Saturday hunt opening day?

**vetman03** · December 3rd, 2019, 05:09 PM

I hunt in southern Lancaster County. Opening day on Saturday seemed like a normal Monday opening day. Most of the guys were out. Heard a fair amount of shots during the day. No one in our group got any antlers. We saw a lot of doe in the area.

Monday I went out until around noon. Almost no shots at all. I think we had 10 people out on the property we use (over 200 acres,) on Saturday, but only 4 of us were out on Monday. Seems like having a Saturday opening day just moved the Monday traffic to Saturday. Monday everyone went back to work.

Anyone see the same thing?

**Steve in PA** · December 3rd, 2019, 06:25 PM

I hunted a SGL in 3D, Luzerne County on Saturday. I only hunted until about 10am because my sciatica is kicking my butt. Can't sit or walk for very long. That said, I saw zero deer.....as did a few other hunters I bumped into and I heard ZERO shots anywhere remotely close to me! The few shots I did here were way, way off in the distance.

I didn't go out Monday because of the snow. Did not hunt today because my wife had a doctors appointment. My wife leaves for the West Coast tomorrow to visit with her family, so I hope to get out late morning, early afternoon. I need to pick a spot within a few hundred yards from where I can park my truck so I don't have to walk too far.

**bogey1** · December 3rd, 2019, 06:44 PM

I think its the dumbest thing the commission has done. Why not leave well enough alone?

**Yoder** · December 3rd, 2019, 07:38 PM

I hunted 3D SGL near my house. I seen 3 doe and zero hunters. I heard some shooting. Twice there were 6-8 shots all rapid fire which was probably the same jackass missing deer. Yesterday the snow was too bad to go to work, so I went hunting. It was the first time I couldn't find my tree stand in the day light without using my GPS. Everything was completely covered in snow and looked exactly the same. I walked right past it. Seen a doe in the afternoon and cut a couple sets of tracks coming out. I was happy I seen a few deer. Next year they will have it open Sunday so it will make more sense. I think they were trying to get it done this year but ran out of time. They approved 3 or 4 Sunday's next season.

**ditch** · December 3rd, 2019, 07:40 PM

hardly anyone out.
2 doe and a 4 point taken from kings gap

**ar15jules** · December 3rd, 2019, 08:52 PM

It sounded like a typical opener in 1B. I saw 4 doe and two bucks, one of which was legal, before 9:00 Took a long lunch break then headed to a public land spot and saw a few other hunters and heard a few close by shots. Yesterday was much of the same. Walked for a friend and put a doe and fawn past him on the first drive, an unknown buck on the second. Freezing rain that turned to snow. Heard a few shots. Today I was lazy and didn't get out till 2:00. I saw 5 doe and no bucks. Heard one shot at 4:55. Headed to camp tomorrow for the rest of the week with DMAP tags in hand. I seriously wouldn't care if the season opened on a Thursday, or Tuesday, or Sunday. It's just another day to hunt.

**heatheroo** · December 4th, 2019, 10:23 AM

was in the Buchanan SF Saturday. hardly any shooting and I saw zero deer.

went back out Monday, still zero deer and little shooting

Saturday opener screws up my routine. Normally it is: Thanksgiving with family. Friday - put lights up and buy tree. Head to camp or wherever Friday afternoon. Scout Saturday while small game hunting. Sunday - relax. Monday - hunt

Now its rush, rush rush to get to camp early on Friday in order to have a chance to look around before the Saturday opener.

**27hand** · December 4th, 2019, 08:47 PM

We headed to camp on friday morning.
My buddy's kiddo came up after work. It's a bit over 2 hours drive.

The Sat start got my buddy's kid an extra day to hunt since normally he would only have had Monday.
I heard considerably less shooting ( maybe 6 or 7 shots) than normal.
We had no snow but did have to deal with a light freezing rain starting about daybreak..

I felt bad for the guys as I was inside making a shredded chipped beef dinner for them after having gotten 2 deer in archery.

Around noon, they came back to camp with a 7 point.
His kiddo saw nothing but dragged his dads buck a mile plus.

Even though his kiddo saw nothing, he did have extra time to be in the woods.

Monday was worse for shots fired. Only a couple that I heard.

We hunt just north of Tionesta.

7 miles north of us, a friend got a real nice 10 point near Titioute.
East of us 20 plus miles and near Sigel, another buddy got a really nice 8 point. Both on Sat.

The Sat start didnt really affect us in a negative way.

**Palerider** · December 4th, 2019, 09:32 PM

I like the Saturday opener, my daughter was able to join us up in 2G who normally would miss opener on Monday due to college. Unfortunately, no bucks seen nor taken. Heard a good number of shots from around 7:15 until 8 AM then relatively quiet.

Kids left Sunday during a break in the ice storm then it snowed spectacularly late afternoon through the morning. Monday was beautiful in the stand but alas, no bucks.