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Headed up for a quick trip, hard to get up there with the new business. Looks like it will be great weather high of 75 on Saturday. I'll have cam pictures from two cameras from the last month. Hope to have some nice ones! Enjoy the weekend folks!

He's so right on.

I have been butchering my own deer for quite a few years . After skinning and quartering , it still needs more cleaning before grinding , cutting and packaging . It has always been a problem keeping the meat cold and had to be done by moving all the stuff in the kitchen fridge . I was going to but a new fridge for the garage but the guy at the store said if the garage got around 50 - 55 degrees the new fridge would shut off and not turn back on due to the newer electronic technology . Anyway I bought a 10 cu ft fridge for $130 and it is in great condition . Now all I need is for Deer Season to get here .

Had a few more crappy pics from today's card pulls... I really wish that he would have stayed a symmetrical 5x5, but I can hardly say that I'm dissappointed in his growth this year. He is either tied for or a close second for the best 3 year old that I've ever gotten pics of. Based on his bulby tines, there is still some growing left in his G3/G4 and beams.

Asking the bank teller for a McWhopper w/ cheese can be embarrassing. Handing your signed paycheck and a deposit slip to the Drunken Donuts cashier...priceless.

I used to hunt them with a Crossman 760 40 years ago. We weren't looking to fill the pot, more just to hone our stalking skills for later in life. Lots of those big old green bullfrogs were crushed by the flat shooting-hard hitting copper solid bb's Good times for a 13 year old to be alive!

How does one hear a coyote kill a deer??? If hunters are so worried about the coyote population then they should get their asses out and hunt them whenever the season is open. That isn't happening... therefore my conclusion would be it isn't as important as most hunters claim... otherwise it would be at the top of their list of things to hunt outside of deer season. The coyote problem in most cases is imagined not real.

Funny story.......today I'm riding with my boss between a job and a few estimates. First thing we do is check on the crew in North Tonawanda. They're looking for a cup of coffee so we say "no sweat, we'll go grab you some". We head over to this goofy plaza on Payne Ave at Meadow Drive. Why is it goofy you ask? Do a Google Earth thingy......... So we want to get the coffee at DD's and we get wheeling around all the damned "curbage" intended to herd people around like cattle and then end up at the drive thru. The chic inside the bldg says "hello, what can I get you?" Bob starts the order: 2 medium double double, small cream & sugar, 2 muffins and a................a a a what? WTH do you mean do we want a burrito? Bob looks at me and says holy crap, we're at Taco Bell!! We peel out of their drive thru and go MAYBE 60' to the DD's drive thru. We are laughing or azz off and can hardly get the order out!! The two restaurants are stacked so close together it must happen often. Heck McDonalds is only a softball toss right next door to these two joints. So I guess you really had to be there to enjoy the humor. Twas a bright spot in our day!

Maybe it was a goat because she wanted kids.

Date and Times way off !

Had a bunch of them here last week baked to the sidewalk, but a flock of turkey vultures flew over the other day and cleaned them all up! Seriously though, yes, lots of little toads around now. ...damn landtrack beat me to it,lol

If it's a Maytag, pull it away from the wall and there should be a repair man standing behind it. Maybe he can fix it fer ya.

We see a group of 6-10 gliding over the Furnaceville Cemetery quite often . When we walk over there I wonder if they are waiting for us to drop . Seeing them glide through the air is a beautiful sight but they are some ugly birds ! Had a group of 5 resting a couple houses down from ours a couple years ago .

I wont be one to jump to any conclusion so quickly. Ive heard enough reports that detail what went down and they all seem to point the finger at the guides. Ive also heard alot of stories that tell a different tale. What ever happened to giving people their day in court before you publicly string them up for something they are accused of or charged with? Lets say you paid a guide for a hunt, and something the guide told you to do broke a game law, and you didnt know it, and you got charged with poaching. Would you want everyone to call for your head, make death threats, destroy your means of income, etc? The thing that gets me about most of the stories I hear that are saying the Dr is at fault, is that all of them contain a ton of anti hunting, animal rights rhetoric. It makes it so they sound more emotional than factual. Like I said though, I wont jump to any conclusions about the situation until all of the facts are laid out and the court hands down its verdict. It amazes me how people can behave this way.

What do the people of Zimbabwe have to say about it? http://news.yahoo.com/lion-zimbabweans-ask-amid-global-cecil-circus-140822692.html

I surely haven't forgotten about him. Been trying to tell people long before that incident that Nugent is an idiot. Many hunters and gun enthusiasts love him no matter what, however. They keep kissing his butt like there is no tomorrow, while he's laughing all the way to the bank.

Gillibrand is Chuck Schumer in drag.

Frogs are an over looked food. I love frogs legs. Take another shot at carving that spear head wooly. Why not?

