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Got it done back to back with the muzzleloader! All misspellings courtesy of iPhone

Went out today and filled one dmp in 8n...first deer with my dad's 270 glad I could get one with it

Took dad's 270 out on state land in 8n was there literally 25 min when a group Walked out and took this one at 50 yards ran 20 yards and done....put in truck went back out didn't see anything else

Lol nope she's just awesome! Me and my buddy out hunting..... Always has hot food ready when we come in for lunch.... This is her first rifle..... She wants to hunt next year

My gf just hit her nose with the scope shooting targets with her new gun! We got her cleaned up.... I offered to stay home with her but she made me go back to my stand! What a good woman.

Anyone think we'll see signs like these entering New York???

This guy was taken locally yesterday. There's still hope for those of us who haven't gotten one yet. Good luck to all!!

If for some reason I had to go shopping on black friday, I would intentionally run my truck into a ditch on the way there, and happily spend time in the E.R. rather than the mall…..But thats just me.

My Dads 5pt buck. Shot Sunday 11/22, recovered Monday 11/23. Story in my journal thread Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Here is my first coyote, taken this morning around 9:00am while deer hunting, its a big male and i guarantee he is pushing 50lbs! awesome experience that i will never forget! this is about the next best for me besides being able to take another trophy buck this year!

Easy... Goober sees deer...Shoots it... Walks up to deer and discovers it has antlers..Bad news because he put his buck tag on a trophy spike opening day and only has a DMP. Guts deer..leaves vest and knife on ground.. Cuts off head to get rid of evidence.. Decides to remove antlers with his patented BOB VILA folding saw ... Saws off one antler..Starts to cut off the other antler, SLIPS and delivers a crushing blow to his testicles on the upstroke.... Runs screaming in pain back to his truck.. Bear comes in and drags off deer.. OP stumbles on scene... Seems perfectly clear to me...

quite possibly the best picture of the year! great job.

Oh man do I ever love a post where we get to use our imaginations and let them run wild! Here's what I think could have happened... New guy to hunting shoots his first buck, and he's so excited! He fills out his tag immediately and sticks it in his pocket.(per law he's not reqired to attach tag just yet) He proceeds to gut the animal moments later just the way he read it was supposed to be done on line. He then realizes he forgot a piece of rope, or a drag to get this carcass out of the woods and he begins to panic someone else will steal his kill if he leaves it abandoned... he also read that on line,lol So his next step is to try to salvage the antlers by hacking them off before he realizes he just cut off a dragging handle and maybe he should save the entire head. He packs up his saw and the one antler he cut loose to show everyone back at home when he finally comes to the conclusion he has no idea what he's supposed to do next. He marks his carcass kill location with his orange vest to make sure he can find it when he returns with help to get his deer out. He gets turned around on his way back to the truck and what should have been a 15 minute hike turns into an hour. When he finally reaches the truck and sees his cell phone battery is dead, he proceeds to make the 40 mile trip back home to see if his neighbor can give him a hand getting his trophy back home. 4 hrs later he makes it back to his kill with help.. ..... stranger things HAVE happened before we all start jumping to conclusions!

State land sence Thursday in 8n saw nothing till this morning went in woods about 9am shot this one at 930 pretty good day hopefully get another one tomorrow...first deer with the father's 270

My friend and hunting partner could not hunt yesterday morning because he was going shopping..... I said ok,when you get home toss your man card and hunting lic. In your garbage tote , make some tea, light a Yankee candle and enjoy Ellen on tv. Oh and make a big meal when the men return form the woods they'll be hungry !

My wife's thong?

Just heard a neat story. Last year I reported on here about how I helped a 70 year old guy gut and drag a 4 pt. on opening morning of rifle. Late October this year the neighbor saw that same guy drive his atv up to the woods and about an hour later drive back down dragging a buck. It turned he went up to check the path for downed trees. He brought his bow along and decided to sit on the ground underneath a pine. After only a few minutes he had a rut crazed 8pt walk directly at him and offered a shot at 15 yards. He drew back and shot what happened to be his biggest buck in 40 years!

