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I got to my stand around 1 o'clock this afternoon windy and cold. Was sitting for about 20 minutes. I heard what I thought was a grunt from the top of the hill that my stand is at the base of so I grunted a few times to see what would happen. 3 minutes last I catch movement out of the corner of my eye. I see a big deer and I see antlers wasn't sure at the time but knew it was a big body buck. He's coming down the hill at my 4 o'clock. I raise my .243 he stops at 30 yards and starts heading towards my 12 o'clock I get the cross hairs on him and pull the trigger. I know I hit him he keeps running straight for about 80 yards and stop I see him quiver and keep walking he takes a right and I prepare for a second shot. I lock my cross hairs on a lane and wait. He walks into the lane I pull the trigger. Hits him right In the shoulder goes 10 yards and drops. The biggest deer ever taken off my property. 11pts 180 dressed according to my brother

We need a "Whine Forum" --- a place to complain about the little stuff in life . Here is my Whine for the day . I am really ticked off at the Home Depot in Irondequoit . I bought some articles from there Saturday on the way home from hunting . I showed the clerk my "Wayne County Veteran's Discount Card" that is good at Lowes and a couple of other Home Depots . The clerk said it wasn't good in their store . I said it was honored in a couple of other Home Depots and she said "not here" . She called another clerk over and she said the same thing . I said that I would be shopping at Lowes from now on . She said "whatever" and scampered off . I called the Irondequoit Home Depot and asked to speak to a Manager . I was told the same thing by him that my card would not be honored in their store . I asked him how could I be considered a Military Veteran in other stores except theirs and he gave me some spiel as to why it wouldn't be honored . Bye Bye Home Depot . ----- Proud to have served in the US Marines !

So after many, many months of roto cuff rehab I finally started shooting and went hunting on the 11th. I took my Elite Pure which was put together and sat on my bench for months never had being shot. Two weeks before I went hunting I picked it up and shot two dozen arrows , adjusting sights, and finding a good broadhead that shot well, I did not even put a peep sight on it yet. On the morning of the hunt I woke to a flat tire, was gonna pack it in but what tha heck I was already up so I fired up the NOISY compressor at 5:00AM, pumped it up and off I went. I hunted two hours and was about to get down to get the tire fixed when I turned my can call a couple times, started to grab my haul line when I saw this fella trot in to 10yrds broadside, I had to wait for him to get a little farther away and let my G5 Stryker fly, it passed through and sliced the heart along the way. I shot this guy in NJ.

yeeaaaaahhhh. the only thing they would need is two tags from me.

I managed to fill my regular season buck tag today with a nice 6'er! I wasn't even going to go out because of the weather and no sightings lately. I froze my butt off for 4hrs before this fella came running in from behind me right around noon. When I stood up to grab my smokepole my treestand let out a God awefull groan and he ran away from me. Unfortunately for him, he didn't run far enough before he stopped, and I dropped 'em in his tracks! Not to toot my own horn... but I don't miss with this gun! As I was gutting him, I had 4 antlerless stroll by me at 20yds, and on my way dragging him out I bumped into 4 more antlerless on the trail home. I can still go out for late ML season but only got the antlerless tag so I'll see how cold it is,lol Looks like shed season will come early again this year!

Some of it has It has to do with the way the response is worded. It's not always easy to sense sarcasm or a joking statement and sometimes the context of the message gets misconstrued. That being said there are a certain few people who seemingly go out of there way to criticize just about anything. Now I'm not saying that If he did take this deer a few mins after legal that no one should say anything. But maybe he was indeed excited and worded his OP wrong and go figure just about half of the first 6 responses involved something about being after legal hours. Unless you were there with him all your response should read is congrats on a nice deer on a shitty day. End of story. No one needs nor wants your criticism on how they hunt. FYI this is not directed at anyone in particular. Just sick of the bickering all weekend on a great site.

