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Hey great news!!!! So we backed out tracking that doe for the second time. Thought was let her lay and die and we would go back to last spot and start again. We called up an overhead shot online and made a plan upon the last blood. We did sleep in and got out there at 8am. Don't you know our cameras blew up with two chases and that same food plot had 8 doe in it at 7:45! Hunt the storms! So we started at a point that would lead us to last blood. We were 30 yards apart and after 5 minutes my brother whistles I found her. She was about 40 yards bedded under a tree. The shot entered her mid section quartering to and exited out the the back leg. Caught the guts. Shot was high my Brother was lucky to get her. I'm glad we didn't push her last night. Learn from this but it was a gut shot but the shot was high and drove through and exited the backside. We didn't know she was gut shot even at that first blood bed. No evidence of stomach waste in blood. I say she is 140-150 mature doe. A Thanksgiving blessing for sure!

Here are a couple pictures of my morning buck -- 9 points

2 bucks me and my son took, an 8 on opening day and a 9 on Tuesday .

Love these Letchworth ridge runners. If it wasn’t for the ladies they would live forever. Great Morning.

After seeing plenty of doe and non shooter bucks on stand over opening weekend we spotted a buck bedded down in a field on DEP property about 150 yards off a road while heading to town. We glassed it and saw it was a legal shooter. Sun was in it's face and wind was in my face, so it was the perfect time to make a stalk. I donned my blaze orange, slipped out of the truck and chambered a round. Got to within 50 yards of it by crawling through tall grass until I ran into a ditch. I parted the grass with my right foot and popped it in the neck, as it was the only area of it that I had a clear shot of. After the shot an unseen doe bolted away. I thought it was the .01% indigenous genes that allowed me to stalk within 50 yards, but it was actually a hot doe. After we brought it back to the farm to process a ferocious cow tried to take the buck away, but I wasn't having any of that and it quickly backed away after staring down the barrel of the 500 S&W ! SJC

I shot a 6 pt chasing a doe. Not ideal but I figured as the season went it was the right thing. Nephew shot his first buck a two point! lol We took them to the processor tonight man there are some real nice bucks in there. Oh and I shot a big button buck last hour of bow season.

This year has being fill with ups and downs in the deer woods. I fill one tag during rifle season and tonight I was able to harvest young buck. Meat in the freezer is why I hunt. Congratulations to all who punched a tag during the 2024 deer season.

Buck down at 745am . Waiting for a doe now . Sent from my SM-G975U1 using Tapatalk

My 16 year old grandson shot a doe this morning . He also shot a doe with his crossbow a couple weeks ago .

Sat out for 4 1/2 Hours in my double chair blind this afternoon . Freezing cold with a SW wind making it colder . Didn't see a thing . At about 4:15 my oldest son pushed the thickets and kicked out a doe that my grandson shot . At least the day wasn't a total waste .

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While things have been pretty quite in this area it seems a number of guys and gals are knocking down some BIG bucks across the state. While there has been a lot of nice racks what has really caught my attention is the size of some of these deer. Thought I would share some for you to enjoy.

Filled 2 DMP's today .... one is small but it's Meat !

THe property in Geneseo was more like a swamp than a woods . My oldest son shot a big doe and a button buck . We will be having backstraps for thanksgiving Snack .

Buddy shot a 6 pt yesterday morning. Came right in to a Tinks bottle. Nice deer!

I was in A double ladder stand . I saw 2 bucks coming from the neighbor's North property . A bunch of saplings block any shot But I Had the scope on in the bigger buck as it was walking along . i expected to take a shoulder shot but there was a dip in the ground . when it hit the opening , I shot and it dropped on the spot . upon further review , i shot him in the neck as he was in the dip . No meat wasted . some time you just get lucky . It was only about a 90 yard with the NEF 20-06 single shot . Here is the buck laying . I zoomed in on it as best I could with the phone camera .You can see the deer laying in the middle of the picture between the 2 big trees .The entrance Hole was hard to spot But not the exit hole .

Took a button buck last night. My mistake thought it was a small does Mom. Texted my brother for the quad and three racked bucks were together coming through the woods. Crazy stuff.

