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First off one brow tine is broken so reality it's a nine, but in MY book it's a TEN. Work schedule has prevented me from hunting NYS so far this year, last year I passed on a 6 but I did get to shoot big coyote. Got this guy Sunday morning in Monmouth County, NJ on a horse farm my FIL owns. I passed on many 6's and 8's and even saw bigger 10's but this 10 presented me with a shot. The rack does have some character with a forked G2 and near the end of each main beam are Bot Fly holes which are pretty neat.

I got this picture a few hours ago.

If it was free...........................I still wouldn't want it. One mans opinion is all this is. LOL

Yesterday was the PA gun opener and I was lucky enough to witness my 13 yr old son shoot a nice 8 pt, (his 3rd buck) at 11:30, and then jump in the stand with my 11 yr old daughter and watch her get her first deer, 3 pt buck. Wish I could do this in NY. Making a child wait until 14 to harvest a deer with a gun is RIDICULOUS!! OK - off my soap box. It was a great day. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

My GF just pulled a double here in Churchville. 8G

Nobody has ever accused me of being bright. Last year I was going for a dark to dark in single digit temps. I duct taped about a dozen hand warmers to my back , stomach and chest. All was fine and made it the day without getting cold. It went south when removing them. Shouldn't have used gorilla duct tape. It hurt so dang bad pulling the tape off ! I highly suggest NEVER doing this.

I don't want to sound like an A$$ but there is a huge difference with bino's there is no chance at causing any harm or shooting a target not intended.With a gun/firearm/scope we all risk the chance in an accident/shot.I guess I was taught differently than some A scope is for shooting and not viewing also we have a lot of new hunters that will get wrong ideas as to how to properly use equipment.

Hope your day is filled with family, friends, good food and good times!

Now you know why I hammer it during bow! Since shooting the doe the 2nd day I've yet to see a deer on public land .... I'll still go out here n there , but pretty much use this time as scouting new areas for next year, but with a gun haha.... Found a great pine stand with a crap load of new and old rubs that's a definite for next bow season ... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

and so it begins. Told the wife I need a good dehydrator for Xmas. Sent from my D6708 using Tapatalk

Man , live from the woods is slow lately. All you guys n gals tagged out ? I'm stuck working and like to live thru the woods vicariously. Ps And stuck listening to Christmas music. If I hear Christmas Shoes song one more time the radio receiver is going to get it !

I should be out hunting today.I'm not been cooking and preparing food for the freezer soups/stews and sauce's.also made some homemade Tv dinners.

I process my own deer. I have 2 knives (one that I skin with and a fillet knife that I use for everything else), a knife sharpener, vacuum sealer and a grinder. Thats all you need to do the job. The money spent on the sealer and grinder will pay for itself in one or two seasons.

Gimmic, ozone is to hard to keep in an area, might work in a blind, oh a deer walked down wind of me and never smelled me, they ate 40 yards down wind your stand is 25 ft high, scent rises from body heat before it falls so their scent is going right over the deers head regardless of ozonics.. keep clean don't use scent soap or if you do use an apple scented shampoo, and put your stand up and place it down wind of where you expect to see deer and you'll see more ,harvest more than ozonics could ever do for you and at no cost.

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At least he had a boat unlike me

I'm not blind myself yes always saftey on till ready to shoot. Not Wearing orange or any other color is causing more risk?Like I said a Scope is for shooting not for viewing you are giving the new hunters/a wrong idea.You hunt your way and use what you think is the best option.

You are joking about using your scope for viewing I hope.

Ok, it passed the sniff-test, it passed the taste test, and the only thing wrong is the camera's interpretation of color, given that the lighting may not have been the best in the world. Enjoy your venison. The only thing that I don't trust is the color interpretation of your camera.

This morning it was my turn????

Heavy trails are summer trails the fainter ones off in the thick stuff are fall rut stands, just move your stand to the thicker stuff, a wise man told me it's better to see a deer that you might get ,than to see a bunch you cant.

Att cell service? High mount cell cams. If you have electricity you can run a line and wont need to worry about batteries. High mount the cams to hide them. If people want in, it can be hard to stop in rural areas like that.

