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My son got his first deer. youth hunt 10/7/2018. we were both pumped!

Got it done and got me some meat yesterday morning. Now that the freezer is full. Time for the 10 pointer in my camera. Thankful for this deer. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Meat! This doe always busts me on the way in. I put the stalk on her and sealed the deal at 30yds Sent from my LGMP260 using Tapatalk

Well we had some warmer weather than we wanted but had fun. The boy shot another doe tonight. He saw 4, bro saw 3 and I saw 3. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Up and at them again this morning. My buddy from Miami, Florida got his first ever New York deer last night. Arrowed a doe in 4J and she went 20 yards and fell in view of his stand. Pretty cool stuff, he’s surprised by how big even the doe up here are compared to the deer down in Florida

Buddy of mine connected on a doe today. Birdsall. 8x I think. First deer with a bow. 20yd shot. He said it took a half a step after the shot and feel over. Magnus stinger broadheads.

I got out this morning. The bucks were quite active as I saw 4 different bucks rip up the same scrapes that were untouched on my walk in this morning. One of them was a 3.5 yo 9 point that needs another year. Decided to sit out the evening hunt due to a migraine that came on suddenly and has stuck with me all day. I might try again Saturday morning as it looks like we will have a nice drop in temperature.

I get that but after saying I would take the archery class and start to bow hunt for umpteen years I finally did. Been hearing I'd love it for so long. Don't want to end my archery hunt on any buck just to shoot one. my best ever gun buck probably 90" lol That was many years ago and dinks since. Have two does I can shoot to break the ice . Just want to experience the full swing of the rut hoping to get a shot at a good one. definitely enjoying myself ! Why'd I wait so long !?

Did you guys know that I have a peep site on my bow? Do you know that you should look thru the peep when aiming at that heavy 8 pointer that's standing broadside at 18 yards? I guess that I didn't know that either... sailed it a foot over his back! Good news is that he never had a clue that I was there. Rookie mistake. 44 years of hunting and still making rookie mistakes.

So I am out Friday night for a quick after work hunt. It was an amazing evening for movement. I was in the stand and had a 2.5 year old 8 pointer work his way into 20 yards in front of me. I didn't plan on shooting him so I took out my phone to video him. As I was slowly making my move for the phone he kept looking up the hill behind me. I turned my head to see what he was looking at and I saw another deer in the woods. Just uphill form my shooting lane and about 40 yards out. On this video the downed log is 40 yards. I was waiting to see what he was going to do and I see another deer working it's way up the hill towards the log. I could see glimpses of antler on both of them and was hoping I might see some interaction between them. Maybe a little brushing or clicking antlers. I wasn't expecting this. The video was cut short when another buck showed up and looked like it was going to go by them and right to me. I dropped the phone on the seat and put my release on. He broke down hill and never came out of the thick stuff. The ones fighting broke up and one was a very nice 10 that ran by me at about 10 yards as fast as he could run from the winner of the fight. Definitely was a 3.5 year old. The winner had a much bigger body and he came walking into another shooting lane at 15 yards. I was at full draw and when he walked out he was definitely mature but his antlers took me by surprise. Left side was a main beam about 2' long and not a single point. Right side was not even there. I was trying to tell if it was broken or deformed for some reason. I let him walk off and as I released my draw the darn arrow popped off the string and rattled it's way all the way down the ladder of the stand. That got his attention and he walked off. In that short sit I saw 14 deer. 10 different bucks. I saw 3 bucks Saturday night that I didn't see Friday and two buck last night that I am pretty sure were repeats. Saturday night I went over by the log to see if there was a broken antler there from the winner. Nothing. I can't believe he could effectively take on a challenger with just the one antler. I get the bigger body size would help and have heard stories of bigger bodied less desirable bucks running off ones that have been watched and hunted. Wish the quality was better. Well I am going to leave this post up while I try to figure out how to put the video up here. I will say this taught me that I never have made enough noise when trying rattling. Have your volume on.

Venison cube steak and shiitake shrooms. Thank you wegmans. I’m not daring enough to pick any mushrooms outta the woods other than morels. And ty Samantha for the cubesteaks from her deer last year as I got nada Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Get down and go to the arrow, and look at it. What you do next is going to depend on that. Noone on here can tell you what the recovery percentage is, as none of us were there to see the hit. The area you circled on the picture encompases everything from a dead deer in less than 50 yards, to a non-lethal meat hit lol.