I walked into a barnes & nobles and asked the manager where I could find Trumps newest book on how he's going to deport the illegals. She told me get the "F" out and stay out ! I said that's the one, do you have it in paperback ? SJC

Regular season ended with my brother taking a spike. We goy up at 4:45 I looked outside and heard the wind and bed was calling me back. He texted a few times seeing a couple of Does and the 4 together but still couldn't get me out there. Then he texted just shot a buck. Hunched over headed to the thick stuff. Told him to take a look but back out if it doesn't look good. He did at 10 am and we went back in at 1 pm. Again we looked at google maps to see the funnels that the deer may take. The thick stuff was an area inside the hard woods. He went on one side I went on the other. Upon circling around I saw the deer bedded looking right at me. 40 yards shot put him down. We have been blessed this year with venison. 7 bucks and two doe. Not an ounce will go to waste we all love it so much. Oh BTW scrapes opened up last night here are two.

He looks like he will be a tank !

This morning 1am

Took a shot at a Doe tonight around 4:30. 1st shot she didn't move 2nd shot ran. It was about 80 yards. Found her tracks and blood. Not a lot of blood but every 5 feet or so there were drops and at times multiple pin drops. She probably went about 100 yards. Snow made for easy tracking with blood along the way. This picture is the most I had in the 100 yards. The rest was pin size drops but like I said multiple ones. She took me to the field crossed it into some heavy cover. Thought I heard her in there and backed out. This is the same area my brothers deer ran to that we found the next day. I backed out at 5:30 going back up at 7:30. Wish me luck!

I remember when I was a kid waiting for the school bus and hearing what sounded like a war down through the valley. I remember sitting on stand 3/4 of the way up the hill watching the highway down below. It looked like a snake of headlights going south on opening morning. I remember the orange suits seemingly everywhere. I remember being able to track the progress of the deer groups just by the shots across the hill. I remember areas of the hunting spots where there were several hunters visible all at once. I remember some of those big drives that neighbors would put on that kept deer moving all day long. I remember knowing deer were coming just by the advancing pattern of shots. I remember having opening days off from school as an excused absence. I remember my hunter safety course being held in the school bus garage. (imagine that!) I remember State parking lots being filled up with cars lining the sides of the road because there was no room to park. I remember our driveway being full of hunters cars. I remember the large groups of us hunters gathered every Monday morning at work talking about the deer we saw or got. I remember seeing all the deer hanging from trees in the yards. I remember the deer that were proudly strapped on the cars instead of hidden in the beds of pick-up trucks. I remember when posted signs were a rare sighting. All the land was open and farmers were damned glad to see you. I remember when during Thanksgiving get-togethers the primary discussion was all about hunting adventures. I remember when hunting leases that locked up huge areas were unheard of. I remember when so many of my hunting spots didn't have houses on them like they do now. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh gosh, these memories just keep flooding back into my 80 year old brain. They are remembrances of times when hunting reigned supreme in the rural areas. Times change, and not all changes are for the better.

I do not use trail cameras, I like being surprised, I grew up in a different era, old timers, books and magazines is where I learned about hunting techniques. There were no food plots, tree or ladder stands or enclosed purpose built blinds with heat and all the comforts of home. Most folks did not even have scopes on their guns. A sprinkling of stand hunting, drives, still hunting and tracking were the methods most used back then. It was all about learning woodscraft, reading sign and animal behavior. It is those skills that define hunting for me and I still use those methods today. Al

Sitting in some blow downs with my son, just passed a spike at 10 yards. He’s shakin like a leaf.

I'm back wishing everyone a successful and safe season

Some nice bucks.

Lets see if I can post. Last day of the regular season. Fresh snow and a lot of fresh tracks in our spot in the Dacks.

The killing scene in this guy's video reminds me of a kill I made on one of my better Bucks. The gang I hunted with back in the seventies and eighties hunted a huge farm on big hills outside of Norwich NY called King's Settlement. I had an escape route spot where I built a brush blind a couple of weeks before season about 3/4s of the way up on one of those hills and I was in it on a cold opening day before daylight. I hoped as the orange army made their way up the hill someone would push something past me. I heard a noise just as it was getting daylight and could make out a really nice buck moving away from me through a scrub apple orchard, he was too far away and there was too much brush in the way for a clean shot so I just watches him disappear, the best I could hope for is he would run into some other hunted and maybe comeback through. The rest of the morning was uneventful and around noon I headed back down to the vehicles and meet up with some of the guys to warm up and get something to eat. So while we were going over the morning's events one of the guys spotted a nice buck way up the hill standing in some high goldenrod only a couple of hundred yards from my blind. I grabbed my gun and started to haul ass back up the hill jogging up a farm dirt road, just maybe I might get a crack at that guy. The farm road was in a gully with high banks on both sides and as I got in that buck's vicinity I hear some shots from the buck's direction. I stopped and listened and all of a sudden here comes the big Buck running full tilt right at me over and down the bank. I was ready and when he saw me, he turned and I let him have one broadside, he went down on his haunches, and I gave him two more killing him, that was the last time I fired more that one shot at a Deer. Everything happened in just a few seconds, and I did not have any time to think. I was using an Ithaca model 51 Deerslayer 3 shot semi auto, probably the most accurate slug gun I ever owned. I gave that shotgun to my youngest son and a few years later he killed a nice buck with it just a short distance from the one killed above. Ahh, the good old days!! Al