This. Tracking is the best way to learn whitetails in my opinion. It doesn't always have to be for big buck either, I tracked and killed a doe this morning. In smaller hunks of land, you just need to slow down and keep your eyes peeled. You usually have to kill them the first time you see it since you can't afford to push one too far.

Corn stalk leaf?

I had the safety off on a doe 100yds offhand decided not to shoot. I had three voicemails on my phone I was worried about and wanted to check on and no service. Let the deer walk jumped in my truck and drove down the road to check. It was the neighbor, he shot a doe and wanted me to have it.

Fatal shot determines possession, but if I finished off a kids deer then he would get it with the sportsmanship explanation. I can't say I have many trophies on the wall but helping a young hunter enjoy the sport would be enough reward for me. Meet a kid today who is in his second year of hunting and he shot a really nice 9 pt from the ground with his bow. That really gets me pumped! Love seeing the enthusiasm and joy!

froze tonight...but I did have deer come in during legal hours...4pm 3 come running in...had to glass them to make sure...yep, two big buttons and a doe fawn ...they run under the stand.... then she stood 10yrds away and allowed the biggest button mount and breed her...that was a first...I've never seen to fawns breed before...and it wasn't a young hop up and leave, he bred her...they all then went a bit further up on the ridge and bedded down 50yrds away...I was hoping by 4:38 a mom or bigger buck would come in seeing she is in a first cycle...nope...at 4:30 they got up and came back down the hill headed for the swamps....

Any ways....here is that mount he made... Please remember to keep an eye on your elderly...this poor man was preyed upon and no one inquired enough on him to see it for years......well before it was too late...know for whom your loved ones associate...EVEN family members!

If it was a "cling on" stand maybe one of those Klingons from the Star Trek series thought it was theirs .

and on a nearby tree, scrawled in blood were the words "if it's brown it's down"...........and legend has it, that on a clear, cold night, you can hear a "man child" crying softly.....eerie but true.

the plot thickens............dun dun dun.

I'm hoping no members of this site would ever do this. And I have no explination for the slob who did

I just hope the roman candles only have 7 loaded or Andy's going to be pi$$ed

with 130 acres and horses there is ALWAYS work that needs done, especially with dad and his mile long list of things that need to be done. But i don't complain for 82 years old I am thankful he is still active and cherish every day I get to talk to him and help him around the farm.

Nice snowy day. The snow is still soft sand quiet. Cut some old tracks and some semi fresh beds. Taking a break to sit and cool down, then back to working around towards where this tracks were headed. Hunting in this kind of weather is great, learn so much about the deer.

If you're in a blind bring a heavy sleeping bag

Don't know where your located, but their breeding again, on this side of the state. Now the time to catch them off guard. We shoot some really nice bucks from now right into about December 8. Look for the signs. Fresh rubs and scrapes were showing up again last weekend.

Signed! Some say that hunting is going by the wayside and then some say they dont want to allow another shot at bringing hunters in....Kinda strange dont ya think?

+1 on Matthews

I'm not clear on that, is says that 1C and 3S were excluded but the request is only for 1c "... rather than excluding crossbows from Suffolk County, it would best interest the constituents of Suffolk County and NYS to authorize the use of crossbows in Suffolk County WMU 1C, to aide in the success of Suffolk County hunters." Better wording for 1C AND 3S would be more clear....just saying... Unless I misread the entire thing.... Anyway I signed it regardless...

Put a 2" x 2" piece of wood floor to inside top in the center of my Baronett .350 just before it snowed, it is standing up just fine with all of the snow and sleet we had the last few days.

Sweet!

I'm hoping for a Red Friday 'cause I'm gonna shoot a buck! ????

He asked a simple question. I guarantee everyone here has broken the speed limit at one point in our lives. I guarantee if the punishment for speeding was the death penalty that wouldn't happen, but we all know ifts a measly fine or a warning. There is ABSOLUTLY no difference. Almost all of you are hypocrites Unless you live a perfect life and have never once knowingly broke a law.

