I've been seeing a lot of threads in this forum as well as others about lack of deer and too many coyotes in PA. First, I would like to invite any of you willing to come to the Poconos, please come and hunt with me. Let meet each other and have fun. There is a lot of state land near my home, lots of access, and lots of deer there. I don't see many bow hunters either.
Second issue. The State of PA allows Coyote hunting 365 days a year, day or night except during deer seasons (day only). Use this as an excuse to get out and hunt when all other seasons are closed. If you are feeling that yotes are impacting the deer, here is your chance to go get 'em. I see yotes often, and still see a lot of deer. Any one?
Where are you located Jerry? I'm in Mckean co. Smethport area. Plenty of deer here too but you have to earn them.
Hi Jerry, I hunt the the poconos all of the time and your right loaded with yotes found many deer in the past few years with there butts eaten out, you may be suprized, but the bear do there fair share also, mostly on fawns. whats your location, maybe we can get together, and shoot a few, meanwhile you shoot straight, jbuck
I'd Love to.
I just got a brand new Amerastep penthouse blind.
It's just beg'n to be used.
What part of the Poconos.I'm in Dingmans Ferry,Next to Milford.
I'm interested as well. I PM'd you Mike.
Pocono's aren't that far from SOPRANOVILLE .My brother in law had an a-frame in Lordsvalley Hemlock Farms to be exact man oh man should've bought that little house.My stompin grounds are right on the other side of the Delaware between the Dingmans and the Milford bridge.Where are we talkin Jerry Delaware State Forest? Whats a nonresident license go for and how long is it good for. Let me know what dates we're talkin about too.
I'm down in Lehigh County but let me know and I'll try to make it up for a trad gang event :thumbsup:
I might be interested in a get together . It is a little far for me but I'm always up for a road trip !
Bill
I lived in Port Jervis for a couple years and traveled through the WaterGap for work quite a bit as far as Stroudsburgh.I was amazed at how many deer I saw even in residential areas.Ive been itching to hunt down there, my inlaws live in Matamoras but they hunt further west.Keep me in mind if you get a trad get together going Id drive down in a minute.
I'm in Schuylkill county, but I work mainly in Monroe county for a construction county. Been working in Stroudsburg for the better part of the last year. I'd love to do something like that, but now is kinda iffy. What, with an 8 month pregnant wife and all. I'd be in though for other times.
Jerry,
I'm in N.E. Ohio but have been reading all the threads about these fantastic trad-gang hunts and would be willing to make the trip if at all possible
Shoot Straight :archer:
Wow, what a great response. Funny a lot of you mentioned Stroudsburg. That's where I live. I do hunt Delaware state forest. Don't get me wrong, the deer are here, but you have to earn them just like any other place. Bentpole, I hunt a lot around where you are hunting.
Archery season is the month of Oct. I would like to do some thing early season since I hunt NJ mostly. Any way, there are some big parking areas where any one from out of state could set up a camper or a motor coach.
Here is a link to the state DNR site for any additional info needed for out of staters etc.
http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/
Let's try to follow up on this in the spirit of Terry's post about hunting with a trad group. Opening week might be fun. Any other sugestions are welcome.
Stoudsburg yeh man you guys that want to hunt Jersey you can come down to 209 or hop across the gap bridge and hit OLD MINE ROAD there's more places to hunt along old mine road than I've got hair on my head!Lets do it.You can count on me and Bucky for sure.Or on the Pa side up on 209 theres Delaware water gap National Rec Area plus Delaware St. Forest.Jerry how many acres are we talkin between Pa and Jersey A whole lot thats for sure!
i live in NY but go to school at east stroudsburg university, if you guys get something together i would love to try and make it. What would we be huntin yotes or deer?
Tim
Geeze...I grew up hunting deer in the very areas you guys are talking about! Old mine road....Hunted that and still recall missing a buck from about 15 yards with a recurve I finished from a Bingham kit. Since I was a Pa boy and I was hunting Jersey...I really felt like a world traveler of bowhunting. I was 17 then. I grew up in Bangor Pa. Have lived in Colorado for 25 years but still get home to hunt. I miss Pa. If thewre is a get-to-gether I may have to make the trip.
Bentpole, I'm not sure of the acres in total, but on the NJ side you got from the Gap all the way to the NY line. About the same over in PA. Like you say, more acres than hair on our heads. Miles and miles.
Tim, I hoping to get a group for early bow season on deer, but if you want to do some yotes, that's cool too.
I'm all for the Yotes,way to many around here.
I could offer a stalk and spot groundhog hunt in Lehigh County in the summmer as well if anybody gets the itch to take their stickbow for a walk. I usually have good luck getting into shooting rangs of hogs on a local sgl.
I have a camp in Pike county near Pecks Pond, I hunt that neck of the woods , Delaware state,SGL-180,209,116. I would be interrested
Hatchet Jack
Hatchet Jack is that somewhere in between Marshalls Creek and 739 in Delaware State Forest?
I live in northern Berks County. As long as my screwy work schedule sill allow it I'm up for a get together.
Hatchet Jack, I usually hunt the big swamp area just south of you on 402. Do you belong to that club with the huge fenced in lake? I hear that place is very big club.
