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I'm hearing that scrapes are popping up everywhere right now. I've had a camera set up on this scrape for three weeks now and get bucks visiting it every night. They are still bachelored up at this point...

So "a lot of fat on a deer means a hard winter" What have you guys been seeing on your kills? My doe was just layered in fat...every where....Now I know that having new 200 acres of corn in the area this year is probably...most likely the reason ...but fun to speculate.....

Went squirrel hunting. Found these instead. Saw a ton of pheasant hunters with dogs. We talked to them and they said they didn't see anything all day. Go figure. Here they are with dogs and they couldn't find anything and I come walking along and I limit out by finding two on two different occasions. Lady luck smiled at me today but you can have all the luck in the world and you still won't catch anything from your couch. Gave the hen away and took the male (I will avoid the "c" word - my reputation here will taint it) to my dad. He whipped up some awesome teriyaki pheasant.

I am gonna waste my vote this year and vote for the independant thrid party that no one hears about.. If there is no good choice I wont vote. However the NRA supports Romney's campaign

mahopac here

Tight... my jewels are NOT cumfy, but if i was to fall, id prob be able to use them again!! Always try to put on under my last layer as well

Welcome to the Hemi Nation..

Have you ever walked around on Park Ave in NYC? The sh*t you see is outrageous! My point was....if I did this what would people think? Here is another whacko, a nut job or what....honestly, I don;t think anyone would think what an a*Hole! They would think i need to be on Meds!!!!!!

got the buck bomb for this year from dicks.. will let you guys know how it does in a week or so. also got tinks doe in heat

Had the interview and fingerprinting Now I should have my permit within 6 months. Yippee!

Gentlemen, just to clear up blood/hair on the broadhead/arrow after the shot, I have an experience I'd like to share.... I shot my best buck to date while it was standing broadside...20 yards...easy shot.. After the shot, I saw where the arrow went & I thought for sure I had a clean low miss.. I climbed down & found my arrow...the spitfire deployed, but no hair or blood on the broadhead or arrow shaft. On 1 blazer fletch there was a SMALL streak of blood across one side of 1 fletch. I figured I must of just grazed him, gave him a paper cut or something but instinct told me to walk off into the direction he ran...not 30 yards from where i shot, it looked like a hose stream of blood on the ground, my easiest most profound bloodtrail to date. I ended up hitting this buck very low in front of the 2 front legs at the base of the neck. (where the neck meets the front legs) NO major organs were hit, the spitfire cut an artery and the buck made it about 300 yards before he ran out of liquid... Point of the story is, never use solely what you find on your arrow/broadhead to determine if you've made a fatal shot on an animal....

Parksville NY doe. Hunted saturday evening in a super thick set of woods that I saw deer go into that morning. Right on que as it started getting dark I could hear feet all around me but could not see anything with all the leaves still on the trees. Finally this doe appeared 15 yards away in a small window of opportunity. Shot and the the Nocturnal lighted nock dissapeared into the outline of her body, and than the woods exploded with deer and had 3 deer run under me in the direction of this deer. I got down and just went back to the house. After dinner we waited and went back into the woods about 1030pm and found my arrow which smelled very strong, but clean of blood with white hair all around. I soon turned and saw her bedded down 40yards away looking at us. We tunred off the lights and backout out silently. It started raining heavy at 3am and I could not sleep thinking that she was going to get up and run without me being able to follow a blood trail. Headed back out at 6:50am and found her dead where we had seen her the previous night. I hit the back of the lung and part of the liver and put a tiny whole in the stomach which is where the smell was from, but not much gut excapted into the cavity which was good. Im shooting 70lbs with slicktrick mag 100gr broadheads, on beeman ics shafts with nocturnal lighted nocks. You can see the entrance wound in the first photo and the exit in the second, lower then I would have liked but a good kill non the less.

My point on cheap labor wasn't directed at illegal immigrants in this country, it was directed at the much lower labor costs over seas. If the government told Apple they could operate in the US tax free, they still wouldn't move their iphone manufacturing to the US.

He was hunting a freshly cut corn field on Oct. 2 when this "swamp donkey" appeared for the early bird special. Submitted photo Dave Townsend, of Cazenovia, poses with a 10-point buck he arrowed Oct. 2. His buddy, Sean Hagan, wrote me: "Dave lives in Caz and had just returned from a 10 day fishing trip in New Brunswick. He was hunting a freshly cut corn field on Oct 2nd when this swamp donkey appeared for the early bird special. "Dave sent one arrow flying into the boiler room and the dinner was served. This buck green scored in the 150s." View the full article on The Syracuse Outdoors Blog

That is a great question... I have a QAD Ultra Rest and there would be all kinds of contact with my rest, not sure how straight that would come out... I usually shoot tree rats on the ground, I couldn't resist this with this tree rat thinking he was unseen and giving me time to set up camera's and take the shot, very rare.

