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I had a couple run ins with this guy during bow and gun season. During bow I had climbed out of my tree, was walking through the woods looking for sign on the way out. I look up and see him 70 yards away walking through open hard woods with a doe. Once out of sight I tried closing in on him quietly. He came back down the same trail, turned around then went back up. I drew on him at 40 yards with my climber on my back and he never gave me the shot. This past Friday I went out for a morning sit and it was snowing like crazy. Didn't see a single deer for two hours so I decided to get up and sneak through the pines. Found something that looked like a deer head about 60 yards away. Pulled up and he was bedded down looking right at me. Like an idiot, instead of waiting for him to stand up I decided I could probably shoot him in the neck. Took a crack and he ran off. No hair, no blood. Followed his tracks slowly for 200 yards and found he went right to that same brush lot where I had seen him during bow. The following day I sat right next to that brush lot on a milk crate. Beautiful 17 degrees outside with open skies. Started seeing deer early, 7:15. One doe and a spike. 20 minutes later, 3 does at 50 yards crossed into the brush lot. Half hour later a single doe crossed the same path. Popped out in the hardwoods at 40 yards and had a hard time not shooting her. Kept telling myself to just wait. 9:00 rolled around and I am just shy of being froze to the ground. Really thought about getting up and strolling through the pines again to warm up but I told myself to stick it out. 9:15, I am leaned forward looking for deer, looking to the left. When I look back to the right I see a buck standing 60 yards away looking right at me. I pull up and see that it's the buck I have been seeing. Put it on his shoulder and let the .264 win mag eat. He buckled, spun his ass around and took off into the woods. I tracked him in to that same brush lot he had run to the previous two times. Let him lay for an hour, when I came back he was stiff. Didn't make it 40 yards into the brush. My third year back from the Marines and being able to hunt. 8 Point. He is my biggest buck to date.

Nowhere close to 150lbs in my opinion. Here's a picture of my Dad with a 125lb or 135lb. (can't remember) Male wolf in British Columbia, which is a very big one. Many wolves in Canada, Minnesota, etc. don't break 100lbs.

My brother just knocked down this guy in a soybean field.

The 300 WSM strikes again. Yea, I know; way to much gun for deer let alone a small coyote. Every nag in the stable gets to go for a ride once in awhile........................................

150lbs? Not even close. It only looks so big because he is squatting 15 feet behind it.

Is it just me or is the title of this thread ironically perfectly suited.

lol... You'd have to know me much better to know I don't worry much about that kind of thing... Lets just say I can handle myself just fine and definitely don't scare easily...

I assume he's sitting that far behind it because it still appears to be alive..............any photos of it after he killed it? if it is alive, like it looks to me, it's probably bristling up it's fur, giving it a larger appearance.

Actually it was kind of.........it was coming at me about 100 yards out then turned and started to go east, to my left. I squeaked a couple times quickly on the back of two fingers and as usual that sealed his fate. The shot was about 85-90 yards. 165 gr Nosler BT

Do it, they quit making land long ago.

You've seem more bears than I've seen my entire life.

You ask a question and then insult a person that responds with a legitimate answer ? You can do it on private land but not state land . You can't cut trees or limbs on state land either . It appears that you are trolling for an argument .

I had to edit a number of posts, lets shut this down, sorry dont have the time to baby sit. And stop with the cursing. You can move your arguments to PM or Email.

so if doing something that is against the regulations comes with an affordable fine, you're willing to do it?......priceless.

Who needs a soda?

Mm beer

Opening day in 9S , Allegany State Park at 15yds , following a hot doe . Before he hits the ground 40 yds out, 3 small bucks run in from behind, under my stand then take off after the doe. My biggest to date.

I once knew a guy that saw a Wolf riding an Elk that was being hunted by a Mountain Lion on a leash held by a Sasqauch. Combined weight of 2019 pounds. Truth.

11/14: UPDATE....Good news, not so good news, and more good news. Good news: After almost 3 hours of searching (no blood because of rain), my Dad found the buck laying near the stream about 200 yards from where he last tracked it last night. Not so good news: The buck is not the 8 pointer, turns out it is just a big 5, maybe 6 (depending on actual length). More good news: The 8 is still out there, so hopefully I will get a crack at him. My Dad is not computer savvy whatsoever, but of course took pics. So I will get my hands on the pics on Wed night or Thursday and will of course post them. I am interested to see if this buck is the 5pt we've had pics of all summer or not. My Dad is 100% sure it is not the same 5pt that he missed on opening day of Xbow. My Dad has a long day ahead of him dragging this buck out of the woods. He already got it back across the stream but probably has another couple of hours of dragging left to do. I'm just pumped he found it.

yeah but that is ACTUALLY a bear trap so I put that wolf at about 765 pounds

We have killed 60+ coyotes a year for the last 10 years, and I have only seen one close to 60lbs...58 being the heaviest. Only been a dozen over 50. Any one who says they get 60-70lbs yotes are not believeable. Of all those yotes I believe they average around 35lbs. This one was 41 42 37 41 this one was 47

Oh crap...everybody remain calm...this one was spotted in downtown Buffalo this morning. They crossed the lake on 8ft of snow last week and now they are trapped here!

