tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15891819.post4574575845713212687..comments2023-10-18T04:26:36.875-04:00Comments on Roundtop Ruminations: Deer huntingCarolyn Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03179182853082650546noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15891819.post-11370454937262573862009-12-01T08:49:05.384-05:002009-12-01T08:49:05.384-05:00Pablo: More and more hunters are getting the mess...Pablo: More and more hunters are getting the message that big deer come out of cornfields and apple orchards. Big, fat deer. So I'm seeing more tree stands along hedge rows. I think they miss going to deer camp, though.<br /><br />Carolyn H.Carolyn Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03179182853082650546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15891819.post-59795898775358379162009-12-01T08:47:47.013-05:002009-12-01T08:47:47.013-05:00Cathy: i'm not surprised to hear that beer ca...Cathy: i'm not surprised to hear that beer camp hunters are not always entirely sober. Down here, where hunters usually are in the fields and not staying at a camp, I very rarely see that. It's just the added activity around the cabin and the barking dogs that I have to put up with.<br /><br />Carolyn H.Carolyn Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03179182853082650546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15891819.post-66769025370589951502009-12-01T08:46:17.178-05:002009-12-01T08:46:17.178-05:00Griz: Deer seem as though they should be "ed...Griz: Deer seem as though they should be "edge" creatures, and I have every reason to believe that is true. What I can't quite reconcile, though, are the old stories, even immortalized in books (PA Deer and their Horns, originally published in 1915), not just in my father's memories, that talk about how uncommonly deer used to be seen in fields in PA. You had to go to mountains to find them. That apparent fact (or perception) helped create the whole mountain deer camp tradition in PA. Today, the deer prefer the fields, and those are the really big deer. <br /><br />Carolyn H.Carolyn Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03179182853082650546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15891819.post-10542773050983255012009-12-01T08:34:31.185-05:002009-12-01T08:34:31.185-05:00Woodswalker: So true that few deer camps have cur...Woodswalker: So true that few deer camps have curtains on the windows. At least I can still hike on Sundays over the next two weeks. So far, hunting still isn't permitted then.<br /><br />Carolyn H.Carolyn Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03179182853082650546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15891819.post-29824046814467956982009-11-30T19:33:51.044-05:002009-11-30T19:33:51.044-05:00Lol on the beer camp part. I heard a few people sa...Lol on the beer camp part. I heard a few people say that some these hunters are somewhat or drunk when they go out to hunt. <br /><br />One my patron owns a store that sells beer. he told me last year he does make a good profit when hunting season comes.<br /><br />But as always, I'll be glad when it's over. it easy creepy to travel rt 739 and seeing hunters walking about in the woods.Cathyhttp://www.thequietone.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15891819.post-40860778663114413692009-11-30T17:09:56.536-05:002009-11-30T17:09:56.536-05:00Deer camp isn't so much about hunting as tradi...Deer camp isn't so much about hunting as tradition—I hesitate to call it a "rite of passage" but that's what it is if you're a young man attending your first deer camp. It says you've passed some milestone in maturity and responsibility; you're not a full-fledged member, but you're being considered as a possible candidate. <br /><br />Deer have always been more "edge" creatures than "deep woods" animals. In truth, a mature forest will never be as good a hunting locale as cornfield bordering a woodlot. But at deer camp you hunt worth and connection; you join something greater than yourself, which takes part within a ceremony older than recorded time. <br /><br />There are, indeed, "deer camps" and "beer camps" and in spite of surface similarities, they're about as far apart as two things can be.Grizz…………https://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15891819.post-27960770517940918072009-11-30T16:58:00.660-05:002009-11-30T16:58:00.660-05:00That's pretty much the story where I am too, t...That's pretty much the story where I am too, though my woods are next to a hundred acre field, so there are lots of deer stands in the trees around it, and I'm sure someone sets up something in my forest too.Pablohttp://www.roundrockjournal.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15891819.post-48014468823733892382009-11-30T11:27:23.107-05:002009-11-30T11:27:23.107-05:00I'm sure that the allure of the hunting camp i...I'm sure that the allure of the hunting camp is that it's a place where the boys can be boys and revisit their primordial essence, where nobody tries to put curtains on the windows and everyone gets to pee in the woods.<br /><br />I don't disapprove of responsible deer-hunting, but I'm eager for the season to be over, since most of my favorite hikes are through hunting country.Jacqueline Donnellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13390548854179921303noreply@blogger.com