Gunplummer
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PA has a late season for bow, after rifle season. Good time to scout around for next year or just get out of the house. Back when PA was still overrun with deer, I would find dead deer all the time. I did logging/landclearing for a little while and we found a LOT of dead deer in the brush after deer season in the shotgun areas. I used to check my fox traps with binoculars, and I saw a lot of shot up deer limping around in the shotgun areas. I have killed many a deer that was already hit during rifle season. Some healed over from years before, some not. I was out today and saw a spike. At first I thought it was a doe, but the body looked too blocky to be a doe. I sat down and watched it feed toward me and it took quite a while before I was actually sure it was a spike, even with a scope. There was a drive going on in the swamp below the mountain I was on. Had that spike been caught in a drive, it would have been shot for a doe for sure (Illegal). Some guys would just let it lay.
It would be tough to do a study on deer loss with any accuracy.
It would be tough to do a study on deer loss with any accuracy.