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Human presence does not do as much damage to an area as you guys think. You must be forgetting about small game hunters, hikers, trappers, nature walkers etc. I have a couple spots where I hunt that get all kinds of human activity and can still kill a deer. If your thinking you're going to run off your 150" B&C buck, well maybe but not the rest of the herd.

My highest scoring buck: 9 point, 114 3/8, 3 1/2 yo My heaviest buck: 7 point, 180 lbs, 4 1/2 yo My oldest buck: 9 point w/drop tine, 7 1/2 yo

8 pt. 146 gross, 142 net. 2000 tracked on snowshoes in 4 ft of snow.

Well I cleaned out the freezer yesterday and found a couple of bags of venison still frozen and vacuumn sealed. So I decided to finish it off by making venison stew today for dinner. I browned the venison in vegetable oil. Fried up some onions, and peppers. Opened a jar of fresh tomato sauce and fried half a jar of sauce with some garlic. Added the meat with chopped carrots. Covered it with water and let it stew in there for an hour. Added the peppers, shrooms and onions and let it stew for another hour. Added some chili powder to give it some heat and voila.... YUM!

I think we can all agree that the shot window in this case is pretty small. What always crosse my mind in a scenarion like this is what can take place as soon as we release that arrow. There are many on here that can put an arrow in a 2" window every time at 15 yards...20...30 maybe even 40. But we are talking a small window. I know the bows out now are very fast and the time to target is short, but not immediate. Even if we do our part nd the hold is steady, pin placment is on the money and the release and follow through are perfect, we can't control what he deer is about to do. A twitch, a step or a shoulder shrug can change the outcome. Heck it can happen with higher percentage shots. I am not saying to not take this shot but I am saying to consider the possible outcome before you do.

another good one...

This is totaly true!

Two guys are out hunting deer, when the first guy says, "Did you see that?" "No," the second guy says. "A bald eagle just flew overhead," the first guy says. "Oh", says the second guy. A couple of minutes later, The first guy says, "Did you see that?" "See what?" the second guy asks. "Are you blind? There was a big, black bear walking on that hill over there." "Oh", said the second guy. A few minutes later the first guy says: "Did you see that?" By now, the second guy has had enough, so he says, "Yes, I did!" So the first guy says: "Then why did you step in it?" -credit goes to Roger Raglin.

Here's the deal. I have never seen such outrage over any piece of legislation that I have seen over this. The reaction of the NYS gun owners was impressive to say the least. It is probably the most unified that I have ever seen gun owners actually get. The rallies and protests were really quite impressive. I see this as a very unique, once in a lifetime opportunity to actually put these legislators on notice. If we squander this opportunity, we might as well just give it all up. One thing that terrifies politicians is a highly motivated and unified minority and that is exactly what they handed us if we can only keep the outrage alive until the elections. Anti-gun voters are all over the map in terms of issues and hot-buttons reasons for the way they cast their vote. They really have no motivation to vote as a single block. This time around, we do. That makes us a potentially powerful voting block that can make a difference. Part of all that involves a "get out the vote" activity by as many as possible people who really care about gun ownership. It will take a lot of organization, and pushing, and effort, but given this issue and the emotion that is behind it, I believe we have the best opportunity to pull it off that we will ever see. I too have taken note of those that have mixed feelings about specific elements of that law, but it was so all-encompassing that it had a little something in it to piss off every gun owner. I have seen the breadth and scope of the hatred for this act, and I believe that we really need to go for it. We need to take that voting record on that act and use it as a pass/fail document for our vote. Anything else will doom us forever to watching our gun rights dissolve here in this state.

