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3rd deer for the freezer. 11-12 came flying out of the dark pines down in front of me. Tails were down and hauling azz. They ran right under my stand. Don't even know if there was a buck or bucks in the mix. Picked out biggest body and bleated verbally , they locked up and shot her from 10 yards. It ain't easy picking something up in a scope that fast. Good thing I was only on 3x and not 9. Took out top of heart and I believe both lungs. 2 hours later of dragging I had her to my car. This was at 1:30. Still one either sex tag left for Monday and or Tuesday. Come on snow in 9H

. My biggest doe everSent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk

I'm not saying poaching isn't an issue, but it seems so many guys instantly blame their neighbor for their lack of success. I hear it from EVERY hunter. "If my neighbor stopped shooting doe" "my neighbor is brown it's down" "they shoot spike horns" "they drive the hell out of the property" "he invites his whole family to hunt that small plot" "I think I found a footprint on my posted land" "my neighbor walks their dog/rides quads/target shoots during bow season" "i know he uses his wife's tag" The list goes on. At some point, you do your best to control what you can and go out and just enjoy the woods

No doubt on this one and certainly not the same one from a few weeks ago. This is a studly looking beast, IMO. The first one looks smaller and has a (at least it appears to be) longer tail and looks to be younger or maybe a female?? (totally guesses on my part and uneducated at that!) Enjoy........ BOBCAT!!.AVI

I screw my bow hook into trees on public land. I've even snipped a branch or two. I'm a monster

People around us will use all there tags and anyone elses tags, legal or not.. they do not care, wrong tag per season, wmu you name it. But it has a tag on it. (for everything) Start holding people accountable for their actions, and punish per crime committed, people may start to think twice..

The difference is you are showing evidence of using violence in an unwarranted manor. Plus, when applying for a pistol permit, you are agreeing that your permit will be revoked for being convicted of such things. BTW, If you call punching your wife a lapse of judgement, I dont even know what to say.

The last chainsaw I bought new was set at the factory to run so lean that it wouldn't have lasted me a month! EPA regulations for emissions... too much exhaust or something...? I fixed that problem before I even fired it up. It's been 6 or 7 years now, and that saw is still getting better. I bought a new log splitter 4 years ago that was set up the same way. It was built to die, but I fixed that carburetor too. The air pollution caused by all the chainsaws and splitters I've owned in my lifetime wouldn't come close to that of a single city bus just getting warmed up at the start of the day.

I am very glad I allow myself to be the only judge that matters when considering what a trophy is to me.It makes life so much more enjoyable.

LOL... lots of "you can't eat horns" hunters... until they finally shoot one with horns... then it's posting photos "til the cows come home. There was a guy here on the forum (no names) that claimed not to post pics of any deer he gets... until he killed a nice buck this year.. first thing he did that day was post it.. LOL

Less than 9 and a half months until bow season. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

The guy who said NY is the worst state to hunt deer is the guy who doesn’t like the cold. North American whitetail ranks NY 22nd out of 50 for deer hunting. Take a look at the NYBC book and that’s just the deer put into the book. To the guys who go to Iowa and Ohio and places like that. It’s not the state that makes the deer hunting the way it is there, it’s how the properties are manage by the owners or leases. I hate to do this but look at Lee and Tiffany when you lockup a couple of thousand acres and only let a few people hunt it look at what you can do. If I read the Iowa regs. right a land owner in some places can kill up to 3 bucks. So there goes the 1 buck rule.

If someone farts in the middle of the night, it's most likely to be me. But, there was that time when the wife had a burrito for dinner! Thought someone was firing a Thompson machine gun! She doesn't remember.......

His wife's name may be Bruce.

I have fun hunting during the day, but night hunts are what I really like to do. Just something about a pair of glowing eyes bounding toward you in the dark while the sound of a dying animal plays on an e-caller that gets the blood pumping!

So you forget to check a box on a tag and you lose your license for life? Really? We set rapists and murders free after a few years on good behavior, and you want to hand out a lifetime punishment for tagging a deer wrong? I think the fines are pretty low right now, but increases need to be kept relative to the crimes. Get caught jacking deer the first time? Suspension for x years. Get caught twice? Lifetime loss. Illegally using another persons tag? Suspension the first time, then longer the second, lifetime loss after the third. Maybe start fining the people that are allowing others to use their tags as well as fining the person using it? That might make people think twice about allowing others to use their tags. The options are endless really, but ust going for an extremely harsh penalty right out of the gate for most things, makes about as much sense as no penalties at all.

You guys dont think people use their wife or girlfriends tags in other states? Please. NY is not unique for illegal activities.

Real quiet here. But. ...... I think I heard a mouse fart. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Weather shows 35 in Geneseo. It has to be at least 36 degrees. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

I dont, but I hang all the small shed antlers that I have found over the years on our Xmas tree. Its the antler tree. They make the best ornaments.

