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My 16yr old boy drew our first blood of the year. He Finally got tired of waiting on Mr big. And took this young doe out of one of our food plots last night

We’ll, first sit in the new stand paid off. A six pointer with no brows came in at 6:30. 30 minutes later a four pointer came in. Long morning but he’s hanging.

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After GRINDING out 70+ hours since Halloween and having several close encounters, one with this buck yesterday, I decided he would make me happy after a frustrating week/season. I've seen 17 bucks in the last 10 days from the stand, the majority being 1.5 yr olds. I've had several days of our big shooter bucks walking past me in the dark, when I couldn't see my pins, to a great buck giving me a 50 yds shot which I elected to not shoot that far. It's been a rollercoaster of emotions all season. It ended this AM when 15 minutes after light this buck came out of bedding 25 yds below me. He worked straight up to under my stand, and stared at me 3 different times. It was so still and quiet there was no way I could get away with any movement or sound as he approached. The third time he got squirrelly and bounded twice and stopped, I took that opportunity to draw in case he hesitated again. We'll, he did, at 25 yds and I put one through both lungs. He ran 30-40 yds up the hill, stopped and tipped over. I've seen this buck 3 times since Halloween, he's not the biggest around by any means but I'm very glad I got the opportunity and executed a perfect shot on him. Sent from my moto g fast using Tapatalk

Freezer is starting to get full !!! The buck was following a doe all the way down a tall hill towards me, she crossed upwind in front of me going to the bottom after I used the grunt tube to try and get the buck to change direction. It seemed as if she was very interested in the grunt and investigating it, the buck wanted absolutely nothing to do with it. He ultimately followed her path reluctantly and I double lunged him 15 yards away. Clear pass through, no blood at shot sight, only fur and I couldn’t find arrow. Went about 40 yards. I don’t think I would’ve gotten a shot without using that grunt tube, which I very rarely use. I also used it on the way in to mimic a buck thrashing through the woods and I had 2 bucks come investigate in the dark. Had I not done that I would’ve never made it to this spot because of the wind, without blowing a ton of deer out. Shot around 8,8:15 November 8. Not the biggest rack but plenty of meat and man that was an exhilarating hunt!

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Well your not wrong . But dang between Joe and the Hoe and our horse face governor , it’s making it hard to be positive about things getting better .

Top 10 Reasons to vote Democrat by David Letterman #10. I vote Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I've decided to marry my German Shepherd. #9. I vote Democrat because I believe oil companies' profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon at 15% isn't. , #8. I vote Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would. #7. I vote Democrat because Freedom of Speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it. #6. I vote Democrat because I'm way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves. I am also thankful that we have a 911 service that gets police to your home in order to identify your body after a home invasion. #5. I vote Democrat because I'm not concerned about millions of babies being aborted so long as we keep all death row inmates alive and comfy. #4. I vote Democrat because I think illegal aliens have a right to free health care, education, and Social Security benefits, and we should take away Social Security from those who paid into it. #3. I vote Democrat because I believe that businesses should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as the Democrat Party sees fit. #2. I vote Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters. And, the #1 reason I vote Democrat is because I think it's better to pay $billions for oil to people who hate us, but not drill our own because it might upset some endangered beetle, gopher, or fish here in America. We don't care about the beetles, gophers, or fish in those other countries.

Listen I understand your position as a mod, but how can you defend a site with an absentee owner who literally screwed over hard working hunters, who coughed over money for T shirts and other memorabilia and never came thru. I questioned you on this year's ago and in a nutshell you told me to chill and that you were in contact with BJ and he would make good by everyone, how did that work out for ya? Don't take this personal, I'm just upset at what ownership did or lack of. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed this site thru the years but lately not so much. I was one of the first members to join this site, sad to see it go to shit. The few remaining here should come over to the new site, same old and new faces, seems very legit so far and mods and owner are active and open to site suggestions. I think you could actually contribute in a positive way.

I know most folks hunt Varmints at night these days and they use electronic calls and it works out well for them, I have a couple of electronic callers myself. But do not discount the effectiveness of old fashioned mouth calls, it does not take long to learn how to use them and they can work great especially for run and gunning. My old Black Creek 3 in one call along with a Squirrel whistle have made for some pretty exciting days afield in the daytime., the big orange whistle is for my dogs which I take with me many times. Al

Happy Birthday ! Semper Fi !