My 2010 8 pt 207 lbs No score. What a hunt! State land, still hunting. Blood gets pumping just posting this!!! WOW some really nice bucks!!! Size of antlers doesn't matter as much as enjoyment of the hunt! Basket 4pt or 6pt are big deer in some areas! This is the deer that turned my passion for ADK hunting to obsession, along with all the mistakes that caused me to miss more bucks than I care to talk about. Who ever said "learn from your mistakes" was never so right when it comes to hunting deer! The problem I have is I keep learning new mistakes... Who ever said addiction is a bad thing never deer hunted!!! Even skydiving does not seem to hold a light to that moment we choose to "take" a deer. At least for me... Vacation approved today! Sep 26th-30th, Nov 6th-14th, Nov 20th-Dec 7th!!! WOW November will be extremely fun!!! Don't think I will ever get tired of ADK woods, just tired in them... Solitude, camp fire, clean air and no traffic, can't wait to reconnect with nature!!! Hoping more than one person comes up to (November) camp this year the fun multiplies with extra friends! Sorry as the season approaches I tend to babble... HUNTING!!! Look out ADK bucks I am coming for you! LI too!!! If I am lucky and actually get one my first November trip I am going to Maine. Trying to be an optimist but my pessimistic side slaps me in the face of reality! LOL

3 of my best

Best bow 2010 10pt. Broken dropti. ,had 12pic s on cam before i got it

2010 or 2011.... I don't remember.

This guy is my best so far. Taken last year the day before Thanksgiving with my muzzleloader.

I have listened to people most of my life ready to violate the law because they believed the law was wrong, immoral, or unjust. You do know that some child abusers truly believe that they have the right to violate the laws because they feel that the government has no right to tell them who to have sex with.(extreme example). Tax evaders believe they shouldn't be taxed. Gang members believe that they have been deprived, etc. It all sounds good, standing up for your principles, fighting the system, etc. However, when you are arrested and handcuffed I assure you that you will think differently. You will be a different person from that day forward. After you are processed you will be taken to the correctional facility, and when that thick steel door slams behind you, you will realize that it is a sound that you will never forget. The men in jump suits, possibly orange, parading in the facility won't be hunters, they will be men like you,if you are convicted, felons.(Getting caught with illegal firearms would probably be a slam dunk conviction.) You may be convicted of having an illegal firearm, or similar charge, which on paper will read like the conviction of gang members for the same crime. No distinction . While you are incarcerated who will support your family ? Will they go on welfare? You can't support them in prison. I guess they can get cheap housing somewhere near the prison where some of the other inmates wives live. Maybe they can find some good welfare home. Most of the money you have will be paid to your attorney. You'll think a whole lot different about welfare housing while your family is living there. At school the kids will talk about your child's father, who is in prison. Unless, however, they live in some welfare housing, where hopefully it'll be more accepted. I guess your wives can make some new friends in the neighborhood, especially those who also have felons for husbands. But you guys are tough, you think you can take it. I guess you never realized that the mob and other, gang informants, etc. turned because prison was too much for them. AND some of those guys are tough, real tough, and some killers !! You think people will care about your principles, yeah, maybe a few, but most of us will forget you in a heartbeat. You will be social conversation for a little while then in a few weeks, know one will remember you, or your cause. REMEMBER the guys who fled to Canada during the Vietnam Era, name 5 of them. Can you name anyone killed, or injured at Kent State ? No one really cares. Even the NRA will have to turn on you ,if you are convicted,because they don't want convicted felons to have firearms. I know I'm ranting, but my point is that a violation of law is not something that is, or will be, taken lightly, and the consequences are severe.

So I just finished fertilizing for the power plant...kink in my back so I'm resting...had to hand /walk 150 #'s over the plot...Mr B has the little JD at camp mowing and the 2nd one is under the weather..hhmmm any how loaded up some pics the rye that has clover growing in some of it...I'm 5' 5" and some is over my head!...the lower plot taken from my blind and then looking back at blind and the fence I've mentioned a hundred times...only because it's taking me years to do....post cut from property and set by hand...I'm doing this by my self..it will get finished...lol ...By the way...those post are straighter than they look and the fence line isn't quit as uneven as it looks ..though.....I shoot straighter then I set fencing LOL

