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8 yards shot ran 20 yards and dropped. Simmons Tree Shark and an arrow that weighs 630 grain did the job.

I have no clue where my attachment went. Lets try again....

Well after three days up in our Catskills camp seeing nothing but birds and squirrels we packed up Monday afternoon and headed back home. By the time we got back it was 3 p.m. I decided to jump right back in the jeep and head to my bow hunting spot in Rockland county (NY). I was settled in the stand by 4:30 and I'm glad I did. Right as the sun was setting, I had a few fawns and a young buck feeding below my stand. A nice mature doe came out and I began that slow, calculated process of getting the bow ready to draw. Just as I was about to draw I saw another deer coming down the trail. A buck! He hit the Y in the trail and thankfully he picked to go to the left. He came right under my stand. He paused and I let the arrow go, heart and lung shot, I heard him crash and sat shaking in my tree stand for a good 15 minutes or so. Only my second buck ever, I was absolutely thrilled to put a good shot on him and recover him. 100 grain Spitfire Maxx broadheads, Mission Venture bow.

I was reading a book when at 5pm I thought I heard a grunt...there had been nothing but squirrels and that stinking wood chuck....ha the gun comes out tomorrow,,,,...I glassed the woods and there was a large doe and fawn...all spooked up...they exited stage lft...when I saw legs moving 140 yrds out...in files some fawn but absolutely huge doe with some yearling doe....Great they will be headed this way ...the fawn already were headed for the big oak behind the blind....when on the scene charges a rowdy 6pt...and he manages to chase all the older doe out of the area...then proceeds to feed...well this doe wasn't look too big to me until she had another doe and fawn walk by...the 6pt was headed our way and she kept a weary on on him...at 20 yrds she finally turned broad side and I let the arrow fly...it hit her and she nearly tipped over and then reared up and flipped over on to the arrow...it had hit her opposite shoulder...she never left that spot until I picked her up with the tractor.... But alas she then promptly sought her revenge...besides breaking the arrow....when returning with the tractor there were to good sized fawn standing over her ....geezzz....thankfully she had no milk so they will be fine and have each other....I glanced back as I drove away with her in the bucket...the two just stood on the edge of some sorghum watching us leave ...Oh well it won't taint the taste!

This came to me last night. During this last weekend, Sunday, a 15 year old youth was lucky enough to put his tag on the buck of a lifetime. This weekend was his first time hunting deer. 13 scorable points, going to gross in the mid 160's. Bases just shy of 8". Deer was aged at 5-1/2. Taken at 20 yards How do you top that in a hunting career.

Here is my first buck with the bow!! He came in around 5:30 with another smaller buck down a heavily traveled path towards my stand. The smaller buck split off from the larger buck and started heading towards my 9:00 which is directly downwind of me. The larger buck kept heading down the trail, stopped at a scrape with a licking branch, took a piss down his back legs and then started heading towards my 12:00. As this was happening I notice the smaller buck now directly downwind of me is putting his nose in the air and staring in my direction. The larger buck begins to turn and present me with a quartering shot and what is going through my head is "I better take this shot now before the little buck figures me out and blows"!!! So I drew back and launched an arrow..... He jumped and ran ten yards... then took 7 or 8 slow steps and then went out of view disappearing under the canopy of branches. Now I am texting my buddies how I screwed up and missed a nice buck and I'm not worthy of sitting in this stand, etc. So 30 minutes go by and I decide that I at least want to go find my arrow and broad-head. So now I'm on the ground looking around and I notice blood on the ground!!!!! As I am having this epiphany I notice the buck laying under a tree about 25 yards away looking at me!! So I grab my bow and the only shot I had was through his neck so I took it and ended it for him. Turns out my first shot went through his one lung and then passed through his gut on the opposite side. I know I should have just left the woods when I saw him down and waited it out but I couldn't contain my excitement so I took the follow up shot. Can't wait till November 16th.

Just posting the pic for people to enjoy. Not the biggun' I'm looking for but nevertheless enjoyable hunt. Had to bump him off the bed at the end of that morning hunt as I wasn't planning on shooting him this year given he's a basket 6. Snuck back in for the p.m. hunt and he returned to it.

I was told by a dec officer before that you need to call them or or the police and usually they will put a tag on it for you or if you don't want to try that you have to use your own tag other wise it's illegal.

that went a field this past weekend during the youth deer hunt! Your memories will last a lifetime!

It's amazing how a thread that started out as a reminder turned into battleground for a few. This thread should have celebrated the fact that the youth hunters in NY could have posted their stories of in the field. Their successes and their experiences in the deer woods. As a bowhunter and gun hunter I can honestly say that I am disgusted with the exploits of some members on here. Now we've even resorted to name calling...makes you wonder who the real "youth" are!!

There sure are people who do but I, personally, don't seem to understand it. Winning is the accomplishment. Not the medal that's giving to the winner. It's like showing off a medal that you didn't win.

I've never been a big fan of guns with exposed hammers for kids just starting out, unless they have prior experience handling them. The fact that the hammer has to be let down by holding it back, pulling the trigger and easing it forward once it was fully cocked makes me a little uneasy.

