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For all our brothers and sisters on HuntingNY.com. We pray... May the Lord God make you an honorable hunter who respects fellow hunters, the animals, and all creation; May He keep safe you and all who share the field or the forest; May He make all hunters proud of their kill, generous with their meat, and thankful in all circumstances. May God bless you: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. * A Novena in honor of St. Hubert, patron saint of hunters, for November 16, 2013 to December 8, 2013: * Prayer to be an honorable hunter By the grace of God may I always honor, thank and adore the Lord God who created the animals and saw that each species was good. Let me love the God who made humans in His own image and likeness and set them over the whole world, to have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth (Gen 1:26). By my honorable conduct as a hunter let me give a good example and teach new hunters principles of honor, so that each new generation can show respect for God, other hunters and the animals, and enjoy the dignity of the hunt. * Prayer for safety Pray for the good sense to care for my weapon and to carry it and fire it responsibly. Pray for the animals, that the shots are clean and do not cause unnecessary suffering to the animal. * Prayer for honest hunt Lord, may I make an honest count of game, respecting the legal limits of game in order to preserve the balance of life and death among the animals. May I so love the truth that I always give an honest recounting of the hunting stories while keeping them interesting to my friends. May I also listen to my friends’ stories with enjoyment and without envy. * Prayer against selfishness Lord, I do not need to take every animal in the forest, nor must I take the best or nothing. Guide me to seek the best and to accept what I get. May I never take more than my limit and let me always help maintain the balance of nature in relationship to the environment and the numbers of animals there. Keep me aware of the needs and desires of other hunters while I always try to hunt at my own best skill. * Prayer for successful hunt Lord, I pray that I may take down the game in as painless a way as possible. May I recognize my limits and take the shots I know I can make, not taking a shot that risks wounding an animal unnecessarily. * Prayer of thanksgiving for the hunt Lord, I thank You for the opportunity to go out on the hunt. I thank You for the time alone to think and reflect on life. I thank You for the time with hunting friends, enjoying good fellowship, good stories, meals and drinks. Thank You for the beauty seen during the hunt and for the game taken and shared. I thank You especially for a safe hunt for myself and for all the hunters who share the field. * Prayer to share the fruit of the hunt Lord, I am so blessed to be able to hunt and I appreciate the blessings You have bestowed upon me. Yet I know that so many others are in great need. Give me the grace to share the food of the hunt not only with my family and friends but also with those who have greater need: the hungry and the poor. May my sharing with them be one small part of my continuing care for your poor. As they ask You, Father, for their daily bread, use me as one small instrument to help provide it to them. It is time.... LET'S GO and good luck to all !!!!

Getting married the first day of GUN season ?? That's really SICK, man...!!.. I never heard of such a thing.. You should consider cultivating a better class of friends..

After the count had climbed to 17 1.5-2.5 yr old bucks I had passed this Archery season it was beginning to set in that I wasn't going to get a shot this year at a mature one. It was my last morning to hunt after all, but I was fine with it, I would rather eat a tag then not give them a chance to develop. Well I was rewarded for my patience around 8 am Wednesday morning it was 21 degrees with a little snow on the ground and this guy came to me in my pinch point stand. It was going to be a 30 yd shot but at the last second he turned and came directly toward me, I couldn't believe it. I came to full draw and he had come in to 10 yds broadside at this point. I released and sent a rocket steelhead through both lungs. He took off went 30-40 yds and did the oh crap dance and it was over. He's not the monster I had been after all season, but I couldn't be happier with him. Sent from my DROID BIONIC using Tapatalk 2

I'll bring a dozen ears of corn.., a 10lb bag of apples.., pockets full of salt packets.., and a tub of extra crunchy Peter Pan peanut butter. Usually by the time I get to my stand, everything has fallen out the hole in my backpack and I'm left with a couple sandwiches, cookies, and coffee,lol!

they squirrels are coming ... this was on my facebook had to share lol. that deer looks so scared lol

We've enjoyed this one for the past 13 seasons or so.

Well you can go cougar hunting at least.

Tell your friend that he needs to get his priorities straight !

Biggest buck ever afar 30 years of bowhunting .... a few years off during that time.