I will say I have had much better luck with Northern Whitetail Scents as she overnights the shipments to me. It sure does breakdown in time, even in 24 hours, but it stays cold the entire time in the fridge, and I typically have her ship 2x to me about 4-5 days apart as I decoy largely late October and early November only. I have witnessed mature bucks snake along drags from urine she has sold me and I do know that the Dan B. buck a few years back was credited largely to a scent drag using her doe in estrous and buck in rut liquid urines. I spoke at length with him and wrote his harvest story, and he's killed a wall full of mature bucks. I agree that a ninja approach is best. However, there are magical times when things like calls, rattles, scents, etc. can be used to perfection. The problem is that it is indeed very rare for those conditions to be present and a buck willing. If not for nothing else, if I haven't killed my buck by the time I start to decoy, it breaks up the monotony of eat, sleep, treestand/blind that will ensue as the chasing starts to take control of hunting decisions.

I have an email from Region 3 about this..... 1.5 ounces is legal.

Makes you want to say hmmmm...... Sometimes you just need someone to believe. Our words carry life. Our words carry death. I choose life. . .In a hunting camp several years ago I watched grown men struggle trying to zero their guns in the day before the hunt. It was late November in Canada and wind chills were nippy to say the least. With spirits low I told one of the guides to run across the street and get some paper plates. We took the targets down and replaced them with paper plates. The most dejected guy I took it upon myself to set the plate at 100 yards and said, "Shoot three times." The groups were lousy, but all three hit the plate. I jumped up, kicked my leg and yelled, "You got him. All three shots. Next." The downtrodden sportsman smiled, quickly gathered his stuff to let the next guy set down. Everybody hit the plate. Everybody left feeling good as I told them, "You guys can make that shot at 100 yards. You can do it." Not everyone got a chance that week to shoot a deer, but the fellow who fretted the most, the first shooter, shot the biggest buck of his life. He made a perfect shot. We can either uplift people and give them a shot of confidence or we can tear them down with a negative comment or action - sometimes not really meaning to. At the end of my junior year I got the notion to go to grad school. I really never even planned on that. My grades were not great. But I applied and didn't meet a single requirement of the 6 items necessary for acceptance. I went ahead and applied feeling like it was what I was supposed to do. I never received a single positive comment from anybody accept my folks; no friends, no relatives no teachers, nobody. In fact my academic advisor actually laughed in front of me and said, "You'll never get in. I know your grades, remember." Then during the summer I was in the grocery store there in Wagoner, OK and I ran into my former high school music teacher, Mrs. Tommy Lou Abner. "What have you been doing?" she ask. I told her and then said, "I have applied for grad school." I think she could tell I wasn't really sure about that. She actually interrupted me and with a big smile on her face quickly said ,"Oh, that's a done deal there. They're going to want an outstanding young man like you. You're going to get in." I left that store walking on clouds. I went straight home and told my mother, "I'm going to get accepted. In fact I'm going to take summer school classes so I can graduate early and begin grad school in January." I'll never forget the look on my mother's face when I said that. She just nodded and said, "Well, whatever you think." One week later I received my acceptance papers from the school. I was in. I took 16 hours summer school. Raised my grades. Graduated in Dec. and went to grad school on a full tuition scholarship that next January. Our words carry life. Our words carry death. I choose life. Be an encouragement this week to someone. You just really make a difference in that person's life. Have a great day. (source - Roger Raglin FB page)

Ugly story Shawn. Workin', and now doing the single dad thing. Spare time hasn't really been a frequent feature of my recent life. Huntin' time's upon us though. Thought I'd check in and say hi.

