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118 lb's she's either 4.5 or 5.5 have pics from last few years. She has a noticeable overbite so it was easy to identify her. Sent a Rage through her lungs at 54 yards in the beans. She ran 80-100 yards downhill before piling up. The itch is gone so now I can play the waiting game with the big boys.

I don't have pictures. Sunday night I harvested a 5.5 year old doe that weighed 122 lbs dressed.

Headed into my stand just after day light on the second day of the season after I got rained on the first day and decided to pack it up. As soon as I got my climber in to position I heard what I thought was my buck I had got on cam just a week earlier in the swamp just a head of me but I cannot see the swamp.I sat there patiently waiting for him to appear, after 20 minutes of swimming and splashing around or whatever these creatures do he walks in front of my camera for one last photo shoot. He walks halfway towards me but I still have no shot or at least I am not willing to take one just yet. This goes on for what seemed like forever and then I spot his buddy which is a bigger buck but with a abnormal rack and I had already decided I was out for the seven. He presented a perfect broadside shot at 25 yards, I hit him just a little high from the tree stand but I must have hit him right in the artery as there was a great blood trail from the rage BY. he ran for about 150 yards before he piled up. It took me 5 hours from the time I let the arrow rip until I had him out of the woods, not a drag I will ever look forward to do again by myself but he sure tasted good when me and my buddies processed the meat. Good luck out there guys. I been lurking since I started hunting last year.

I'm a huge hockey fan and even a bigger Ranger fan. I was star struck by this guy. I walk at lunch everyday, my half way point is down in Hells Kitchen. Henrik lives there wife his wife and daughter. I was walking down 52 st and looked up to see a beautiful sports car and Henrik standing next to it. I did a double take and called out his name. It was just the two of us for 15 minutes talking hockey!! He was great, told me the Rangers are going to be real, real fast this year and it will be extremely exciting hockey to watch. The thing was that he didn't rush me, asked questions back to me and made eye contact the whole time. You hear how nice this guy is from television and reading about him but man meeting him personally was just awesome!

Killed my best deer(by 60 inches) to date this weekend after Saturdays rain in Orange County. He green scored 167/164 net when we measured him at the taxidermist. He's a perfect text book 10. I got permission to hunt this deer finally after 3 years two days before I shot him at 22 yards. He was aged at 4.5 and we were able to get pictures of him for the last 3 years from people around the area. I have some awesome trail camera pictures of him with another 115 8 pointer two days before. I named him Tremor after I saw him at first light on opening morning and realized how big he was. Talk about buck fever when he finally walked in on Saturday!! He ran about 100 yards and crashed. I think i only climbed down about 5ft before I just jumped out of my climbing stand to run to my buddies and tell him(not the best post shot procedure). I now have to wait the 90 day drying period to get an official score but hopefully there isn't too much shrinkage. What amazing weekend with a buck of a life time.

There have been too many over the years, but one of my classics almost (probably should have) landed me in the emergency room. It was late in the muzzle loader season, and I had been working so much I had little time in the field. On one of the last days I managed to get my work done with time enough to allow my hour drive home, a quick change of clothes, and the last hour on stand. I raced home, left my truck running in the driveway, and over my dress clothes I pulled my insulated bibs and put on my wool coat. I grabbed my muzzle loader, jumped in my truck and drove across the back lot to my parking spot. Once there, I climbed out of the truck, loaded my muzzle loader and hurried to my old rotted out “camper stand”. I climbed in and sat on my plastic bucket. Peering across the field to where the scrub apple orchard begins I prided myself on how my plan had come together. After a fews moments though I began to listen to and feel my stomach rumble. In order to get done in time to allow this late afternoon hunt, I had skipped lunch and was now suffering the consequences. Then it occurred to me that I just might have something stashed in my jacket pocket. Fumbling around with my right hand while still watching the field, I discovered about a third of a left over Payday candy bar. I have no idea how long it was there, and to be honest didn't care. A little lint and grit was nothing compared to the gurgling. So with just a slight side glance, I peeked at it as I lifted it into my mouth. I was pretty happy at the salty sweetness of the linty peanut treasure I had discovered. As I slowly chewed and swallowed the candy, I briefly felt something odd with my tongue, then bit down on what I though was a filling that the candy just dislodged. Upset over losing a filling, I placed my hand to my mouth and spit the rest of the candy into my right hand to take a look. My emotion went from upset to pure panic when I discovered what I thought was a filling was not. What I had bitten down on, and no doubt swallowed in an undetermined number, was my 209 primers! The sticky candy was in the same pocket with a bunch of loose primers that had fallen out of their little box. Totally freaked out, deer hunting be damned. I jumped from my seat and standing in the field I began sticking my finger down my throat trying to make myself puke. Unable to do so because I had not eaten all day; I then ran to my truck and drove back to the house with my mind racing with the thought that at any moment a primer might go off in my guts. Back at the house I told my wife what happened as she stood there trying to keep me calm but clearly concerned as well. I began guzzling water straight from the kitchen sink faucet and eating everything in the cupboard to get something in my stomach. I was then able to make myself throw up to the point I was dizzy and my voice was hoarse. I wanted badly to call the ER or poison control but was afraid and pretty darned embarrassed, so instead I sat in my lounge chair all night drifting in and out of sleep. By morning, I still had not exploded or died so I got ready for and went to work. At work I did share with my doctor friend and nurses what had happened, and they went hysterical saying such things only could happen to me. Needless to say; there has never been another candy bar in my hunting coat since! This incident could have added a whole new meaning to shooting off my mouth!