My buddy and I put some good time in bowhunting season not seeing more than a doe here or there.Beliveing the deer we caught on camera in Sept must have move on,I decided to put the camera out before gun season and was surprised to see the activity that was there.I was lucky to get a nice buck that a got a picture of in Sept on the second day of gun season.

Not sure if any ones interested but I like seeing "the numbers" on certain things and its interesting to see how many hunting licenses sold from the 1950's to Today. Its interesting to see what the cost was and how many hunters were active for the year. Hunters contributed 821 million dollars to conservation through licenses and fee's in 2015 http://wsfrprograms.fws.gov/Subpages/LicenseInfo/Hunting.htm

Damn, I think I need a new computer. I'll can't tell what it is? (although I know WTF is PROBABLY going on!) I'll add this; yesterday I drove from Tioga County PA to home and saw a ton of dead deer on the highway. Smooshed, smashed, splattered and scattered........what a terrible waste and horrid way to die for those beautiful critters.

That's crazy. I would have bet the house it would be other way around. Here you go. I'll repost this pic

I went in with Kim, carried a camera and helped him scout. We shoot archery together on Weds nights. The gun and ammo worked flawlessly, and I was amazed at the accuracy. When we got up to 13,000 ft on our way in we stopped the truck before the final hike in, and Kim wanted to check the gun, and make sure that the major change in elevation didn't affect anything too much. He fired two rounds at 100 yards at a chew can sized target. He placed both shots well within the target at the upper half - about that 1" high at 100 yards. It was Monday afternoon before Saturday opener of HC Rifle. We had 1 evening and 4 full days to scout. It was beautiful country, not my first time out there and we saw lots of bucks and very few of what we were looking for. We were out there specifically for a 200 inch buck. We worked all year before hand so we could recognize what a 200 inch buck looked like. We saw 1, and that was the second day of hunting. Here's camp. No good pic of 200 incher - he was 3 miles away. Our next best buck was this one. I saw him Thursday before Saturday opener, right behind camp, He got as close as 150 yards from me. We scouted Friday elsewhere, staying out of his bedroom, only to have an Elk hunter move in Friday night behind us in camp, and start still hunting down through his bedroom. We never saw him again. Sunday afternoon Kim saw the 200 incher, and we set up a plan to go after him Monday morning. We covered 4.7 miles of hiking to get to set up for him and never saw him, or his does. It was a double cut, and he wasn't in ours. We didn't want to push him, so stayed put for the day and watched for him. The only thing we saw was a bunch of sheep including one nice ram. We headed back to camp, and on our way to camp we passed a new campsite with 5 guys. Asked what they were after and they said "Sheep". Uh-oh. Well you guessed it, the next morning we headed back up to where Mr Big was, and passed the guys still in camp well before daylight. We got set up in the same canyon cut, and saw nothing. Mid-day we decided to move up into the other cut, and the entrance which was only about 40 yards wide was blocked by two of the guys. We told them we wanted to head up in and take a look for the buck, and they said they had a hunter up there, a Dr., who had waited 17 years for his tag. We informed them that Kim had also waited 17 years for his High Country draw and they told us that if we went up, we would be interfering with a hunt which was against the law in Colorado. If we came within 150 yards of their hunter. We then asked where they had come up through and why we hadn't seen them, and they told us they came through below us. Yes, 80 yards below our shelf we had been glassing off of. They were even as bold as to tell us they knew where we were and didn't want any issues. Seems a guide can get within 150 yards of you hunting, but not vice versa in their minds. I realize that guy paid big bucks for them to guide him, but a tag is a tag. It was a bad situation. Anyways, our hunt was ruined, so we backed out and headed back for camp. The only buck in our hopeful range was gone. Wednesday we woke and decided to once again split up to glass. Kim headed back for the glassing spot where he had seen the 200 incher, and I headed for a nearby ridgeline above our basin. I told Kim I would make signals to him with my hat if I saw anything. I glassed the opposite side of my ridge and spotted 3 deer, with one being a smaller buck, and one larger, but I needed to move to get a better look at him. I turned to look at Kim and spotted 3 bucks in our basin. He was on the far side of the basin. The 3 were above him. I looked below myself, and 5 bucks were below me by a creek I had crossed. Our Basin was a big meadow, and they were all feeding. Below me, the group had one buck that wasn't horrible. Probably in the 140 range, not like the 170 above, but better than a tag sandwich, and I signaled to Kim there were bucks below he should take a look at. I scoped the bucks and put my binocs on Kim. He had a doe standing 15 yards below him staring at him. I was watching him and the doe, and she takes off, and then I hear the shot. I switch to the scope to see the buck down. He wasn't anywhere hear what we were hoping for, but a fine first buck, and far better than a tag sandwich. As far as Antler Quest goes. I have hunted with them twice, and he knows where the game is. BUT - both times I hunted, we dealt with people. Other hunters and hikers. When you're hunting muley's, the hikers don't really bother them much, so that's not a big deal. You have to also keep in mind that Jeff Coldwell has to do the scouting by himself. And he has alot of ground to cover, and has to be able to tell the hunter how to get there. So, he's not going to really get too far off of main trails. I would expect to see game, and see shooter animals. We were 1 for 3 last year with Muzz for Muleys, but we all had shots, and I hit a 170 in no mans land, stupidly forgetting about the fact that I was on an extremely steep hillside, and he was 150 yards, but shot like 100. I hit where I was aiming. But - expect to see people too. More than he tells you you'll see. I will use his service again. It's worth it. If you go with a couple of guys you split his fee, and he scouts for you. If you're unable to get to Colorado to scout for yourself for $800 (or a portion of that if you're a group), then I would use him. I'm heading back this year for Elk, first rifle with my buddies. Taking the 308, and hoping Pygmy can work me up a load. This year archery and gun was good to me. Maybe it was Karma from going with Kim and busting my butt. I don't know, but I don't expect another year like that any time soon. Both NY bucks. One in Livingston County and one in Allegany.

