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Well finally got it done, Got out of work early Wednesday to move my Stand, long story short, Another hunter moved in on my Spot that I have been hunting for 5yrs. Scouted new area with swamp/pines/and hardwoods, found tons of sign, finally get stand set up at 2pm, cut some shooting lanes and then walk around alittle , jump 2 nice doe but didn't shoot because it was 50 degrees and didn't want to be rushed cutting up a deer. get back to my stand at 330 and was going to sit till dark to see if this was a good evening stand, at 4pm this bruiser shows up out of no-where walking straight at me, at 50 yds I put the crosshairs on the white patch on his neck and squeeze the trigger and he dropped like a rock.

I managed to fill my freezer with a couple of bucks and a doe. This was one of my better seasons leaving me with one wall hanger and a little 6 point. Here is the 6 point. He scored 85" b&c, not bad if you ask me at least for a 6 point. Here is the 10 point. He scored 135" b&c and that was with a 14 1/2" inside spread. Lots of mass just under 5" all the way up to the g3's. G2's were 10" G3's 8" and 9". Great deer with a head of a horse.

Big boys were moving today, these two were taken on my hill today and a big 12 was missed. 7P. Sent from my SM-G925V using Tapatalk

11-25. Had dressed out buck, dragged him below ladder stand, poured a cup of coffee from thermos and shot her within 45 minutes of buck. 130 yards with muzzle loader. Went about 20 yards. Big doe

Wednesday 11-25. Not a beast of a buck by any means but respectable size to his body. Shot him seconds after looking at a back tag my Pop gave me for good luck to put in my tag holder. 25 yards with muzzle loader. Six point

The doe on the left is the one i got this am, My buddy and i decided too just stand around in the woods this am, We figured that people would start pushing the deer and sure enough, after 20 mins of just standing there shooting the bull, Four doe ran into the wood lot, I took aim with my 30-30 and dropped her in her tracks, The deer on the right is my buddies deer, He asked if he could bring his daughter with him to hunt last night, so i threw a ground blind up in the middle of a large hay field and this bb comes out with a smaller one, At the time he didnt realize it was a bb, but it doesnt really matter, His daughter was happy and seeing as he is injured and cant walk right now, And i didnt have to drag the deer very far, I didnt mind him shooting it, His daughter cant wait till she is old enough to hunt, That is what its about for me, Passing down the tradition, Sorry for the pick up pics but in hurry to get to the butcher and then home to get ready for dinner,

Lookie what showed up on my cam on Wednesday at 1:45 in 20 yards in front of my ground blind. I arrived at my parking spot (only about 75 yards from my GB) at 1:30 that day. Looks like he's been hitting the HGH! I am fearful that an arrow won't be enough to take him down!!!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It only took 8 weeks but I was finally able to connect. Sat in my ground blind tonight. She came out at 3:20 walking through the tall grass. Was at 10 yards at one point but I had no shot. She finally cleared and turned broadside at 36 yards. The Obsession bow and Rage broadhead did the rest. She ran about 40 yards and piled up from the double lung shot. Glad to finally get one on the ground! Let's hope it's all down hill from here. She dressed out at 105 lbs.

Absolutely the worst 2 days on stateland here I have ever had...absolutely nothing around...did see a few ring necks in middlesex tho Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk

