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On early wednesday morning I got a call to run a loader in Buffalo. I had to drive it there from Rochester. A 4 hour ride. I got a new perspective on people. 4 loaders were working opening up huge apartment complexes. The people were so glad to see us.One thing that was never mentioned, There was nothing open. For All Wednesday and Thrursday we had no food, On Thursday we couldn't find any Diesel fuel we had to drive the loaders 12 miles to... a station that had just enough to fill us. We were working 18 hours on 6 off, sleeping in a furnished apartment .The first 2 days all we did was make openings so emergency vehicles could get in. On thursday we started helping getting the cars out. It was amazing I would pull into a lot and 40 or 50 people would emerge, All with shovels, They all came together to help each other out. Every time a car was freed they would cheer and high 5s all around.Elderly people were shuttling coffee and beer to the younger workers.It became a party. There were 18 lots in this complex I was assigned to. We finished up late last night, Got a hotel room ,Slept 6 hours and started the long ride home, Home never looked so good. It is now Tuesday night, I'm all rested up and ready to be in the woods at daybreak. Hard hunting till the end.

A female deer with a sexual identity crisis..??.. Would that be called a Dil-Doe..??...

I spent last week hunting in the Duck Mountains of Manitoba. My first ever out of state hunt. Talk about remote! I'd get dropped off before daylight and picked up at dark. You can hunt the 30 minutes before sunrise and the 30 minutes after sunset there....wish we could here. I saw 15 deer all week. 2 were big enough to shoot, but they were in very heavy brush 200 yards out, and only there for a couple of seconds. I passed on a small 8 at 30 yards, and a couple 4 pointers. I did see a couple bull moose, an eagle eating a rabbit it had just killed, and a weasel. While I didn't shoot a big buck, I did have the time of my life! I got home at 2:30 Sunday morning. I headed out at 1:30 to my blind on the farm here and shot this 9 pointer at 3:00! He had his nose to the ground in the cut corn field at 250 yards. I figured he'd work his way up to my plot since that's where all the does head, but he disappeared into a treeline. He was gone about 10 minutes and I was debating whether I should climb down and go look for him, when he popped out at 50 yards.

I like this technique lol.

That why all of my deer look small - I'm big and sit close for the photo. Trust me, they are ALL MONSTER DEER. lol

Well I guesss there are miracles. I had to work the night before gun so I put everything in the car and went to work. Got out at 6 and headed to my spot. After changing and walking to a ground blind i built last winter and settling in I said a little prayer and asked for blade to walk by. 10 min later he did. I dont know what else to say but thankyou Lord. Ask and you shall receive.

WOW another thread turned into a swollen head, look at me, your all stupid, do you know who I am thread. Quit polluting the sight with your crap spewing bs. I dont even have to call you out either cause you know who you are. Mr. Facts lmao

Wishing everyone a safe and very happy Thanksgiving. Good luck to those who can hunt before the festivities!

As I have read on here, most are not willing to report someone as they are concerned about repercussions. They will get even somehow. We hav ebecome a society afraid to stand up for itself. Always wanting someone else to do it.

This is why I'm proud to be from Buffalo. No rioting or looting when things get bad. Everyone bands together to help each other out. Back when I was working as an EMT in Buffalo I remember getting the ambulance stuck in the snow on a side street. We were in a real bad neighborhood. Out of nowhere five young men descended on the ambulance. I thought they wanted the drugs on board. Turns out they all had shovels and helped dig out the ambulance and dug us a path to get to the call location. I love this city. Thank you for helping us out. We couldn't have done it without people like you.

Come in from hunting...not even a squirrel seen..pulled card 2 buck ,1 big 8 6pm last night... Any hoo...message on machine .older gentalman has my buck rack....OK had to go to shop and pick up car...grab a bag of fresh veggies from garden squash cabbage taters and go down...he meets us in the drive flash light in hand and he made a plaque and mounted the rack!...Oh my gosh melt my heart...he was a little hesitant on veggies but I explained the guys didn't use them at camp and we had no room ...He said "anything to help" and excepted them...By the grace of God walk .... I'll post a pic tomorrow....it will be the most charished rack I have...

