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I saw a bruiser of a buck on a good buddy of mine's farm last week. Over the weekend I helped move a stand and set up a camera hoping to get a better look at the big guy. Due to his hectic farming schedule my friend gets no free time this time of year so I've been checking his cam for him. Lo and behold the buck were are after showed himself this morning. Not much mass...but everything else looks pretty darn good!!!

I realized that I completely forgot to post this. Back in the early spring I finally took my 2013 buck head to be cleaned up and whitened. I got it back and it looked great. Last year while I was out scouting, I found some 100+ year old hemlock fence posts that were fallen down on the farm that I took him on, so I got the idea to use one of those, along with the old, rusty barbed wire as a way to mount the skull. Heres how it turned out, looks pretty good I think.

make me any angrier..but got the NYODN today front page" Deer Kill expected to decline"...due to winter kill they say yet...here I am...as I type this the corn next door is being chopped ...which means over 200 acres around me is being chopped...So where will the deer be in 2wks...my place and my neighbors...but I can't hunt buck here...and refuse to take my normal doe....this is the earliest corn harvest we've seen...

Went to my Oncologist yesterday to go over my CT Scan results and it was all good news! No sign of any lung cancer returning and I'm good to go. Have to go back in 6 months for another scan. Thanks for all the well wishes, it really helps a lot!! Now, it's almost time for deer hunting, bring it on!!

Me too. Nets are for fish...I prefer the gross score as they give you a better measure of the amount of bone that deer grew.

I think you possibly live in the Twilight Zone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjwI9Oz0yl0

That'd be a C loop now............

This is a great buck. Looks like a 9, looks like left tip has a split making 4 on the right and 5 on the left.

80's,. And a Priest like that was probably one reason I stayed in the church as long as I did. It was the other devout hypocrites that I ran a crossed in the church later on in life that convinced me to bow out. The churches inflexibility and blind hard line is what has cost them.

Check out the images. A bit far away but they look good if you download and expand them. My lab is primed for ducks! Had her retrieving 3 sticks at once and I am hoping this translates into doubles. I wish I had time to go for resident Canadas.

No doubt about it. I probably won't even hunt this deer myself, but my buddy is extremely pumped after seeing the pics of this buck!!!

Why would you have to kill the does to measure the fetuses? You could simply do an ultrasound and get the measurements. They do that stuff with humans every day.

Evidence is right there!! There is a wolf in the picture!!

I guess I'm one of those guys who inject mice and pour acid onto their brains I'm a Professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center and a permanent member of the National Institute of Health's Neural Oxidative Metabolism and Death study section. As well as an avid bowhunter and long-time member (occasional contributor) here. Everyone is entitled to their opinions. And you can never prove a model, only disprove it...that's one of the main tenets of science. However, the people who do prion research are striving to understand a complex and deadly group of diseases. One that frankly scares the crap out of me. Nearly all neurodegenerative diseases involve protein aggregation. In prion diseases, the proteins themselves are the vector for transmission. Nobody is saying that the sky is falling, but given the choice, doesn't it make sense to be cautious when you're dealing with something that's deadly and, as you point out, not that well understood? Let me be clear in stating that most scientists don't have an agenda. There's more questions out there than there are people to answer them. The people I know work on things that they feel could make a real impact or could head-off a potential problem. They follow strict sets of rules and are subject to constant internal and external review. Most people don't realize that when scientist disagree, there's not some ethical breach, it's just part of the process. It's about interpreting the data and achieving consensus. But in order to interpret it, you have to understand it. As I said, you're entitled to your opinion, and I don't mean to offend. But please keep an open mind and remember that scientists, who often make enormous sacrifices to do what they do, also have opinions. Yes, I said opinions. But they are opinions based on fact and filtered through years of training. It doesn't make sense to have experts work for years to understand something, then discard their findings because it doesn't fit your personal view. And my guess is that most scientists who study prion diseases, of which CWD is one, have no idea that deer are farmed commercially. In the bigger picture, CWD is a smaller concern than the stuff that actually kills people. From which we can apply our models to CWD. And maybe prevent a disaster. If we're proactive. Always learning or never learning.

Put up a cam?

