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Well got my bow buck last night in 15-20mph winds. I setup on a funnel in between two thickets at about 3:45 to get the last hour in. There is an absolute giant on the property, but i havent seen him since August, also 2-3 decent bucks(2.5 yr olds), and a small 4 point that i've let walk a few times already. . Around 4:30 this bucks pops out of the thicket to my left nose to the ground and gives me a 40 yard broadside shot. I ended up spining him, and literally raced out of my climber to run up and put a finishing shot on him. I felt a little bad for the shot, but i put him out as quick as possible. He's not the P&Y buck that i was hoping for this year, but im a very happy hunter anyways.

I know many of you guys liked following my posts last year on our hunting adventures with my Redtail Hawk Moka. Well here she is now with her her full red tail. Been hunting her quite a bit but we still have so much vegetation on the underbrush it makes it kinda hard. Our last years tally on rabbits was 55. So far we're up to 4 for the season this year. It'll only get better once the snow starts. Gonna try and get some better vids this year too.

Our friend David tagged out this morning on a nice 8. The last of our group of 4 will hopefully get lucky in the next few days. Been a good year so far for our group. Congrats to the rest on here.

buddy shot his this a.m.

this is the first buck in 10 years with a bow. been hunting all that time but nothing to shoot. this one came by my son but was too far away for him to shoot. he radioed me and told me to watch for him next thing I knew he was right there. I grunted at him he stopped and I let the arrow fly. watched him go back the way he came and crash into a tree. waited for about 45 mins and went to find him he only went about seventy yards.

My buddy Cj's buck.Taken in Western Wayne Co. yesterday afternoon

Congrats on all the great deer guys!!! I shot this one last night on Long island. Waited Till The Morning Because There Was Not Much Blood And Found Him About 70 Yards away. Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk

Rembering that being bored in the stand is better than being bored at work !

i usually just text my other buddies in their stands and talk about how little is going on that morning

Lets see... Rabbit season is open for 151 days and the daily limit is 6. 151 x 6 = 906 potential legal season total. He took 55! You never have anything positive to contribute Early. Did you forget to take your meds today? Miss your nap? Get booted off the AARP forums? You must be a real joy to be around everyday....

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thanks for your useless contribution.........I'm sure it's appreciated.

that could be the reason they stopped doing them.........after hearing him tell the story they decided it wasn't worth it.

Be vewwwwy careful. They've been known to be vewwwy dangerous. Looks to be rutting too. 35.5 year old. LOL May be a pie bald also from what I can tell.

That's easy...from the spread of her hips...length between the curve of her waist and the bottom of her butt cheek...28 yrs old...lol

They are obviously in the "chasing" phase, and may have even advanced to the breeding phase a few hundred yards down the trail. X-Calibur Lighting Systems http://facebook.com/XCaliburLightingSystems

old enough =)

Some times I read. Either off my phone (browse the web, check my social medias, log into huntingny and see what shawnhu and belo are arguing about this time, etc.) or from a book. I read one paragraph, stop, scan the woods, read the next paragraph. My logic is the time it takes for me to read one paragraph is only a few seconds. If I only had a few seconds to spot a deer and shoot it before it got away, then I never really had a safe, ethical shot to begin with. Other times I close my eyes (again, only for a few seconds at a time) and meditate. In both instances, any little noise makes me stop what I'm doing and scan the woods.

I made another bag....want some?

It's so funny. We have Belo and Shawnhu going at it on every thread it seems. LOL I think we need to put them in a steel cage and let them go at each other in there. They can rip out their choice parts from each other, and maybe some organ meats, too. LOL

I sometimes slice out the gonads and make a nice broth out of them... too far? Anybody.. was that just going too far?

I do all day hunts all the time. I will sometimes crawl down from my tree stand and do a little stalking in the opposite direction of my stand and sometimes even bring a camera into the woods and take pictures. Enjoy the forest its part of hunting.

We've all been there. Better a clean miss than days worth of tracking a ghost. Get back out there and get one!!!

styk- are you still in the tree? lol The bear wont hurt ya

I'm no trapper but love this kind of stuff. What are we, the inexperienced trappers, looking at? What's the target species and how will it get caught?

