Hello all!
I'm looking at making a trip up to hunt some of the game lands near Erie, PA for a couple days for the Dec 14-28 part of the season. I will be bringing my 2.5 year old chocolate lab, and will be going up Sunday night, hunting Monday and Tuesday, heading back to Ohio late Tuesday. My questions are as follows:
1) is it worth the two hour drive to hit some of these areas? I know PA is great when it comes to keeping pheasant numbers up, and there seems to be quite a bit of land in the area to try and hunt, but I'm worried about getting up there and it being a waste of time.
2) would you recommend sticking to just the game lands in this area, or would you try some of the adjoining private land open to hunters as well? This is a tactic new to me, as land owners adjoining public lands in Ohio seem to be the one creating fuss about hunters during the pheasant season.
3) if you were hunting game lands within 45 minutes of Erie, where would you go and why?
And last but not least, the most important question of this post:
4) Anyone on here from this area that wouldn't mind showing an "out of towner" around? i would be coming up just me and my dog, and we all know hunting with others seems to make the time more enjoyable.
Thanks for all the help!
I'm looking at making a trip up to hunt some of the game lands near Erie, PA for a couple days for the Dec 14-28 part of the season. I will be bringing my 2.5 year old chocolate lab, and will be going up Sunday night, hunting Monday and Tuesday, heading back to Ohio late Tuesday. My questions are as follows:
1) is it worth the two hour drive to hit some of these areas? I know PA is great when it comes to keeping pheasant numbers up, and there seems to be quite a bit of land in the area to try and hunt, but I'm worried about getting up there and it being a waste of time.
2) would you recommend sticking to just the game lands in this area, or would you try some of the adjoining private land open to hunters as well? This is a tactic new to me, as land owners adjoining public lands in Ohio seem to be the one creating fuss about hunters during the pheasant season.
3) if you were hunting game lands within 45 minutes of Erie, where would you go and why?
And last but not least, the most important question of this post:
4) Anyone on here from this area that wouldn't mind showing an "out of towner" around? i would be coming up just me and my dog, and we all know hunting with others seems to make the time more enjoyable.
Thanks for all the help!
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