As I'm sitting here watching the day come to an end and the sun setting behind the Catskill mountains I can only think about God's beautiful creations without which there would be no woods to hunt, or creatures to harvest. I pray that tomorrow God gives me the opportunity to see His creatures roam below my stand and gives me the strength and courage to keep my aim true and clean so that I can provide for my family but most of all that He keeps me and all my fellow hunters safe. Sent with Tapatalk on my Samsung Galaxy 4

I arrived at my cabin this morning around 9-930. Was unpacking when I looked out the window and saw a doe coming out of the wood line a little more than 100yds from my cabin. I grabbed my bow ran to the wood line and crawled towards her. I got behind a cluster of bushes about 40yds from her and looked for an opening. On cue she walked right to the opening and began to feed. I ranged her quick had her at 30, picked a spot and let her rip...the thwack sent goosebumps through my body and as she turned I saw the arrow stuck good. I thought I saw her go down so I gave it 15 mins and walked to where she stood when I shot. I immediately found good blood and continued. No more than 20 yds there she lie, arrow sticking up out her. This my 2nd deer with the bow ever and a great start to my season....on the last day of bow. Nice mature doe! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Wouldn't have this problem if opening day was on Monday!

Wow. A funeral, maybe. Wedding, NFW. Have a nice time.......................................................

I just did a simulated one based on opening day rifle, came up with this on the deer movement on a 100 acre lot.

Not sure but it looks like he's trying to quit smoking.

So with having a job and only being able to hunt the weekends I decided to take today and the rest of the week off to finish out my bow season in hopes of getting a buck. I couldnt have asked for a more perfect morning with the snow and the temperatures. Got in my climber early, sitting there about 25 ft up freezing my you know whats off, i hear leaves and twigs snapping across the ravine behind me about 80 yds away. Already standing up in my climber trying to stay warm I turned around and saw a deers body, grabbed my binos, and as soon as i could get a good look through the trees i could see it was a decent buck. I grunted until he heard me, he stopped, made a hard right, headed down the ravine angling back towards me, finally he gets within eye sight so i draw back my bow, he crosses another creek bottom that dumps into the ravine and he decides to stop directly underneath my climber. i sat there at full draw for what felt like an eternity but realistically about 3 mins while he stood looking around. After nearly missfiring due to all the layers i was wearing i let off and turned around, snow falling onto his back off my boots and climber, he begins to walk up the steady slope of the ravine my stands at, still no shot, he begins to turn broadside up the hill so i started mewing, he stepped in an opening between a clump of trees, it was now or never. it all happened so fast, as soon as i thought he was stopped i drew back, put my bottom and middle pin where i thought the vitals were and let the arrow fly. he took off like a bat out of hell i could see i hit him right sqyare in the middle of his body. I watched him run back into the open bottom of the ravine and could no longer hear movement. i assumed he bedded down in the tall grass, so i waited about 15 mins, slowly made my way down the tree shaking like a leaf the entire time. went to where i made the shot and couldnt find a speck of blood, determined to find the start of his blood trail i went down to where i saw him jump the creek hoping that leap would produce blood and to my amazement i could see what i thought was his rack sticking above the grass, but i wasnt sure i thought maybe it was a log and some branches, but a closer look i could see his body through the grass. he had piled up right where i last heard him and caught a glimpse of him. turns out it was a 50yd shot, entered his right side through the last two ribs and made its way through his liver and both lungs and the opposite side of his rib cage only coming short of 100% pass through by the thickness of his cape. When i found him his front leg was tangled up in his rack. he was dead 20 seconds after i shot him. arrow stirred his inner workings pretty darn good. he is an anomaly of a buck for the area i hunt, the taxidermist who lives up the road is darn sure he is atleast 3.5 years old. he rough scored him at 130.5... ill take that any day of the week.

2013 Bow season buck - Real heavy 8 point that green scored gross 146". He had over 34" of mass measurements.

Yes Early ...I spelled here wrong...hear...just for you....

I don't like close talkers or the people that want to stand right on top of you in a checkout lane.

Seen it up close again today

Good luck to one and all...I'm headed out for my last 2013 bow sit...cross some fingers out there....

Yep...and deer that walk around and bed, next to the equipment barn...the tractor... and the boats....big difference between those smells and a human...I've never been camping where a deer would bed or walk around my tent.....

based on the size and composition, I am convinced it is a Sasquatch

I sighted in before bow season. Fired a single round from shotgun and rifle yesterday morning just to confirm. Next time tge hammer falls, so will bambi Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I537 using Tapatalk

I've mentioned I've had 2 8's taken out of the field /woods before recovery...have had a few friends get to their deer to find a guy standing over it with his tag filled...DEC won't do any thing about that....If the guy tagged it before you they'll side with the tag unless you have pics of actually shooting it......some ppl around here have cards with there name and tag # on them wrapped in cellophane...that they stuff down the deers throat...just in case...