Misses and I went out yesterday afternoon 8W. It was a bitter sweet afternoon , I had what im pretty sure was the wide 6 I’ve been after come in to right at 3:00 . Couldn’t see him but could hear him , after about 4-5 mins I felt the wind ever so slightly shift and hit my left side of my face and yep he bounded off . Wife she had a lot of action , had a buck chasing and challenging another buck right before end of legal light. She didn’t get a solid look but she said it was at least a 6, maybe a spike snd 2 does , at one point the doe were directly right behind her. At this point it was too dark to shoot and this ladder was in a pine tree. So at 5:40 I radio her that I’m packing up and she tells me she’s still got deer all around her. So instead of her getting busted climbing down out of the stand I decided to slowly walk up the dug rd. and push them off . The big doe was not happy and blew for several minutes . We didn’t get out of the woods till 6:20 . This is a first for the wife to see chasing going on and she was pretty excited .

Love the site. Just to be clear the issue is, the owner isn't even able to be reached. New members can't join, that's it. Moderators of this site in my opinion have been great. I'll view both sites but I think the other site will flourish do to a hands on owner. Good luck to all, fsw your a hell of a woodsman. Your personality sucks but you have a ton to offer, hope to see your knowledge wherever it lands. (My insult is meant as a joke).

Look up a few Youtube videos and follow along. Do a couple and eventually you get them right.

Never Happen but we can dream !

The issue at hand, and why I dumped the threads, is because you don’t go on someone’s forum, and advertise your own, or try to redirect traffic there. There’s no issue with members here belonging to other forums, this is not a team or a job where you are expected to only belong to one or the other. You just aren’t going to be allowed to run this site down, same as it’s always been. This is a nonnegotiable rule as far as I’m concerned, and unless burmjohn overrules me, it will stay that way.

Not a NY deer but opening day of the New Hampshire rifle season and my buddy drops this 8 ptr at 7:30.

Oh. Almost forgot to tell you that the buck I got last week was standing in the exact spot as the doe I got exactly one week prior. Shot her on an observation sit. The “accidental doe” gave me clues for how to get my buck. First deer with a bow from a treestand. Normally I’m on the ground. Both were 12 yards directly down wind, right where I said they would never be. [emoji23] Being tagged out before November is … uncomfortable at the moment. But I wouldn’t have it any other way. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We were wondering how you guys were making out. Will prob be over to see ya’s at the cabin tonight. Few seen on the park down in no mans land of course and the cam’s up in the campgrounds have shown some movement and the farm only has really 1 to get excited about. That’s kinda why I was wondering how the East side was looking but that river as we know is not even a blip for them to cross. Would love to hear those in charge speak their peace. Up around Castile and the special hunting area has plenty as always.

"My own political philosophy is very plain and humble; I can trust the uneducated, but not the badly educated." —G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

I'll be hanging around I enjoy the site. Does not matter if JB is here or not. A few reached out to me to move to the other site, thanks but no. Been here pretty much from the beginning. Now enough with this, got redeem myself today. Kids come in tonight and hopefully we can get a morning hunt in before the rain.

Oh that was some of their biggest bitches. It’s like not real hard to stay away from that section if a person wants to. There should be an active political section especially the way this world is today. You saw where Chef never could give a reason for supporting the idiot democrats killing this country. But he voted for them.

The new sites politics section SUCKS! Not nearly as good as this one’s

It's only 4 days old. At least the owner is front and center, and actually answers questions and contributes to the site.

Actually, the issue at hand was an absent owner, no response to membership requests and questions etc..... You don't have a forum, abandon it, and expect glowing reviews. A couple of mods were left to police the ranks, while old BJ disappeared. People got fed up. Now they're bailing, and rightfully so. How many people are waiting on t shirts? Hahaha. Seeya.

I’m thrilled that my preparation paid off. This happened exactly as I imagined it would. Trail cam pic was taken the day before I shot him. He’s a “dork deer.” See his overbite? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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A new project I am just getting started on, acquired a pristine like new rifle that has had only 10 rounds put through it. Chambered in the little dynamo cartridge 256 Winchester Mag, made for a few short years during the mid sixties. Will update as things come along. Al

Got the back all stretched out(still sore but can actually move again) and hiked in a mile to the spot I had the big 6 on camera last night. See what happens

I think everything has been covered here.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Bumped one going in. My sit was short because I messed my back up some how. Pulled camera and of course it was a buck I would shoot that I bumped. However last video I have of him is him putting his nose down and trotting away so don’t think I bumped him to bad.

