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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 .

loaded up yesterday and headed to camp. snowed all the way from rochester to camp in pa. took a little time loading up this trip between all the thanksgiving supplies and some of my deer, fish and duck mounts we had my truck full and Judy's crossover full. by this morning we had about an inch of snow on the ground which gave a nice winter background for the camp. since mother nature decorated outside it was time for me to spruce up the inside. these are in the stairway, notice the buck at the top of the picture has a double white throat patch, i had never seen one until I killed this buck last year.

Very strange. Sounds like the work of a devil-worship cult.

Went to a stand I don't hunt much during gun ..until late in the season....saw turkey and then as the sun dipped under the ridge I looked at my phone 4:38 closing...looked to my rt and there on the neighbors and my line were two big doe....... open shot 60 yrds....they had been watching the sun too...well that neighbor put out an offer that I could shoot across the line on them but I declined...first they do not hunt nor allow others to hunt doe and by the time they crossed over onto me it was 4:43 ...so I watched them walk by broad side at 42 yrds through my woods...then on way home...isn't there a deer standing right under another stand....and I followed a button buck out to the road...dang windy and cold! But today I saw deer and all possible shots...though only one in legal hours and still lots of turkey around....a great day hunting... Guys at camp had a shot on a doe miss and our son is hunting the biggest buck ever seen at camp...but 2 college kids doing survey home work interupted him....back at it in the morning

or maybe he realized it was "black friday" and if he was late getting home to shop with his wife she would cut his head off! so he made a hasty retreat leaving stuff behind!

Two solid deer right there!

I'd say its definitely not an age indicator. Here's a shot of a button buck I took 2 falls ago with a dbl throat patch. It made him easy to identify from the rest of the seasons yearlings, and would have made him easy to follow along with when he grew his first antlers, but I never saw him after that season.

I found quite an overgrown orchard on my property when bought it, with several varieties. Deer eat all apples, with preferences to availability (heck, if they eat super bitter acorns and love them, any apple is free candy!). Open up as much sunlight as possible- super important. clear away as much competing brush/ saplings. .

Same here. Last hunt at the upstate camp for 2014……..

The battery sucks on my iPhone and I guess I'm not familiar with an app that has topo maps and works well with poor cell reception. I'm about as techy as it gets but there are too many variables with a phone to trust it when hiking in a 500k acre national forest.

Why the hell do you think I thought it was interesting? I found it interesting due to the point that its just common sense.

I think I'm done with that multiple device stuff, your phone can do pretty much the same thing if you set it right. Even if you don't have a "phone" signal and you have GPS chip (most phones do these days) it still works, just pre-load maps before hand. Get rid of that old ABBA and Lynyrd Skynyrd music on your phone and make some room for maps :-) You will never got lost again.... My 2 cents...

Nice , i was just thinking i should get my dad a gps for chritsmas to replace the old magellon that beeps constantly and he is deaf to that particular tone. True story , we were walking to our stands and it was going off and at first i thought he was joking ,eventually i said "are you gonna turn that f!@king thing off ?" He turned and asked as serious as could be " turn what off" Thanks for the heads up !

Great recipe. I love home-made pot pie! I would use frozen veggies though. If you are using canned peas and beens, and fresh carrots, the canned stuff will not cook even with the carrots.

Don't be afraid to track them, I have found a wealth of information by doing this and if you keep at it you can catch up to them. Check the choke points, ridges and swamps. Find the largest track even if it is only a doe and follow it as long as you can. This will help identify bedding area, food sources and hopefully you pick up a buck track while doing this. Good luck, keep us posted on your progress and like OMG stated, never give up.

I'd like one for westchester Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Turkey day double. Had fil and mooog with his daughter on her first tagalong hunt.

I like this technique lol.

I was just talking about this animal with some friends from there last week. The word I got was apparently there was a farm right around there that had a bunch of them. They went out of business this spring and when they were loading the herd to send to sale/slaughter this one got loose. They couldn't catch it and weren't too concerned about it I guess.

Word is there were a whole herd of Buffalo running wild in Detroit last night!

Sunday 1020AM this fella came in zig zagging back and forth going over the same path a doe had walked at first light.

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.

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.

Ok I have been putting this off because I knew it was ugly. Bow season results. Hours in the stand during legal light - 120 hours oh my!! Deer sighted - 38 pathetic Bucks - 12 Dow - 25 Not sure - 1 So I saw 1 deer every 3.15 hours on stand and 1 buck every 10 hours. This is a bit misleading because I had two distinctly different seasons almost. From 10/1 to 10/19 I saw 2 deer in 32.5 hours so 16.25 hours per sighting!! And 10/20 to 11/14 I saw a deer every 2.3 hours. Standing corn really hurt one of my spots this year. It actually was just cut this week. I had an enjoyable season. I only saw one big shooter during light and he was far away and a marginal shooter that I hit a twig on. That ended a 9 year streak of bow deer. Now we return to the gun season!

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.

Northern zone buck down. I hadn't had a lot of time to hunt this year and decided last night no matter what I was going to be in stand before sunrise this morning. Watched the squirrels from about 6:30 am until 7 am and then it seemed like everything dissappeared. Heard something move at 7:11 and assumed it was the squirrels again and this 6 point walked out. I took aim and let the 7mm08 do its work it ran about 40 yards and stopped and I aimed again and let another one fly and he went down. One shot hit both lungs and the other took out the heart.

Story Here..http://www.nyantler-outdoors.com/adirondack-muzzleloader-buck.html