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Got out for a couple hours this morning and again in the afternoon. Saw 15 deer in total, on the day, some I’m sure we’re duplicates. About 5 mins before last light a decent size 6 pointer stepped out and ate one of my hand loaded 308s. Quartering towards shot so the exit wound is a little far back. Surprisingly ran about 100 yards with tons of internal damage. Tenderloins we’re all cut up and one lung was was basically gone. Not a huge rack but a solid bodied deer for sure. This is the first deer I’ve harvested with my new Savage 110 and the first deer I’ve brought home and hung up in my garage. My two girls were so excited to be apart of the process when we got home. Thankful for another harvest. May slip out tomorrow afternoon for a little doe patrol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My brother in law and I went out this afternoon on the property we hunt in 3m Wind was pretty brutal but right before sundown my brother in law caught this guy coming out of thick woods into the swamp by his stand. Small 7 but for late in the game he will add to the freezer. After passing on several bucks during bow I’m still after my target buck who made an appearance after the closing bell with 8 doe last week. So I’ll be back out solo tomorrow.

Update- was able to take this buck last week. I followed this deer all year long.

Came.across a fresh bear track this evening on way out., tommorow the track is on!!

Had a nice sit this evening. Didn’t see any deer until I had Climbed down and set my muzzle loader down, and had a monster run by me about 15 yards away. All I could Do was stand there with my mouth open in disbelief. Maybe next time. It was just great to be back in the woods.

Grandson and I harvested a doe around 3:15. Wish he would have shot it but due to the way we were setup I was the only one with a shot but he was right there and I am calling it our harvest. Only deer we saw all day. Nice end to a good day with him

Few picts from trail cams. That is one nice 8pt and a double split browtine 13 pt.

Made it out for the last hour and a half today thanks to my wonderful wife. Not only did she spend most of the day helping me make 30 pounds of summer sausage but she also shooed me out to hunt and did the cleanup by herself! No deer seen but still a great day.

First day 4o buck. Not a great pic but it had an 18 inch spread. Huge buck. Shot him 2 1/2 miles from the car. Dragged him 300 yrds and said screw this and cut him up right there and walked it back to car. Bringing a back pack nxt yr.

Cookie porn for all my Sicilian brothers. Swung by my parents house last night to pick up my share of our traditional Italian Xmas cookie called , Cuccidati. Its a traditional Sicilian cookie made with dried figs and various dried fruits. Its amazing. Yes my dad loves his food...lol..

That’s a beautiful grey sweater you are wearing. Where did you buy it? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Hydration and quarantine complete. Heading home first thing tomorrow morning. Hope my daughter remembers me. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

um u most certainly can use regular season tags in late season and more so your regular buck only tag changes to either sex,,,, does anyone read the regs or go thru the hunting course it amazing people that actually hunt and carry a gun have no clue what the regs are

Tonight is northern zone deer season closing, which functionally ends my deer hunting year. I cant complain too much. I took a nice big doe with my Thompson Triumph inline during the ML season in October, and had a doe tag for my area as well of course my buck tag. After tagging my doe I didn't spend too much time hunting due to not wanting to ruin my week off the 9 days after Thanksgiving, and not having a tag to use.. I keep a very close tab on my local area, and am very in tune with the deer population. It being true tug hill forest hunting, the deer population isn't what you might find in more agricultural areas. I would be happy to take one doe and a buck, but would pass on a 2nd doe in hopes of having three more deer around come next fall as opposed to one less. Early in the rifle season I passed on a nice big bodied four point. He looked to be enjoying his day, as I was, so I kept us both happy. I got quite disgruntled by finding dumped deer carcasses nearby, right along the seasonal road going into my area. All shot obviously by the same hunters...skinned and quartered on a gambrel, hide pulled down but left on the carcass, they left the neck roast each time, and whatever they shot them with all had non pass through shots to the front r quarter. If I made my guess, all were shot as they came from the same direction to a bait pile, but we are getting a bit more forensic than needed ... all the deer (four) were small ...first year fawns, except for a small six point buck , likely 18 mo. old. They didnt even take his horns...nothing much, but I think of it as an insult to the buck. A particular camp under relatively new ownership nearby on the main road had a lot more cars there all season long, and the freshest carcass appeared the evening before they left...and in conversation, a couple members had made it known they didn't mind taking a few extra. My first thought was to dump the carcasses in their front yard, but as my camp is the only other one in use in this time frame, it would be easy to draw suspicion.... I had multiple opportunities at does through this past week, put passed....my game camera was actually showing a lot more deer than earlier in the season, which isn't unexpected once snow falls. Deer move down through our area with the snow off the Tug, into the nearby Lake Ontario plains area. If it wasn't for the extra deer being shot off by my good neighbors, I would/could have taken one on my permit. The most frustrating part of hunting like I did this year was that as planned and hoped for, I had snow this week. With snow, I can and will sit almost every day and wander in between if no one else is around. By the end of the week with the season closing, I feel like I am barely just starting. Thursday afternoon I was on my normal evening stand when I heard two shots approx. 1/2 mile or so away. About 15 minutes later I saw two big does striding through the swamp below me about 75 yards away. I put the scope on them just for a better look. Two fine big does. Five minutes later another deer appears on the same trail. Buck. BIG buck. HIs main beam on my side is heavy, and sweeps low like a bulls out to his nose. One BIG northcountry buck, that had never been seen on my cameras. The scope is on him, but no way am I risking a shot through all that crap, especially with dark coming on soon. I watch him as he slows down and moves into a bunch of windfalls at the limit of my vision, but I dont see him again. Heavy sigh. So I saw plenty of deer with plenty of opportunities including a passed on buck (the four pointer). I dont count the big buck as a passed shot, as no clear shot presented itself, but I am mighty pleased to have seen him, I have meat in the freezer (and a little from last year) so I am in good shape for venison. Traffic isnt heavy up there, and I am of a mind that if that big ass buck made it this far, he will probably make it through this season, and likely be around for next year. TIme to start planning next year.....I will be up at the camp next week end checking the trails and cameras.

