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Post by roundball on Jul 2, 2004 21:08:05 GMT -5
We're finally into July and on the down hill slide towards hunting seasons!
After my range session this morning, I dropped off some small 4lb salt bricks at each of three farms I'll be hunting again this fall...each location is down in a bottom at heavily used deer trails crossing steep drainage ditches.
One of them where I've had salt for a few years now has a hole pawed and eaten into the ground the size of an old fashioned washtub.
Visited my landowner's again for a chat, reconfirmed my hunting rights for doves, squirrels, deer, turkey, etc.
The bad news is that only one of the farms has crops on it and this year it's all tobacco instead of soybeans, so I may have to find another place to try BP doves...although I will say I've always been surprised at how often you see a few doves hanging around a tobacco field...
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Post by Douglas Blair on Jul 3, 2004 10:39:36 GMT -5
Yes we are in the "home stretch" now ;D. And the good news for us Virginia hunters is most of our seasons are going to open a week early this year. Now if the rain would let up a bit....or do I need to plant a rice patty. ;D
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Post by roundball on Jul 3, 2004 13:23:47 GMT -5
Yup, Doves opens Sept 1st. Early Deer season is October 9th but I don't have any good places to go for the early season...just a public game lands. My favorite time is the November rut, it opens November 6th, right when it's the activity is really picking up, and I have 3 private farms I hunt on in that time zone. I take two full weeks vacation and live in the woods every day during the rut...(except no Sunday hunting). Was able to fill all four buck tags last year in 10 days, all with flintlocks...hope to get some with that new .58cal flinter this year.  |
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Post by Loggy on Jul 4, 2004 10:37:50 GMT -5
Yeh, times a movin. Just bought my PA 2004-2005 Hunting License 2 days ago. Man, where did this past year go. |
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Post by roundball on Jul 4, 2004 13:33:25 GMT -5
Just got back from getting my new license and regulations guide...which gets bigger every year.
You know there's way too much government oversight and bureaucracy when a simple hunting & fishing regulations booklet has grown to 63 pages, 8.5x11", printed on both sides!!!!!!!
97 days to our Eastern Zone ML season opener ;D
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Post by Loggy on Jul 4, 2004 13:50:16 GMT -5
Know what you mean roundball! Ours went to the larger book style couple years ago also. I ordered mine on-line last year and this. They usually have more diagrams etc in book like showing what is a legal antler and what is not, what does a button buck look like, what is legal flame orange and what is not, etc. etc.. Plus now The PA Game Comm. allows some advertising in book. All of that adds quite a few more pages but the basic regulation meat hasent changed too much.
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Post by DannoBoone on Jul 5, 2004 1:06:16 GMT -5
Iowa's Regulations guide is beginning to have the smell of an IRS publication........ya just about need a CPA to figure out which special seasons ya want and how many permits you can get for them. There are special county permits and the folks there had to make up their own form, just so the employees there could understand the regs...sheesh!! Even when ya do understand the regs, they make no sense sometimes. One of them is: Archery season is open during the first and second muzzle loader seasons. Muzzle loading hunters must wear flame orange, while archers do not.  We all hunt about the same way. Wearing flame orange is certainly understandable during shotgun season, though! Got a nice buck going through our woods now and also crosses a small pasture we have. He goes across the pasture around 10:00am, and back the other way about 4:00pm. He's sure to change his habits around Sep, though. About six inches above his head, it's still a nobby mess, so it's hard to tell how many points he will have, yet. |
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We all hunt about the same way. Wearing