Oh man Joe we need to have a caption contest for that pic,lmao 18 inches....long black.... and Joe blows, would probably pop up at least once on the first page and I'm sure there would be plenty more lauughter to cum,lol!

It's as simple as this...The .223 is capable of making clean kills on deer with proper shot placement and bullet choice... However , you may not always be offered ideal shots , such as nice broadside shots.. It is not an ideal chambering for shots that require a lot of penetration, such as ranging shots, or shots that contact heavy bone. The ,223 excells as a varmint cartridge, but can be very effective on deer under the right conditions.. The .308, however, is ideal for deer sized game and will also do a good job on larger game such as moose and elk with proper bullets... It is NOT overkill for deer, but will make clean kills from any practical shot angle... If I had a rifle in each chambering that I felt confident with, accuracy wise, I would take the .308 for deer every time. Given equal accuracy, I can see NO advantage for the .223 over the .308 as a deer cartridge, and I see definite advantages of the .308 over the .223.

NYS DEC officers are state police officers, that mainly focus on Environmental Law. One of the main differences that we are concerned with is that ECO require a lot less probable cause to search you or your vehicle than your normal state police officer. Like Paula and Steve said, play by the rules and accept that these things will happen. You folks want poachers caught? This is one of the ways DEC does it. Those that use wife's buck tags, etc., they would get ticketed if caught at these stops. X-Calibur Lighting Systems http://facebook.com/XCaliburLightingSystems

I have to say that there are an awful lot of unpleasant personalities being exposed in this thread. It looks like there are a few that I definitely wouldn't care to meet in person and absolutely couldn't stand to be around for very long. Some of the arrogance and just plain unfriendliness probably is something I could have gone a whole lifetime without encountering. There are way too many self-deluded experts here that are like a bunch of jackals that simply lay in wait for any opportunity to flame any mistake that may occur in a topic. That seems to be their whole reason for belonging to forums. Who the hell needs that? I have to wonder just how much conversation is squelched because of the arrogance of some of these people who truly love to take advantage of someone's bad luck and do their best to make them feel even worse.

Saturday (10/26) - Morning hunt in the Creek Ladder Stand; Temps in the 40's and breezy with stronger gusts out of the SW. I was hoping they would be moving with the rut creeping up on us and with the storm front that's due to move in later in the day....And they were moving - -Seen a coyote and 5 bucks! At about 8:20 AM I heard some grunting mixed in the wind that sounded like it came from somewhere in front of me. I tried picking apart the landscape in front of me. Then finally some movement about 40 - 50 yards off caught my eye and I could see deer legs moving...then I saw antlers. It was a buck and coming my way. He was grunting and moving slowly in the right direction. As he was getting closer the binocs confirmed it was a SHOOTER through the thick brush but he had stopped moving. Then I saw some deer legs to my left. It was a smaller buck, a little 3 or 4 point. The next thing I know the shooter buck runs at the smaller buck. Now I could see that the shooter was a mature 8 point. The smaller buck ran towards me and went by less than 10 yards from my tree but the 8 didn't follow. Instead, he ambled back towards the thick brushy area and started to rub a tree. Then while watching him I saw another deer coming through the area. A small 6 point was walking towards the 8 point. But the 8 wasn't going to have any of that - the next thing I know, the 8 point ran at the 6 point and chased him right by my tree. Then the 8 point circled back towards the thick brushy area. Now the 6 point was walking right behind my tree - less than 5 yards from my tree; thankfully the wind direction was right. As the 6 point crossed behind me, the 8 point didn't like him circling towards the thick brush area again and the 8 point started walking towards him and grunting...Perfect...right towards my shooting lane. Now the 8 point is standing less than 20 yards from me but with a tree directly in front of his vitals. I stood at full draw for what seemed like an eternity waiting for him to take that final fatal step...but he didn't. Instead he turned directly away and walked in line of that darn tree. As I was thinking about blowing on my grunt tube, I heard movement behind me again...Oh yeah, that little 6 point was still there. Now when he walked again, the 8 point had enough of that. He turned again, heading to the 6 point and again heading towards my shooting lane. This time he walked like a deer with a mission towards the 6 pointer but again managed to stop behind a tree. As I was at full draw again, he finally did it...He took the step I needed exposing his chest region. He was about 18 - 20 yards away and staring at that little 6 point. I let the arrow fly......THWACK; God I love that sound of a good hit. The buck ran towards the pines and out of sight but I heard a crashing sound within seconds of him running away. I was hoping the crash was him going down and not just running through the pines. I was concerned about the shot because the buck had bolted towards the 6 point seemingly at about the same time I released my arrow. I let my arrow fly at about 8:45 and I waited until 10:00 to be sure since I was concerned about the hit. Funny thing...while sitting there two other smaller bucks, a small 6 that could have been that 6 from earlier and a 4 point came through the area. When I got down and went to the spot the buck was standing at the shot...No blood and No arrow. Oh boy...Not liking this. I got on my knees and looked in the direction that I thought I heard the crash and ... Oh Yeah...white belly just into the pines! As I headed that way now, I came across some decent blood and found my arrow. Then, I walked up to him...Oh Yeah...a nice mature 8 point bucK! Love this time of year! Good Luck all.....Hunt Safe, Hunt Hard, & Have Fun!