Apparently the DEC sees bowhunting as the only viable solution to managing the doe part of the harvest. As ridiculous as this may sound to anyone who takes more than a half-minute to actually reason it all out, somehow the DEC seems to be a little confused on the shortcomings of archery for this task. And there also seems to be some desire to believe that bowhunters are the only ones that pass on does, resulting in their desire to punish bowhunters with a doe-only segment of the season. I'm thinking there is more to the actual motivation for that rule and the threatened actions involving muzzleloaders in the future, but anyway, the DEC in all their brilliance first tried to sell their sky-is-falling story about out-of-control deer populations and then in a typical credibility lapse decided that the solution lies with the least effective weapon.....lol. But anyway, the comment in the article about lack of population control in places where control cannot effectively be incorporated (i.e. protected areas of severe human population density) is probably on target. And yes, that problem will fester into a very ugly deer problem that will effect all metropolitan centers in the state. But I'm afraid that with the inability of the DEC to apply real logic and reasoning as demonstrated in the "does only" bowhunting fiasco, I would not be looking for them to come up with any amazing real solutions anytime soon. Sorry to sound so critical, but this latest deal with punishing bowhunters for a shortfall in deer management really did step over the line in terms of raw stupidity.

Doing the same thing over and over that does not work can lead to frustration. Try changing up your game a little bit. Go in early enough to let the woods settle and hunt all day until dark. Keep at it the second rut is just starting and should be good this week and next. The fact that you are seeing deer is a good sign you just have to be in the right spot at the right time and make sure your clothes are as scent free as possible. After the season make some trails for the deer to follow that block off some spots and funnel them into your shooting lanes. It will make your stand much more enjoyable and successful. Good luck and keep at it you will connect eventually! The best hunters have one thing in common, persistence! Don't give up and enjoy your time outdoors!

Whatever you choose make sure you drink one per every half that goes in the pot. That's just good common sense

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It doesnt matter how you are setup, it always takes longer to clean in preperation to start and clean again when you are done, than it takes to actually cut the deer up. I skin and quarter in my garage, and then debone, trim, bag and grind in my kitchen. Nothing special about my setup really.