Nice to hear things are progressing . Been in a couple hundred fires, saw a lot of death made a couple saves . But we leave go back to the firehouse clean tools take a shower and go to bed and wait for the next one, while folks like yourself are left to try to move forward . Something I need to focus more on. Kind of makes this whole " bad deer season" seem silly doesn't it ........ Keep,the faith brother !

Eddie, I only use two sections of ladder for my stand and have a third section just collecting dust. It's yours if you want it but I'm over 2 hours away from you. If anyone is headed through Owego area on 17/86 towards Rochester, let me know and you can pick it up to take to Eddie.

I've had many more pics, but thinned the collection recently.

You haven't LIVED until you've experienced a Genny Cream Ale fart in a snowmobile suit. I've emptied my share of Genny cans over the last 50 years...For quite a few years now, they have been mostly Genny Light. However, in the last few months I have found myself buying Labatt's Blue Light more often. Must be the onset of dementia... Now what was I talking about ?

Getting my coyote gear ready...I bought a new Nikon 4x12x40 long range bdc scope and a sitting Harris bipod for the 223 this year...should be fun..now iam just waiting on my new wicked 400 predator scope light and iam all set...

There are laws in place but only law abiding people fallow them.

You want to make it so the deer can get into and around the hinge cut trees , cut them at least 5 ' off of the ground so the deer can walk under them also. An area with pines and hemlock will be good, they were hitting them hard by me last winter , they like to bed under them also.Any over grown apple trees can be cut back and thinned out in Jan. to March with out hurting them if you want to let some more light in. I was trying to post the Above vid.'s but could not they are good.

We are all set to start calling yote's right after Christmas. This will be our first year calling. I assume my 7mm-08 deer hunting gun will work just fine for coyotes.

They have a small book of excuses that they keep for years when the harvest is down. They will just fish around in there and find one that they believe everyone will swallow .... lol. Sorry, I guess I'm just getting old and cynical, but I have seen a lot of these "stories".

Well, the dispute is not over the cape. It is the antlers that the hunter #2 took home. If the original hunter wants the cape, it is probably still there rotting away.....lol. But of course, even that would not be available if it were not for the fact that hunter #2 actually found it. The thing for hunter #1 to do is to be satisfied that he even found out the fate of the deer that he shot and lost and let the antler collector add his find to his collection without harassment.

Isis bombs a Russian jet, Russia bombs isis. isis bombs France, France bombs isis. isis shoots up California & our govt. wants to take away our guns! Confused yet? What's wrong with this pic.?

Southown league starts Jan 3rd....great time, and an awesome way to say sharp.Clubs that we shoot are Evans Rod& Gun Collins conservation club Glen Coe West Falls Shoot is 15 targets, and unlimited practice at the butts...most clubs also offer breakfast or lunch for a small fee. Sent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Just slipped out for last hour on the field edge stand. Hope they feel the snow coming and something moves. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I entered a bear, I think it was $25

Depends how old you are. You may suffer from dementia and forgot you were the one who farted You Can't Beat My Meat!

Happy Birthday to Lou! Hope your day is filled with all the good stuff!

Hmmmm, first name basis huh? Ok, HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOU!!

Our numbers have been real low in recent years. I would really feel bad if I was to kill one.

Not much to report on last weeks hunting. 4 days of heat with only 2 spikes and a doe seen on private land, nothing seen on public. On a good note I found a flat footed brute that is on public land and I will go after him this weekend. No clue what the antlers look like but based on his print he is the one I am after! 2 weekends to get him before gun season opens up on LI.

Awesome shooting sir. I had one close shot by me, That was it not a deer to be seen... Tf im in Attica

I HATE THIEVES TOO Eddie! Sorry this happened to you guys. I always said some people have some balls stealing from people who are armed and may be there anytime! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Aka the Oosic bone

I hear you. My experience is anecdotal only, as is yours... but I strongly suspect that they can live in a house/closet/whatever for longer than a few days. 3 months seems like a long time and I don't think that they would all live that long, but it was a surprising eye opener for me. This was an adult deer tick, by the way. I don't know how long nymphs would last.

I wouldn't worry about direction in regrowth area... All you're doing there is keeping the sky open.... In bedding area, if you create one, you've read the drill, drop a bigger tree and pull some others on top of it! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That sucks, sounds like an anti. The other jerks take the entire set up.

Oops. Putting a primer in would be a novel idea

NYS is pretty much the worst state for just about everything. LOL we pretty much already knew that.

I just resprayed my clothes 2 days ago, the extra 20$ is well worth it! After going through 500 yards of jungle in some really thick pines I am thankfull I did! Normally I do not bother at this time of the year but temperatures dictate it. Money well spent!

i haven't gotten any Celebration yet, I'm too hung up on Old Man Winter