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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.

Any one on here do use a pellet/bb gun for frogs? Heading to camp next weekend, think I will take one of my air rifles and shoot some frogs and get some frogs legs as a snack.

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

Ha ha.....good one growie! How do you spell that weird French (I think) word......"touche" ZINNNNNNNNNGGGGGGG. He is the king of "one liners"!!

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.

I have a weapon for every season and or opportunity to hunt deer knowing full well that I may very well not get to use many of them.........never looked at it as a waste of money, just something to keep me in the game if one doesn't pan out.

First Bear I have ever got on camera.

I've been saying for a LONG time now that people could beat their spouses, kids, do God knows what and only get slaps on the wrist. Go harm an animal, even unintentionally and you'll have a better chance of ending up in jail.

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!

Enlarged, pretty neat!

That's pretty much it for me too. I run through the list of "wants" and "don't wants" when the opportunity presents itself. I would like to think that I have the ability to pick a deer, and hunt it until I get it, but that seldom really happens. Most of the bigger bucks that I have gotten was at the very first time I had ever laid eyes on them. I can't lay a lot of skill on many of them and have to chalk it up to dumb luck.

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.

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

13, 30, 60, what does age have to do with it. I bet if anyone gave it a shot you might just have some fun and get a snack, or maybe enough to have a meal. What are you afraid of? Big bad hunter uses .177 ( or .22 ) cal pellet to shoot frogs? Never tried spearing. Hand catching, air gun, even a fishing pole with bright colored cloth on a small hook. There's a time to be all serious, and then there's a time to be the kid we are at heart.

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...

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.

Really? If you think a deer goes quietly when being killed by any predator, you need to think again! Go look at the post around here somewhere where that bear killed the deer. It wasn't quiet! You think it's less quiet at night with coyotes killing it? It's a pretty darn scary ruckus to have wake you up at 3 am! When you aren't in the burbs and actually in the woods, sound travels farther and is more clear. As for the second red part. I will let the people around where I hunt know that it's all in our heads. Hey, no offense taken though. Must be in the water. 20+ people all hallucinating. Maybe it was a bear. Oh wait, no bears in the area. A fox perhaps? Nope, must have been the fisher cats. WAIT! Big foot, chupacabra, maybe aliens! Werewolves? Maybe a vampire? Maybe the Jersey Devil is hunting NY now?

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.

great pic wooly of that savage deer killer..lol

I can't answer for anyone else, but I did see and hear 2 coyotes kill a fawn once. The fawn was the only one making any noise though, so if I hadn't seen it with my own two eyes..., there's NO WAY I'd have been able to say it was being killed by coyotes. I think a lot of folks mistake the yotes pack assembly and territorial howls as a kill announcement. I better tell this guy it AIN'T safe to come out yet,lol

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.

If I could add one thing the "summer scouting" list, it would be to observe first hand before you go tromping through an area to randomly hang cams. You got a good chunk of land there for observation if you can slip off a few nights after dinner to just watch how things unfold in those fields from afar RIGHT NOW! Grab the binos, some skeeter spray, and anything else that makes you feel comfortable and just pay attention to where they are entering and leaving the open spaces in front of you. That's all subject to change over the next two months or so, but since we went to the October 1'st opener now, there's always hope you can nail a target buck by back tracking his summer patterns early in the season. I'm not gonna get into dissecting your map any further than saying I'd be concentrating on that BIG GREEN area right now to learn how he dots connect from there.

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.

Junkie, I'd like you to show me any real evidence the GOP is trying to allow pregnant women to get fired. As far as Federal Funds for PP, there should not be any taxpayer money spent on anything the government sees as benevolence, when it is really a social agenda and thinly veiled vote buying scheme. You're using a chart supplied by PP here. Do you trust it? This comes from their own annual reports. "Planned Parenthood continues to claim that abortion is three percent of its services in the 2010 report. By comparing the number of condoms, birth control pills, and other low cost items distributed to the number of abortions it commits, Planned Parenthood intentionally misleads the public and those in charge of providing government funding for its grisly business by painting a grossly inaccurate picture of what its business is all about. By comparing PP’s abortion income with its clinic income, we get a much more accurate picture of Planned Parenthood’s business model. In 2010, Planned Parenthood’s abortion income was 51.5 percent of its clinic income." PPFA Annual Reports via Life News

I saw this article earlier. Did you guys notice that the article not only condemns the hunter, but is also calling for an end to trophy hunting in Africa? I just hope this doesn't start the ball rolling for a complete ban of hunting in Africa. Just as with the confederate flag in this country and a number of other things of late, once the media gets a good hold of something, they won't let it go until they get what they want. This may not end in a good way for hunting.

Why did it have to be an American!

Well they aren't my #1..but what makes hunting them thrilling and exciting? The game of it all...the prepping..... My doing things on the land to see how many I can get to see. The deciding which of dozens and dozens of stands and blinds to choose to get them in close enough...whether I can trick their noses...when spotted still fool them into staying....figuring out the best times to move or not and once in a while being right....That's it in a nut shell

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....

This season I had the chance to track and observe many archers shots. I also was able to read descriptions here of many hits that needed help finding deer. I preface this by saying I am far from claiming to be superior and also less than lethal shots happen to everyone and I'm glad we all learn from them. However, to review my observations, the majority of wounded game resulted from poor shot SELECTION rather than execution. Majority of the hunters I spoke to (and also read) described shots such as quartering to, straight down, straight on in brisket, or aiming too close to shoulder. Sure, some of these can be lethal but majority of time it's not a recovered deer. The other big thing I learned this year is how NON lethal a one lung hit can be. Speak to very experienced hunters and they will tell you it's a 50/50 proposition in their opinion. So I mention that to hopefully speed up the learning curve to some of the less experienced archers and also a good way to hold myself accountable and remind myself to select high percentage shots.

The upmost respect that you are giving deer by waiting for the perfect shot is un-parallel to anything else in this sport. Keep at it, you will be rewarded for your patience