I'd like to see a guy use one successfully on heavily pressured public land, not some outfitter where the deer have 0 to no pressure.

If you dont have a ton of rocks in the ground you are going to be working, Id look at a tiller before buying a plow and disc.

Outdoorstom, This is a family site. j/k Pretty rare trail cam photo I'd say.

hahaha yeah, I broke a sweat as I was driving all the deer toward you I went back last weekend and got a nice doe Sunday. I have to pick her up at the processors tomorrow [emoji39]

I must admit, I'm more of a bleached-white-skull-type-European-mount-kind-of-guy myself, but did find this method kind of cool. DIY camo dipping. Might have to try this sometime...

lime can be broadcast on in the fall,it takes about six months to breakdown in the soil, so it is ready in the spring growing season.

Probably a trapper working his line in the Montezuma swamps Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

do a google search on how bad ozone is for you..

I can't see dragging something else to the stand

I sat in my stand this morning , swaying. Then it started to rain. Took a very slow walk of perimeter of 70 acres and saw the same nothing. Windy days I tend not to see much. My guess is deer are bedded and sitting tight. They can't hear as well and perhaps sit tight because of it.

As you know we had a great opening day. I said all those bucks shot were never captured on our cams. I was wrong about mine. My brother went through some pictures of late summer and there he is in full velvet. i think that is pretty cool…...

Not yet for me. Saw prob the 2nd biggest buck in my life, in the wild, during the last week of bow. Just a brute of a 5 by 8 prob 140 maybe 150 area. He was just a huge 10 with 2 stickers and a 3-4 inch drop on his left. Deer of a lifetime for sure at 50 yards in the thickest crap possible. I believe that boy is still alive and well and now again spends his days at the bottom of the Hogsback. Really sucks when bow ends for sure. Besides that my buddy took a great 9 point pushing 120 opening day and his dad of failing years took a nice 5pt, His first in many years. It was nice to have Cusehunter on this site join us down at the cabin this year and he got to enjoy one of the rope trips with us, lol One of the easier ones and he was like....Wow, I broke a sweat on that trip. We could have taken 3 park legal bucks on that trip but nothing either of us wanted. I would guess in 10 days i passed at least 8 legal bucks and had 3 shooters..In my book...at 20 to 50 yards and either does,young bucks or thick briers screwed me up. All in all it was another great trip and i saw piles of deer on the park and cant wait for our late season last couple days of shotgun/Muzzy week trip. Come on SNOW!

This works for me

Or like many have mentioned in the wearing no orange to not be seen by "trespassers" in other threads.Perhaps there are many more guys now using bows in gun...They can use their cross bows now. hunting in the areas mentioned in the article...If I recall Those areas have some pretty dense up close shooting in them. Though that doesn't account for the lack of cars seen. Unless in deciding to go crossbow........... they have now opened up areas to hunt they were not able to before...and closer to home. Many variables to look at...guys complained about the opening weekend "madness" they may have spread out and gone during the week...I'm out everyday and I'm still hearing shots daily before opening, 8-9am,12-2pm and then 3-5pm...Plus the duck hunters in the area must be having a good season. No doubt there are fewer out there..it's hard to compete with the NYS school system being allowed to indoctrinate the kids against it(teachers personal opinions). The fact that hunting is "work" and video games,walking the malls,and typing on ones phone isn't.

Not sure but it looks like he's trying to quit smoking.

Well, I finally bought a used rotary cutter. My work has been cut out for me but it's getting there. Stripped and primed, let it dry for few days and then some paint. Then all is left is finding myself a nice 8n, disc single bottom plow. Hoping to be ready for the spring.

One thing is for sure, we are loosing more hunters every year and we are not getting the recruits like we use to. Add in DEC regulations, restrictions and old age of many hunters can cause them to abandon hunting all together. Video games, phones, computers and TV cause our society to become inverted homebodies. We need more survival courses in schools which include hunting, trapping and fishing. We need something to get the younger generation out of the house!

That serves a dual purpose, it also gets the blocks moving and muddles the water. Might even toll in some birds.