Chicken enchiladas! For my dad who is here!

My five year old and I went out to pull camera cards about an hour ago. He told me he was hoping we would get a bear or a moose on the camera. I told him there was no way that would happen. Well I'll have to stop telling him that because I sure didn't think I'd get a freaking elk or whatever it is on the camera either! I am in north central Wayne county and I'm pretty sure there aren't and game farms around so I have no idea where this thing came from.

Live from the backyard. Been sick past couple days... Decided I'd spend the last few minutes of legal with my bow in my hands...they sometimes run the edge of the corn field Sent from my XT1650 using Tapatalk

My oldest daughter shooting her hoyt

Biz.. I think I found your hunting spot Sent from my SM-G892A using Tapatalk

Back out with my neighbors son, we are setup on a field edge again. I’d really like him to get another shot! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Venison roast with Apple butter, onions and bacon on top. So damn good! Also had a salad but nobody but bionic wants to see that. But here's a pic. It looked a lot like the stuff in this field with some dressing on it.

Woke up this morning to find my archery targets messed with. It's a usual annual occurrence to have a little buck beat up my deer target, but this time this damn bear got my stuff. Knocked down and scattered the deer target, and bit it in the butt and neck. He clawed at the bear target and took a bite out of that too. We've had a few different bears on cam around the house this year. It's one of these, probably the younger one. The deer target is 20 yards from the back deck. its on Yogi, it's on, I've got a broadhead for you....

Good ole Benny Hill

Just some grilled cheese and tomato soup fro a can.Filled the hungry gut and took the chill off from an all day sit in the rain.

The video doesn't do justice to the two fighting. The loser of the fight was a very nice 10. Maybe 16-17" spread and G2's about 8-9 inches. I hope to give you guys a nice look at a couple of these...lol

The big problem for leftists is when life begins. Roe v Wade says it begins at birth, but also restricts late term abortions because the fetus can survive on it's own at some point in the womb. The law also allows for prosecution if a fetus is killed in the womb by an attacker, even if it happens in the first few weeks of pregnancy. This is why leftist interpretation of the law is often so flawed. Individual circumstances arise that go against a lot of the things they interpret as being legal. If a case comes before the SCOTUS that revisits the Roe decision, the court may rule against Roe, but will have to clarify abortion law at that point. The big money is on putting the law back into the state's hands, where it should be according to the Constitution. That's just one area of federal overreach that will probably be considered by the SCOTUS in the future. Kavanaugh isn't going to be the tip of the spear in any of these things, but leftists know how he will support and defend the Constitution with his opinions, and that is what they are fighting.

Don't let to many pass or you will be going into gun season without one. You need to break your cherry on one, get the first one out of your system and then become more selective. Don't expect your first one to be a whopper although it would indeed be nice. As long as you are enjoying yourself and having fun....that is all that matters.

I figured I might try this. Late start to the year, but my dad came up yesterday, and we set up 2 ladders stands. I bought two used cheapy stands from a family friend, who is moving to Florida, abd is unloading as much as he can. I bought a 20' ladder stand, and a 15' for $45. I could not pass it up. I finally have some variety, and choices, as far as where to sit. I own 5 acres, in front of 68 ish acres that I have sole permission to hunt. I am feeling pretty good, and I have finally setup these 2 stands within pretty good cover.

Well enough of that Bionic lettuce romance. Fresh homemade Venison ravioli in sage butter (that’s right just butter and sage!) sauce. Looked so good I forgot the hen of the woods mushrooms I sautéed. Fried in butter sage counts as a salad, Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Wow. 3.5 9 point gets a pass. You must have some impressive deer on your resume. He’s a brute. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Found him boys!

Bucks all over this morning....just had the potentially 7th different buck within sight. Two studs appeared one after another right before the 7th.....they will def make me keep my bow on the hook for a while. They came into the field around 55 yards away and slowly progressed across without a care in the world. They also payed not attention to the blest or grunt tube. Sent from my moto z3 using Tapatalk

Love my Lee turret. I do the pistol rounds in it and then remove the indexing rod and basically use it as a single stage press for the rifle rounds. I like having all the dies set on the disc for the rifle rounds. It makes the set up and switching time less in my book. A single stage would be handy so I'd take it anyways. Using it for things like a resizing die if any of your calibers you will be reforming brass.