Mine is on the left, friend's is on right. Mine was hit high into liver after a deflection, but she went down within 75 yds. Moog was too busy typing on his phone to notice bucks walking by on this hunt, lol.

October 4th doe My first deer with bow on state land

Ive had a pretty awesome first week of hunting so far. This is my second year at it and I've been fortunate enough to see some good action. Went up to my cuz's hunting cabin up in Roxbury for the first 3 days of the season. I really wanted to tag a bear, so I set up over one of his food plots that he had seen bear activity at and hoped to see some action. On the 2nd day of the hunt I was fortunate enough to have a 150lb sow come in with two cubs. Obviously not going to shoot a mother and cubs, I watched them play around on their two legs while the mother was looking around for food. One of the cubs was chasing the other one, right to the tree i was sitting in. Not knowing I was sitting 15' above them, one of the cubs actually started climbing my tree. This is when the mother walked over and started to smell the ladder of the stand and knew something was up. She ended up taking off and the cubs quickly followed, but I was basically $hltting my pants. Saturday I came back to Westchester and sat for the afternoon hunt. Few does came by the stand in the first few hours, but let them walk. I decided to take my rattlers out and see if I can call in this big 7 that I have on camera. Started rattling with no response, waited an hour until it was almost last shooting light and tried them again. Within 2 minutes I had buck come in. The deer looked like it had a nice big body, but It was getting dark and i couldn't tell if it was the big boy or not. I decided to let him walk. He ended up seeing me while I was moving around trying to see how big he was, and he ran off snorting and wheezing for a good 2 minutes. Sunday morning I went to my other spot in Westchester and posted up in my stand. Within 30 minutes of sitting I had 2 does come in. I decided I had passed up on enough already this season and decided to take one. I picked the bigger of the two and waiting for her to come in. As soon as she turned her head to look around i drew on her. Waited for a perfect broadside shot and smoked her. She went about 30 yards and dropped. My first deer ever was down! After about 10 minutes of not moving, I got out of the stand and went to go check her out. Both lungs were deflated and i'm pretty sure I got the heart too. She wasn't very big at all, but I was super happy with her. I have definitely been lucky so far this season, but hope I can take down the big boy soon. I can't even tell you how addicted I am to bow hunting now. -Stevie Sac

I used to keep all my old filled "paper tags" in a photo album on the same page as pictures of the deer that wore them. Now that I don't develop many pictures any longer due to digital image storage, and the crappy new "rubber tags", those new ones aren't as collectable to me any more, so I find them laying in paper piles everywhere around the house.

October 2nd doe harvest

my first deer, i dont have a kill shot full body so ive provided a trail cam picture.

Howdy gentlemen. Made it to the site, put my intro up in the newbie section. I would be more than hapoy to help answer any questions anyone has about using deer calls or custom calls in general. I am just a regular member right now, and not a paid sponsor, so any questions about my personal calls such as ordering and the likes, please contact me privately. I do not want to be seen as a spammer of the site. With that said, I will go back through this thread and try to answer some questions from my personal perspective. Thanks to everyone who has invited me here and admin for having me along for the ride.

I think about him 24/7 and hope to introduce him one of my arrows. When I first saw a pic of him in August he still had velvet and i started to hyperventilate.

I have save every single license from every state I ever hunted. I put them in album with my notes/story and pictures.

If the buck is hanging up, go to him. Decoys work but this situation seems clear unless there are other barriers in play.

