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<blockquote data-quote="yobuck" data-source="post: 1543694" data-attributes="member: 12443"><p>Well your story ties in exactly to what Ive said. That being that hunting in PA, especially deer hunting, was at one time a (tradition). All, and I said (all) the schools statewide were closed for the first 3 days of the (bucks only) season when I was in school, and still in some areas when my kids were in school.</p><p>But it has slowly changed over the years to being something else. Im now 83 years old, so I definatly qualify as being a fudd. My first season was 1947, 2 years after ww2, and during those war years very little hunting took place as a result of a thing called gas rationing, which placed severe limitations on travel for other than absolute necessities.</p><p> Like getting to a defence factory job if you weren't serving in the military. Tires were rationed also, which meant that even if you squirled away some gas stamps, your tires probably wouldn't make the trip anyway. It also took an entire day to travel the roughly 225 or so miles from SE PA to NC PA where a few of us traveled to hunt, mostly in cars having no heat.</p><p>As for doe seasons, there weren't any, and when they did start, it was by doe permit only for 2 days after the 2 week buck season was over.</p><p> But thats where the first noticeable change in hunter habits began to take place.</p><p> More and more hunters gave up on the first days of buck in favor of just the last day or maybe 2, and then staying on till the Monday following which allowed for a sure thing with a doe kill. Thats also when the yelling started seriously over Sunday hunting. I knew a few guys who never killed a deer after many years of hunting, but they always went back, because it was in their blood to do so.</p><p>Take a look at where we are today with the country as a whole, and it should come as no surprise as to where we are as for hunting. An average season for our group of 6 to 8 hunters would see 2 bucks killed in a week. A very good season would see 4 at most, and that was by hard hunting by way of organized drives.</p><p> So im sorry for my old fudd attitude, but I just cant grasp the need for killing 8 to 10 deer in 2 days of hunting, in order for it to be a worthwhile event.</p><p>But thats exactly why so many of those nice old camps are no longer being used.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yobuck, post: 1543694, member: 12443"] Well your story ties in exactly to what Ive said. That being that hunting in PA, especially deer hunting, was at one time a (tradition). All, and I said (all) the schools statewide were closed for the first 3 days of the (bucks only) season when I was in school, and still in some areas when my kids were in school. But it has slowly changed over the years to being something else. Im now 83 years old, so I definatly qualify as being a fudd. My first season was 1947, 2 years after ww2, and during those war years very little hunting took place as a result of a thing called gas rationing, which placed severe limitations on travel for other than absolute necessities. Like getting to a defence factory job if you weren't serving in the military. Tires were rationed also, which meant that even if you squirled away some gas stamps, your tires probably wouldn't make the trip anyway. It also took an entire day to travel the roughly 225 or so miles from SE PA to NC PA where a few of us traveled to hunt, mostly in cars having no heat. As for doe seasons, there weren't any, and when they did start, it was by doe permit only for 2 days after the 2 week buck season was over. But thats where the first noticeable change in hunter habits began to take place. More and more hunters gave up on the first days of buck in favor of just the last day or maybe 2, and then staying on till the Monday following which allowed for a sure thing with a doe kill. Thats also when the yelling started seriously over Sunday hunting. I knew a few guys who never killed a deer after many years of hunting, but they always went back, because it was in their blood to do so. Take a look at where we are today with the country as a whole, and it should come as no surprise as to where we are as for hunting. An average season for our group of 6 to 8 hunters would see 2 bucks killed in a week. A very good season would see 4 at most, and that was by hard hunting by way of organized drives. So im sorry for my old fudd attitude, but I just cant grasp the need for killing 8 to 10 deer in 2 days of hunting, in order for it to be a worthwhile event. But thats exactly why so many of those nice old camps are no longer being used. [/QUOTE]
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