I’m in Pennsylvania too, and I’ll definitely be out there with my longbow the day after Christmas and for three weeks after. I was almost relieved not to take a buck during the rifle season, because I so much want to take my first traditional buck this season (having taken four traditional antlerless deer in the last three years, including two this fall). I don’t mind sharing the woods with the flintlock guys; they’re a pretty responsible bunch. But I agree with the writer who said there’s nothing like some serious cold to keep the rabble out of the woods. And nothing, I repeat, nothing, can compare to a blood trail in the snow following a double-lung shot.