Some like the challenge, some like the meat, some like it easier, some harder etc. etc. It doesn't much matter as long as they're out doing it because they enjoy it. That is what I like to see. The enthusiasm is what keeps hunters out there and what bonds us all together... think about it, that's why we are all here on the forum... a common interest in an activity that we all enjoy in our own way. We buy a license, we kill deer, we share our experiences and have some fun doing it ... even during the off season. That's pretty special.

Let me truly explain my personal point of view. All sarcasm aside! Where I hunt up north, which actually isn't very far into the ADK's, we hear the coyotes killing deer at night every summer. Not just fawns either. Yes, it ticks me off! Yes there is a problem. Like I also mentioned, they keep coming closer and closer to our camp at night. I am sorry, but this does constitute a problem in that area. Maybe where you are or hunt they aren't an issue. That's fine. I actually see your point of view to leave them be. It just seems that for those of us who do have a problem, many don't want to see our point of view. There is a fact though, whether people want to admit it or not, once they are established, it will be much harder to get rid of them if they do become a problem.

2 years ago i'd agree with you about how easy it is just to walk into the woods. Years of private land hunting has spoiled me. I challenge you to head to some of the public land and norther parts of the state and report back.

Seeing a lot of toads...and I don't mean in the local bars Pygmy I went out to feed the boys last night and it was like walking onto the set of a Stephen King movie...Toads toads of all sizes covering the ground hopping this way and that...then while checking the plots hundreds and hundreds of tiny baby toads every where...in the woods too

Cashing in on evil: "Right now, Republicans in Washington are pushing legislation allowing employers to fire single women for getting pregnant — AND they're leading an 'investigation' to undercut Planned Parenthood. This makes my head explode. I’m confident that if we had more women leading in Washington, we would not still be dealing with the right wing’s efforts to trample women’s health care." —Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) in a fundraising email

So on the way to the gym I'm on main street and in a heavy residential area just before the bushiness districts sets of traffic lights. I look up and there is a group of 15 or so Turkey Vultures flying low circles over a small group of houses...that's strange! I get to the last set of lights and look in the rear view to see them still circling...So I decide to call the station... I give my name and tell him I know what turkey vultures look like...and hes says ya ya...I pause and say so you know about them...He said ya they've been there for weeks ,must be hunting mice in the field we can see them from the office here....I said Oh OK ..but you do know they don't hunt live prey, I was just thinking ya know if you have elderly in the area...He said ya no ones been reported missing...OK ...well just thought I'd call... Hell hope someone with very little out side contact..isn't dissolving some where ...lol Thats a big group of vultures.... we don't see that many for dead deer around here and we are in the middle of know where. PS I know the area well...there are no fields....hhhmmmm

I'll go two-an-a-quarta, do I hear a twofiddy? No offense buddy, but count your blessings. I can't even draw a bow any more, so it's going to be camera season until gun rolls around. Pics are cool, but I depend on the meat too. I never thought that 56 yo would be my cutoff. Roll with what ya' got an' make the most of it.

My plans to head up this weekend with my son were thwarted by the following: "So when are you planning on finishing the woodshed?" Guess what I'll be doing this weekend with my son??? LOL Enjoy Burt!

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Yup.....reminds me of the time MANY years ago when I asked my wife to go down to Cox's and buy me a seersucker suit... She went to Sear's.....

A couple years ago I carved a frog poker out of an old deer leg bone. I never got it attached it to a stick to give it a whirl, but this post reminded me of the fun I had carving that sucker and might have to give it another go to actually make another to try. I don't know where I put this one now...but I remember it breaking at that delicate point near the business end.. Bad pic yanked from some old video.

I use a fridge every year. I bone out the deer right away and then age it in meat pans in the fridge for a few days to a week. soak pads in the bottom or just drain it every couple days. I trim and cut things up into steaks, roasts, or whatever. then it keeps the meat to be ground cold for easier grinding.

Just a reflection on my youth, nothing more-nothing less. Bang away buckaroo!

You guys got me really confused here. Are they killing all your mature deer off, or just altering their behavior by chasing them away? If a yote catches and kills a mature deer during the summertime, there's probably a reason for that.(sick, injured, diseased,or already dead) Winter time is a whole different ball game when things get ugly, but even then they are conserving energy by mostly feeding on leftover carcasses from winterkill and hunting seasons unrecovered casualties. I wouldn't mind seeing a few summetime kill carcasses of dead deer (non fawns) to confirm any of what I'm reading here that would suggest coyotes are targeting healthy adult size deer with any success. Sorry, I'm just not buying it...

obviously not a buck or even a brute of a doe but man was i excited to put down my first ever deer with the bow after a 2 years of hard hunting. finally got it done yesterday on the island with a 20 yard shot. This is what i found after about a 60 yard blood trail.