Saw three doe this am. Headed to pa camp. Told my dad to hunt where I hunted this weekend. Tons of tracks and sign from early Nov.

My 4 Wheeler ...........

I'm back from tracking. She is leaving decent blood she went into really thick stuff so I backed out until the am. Just puzzled at the blood trail. Hit site blood and some hair nothing great along the first 100 yards blood every 5 feet or so multiple drops slight spray. When I came back it seemed she started to bleed more. In fact I had blood on both sides of the track and on some weeds. It seems like at times good blood then it slows down. Thoughts on it? Ill be back out at 7 to take up the trail. I can look until 8:30 then have work but will come back in the afternoon.

Got into camp Friday afternoon and geared up for a deer drive for some friends that haven't seen anything for two days because of the weather. Had a few doe go their way, but all small ones. My brother and I who were doing the driving saw two shooters and we each dropped one out of what turned into a group of seven doe on a drive Saturday afternoon. The deer are herding up in my local and with temps proposed to stay in the mid twenties for the next week it seems that still hunting is the way to go if you want to see deer. Saw close to 40 deer in two days still hunting in my snowshoes. I can't remember the last time I used snowshoes deer hunting in November, but it was great to be outdoors and putting meat on the table. SJC

Bye Bye " DEI" "Woke" "Pronouns" "Identifying as another Gender" .... Hello Common Sense !

Had this large flock of geese fly over few minutes ago.

I have been hunting the same property for almost 40 years 90% of the time, hunting Squirrels early helps me formulate a Deer hunting plan as I can read their sign and figure out a plan where to be for a Deer hunt when I decide to go. I am not picky and just take them as they come. This year I have seen very little Deer sign and thought there would be a good chance getting skunked but I got lucky the first morning and had a buck walk right into my lap. And then there was a year I think I hunted just about every day and saw zero bucks, on the last day in the last half hour of daylight I had a buck show himself and I scored, you just never know. Al

I noticed a growing trend in society, people refuse to take blame for their own actions. They will blame it on every other excuse, except the real one. Everybody screws up, accept it and take responsibility for what is done. Learn by ones mistakes.

I have killed a half dozen Deer with a neck shot and they all dropped right where they stood. As for the ethical part several factors come into play. Distance is a big one, I use the neck shot for relatively short shots, under 100 yards. A firearm that is capable of precise bullet placement with a good hunting bullet. A good steady rest with total confidence in my ability to make the shot. I aim for the center anywhere on the neck, I think it is a fairly big target and an easy shot to make when one has the right circumstances. Al

Bagged a mid size 4 pointer last night. I was watching it at distance fir a while when it hit me that with like 30 hours in the woods since Saturday it was the first shoot able deer I'd seen and just went for it. Single shot, 60 or so yards. Deer in the freezer may take up space but it tastes better than tags.

I have 2 different stand locations. The first one about legal dark it is too dark to make out a legal deer so I wouldn't take the shot. In my second stand, higher up on a mountain, I can see clearly 1/2 hour after. Know your limits and your targets. Sent from my SM-S906U using Tapatalk

Gray squirrels, red squirrels, owl and fisher, is the extent of it so far this morning. A few distant shots otherwise dead quiet. If nothing happens here in a little bit I may just go back to the house and “kill” a cup of coffee. Lol

Passed on a spike. He was wide open and broad side but I let him go. I pulled the phone out and took a few pics when he got behind me.

6 bucks on cell cams before 9 am in one area. crazy!

Almost ran over a 120" 8 pt on my way home trying to cross the road by my house. Heading right toward my stand at 5:30. out of work at 3 the next two days gonna take my son back there with the crossbow and sit on the ground somewhere for the last 1-2 hours.

Up in stand in 9a. Corn has been cut. It's 52 and windy. Hope to see something cruise by.

Son passed another spike this evening, 5 doe went trottin through the field with no shots at them.