Another Kodiak 10x14 fan here. I have used mine with 2-3 hunters on Sept and Oct hunts, or to sleep 4-5 on summer campouts back here in PA. Just a buddy heater to take the edge off in the mornings has worked great, down to the upper teens. The thing is pretty bombproof, stays dry, and we like...
I'm on timeout for elk after drawing a few years back with 18 points. I'm in for the OILs and for LE pronghorn, with various single digit point levels. Unlikely to draw any of them, ever, but I definitely won't if I'm not in.
Most of my hunting's been the East. 36 seasons, but dad wasn't much of a hunter, so I got a slow start on big game. Was a squirrel & groundhog serial killer the first few years.
31 WT bucks (5 states)
62 WT does
1 MD buck
3 black bear boars, 1 sow
19 longbeards (3 states)
3 jakes
3 hens
1...
Somebody hasn't done their homework... None of these "current" numbers are accurate.
"Under the bill, for those first-in-line 40% of nonresidents, fees would jump nearly 118% from $576 to $1,258 for elk tags. Prices would go from $288 to $826 for deer (a 187% jump) and from $288 to $874 for...
Nice recap, wllm. Thanks for the share. It's not just a swamp thing either; laurel/rhododendron thickets in Appalachia are similarly frustrating to hunt.
@TOGIE I think the "limited public land" is true some places, but many eastern states have more public land than you could ever want to try...
B & C don't get added into the total score so they don't matter in that regard. It looks like you did B right, but C is greatest spread of the antlers, outside to outside. On a rack shaped like yours that is probably the outsides of the main beams, with the tape/string pulled across the width...
In my early teens I hunted with a group of older Mennonite fellas who showed me the ropes of public land hunting in northern PA. Every year when we drove by one of the mountains on our way to camp, one of them would say "Ahh, there's Sweater-Girl Peak." Even naive, sheltered me didn't have to...
25+ years ago, national forest in WV
Bit more recent, but still before I started putting them in a pack. Killed a couple miles from the gate. Was dragging on a gated trail when this stranger showed up and wanted to haul the buck for me.
PA whitetails a few years back. My daughter and I...