Letting open land grow to wood lands is NOT good deer habitat management all by itself... there are many many factors involved in managing a wildlife habitat so that everything and everyone benefits. Once you have a woodland you have to manage that woodland properly to make it beneficial to whitetail, and make it suitable to hunt in or around..

Not necessarily. At least most plots and farm fields for that matter offer great early successional habitat at the boarders and a mature wood landscape offers little for wildlife. The transitional edges around plots and fields are not only great places to hunt but, in many cases can offer forage that is superior to the plot or ag field themselves.

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A whale's penis. A blue whale's is 8 feet long. True story Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk

Thanks Grampy, I am going back into Lows Lake probably the last week and 1/2 of October. wall tent, wood stove canvas canoe, lots of good food, coffe, a cot to sleep on. I'll bring the camera and share my trip with you. I'm very thankful to the people of NYS who planned so far ahead that I can walk thru a big woods and not see a stump or logging trail, beautiful huge hardwoods, eagles, hawks, beaver and maybe a chance to harvest a north woods buck. At my age, 67, it's a great feeling to look forward to the trip.

In 2012, and again in 2014 I spent opening week of the northern zone deer season camped at Lows Lake, NY with my wall tent and a wood stove. I hunted the Tomar Mt area, I saw more moose sign than deer sign, but just having an opportunity to spend some time in those big woods was very rewarding. I don't hunt hard, at 66 years old my days of sitting in the woods from dark to dark are over, but I enjoy time around the camp as much as time in the woods, so not seeing deer was no big dissapointment. I live in Connecticut and always manage to have venison in the freezer by years end, so the pressure is off at Lows, just relax and enjoy. I posted a couple of videos on youtube, Here are some pics of 2012 and 2014 My wall. tent, I cut an 8x10 by 6'6" high tent down to about 7x6 deep by 54" high, with an interior frame and a 12x12 by 8" high wood stove I paddle a 16' Chestnut Pal wood canvas canoe, I eat prety good in camp, this picture is from 2012 when the wood stove was 12x12x12, I have since cut it down to only 8" high Cruising the shoreline early am, Enjoying some time in the big woods, Up on Tomar Mt,

This is a complete package,comes with 10 bolts(5 with broad heads,3 brand new rage and 2 thunderheads,the rest are either field point or rage practice tip)2.5 scope all dialed in,rope cocker,de-cocker,string wax used every 20 shots,Excaliber case,triggertech trigger and the stock trigger.The new trigger is one of the best trigger you can but and was a 130 dollar upgrade.I bought it and decided the crossbow isnt for me.I like my compound.Basically this is a brand new setup,Ive shot it less than 50 times.For this price you are getting the updated trigger,case,more bolts,broadheads and string wax for free.I will trade,rifle and pistols mainly but maybe the right shotgun.Looking for rifles mainly but send me a message and who knows.If what you have isn't worth 700 then thats fine but plan or adding cash or more trade to the deal.

Gonna head out this afternoon to take one last crack at the staging kings. Caught our biggest of the year Weds. night at 27lbs. Hoping to one up that (really want to break 30lbs), but any action would be great and time with Dad surpasses the fishing anyways. Then its on to a two week doe season? lol

Had to share. While shooting tonight, string loop broke, punched myself in the chin and no clue where the arrow went. Gotta love it!! Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Because it is my property. If I want to just hunt and not drive that's where i go. But I don't hunt this property alot

and you hunt here why? LOL

I never took a shot at her, and I dont usually try to hit them in the hindquarters.

I can tell you when the rut is on in my pens, The rut is on in the wild! Yes have some come in early..Late October but for the most part its the 2nd and 3rd weeks in November that the magic happens here.

One of the bow shop guys at Field & Stream told me the regular Rages can open up in flight from a crossbow. I read online that some guys put an extra rubber band (the size a dentist would use on braces) on the broadhead to prevent this. No thanks, I'll stick with fixed blades.

Yes, indeed a wolf released by the DEC to control the mountain lion abundance they released years back. Next is the release of Sasquatch's to control the wolves. A vicious cycle

Thx grampy. Guessing that the 30lb salmon is much more likely of the two, but I like your positive thinking.