1.5 oz liquid and burn it

Pulled the cards yesterday and found 1 cam with dead batteries and some pics on the second.Have 3 out covering the apple trees now for next months pull. Here's a first for me.....Got Milk? http://s158.photobucket.com/user/oneshot244rem/media/AugSep024_zps465a1793.mp4.html

Power plant up date...I'll never plant it again!...Don't get me wrong...it grew...finally...and the deer ate in it all summer...but only the beans and the sunflowers...2acres worth of seed on an acre and 5 sunflower plants made it...right now the sorghum...which is very short is headed out...deer not touching it and they stopped eating the beans as well...vines are getting vary tall...but the best growth were...The weeds Both areas will now have to be put in RR seed for a few years(which reg ag RR soybeans...cheaper then the PP)......which is some thing I don't have to do...a annual rotaion usually works but these are aggressive seeding weeds So lessen for the season learned

I'm thankful my area isn't hunted much (if at all) for turkey or small game. The possibility of tresspassers are always in the back of my mind though, so I am mindful of that. I remind the kids to be aware and not just assume...

Here's a QDMA article, "Bucks Are Loyal To Home Ranges, Come Hell Or High Water". http://www.qdma.com/galleries/bucks-are-loyal-to-home-ranges-come-hell-or-high-water

Regular doe urine on my boots, and i use calls all the time,

got the bow back, $20 cost to have a tru peep put in and the draw module they could not get to go in, so they said. Got home and had the wife call the bow mfg, they gave me a return number and said it would be a easy correction, they would check out the total bow, setup to my requirements and no charge. the bow is a Alpine 3D bow model, 40 inches long, set up as 29 inch draw, and 50 to 60 lbs. Shipped the bow back. Alpine could not do enough to help.

Greybeard, the government that existed in the US in the 50's and 60's is not the same one we have today. Things have changed dramatically. One of the reasons I so oppose the current administration is that it bears no resemblance to the administrations that proceeded it, where freedom and rights were paramount. The country that I love is still the same, but the government has become a monster. I served this land in the military, still do in law enforcement and as a firefighter. I love this country. That's why I hate our government. I hope you can understand what I'm saying. As for the men who lower themselves to the level of whale feces to respond to my posts, I expect nothing less and it only lowers my opinion of you.

You're good to go. Only in NYC it's a no-no. Every where else you're fine.

How did you age the last one? I would have guessed the lopsided buck to be the oldest. He sure is a cool looking deer.

Jussttt a little outside the ears

It was passed so King Cuomo can grandstand and say look on my watch I passed the toughest gun laws in our Nation. Remember you don't need 10 bullets to kill a deer.

Or if there's nothing valuable in there anyway just leave the door unlocked? If they can just walk right in and out at least they would'nt have to break anything.

9pt, 175 lbs. Big woods Adirondack buck.

Well i made a few changes... instead of the rounded top design i decided to put pallets on the sides and have a flat roof... me trying out it out... not sure if i can bowhunt outa it or not...

thats cool you got a pictue of him!

biggest so far,

ownership of handguns was public info before the safe act was enacted.....

Geneseo When I clicked through the series of 9 pics , it almost looked like a chase scene .

fun topic thread btw. Nice to see other poeple's bucks in NY. Sad part is, even though there is great habitat here in some areas and plenty of room, we don't get the monsters you get in the midwest. I'm not sure why that is. I would ASSUME most of it has to do with the fact that there is limitless permits given out and people just slaughter the deer every year. I know people in my camp shoot young deer ever year and I yell at them!

Hoyt Charger is a nice bow but if you can find a leftover Ramage XT it is more bang for your buck