I hunted close to 10 years without a harness in some pretty sketch setups hanging over one of the cliffs in letchworth. Pissing in the wind a few times lol. Dropped my bag last week and had to go back.down.with the climber pulled the trigger on a deer and never had a bullet chambered after shooting a nice.8pt with the bow a single lung shot and nicked the spine the buck was laying down but still moving so.I got down to end it only I forgot to climb down I jumped out of the stand and left my bow in the tree lol

Half mile + hike into my stand and I'm running late. Stuff the camo outerwear into the pack and jog to the stand just in time for early daylight. Standing in a treestand mostly naked trying to get my gear together when I notice a nice buck watching me rather curiously from about 25 feet away. I'll never forget the look on that deer's face as he watched my epic failure to hunt well.

Check out my wife's first deer! Got the entire hunt on film, came in to eat in a turnip and bean food plot and have her a 20yrd broadside shot! IMG_9700.jpeg

The fawns of an adult doe that gets killed survive just fine. They don't need their mom to find food or survive. Most fawns get booted away from their moms during the rut anyway.

Slayer does it again! RAGE!!!!

In the last issue of the NY Outdoor News Oak Duke had a great article on turkey hunting. I have already round filed the issue so can't tell you what page it is on but if you'd like a good read, chase it down. Anybody else get to read it?

Although my notes from each day are very extensive, I'll try to keep this as short as possible: 9/30/14: Flew with my Dad from NYC to Denver to Casper where we were picked up by Lee Iberlin (http://www.iberlinranch.com/page-index.html). Lee is in his young 20's and just began offering guided hunts a few years ago. His family has over 70,000 acres of private property loaded with Mule Deer and Antelope. He is also a fly fishing guide on the world famous North Platte River. We sighted in our rifles and took a quick ride around on his property before dark and saw a bunch of Mule Deer and Antelope. 10/1/14 - 10/4/14: We hunted mule deer as our top priority since me and my Dad both had tags. I also had an antelope tag but didn't care to worry about them until we got nice mule deer. Opening day (10/1/14) rained pretty much the whole day, but we still saw lots of bucks but nothing quite worth shooting. Day 2 (10/2/14) we saw some better quality bucks in the morning, but still not quite what we wanted so we held out. The afternoon brought a cold front with 45mph winds and snow, so we didn't see much later in the day. Day 3 (10/3/14) we woke up to a couple inches of snow but clear skies and saw a ton of bucks. At 1030am we spotted a group of 5 bucks in a draw, one of which was a nice 4x4. I was willing to take my chances and pass him up. My Dad thought hard on it and decided he wanted him. We made a good stalk playing the wind perfectly. My Dad shot him at 125 yards while he was feeding and had no idea we were above him on a hill. He turned out to be a nice 4x4 with brow points, so 10 scoreable points. He was 20" wide with nice forks. Later that day I shot an even better 4x4 with brow points, again 10 scoreable points. Mine was 21" wide but with better mass and better forks. My buck was with 2 other nice bucks, but I definitely shot the best one. We stalked from 500+ yards to 140 yards when I shot him with a quick shot as him and the other bucks were staring right at us. This was the first day ever that my Dad and I both shot bucks on the same day, so that was pretty cool. Day 4 (10/4/14) I held out all day before shooting a great antelope at 5:15pm at 180 yards. I was fine going home without an antelope unless I saw a really special one. This one turned out to be 14" with exceptional mass (close to 7" in some spots) and great cutters (just under 6"). I'll get him officially scored someday down the road, but I think he is mid to high 70's (B&C is 80" awards, 82" all-time). All in all it was a great trip considering we had bad weather 1 1/2 to 2 out of the 4 days. We saw tons of bucks and saw lots of mule deer bucks sparring and fighting with each other. The antelope were in rut and chasing does like crazy. Amazing how fast they can cover a lot of land. Lee knows his property like the back of his hand, he knew every draw to check, had to play the wind perfectly, etc. I'll definitely be heading back in 2 or 3 years to hunt again with him. Maybe next time with the crossbow in an attempt to get a velvet mule deer. If you are looking for a reasonable hunt out west, I definitely recommend Lee. By the way, the lodging in the ranch house was great (my Dad and I each had our own bedrooms). The food/drinks was also great. Lee's girlfriend was a great cook and host. Enjoy the pics- I did the best I could with my iphone and little digital camera.

I'll be taking my daughter out. She took her first deer (doe) last year. She was really hoping for a buck this year, but it's not looking good. Haven't been seeing much at all on the property. I've been out 7x bowhunting so far, but have only seen a doe and 2 fawns. Trailcams have been pretty pathetic lately too.