Well after putting in over 150 hrs last year, my first season. I hit dirt today. My friend and I built some stands in an old logged area we didn't hunt last year. We have sat them on opened weekend 8 hours both days. Sunrise and sunset. We saw deer the first morning but moving too fast in the thick. And saw about 6 in a neighbors field.. This am he went to his old stand and I sat the new one. About 830 I looked up from my book at a sound and had a doe coming through in range broadside. I got the rifle up and picked a slot farther ahead of her that a clear shot.. I had about 3 foot gap. Waited and took the shot... She took off into the woods. I thought I had missed her. As I sat stunned from my first shot ever I saw 2 more does coming down the same line. They had stopped and duckedinto a trail behind some SCrubb. We had agreed to fill each others doe tags if the opportunity arose. So I lined up for a shot in a clearing ahead of them. And took the shot., she jumped and then ran 10 yards and they hung up in the scrub. I sat there after radioing the situation to my partner. I watched them for 5 minutes in the thicket. The smaller doe walked towards me and stared me down. I could see the one I shot in the scrub and that she was limping.but mostly just standing. I waited. Suddenly they take off. I lose visual. A few minutes later deer come crashing from thickets between my partner and I. He comes out shortly after. He had come.straight to me instead.of taking our trail on the outskirts. He had kicked the wounded doe out of her bed. I was pretty steamed as we had alot of time to sit still. And he should have gone the long way. Long story short.... I had hit the first deer. Hair and bright thick blood at impact. The piled up and thrashed 20 yards from the hit. Just down a small trench out of my view. We tracked the blood on the other deer for a couple hours. It went all over in the small thicket/old orchard I hit her. .. no blood at impact or hair. Found some drops about 10 yards from poi. Small drops every 15-20 feet. Large blood where she was standing when I was watching her. We went back and forth and then circle and grid searched the whole side of his property. We determined she Mustad have entered the neighboring property we don't have tracking permission for.... And it had been a shooting gallery there all day. My partner was much better then me at the tracking and spotting and definitely showed me some things. He determine did must have hit the shoulder based on blood color and scarcity. I am truly tormented about this. And it has put a huge pall over my first successful harvest.... Hindsight being 20/20 once I had seen the limp I should have shot her again (I could have) to make sure she was down as she stood still for quite a few minutes in the thicket.. Lessons were learned. Please don't rip me up too bad for the 2nd doe. I already know... Sent from my D6708 using Tapatalk

Just think if ar's were in place requireing 4 on a side that 6pt might not of been a legal deer... I'd be happy shooting 6pt like that the rest of my.life

Won't effect a thing unless that stray cat happens to be a DEC released mountain lion

I guess I am not keeping up with the latest deer hunting methods, but this is one that I have never heard of before. And actually, I suspect that when using this method it probably is not really all that bad when you don't find any blood.

There is something about being able to pick the particular hair on the deer that I intend to hit that adds an element of confidence. Well that's a bit of an exaggeration, but you get the idea. I just like the precision. However, I can understand that there are probably a lot of guys who have a lot of experience and confidence in their shotguns. Also, in our case the rifle law is relatively new. It is very possible that a lot of people may have just invested a pile of money in a new shotgun, and they are not willing to turn around and buy some new rifle now as well. My big thing is that I got tired of turning my shoulder into hamburger every time I wanted to do some shooting with my deer gun. I don't like that and now I don't have to put up with it anymore.

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If I wasn't using the rifle , I think I would prefer the In-line ML over the shotgun . The ML is more fun to shoot .

Hunting in Churchville (8G), this morning. She came in with a huge doe, but they knew something was wrong, & they were really alert. They were about to bolt, so I took the first chance I had. 15yards. Thankful to have her.

Let me start this out by saying that I have used the same possessor for a few years now and am over all very happy with the work that they do....... I just feel that I can do better! Between me and my buddy we have brought him 3 deer already this year but the next one I will be doing on my own. I have never done it Before but being a trained chef I have broken down Many lamb and veal legs before. How different can it really be. Hang deer skin deer remove back straps and tenderloins. Take of front quarters , take of hind quarters and bone out the neck. The neck is the only part im not so sure about but who cares I will be tying roasts out of it any way. Does anyone have any advice or think I am missing anything. I feel like if I set up a assembly line and have my buddy package and my fiancé us the vacuum sealer we can be done in about two hours.... Does this seem about right ?

TF you are Funny!15 years clean and have a good job no thanks.

It's all "load" dependent.

My tikka .308 compact. Used a Woodleigh 165 gr. at about 2600fps. Hit him at the base of the neck and the bullet took out the top of the heart and far shoulder and lodged under the skin on the far side. Bullet weighed 134 grains for 81% weight retention. That's some bullet! I will admit to this. I was aiming at the sweet spot directly behind the leg about 1/3 up on the chest. Keep playing it over in my my mind how I hit about 8 inches higher and forward. He was moving and sped up as I was aiming but I really think I just GOT A BIG CASE OF BUCK FEVER!!! Hope any future shots are more on target. As Tony the Tiger used to say: It was grrrreat!!