My Birthday Buck, first day of a 26 day hunt. I think I jumped him earlier in the day. Called in with a doe bleet and grunt tube. After using the can I heard a grunt 30 minutes later and responded with a grunt. Twenty minutes of him making rubs just below me (I wondered what that noise was?) he came into view for a perfect broad side shot. Felt like a gift from heaven above, my 3rd Buck out of Moose River and the highlight of my ADK hunting adventures. What a Birthday gift!!!

But it's better than the alternative! lol

My 6 month old had 5AM blowouts two days in a row requiring a full bath and nightmare cleanup. Why can't these diapers do their job.

With regard to successful kill threads, most of the replies involve DEC Officer wanna bees. So many official time keepers on here it's a wonder they even get any time in the field. Maybe we should all pack it up at 2:30PM fly home and make posts on here from the home PC before the days legal shooting hours are done. There's a reason why I don't post anything about my kills. It's guaranteed someone will find fault, become jealous of your success and belittle if not out right harass you for killing a buck bigger than "his". I've taken 17 P&Y buck in my lifetime so far. One of them had a picture and article in a local newspaper about the hunt that I wrote. The year following that article I had "hunters" driving around looking for my truck. It got so bad that I would have to park in a spot and have my buddy take me miles away to hunt where I wanted to hunt. I felt like the hunted rather than the hunter. People go nutzo with killing a deer. Nothing else matters. Regulations, trespassing, safetey and outright jacklighting at 2AM. I no longer hunt to kill. I hunt for other reasons that many would not understand. I've taken 499 deer total in my life. Number 500 will be a very special deer, because it will be my last... Congratulations on your first of many successful hunts. The reason you look "odd" is because the camera got stupid and didn't know what to focus on. May the Red Gods smile down upon you for many years to come.

Nice doe i took at 3pm

The best venison comes from the deer you harvested.

Ha was going to get down did a last look around and see something behind me along creek. Yup flathead had a couple shot ops but saw another and was trying to judge size and what each was. Never had another good shot as they very slowly fed up creek bottom. Watched them for 50 minutes and HAD to get to work so snuck down and out with them still 100 yards off. Stupid work!! lol Should not complain I got it pretty flexible and work from home. Made it with 8 minutes to spare before a conf. call and then get a call it is pushed back 30 minutes!

Sorry for your loss, I bet that flintlock will shoot streight and true. God bless.

Nope...found her floating down the creek practically in my yard. I called the DEC and explained the situation and they said it was okay to keep it. The meat was not edible as the carcass was a solid block of ice.

My whine for the day - Speaking of crap . . . I am no longer using Stop & Shop bags as "poop picker upper bags" when I walk my dog. They have too many holes in them . . . I'll leave the rest to your imagination!

I don't hunt for phonebooks. Is there a season open on them? Short of using a block of ballistic gelatin, I would setup a melon in front of a sand pile for those purposes.

Big congrats on the deer. Next time limit the details as people on here like to be harsh

Here is a bear my buddy got on opening day. After being dressed out and sitting overnight it weighed 350. Taxiderist said it was the biggest skull he has seen and suggested getting it measured.

Same experience as bubba with the Powerbelts. Great hits, but NO bloodtrail! Thank God I had snow, so I could at least follow tracks to the dead deer! After my experience, I did some research and found it was a common problem with Powerbelts. They shot and grouped great, but performance on deer sucked.

Woohoo!

Did not win the lotto...

Turning 60 sucks...but it's better than a dirt nap...

I said that a few years ago .... can I still whine about it now ?

She was limping in about a half hour ago so i dropped her, yearling not a fawn and actually a good size. Number 6 for 2013. I reg season tag left Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Only had one poop blow out so far but it wasn't bad. Just a small amount. Have been sprayed though but it was my fault. I forgot 2 of the rules of diaper changing gun safety. 1. Treat all babies as if they're loaded. 2. Keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction at all times.