You know what's awesome? When the neighboring property owner decides to leaf blow the shared path between the property I hunt and his- seriously- that had to be done at 7:30 on the first day without howling winds Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk - now Free

I have really taken' a liking to hunting 'yotes once deer season is over. Love hunting them at night, what a rush! Going to try some decoy tactics this year.

me too...they weren't finished this a.m. but when I went back out..yes...did go...they completed the big field and the narrow 1/2 mile strip directly behind me was still up....and yes...it was the standing corn messing up my hunts...had a big doe with 4 fawns come over the ridge through gully right to me and stop...10 yrds...I gave a pass...hoping for a buck...then 2 other fawns arrived from the same area...and I add, usual path...that was it for afternoon...but at least they are changing back to old patterns...that was fast!...so I have just one more day to try

11/14 am 30 Out in the tower blind out back for two hours no sightings. One day to go!

try scouting

I am so ready!! Couldn't get out last year cause of illness,but I am so pumped!! Got the .270 sighted, gear all set, headed to southern tier early a.m. Sat morning. Good luck everyone, be safe, and bag a big one!!

It is only a step in the right direction if you want single payer government run system. The idea the Republicans "just had to do something" is false. Doing nothing would be better then where we are now.

I hate no one. I just do not like some people as much as others.

i had the best news today . ithey posted the hours at work and i have 7 days off sat thur thursday wooohoo i can not wait wooohooo

Sorry to hear this, but.....Go and enjoy your friend's wedding. Deer are for now; friends are forever!

impressive tower stand.

Change is all I have left in my pocket.

Never admit defeat!

Atomic Fireballs.

A pocket full of Werther's Originals.

You don't need a treestand, stay on the ground ,it is more exciting way of hunting. Learn to work the wind. Learn how to break up your outline. You will learn when and how to move and draw and you will become a better hunter if you put your time in.Then you can call yourself a hunter and not a shooter from a treestand.

yessss!! another thread that has deviated from the intentions of the original poster and is starting to turn ugly........gotta love it!

Why do you care what others are using to get in and out of the woods? Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4

Got this 6pt. on Sunday morning. Lots of deer on their feet. Best part was I had my 10 year old son in the tree next to me and he saw the shot up close. Does it get any better? Good luck to everyone else. Bring on gun season....

congratz, glad you enjoyed ya bday

Agree 100%...Plenty of big mature whitetails in NY, most of them just spend most of their time in the dark avoiding hunters. I also agree that a good broad comparative set of systems helps fine tune what works and what doesn't...I do hope someday to be able to relocate based solely on Whitetail Opportunity...just gotta get my wife on board for the move from boring NY to exciting Kansas or Iowa...lol.

Congrats! Beautiful buck. A pack-in trip like this in the 'dacks is on my bucket list!

Our states regs are based on maximum hunting license sales imo. Theyre not based on deer biology an dsure not out to please everybody. If you go to Ohio you jaw would hang low....there regs are a large portion of why they have giants yet everyone is happy (or close to) with the system. Baiting, dogs, etc doesnt make or bag big bucks...and the reason why NY deer are so hard to hunt is because NY hunters are primarily lazy slobs. Gimmick buying bums that love gun seasons and driving 50mph gusts here and precip and it sounded like a war zone with jackwagons sighting in ...take a ride by any sporting goods store and youll see the Bone Collector bumper stickered trucks full or camo clad morons...... My neighbor grunts so much i think deer now make turkey sounds because theyre annoyed with their language.

That's a taxidermist's nightmare .

Years ago when one area we hunted was open.( closed now ) we would hunt there the whole opening week( Gun season ) Slept in our trucks or camper caps.Cooked on our camp stoves in the morning,Went out to town for supper,after that had our beers and BB brandy and climed into our sleeping bags.Got up in the morning got dressed and had our coffee and bacon and eggs and went hunting, No hide your smell sprays,no showers,Just played the wind.And we got our bucks and does.And we wore red and black plad or orange outer clothes,also smoked at that time.