Wont go on about it, but here he is. Got him Sunday am about 7:10. One shot and dropped like a brick! 40 yards! Been hunting since I was 18, bow on LI not successful, last 10 seriously in the catskills, but last 4-5 with AR's. 4 points on the left and 3 on the right. Yippie!!!!!

State land hunting has become the victim of rumors, old wives tales, and just plain BS in general regarding safety. The word is that state land is all shot out and that all the crazies hunt there (as if privately owned land automatically makes all the hunters there any more safety conscious). It is also assumed that all state land is more over-run by hunters than private land and a decent buck cannot be found there. That story has been sold completely, and people totally have swallowed it. Well all that may be true in some public hunting lands, but where I hunt (8N), I am over on state land being bored to death, feeling kind of lonely listening to some crazy shooting across the road on private land where guys are filling the air with lead. It sounds like they are all clustered around one ravine shooting at each other, and even though it is some of this mystical "private land", you couldn't pay me to walk over there and hunt. Yes, I do remember when it seemed like there was a guy behind every tree over on the state land. And maybe that did pose some kind of potential risk although in all the decades that I have been hunting there, there has never been a single shooting incident. But anyways, we could use a bit more pressure to keep the deer on their feet. But it seems that everyone is absolutely convinced that all state land is a "no-man's land" and those that step foot on it will likely be killed before they get out of the parking lot. Ignorance rules!

I'll be honest, I did a lot of butchering over the years, and frankly, I am just tired of it. I don't see it as a fun project, in fact it really is a pain. So, I am not so poor that I can't pay a little bit to let someone else do it for me. I got a good processor, and have had no complaints in the few years that I have been using him.

Watch a lot of YouTube videos. Especially surrounding removing the hind quarters-as a chef you may be versed in This already but there are some tricky bones to work out that I always F up. 2 hours seems ambitious to me but again I am no chef. I also do it myself(no help) and am super anal about removing all things not meat. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

we didn't get a deer but today was a success. we started a stalk as soon as we got to letchworth we spread out and walked 3 wide and had a few deer on their feet right away no opportunity for any shots. while walking back to the van a truck pulls up and said ahh chance you guys lost a buck here this week my buddy said I shit at a nice 8pt with my muzzle loader on Saturday but couldn't find any blood or anything. the guy takes us to the buck it was only a few hundred yards from my buddy's stand a single lung hit there wasn't even any blood where the deer laid. my buddy was happy to recover his deer the meat obviously want any good but it still got a tag wrapped around its antlers.

I have only had one opportunity to take a shot at a deer this hunting season . I am glad that I was able to take a doe opening day . Would I like to shoot a buck .... sure but I won't lose any sleep over it . I have meat in the freezer .

I shot this buck six minutes or so after into the opener. He came in chasing a doe with another deer I never got a good look atThats an iPhone timer selfie, not bad! Took me several tries if anyone was watching they're still laughing

7 pointer shot by my Dad in 3A (Sullivan County) on public land on 11/24/15 at 7:25am. Full story here > http://huntingny.com/forums/topic/30120-biz-r-oworld-2015-ny-deer-season/page-2?

was wearing a white hoodie. so Monday morning I left camp and drove to a spot closer to home I was in the stand for 15 minutes when a doe came walking threw at 40 yards I took a shot she didn't move so I shot again and she dropped. when I walked up to her she had 2 shots in the lungs.

Freezers full again. Opening day double. 20 seconds apart. 7j

I was asked to help my friend learn to hunt , after 3 years of close calls and some small game she was able to connect on a beautiful 10 pt opening day, she wanted to learn to gut it herself.as well so with some instruction she dove right in!!!

Another successful year at Camp-Hole-in-the-Wall in West Almond, Allegany county. Shot a spiker and a doe, my buddy Matt killed an 8-pointer WAYYYY back at the top of the mountain. 2 other guys left before it got good, shame on them.

Buck we called Basket 9. Shot Opening morning at first light, doe was down 20 minutes later.

My gun season ended at 7:15. I barely had enough time to settle in, heard him making a scrap inside some mountain laurel then stepped out onto a trail and made a fateful turn towards me.

My wife happened to be near the Henrietta Ollies when I saw Phade's post. She picked up 2. They still had some as of 12:00. Thanks Phade!!