For those of you who think I'm talking B.S., I was born in the US to a Hungarian immigrant father and an American mother in 1955. In 1956 my father and grandfather, who were both Hungarian nationals and politically connected in both the US and Hungary, returned to Hungary to revolt against the Russians and their occupation of Hungary. I'm not going to go into a lot of details about their revolutionary connections, but I will tell you both of them died fighting the Russians. They had NO firearms to fight with. Firearms had been BANNED AND CONFISCATED! My unarmed father was killed throwing a Molotov cocktail into a Russian tank in downtown Budapest and my grandfather was cut to pieces by an AK-47 while trying to get the gun out of the hands of a Russian soldier. If you want to learn more about the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, just Google it and read James Michener's novel, "The Bridge at Andau". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_at_Andau By the time my uncle got to that bridge fleeing the country, the Russians had killed hundreds of people trying to cross it, and then blew it up. He survived by swimming that frigid river at night in the dead of winter. The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 failed because those brave men were promised help from America by the CIA if they started a revolution. The United States let them all die, or get imprisoned, as they waited for help that never came! A similar disaster happened a few years later at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba. My grandmother, aunts and surviving uncles have schooled me in the history of government oppression and resistance. I've also learned what it was like to live without freedom. When this is the topic, I know what I'm talking about. What I see happening in this land is following the same plan the Hungarians experienced in the 1950's. The wimpy complaining and legal wrangling gun owners in America are employing will not work, because that has all been anticipated by the government and measures have been put in place to insure they will fail. Don't insult me with childish comments about militias and fertilizer bombs being employed to fight this crap. That is not what constitutes a intelligent revolt. Hunters and outdoorsman may be apathetic for the most part, but there are many gun owning men in this land who didn't buy their firearms to hunt. They bought them for the specific purpose of defending themselves against a government that turns on it's own people by violating the Constitution. The REAL reason the 2nd Amendment was put into the Bill of Rights in the first place! What we need now is a change to the mindset of patriotic Americans. We need people to wake up and realize what is happening, where it's taking us, and what we need to do about it RIGHT NOW! And that is not armed rebellion....yet! If Americans don't show a major non-compliance attitude right now, the infringement of rights, and I mean ALL rights, will begin to accelerate at an unprecedented rate and eventually all will be lost. I'm not talking about bombs, battles and assassinations here. I'm talking about people convincing everyone they know, on the left or the right, that the change this country is experiencing is not a good change, and the only way it will be reversed is if the majority of Americans refuse to accept it. Anyone who is arrested and prosecuted for a violation of these unjust laws is perceived by the government as a threat to the status quo and the government, not because they are a threat to society or innocent people. Once you have been identified as such a person by the authorities, you are either silenced, or you get off the radar and become an outlaw. What drives you from then on is JUSTICE, in spite of what the Fed says is legal and not legal. This is what made men like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Lech Wałęsa, Mandela, TuTu, Patrick Henry and all of the founding fathers. They even warned us one day this would all be necessary to continue living in a free land. The government propaganda machine has been working overtime in the last decade to convince most uninformed Americans resistance is a felony that comes with dire consequences. That ought to tell you something about the government in itself. But it should also tell you what is in store for you if you comply. Sadly, I don't see a lot of intelligence in the majority of Americans on this subject, and I wonder if enough of them will ever come to their senses before it's too late. But I can assure you, I know what the future of America will be like if they don't, and I'd rather not be a part of it. You can make your choice.

126 Pope and Young 10 pointer. He is on the left. Arrowed him Nov 3rd 1999. He was checking his scrapes from the night before had him at 8 yards put it through his heart.

1)2003 third day of bow season.... 225 dressed... Aged at 5 1/2...... 146 score 2)2008 bow season 3)2012 bow season (still at taxidermy) Sent from my DROID BIONIC using Tapatalk 2

Got this one opening day 2012 in Putnam (3N) with shotgun nice 8pt .my biggest and second buck my first was a spike when I first started hunting Here he is mounted in my wall Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk - now Free

This is my 2011 buck with my Dad. We were hunting a small 40 acre farm in Wayne County and the buck actually passed right by my Dad and he wasn't ready to take the shot then another hunter missed the buck which ended up coming right to my stand. Lucky but this is my biggest buck.

After months of getting pictures and pictures and pictures of nothing but does and some smaller bucks I was able to get this guy on camera. It's not the best picture but you can get the jist.

Not trying to offend.... Under no cercumstance would I recomend this shot to a beggining bowhunter.. Broadside or slightly quartering away shots only.... I wish someone had beaten this into my head when I 1st started..

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