I've been reading some of the older posts, and I came across your thread. I hope nobody minds me bringing it back up. Just wanted to say congrats on your first with a bow. Looks like a nice doe to me.

NYantler is absolutely right, most coyote problems are imagined. Most are not real. Look at where the complaints come from and compare that to how many DMPs DEC issues and how many antlerless deer are taken. Do that math. It makes a lot of coyote haters look like they didn't get through elementary school. You want more deer, lobbying DEC is a better use of time. If you just want to kill things, do your local farmer a favor and go after woodchucks. I am not saying there are not problems with livestock. Or, that there aren't areas where coyotes have a significant impact on deer. Those areas are marginal deer habitat anyway - due to excessive snow or closed canopy mature forests. What was moose habitat became deer habitat during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is now moose habitat once again.

Same thing happened to my old stomping grounds up in Black Lake, The back side of the lake was some of the best hunting there ever was. Big deer and lots of them. State land of course and when yotes moved in..The deer went by the wayside..Dead-moved out..You be the judge. Started to happen in this next piece of heaven but that got taken care of real quick... Deer and Turkey abound. Well minus a few Turkeys after this winter.

By looking at all of these posts on this subject as far as charts, graphs , harvest reports and Objectives compared to what I and my neighbors actually see are all pretty far off. Example The 2014 DEC harvest report and there objectives. They claim that there were 15% less Does taken then they would have like taken. Did they ever think that there were not that many Does to start with . This is what we actually see. And knowing that the past winter was a Rough one for the animals what do they do for this up coming season. They increase the amount of Does they want taken per. sq. mile. And as far as Bucks , last year by us they stayed bedded down during the day most of the season. Trail cams proved they were moving around in the dark. Not until the last week to a week in a half did they start moving during the day light or legal hunting hours. And there were not as many as they seem to think there are. So I think this NODEN is just another thing to try to make them look good and try to save there jobs.

Your personal opinion (prejudice) and attack on me regarding my statement is indicative of a man who will not answer the question presented to him. Have you ever looked into the history of PP? Heard of Margaret Sanger? Acknowledge the inherit racism in her founding of PP? Understood her desire for population control? Read about her elitist desires for a white utopia? Of course you have. But it would be against your political ideology to admit it. You're not fooling anyone with your insults. They're just the inane rebuttals of a Leftist political tool.

Better look into the federal laws about selling body parts and organs. It's a felony. Nobody gives a crap what women do with their bodies. Many do care what they do with the bodies of the babies they carry inside of their bodies though. Admit it. Pro Abortion is about power and control over women and which ones are acceptable for reproduction. It started as racism and poverty control and it has progressed even further along those lines since the beginning.

So what is your point? The regs are what they are at this point. You would have known that to be the case the very first day the "last two weeks" reg was released because the DEC posts out future season dates publicly.

Read on how PP is an organization with great political might and deception. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/05/false-abortion-is-only-3-of-planned-parenthoods-services/ http://www.abort73.com/blog/planned_parenthood_and_the_percentages_of_abortion/ Regardless, if Gillibrand is on their side, she's a shill and needs to go, because unfortunately, her head isn't going to do us a favor and explode.

Could anyone pull this off ?

Wildcat Junkie ----- You left out selling body parts !

I'm an equal opportunity deer killer. If I have a tag for it and I find one within range, it will get shot. A bit more or less meat or horn makes absolutely NO difference.

Why did it have to be an American!

WNBH your right about that! the deer buck and doe bed every where on our place...well except last year...but now I have us back on track so I'm pretty sure that's what they will go back to..Unfortunately usually under the one out of 38 stands I decide to hunt out of any particular day...and a few times in the brush blinds as well...lol Personally I'd like to know the prevailing wind direction...and I would suggest walking that creek bed and finding as many crossings as possible. Then look for a good spot not far away to catch them at the best crossing and at your best shooting side.

Sounds like a black smith forged head pretty 1900, here is a good site of major manufactures www.yeasteryearstools.com

Clean it up and put a handel on it, the shape of the head will tell you what it was use for, anything that has a makers mark /stamp and not made in China is worth using....

Starting off at 45# - 50# might not be a real good idea. I have no idea what your body structure is like, but I will say that starting off over-bowed is never a good idea. Getting into traditional archery is not something that will happen quickly. It is far more important to start off with a rather inexpensive bow of a weight you can easily handle and build in good shooting form, consistency and control so that you have a decent chance of success. Over-bowed, you will burn out quickly, not to mention the potential for back and shoulder injury. If it were me, I would start with a cheap 35# or even 30# and build into that 45# to 50# deer hunting weight.

I got to stand at 3:30...3:45 she had a G5 go thru her at 20 yards..ran 40 and dropped ...Talk about last min.....