Bucks bed willy nilly - no way to figure them out. He is facing north, with the wind blowing south. There's a slight knoll/hill there that we're on. He's watching the area he can't smell and the wind is blowing scent to him from the south where he's not looking.

that's awesome. He is going to be disappointed from here on out haha.

what about bluegrass? my ego is sensitive. i do require pats on the back too

The budget will never be balanced when half the country depends on the other half to take care of their lazy asses, and govt keeps doing it. Now wer need to borrow more money to pay the interest on what we have already borrowed, and that is supposed to just get rubber stamped. I remember ol barry the wonder man saying a few years back it should not be raised as it is a sign of poor leadership. When you are borrowing money to pay the bill for money you already borrowed there is a serious problem. The budget will get balanced when we stop paying out more than we take in. Simple math.

Trying not to be offended by that remark. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk - now Free

My point was that how is a 14/15 year old shooting a shotgun at a deer any different than me shooting my .17 at a squirrel or my .22 Hornet at a coyote in terms of the shot spooking the deer. Or by moving through the woods. I wasn't aware that anyone had to pay to hunt this weekend. As far as I know, as long as you hold a valid bow license, you've already paid to hunt these 46 days, so saying that this is a weekend you paid to hunt is kinda ridiculous. FYI, those youth hunters paid to hunt this weekend, by the same logic, because they paid for a big game tag that was valid for them to use this weekend.

I have grabbed a few deadheads (my picture is from a deadhead actually) while shed hunting and it never crossed my mind that it could somehow be illegal - knowing NY laws, I better hide e'm!

I was away for a while, but I remember reading this exact thread last year. The names were changed to protect the innocent.

After a nice cold morning two doe bounced into the winter rye plot. Took one. The other stayed in the area a few seconds after the shot broadside. She seemed puzzled, could have doubled but I let her walk. Told myself only one doe off the property this year. Good hunting.

Took this one at 8 yards. High angle hit both lungs went 20 yards and dropped.

Last Sunday the Mrs. And I switched cars I was traveling for work so I kept hers at the airport and she used mine and had the winter tires put on while I was gone. The night before I left I moved the hunting gear I keep in my trunk into her Rav 4, scent free bags full of clothes, bow in the case, otter etc. I needed to make room to put the tires in for her. Rather then bring my hunting stuff inside I left it in the car as usually. Next morning I head to the airport early and in a hurry and notice some cd's, paperwork etc on the passenger side floor it looked the the car was rummaged thru but everything was closed up so I really paid no attention and knew all my stuff was still in the back. I get back Thursday night and Friday AM the wife and I switch cars back but I still had a set if tires in mine and I left the hunting gear in hers to switch after work. She now notices her gps and 20 dollars are missing which is then I realize the car was broken into I must have left it unlocked. She never uses the gps and oh well and the 20 dollars could be worst considering my bow and hunting clothes are still there. After work I go to get my hunting stuff out of her car and realize my bow is not in the case! It was stolen! Call renter insurance and the cops file a report and claim and I'm miserable! My brother recommended checking craigslist and wouldn't you know it there is a listing from oct 10th with a pic of my bow from a pawn shop around tr corner. Pawn owner was nice enough to give me the bow back Friday night without much hassle. Had an awesome sit Saturday AM and was able to close the deal on a doe. All this after thinking my entire season was lost. Lesson we'll learned!

Three local Steuben County bruisers...several years of history with these deer...all 3 are 5.5 - 6.5 years old. 2013: 2012: A friend of mine has been watching these two for the past 3 years... 2013: 2013: 2012:

Headed over to my father in laws (8f) apparently he has an overabundance of does lol

I get it. I don't bow hunt so I'm an inferior hunter and my opinion (one that's shared by MANY bowhunters on this site, BTW) is somehow invalid. Maybe I don't bow hunt because I don't have time to practice enough to feel like I'd be capable of taking an ethical shot on a deer. Maybe I'm able to fill enough tags during gun and ML season to more than fill my freezer, and that of a couple friends as well, that I don't need to spend the extra money on a bow and the bow license. Maybe it's something that I've thought about getting into, but jackasses like yourself have really turned me off to bow hunting because I don't want to become the pompous ass that you display yourself to be on this site. But, really, WTF difference does it make if I bow hunt or not?

I love finding cameras in the woods. I used to moon them years ago, but now I just leave them where they are. They let me know that I need to find a different place on the public land I hunt. I hate seeing flashlights walking towards me at 5:30am on opening day

On the back of all of my cams, I have a note attached. It basically says the following: If you can read this note, your picture has already been taken and sent to me via email and text message. Please leave the camera the way you found it. If you have any questions please call me at xxx-xxx-xxxx. I have gotten pics of people looking right into the camera, but nobody has ever taken a cam yet.