Hunted the last full week of Bow and a couple days gun this year, been hunting the park for many many years. Was the worst 9 days of hunting I've ever had there. Saw very few deer anywhere, had zero shots at deer in the woods, heard few shots opening day, and hardly saw any deer on the cabins Sat evening after opening day. (used to be every cabin had 1 or 2, I counted 5 across 3 trails total, could be part of the problem) Guys I spoke to also reported seeing few deer where they hunted, with only a couple small areas being productive. If you ever do go, plan to do some walking looking for them, they seem to be few and far between. Archery season it's a ghost town for hunters, which I like, seems to be 65000 acres to my self, opening day had quite a few more hunters than I've seen in a while, but it gets few and far between after the 2nd weekend FYI, need the free hunting permit from the park police station, shotgun only, must be plugged to limit of 3 shots (1 in chamber, 2 in mag), no Sunday hunting, no bear hunting, no handguns

I'm going to Ollies RTFN.....................................

I have been setting up people on this forum with cell cameras for a few months. I have a few extra that I'd like to offer up for sale for Black Friday with a nice twist to it. I have another running thread on this, but its more informational and not so much for sale details. Sample pics are actual text pics. The pics saved to the SD card will be much higher resolution/clarity. These are cell cameras made by BMC. They work off of At&T SIM cards and you DO NOT need to have At&T cell phones to have these work for you. I have a Verizon cell phone, for example. I will offer up a camera (or two), along with SD cards, AND I will provide the At&T SIM card. Once I get your cell number, you literally need to do nothing but turn the camera on and set it in the woods. You will need to re-up the At&T plan when your text package runs out, but that's like paying a bill online. $190 per cam shipped COUS, with Paypal gift (or add the fees). This sale will be good until EOD Friday.

Depending upon how much you trim can be a factor in the time it takes. I don't do my own just because it's more than I want to deal with and I usually only shoot one deer a year. As I get into population control this might be an issue due to cost of processing. I will wait until I hit that bridge. If you have the time and space it is rewarding that's for sure. Hope it becomes necessary!

Hey, we have all been there . Definitely should have put her down with another shot. Hopefully she gets taken by the neighbors. I would think it would be in your best interest to talk to your neighbor , so that you can recover a wounded animal . Maybe a quick phone call or text before attempting recovery, just to give a heads up so everybody is on the same page. Nobody wants to leave an animal for the coyotes.

Congrats on the kill! Good job trying to find the 2nd. Hindsight is 20/20, & now you know for next time, but don't beat yourself up too much. Don't let it take away from the fact that you got your first deer!

Probably done in less than 2 hours too. Especially if you've got help.

I butcher my own every yr. this started many yrs ago. There is a few tricks. Age the meat. Trust me. I am very picky about hair too. Make sure u get all the silver skin u can off. That's what gives it it's gamey taste. I'm sure there more but that's a start

Opening morning 7 pointer, located in 9P. Shot with Remington .243 pump, 10 a.m harvest This is my second year hunting this creek bottom. Last year I seen 23 deer opening day, I am about 1/2 mile in the woods from two roads. I believe a lot of hunters were pushing deer right to me, I had no shots last year, it was to thick to shoot on the other side of the creek. This summer I made some nice clearings and hung up a stand, hoping I would have similar movement like last year. I only seen 4 deer this year, but this 7 pointer did exactly what I planned for. After slowly watching this buck take one slow step at a time for about 15 minutes, he finally gave me a 60 yard shot with about a 6 " opening to shoot. I could see another hunter about 100 yards down the creek, so I had to make a perfect shot. I hit him good and he ran about 10 feet. This is a respectable 2 1/2 year old where I hunt on state land , out of 7 guys I was the only one who seen a buck opening weekend.

Pop gave me this to put in back tag holder for good luck

Guess I'll be the first...super excited...my biggest deer

Id like to get one of these for next season jsut so that I can bring my 6 year old, will be 7 next season. He is dying to come with me. I just now he wont be able to sit terrible still for long. So, I'll need something to hide his movement.

Thanks for sharing ... this thread is just a place for us "trappers " to show our harvests might not be for some so scan thru pics quick if you don't wanna see Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk