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Howdy all, I got this 4 point in Madison County near Hamilton last Saturday 11/7. He was the 8th buck I saw that day and the first to offer me a clean broadside shot at 18 yards. I hit him about 4pm so by the time I got down and tracked him down it was getting late so hence the darker first picture.

9 pt state land prolly the smallest buck out of the three i saw in there this morning but limited time so tagged out. I might sit there opening gun morning cuz i kept consistently seeing a nice one and it was such a drag my climber got left behind Sent from my LGL22C using Tapatalk

My first deer with crossbow. Fifteen yard shot from a natural ground blind. Just after 9 on a south facing ridge with 35 to 45 mph gusts from the N NW. She went about 40 yards. Barnett Raptor, 100 gr. Slicktricks

Let's just say there is more work to be done!

Holy $#!+ did I just have an encounter I will not soon forget. My heart is racing but am super pumped. I got him after bumping him and sticking two more arrows in him but he is done. You are not going to believe this!

Thanks all. He is out and waterlogged and I only needed my chest waders. Barely got em wet to the knees. Have to run to soccer bit will post story and a pic later in my journal. Best buck for me with any weapon.

Cold ?

My wife and I braved the elements tonight and headed to a friends farm. As we arrived to the stands there was already a nice buck and two does in the field and we ended up bumping them back into the brush. Around 4:45 I looked up and saw this guy standing in a clearing on the neighbors about 100 yds away. Unfortunately, he was directly downwind and knew something was up. It was nice to see him on the hoof, what a beautiful deer...a real stud for a 3.5 year old.

I passed 3 bucks, (all small) and 4 doe during my week off. Today is my last day at camp. I just hit a doe. Getting warm and coffee and going to track in a few hours.

Keep the wind in your face and you will save a lot of money.

Check out the width of this rack. The third point on the right antler might make this buck legal if it was an AR zone. It is not. I don't think any of my guys would let this one walk. Ignore the name on the camera. This is not Davenport. I just didn't change the name. It is northern Otsego, 4F.

With bubbly blood, why wait until morning? Ain't ya got a flashlight? Around here the coyotes would feast on that thing in a matter of hours and in the morning you'd just find a crime scene.

just finished taking a police exam in olean now heading back to franklinville for an afternoon sit then back home to the family

...you got your period ?

Nice blanket of snow this morning,not super windy on top of the hill but breezy. Kicked something up at the bottom of the hill while it was still dark.

Lots of snow here hope for good am Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk

Got this little fella tonite. I've seen him now 4 times in the last month without a doe around. Well I've passed up shots on him twice, I've been out of steaks since August so he didn't get a third pass. Unfortunately first shot clipped a branch and went high and spined him, I quickly followed up with another shot square in the shoulder. Happy to be having tenderloin for dinner tomorrow. O I passed on a decent 6 point a half hour before he came out. That will be a nice buck next year.

Shot this buck at 8:45am this morning cruising a bedding area, popped out at 32yds and double lunged him. I've let a lot of young bucks pass and haven't shot a buck in a few years because I wanted a deer I'd be proud to tag. I don't have private land to hunt so to kill a good buck on public land makes it that much sweeter. Awesome day! Sent from my XT907 using Tapatalk

didn't she used to dance in that little place in town back in the day?

My 11-87 likes these. Fully rifled

The way we have our stands set up I can see my buddy! The fool is passed out wish I could take a pic through binos

Way to go Zem Please put your clothes back on before you post the pics!

Hornady SST or Lightfield......

Hornady SSTs are what I last ran in a shotgun. I had mixed results with copper soilids.

Get in there you coward. No way that water is below 50 degrees yet.

"And also with you"..... Catholics

Yikes! That grind brush too?

Might need a hand towel or something lol you're dripping a bit. lol. Buck?? Doe?? Feel like im tracking the deer with ya. Now this is what we call live!!!

Yeah I got my period, just spotty, no heavy flow yet, smartass. Here is some more Oh its getting heavier, I may need a pad

So you don't ever read Growalots posts ?!

