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This bird climbed the ladder and is perched on the top rung. She is sell here after 10 min

Found this on awesomeantlers.com. Supposedly green scores 219

Sometimes we just don't seem to see deer because of bad luck..lol

since the post is named "from the stand...", here is the view from one of my treestands yesterday. At 1:18PM, you gotta be in the woods.

To answer the question before. Spikes will be bigger deer the next year.

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Thanks for the concern, Deerthug. My grandma is a tough old lady. We kept thinking it was her time for years now and she keeps fighting on. I think it is because of that we're better emotionally prepared for it. Not that it's easy but I think it would have been a lot harder if it was something unexpected and came out of nowhere. It's been one really tough week. Brother's shooting accident at work on Tuesday, Dick's Sporting Goods fiasco Tuesday night, and now this.

The deer harvest numbers are the crudest of estimates - about as realistic as the "official" inflation and unemployment numbers

And it will go well with a little venison with Montreal steak seasoning.

Actually most does in the Southern tier, give birth to 2 deer each year... so it could be 2 bucks next year and sometimes they triplet.

First of all, @Doc since when do good hunters rely on other hunters in the woods? A good hunter patterns deer all season, regardless of hunting activity. That is what I try to do. Second, @Ncountry, shooting does is NOT the problem with sighting deer...Thanks to @nyslowhand for actually linking some statistics, rather than just listening to guys whine about the DEC. Anecdotal declines in sightings like your alfalfa field probably have more to do with ecological changes immediately in your area...and sitting and getting zero seen a couple nights is not anything more than an anecdote. The fact is that DEC, or in PA DCNR (which most of these whiners would really hate, with statewide antler restrictions, and very staggered deer seasons) IMPROVED the size of the heard over time (doubled it from 1980 to 2010). I would agree with most reasonable and knowlegable members on this board. The fact is the weather was tough all year 2011, in the winter it was extremely hard with inches of snow on the ground for more than 90 straight days in most regions of the Northeast, let alone NY. Now, during the season 60 degree temps and crystal clear nights THROUGHOUT November = Deer moving at night! That is why you aren't seeing them. Just check your bedding and feeding areas for droppings and then come back and tell me there are no deer. This thread is getting ridiclulous...nearly everyone agrees its a slow year for sightings, but blaming other hunters for not being in the woods (I wish they would all stay away from my hunting spots), or people who are doing their part filling doe tags (which I paid for, and which is the real herd management portion of hunting, taking trophies does nothing in that respect), or even stupider yet, blaming the DEC who actually uses real studies including radio-tag deer to determine actual herd size, not PERCIEVED herd size according to anecdotes.

Maybe you should have read the origional post. He said his lack of sightings date back after the first day of archery, not just since gun season started.

I'll be damned if I will buy and store an ATV throughout the year for the few weeks I hunt each year. When I put one down, it gets dragged out. No big deal. The problem is that hunters can be lazy and out of shape. Many hunters these days can't even walk the 150 yards to their stands without an ATV. If the only exertion one does is during hunting season, then most definitely you won't have the stamina to drag one out.

a old fart at 70 years young. I shoot the bow several times a week and go to a lot of the 3D's shoot in the area. MY shooting buddy just hit 75.... I walk to my ground blinds made out of natural material in back of the house. I just have 20+ acreas to hunt. I do no longer shoot doe's and or young bucks. I want a 6 point or more. I do find I no longer hunt as much as I did in my 20's. Maybe it was due to having only a day or two that I could hunt so I would stay out most of the day. I now walking a 1/2 hour from first light and come out in less than 3 hours and I walk in the PM at about a full 2 hours prior to dark. I have hunted over 85% of all days available so far. I saw a lot of doe's and some young bucks in the bow season and only one spike buck on opening day of gun. SO nothing down as yet. I did have a 6 point in the bow season in the first 15 minutes of first light, that when I drew on him I could see some small branches so I let down and let him walk. I have only lost one deer in 55 years of hunting and that was due to a poor shot due to a twig it hit that pushed the arrow to far back. I also have to say I I still love the sport but miss so much my past hunter buddies that passed on with cancer and also being a member of a local hunt club. It just is not fun going out there my myself. Maybe that why I like the 3D shoots so much, I get a chance to shoot with younger archers and love when a old fart can still do well. I went from shooting a 68 lb bow about 10 years ago to now the boiw is setup at 58 lbs and 29 inch draw and my traditional bow is setup at 50 lbs at 28 inch draw and my actual draw is 28 1/2. I also shoot at the house I have from when I had the archery shop a 3D setup to keep me shooting. I have 17 location and a total of 34 targets made up of deer, bear and a few turkey targets. I keep the stakes at less than 30 yards.

So if you are an old coot ,tell us about yourself. How old are you. I'm 65. Do you hunt as much today as you did when you were younger? No,,, my legs are close to having a 100,000 miles on them, and I don't know their shelf-life. So I take it kind of easy now. Do you hunt every day? Yes... for my glasses, teeth, hearing aids, etc. Oh wait- you probably mean in the woods! Not anymore - I'm one of those 'fair weather' dudes now. Do you walk in to your stand or do you ride in ?. I walk! And the mountain I hunt is 500' higher than the valley floor. What season or seasons do you hunt when deer hunting ? I LOVE Archery Hunting... gun season not so much What other seasons do you hunt? Summer - Swimsuit season at the lake! I hunt turkeys too.

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