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The difference between a good hunter and a great hunter is one that acts on his thoughts. Way to drop the ball on your first sit.... Sent from my LM-V405 using Tapatalk

Made a pulled bbq chicken pizza, with bacon, and red onion.

I get it guys. It was only 2 lime whiteclaws.... im glad I said something because I learned something today. Im not afraid to be wrong or admit it.

Well since it’s just the wife and I and our boys are grown she wanted to down size.

Yes, you can use your unused regular season tag for a buck in the late season. This thread is a nice reminder that people should read the regs rather than go by “word of mouth” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

[quote post="993511" timestamp="1607282026" name="Chef" userid="762". I have rubs poop and acorns now I just need a deer Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk And that's just stuff you brought with you! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Son wanted to go behind the house and see if we could call a yote in. Cant say no to a 11yr old. No yotes but called in my first grey fox. Came out around 225 yards out and came in perfect down wind of the call and hung out maybe 30 yards in front of us. Got good video of him, ill post a screen shot from the video. I let him live as im more interested in yotes at the moment.

Doe tenderloin with horseradish cream sauce and haddock.

I shot a doe the last few minutes of archery a few years back. I tracked a bit and saw two fawns looking over the bank of a creek and thought wonderful, she's in the water. Sure enough they were staring down at her. But plot twist: one grew up to be a lawyer and the other is first chair viola in the BPO. So don't worry about fawns Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Careful how you talk about China....My Dad was on a destroyer that sent a couple of months in Shanghai immediately following the Japanese surrender in WWII....I probably have several siblings in China... Hell...My Dad might be Elmo's grandfather..What relation does that make him to me ??

This enclosed blind is really paying off this year. I don’t how many times it’s been since the Gun opening that we have had at least some sort of perception but it’s been quite a bit. It’s currently freezing rain but dry and warm inside. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So I was in the stand by 6:45 this morning, there was about 5 inches of snow on the ground so no need for a flashlight which was nice. I started seeing movement about 7:15 about 100 yards below me, a few does moving into a stand of mature pines, then a few more. I have seen virtually nothing since opening day of gun so I was feeling good about this. A few does here and there meandering though the creek bottom kept my attention for the next half hour or so. Out of the corner of my eye I catch a big doe trotting up the hill to my left, I have no idea how she got there, or where she came from, then I see a deer behind her and put my scope on it, its a buck!. I see the rack and move the crosshairs to the shoulder and let 'er rip. It looked like he dropped, I think... The doe is standing 75 yards to my left, unalarmed, looking over her shoulder at where the buck was. I put the scope on her but decide not to shoot. I sit tight for a few minutes while she feeds her way up the hill a bit more. I climb down and find the buck right where he was standing. I recognized this buck as the one we called the "the crab claw buck" I have pics of him 30 yards from where I shot him. He broke off half of his split G4 (?) on his right side since the last video/pics. Really cool buck. It was quite a job getting him dressed, out of the woods and into the truck alone. I have never really cared how much a deer weighs, but I just may go grab a scale, this one seems very heavy! I also found two beds in the snow within yards of him, I am wondering if he wasn't bedded with that doe only 75 yards from me and I never saw them?

Had a pretty busy day yesterday. Shot a good adult doe around 8am, she ran the wrong way on her death run. About 60-70 yards into the nastiest of thorn apple/redbrush tangled crap and it was downhill the wrong way. You see, she was on a ridge and of course its a 50-50 shot whether they go north or south. South is bad....... Oh well, I guess I can still drag uphill in the nasty stuff. In the afternoon I had a cold, wet sit for a couple hours before 5 doe & fawn came out on the edge of a field. I looked them over good to assure I didn't shoot a fawn and shot this nice doe. The first one in the morning dressed out at 120lbs and this one 131lbs, both with heart and lungs removed. (inside joke just to stem off the cackles from the Peanut Gallery, lol) I used my 300WSM rifle with 165gr bullets. The first doe was about 100 yards, the second one was about 160. Both were one shot kills....

