The Long and the Short of it !

[Dean Romig]

My old friend Lenny and I were texting each other this morning at about 7:30 about how deer hunting conditions were about perfect - him on a ridge overlooking the sleepy town of Denmark, ME. and me on my couch nursing my second cup of coffee - when he texted "Oops gotta go."
He called me at 7:45 to tell me he had to put his phone down because he saw movement back in the whips, but that the movement turned out to be a pretty hefty 10 point buck. He downed it with a perfect neck shot. I couldn't have been happier.
Lenny thinks Parker people all wear ascots and smoke pipes.
But I love him like a brother - we learn a lot from each other.



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[charlie cleveland]

great storey and a nice buck...charlie

[Harold Pickens]

Big bodied buck with small rack directly underneath me at 5:15, passed on him as ther are several 140+ class bucks running around here on the farm, I can always take a doe during gun or primitive season.

[Brush Buster]

If you are going to get back out Harold ,try Grunting and Rattling that is how I got the one I just posted in this thread ! I had a bunch of small racked bucks out prowling the edges early in the day , in the evening I decided to pull out all the stops as our season is drawing to a close ! I sprayed one of the main scrapes with dominant buck and climbed up in my tree then I got a Estrous lure and sprayed it in the air to let the wind carry it after letting things calm down I made two different sounds of grunts using the same call with different pitch then got out my Large Rattle bag and did a series of rattling with no response I settled in for about twenty minutes and decided again to shake it up and did a second series of grunting and rattling but much more aggressively almost immediately across my six acre field in the tall Golden Rod I could see the antlers bobbing as I had a good Buck honing in on the fight about 60 Yards he stopped and turned to go back and I hit the deepest Grunt I could muster up ,he turned and about three seconds later he was standing broadside to me grunting and looking for a fight ,he got one ! A very exciting hunt ,you should give it a try if you get the chance ,it works !

[Harold Pickens]

After climbing down out if my ladder stand at full dark, I had a nice rack buck silhouetted in the moonlight. I meant to bring my grunt call and bleat can with me but managed to forget them

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

Right on. A short barrel EH or NH would be a find. My 27" DH 10 is very handy in the field. About 7 1/2 pounds.

The few EH or NH 28" or less guns I've gotten choke dimensions from leads me to believe a good many of them are choked shall we say more open then the norm ?

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Russ Jackson

Wow ,two Beautiful Bucks Larry ,CONGRATS !!!!!!!!!! I wish we could hunt for a couple of Buck , but in Pa. we are limited to one ! I hunt my own property for deer along with about a half dozen Buddies , Well at least they are Buddies in Deer Season !!!!!!!! and on Monday , I saw nine different bucks , mostly spikes and four points ,we really need to have at some of them removed and I would enjoy a few extra days of excitement !

When I used to come up and hunt the Poconos with a group of Doylestown friends it was hard for a southern guy to grasp the regs in PA . One buck and a doe or two .

Heck in VA your big game stamps come with three antlerless tags and three tags for buck or doe . Then on top of that we can get unlimited antlerless bonus tags .

When I hunted Maryland just in the region I hunted I think the seasonal bag limit was 30 white tail doe and 6 buck in the three seasons combined as well as 3 Sika Stags and 6 hinds in the three seasons combined .