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Hey Salzo!

Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
edited June 2002 in General Discussion
Our summertime deer season is coming up next month and I was wondering if you would like to make the trip up to do some deer blastin? I have several farms lined up for this year that have some excellent fields for doing this. Great time to try out a new gun or new load on live targets, and a great way to get some fresh BBQ meat. If you are interested let me know, I also have facilities for butcherin so we can cut yours up and place it in coolers for the ride home. This is nice and legal, all that is required is a hunting license and a flimsy orange vest, ohh and a rifle. It has to be a legal rifle under game law. I have a couple famrs I hunt on that cull deer all year long that let us use whatever we want, but we cannot keep the deer from those farms out of season.

Any other members who live close by are welcome also, bring your guns and let's have a slaughter, the deer are real easy pickin this time of year, they will stand there and watch you shoot them!

I live near Altoona and State College, 1 1/2 hour west of Harrisburg and 1 1/2 hour north of Hagerstown MD on RT 522. Anybody want to hunt let me know so we can arrange dates, I'm still waitin on the Game Commission to print the new list and the start date, should be out in a few weeks.
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  • DarkStar11DarkStar11 Member Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Can non-residents get a license for this? I'm about to have a lot of spare time on my hands and it would coincide nicely with a trip to see the family.

    DarkStar11
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yes, all you need is a PA hunting license. When you go to the farms on the list, you just check in with the owner and he gives you a tag to be used on the deer, it does not affect the tag on your license. By law you may shoot one deer a year off of each farm, this region generaly has about 20-30 farms on it so imagine the deer you could kill in a weekend, LEGALY! A couple of the farms I go to sorta tel you to do what you "need" to do, hinting at you not to stop at one deer. One farm I went to last year the owner took us out to show us where to hunt, the next day was the opener. When we got out to the fields he asked if we had rifles, sure did. He said let's walk up here and I'll show you some deer. We walked to the top of the field and there was 8 deer browsing outside the corn, the owner then says," SHOOT THEM SOBs!. Needless to say, guns was barking!

    Now for those of you who cannot see doing this and feel a person should only shoot one deer a year the traditional way, have you ever seen what a small herd of deer do to crops if left unchecked? 25 deer can put a diary farmer out of business in one year. Most of the meat I get during hunts like this are given away to food banks and other people. The deer on the other farms I hunt on, the summer time kills are "given back to nature", they cannot leave the property.
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  • bullelkbullelk Member Posts: 679 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    7mm,
    Sounds like fun. Wish I could spare the time, but who knows? How long is the season, and how much is a non-resident license? Another thing, are you anywhere near Montoursville? I have a friend down there.
    Gino
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  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    7mm- Thanks for the offer. let me think about it. It seems weird to me shooting deer in the summertime. I just never associated 90 degree weather with deer hunting.
    How does this work. Is this those "deer damage" permits I have read about in the digest?

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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A non resident PA license is a little expensive, $101

    The season runs all summer and acording to the Game Commission, the season is already going . Last year it started in late June or early July, I may have to go for a ride this evening!

    This is the deer damage you probably saw in the newsletter. The permits are given to the farmer who then gives it to the hunter, each one is farm specific. The nice thing about deer hunting in the summer is there is NO challenge except sometimes long shooting. The deer are calm and not very spooky. Just set up on the field and when they come out to eat in the afternoon it's time to feed them lead. Alot of times when you shoot they just take a couple steps and look back at you and watch their buddy drop on the ground. Kinda like shooting groundhogs! If you like long shots, I know a couple farms on the list that have 500 yard shooting if you want to try that. I see this as target practice, not hunting and it is fun. If we play the cards right and get shooting early there is no reason we can't shoot a few deer a day, legally.
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