Whitetail Deer Hunting

South Western Pennsylvania

2010

I travelled again this year off to SW Pennsylvania with Dick. This year his sons could not make it nor the others. One passed away in the summer and 4 others went early in Spetember during archery season.
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A very good friend of ours Dick whose is also my hunting mentor. Pictured is "tober" who is a knife with an online persona. "Tober" travels with some 200+ members of the online hunting chat board I run. Tober spends time hunting, fishing and trapping with many of the board members across the Eastern US then posts his "exploits" online. Here he is "stealing" a sip of whisky from Dick one evening at hunting camp.

As one can see by the photos, we had a bit of cold weather and snow. Great for tracking until it started getting too deep and then we had some issues.

I was the first in our hunting camp group to break the spell and put one down after about 4 days of being out in the cold. A short 100-150 yard moving shot as this girl and another tried to sneak across a hardwood ridge behind us and cross a swollen river in the bottom. You can see the steepness in how she slid down through the snow dusted leaves after I hit her.

She looks pretty tiny here (I am on the side of the hill and sliding down here in a self-portrait) She actually was decent for a year old doe and weighed about a hundred pounds providing some good meet for the Kaska family over the holidays!

Our deer cart getting put to good use. My deer and another camp member, Bruces' deer are onboard. Bruces deer was in another 2 deer group that was following the ridge up behind us when I put down mine. He looked up in case and saw his sneaking back to escape. He was using his open sighted Govt. 45.70 !