moog got his buck.

Just want to start out by saying, this is the first time ever hunting on Halloween day. in all my years i never was able to get out and one of the things i always wanted to do was harvest a buck on this day. i slipped into my stand this morning around 5:40am, not 15 minutes later i hear walking around from behind me and i figured id start getting my mask on and get ready. the foots steps seemed to have stopped and i did not hear anything walk off so i knew what ever was there is still there... at first light i notice a few doe walking in from behind me, they were standing there in the dark the entire time. For some reason the doe were all corralled up in this thick area literally around my tree. Standing for awhile, grazing leaves and the yearling were even playing together. ive never seen deer hang around so long, it looked like they all sticking close by eachother. i know from my past few sits in this tree these doe were being run pretty hard so i didnt know if that had anything to do with it. at around 8:45 most of the deer had moved off and i sat there for another 15 minutes not seeing anything. It felt like it was one of those morning where anything can happen and at any time, nice overcast and no wind. i decided to hit the MAD Hyper Growl and do a sequence of long grunts followed by a snort wheeze then another long grunt. i waited 10 seconds or so and repeated. No sooner then i get my call back in my pocket i hear crashing through the woods and heavy steps, no doubt a buck coming so i get ready. This buck squirts in fast looking for what made the calls. Hes turning his head fast in every direction. He then steps into my lane at roughly 30 yards broad side but with his off leg far back in mid step. As i release my arrow it felt great, i watched as the fireknock hits it mark but no pass through. i knew the arrow stopped in his off leg after impact. The deer kicks, and makes a dash and stops 40 yards from where i hit him and crashes down. the whole thing lasted 8 under 10 seconds, text book im thinking. i was so surprised i could even see him go down in the thick cover i am hunting. upon finding him hung up in brush i could see where the arrow hit the off leg confirming my thoughts. i have this deer on trail cam from the past 2 weeks and he seemed to frequent past this stand. My origonal thought was i was going to pass this deer when i saw him. when i saw him come in this morning i thought he was slightly bigger then what i thought and being halloween, this was my buck! After 2 previous seasons trying to iron out the RIGHT tree and learn how i was going to make the perfect ambush after all the countless encounters with deer over the 120 and 130" mark, i was finally able to get one to feel comfrotable enough to step into a lane offering the shot anyone could ask for. The rage did its job and simply ate him up! breaking bone in and out with ease... after the gut job i can see i took out lung and almost cut the heart in half. for those who say the job starts after the shot, well your right. the drag out and effort to get him out of this spot thats a half mile in was fun to say the least, after he was tagged and all loaded up a sence of accomplishement had hit me. i was in the woods by myself today and did not have my partner with me so getting him in the truck was interesting lol with things heating up in the woods and another tag to fill you know where ill be! good luck to all you guys!