She (He) was probably visiting from Ithaca.. There are lots of gender confused critters up there.

Heart fried up for dinner last night, outstanding! The rest can stay.

Anyone who feels oppressed can always buy a one way airline ticket out of this country and leave on a jet to somewhere...don't really care...just go.

Do you have land I can come down and hunt on? If not, we can't be friends.

It goes without saying, and we know you don't need it, but maybe someone will give you a few bucks for your birthday,lol Happy B-day!

I'd like to try one of those night hunts from atop a truck where they drive around with red lights and calling. Looks pretty cool to hunt yotes, fox, Bobcats, etc Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks WNY-BH and Pigmy. Look forward to going the fajita route. Have a great Holiday!

WNYBuckhunter posted his deer heart fajita recipe last year on the forum and I tried it.. It's so good you'll want to SLAP yo MOMMA !! Previously I had sliced it, floured it and fried it in butter and I love it that way too... My Mom did it a different way..Simmered it in water with salt, pepper and bay leaf until done, then cooled it in it's own brine.. When cold, slice it thin and make sandwiches with mayonaise and coarse black pepper... Since NY season opens prior to PA season, I have often taken a deer heart sandwich or two for my lunch to eat in the woods opening day of PA rifle season..YUM !!

Most of the time I slice it thin, and throw in some onions, red and green peppers, a dab of olive oil and my home made fajita seasoning, then put it in tortillas.

That wound is above the spine.

For sure! Say the guy is 72" tall, that big ole yellow perch is probably like 40"+ and around 11lbs. Shattering all records.

You can tell alot from rubs, some of it is subjective and people diasgree, but I think you can get an idea of what made what. I don't see alot of shredding of the fiber, which doesn't always rule out, but shredding often indicates pearling, which is associated with older class bucks. Some bucks just don't get the pearling high up into their racks, so it's not 100%, but when you see shredding of a decent sized tree, generally you can equate that to a 3.5 or older as a baseline. Rubs made on small multiple brush-like vegetation have almost always indicated an older buck. I really am not sure why in all honesty, but you see this often in marsh land or brushlots, or areas with lots of pricker vegetation. Looking for tine marks up high or on limbrs, trees behind the rub itself can give you an idea on rack size. Obviously you can make up some travel indications and when (am/pm) movements at times.

Can we get back to Thanksgiving hunting?

the best video i've seen yet

My best day yet 9 rats and my uncle got 5 ... I had atleast 10 sprung toilet sets but awesome day for me and my uncle

DEC officers words to me were "most of our violations are the result of someone reporting something suspicious not necessarily witnessing something happen. People have to call and report or we don't know where to begin"

Definitely from a 10pt, with split brows, two drop tines, and a broken G3 on his right side. He's better than the one you think he is,lol.

myth. I have let a deer hang for a couple days to cure it and I have taken deer in warm weather in the morning and had it in the freezer in the afternoon. No difference in taste

I did that this round. I can't comment as to any difference in the end result since this was my first one, but I can say the fragrant mixture of boiling deer brain and citrus palmolive in the garage for two days earned me quite a tongue-lashing form the Mrs.

I didn't say I didn't like the photo... it's actually pretty cool... I'm smart enough to know how big an animal is when someone takes that kind of photo... in this case I was making the point that he took the pic that way to deceive people into believing the coyote was a wolf... other than that.. how someone chooses to take their photos to preserve their hunting (or trapping) experience is up to them and doesn't affect me at all. I can enjoy the photo no matter how far or how close the hunter is from the animal... if a hunter wants to make his 6-point look bigger... God Bless him... its his photo not mine. I'll still know it's a small 6-point. I find it more annoying that how someone chooses to take their OWN photo bothers others... it's not your pic... what do you care? Not intended, before or now, as a flame it just doesn't make sense to me why it bothers people so much thats all.

How truthful is this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDxgJq4toYo

Filled 7M Doe tag now its time for some Antlers

Took a doe at 730

I shot this buck last Thursday 11/13/2014 at 9 am in Suffolk County. He came in following 2 does. I canned at him and he came in to 15 yards. Day 4 of my 5 day vacation.

