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[6pt-Sika]

Heck with the darn targets I'm kinda intrested in what the deer situation is like in his area ? Last time I hunted the Poconos about 15 years ago it was a bit on the bleak side .

[Andy]

Originally Posted by CraigThompson

Heck with the darn targets I'm kinda intrested in what the deer situation is like in his area ? Last time I hunted the Poconos about 15 years ago it was a bit on the bleak side .

Over the border in NY we have the biggest deer herd we've had in 10-15 years. They had a tough, long winter, now so far a dry birthing season and we may have yet another bump in population.

[Mike of the Mountain]

Deer are like vermin. They eat everything. If they don't eat it the bucks snap the saplings off. We planted well over 1000 trees in the last few years and if it is a mast tree we have to tube & stake and/or fence them in until the branches are above the browse line and trunks sturdy enough to hold up to rubbing. We average 13-14 deer off of our property every year. Only allowed 1 buck and it must have minimum 3 points on one side for PGC requirements, I want only 2 1/2 YO and up buck killed) and up until this year we could only take 3 doe with proper permits. Six weeks of archery, two weeks of rifle and three-four weeks of flintlock/archery. We also have almost four weeks of bear season. I usually score on a buck in archery and have two doe down before rifle. I like to save one doe tag for my "rifle of the year" experiment.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Mike Koneski

Deer are like vermin. They eat everything..

I've got maybe 120 azalea bushes on a bank right beside the house and when I say right beside at one point all you can do is drive the lawnmower one swipe between the house and the bushes .

Anyway we had right much snow one year in January/February . That lane between the house and the bushes looked like a cow path from deer traffic and all the azaleas got pruned . We've got this ivy kinda stuff growing up some of the tree's in the front yard . This stuff my mother planted many years ago , anyway one day during this snow period I looked out in the middle of the day and two yearling deer that had made it thru hunting season were out there eating the ivy because they'd trimmed back the azaleas already .