With less than two weeks of shopping days left until the arrival of Christmas morning, we need to take a serious look at a couple of great ideas for that hard-to-buy-for sportsman on your gift-giving list. The ideas will include items I have used and found to be highly useful and handy for any hunter,
It was named “Clubhouse Point” years ago, and it was always a prime spot where black bears would lay during the daytime and whitetail deer would hold up until their nighttime routine of feeding across the tops in search of acorns or traveling to the nearby fields to feast on farm crops. The top was
Saturday, November 30, is this year’s opening day of the Regular Firearms Antlered and Antlerless deer season throughout Pennsylvania. Additionally, the next day, Sunday, December 1, is the third Sunday for the 2024-2025 season when Sunday hunting is permitted, thus allowing the two-day weekend open to hunting for deer this fall. But first, a cautionary
You head to “Bear Camp” on Friday evening and hang out with the guys playing cards and telling tall tales of past hunts. You rise and shine early on Saturday morning. After a hearty breakfast, you all head out to put on a drive or two in the roughest and most rugged territory you can
Whether you are a long-time bowhunter or are new to archery hunting for deer in Pennsylvania, the signs — if you read and understand them correctly — are clearly pointing to the fact that “the rut is on!” Over the past week or more, an increase in the number of scrapes has been evident, and
They say that timing is everything, and we are entering the phase of deer activity that every archery deer hunter has been waiting for. Whether it is further defined as “the pre-rut,” “the rut,” or “the post-rut,” we are now moving into the days when the travel and rut level of deer has begun to
