I'm going deer hunting for the first time in over 25 years this Saturday. I'll be using a Remington 270 that is dead nuts on from 100 yards. I'm pretty excited. Pennsylvania law says you can't shoot a buck that is a 4 point or less. I like that so I won't feel pressured to shoot at anything that's moving. I'll have to be picky and make sure what I'm shooting at is legal. Don't have a doe tag either.
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I probably won't see anything.
Using your post as justification to talk about something in my life as if it were replying to you:
There's a huge amount of undeveloped land behind my parents house (and all the houses nearby for a good number of miles around the perimeter of this land) that's almost all woods of varying types but right next to their house is an township easement where the guy who is the son of the people who own the land parks to go back in it and hunt every year.
This dude has hunted there for like 20 years and none of us, or our neighbors, have ever seen him bring anything out to his truck. Heard shots, but nothing.
He used to go out there with some other guys, so back during the days of GAY PANIC, BAN SAME SEX MARRIAGE sweeping the state, I told her they probably went out there to have homosexual orgies away from their families. But it's just been the guy alone the last few years. Poor guy's friends probably went straight. (Or married each other.)
Also there's always been deer and stuff in the backyard or woods behind regularly my whole life. In recent years there's a whole flock of 25 turkeys that run around the neighborhood and the woods like some kind of shitty gang. And like, they are epic dum. The guy could easily pick them off.
Sometimes I even think you could probably just grab one of them and strangle it or something. But I don't know when "strangling" season is.