Probably a wolf. Easily 175lb. Congrats man!

People who bow hunt are much better all around hunters in my opinion !!!

Looks like a good blood trail coming from the Buffalo in Belo's pic!!LOL

My son and nephew got these deer at my camp in 6n. First week of nov. 6pt. 150lbs and 4pt. 125lbs.Got them 3 days apart.

Actually shot this guy the saturday prior to gun opener with the bow but couldnt find him. Was really bummed. Opening morning 10 min in he walked right up to me. 25 yrd shot only ran 40 yrd.

Number 2.

Sunday morning following opening day on state forest land 9J. Harvsted this one while in the company of a doe walking through the old pines.

Didnt see anything saturday so i slept in a bit sunday and decided to take a walk out to my stand at about 9:30 am sunday morning. Around 10 a couple does came by taking their sweet time, then this guy was following behind. I got kicked out of a spot i had permission to hunt on saturday which is only reason i went to this other spot on sunday, guess everything does happen for a reason cuz theres noway i woulda been there if i hadn't been asked not to hunt where i was seeing more deer. I consider this guy quite the bruiser for my area, and my biggest buck yet! 7F

After watching this buck for over 20 minutes on opening morning at 120 yds on state land, he finally gave me a 100 yd shot at 7:30 am. He was taken using Federal Copper slugs.

After being on stand most of the day yesterday and seeing no deer, I went out at noon today back to the same stand watching my food plot and at 2:55pm this buck walks out.

The action started today before the sun came up, and I could hear and see silhouettes of deer chasing one ridge over from my blow down blind. Not long after legal shooting time I looked over my shoulder and spotted another hunter in his stand about 200yds behind me. I was a little discouraged by that, but I sat tight for a little bit just to see what happens with all the early activity around. Shortly after that I spotted a doe and two fawns coming at me from the opposite ridge. I thought about taking the lead doe but decided I wouldn't take a doe today. They made their way up the ridge and disappeared over the horizon. A few minutes later, my buddy in the trees tand let a shot rip. When I turned around I could see a deer running off into the powerline goldenrod. Now I was pretty bummed and ready to pack it up..... but wait..... what's that familiar sound..... more deer coming! Between us once again I saw 4 doe running right in front of my buddies stand and then I noticed a big wide buck was chasing them but I couldn't count his points. He ran right in front of the other guy, but he never shot and now this dude was coming right for me. He chased the doe behind me and stopped 40yds away but the damn fallen tree I was hiding behind was in the way for a clear shot. The doe hopped in the ravine and shot up the other side with the big wide guy in tow. A few minutes later I hear another deer running where those deer had just gave chase to one another. It was a little 6 pt, but he was trailing them the wrong way. He ran by me at 40yds and I let him go. Now I knew what was going on, so I slid over about 20yds to clear the branches from my blind and set up where I had a clear shot at that hot does path. Moments later I hear it again. Another deer following from the wrong direction. I got a good look at it on the opposite ridge and saw it was a nice buck so I got my hammer back and safety off. When he popped up on my side of the ridge he was only 20yds away and slightly quartering to me. I stopped him with my voice and let the hammer drop. He ran off the same way he came in. I got on his trail and it absolutely sucked. Very little blood, and a tuft of hair. I followed for approximately 50yds and the blood had stopped. With all the deer running around, it was impossible to tell which tracks were his on the other side, and with no blood, that meant I had to follow them all! I took the trail of what looked like his tracks for a while before deciding I didn't believe it was him any longer. I hopped on another set and had the same results. I headed back to my blind to have a cup of coffee and chill out for a bit before hopping on another set. After I cooled off I followed a set that headed down hill towards the power lines and as soon as I stepped in the goldenrod thicket, I spotted my buck laying 75yds inside it! Not a speck of blood from where I lost it, right up to his carcass, and I had good tracking snow this morning! Very glad I found him, and now I'm taking a break!