I had a hunch that this thread would go at least 10 pages. I may not be disappointed! LOL With the polar ice caps melting, how long do you think it will take for the polar bears to move into the Adirondacks? Why should they miss out on the fun the wolves and elk are having here in NYS? LOL

Screw in steps, most of the time, affect the life of the tree very little. barring any disease . Screwing a step into a nice young maple for example will ruin its future timber value though. I would use my head in what type of tree and where I used screw in steps, private or public land..Never let the tree grow around them. Not only is it hard on equipment , but dangerous to a future Sawyer. Imagine a circular mill catching one of those? Yikes!

I havent had much time to update this. The final weekend of bow season I had a great buck come in, but he would not get out of the heavy brush, and I passed several smaller bucks as well. I ended bow season empty handed this year. Gun season started, and I was able to get home from a business trip late the night before, and be in my stand at the time I wanted to be there. The morning started out a little slow, then I heard some rustling at the bottom of the ridge below me. I could see through the heavy brush, that there was a buck hitting a scrape. He was pawing the ground, breaking branches in a tree, and I was just waiting for him to step out into the clear for a shot. Just about that time, I saw some orange a couple hundred yards to my North, and a small 4 point busted out of the brush just across the property line from me and took off. The buck I was waiting on took notice, and left in a hurry as well. I was a little bummed, but what can you do? About 10 minutes later, I caught some movement off to my right, and saw a couple of nice doe heading through the thick cover North of the food plot, so I grabbed my rifle and got ready for them to head out across the cow pasture. Just then, I saw a third doe heading up the same trail, and she stopped in a small clearing. I put my crosshairs on the back of her rib cage (she was quartering away) and squeezed the trigger. The doe took a small lunge forward, but pretty much dropped in her tracks. After a few mins I got down just to check her out. I found her 10 feet from where she was when I shot her. Turned out to be a good liver/lungs hit, breaking the last rib on the enterance side and exiting just behind her off side shoulder. After gutting her, I was very impressed at the damage that the 150 grain Federal Fusion had done. Heres a couple of pics... Sunrise... View from the stand... Doe Down... One of my buddys knocked down a great buck that morning. It was one of the ones we had on our list for this year. Pretty sure he was a 3 or 4 year old, but we will check the jawbone once he gets around to getting it out. Heres a couple of trail cam pics from a month or so ago... The afternoon hunt was good as well, I had some things to do that evening, so unless it was a great buck, I wasnt shooting. I ended up passing on 7 different doe from one of my stands in the swamp. I ended up getting sick that night and the next morning, but made it out for the afternoon hunt on day 2. Saw two small bucks, no does.

Looking forward to seeing the pics.....he will recover it

Looks like a coyote to me,a very very big one but it still looks like one to me.There is no way I am buying its 150 either.Just my .02 cents

There kinda hit home

If your the god of all deer hunters you should know that a mature WILD buck can only be 100inches depending where you hunt. We don't dump hormones and man made feed down their throats so off FSW. We hunt WILD deer fair chase. Go bang a caged in doe.

Bump

that's all well and good, but do you have a gray and yellow mullet?....that's what separates the men from the boys.

Been pretty slow on seein Bucks only seen 2 nice 6 points hopefully I'll get lucky here soon , seen 4 coyotes opening day manage to kill one and drivers kicked one out on a drive to me tonight so at least crazy year for coyotes Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Damn... I can't believe I fell into his trolling crap again... I must be tired

If you want to make her day, make a vacation out of it and take the two of you on a guided bear hunt. I have been up to Lindsays outfitters in New Brunswick 5x,(4 for five, with multiple opportunities each year, passing on shooting one year) with my wife going along once as a nonhunter. You are fed, driven to your site, great chance to see multiple bears for a reasonable price. They are a very family oriented camp. We combined it with another week spent driving through Nova Scotia...we are planning on doing it all over again. I would love to shoot a NY bear myself, but they are really a target of opportunity for the most part, with close to zero chance of an encounter where I hunt.