A group of us hunted state land today . Carried a very nice blr in 308 . Some deer tracks from yesterday in the snow .. more people tracks . I kept getting walked on by people so I stalked into a big ravine. Climed up the other side found a finger of brush. Pointed my nose into the wind and still hunted a bench for 200 yds. Stopped to scan and picked up movement in a blow down 60 yards away . Looked with binos and could see 2 deer bedded. Snuck to 40 yds and I could see horns . Shouldered my rifle as they stood up . I could see it was a doe and a small 6. Let them walk as I was not interested in dragging them acrossed the ravine back up the hill probably a mile. Great day for a walk. 3 inches of snow . Just to many people around .

Finished up my sausage making today with 10 pounds of Cajun snack sticks and 7.5 of Chorizo breakfast sausage. Headed out about two with the battery heated socks on and my toes are nice and warm. Can’t help but to think about how I used to freeze my arse off in cotton long underwear and blue jeans with a black and red will flannel jacket an uninsulated work gloves. Climb a tree, jam a foot into the crotch of the tree and hang on. Anytime I think I miss those days I think about how frickin’ cold I was.

Im in, wind was horrendous earlier, so I held off a couple hours. Things are calming down a little, and I am still early for the 10-2pm...

Just six does and fawns come out and tall 6 pt came out behind them and chase them out of the field my guess is one of those does or fawns is coming into heat

I am willing to bet cash that the same hunters who dont have any ammo this year wont have any next year, and wont start looking until the week before hunting season.

I have never really witnessed a Doe protecting her fawns. I’ve seen them let their fawns walk right under me while they hung back in the thick stuff safe and out of danger. I’ve seen them run in an opposite direction of their fawns when bumped or even run off and leave the fawns there not knowing what was happening. So to answer your question with my guess. I don’t think Does really have a instinctual protective/guiding nature with their fawns so I’d be surprised if she was looking back waiting for them to join back up with her. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Congrats to all who have harvested already this season. Seen some amazing bucks taken by this hunters here and even though I haven’t posted much I learn something new every time I read this forum. And good luck to everyone who is still working on filling tags- like myself! Even though it’s cold and windy here in 3m, I’ve learned to always expect the unexpected. As long as you’re in the woods good things can happen at any moment.

Crossbow is allowed during late muzzleloader season. an unfilled gun season buck tag can be used as an either sex tag in muzzleloader season.

Bigval , Michael Jordan couldn’t have won all those championships in the 1990 without Scottie Pippen aka BigVal

Forgot about this 8 pointer Team 4

Read above regulations/law. You can use regular season tags in late season. This is on this forum every year. As long as you have bought the muzz/bow privilages as well. It is not well defined on DEC site, better defined in law code. Look under "d" "ii"

Samantha and I hunted at Gman’s til 11:15 and saw nothing . Decent wind and snow but being in the glass tower she was warm which beats seeing nothing and being cold.

Dont they kick them to the curb once things get stinky anyway ? Next thing ya know shes leaving them at home while she goes out to play "bingo" before ya know it those fawns are running with a bad crowd and getting arrested ,I've seen it a hundred times ...

Small 3 point down passed on bigger this year but this was my last weekend out and needed meat

Got me another one! Another large fat doe for the freezer. She was loaded right up with fat. First deer taken with the .223, she didnt even take a step.

Well I contemplated going this am but this moving thing sucks, so I took the extra 2 hrs of needed sleep and got up and moved some more. Now I lay in my recliner hoping I make it to 8pm without passing out! Did see 7 doe cross thru the back yard, I’m guessing they got pushed out of a neighboring wood lot. One mature doe had a big chunk missing off her back also guessing a recent gun miss. Got one stand hung back there today for now, I’ll add some more next yr. should be a great spot as I’ve hunted it in the past!

Not a .243 fan. Come at me. Up that to 7mm08 for a little more leeway for shooters error resulting in less lost deer. But that’s for another thread not to clog up this one.

Hopefully you learned and wont drink whiteclaw again! Lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

8J in the AM ,landowner is in FLA and the owners of the mirror image land are born agains and don’t hunt Sunday’s , fortunately I’m neither !

How many times must we hear a fawn yell "YOURE NOT MY FATHER!!!" and lock itself in its bedroom? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Sitting here with my grandson reminds me of way back when all this hunting was new to me. The anticipation and excitement, the rookie mistakes I made, the deer killed and the deer missed, the shared hunts with friends and my brother. Even the bad days were good now that I look back at them. Over my wool today, I am wearing my original decades old blaze orange vest. It is a bit worn just like the guy wearing it but the tales it could tell. Good luck Everyone, brian