This will make 42 years I've hunted deer here in PA. The first years were the best of course! The year I started my father and older brother stretched a canvas tarp under a large hemlock, put our bags on half and covered ourselves with the other half. We had 4" of snow the next morning. I remember it like it was yesterday. We graduated to a tent and used that for the next 35 years. The locals started calling us the tent people. We took it as a compliment. We carried cold turkey sandwiches and candy bars. Turkey has no taste when that cold and you really notice the wax in chocolate. I liked to still hunt east from camp until noon, sit and eat my lunch then still hunt back. I shot most my bucks doing that. Everyone else that made up our group, but for me and two others have past on. Hunting the eighty acre farm is just to small a piece of woods. I miss the walk into that expansive forest. Deer hunting has lost its charm for me- I am sad to say. I really do enjoy the meat though.
Kurt
