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Killed an 8pt buck tonight. I'm going to be crippled up as I had a long uphill drag and I swore I'd never drag another. He's probably a 2.5 year old I'm guessing. I'll pull the lower jaw and see what the DEC has to say about it. One of the biggest bucks weight wise I've ever killed, actually the third heavyset I think, he dressed out at 172 lbs. The drag was about 200 yards. I took this pic as soon as I found him, no hero shots in the field. I'll grab some pics for the contest tomorrow.

Pic of my son's absentee ballot! He's away at college and sent it to me to drop off for him. His first vote after turning 18 and maybe Astorino's first vote?

After 3 years hunting some land of mine up here, I finally spotted a buck. I normally only see does up here. That's a long time to wait, and today that had to end. I took this crotch-horn with a muzzleloader and ended that drought! Takes a lot of pressure off the rest of the season. I swear this is the hardest place I have ever hunted in my life lol!

I will come out and help if you want I am in Huntington, sometimes two sets of eyes are better than one! I will send you a PM with my contact info if you are interested.

Snuck up within 8 yards of this 8-point feeding just of a trail in ADK's Fulton County in the pouring rain... had to wait about a minute before I could get a shot at his shoulder... My biggest muzzleloader buck with patch & round ball... I was dreading the drag out, but it wasn't too bad at 2 hours... I just love the big woods

So I'm in my stand and it's getting to be around 5:30 haven't seen anything all day, on my phone bullshitting with some guys on the forum when I see two does feeding in the field about 80 to 100 yards behind my stand.... Feeding in my direction when all of a sudden they make a hard right and go the other way, I haven't seen much this year and say screw it, I'm gunna try and stalk them. Down I go knock and arrow and start off slowly through the field, they are now in the apple trees on the propority, I'm using trees as cover I'm Within 50 yards when the white flags go off and they run back into the woods, oh well I'll just go inside, walking around the house, there are three on the properity I'm hunting about to head in when I notice movement going around the other house, u creep over there hop the wall to the stone patio crawl over to the wall slowly slide up and notice that I am pretty much nose to nose with a giant doe, she immeaditly blows loud and hard and they take off again, I was so close I felt the wind from her blow and my face and she completely scarred the crap out of me almost dropped my bow..... Probably not the best hunting Stragety but it made for a fun night

I asked a guy the other day who he was going to vote for and he told me that he didn't like either one so he wasn't going to vote. I said "well sir no disrespect but its people like you that keep people like Cuomo in office". Let's go Astorino!!

Well it's official. I'm hooked. Can't wait to get out and do it again. Spent tons of time researching(thanks to all of you)practicing my shooting and game planning for this. Went out Sunday morning for the first time. My hunting buddy and I are both rookies so expectations were low. We felt that the day would not be a waste no matter what happened because you are always learning. We'll at about 9:30 in the morning I was walking through a field with waist high grass hoping to scare up some pheasants(no dog...yet). About 100 yards away from me a single pheasant flys in from the North side and lands. Talk about getting juiced up. Now I know there is something in this field. I slowly stalked the pheasant and as I got about 30yds away I could see the grass moving as the pheasant tried to run on the ground. At about 20yds it took flight and I swung my Shotgun around and took the shot. First time not shooting at paper. I am hooked.....can't wait to get out and try again. Thanks for all the help and teaching from all your posts on this forum. I felt prepared and confident.

My wife just got home was doing some sopping she stopped at tag sale and found this and brang home to me.A pellet rifle it is a Crossman storm XT in 177 cal I have never handled such a heavy pellet gun.She said she thaught price was good and picked up for 20$

I have seen guys put a square of toilet paper on a blood drop as they find them, it helps give a visual of the direction of travel .

Again great advice guys! I would like all the posts above but I ran out of likes!!!

Or grow antlers and put on 150 poundsSent from my LG-VS980

In that case, tell him he should follow the "ABC" rule... Anybody But Cuomo!!!

Haven't got a deer in the 6 years that I've been deer hunting but when that deer comes Infront of me i get that adrenaline rush. That's what keeps me out there lol. That Feeling is not even compared to anything. If I get a shot or even see a deer I call it a good day lol. Can't wait to go out Monday afternoon maybe this time it will be my day. Gotta stay positive right

Congrats on a successful hunt! I have hunted the Northern region only a few times and saw nothing. Which is why I was only up there a few times

Any ADK buck is a good one... took one myself today in 5H... congrats

There's another warm and fuzzy for a young hunter

Biggest doe I've ever taken with a bow...

