Hi,
My family and I will be making a trip to attend a wedding in Pittsburgh around May 20 this spring. I'm starting to research public hunting opportunities in western Pennsylvania during that time.
First off, I'm not trying to take someone's honey hole, and I will be happy to trade information for turkey, mule deer, blacktail deer, whitetail deer, or elk hunting in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, or Montana.
I've done some research and see that public hunting areas include the Allegheny National Forest, and various state game lands and state parks. I'm in very good shape and can take a lot of hiking so I'm trying to find areas where I can hike deep into the country and get away from some of the more accessible areas where hunters may hit earlier in the season.
I see that there appears to be those types of areas in the places I've mentioned above, but need to narrow them down considerably before my trip so that I have 2 or 3 places where I can be pretty sure of finding turkeys, even if I have to work hard to get to them.
If you have that info and want to help, please shoot me a pm. Again, I think I can provide some very helpful info for hunting the northwest in exchange. Thanks for reading, and happy new year!