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- How did that just happen?
- See it right there?
- What about that, Jordan?
Yeah, yeah!
- Hello and welcome to Wired Outdoors.
We have a great show for you today
and it's all about hunting the Pennsylvania
state game lands.
PA is my home state and I've been blessed in my life
to be able to hunt my parents' farm,
but we know a lot of people in Pennsylvania.
They don't have that option.
They're hunting the state game lands
and that can be tough.
So that's what today's show's all about.
We're gonna be joined with field staffer Don Ott
who's been with Wired Outdoors for the past 10 years
and year in, year out,
he is successful on the Pennsylvania state game lands
at taking a good buck.
Let's join Don and talk all about hunting
the PA state game lands.
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- Hello and welcome to Wired Outdoors.
I'm Don.
This morning, we're heading out on the
Pennsylvania game lands.
I hunt game land, high pressured animals,
lots of people, lots of interference.
That interference doesn't have to be people or hunters
or hunting season.
A lot of people walk, bike, hike,
ride horses in these areas.
When you pull into those gravel parking lots,
those deer know you're there.
So I head in deep.
Most of my scoutings, an average of six to 12 miles a day.
I try to maximize my time in the field
to find these bucks.
I'm looking for core areas where there's funnels,
pinch points, rub lines.
I do most of my scouting from February
right after the crown of flint lock season.
I'll run it til about August.
August, I really, by that point,
should have my deer pinned down,
the ones that I wanna try to hunt on,
some of the bigger bucks.
But they're deep, so I'm looking for
their bedding areas, their sanctuaries.
Deer need food, they need cover, and they need water.
Those three things, if you can put that puzzle together,
it'll help you become more successful.
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I've hunted game lands for about roughly 45 years.
I'm very blessed.
I've been very successful, but I hunt hard.
I put a lot of time in.
Boots on the ground, it's very important.
The longer I can be in those mountains
and trying to define where these areas are,
these beddings that these bucks go to
and the does once they're pressured.
It's what I look for.
When I'm out scouting, especially closer to season,
I minimize my time with field then and I'll try to use
off hours, maybe 11 AM to four o'clock.
I try to stay off that mountain when they're moving
to the bedding and when they're leaving it.
What I'm looking for at that point,
they're starting to put rubs on the trees.
These rubs mean a lot.
There's a lot of sniffing in a rub line.
Normally, if you're on still a hilly terrain,
these deer are coming up with the rubs,
you know he's going to bed promptly
or headed in that direction.
If the rubs are facing down that mountain,
that means it's probably toward evening or late evening
and he's headed down to the food sources
looking for those does.
So what you do then is try to just pin point
that rub line and get as close to that bedding area
as I can and I'll set up one of those fringes
so that I don't push those bucks out of those areas.
I'll hang a stand and I'll sit there.
Scent control is your key.
It's musk, it's one component.
I utilize scent lock sprays, washes, soaps.
I keep all my clothing in a tote.
I dress in the field.
I rely also on the fact of when those bucks
are on their feet.
If it's daytime hours and I was getting footage of them
or I've seen them, I'm in the woods if I'm off
and able to get there.
That, to me, is the greatest change you can get
to harvest that deer because they make mistakes
usually once a good buck, you may only see em
once a season.
Maximize your time at that time with good scent control.
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At the end of the day, I'd rather be lucky than good.
Luck has a lot to do with it.
Percentage wise, myself or the people that I hunt with
on game lands, we do really well.
I'd say probably an average is 80% kill ratio
throughout the ongoing years.
On game lands, you may only see that deer one time.
You may not see that big buck in legal shooting light
and in regular hunting season.
So, we'll just have to make the decision at the time off
maybe why we shot this deer.
We do a lot of calling.
I put a lot of emphasis on running, bleeding,
doe bleeds, the growl, but only at certain times.
You have to watch those deer and the deer movement
to realize OK, at this point of the season,
they're aggressive, they're looking for does.
They're challenging one another, snort weeds,
grunts, bleeds.
Last year, I killed a buck in archer season.
I hunted one day.
I brought a camera all season.
I decided that Saturday, I'm gonna go hunt.
It's on, it's close to the rut.
Right at daylight, I start my sequence.
A few runts and then, bleed can.
It wasn't five minutes,
I look down and I see antlers standing.
He's a good buck.
Big quality, he was about 180 pounds on the hoof.
Six point, he can walk through there, ears pinned back,
hair brustled up.
At that point, that's what it's all about.
Just closing that deal, knowing that you've called
that buck in, a deer that is older,
that has seen and heard, has been jumped by many hunters,
and I was able to put an arrow in him.
To me, that's what the hunt's about.
It's the whole picture.
It's not the kill, it's that whole situation where
I was in control of his domain.
Was able to bring that buck within 20 yards of my bow
and stick a kill into that animal
and have a great harvest and wonderful memories.
That's just some of the pointers and tips
for you people out here when you hunt public ground.
It is hard, it is different,
but you can be successful, as you've seen.
We've been fairly successful over the years.
I've been hunting for 45 years.
So hopefully these tips will help you
and your hunting partners be successful in the field.
Once again, thank you for watching Wired Outdoors.
God bless.
- Thanks Don and it just goes to show,
hunting the PA state game lands can be tough,
but it's possible.
It's gonna take a lot of work
and you're gonna bust your butt but year in,
year out, Don's getting it done.
So again Don, thank you so much for
all the tips and tricks
and thank you all for joining us on Wired Outdoors.
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