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Our days are numbered..... AMEN!

Bucks in a bachelor group 8/12/15. Starting to pay off by passing on small eights with bow and gun. Many of them will get whacked of course, but that is OK. Makes some other hunter happy! But if they get through to become 3.5 year olds, then they become literally something to shoot for. The small eight gets a free pass this year. If I need the meat, I'll shoot a spike or a yearling or a small doe.

Thats not that high, 4 section ladder stick, somewhere between 16 and 20 feet Id guess.

I pour a gallon of antifreeze on them and the ice, they normally fall through in a few hours.

I tie lead weights to them and throw em in a lake.......

When I finally get it all figured out, I promised myself that I would take up a sensible, soothing sport like golf where there is no frustration and I don't have to wear weird outfits anymore.

Happy birthday, make it a good one. No lawn mower should be involved!

Out in Western NY, I had planned on doing some field work today, but we got socked with a ton of rain last night. A neighbor kid who just graduated from high school this year suggested a fishing trip, so I took him up on it since it was too wet to do much anything else. He ended up getting a few nice smallies (mmm... fresh fish tacos for dinner tonight), and his first ever Niagara river musky. I caught just one monster of a sheephead myself, but the excitement on his face reeling in that big lunge really made the trip worthwhile. We ended up being very thankful for that rain that kept us off the fields today.

I know a guy who was prosecuted many many years ago for a salt lick and lost his license permenatly. Just a FYI. Not sure what the penalty would be today but I don't worry about penalties that don't affect me. I know many are against baiting but if it was allowed in high population areas where they want deer taken down like LI it would help. Many other states use bait to help population control and it seems to work. I also find it funny how so many stores have this and yet it seems to disapear from the shelves. Yep many out of state hunters lol, right.

Most of the time I don't have enough time to look a deer over good and determine if it is a 2.5, 3.5, 4.5 or whatever age it could be. You guys/gals really have the time to do that?????? Damn.........................I'm doing something wrong.

Cards from an old Wildgame , a Primos and a $40 Moultrie TRACE camera

Nice deer Eddie, hope you get a crack at them!!

If it was legal I would have taken the doe. But, yes If I was after a buck I would have taken the first one. You can't say on any given day what will walk in front of you. That monster may not have walked out that day, or any other day. For us meat hunters, when you have an opportunity, you take it. Horn hunters wait, and that's fine too.

Enjoy the day. Btw I'll be strapping those LW sticks to a tree next week ! I took the wife and daughter to Elmo's last week as well , she ( the daughter) moved into an apartment near by. The wife unfortunately will be still living with me....

Although I've hunted that high up, I never felt very comfortable doing so. Mostly stay on the ground these days.

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backhoes a landowners best friend....

Good looking pup!!

I can't wait to get one once I get a bigger place

I'm joking.....

Sarcasm Elmo

Avon gun is about 45 minutes from downtown, South of Rochester. Small shop, and limited inventory but can order anything, very knowledgeable old school vet owns the shop. Beikirchs is a large shop, good knowledable salesmen with a lot of instock options.15 minutes East of down town. Both are good options

Pretty dog!

Great pic! Looks like you need some straps on that ladder stick!

Boy does time fly, seems like only a year ago we were doing this? Thanks for the well wishes. Not positive on the days plans but they'll be firmed up shortly.

Happy Birthday, Larry ! Hope ya get lucky <<wink>>....

Happy B-day Lawdwaz! Too bad it didn't fall on a Friday! Maybe just hang out and buff the boat or something today!

I like the Nockturnals, they are easy to use, easy to install, affordable and just plain work. If you want to pony up and get the best ones out there, go for the Firenocks, you can get those ordered custom to what you want them to do.

Happy birthday enjoy a few drinks and a big cigar.

I am wondering if they mail out the tags by WMU , Last name as A to Z and closer to A first. or first applied for, first mailed out ?. I did mine online the first day and have not received anything as of Sat.

4SW coming to crap on the thread in 3...2...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Happy Birthday !

considered baiting and we can't bait or feed deer in NY. That said, it is a highly effective method of control and I don't understand why the DEC is so dead set against it. There was some suggestion that it can contribute to CWD but there are plenty of states whose biologists allow it and there is no more or less a problem in those states due to baiting/use of minerals. Let's be truthful, they are a fairly communal animal how they travel and bed, CWD would happen regardless if a hunter baited or not.

