P.A. Outdoor Journals 100th Post and Carter is Successful

With our 100th post Carter connects on the first Sat. of buck season.

Kevin keeps the tradition going

                                       

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If you knew how many hours Kevin spends hunting you would understand why he scores on big bucks year after year. This is not just the luck of the draw, if you hunt 2-3 days a year you might see or harvest a big deer. But when you spend a lot of time in a tree stand and letting the smaller ones walk this is the reward. Congrats Kevin on another beauty.  Kevin uses the H&R Ultra Slug hunter in 20g. This buck was shot on the same property Hudson shot his big one, Lets hope there are a few left over for us other guys.

P.A Rifle Opener 2012

Well this day wasn't  Carter's day maybe Sat.

Mink, Black River, and Pulaski

Well, we took a trip to N.Y. , and this is a little piece of what we did.  I enjoyed learning how to steelhead fish, and we also filmed a mink. I think that was pretty cool. The opening day of deer video is coming up later this week. Enjoy

Well this is how our last weeks hunt went. Hit HD for a clearer video.

Hudson Strikes On The Last Friday of Archery

Well the last week of the archery season had us out Wed. thru Sat. It was a pretty slow week of hunting until Fri. A slow morning resulted in us leaving the stand. That's when I got down out of the stand and promptly watered the bushes (if you know what I mean). After I was done I went to grab a saw out of my bag to cut a tree limb that had fallen. When I reach for the bag the bushes in front of me explode with a nice buck on the other side. Thank the Lord that Hudson was still on the top half of the tree stand. He got 2 or so steps down and had to get back up the tree and load the crossbow. In all of the confusion the deer just stood there and gave Hudson no shot. I am currently on the ground looking up whispering to Hudson basically whats going on. He stood there so long I texted my friend Kevin O. to give him the up to second info. While on the ground I was grunting and the thing still didn't move. Eventually Hudson took the shot and the beast went down in his tracks. He put another one into him and the trophy was officially his. I would love to say I have the video of it but it was packed away and I could not see anything anyway. I did video a lot this week and will put something together anyway.

Here was the first day of the rut for me, a quarter the way through a really big boy steps out but he was to far. Sorry I did not get a lot of video of him. I started to grunt to draw him in and this other buck came in behind me which I promptly missed him. The crossbow is shooting a little weird right now so I am going to re-shoot it in today. I will have off 4 days to hunt this week with the boys. There is supposed to be a nor-easter coming Wed so we will see what happens.

Reeds First Deer

Well,  I took Reed out for an archery hunt last Sat. and I will let the video speak for me.


Congratulations REED!

Bucks County Produces Again!

Congrats goes out to Colin!  He scored a new property and decided to sit there opening day. Little did he know with in hours he would shoot his biggest buck ever!

Early season Doe

                        Congrats goes out to my brother-in law for connecting on this nice size Doe.
Getting one early in the season means a quick butcher job because of the temps.

Opening Day 2012

Well it was a great opening day.

Early Season Menu

Here is the early season menu.

Quail in PA

                                                    When was the last time you saw a Quail? You should see the size of the last two Quail

Pre Season Scouting

The footage is not great but it was getting dark at the end, one great buck with 3 good ones. Hopefully they stick around for the archery season.

This buck was caught in a field by my house. This was the second time I saw him.

Early Season Trailcams

The photo's are starting to reveal some good bucks. These photo's are from my buddy's trailcam and from the looks of it he may be in for a treat this year. These photos are proof SEPA has a great deer herd and some really nice bucks to boot. Last night I was coming home and a true monster was spotted not far from where I live. When I say monster this thing was huge maybe some lucky hunter is in for a deer of his life with that  guy.

Intro to the 2012 Deer season

Here was the result of the trailcam pics.

Big O'l Tom

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             I was a bad father for the opening day youth season 2012. I did not take the boys out turkey hunting. But as you see Blake and a real Dad went out around their house in Pike county and scored on a beautiful looking bird. It was shot at 8:00am, 17lbs, 7 inch beard and ¾ inch spurs.

Derby 2012

Well Sat. was our first of hopefully better footage for the old blog. We have finally our video camera working and I think the footage is very clear. Last Sat. was the youth Derby 2012 at Alburtis Rod and Gun. We only caught 2 but any day fishing is better than a good day at work. Next Sat. is turkey and I have a Montana mount to share with you guys coming up in the next weeks.

Big Brown Trout

 Well Hudson does it again, the brothers went out to a local creek on Friday and came back with a very nice brown. It seems like all week they were going to one place or another, and every time they came back there was fish stories to be had. Like the one where Reed left a spot to get a worm and some women took his spot boy was he surprised when he turned around to see her fishing in his spot. This trout goes 20" and made the day and the opening week of trout for this 15 year old. Happy Easter to all !!!!

Trout opener 2012

Saturday was the trout opener, we out in the morning and caught 8. The club we go to stocks the trout 12" or bigger. Hudson had the hot hand with 4 and Carter and Reed both  caught 2.