How much snow is in Your area of Pa.?????

[Wyo. Coyote Hunter]

 Next week we are headed back to visit some friends and relatives in Pa. for various folks birthdays...How much snow is in your area of the state? How does the game seem to be making out...from what my pal told me it is pretty serious in his area.. may loose a lot of turkey and some deer....What up in your section?

[Steelbanger]

I'm close to the center of the eastern half of the state. Although we've had over two and a half feet in the past few weeks it's really going down fast. I walk a few miles every day, some of which are in a state forest or along a railroad bed near my home. Seems that most critters aren't moving too much as I barely see squirrel tracks let alone the larger stuff. One of my daughters is feeding many of the hungry animals in her woods. A flock of 40 turkeys was coming a few times a day but with the diminishing snow cover they've been seen out in harvested cornfields which is a good sign. I guess they can scratch through 6-8 inches of snow to get to the grain beneath.

As far as the deer are concerned the snow isn't their biggest foe, that distinction belongs to the Pennsylvania Game Commission.

[bobg]

  Talked to my brother Sunday. He lives in Sayre. He said they had about 20 inches there.
       bobg

[DDZ]

I'm in the southwestern part of the state, and there is still over a foot sitting on the bench on my deck. It is melting though. Today has been the first day since the snow came that I've seen deer in the field. There is a bare spot where a spring leaches out and the snow is melted. There were two deer eating the grass. I figure with the warmer temps they are calling for the next few days. The deer will be feeding in the fields in the middle of the day soon. They are probably tired of eating tree limbs, and pine. They are calling for 50 degrees next Monday, and if that is mixed with sunshine the snow will melt pretty fast. Of coarse I don't believe the weather guys to much, they are wrong to many times.
The big snow we had in February, the weather guys only missed the snow fall in this area by 18 inches.

Speaking of deer and the game commission. Did anyone read the article about Pa deer hunting in this months issue of American Hunter? The writer of the article had been a long time hunter in Pa., and he talks about the Game commission and their antler restrictions. He mentions the vanishing license sales and how deer hunting just isn't as fun anymore in Pa. Its a good article, and I agree with what he has to say, as I'm sure many others do.     

[Flash]

you can see more turf than snow now, finally. Actually saw Crocus blooming yesterday.

[deerhunter87]

yea flesh, it is the same aroudn here got bolbs coming up too we go a little spot of now yet in the yard reast is all green. just hopeing that march dose not go out to bad and end up giving us some snow. its happened before.

[Mtn Jack]

No snow here in Western Pa at all because i saw this post late april 3 Ha Ha. We measured 33 inches on the farm out of the wind areas. in march.

[Wyo. Coyote Hunter]

   My girl friends son call and said it is in the 80's in southwest Pa.  here it is in the maybe low 40's and a cold wind is ripping across the hills...I can hear the wind and I am very hard of hearing....this morning on my coyote hunt, a spring blizzard came roaring down from the mt. and I almost had to stop the little truck. Visability was so poor I could see 30 feet in front of me.. In three or four miles I drove out of the worst of it..now it is just windy....this weather makes old Pa. sound good....

[deerhunter87]

haha sorry to hear about the rough weather you are having Wyo. Coyote Hunter. but yes it has been rather worm the past two or three days the weather man said we broke the record sat. at least.