I am gonna need a new house and a new wife if I get another mount...lol

I havent Been out hunting yet, and haven’t spent much time in the woods working due to family issues, but igot out the other day to check a few of my mock scrapes. All of them are torn up with the licking branches I wired up being used as well. I freshened them up with some Smokey’s and some pee in each. I checked Some of my cameras while I was There also. Between 3 cameras, I had Close to 7000 pics to weed through. The food plots have been hammered hard, both look like a mowed lawn at this point. I spent Some down time today weeding through pics, and what I found made me very happy. 90% or more were daytime, with a large portion being mid day. I have a very large population of does that spend a ton of time in there, and now the bucks are showing up with regularity, morning, mid day and evenings. I have A solid 8 point that I figured was 3 1/2, but have been told that it’s more likely to be 4 1/2. He’s just past the ears, has good mass, what looks like a kicker on one tine and some great brows. Another that I got long distance pics on one cam, is just downright big. Very wide with great mass, but I cant See his tines. He should actually be on one or two other cams from where he seemed to enter and exit the plot, so I’ll have to see when I check Those. There is also a 2 1/2 that has a 4 point side on the right, a huge dagger on the other side, and what seems to be a 3rd antler in between them. I’d actually like to Take him early if possible. He would be pretty dangerous to another deer while sparing or fighting. Here’s a pic of that one, I’ll share the others if I put One of them on the ground.

Nice cool evening after being outside most of the day. Homemade chicken noodle soup. Boiled down chicken leg quarters and all the veggies. Turned out great. Chicken soup warms the soul lol.

Scooted out at work and in woods by 530 buddy has a few acres and a stand for an east wind Well east wind so I gave it a try. 3/ 5 doe groups already in fields but not going to put the sneak on these. Five minutes of being in stand a fork four comes in at 26. Crosses ditch and in behind me at 17 standing broadside. Another free pass issued

I saw Clapton last night and as usual he brought the house down. Jimmy Vaughn and Gary Clark Jr. were the warm ups. Gary Clark Jr.is a phenomenal guitarist . Clapton plays once more tonight at MSG.

He was 50 yds but I probably would’ve passed on him. There are 3 others in the area that are on my list that I’m trying to hold out for. Seeing how we have a 4 month season and only 2 buck tags, there is no sense it settling 1 week into the season.

The advice given here is generally solid. But even climbing out of your stand to look for the arrow could get that deer up and moving if he's close by and can hear you. That's the last thing you want to have happen. I hate to be coarse about it but you want him to lie down and bleed to death. That's the point, so to speak, and that won't likely happen if he's being chased. Apparently you're already moving, but next time use your binoculars from the stand. It will take you some time with the binos to locate the arrow and study it through the glass, and to look at the blood in the area and give everything a thorough look. Point one: It will keep you in your stand for a couple of critical hours. Point two: It will make you a better observer through your binoculars.

thirdhand archery bow holder, I climb with the bow in it

We have a 250 acre fruit and vegetable farm. We grow that variety specifically for selling as canning tomatoes. Because we don't get hot enough and long enough growing season in CNY it takes a few days longer after picking for it to get red throughout the whole tomato. I make homemade wine too, and that juice does come from Italy! Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk

I'd use the semi auto carbine in a rifle chambering... I hunted ( as a guest) from an Adirondack camp back around 1980....There were 20 members in camp, and we executed " organized still hunts", where some hunters would slowly still hunt a large area and others would stand in areas where deer were likely move ahead of the stillhunters...They were very successful...Nearly all of the guys in camp used pumps or autos, mostly in .308 or 30-06...I was one of only two hunters who carried a bolt action, and there were a couple of levers... As I recall, the walkers killed about as many deer as the standers.. If I were to hunt that terrain again, I would want a reasonably light, handy rifle capable of delivering quick, accurate backup shots toward the south end of a rapidly departing northbound deer... Notably, nobody carried a shotgun....

Pork shots and stuffed venison eye of round.

Made it out for the first hunt of the season...my woods are feeling pretty sterile with no acorns this year. ...but one never know, maybe I’ll get lucky today (the Bills got lucky today)!

So what was your point in this thread ? You asked for advice and then picked the LAST firearm that any of the posters advised you to take... It sounds like you had already made up your mind and were looking for someone to agree with you...