I was always told that most deer finish growing by early August but some deer will grow later into August.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsEwK69LXjQ

Still hunting I agree for the most part unless your tracking then you get a pretty good picture but still hard to determine exact age. Tree stand hunting is a different world. Usually you can see the deer come in and have a chance to observe them for a while before determining if they are shooters. I am told I am only allowed to shoot 130+ class bucks which are usually 3.5 or older. I would be tempted to shoot a 10 pt or double drop tines or double split brows but would get kicked off the private land, public I would be happy.

I would shoot a crazy horned buck of any age if I saw one.

but food plots are ok! bighemidaddy

They all look like different bucks to me. The first one could be a 1.5 all day long around here though.

I don't think too many QDM properties would have public hunting. After the expenses and work of plots and propery management, most are kept private. But perhaps you could find a lease property to your liking. Quality land access is the most challenging aspect of hunting these days.

I've hunted small game for most of my life using an air rifle. Earlier this year I decided this would be my first year hunting larger game, probably just deer and maybe coyotes. I went out and purchased a Browning BLR in 270 WSM. It is one of the most beautiful rifles I have ever seen. I haven't fired it yet and I am so looking forward to it. I ordered a Skinner peep sight and my plan, at least for this first season, is to hunt with the open sights. Unless of course when I sight it in I can't get a tight enough group at 100 yards. It probably won't matter since I plan to attach a bipod to it. Needless to say I am anxiously waiting for hunting season to open.

You can not any more Tags and licenses start on 9/1 now not 10/1. Last years tags are no good after 9/1.

Some are better at deer hunting , others at spelling basic words and using an occasional paragraph .

Having had a small stroke (no lasting effects), I try to compromise between pure walking, and riding. I live at the base of what I have nick-named "Cardiac hill". We did lose a neighbor to a heart attack on that hill, so it is aptly named. So unless I am still-hunting my way up the hill, I take the ATV. I drive to just under the ridge of the hill and park and then start walking quite a ways back in. In the pre-dawn hours, that keeps me from getting all sweated up, and the machine is silent for at least a half hour while I quietly go up over the lip of the hill and back to my stand up on the level hilltop. The last couple of years, I have used the ATV for taking the deer off the hill when possible. During gun season, we usually have a bit of snow on the ground, and that makes the hill a bit treacherous for ATVs. It can and has turned into a bobsled. So when there is too much snow, I just take a very slow, post daybreak still-hunt up the killer hill and across the top. I don't have any problem with the use of ATVs, even for the youngsters as long as it doesn't interfere with someone else's hunt.

My dad used to tell us as kids that the lack of knock down power excuse was only used by people who couldn't hit where they were aiming.

Wonder if that will be phase 4 after their first 3 brain farts fail to sole their "critical need"

No bait or licks but were in dire straits for deer overpopulation in some parts of the state.

I think I heard Hurst say that this doe only archery experiment where bowhunters are mandated to manage the deer population, will go for two years and then the next phase of an early muzzleloader season will be implemented when bowhunters fail to satisfy the DEC with proper deer population numbers. So we have two years before a lot of those items happen. They are using the deer population to drive all the items on their wish-list that they have wanted for years.

Big fan of my lever guns, especially my 444S. Been shooting a handloaded Hornady 265gr. FP exclusively for more than thirty years. The only knock I have with the Marlin is it's pencil-thin buttstock and drop. Felt recoil would be less if they fitted it with a decent buttstock. I don't notice the recoil afield with heavy loads but when practicing in the summer I do. I worked up some 240 gr. lead loads @ around 1,100 FPS that shoot to POA @ 25 yds. My BLR in .257 Roberts has taken a shine to 117 gr. -120 gr. bulletweights. I have yet to work up a lightweight bullet weight for varmints. I'll get around to it hopefully this summer. This gun and cartridge is a delight to shoot. A pre-war Savage 99R in .300 Savage. This only takes trips to the range but it's suprisingly accurate. Classic design and lines. It's a shame these are not popular now. And their prices only escalate.