I don't think its the same across the board. People who "invested" in brassica/radish may find some deer there; a lot of the conversion has taken place. This could be a double whammy because deer are just turning on to the food source with the conversion and that would mean there's a large availability of it (say a field full) rather than just spots of consumable or easier to reach food sources elsewhere. They'll paw through snow to get to food they need with little issue. Late cut corn fields are probably high on the list if the snow isn't super bad. In non ag areas, I'd be seeking out the apple and other fruit trees that show late drop characteristics. Heavy snow can force some of those trees to lose a bit of fruit because of the heft/weight. Or, even if they don't drop, the added weight of the snow can make branches that were once unreachable...reachable to the deer. It won't support a lot of deer obviously, but if its in cover, could be a good place to set up on. Green fields seem to still be drawing in some deer. Once the snow piles on, that will subside a bit, but deer will still visit if they can get through the snow.

Pressure change before and after fronts often are paired with increased feeding and deer activity. With the bigger (for the time of year) snow coming, the deer will be up putting on the fed bag. If you can find the right food source, it should be a good hunt.

Shotguns are for small game.

2 more years and we will have a winner

Great Site! Glad I came across it. My only complaint (and this in no way will effect me negatively from continuing to be a member), is the personal pissing contests that some topics turn into. I have ZERO issue with a good debate, but don't see any room for personal attacks, name calling, and general BS that had nothing to do with the original post. There was a recent one where a Moderator even wrote to take it to PM and the conversation still carried on with no consequences. I literally had to read through 7 pages of posts to see if anythign relevant was added to the topic thread. It was a good topic too. By that point there was no use in replying because people stopped reading it. Any way to be a bit more forceful in stopping those conversations from ruining a thread??

Thats a crock of crap. Home depot is no longer on my list of places to frequent My whine for today....make sure you set the auto brew on your coffee maker to 530am...not pm lol

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Hmmm..I just looked at my reply to your post and didn't see anything in bold print. Perhaps you take yourself too seriously. What is there to reconcile ? I think most of the readers here would realize that I was just making a joke, especially considering the content of many of my previous posts.

welcome to the forum and congrats on your first deer !!!!!!

Jesus Buba he's talking about typical fall/winter patterns he's used to, not winter vs summer. Stop trying to pick everything I say apart because you've got a hardon for me.

Nice deer! Congrats! If I didn't see the deer in the pic, I'd guess the pic was taken at approximately 4:21 LOL!

yes how dare they do their jobs bas&*^ds

So I decided to reenact the battle of Stalingrad today,Damn it was cold.The snow ended at 8:30 and I still hunted along a ridge.I cut fresh tracks that were only minutes old and after quietly tracking 2 sets of tracks for 20 minutes I spotted movement ahead. I drew a bead on the big doe and "Click" no bang. WTF, I slowly racked the bolt and reinserted the round again and CLICK. I pull the round out and the primer is dented,A dud. Reload and and She drops. First time thats ever happened.

Few more pics...grossed scored 161 even with the broken tine,

Buy a .243. Problem solved. Bang Flop.

Most including me will tell you they are junk. They fragment and lack good penetration. Maybe at slower speeds out of the hawken they may be alright. I shot two deer with them out of my H&R sidekick. Performance was terrible with 100 grains of 777. One I had to shoot three times after tracking it about 400 yards after a broad side double lung hit. At 50 yards the bullet did not exit. I hope you have better luck than I did.

I actually think it is due to the early gun opener...coupled with the crazy amounts of food and this fluctuation in temps with freakish amounts of wind I complain about the winds every gun season on this west/ north facing hill...but this year has just been the pits!

$25 ticket, that's it???

Nailed a big doe this am,308 about 50 yards.She ran 30 and piled up.Took out her heart and one lung.

Chaz Bono

OK, so who would shoot a 150" buck at 30 yards, 2 minutes after evening legal light.?

wow! - At least you were related to the hunter that got him.

zombie deer Shawn! Zombies!

I'm going to rub myself with olive oil and stick my head up my a** and go as Governor Cuomo.