Interesting Steve863, I like my bear best served with fava beans and a nice chianti. Tht tht tht tht tht tht. Seriously a non dumpster mountain country bear is good eats. Only cut I didn't like was the chops. Next time, chops will be deboned and cut into stew meat.

Your a lucky dude! I saw Boyle and Richards in Montreal 2 years ago. Also saw Torts at a bowling alley before he got the boot but none of that comes close to your encounter with the King! I love it when they talk shop with you like you are practicing together or something! The only former Ranger I have met that wasn't cool was Carcillo. A little stuck up for a man with such low ice time IMO... Enough about my experiences, CONGRATS ON MEETING THE KING DUDE! With that said, all of your luck has been used up and you will probably only see button bucks and small does from the stand...

Trying to take a shot behind the stand only to realize before releasing that due to my ninja like maneuvering the bow hanger was now in between my cables at full draw. Doe walked and my bow survived. lol Heck, with my girth, it was a victory just to be able to stand and make the turn without being spotted. Its tough for a gorilla in a tree to go undetected.

Though of another pretty funny one....was bow hunting with dad years ago I was probably 15 or so he shot one and we were tracking it thru some thick stuff. ..so to mark last blood I laid my bow down next to it for refrence...we'll after we found the deer we had to find my bow took a few hrs to find it thru the thicket....

Not really Sudzy... been using the pendulum for years. No disrespect here. If you were on the same level the pendulum would not even move from the ground position so the sight was not the problem, you just missed. The pendulum works perfect right out to about 35 yards. The closer to the stand the deer is the farther the pendulum swings out thus raising the pin so to speak. If you want great 1 pin tree stand sight these are great. Here's what I use. http://www.basspro.com/TruGlo-Pendulum-Sight/product/48077/

Congrats Nice to see another woman added to the ranks...A kill on her first time out is awesome,,,Well done !

..In stand dumbest thing ...I fell sound...I mean sound asleep and pitched forward...luckily I keep my tether way above me, so it's tight when I sit. Thats all fine and dandy if I have arm rests too..this stand did not and I swung round off the seat grabbing air as I hit the side of the tree,,,Thankfully my feet glued them selves to the platform and I managed to reach back and catch the seat with my right hand...pretty much looking like a pretzel...yes I did throw up when I righted my self This wasn't in stand....I shot a nice buck and got down put my gun my little browning... on top of a log, filled tag then went about gutting him...well he was big and I got tired struggling with him...got all done and needed to drag him into a hollow in the ground and behind brush so I could go get the tractor to get him out...Off I went got the tractor ...Got him to the house and hung...... sat down and it hit me....My little.... expensive...browning was still sitting on that log.....sshhhhh never told Mr B. about that one...

you can't fix stupid, Camo Girl. The guy has no clue.

18 7/8 inches. You'll have to kill him to prove me wrong.

New to the forum, lots of great info! Anyway spent last fall trying to get a shot at a nice 10 pt that was on one of my cameras all summer and fall, but would only show at night. Sat in a tree daily for over a week and just saw does and a few smaller bucks. Last day of my hunt, totally frustrated I decide to stay in my stand till 11 am unless I see a lot....i see zilch. Totally frustrated at 10:57 I hook my bow up to my lift line and begin to let it down. About 3/4's of the way down I catch movement off to my right about 20 yds away. There taking a leisurely stroll past my stand and thru a shooting lane was that buck live and in person! Talk about getting toasted. Tried to call him back and pull the bow back up at the same time, but he just ignored me and continued on his pace till I lost sight of him. Sat for another hour and finally decided that he got the better of me and won.

Never mind. I HIGHLY doubt you'll see rifle in this region ever but with all the counties they have added in the past 7-8 years who knows?? (I still doubt it) Here we go........ Wildlife Management Unit 8GThose parts of Erie, Genesee, Monroe, Niagara and Orleans Counties lying within a continuous line beginning at the intersection of Route 31E and Route 31 near Middleport; thence westerly along Route 31 to Griswold Street; thence southerly along Griswold Street to Ditch Road; thence southerly along Ditch Road to Foot Road; thence southerly along Foot Road to the north bank of Tonawanda Creek; thence westerly along the north bank of Tonawanda Creek to Route 93; thence southerly along Route 93 to Route 5; thence easterly along Route 5 to Crittenden-Murrays Corners Road south of Akron; thence southerly along Crittenden-Murrays Corners Road to Alden-Crittenden Road at Crittenden; thence southerly along Alden-Crittenden Road to Route 20 at Alden; thence easterly along Route 20 to Route 19 near Pavilion Center; thence northerly along Route 19 to the New York State Thruway (IR 90); thence easterly along the Thruway to the west bank of the Genesee River near Scottsville; thence northeasterly along the west bank of the Genesee River to the south bank of the Barge Canal near Rochester; thence northwesterly along the south bank of the Barge Canal to Manitou Road south of West Greece; thence southerly along Manitou Road to Route 31; thence westerly along Route 31 to Route 31A near Brockport; thence westerly along Route 31A to Route 31 (Maple Ridge Road) at Medina; thence westerly along Route 31 to the point of beginning.