Great that you got a buck. I could have slept in this morning but that would have left my buddy at the launch with no one to hunt with. I'll post the story.

I'm taking off the 1st to the 10th

Sounds like you might want to carry an extra pair of shorts in your back-pack !

Pic of me dragging out deer... my buddy came out to keep me company while dragging and to take some photos... he couldn't help with the drag because he is disabled... he was hunting about a mile away so I was able to contact him... just having someone there to talk to and share the experience made the drag less grueling

As she ran away did you see the arrow still in her or was it a pass through? If a pass through did you actually see where you hit? Arrow hole/blood on her side? Did you find any hair at impact spot? How far from shot to where you picked up blood coming out of swamp?

I think the best thing that could happen to deer hunters is if squirrels started hibernating in the fall.

I was a bowtech guy for years. Then I bought a elite hunter and answer in the same year. This year I sold them both and got the E35. By far the best bow I've ever had. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Welcome

This wind sucks again. Sent from my LG-VS980

Now I feel I can hunt the rest of the season pressure free.

And mine wasn't directed at you specifically...and I do agree about reading regs. but that said................ an answer if one had one and then a prompting may have been better...Everyone claims this to be a friendly informative helpful site for NY and other hunters..Sooooo... one should not be appalled that questions are asked ... ps...... What happened to " there are no stupid questions"?

Congrats!

Congrats, hopefully the first of many. Like Joe said ANY ADK buck is a trophy. I agree 100% it is some of the hardest hunting I have ever done.

Yes it was raining like hell... wasn't bad while hunting... sucked for dragging up hill in the wet leaves though... I was going to carry the buck on my back but it was so slippery going uphill I was afraid if I fell the weight of the buck falling on me might injure me... or I might get gored by the antlers... lol... I'm no spring chicken any more as you can see by the grey in my beard

. This helped me pick my spot

Oh yeah, he'll look good on nyantler-outdoors! Maybe run a feature story on him and some pics on the front page! Congrats on a sweet buck with primitive gear Joe!

I shoot both, the Montec G5 and the Rage 2. I have yet to get a bow kill under my belt so I don't know which one I like better. I carry both and it's really a enie, meenie, mynie, mo as far as which one I'll nock when I get to my spot. I do stalk with the G5 though because the Rage blades tend to come loose when bumped against brush. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I would not use the stand myself. Everyone we 've had issues with were sneaking on when nobody was around,or poaching at night. Someone hanging a stand and placing cameras sounds to me as if they think it's ok for them to be there,those people you at least have a chance to reason with.

Did you check the camera? Any good pics?

Maybe you should go see a doctor about it? Sounds like a horrible thing to have if you like stand hunting, you can try sitting in a blind till it get's better.

Raining walked out stopped, got ready walked back out pouring, walked in to check doppler no rain walk out pouring, wait hear rain stop go get everything ready going to truck pouring. NOT going out. lol

Well I met with the judge on 10/17 and he seems like a pretty decent guy, asked me why I wanted a permit. Told him I want to get in armed security since I work unarmed now. He seemed pretty happy with that response and I was out the door in 2-4 minutes. He said to be expecting some mail within a few weeks.

Yes, Lenny. You can pet all the rabbits. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

tonight I had two fawns come in and could clearly see the smaller one had either a broken foot or leg. She was kind of dragging it not walking on hoof but bent it back and was walking on the top part of foot. She was super small and all I could think about was her getting mauled by coyotes so I took the shot and put her out of her misery. She only went 30 yrds and piled up lung heart shot with 2 blade rage. Her back leg was broke and about 3 inches of bone was sticking out. Sucks to have to use up my tag for very little meat but still feel like I made the right call. Where do you stand on shooting deer with not hunting related injures?

. A friend of mine shot this monster a few days ago . Here is me holding the antlers today

T-minus 1 hr until I breakout of the concrete jungle! Should be at camp by 9:00pm!

Hopefully she didn't get up and ran off while he was typing his "she's down" post. It's happened before on this forum. LOL Will be on the look out for another thread from him asking opinions on what to do to find her? LOL

First deer of the season...

Took these 2 doe this weekend

Shot a doe tonight forgot pics tho already at processor. ...good night. ...

1st sit 2014 bow: Hope the link works. This was from Saturday evening.

Eagle... I respect your personal preference, and since you are an experienced hunter and rifleman, I have no doubt that the lighter trigger is safe and perfect for you. However, I will maintain that for " Joe Average Deerhunter" a trigger of 2.5 to 4 pounds is a better and safer choice.