If he sold the leases then why lecture on a post from August

The problem is people believe that the government is going to be there for them, Truth is the government cant be there for them, When the time comes to protect themselves nothing is faster than an individual with proper training and a firearm, Not saying it would have stopped all the deaths but i can tell you the casualties list would be smaller, Ill take a firearm on my side over 911 every day of the week when it comes to protecting my family from a life or death situation, Split second decisions need to be made, 911 is 5 minutes out, Sorry that isnt good enough, The push too remove our rights is becoming an every day struggle, I for one do not want it to come down too something like this happening in this country for people to finally understand the 2nd Amendment was written for a reason,

I guess it has something to do with upbringing. I was raised to recognize that we are a nation of laws and as such proper citizen behavior is to respect the law, obey the law, and to have respect for those that enforce the law. That's just the guidelines that I was raised with. I still believe in all that. I also believe that you can have a disagreement with a law and the proper response to that kid of disagreement is to follow the system to get that law changed. I was also raised to despise law breakers. With very few exceptions, that principle of my upbringing is still engrained too. I am a hard-line law and order proponent.

Nothing 40 mph winds on the last weekend! Weather has been unbelievably crappy!

it was religious until his comment but ppl will cry that they dont want to read and it will be moved!

this is what I need..Lol

I went stillhunting this afternoon in 4F. Saw a decent buck sniffing the ground like a bloodhound. He was a little too far away and did not respond to my grunting. Then he took off. About 1 hour later I came on a group of does and as I was trying to sneak closer I hear grunting and see some commotion. It is a buck chasing the girls around. Some of the does take off slowly as I get closer, and the buck and a doe move away over a little knoll. 5 mins later and I catch up with the buck. It is only a 4 point and now he is walking towards me. I decide that he looks pretty small and he walks past me at 14 yards. I am not even behind a tree. Finally he makes it downwind from me and realizes something is up and high-tails it. Was a pretty cool experience and I got to listen to him grunt at the girls, so I figured I learned a lot. Going out tomorrow morning, since the rut is finally on!

I had a hen turkey fly into me while in a tree stand she hit me pretty hard almost knocked me out of the tree and she fell to the ground shaking her head and stumbling for a few minutes until flying up in a tree.

but if I cross an invisible man made line I can shoot that deer 30 minutes after sunset... I can smoke that weed... I can marry my cousin... If you're ethics are defined by the government; let alone THE FREAKING NYS GOVERNMENT than I feel for you man. I define myself by how I was raised and my religion, not by politicians.

This has to be one of the lamest posts on this whole thread !

So this illegal behavior is due to the fact that there was a moral or ethical question to the law which makes it hard to adhere to... or maybe the illegal behavior happened because of the persons inability to do something as important as kill a deer within the time frame provided by law...$ See we aren't talking about a law that, let's say, goes against our Constitution... we are talking about the shooting hours law... which is very clear and equally fair for every hunter. No rights are taken away from anyone... and it gives no hunter in NY an unfair advantage over another. Not sure I see the problem. If your shooting outside the allotted time frame you are being unethical based on the rules of fair chase, plus your giving yourself an unfair advantage over the law abiding hunters that would have had an opportunity at the deer that you are poaching.. yes, it is poaching by definition.

First Crossbow Kill, PSE Fang, Rage Broadheads, went 30 yards. Sent from my SM-G925V using Tapatalk

My friend harvested this beast yesterday Long Island public land. He was all rutted up tarsals jet black and stinking. He came in to my buddy's tree and just started to turn away when my friend hit the grunt tube and pulled him back. He said he came in head low, ears back and lips curled. He was on the trail of 2 does and a spike which had passed a few minutes earlier. What a great buck!!!!!...too bad i had to work. Cant wait to get out Saturday and hopefully get a chance!!

11/7/2015, 8am, 6 pointer, killed with ten point titan extreme, bolts tipped with slick tricks.

Was able to get out of work in time to go hunting this afternoon and it paid off. 6 point with the Excalibur Matrix 310.