Knew it was too good to be true! lol

Last nights doe was taken from 12 feet up and 20 yrds out in the pic you can see were it went in...but I thought it hit the opposite shoulder before she reared up and body slammed the rest of shaft...it happened as you know fast...I quartered her and found the broad head with 3ins. of carbon splinters attached...firmly imbedded from the under side of spine...she had cut the artery while breaking off the shaft... I have found broad heads in strange places...on two different bucks quartering away shots on the rt side that didn't pass thru ...I found the broad head sticking out the lft ham and on another the middle of the rt ham...they had snapped the shafts as well....shooting a recurve when starting out I never ...got pass thru's and my poundage is 49 so some times I still don't...which has never bothered me because the arrow tends to quickly go on a shredding mission if not lodged in bone....

I have one for ya, but not on hand at the moment. Ill post it tonight.

this thread was political from the begining. you didnt have to click on it or read whats posted. not being a wise@#s but like anything else, nobody forced anyone to click on this.

I argued so hard against the youth season last year but to be honest with you there was barely a kid in the woods and no gunshots where I am so I really do not think it disturbs the deer to much.....

Problem is that some of those uneducated adult hunters are the ones that are teaching the young hunters. I'd rather see it be mentored by sporting clubs / dec. That said... I'd figure if the woods are noisy around mine, and mine is peaceful... then these people are just moving deer my way. Sent from my DROID BIONIC using Tapatalk

A guy I went to school with took the head of a beautiful buck and was going to have it mounted . The DEC came to his house and demanded he turn it over to them . At first he denied having it but was told that if he didn't hand it over , they would further investigate and prosecute him . He gave in ..... which leads me to believe that it is illegal .

LOL..... You'd love my 26" barrel with no brake in the "light" package.....Just over 7 lbs and some ounces all up with 2 down and 1 in the chamber. . Some 200gr stout loads, and you wonder if it kicks the same on both ends? I actual like it better as I used the same frame/stock/scope set up with a 300 RUM. That'll clear your cobwebs. Shot a pile of stuff with that, the Wby is a virgin still.<<sigh>> Damn ugliest brake on the Wby barrel, embarrassing to leave it on at times. Hope know one ever has to be next to me when shooting, good for recoil.....hell on the guys ears (or ladies) next to you. I had a 99' in 300 Sav; sold it when needed a few funds several years ago. Damn fine shooter and one of 2 rifles I wish I had never parted with. Nothing fancy and just an overall pleasant to shoot gun. Like to find another at some point. Hey; anyone know where I can get them underoo's for Blaser? Them's the bees knees.

there's no question that an alert deer can and most likely will react to you shooting a bow at them....the only question is, will it result in a fatal shot, wounding shot or miss......

Its not setting up false expectations. It gives them a chance to get a taste, in nicer weather, and calm deer. If they can harvest an animal without having to freeze to death to do it the first time, the thought is that the retention rate may prove to increase. Time will tell whether that part of it is true, but thats no reason not to say the program is currently successful at putting youth hunters in the field safely, and they are being successful at harvesting deer. The theories of it being an old school, opening day, war zone atmosphere has not held true. Sorry, but the naysayers have already been proven wrong. Why do you keep beating a broken drum?

Reading comprehension says he killed a deer today. He didn't say he was tracking it. Low blow? I hope you weren't too offended and recover soon.

Congratulations to this fine young hunter on his first & successful youth hunt, he is now hooked and pumped on hunting! He has been shown the ropes & has become a safe & ethical hunter! Your step-Dad is VERY proud of you!!!!!!!!!!

Did you or do you report the illegal activity? If not you are just as guilty. I know I know dec sucks never get anyone to show up etc etc.

Dads doe from this morning!

I have a encore, and a contender I would not recommend it personally, don't get me wrong they're great guns, however for what barrels cost, you're better off buying a different gun for different hunts, you can get a pretty nice ruger American and save enough money to buy a decent shotgun and every one would rather own two guns

any thread titled "Deer Down", prior to actually finding the deer, is the kiss of death....................

Got this doe right before sunset last night. She came out with another doe and a fawn and she was the bigger of the two adults. First deer taken with a bow I just got my bow last year so this is my first full deer season to hunt with a bow and I love it. I did a tonnn of shooting to get ready for this season and it paid off. She led the way out then came the fawn. I had already started to draw my bow and think the fawn heard me. It looked right at me and then the mother did to I let the arrow fly and ended up getting a great shot. She ran maybe 20 yards off the trail and piled up in a shallow swamp land. Lets goo deer season 2013 for my first bow harvest. Im very pumped lol !!!

I know he's not too big, but it's my first deer with a bow. Taken in 7s 10/1/13 at 0725 am.

First one of the season for me! Had 6 or 7 come out just before sunset, and this one gave me the best shot. 30 yards, double lung, right through the pump station!

October 2nd....

Had 11 deer come out in my new plot this morning. 4 does, 4 button bucks, 3 fawn does. Shot the biggest doe at 20 yards quartering to me. Rage took out lung and heart. She ran ~80 yards and piled up. 130 lbs hanging. Didn't have my camera arm but got video of her before I shot her.

you can bet its the neighbors. hows the saying go? 2 eyes for an eye...