Your points are so true Arrow. . I have 2 great stands that have cover, food, water and bedding areas on all 4 sides. The deer can come from any direction, and they have, at any given time. The other thing that gets me is i hear guys saying all the time that you need to put your stands down wind of the deer trail. Well i don't know about you, but i can count on one hand the number of mature bucks i have ever seen on a well used deer trail. Sometimes those trail stands can end up being sucker stand locations. Don't get me wrong, i do still try to adhere to that rule if i can because i certainly don't want to educate all the does that do use them, but my best buck stands have very little to do with trails, and alot to do with terrain features and thick cover wind advantages. As for picking stands, i have about 15 to choose from and the choice is sometimes painful. I lie awake at night. I think about it the whole way there. I sometimes can't make my mind up until i'm walking in. It's so nerve-racking. LOL

The tail feathers make nice table arrangements your wife or mother will love.

well mr whitetail, im glad i have impacted your life enough for you to remember comments i have made in the past on lost deer threads 2 YEARS AGO. For the record, some posting those lost deer threads could not even indicate if their deer was quartering or broadside or where they even hit for that matter. if your going to make comparisons make sure your comparing apples to apples. I on the other hand can tell you exactly where my original gut feeling was where i hit (and i was right), what the wind direction was, i even took the time for that deer to give me the shot i was looking for and on top of that made sure before i anchored that my cams cleared my stand rail and bow hanger. I am very in tune, with my surroundings, gear and myself. I do not just see a deer and let an arrow rip and hope for the best and say yeah, well i hit the deer but i cant remember anything before or after the shot. THATS NOT ME.... since you have not been on this forum for a long time and would like to continue where we left off not last season but the prior season thats fine because if you read correctly i stated please tell me IM NOT CRAZY because i did not believe my broad head would cause a spark on bone. i have heard someone say that and all i was doing was reporting my hunt to a T. I spend a ton of seat time each year in my stands and its a learning curve each sit. If your not learning anything while you sit then attention to detail is not ones forte. Dont come on here trying to rip me apart when you have not a clue on anything about me. you dont know me from a hole in the wall and to be honest you personally followed me from thread to thread 2 seasons ago like some pathetic stalker calling me out in each thread i posted in, im giving you fair warning that is not going to happen this year. i have hunted less then 3 times this year and have almost 30 hours logged already, i know where my deer was standing when i shot, i know where he bounded to and stopped for 3 minutes and i also know where he walked another 50 yards and stopped and stood for another 2 minutes after the shot. THERE WAS NO BLOOD. That deer was not fatally hit, he is fine. I know the legistics of shooting a deer and how far when to expext blood from where the shot took place, this is not my first rodeo so i dont need your input... you seem to be some little cry baby and really have a jones for me... dont worry about me and what i do, worry about yourself. i know myself as a hunter and i am very happy with myself. i never ever once claimed to be better then anyone here and honestly i get along with everyone here. and the camaraderie here is great and then theres guys like you who throw a wrench in the fan with what appears to be jealousy. all the pieces to my puzzle on this deer in place, end result: a deer with a slice in his back who will be running doe in a few weeks. nothing more, nothing less.

If you go solo, make a float plan if no one is around. Write on paper your planned route of hunting and possible spots and leave this on your windshield in a ziplock bag if a family member of friend is not availible. That common scense remark will keep you out of 90% of the danger we get involved in. Think safety! If you fall can a broad head cut you? If so how can you prevent this. EX:Having a back quiver I do not have fixed blades in my quiver. Any unexpected falls will not result in injury... Keep that safety harness TIGHT with very little slack, just enought to move... The more slack the greater the fall and possible danger... ELB's are getting cheaper every year, if you go back deep or have any health issues they are a invaluable life line where cell service is not availible. Place your shot...

Why would you sling arrows into the sky? That's how people die

Cant kill a deer if you arent in the stand !

Got it. And here I thought it was cheap labor driving businesses elsewhere.

Nice, Welcome!! I lived in LI for years then moved upstate.

I have 7 that I can use right now. I do whats correct for the wind,which I'm seeing stuff out of or have not been in lately.Failing that I ask my wife to pick," the slope stand ,or inside corner?". If she says inside corner,I say " slope stand it is".

As a member recently from Florida, they are a necessity and Never go out without one, kinda gettin used to this cold weather n no bugs thing

A guy can't/won't shave till he gets his Deer !

Yesterday was empty and cold (I like it) today it's drizzling not raining had a 4 pointer just walked by, no shot....well at least I'm here, can't get them from the sofa :-)

Just had a huge doe and her fawn at 17 yards. Waiting on the big daddy.

It's been a few years since I smoked, but I can tell you that I have killed quite a few deer where I had to butt-out the cigarette before shooting. Certainly smoking does not help your odds of success, but you either have the wind right or you don't. However, Having said all that, I do believe that cigarette smoke is is a strong scent that goes out in a dense configuration and hangs together for a lot longer distance that the usual human scent. So bearing in mind that wind directions are not always consistant and that it is normal for wind to cycle back and forth, there is always the possibility that the strong scent of the smoke may adhere to vegetation and such if it blows to the trail that you are watching. That can't be good. I would add all that to all the other line-items on a list of good reasons to quit smoking.

LI allowed shotguns for hinting small game and waterfowl. There's also a special shotgun season in LI for deer in January. LI is very shotgun friendly. Good luck to you.

Put in a choke in your shotgun and use the appropriate shot. I bought a ton of #6 steel shots because they were on sale and use them for squirrels, crows, and pheasants.

I second Bullzeye. Rich knows his stuff and does great work.

Here in lays the problem with that line of thought...politically speaking...telling some one they are not allowed a legally hunt a game animal on land they travel through NY because deer are eating plants that are deemed to be food deer eat..... and legally planted on your land...I plant all trails and logging roads in grasses and clovers...to keep them from eroding ...smooth for safe walking...open for future logging...I have many reasons for planting other than hunting....no one ...and I mean no one will tell me I can't hunt my land because of my management plan...unless they want to fence my property to keep game off it or arrest me....some think I'm just saying this...but I could not be more serious...ppl say "they can have my guns when they pry them from my cold dead hands"...well that's my thoughts about my land ...deer are legal to hunt in NYS and they roam...they roam on my land and I have a license...no matter what my management practices are on my property...save high fencing..they are fair game