Gotta love this forum. You just know that every thread will end with body slams. This video reminds me of what usually happens here. LOL

So you write something that is completely wrong, and now you're blaming people for pulling it out of context? It wasn't out of context, you were incorrect. You are also incorrect about your "matter of time" statement above. The Elk in PA were transplanted and are heavily managed. If a handful did manage to 'escape' into NYS, the DEC doesn't want them here. There will never be a hunt-able herd unless the DEC changes its policies and makes a conscience effort to transplant them here. There is a better chance of getting a moose lottery in the future than there is of an elk one. And most of the people on this site don't claim to know 'everything about everything', but they sure do know there isn't an elk season in New York, now, or anytime in the foreseeable future. If you're getting your knickers in a twist for people calling you out for posting incorrect information, you're on the wrong site. However, if you want to see an example of true nitpicking, there is *not* and Eastern Elk hunting season anywhere. The Elk in PA are just transplanted Elk from Yellowstone (I believe they are American Elk). Eastern Elk have been extinct since the late 1870s.

Bureaucrats within DEC who would put their careers at risk in a cover up are as rare as wolves, cougars and wild elk in New York. Conspiracy theories.........................

That explains it.. I had a 350 class 6X6 walk past me this morning and I thought it was a deer. I didn't shoot because I filled my buck tag and am hunting on a DMP. DAMN ! Wish I knew there were elk in NY and I could hunt them !

There is an elk hunting season in NY?

I don't know the penalty for something like that, you're best bet would be to call DEC and ask..........or just pick up a set of compact climbing sticks, they go up just as quick and with less effort than screw in steps, why risk a fine and whatever else may come along with getting caught?

big. but tiz not 150. Could easily do some studies of the skull and tell i would imagine. The eastern coyote has wolf in it's genetics so I would not be surprised to see some recessive traits pop up here and there.

Styrofoam coaler with dry ice. Duct tape the crap out of it so it doesn't get opened. Make sure that the meat is frozen prior to packing it. It will ship just fine. Dry ice will last easily 5 days, and since it is already frozen, you can get over a week out of it. Ship on a Monday so you don't have the extra 2 weekend "non-shipping' days that it sits around. I have done it many times.

You don't have to do anything. MODs just need to do their job!! Unfortunately their lack of due diligence allows these threads to get out of control.

This Website is sad sometimes lol. And to think this is possibly were a young hunter and or kid comes to get advice and learn about the sport. You could have a thread with a record buck and a thread were people are smashing each other and the BS thread would have tripple amount of veiws and comments. Lol, wow. Is it really that bad ?????

How do you know WE'RE not the wrong folks to mess with? Just sayin'

I did zoar valley I believe fourty 4 yrs ago the very last day of gun season I walked into a spot there was 2 hrs left in the season 4 guys were coming out and said don't waste your time we've pushed this all day and didn't see anything I walked up a couple hundred yards called my wife and said my expectations aren't high ill be on the road at dark I told her to hang on a second I shot a big doe trying to sneak by I picked the phone back up and she couldn't belive what just happened. I think Thursday I'll try lost nations in Centerville I use to love hunting there

So I hunt the property next to a greenway trail. This morning at 7:30 my friend tells me a nice buck is chasing a doe and coming your way. I hunt a ground blind I made from fallen trees. All of a sudden I hear this loud crashing coming to my right when the deer should be coming from my left. I look and there is this guy in street cloths coming down this steep ridge. He was walking right toward me. I knew it wasn't the property owner. I started videoing him so I had some kind of documentation incase he was a tree hugger. He kept coming right for me. I realize he didn't see me so I waited till he got 5 ft to me and I got up and said "What the F are you doing" he jumped and his face got all contorted and he screamed like a little girl. Hahahaha he said I am on the nature trail . I told him he wasn't even close to the trail and to follow the stream down and he would get to the trail. But to see his face was priceless. I only wear an orange hat so I took it off when I saw him coming. The tree huggers call the cops every year on me thinking they own the property . So I don't wear much orange.

Jealous of what? now that's funny......hahahahaha!!

16 year old daughter's first deer. Shot it at ~20 yards, he went less then 50 before dropping. Single lung shot. Right side is 4 points, left side broken off above brow tine. Smile on her face says it all.

Here's a few pics from last weekend. First one is a cool shot of the waterline left from some of the flooding this past summer. Looks cool when you are walking through the woods. The next couple are the young buck from Sunday afternoon.