Just got back from the range after shooting my new muzzleloader, the LHR Redemption. I was very impressed and can see why it got the muzzleloader of the year award from Field and Stream. This is built in NH by the former T/C design engineers who left when T/C moved to Springfield with Smith and Wesson. The gun has some very innovative features including being hammerless, using a match trigger and using a breech plug system that eliminates the inside threading of the barrel. The breach is held in with a collar that now puts the threading on the outside of the barrel eliminating trying to clean those breech plug threads. Without the threading the rifling now is all the way down into the barrel which improves accuracy. The barrel, made by Green Mountain, is coated both inside and out, a first. The process, called armonite, does not change the diameter and is advertised as being corrosion proof. Pretty innovative stuff and all made in the US. I took it out to the range and shot about 20 rounds through it using Blackhorn 209 powder and Shockwave 250's. I mounted a 2-7 Leupold Ultimate Slam on it and shot sub inch groups at 100 yards and one and a half inch groups at 200 yards. No doubt this gun will now be my go to muzzleloader. I like my Omega, and it has served me well, but this thing has too many other features that I need to put through the paces. If you haven't seen it check out their website: http://lhrsportingarms.com/ Rick

Geno.Who has to shave more often ? You or her?

True death occurs when the brain dies. The whole point of any shot is to prevent oxygen flow from reaching the brain. Even a direct heart shot, the brain still lives for a couple of seconds and thus will experience pain even if it's for a very short amount of time. With that said, the brain (especially on a deer) is a small target that is heavily encased in bone thus leaving room for a greater chance of error or deflection.

You owe it to the animal for a quick , ethical humane kill . Not sure if head shots fall into that category. Why not wait it out for a better shot ?

Oh I agree Culver. We should also have a section just for deer processor information. Ill run it by John. Even if the reloading section is just a sub board in the Guns and Rifles forum.

Better use a rifle, it's raining outside today.

Why is it about 'confrontation" and not about what is legal and right?

You are right, Steve....We are targeted because we are hunters. That's sad...for most of us are law-abiding citizens. Being a hunter, by itself, should not stand for probable cause. It is because that large numbers of us choose to capitulate for "safety and convenience" that this stuff goes on.

When I was a kid I did all day sits and they made me never want to hunt again. As I got into archery on my own I switched up regiments. In order to maximize my opportunities and hedge my weather bets, I tend to only hunt mornings and evenings. I can hunt a lot of 3-5 hour sessions, I doubt my wife would let me get away with too many full day sits. I also hunt light, and hold my bow or gun at the ready at all times...thats hard to do with a thermos and sandwich. It has worked for me in that I see and shoot way more deer doing as many short sessions as I can rather than sitting all day long a couple times a year.

Agreed, I find it very difficult to age from the road 500 yards away though personaly. I saw a few dandy's in the same chunk of woods I live on, and it gets hunted VERY heavily by a local large family. Gave me hope actually, and I don't even barely hunt there..lol

On this forum?? I'm sure there would be some beauties! All we need is someone stupid like me to offer up the photo... my job is done here fellas.. carry on...

I saw this buck (in my profile picture) last year on November 6 at 11:50 a.m. during one of my all day sits. I knew he was in there as I had seen him twice before so I figured if I sat all day he'd have to come through sometime. He was by himself most likely looking for a girlfriend. I was hunting out of my climbing tree stand in a strip of woods that was only about 70 yards wide. On one side of the strip of woods was approximately 30 acres of fields and the other side was approximately 50 acres of clear cut. I figured he wouldn't want to be out in the field in the open and he probably wouldn't want to be in that clear cut since it was so thick (and then he wouldn't be able to see the girls). Unfortunately I didn't get a shot at him that day as I was in the wrong tree but I finally bagged him on the 5th day of the rifle season at 8:30 a.m. He was chasing a doe the day I shot him.

Sit from sunrise till around 11. Walk around/stalk/still hunt. Sit again from 3 till dark.

Most falls happen while getting in and out of the stand . 3 points of contact are essential to keep you safe. It may take a few extra minutes but it will save your life.

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Sweet redemption! 9 point i shot this morning. 140#

Land owner should make the call , tell them and let them decide.

That's an understatement bubba... I've been up in your country - it's 3 miles past the edge of the earth!