I've had a Buck Boiler for a couple of years and it worked great (30-40 heads) until the end of last spring. I've taken it apart twice and removed a ridiculous amount of rust and slake from the elements. Even after cleaning it I can't get it to heat above 140 degrees. I saw a thread about a DIY version so I went to Tractor Supply to try to buy the components. They were sold out of the drain-plug tank heating elements but the manager did point out this unit that you just drop in the bucket. I was skeptical but she suggested that if it didn’t do what I wanted it to that I could just return it. For $36.99 I figured what the heck. Well, it works really well ! I had a head of my cousin’s (including hair, eyes, jaw, brains, etc.) that I had been working on in the old Buck Boiler and I threw it in a new bucket with some cascade, water, and the new heating element. After 3 hours it was up to 200 degrees. At that point I removed the head and gave it a good shake. The bottom jaw fell off and all of the major flesh came off with a few flicks of my knife. There was still some cartilage left so I replaced the water and let it go 2 more hours. I hit the skull with the pressure washer and the end result is below. I still need to degrease the skull, but otherwise it is done. I found the same heating unit on Amazon for $39.99. The reviews are the most interesting part. People are using it to heat hot tubs and swimming pools! The big thing about this unit is that it is a HEATER, not a de-icer, so it has no thermostat and will not shut off on it's own. http://www.amazon.com/Allied-Precisi.../dp/B000BDB4UG Today I ordered a thermostat control unit off Amazon which shipped for about $27. I am going to add this so I can maintain a 180-190 temp and not over to prevent damage to the skull.

Look for "wild life" concentrations around the local watering holes when Buffalo weather takes a turn for the worse. Many creatures diets consist of only liquids at these times. It's not uncommon to see the predator-prey roles reversed during the long battles with old man winter. Young bucks often come out in force to feast on the old cougars that are attracted to the neon lights!

115-120 at best.

no idea.... all I know is I used to use screw steps but here and there they'd get ahead of me. tree would grow into them too much to unscrew them. also you need a lot of them. when you unscrew them a little or take them out and put them back in they aren't as tight. now I use individual climbing sticks and they're way easier. that's on private land. on public land I always use my climber as it's less to haul into a spot. if you leave anything it gets stolen. also it doesn't tip others off to where you're hunting. it will kill the tree eventually on public land because you have to remove them after each season.

MY NY Giants? you are mistaken. Go Bills

Nice job

Hey! I resemble...I mean resent that remark....

It's Ok,guys... Those two goobers look like Sioux....

They want to stop crime so pass the safe act against the law abiding and do a minimal window dressing to address the real outlaws. Does that make it more clear?

I can offer some insight. ONce AC took office, he made a policy change that darn near all public/press worthy information had to come from the central office in Albany. Prior to this, regional offices could run their own ship for the most part when it came to press requests. Generally they are routed through the CPS person, and up to the relevant contact in the region. Now, a press request gets you nowhere without an Albany green light. This issue has been so big that member of the state outdoor writers assocations have voiced strong concerns about it a few years back. It isn't changing anytime soon, so now the protocol is to go to Albany to get the permission in, and then wait for the call back from the appropriate contact (which likely isn't the right person you really want to be talking to). A "general" beat reporter not knowing this would get dead ends if he simply tried the regional HQ.

My property is in 8P. We have some great land around us that has a lot of cover and food. I have owned the place for 7 years now and have seen about 20+ bear. Most at hunting season (bow). One afternoon sit I saw 6 bear, A giant corn field was being cut and my stand was on the escape route. They love corn and show up at the most odd times.

I live 11 miles from Woodhull and I haven't heard any rumors of any 150 pound wolves ( or ANY wolves) being taken around here. I have seen perhaps a dozen wolves while hunting in Alaska and northern Quebec. That critter looks like a coyote to me.

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.

I am calling this a success!! 3 lbs of meat, stuffed it in the new grinder, mixed, switched plates to the sausage stuffing plate, and that was it. The mix was store bought kind of crappy but got the job done and got me going enough. Dont think I will use again but was good for first run. Good eating everyone!!!