All in Deer Hunting
Some hard-core deer hunters have referred to the traditional deer gun season in the northern tier of states as holy week as they filter into deer camp in the days before the opener. Although my son Kyle and I enjoy deer season as a way to share a father-son bond and, hopefully anyway, secure a winter’s supply of free range, healthy protein, we hunt out of our home and enjoy the creature comforts it provides. This year was no different.
A grunt call can turn an ordinary day into a big buck celebration. It’s easy to use, inexpensive, and can bring the deer of your dreams right to you. Over 30 years of chasing whitetails, I’ve learned that a grunt tube can be a hunter’s best friend and often creates hunting opportunities from seemingly non-existent situations.
Until recently, Pennsylvania hunters could not use tracking dogs to locate big game animals they had shot. This service could have been the difference between a filled tag and a lost animal for many hunters.
Tahara Bish is a seventeen-year-old from Knox, Pennsylvania. When she was eleven, Tahara started hunting with her father, Pat Bish, because she wanted to hang out with him and make fond memories. She never really took hunting seriously until she met Wyatt Smith in 2019.
Scouting and doing inventory on whitetail deer is one of my favorite pastimes. Every year I spend countless hours setting up mock scrapes and cellular trail cameras. I love watching deer react to mock scrapes and keeping a detailed list of the bucks on the properties I hunt
Pope and Young, Boone and Crockett, Buckmasters, and the Northeast Big Buck Club are all organizations that score deer. Those hunters who are lucky enough to harvest a nice buck can reach out to any of these organizations to have the buck scored.
It is quiet, but it is not total silence. The steady hum of insects of the night buzz like an old television stuck on the static of dead air. The air is crisp and damp, and it smells like dead leaves and dirt.
Aaron Oberschmit, a Mississippi banker, has been an avid outdoorsman all his life. “Basically, as soon as I could walk up a ladder into a deer stand, I’ve been an outdoorsman,” he said. During deer season in Mississippi, Oberschmit goes hunting at least three times a week. He enjoys both bow and gun hunting.