Last year I missed a good buck at 5 yards when I clipped 1 little witch hazel branch. I said then that since the arrow clipped his left front leg that was the only buck I would hunt for last year. had no other encounter with him through the end of archery. I saw him 3 times in rifle only once where I had a sure kill no shot as he was right on the skyline and no way I was taking that shot so I passed him. I saw him this spring and a number of times through the summer and fall, with little free time to hunt I took this week off and focused 100% on his core area. passed up some bucks both saturday and monday most being 1.5's and 2.5's. Tuesday with the rain I didn't hunt. wed. morning was perfect wind for the bedding area flat in his core area, got in early with intent to set dark to dark. just at daylight I had 3 doe come running through with 2 respectable 8's following, 1 being a 2.5 and the other bigger one might have been 3.5 but he got through before I could get a full assessment of him. about 15 minutes later I can see a big buck on the skyline about 200 yards away, almost exactly where I saw the one last rifle season. he chased a doe the opposite direction. it seemed a bit misty in the air and was foggy so I checked the radar on the phone and saw no rain in the area. it was just after 7. I look out on the flat and like a phantom he just materialized out of the fog. it was Tank and he was walking directly at me. this area was logged 8 years ago and is just a sea of multifloral rose, blackberry, witch hazel, poplar, maple and sumac. I am 28 feet up in a double trunked cherry tree so I am looking down through all the brush. He makes a scrape 40 yards from me and made quite the production of it as he had leaves and mud flying 8-10 feet in the air. i couldn't really see the rack just a glimpse here and there but knew it was tank. He was on my silvertop trail but going backwards on it I covered the can call and gave a muffled bleat, he stopped looked then took another step so I bleated again making him stop. he started walking away again so I hit him with a tending grunt. he bristled up turned 180 and here he comes. still in the brush. slowly he is coming now he is right on the silvertop trail and I am 100% focused on his front shoulder. 30,25,20,15,10, he walks behind 2 mid size maples I ease to full draw, 8,7,6,5,,,, he stops settle just off the shoulder and just as I released I thought I remembered him taking a step. He lunged forward, then ran as best he could out through the maze of tangled briars. I saw him when he got over to the other side of the bedding area about 100 yards away, he stopped and was wagging his tail like a beagle on a rabbit. He turned to the right and in a couple steps he was out of sight. headed right towards an even worse area of treetops and all the other stuff listed above, you can not even crawl through their tunnels. I sent judy a text telling her I just shot tank but had not checked the arrow yet but felt he was liver hit. I eased down the tree and checked the shot site and sure enough the arrow is dripping with liver blood and stomach. I ease back up to the stand, get my pack on and let the bow down and ease back down and slowly and quietly ease to 500 yards to the truck. I was constantly checking the weather, but knew I had to wait. If I pushed it and he got down into that hollow we would never find him. Even though I watched that fletching go through his shoulder I KNOW what evidence is present on the arrow and that tells me to wait. I gave him till 4 when we got back to the stand, eased 30 yards out the scuffed leaves trail and no blood.... I told dad I was going to get in the stand and direct him to the last spot i saw him. it took him almost a half hour to get out to 100 yards to the spot. I said stay there and I will get over there, I work my way over and now within sight of where he should be standing but no orange hat, I call out to him ( not shouting ) no response,,, now dads 83, yeah in good health but ya never know.... I call him on the phone,,, where the heck are you I told you to stay here, him- im right here. me- well where the H$%^ is right here not where I told you to stay.. him- im right here with your deer... I almost dropped the phone. I got down to him and i was elated then deflated when I realized his left side was gone! I wanted to puke! once I knew it was tank I never looked at his head again. after tagging and dressing I got back to camp for the cart, back to the deer and then the work began.. about 3 hours into the trip out dad says I don't know why you shoot deer back here because we go through this every time. all I said was I think the results speak for themselves. by the time we got back and got him washed out and hung up I had forgot to get pics. and I was a bloody mess from my own blood, tired, sore, dehydrated, etc. so I got a couple pics this morning. I also put him on the scale, 214lbs dressed. antler bases are 8.25 and 8.5 inches. pretty respectable numbers even for a half rack.

11/8/2015. Track 2 A hunter reported shooting a deer in the shoulder and having it drop right there. He climbed down from his stand 10 minutes later and was reaching over to poke it with his rifle when it jumped up and ran away. Bright red blood was reported - no bubbles. He and three buddies did a grid search and lost blood after about 40 yards. Luna quickly got on the track and stayed on it for 3/4 of a mile with spotty blood.She lost it right at a point where I had just said I could smell it....very obvious during the rut. She started circling the area and we caught a glimpse of it walking away. This 4 pointer was quickly dispatched and the long drag out began. During the drag we were talking about the branches of service we had been in. One of the guys dragging is a former Marine, the other guy was in the Army. I informed them the Coast Guard was watching them drag.