Ron Ashbaugh 
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	Registered: Dec 2003 
	Location: Mercer PA 
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	 I haven't hunted all over, but I have lived in a few places and where I live is where I like best and I will tell you why.   
 
#1.  A nice mix of timber, swamps, crops, dairy farms and even mountains all within 20 mile drive.   
#2.  Pennsylvania has a big tradition of hunting and deer hunting, but we are not a "big buck" state and generally if you keep on public land for the 2 weeks of deer rifle season, you can hunt without any run ins with other hunters 
#3  Small blocks of woods with a large coon populsion that are generally a 50/50 mix of field and woods.  Turning a dog loose and not getting a strike in 5 minutes of rare unless you are hunting in poor conditions or dead of winter  So many areas of IN. OH it seems there is a HUGE tract of farmed ground and a patch of 100 trees in the middle.  I kinda like the woods a little more, but thats just a personal preference.   
#4  Large tracks of public land.  I think I have around 15,000 acres at a minimum within 20 miles, and most of it much closer.  Some of this land can be rough, but you always have a place to go.   
#5.  Friendly landowers and a good response to a polite hunter asking permission to run hounds and coonhunt  
#6.  Not many people hunt coon and I can hunt all year other than opening night and not see another truck with a box at night.   
 
The downfall is the winter and it is a pain, but I will take all the advantages to this disadvantage 
	
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Ron Ashbaugh 
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