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Hey guys, it's been a while. I lost my puter connetion early summer and never got to follow through on my fawn pics so I'm finally getting around to that. Better late than never I suppose. Hope everyone had a great summer and nailed down some potential shooter bucks for the fast approaching season. Bucks are just beginning to show at my fields at last light so I'm hoping tocatch some daytime antlers soon. ...and here's a turtle for the heck of it.

If you are trying to scout and hunt bucks 2.5 or older I highly recommend you resist the temptation of going more than every other week. Not every deer will be spooked by your presence but be sure you will impact the deers habits and potentially make them go nocturnal fast. You will bump deer, you will leave scent and there is now doubt that will impact your hunting. Cams are an awesome tool in the bag but you need to treat them like you are hunting, don't over pressure or be careless about scent etc. Most guys are jealous of the guys getting pics of big bucks, if your not getting pics of big mature deer it doesn't mean they aren't there it most likely means they have you figured out and they know how to avoid situations they are skeptical about. I have seen it first hand multiple times where a mature doe approaching a cam location stops 50 yards out stares in the direction and makes a big loop to avoid the cam location so if she does that think of what a smart old buck will do. If it is a cam in your backyard or not a hunting spot I would say once a week won't hurt a thing.

I'm sure some of the Folks of the early Old Testament would disagree with you and would have loved to have had a crossbow as well as Otsi the ice man. Sticks and twigs have been killing alot longer than crossbows. Just sayin. As long as were arguing like children I think the crossbow season should start out with a primitive crossbow. We bow hunters had to start out with sticks and twigs! It's not fair not fair!!!!! Seriously, let crossbows in the bow season, it will be great for the kids, women and old people and the sport.

Kitty cats. Not a ML, that print isnt authentic. MLs have retractable claws and dont walk around with them extended. Gotta keep them sharp.

I had a snowmobile accident ...... does that count? Back in my young and foolish days when we first moved onto our property, we used to heat with wood. At the same time, there was a sugar-bush that I was thinning out on top of the hill, so I figured that all those approx 6"-8" diameter maple logs would make good firewood if I could get them down to the house. So I figured I could use the snomobile. -No ATV's at the time-. So I got a heavy rope (about a 1" nylon rope) and bundled up about 3 or 4 at a time and skidded them down the hill to be cut up at the house. Well, the snow was pretty deep, and that was no problem while I was coming down the hill, but I figured I had better get up some speed when I got down off the hill to the flat parts. Here's where things got a bit nasty....lol. I started really moving out, and had to turn a sharp corner right at the bottom. I had a bit too much rope out behind and the logs rolled way out sideways and hooked behind a tree. Everything came to an absolute instant stop ....... except for me, the plastic windshield and the handle bars. I found myself laying about 5' in front of the machine, laying on top of the windshield and the handlebars still attached to the snowmobile only by the cables. I had busted that tubing that the handlebars attach to. No, I wasn't hurt other than for my pride. The language wasn't to pretty either. I had to disconnect the logs (no, the rope didn't break) and then rotate the skis by hand. walking alongside holding the handlebars to run the throttle I would move the machine ahead until I had to manually turn the skis then move ahead again. I did that all the way home. Then I had to go those last few yards up to the house with my wife standing on the front step doubled over laughing at me. It wasn't one of my better days (or one of my better ideas). I welded up the handlebars and got everything working again, but I never did pull firewood off the hill again with the snowmobile. Yes, and as far as the original load is concerned ..... The damned logs might still be laying over there as far as I know. Doc

you now just stepping back for a minute here. i'm a NY archery hunter and have been for decades, i hunt my own property and i hunt nearby state land. these are my observations. when i pull my truck up to state land during bow season, it's a rare thing to see more than one or 2 other bowhunters in the woods or parked on the road for an area that incompasses 20 thousand acres or so?? as a matter or fact the number of other bowhunters i see during bow season can be pretty much counted on 2 hands and i have hunted 4 counties here in the hudson valley over the years. we all know whats happening with hunter numbers in our state and we all know what the anti bowhunting groups out there wanna do to us, right? i think it's time for anyone who calls themselves a hunter and on the other hand says no crossbows in my woods better wake up already

more and more the truth is coming out and people are seeing whats really behind this huge anti crossbows in archery season thing. it has nothing to do with advantages, diadvantages, or wether a weapon can be shouldered or hand held, or you can shoot it with you feet or behind your back with mirrors, cocked, uncocked, thats all nonsense and most people who can reason see that. it's all about the remote possibility that allowing crossbows in archery will bring "more hunters into the woods during bow season", thats the plain truth!! yes when you tell an anti crossbow person that allowing crossbows into archery season will increase hunter participation in NY the first thig they say is "no it won't". when you tell them the woods will not be over run with hunters if we allow crossbows into archery season then the usual response is it will bring "hordes of undesirables into bow season". if you tell them it will help to reduce a bulging deer herd in NY they tell you "no it wont". if you tell them it won't effect deer numbers they tell you yes it will??? actually lately the only thing i've been hearing from the NY bowhunters leadership is CROSSBOWS don't belong in ARCERY season period, and thats because they have run out of reasons people will actually listen to....