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wear appropriate camo when you go looking. Like golf shorts and a polo shirt....lol

http://flic.kr/p/gj29um here my main beam 8 with a tinky kicker on the brow tine, good luck to all!

i love it when a plan comes together!! Hunted a new stand location that i put up in june. right next to a funnel/intersection before a creek and open field. perfect PM spot. I knew with temps so high i wouldnt see much until dusk. sure enough, at about 6, 2 big does came through. they started making their way down another trail but i gave a soft grunt and they stopped dead in their tracks and turned my way. they came in head on and i was worried i wouldnt get a broadside shot. the big one knew something was up and was quite tense and was sniffing around. i was drawn on her for a good 30-45 seconds. she slowly turned broadside at about 20 yards and i let a rage fly. perfect shot and i watched my lighted nock fly in behind the shoulder and then stick in the ground behind her. she jumped and didnt make it more than 30 yards. great blood trail from the rage. great opening day. now im feeling confident and im looking for some of those big 8 pointers i have on camera at a few of my spots!!

Well, so far up here in the NZ, Hit this decent 8pt on the afternoon hunt on Saturday, called in "hunting" to work on Sunday and recovered the buck first light, no coyotes which was a great stroke of luck, butchered him up and had to work Monday thru today, Will be back in the stand tomorrow afternoon! Really happy to have used the leftover tag from last season and not waste it! My buddy stuck an 8pt about the same size in the SZ yesterday afternoon, outside of those, only saw one guy up the road got a doe on Sat as well. It may be warm but there is a ton of sign & food for the deer this year, I have a feeling we are going to see the best season in years! Good luck all and shoot straight!!!! - 'Slayer!

8pt I killed in Saratoga County on Sat (9/28/2013), second day of early bow in the NZ

thanks everyone! i was in south hampton long island. i was starting to second guess myself on the shot but i found my arrow and it was a complete pass through covered in a thick rich red blood so i knew i caught liver... started to tract and i found just a few specs of blood so i started to get worried... but followed the direction i last saw him and he was another 20 yards from there... best part was he ran right to my truck!! i had to drag him 40 feet!!!

Welcome to the forum.....great screen name!

a whole lot of nothin for me...but its ok, its early... looking fwd to some lower temps tho lol

Hi all, New hunter here. I have gear and tags (no gun). I live in New York City where the hunting isn't great (unless you're a fan of 8th Avenue pigeon). I would really appreciate the opportunity to go hunting with someone or a group of hunters. I have access to a car and will go almost anywhere. I would love to learn from you and I will help in any way. I can drag, gut, help process, butcher, and even cook - anything you need. Nobody in my group of family or friends hunts, and I would like to learn so that one day I can go alone and teach my friends and future family how to hunt. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I'm happy to know Mike is still working hard at his shop. He is presently working long hours right now due to a backlog of bow work, sales and service. I went in today with a problem, worked me in somehow and got me out within an hour. He didn't have to do that, but the work he did was much appreciated...A darn nice guy and a very knowledgeable archery guy.

So....

First off, welcome to the sport. Do you have a bow? What part of part of the city are you in? Your timing is a little bad because season just started so most hunters will be focus on their own hunt rather than try and drag a newbie around with them. Hunters also tend to want to get to know a hunter before bringing them out to the woods. Keep at it. Participate on this forum. Let others get to know you and maybe later on in the season, hunters will have more time available.

I forgot to go sit where the deer were.

he brought in physics experts? I'm sorry but this all sounds like a bunch of bull. No reason he can't come in here and reply to the thread, he seems intelligent enough. Post a pic of his ticket or fine (name blacked out is fine) and I'll shut up.

I forgot how much i hate long sits in my old ladder stand. Thankfully i was in my climber all afternoon, i could sit 3 days straight in that thing

Sounds like he defended himself. what is that saying? "A man who represents himself has an idiot for a client"

He was only carrying it to a likely ambush spot to try and catch a squirrel.

I had a great afternoon, bright sunshine, temps in the low 70's, I also saw for the first time a lot of deer, I had 3 mom doe's walk by the ground blind with a total of 6 fawns. Also saw one turkey. It was just great being out there with the smell of fall in the air, lots of apple on wood trees, they smell so sweet, the bee's were out on the apples. I have seem the mom doe's most of the year, but never saw they all together, they were hitting the apples hard. One fawns came so close I thought I could pet her with my hand. Now I sure wish a big buck would walk by like these 9...

I also carry mine upside down so the metal teeth are facing skyward. This allows me to hook my pack back there and I also avoid wrecking my ankles when taking a large step. If you lock the two pieces together properly and use a strap to secure them together I find the noise is not bad-some clanking is inevitable when at the tree base though.

Killed a 3 pointer tonight, with about 20 minutes of light left. 5 yard shot. He was with a larger buck. Thankful to have him going in the freezer. Girlfriend saw 7 doe and a basket, in the AM.

My book smart friends said I was wasting my time in the 76 degre day. I saw a buck chase 4 doe around me, a wild black cat went under me and Peter rabbit went hopping by. Not to mention I was in the wood while he was working....so how does he like me now I wonder?

