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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great storey and a nice buck...charlie

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.

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 !

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

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 ?

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 .