Any one going to Whittingham, maybe we can get together and discuss this there over a camp fire.
I'm game. I live down in bucks and have a cabin in Tioga. Would like to take a crack at some yotes.
Hey, Jerry Sounds interesting pick a date. I would like to hook up.
We should really do something around the deer season also maybe.
I cut my teeth hunting in Pike County, Porters Lake that's the fenced in club right along 402, turn right to the Irishman's Swamp trial, my Grand Pop ran a camp there in the 30's and 40's, the trip was done by horse and wagon then up 402, Flat Ridge Road, Five Mile Meadow, Pecks Pond- Great Uncle had a cabin there, Hatchet Jack know Ned Snyder?
Tarkill area, Mud Pond, lots of great places. I have wanted to make a trip back up there but not sure how the hunting is now days.
First yote I ever seen was off the Flat ridge road I think that was about 1973 way before the game commission started stocking them, Ha, Ha you Pa guys will probably get that one.
Mike
OK, I'm keeping a lit of who is interested in Deer season and a list for coyots. Seems like there is 3 of us who need to hook up soon for some yote hunts. :bigsmyl: I'm looking foreward to meeting some of you and sharing the archery experience. :archer:
YEH JERRY WHITTINGHAM excellent idea.
Whittingham sounds great.
TTT
I'd do a spring yote hunt.
Jerry,
How about getting a group together for a stump shoot.2 or 3 of us from Lehigh County go every weekend once archery season is over.
We usually go to Carbon or Monroe county but always looking for new areas.Let me know, Dale
Jerry,
I live in stillwater nj,Sussex county.We should all try to meet at the Whittingham traditional rendezvous this april and shoot together and discuss future plans.Plenty of state land and deer here!What do you all think.
Frank
When is the shoot at Whittingham?
And where is it, Whittingham I guess but have not heard of this shoot.
Mike
Mike ,Whittingham is agreat shoot! If you are in Pa.you are close enough to drive and enjoy one of the best.Its in sussex couty nj(northwest),check out page94 of your Traditional Bowhunter for details.This year it is april27,28,29.Hope you can make it. Frank
Hope these links work
TradNJ Flyer (http://www.tradnj.com/whitt/whitt2007.pdf)
or
Appalachian Bowmen (http://www.geocities.com/yosemite/rapids/6810/tradsht.html)
Stillwater Plenty deer there.My buds from Pequest Valley Archery will be there with PLENTY of consignment bows too LOL.Hey Defiant did you ever hunt Blue Mountain Lake?
Bentpole,I live at the bottom of the mountain,and got plenty of deer out of that area.Plenty of deer and land to hunt.Its the one area in nj you can pick up tracks and stillhunt deer for miles.I should mention being in good shape and having map skills will help.Need to watch your distance from AT hikers trail also.
Frank
Stalker58. I have relatives in Milford, don't get back enough. Grandparents used to live there and my grandfather built much of the stone houses in the older town in his younger days. Orben family. Been to Dingmans a bunch as a boy.
Sorry for the late comeback,bentpole,JerryJeffer! Yes Pecks Pond is about 15 miles north of MC. The DSF runs all along Rt402 in many spots. I do most of my deerhunting off 739 SGL180 on the ridge up from Smith Swamp. I also Bowhunt SGL 209, that is some rugged country over near the Delaware River.I Turkey Hunt the DSF near my camp at PeckPond in the spring and we do quite well. I shot a 18lb Gob 9" beard last spring. Lots of Turkey in the DSF.The deer numbers are down though. The rifle hunters shot up all the does :banghead: . I will say there are some nice Rack Bucks around. Maybe we can hookup sometime and do some hunting with JJ. JerryJeffer that club is Blomming Grove and that is a millionare club only. You need big bucks to hunt in that club. I do hunt the DSF off of the Power line that buts up to their land. Lots's of scrub oak and food in this part of Pike Co. The deer numbers are down in Pike but the Turkey are behind every tree. I love Pike co and its many swamps. I wouldlove to hookup with you guys, maybe in the spring and fall! Keep in touch.
Hatchet Jack
Hey Jerry and STD-Mike, I'm with Chet we stump shoot every weekend now till sept. give us a yell and come along would be great fun....You too Jbuck9-John. cinbob25@entermail.net....changed e-mail..Bobby
Hatchet, I'm putting in for my spring Gobbler permit. Yeah nice woods around Delaware state forest all along 402. Also the area you mentioned along the Delaware is rugged. All the cutting the state has done is really kkeping the habitat nice allowing a lot of scrub oak to come up and blu berry bushes every where. So maybe we could try some turkey together as well.
I received a few messages about stump shooting and groundhunting hunting this summer in my old email account and they are not showing up on my tradgang private messages. Sorry but I haven't been able to reply. Anybody interested please resend the emails to my new account listed below which I can't seeemed to get changed on this site for some reason.
Huff@ptd.net
I apologize that I haven't been able to respond to the emails I received from a few of you guys. :knothead:
Will be up in Pike county on May 9,10,11,and 12th. Any of you guys want to stop by my camp, Backstrap on the grill and Old #7 with lots of lies around the camp fire!!
Hatchet Jack