has deer damage permits ( red tag farms ) i think thats what there called to a degree and it starts feb 1st for a couple of months at least last year it did....so it's not over till the fat lady sings so to speak.........................bob

 

[Stumpkiller]

Yeah, NY never loved us. One week of M/L season the week after regular. Rumor has it we'll get a pre-regular season spot in addition next year. :thumbsup: That will be sweet.

I carried my m/l for most of regular season, and it didn't matter a bit most days. Didn't see many deer at all. Moon-phase or temperature . . . something. Seems they were especially nocturnal this year. My butcher is at about half his normal activity for processing deer.

 

[Huntinfool]

I agree Stumpy kills were down all over I think it was due to moon phase. Where I do most of my hunting the deer don't get pushed they must be moving on there own. :agree:

YMH&OS,
Chuck

 

[Java Man]

Stumpy,

If you guys get an early season next year, i hpe they make it a traditional only season. I really hate the way our "primitive" seasons have been screwed up with scopes and slugs.

 

[Stumpkiller]

If you guys get an early season next year, i hpe they make it a traditional only season. I really hate the way our "primitive" seasons have been screwed up with scopes and slugs.

I did my part. I've written a letter and an e-mail (and got an automated, followed by a personal response to the e-mail) requesting that very point: "please make it round ball & open iron sights only." In 2005 there will be a 45 day period for public comment, and I'll alert the troops when I see it arrive.

Don't want to be accused of having an unfair advantage over the 99% let-off, carbon-fiber arrow, illuminated crosshair 3X scoped, lazer rangefinding, mechanical bells-n-whistles broadhead launching compound bow shooters we may have to share part of the early season with.

 

[CG6018]

Stumpy and Huntinfool: I've got real bad news for you both. The reason your deer kills are down this year is the result of Dr. Gary Alt and the Pennsylvania Game Commission! Dr. Alt and his management program of antler restrictions and liberal antlerless permits has practically wiped out our 1.6 million deer, and what is happening to your NY deer and WV deer is they are crossing our borders to fill this recent void, sort of like a vacuum effect, and we're wiping them out, too! Seriously, I think our kill numbers will probably be down this year as well, and we have a group of sportsmen here in the state who will insist that the cause is Alt and the PGC. Their "president" was actually suggesting back before our October BP season, that we buy antlerless permits but refuse to use them. This was their "scientific" approach based on some nutty survey they took of their members. It's becoming a sort of, "damned if you do-damned if you don't" sort of thing here in PA recently. However, like Bob and Gobbler, I'm anxiously looking forward to the 27th. because I still have a couple of tags I'd like to attach to an ear or two. Best wishes to you all for a wonderful Christmas season, (and late flintlock season!)

 

[Stumpkiller]

I took two bucks, but I'm not particular what headgear my groceries are sporting. I will say I've seldom worked so hard as I did to get that first one. Only saw two deer in the first five sun-up to sun-down full days. The first was a doe in heavy cover with no comfortable shot, and the second one was a spike I took without hesitation. Then four more full days of nothing. I took a fork at 2:00PM two seconds after I saw it was a deer on the only Saturday of M/L Season (a one weekend affair for employeed hunters, yippee). Only other deer I saw that day was a doe 20 minutes before sunrise (right in the window to a field edge 30 yards away, silhouetting her . . . tempting, tempting). Saw nothing on Sunday when I could have filled a doe tag. For me, that has to be the least deer seen in 25 years. Based on where I was and the tracks I saw I am sure they were moving almost entirely after dark. I kicked something ahead of myself an hour before sunrise getting in to my "spot" one morning. I think they're on to our legal hours restrictions. By killing only during the day for generations we're genetically selecting for nocturnally active deer. :hmm: I think we need to ask for a "Midnight Madness" deer season.

I was hunting about two miles from the PA border. I ground-pound and sit for two or three hours at a time, so I usually see something whether a shot ever presents itself or not.

 

[KyFlintlock]

Ohio's blackpowder season comes in after Christmas and I can't wait to get back out, it has been too long!

I'm just going for one day, on tuesday, but I jumped a pretty good buck both times I have been at the farm, in the same place. I am gonna put my buddy where he ran to both times and I'm gonna see if he is still there....most likely he'll see me first, but as long as he doesn't see my buddy too soon, he might just get a surprise.

Of course he shoots an inline, so I hope I can smoke em' with my flinter...and rub it in.

Good luck to all
Wess