Live from the kitchen table. Just had a piece or back strap and heart sautéed with onions, tomatoes, some hot pepper, and potatoes....all courtesy of live from the stand this morning.

Got a doe this morning at 7:45. First with my new bow. Very happy. I'm trying to post pic but it says your forum has disabled image sharing from this app. Anyway. Just got home, about to butcher and then eat!!

i would just leave it outside and eventually the smell will wear off.

If he wanted to do that he would have started a crossbow thread.

You needed a better lawyer.

The worst, sorry ladies, is when you feel a blowout coming on... Just saying, because, climbing down out of a tree then doing a duck walk as far as you can make it while sweat is pouring down your face praying nothing bad happens really, really, really SUCKS. THEN there is the fear of forgetting the toilet paper all the ways back at your stand or not having any at all. Been there done that!

Back yard buck

no afternoon hunt for me today...just got in from picking first batch of grapes for juice...will clean,sort and fire up the steamer to can quarts of concentrated juice....mmmnnn Goood!!! (sp)

She's a big momma!

Just reminded me! Last fall, I was in my stand and saw yellow bobbing it's way to me through the woods. As it got closer, I could see it had a squirrel attached to it! The nearest cornfield was ~300 yards away. The squirrel stopped ~5 yards in front of me, looked up at me a few times, and buried the corn ear right there under some leaves. Had to chuckle to myself thinking I'd have a lot of explaining to do if an ECO showed up and I had to explain the corn ear "conveniently" placed 5 yards from my stand! LOL "No, really officer, a squirrel put that there!" Wondered if the squirrel was trying to help me OR get me into trouble!

Just a phone call into work telling them I would be late. Boss might get pissed but she will get over it lol

Bow hunting would open alot of options, lots of public land on the island, you can practice shooting together and get to know someone a bit better as well

My wife understands that it's hunting season and I will spend every free min out hunting. But she still misses me and waits for me to come home ha ha ya right . She is happy if the honey do list is done and I don't spend to much money on hunting stuff. And if I don't wake her leaving early on a weekend mornings. The funny thing is I bet most of you have it the same way. But I do love this women of mine and I am thankful for everything she does for me. Love you Baby and thanks Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk - now Free

Amazing season so far and it just started!!! My son went hunting for the first time this year and I got both his deer hunts on video... then I had the privilege of taking a young lady that had no one to take her hunting... and she takes a really nice NJ buck for her 1st buck! Doesn't get any better than this!

Maybe, maybe not. I met a guy on here who was a new hunter last year. We pretty much hunt together and share properties to hunt now. Got to help him track his first deer. Maybe he has some luck.

agreed, hopping onto a website the day of the season and looking to find someone to hunt with whom you never met and need to borrow a gun is unlikely to happen, but ya never know

I'm not much of a bowhunter, but if you just grazed him I don't think it would have broken the arrow in half.

so you ask permission, only time you stop tracking is when you loose a track.

My thoughts exactly. I still say shenanigans.

Had to work yesterday morning. Got out of work at noon, was in the stand by 3:30pm. I forgot my binocs but I saw what I thought was a deer a field over from me around 445. Anyway, shortly after 6 I have a fork horn at 24 yards and a spike is following him. Well the fork was in my shooting lane he lifts his head in the air, licks his nose and is sniffing hard. The wind was blowing in my face, he shouldn't have been able to smell me. He stands there for about a minute and then works his way into the woods and the spike takes the same exactly path. I'm glad I choose to let him walk because my dad goes over the radio he needs a drag rope (which neither of us had). He arrowed a nice fat doe. Needless to say I'm happy with my stand placements thus far lol. We also forgot to have a processer lined up for such a warm day. Luckily a buddy came up big with a phone number and we will have her back on friday.

Every stand I own gets hung on a tree in my yard pre season,I get on it kinda bounce a bit. Check straps,cables and so on. My climber gets set up and I climb up it as well. That said my Lone Wolf is an easy pack in and set up. Speaking of pre season checks I also hang from my harness just a few feet up. You have to test your equipment. You might be surprised how much your harness rides up when hanging from it,how much it may hurt in your groin area,how it restricts your arm movement and so on.oh and if you don't double the weave on the leg buckles you just might find that when hanging they come undone and you fall out......

Same here. I'm up in mine right now

Tree jumped out at me! Sent from my DROID BIONIC using Tapatalk 4

Wayyy to hot for hunting... Live from my pickup with the AC on ahhhh lol Can't believe it's this warm... Forecast was right... Going to head back in soon. The worst day in the woods still beats the best in the office

I don't really have a problem with hot weather. I simply take my shirt off. Of course it does hurt like hell when I pin that backtag on.

Check, check, 1-2-3...........Good to go!

there are a lot of odd things about this post... 1 of which it being your first. But I'm going to leave it alone.

If it sounds like an elephant herd = squirrel, if it sounds like a squirrel = deer

Yeah, that's how the bone collectors usually think. But like I said, knock yourselves out!