I may have missed it, but what did you prove? That DMAPs and DMPs are available for use and hunters used it? How is that a result of QDM? I see zero correlation to QDM when hunters are simply filling DMPS and DMAPs. The property could not have been in QDM and the same thing could have happened with a brown its down mentality.

If you aren't killing enough does then the plan is not a sound management plan... Because doe harvest is a critical aspect of QDM, if that isn't being done properly then you're really not practicing that management plan. I would also think that most won't have much time the rest of the year to do what is necessary to manage a property with effectiveness if they only have the time to hunt 3 days a year.

Having a buck like that show up on your cam should help get you up early and keep you in your stand a little longer. Hope you get a crack at him.

The last time I was offended when someone called me a DORK FOLLOWER was the 2nd grade. I'd agree it's hard to kill enough does within a QDM program when you hunt only 3 days a year but I doubt that is enough evidence to condemn everyone who manages land with QDM in mind.

Sounds like a hawk or maybe a falcon...

My son and I built two today in the rain. Used nothing but what the woods provided. My 13 yr old said, "Dad this is cool". Good times Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

born and raised an every Sunday going catholic. I still go as an adult but not as much as I should. I've always believed personally, and still do that religion of any kind is about being a good person. And I would absolutely agree with your priest that spending time with your father and alone with your thought in nature will absolutely do wonders for a child's sole.

Good point bud

So go figure...I disagree on most of that...select cutting is good practice for loggers...but it is not good habitat management and is now one of the reasons that everyone's crying about no under story...also allow fields to revert back...well some of the first things to grow in such a case, tree wise, is popular( only good under 30 ft tall for grouse...pine and spruce every invasion bush and rugusala rose one can think of...... thorn apples,wild apples and yes lots of maple but usually more ash..... both of which are fast growing and crowd out other species. Now the above does depend on location...but in the end usually the same out come...in select cuttings bramble will rule the first 4-5 years maybe...then the canopy fills right in. JMO...though home we and everyone around us are on reverting farm lands ....Camp is also reverted farm land...though that land holds very few maple at all and ash was the hard wood with oak and beech but a select cutting took nearly all the producing wht. oak and what few cherry there were. Now the beech just loved that!...buck thorn decimated the rest of the landscape on us and neighbors. A good combination of clear cut, open forest(combo woods with meadows and old growth is good management. not just for animals but plant species bugs and amphibians.

Most folks can't comprehend the influence of the pineal gland in their own heads, so I wouldn't expect the average hunter to know what's going on in a deers brain when it comes to something like that,lol We can all speculate our own beliefs until we're blue in the face, and have faith in them from one season to the next until they (the deer) prove us wrong. So be it.... live and learn.

Oh for goodness sakes. just type his screen name into google and up pops http://nytrappers.tripod.com/rondy.html His name and screen name is right there on the trappers site all linked together nicely. And he has a fully open to the public facebook page. Freaking "bullying"? with adults. damned country if turning into a bunch of pu$$ies

If I saw that bear and he was alone in my area id Take it, I live near a apple/berry orchard and i like the taste of Bear anyway.

Yes he is about a 100 pound bear and bear that aren't feed by garbage taste great to me.If its legal and you want him take him.Don't listen to anyone here telling you not to.Its your tags,your money and your time......I would love to see SHawnHu kill that bear with a rock.In fact I would put good money that the bear would mess any adult man up unless he had a weapon that used distance to the hunters advantage!!!

every time you post you make your area sound more and more like a bandit, poacher infested war zone. I have no doubt you have your issues, but I always get this image of you standing in your yard just looking for something that pisses you off.

I heard that's due to the fact that drivers are know refusing to hit does.......apparently they're holding out for bucks, preferably 2.5 to 3 year olds.

0 replies and only 58 people even opened the page..Yet the post on..Acorns Dropping..gets over 500 views! Guess that answers your question about this drummed up political crap and what people think. Yeah a few deer may get it, Even less will ever live long enough to die from it and its been proven not to do any harm to any deer herds in any state and proven not to harm humans. Shall we sit back and worry for the next 60 years and see if something that has caused no harm for the last 60 years may mutate into something? What ever happened to Ebola?

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Is fishing also a sin? He calls it killing, when it is hunting. I doubt he knows the difference.

They are on RT. 16 in Chaffee