The bird was taken in Stewart State Forest.

Thanks again to everyone. This time we did not bring any meat home. Only the capes and antlers/horns. 2 years ago, we tried bringing back some backstraps and of course those boxes didn't make our connecting flight and the meat spoiled. This time, we gave the meat of all 3 animals to our guide, who kept some for himself and gave the rest of it to the guys who work on his ranch. It was a win-win for everyone since we didn't have to pay for butchering and they got a bunch of meat for free and were very grateful.

Awesome,I wanted to talk to him about a turkey call and also a coyote call

I woke up Sunday morning and with the combination of wind and rain decided to sleep in. If it was Nov 5th I would have hunted but decided to skip Oct 5. Sunday evening I hunted the same spot as I did Saturday night. I had a doe come by at 20 yards and a spike go behind me at 6:15. Both deer fed out to the cloverfield. I hunted three times this weekend and could have shot a deer each sit. I always use this first weekend as a trial run to get organized and get ready for the rest of the season. Overall a great weekend. Looking forward to next weekend already. These weeks of work in between take forever.

Friends have built 2 now . Wood burning stove, carpeting, great windows etc. He, his young son, daughter and I hunted once from up in one of them . He and I manned the windows as the kids played Uno and ate snacks,lol. We eventually cooked up lunch on the stove via cast iron. Sorta funny hunting with slippers he supplied. Had to explain to daughter that "this isn't how daddy usually hunts". There's times when I'll be freezing in my climber and he'll text me a pic of them sitting up there with short sleeves. His 2 "tower of power" have a trap door entrance. One has been up for as long as I can remember and no signs of rot or collapse. Number one rule : make sure your muzzle is completely outside the window before touching one off ! (and no this isn't by ill experience) Have fun with it. Wish I had property and skills to put one up on.

Great video. There are others that vary slightly, but the one thing that he uses that I have to get is a small bone saw. I like the idea of opening up the pelvic bone, and the sternum. Currently I have not been doing that and it makes the job a whole lot more difficult pulling the anus and colon through that opening under the bone. It can be hard cutting every bit of the connective tissue. With that bone cut, everything is exposed and easy to remove. As far as splitting the sternum, the less distance that I have to reach up inside to get to the windpipe, the less mess all over my forearms. Also, if there is a broadhead or pieces of broadhead hidden up inside there, having things as wide open and visible as possible lessens the chances of getting sliced on them. So even an old geezer like myself can pick up some pointers. Thanks for posting the link to this video. Now, I have to go out and find a mini-bone saw.

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Darren- Let's see if I can help. If you enter your profile, you will see a button on the main page of your profile that says: Edit My Profile. click on that. Now you should be looking at a profile input page. The 5th bolded category of inputs should say: Profile Information. the next line should say: Member Title and there is a fill-in field next to that. You should now be able to fill in whatever you want to appear with all of your posts. Keep it clean .... lol. That should do it. If that doesn't work, let me know and I'll see what I can do. The default member titles I believe are based on the number of posts, and so your current title simply indicates that you have relatively few posts.

Few years ago I shot my biggest buck. I tied the tow rope to my rifle...well... At least I thought I did and as I put my rifle over the rail, I watched the rope unravel and my rifle dropped 20 feet below, hit a tree root below me with a loud thud and I watched the stock fly one way and the barrel another.

Had an opportunity at a doe one of the first times I ever used a treestand. I was still petrified of heights so I was a little nervous to begin with being up there. Any movements I made were done very precise and gingerly. When I went to draw down on her, I heard an awful clang, my bow locked up mid draw, and I sent an arrow into outer space when I hit the release on accident. I forgot I still had my bow rope hooked up and the carribiner clip was hooked through the bottom cam on the bow,lol

Forgot my headlamp this morning, nothing like stumbling around the woods at 5 A.M, had to choose a tree because i could not find the blind, or see any trail markers

Oct 2

I have a Wickedridge Warrior low end Tenpoint. I like it.... dead on.... has ten point scope, 170# draw that I can handle...I think with bolts & taxes it came in around 400.00....but I got it with(yes Eddie) Gander points. Got a dampening system and it cut vibration and noise.