Trip 1: I have a three day trip planned hiking in May 20th and coming out Sunday in PA. A turkey hunt, planning to double up and do it in the elk zone of PA and maybe find some sheds and or at least encounter some elk while out and about. Open invite, anyone who wants to come, wont be a saddle hunt for me Im taking a shotgun. Theres an extremely good chance I will be joined by my buddy who is a journalism major at PSU who has done his internship for Outdoor LIfe last year and continued to do stories for them. Cameras will likely be involved even if he doesnt make it. Theres a chance he may not as this year he is supposed to do an internship with Backcountry Anglers in Montana.
Trip 2: Meeting a buddy tomorrow to hopefully iron out a few details on some Maryland trips. Technically I am not aloud to take off in that month but I think I can get away with a day or two. Pa starts to late, I want to get a jump on my season. This will hopefully be in September, with a scouting trip sometime mid summer.
Trip 3: Might shoot for a one nighter opening weekend of archery, this will for sure be a saddle hunt. This is going to really depend if I have the bead on any of the bigger bucks that I am seeing signs of, they dont require me to sleep in the woods as theyre close to home.
Need to start planning for 2016 in Iowa, frankly I am regretting buying the points I wish I had used the points for other species and I likely will never accumlate points after that trip for a whitetail again. Its almost $900 in just tags alone, seems foolish to me when I couldve probably hunted Wisconsin and had an equal opportunity on public land. I am finding myself extremely interested in the western style of hunts. One of my fav shows is solohunters.
Trip 2: Meeting a buddy tomorrow to hopefully iron out a few details on some Maryland trips. Technically I am not aloud to take off in that month but I think I can get away with a day or two. Pa starts to late, I want to get a jump on my season. This will hopefully be in September, with a scouting trip sometime mid summer.
Trip 3: Might shoot for a one nighter opening weekend of archery, this will for sure be a saddle hunt. This is going to really depend if I have the bead on any of the bigger bucks that I am seeing signs of, they dont require me to sleep in the woods as theyre close to home.
Need to start planning for 2016 in Iowa, frankly I am regretting buying the points I wish I had used the points for other species and I likely will never accumlate points after that trip for a whitetail again. Its almost $900 in just tags alone, seems foolish to me when I couldve probably hunted Wisconsin and had an equal opportunity on public land. I am finding myself extremely interested in the western style of hunts. One of my fav shows is solohunters.