OORAH! Happy Birthday fellow MARINES!

I don’t know any of the facts about what went down with tshirts. Honestly, that issue is between whomever it was that paid for them and burmjohn. I think you are confused, I’m just moderating the site, not defending anything that burmjohn has or hasn’t done. I barely have time to enjoy this site, let alone many others. I am barely active on 1 or 2 other forums, and that’s it. Hell, I don’t even have much time to hunt these days. You all enjoy.

I'm in 3m can butcher but wouldn't want to teach (wouldn't want to teach the wrong way) nor have a friend to offer up. Like above watch YouTube some good stuff out there. Get a good knife step one.

2 more down tonight.

Nothing this morning except a bunch of squirrels. I had a huge buck on camera at another stand at noon. Went to see what the hunting pressure was like over there and swung pass another piece I hunt. Well I ran into the guys that manage the piece of stateland and they started talking about a buck I’ve been trying to kill. Told me how he’s been moving on the property and from where and times. Said today he was standing in the road at 9am and wouldn’t move. picture is from this afternoon at 1230 as I was leaving another spot currently have a big 6 bedded in front of one of my cameras.

And the post below is why you should ban the ones that spread the negatively instantly. They want to go to another site so be it but the few that run this one down on their way out should not even have the pleasure of reading threads let alone post on them. Those that left are still sending PM’s to members so it’s the same as badmouthing the site Funny thing is is that site they went to has very few members besides the ones that left here The same few live on the site 24-7 like they did here

Home after running around. I had a huge buck on camera at another stand at noon. Went to see what the hunting pressure was like over there and swung pass another piece I hunt. Well I ran into the guys that manage the piece of stateland and they started talking about a buck I’ve been trying to kill. Told me how he’s been moving on the property and from where and times. Said today he was standing in the road at 9am and wouldn’t move. picture is from this afternoon at 1230 as I was leaving another spot

Sighted our guns in yesterday, went out tonight. Call was goin for not even 2 mins and here comes little Zeeks first victim of the year and first fox ever. Shot it at about 90 yards. Plenty more to come!

Was chasing a doe

Shot this buck on Sunday. Came in with a big doe and another bigger buck, almost had the larger one but didn't present a good shot. I have pics from last year of these two same bucks traveling together, both got a pass last year as they were much smaller. Hopefully run into the bigger one during the rifle season. I know they are the same two as the larger of the two has a freaky rack, same exact rack as last year just alot bigger.

So after having some time to reflect I wanted to share a almost 3 year journey that came to a end this weekend. During the summer of 2020 I got my first picture of him, the big 7. At that point he was just a after thought, there were numerous other bucks on my cameras and he was just one of many. As time went on I got more and more pictures of him. I had my first encounter with him on 11/15/2020 he blew past me chasing a doe offering me no shot opportunity. My trail camera 150 yards away captured this picture of him 15 minutes later. It was around this time that I started to become obsessed. I spent the rest of the 2020 season never seeing him again during daylight, but getting almost nightly pictures of him on camera. This continued until the bucks shed their antlers for the winter and I lost track of him. Fast forward to the summer of 2021 I moved some stands and cameras around having better patterns on him and just waited. The work paid off when I got my first picture of him that year Season rolled around and got off to a good start, had some great encounters with some smaller bucks and lots of pictures of him on camera but no daylight sightings, and then it happened. He walked into my world. 42 yards and behind a downed tree. I could see his vitals were exposed but I was nervous of hitting too high, I drew my bow back and decided I would aim a tad on the low side. Either hit the downed tree or him right in the heart…. Well Tree one, chef zero. This experience gave me some good insight into where he was traveling and A few weeks later I decided to move a camera and then a stand to better set up on him. I moved the camera and planned on going back the next day with my hunting partner to hang the stand I guess I should have just moved the stand the same day because he didn’t waste any time. I actually watched him walk right past that stand from 100 yards away. My next encounter with him came a few days later. I got a hit on one of my cell cams showing he and 2 other bucks were headed my way. I could now see him coming through the brush… just 3 more steps is all I needed. He froze dead in his tracks looking off into the distance. I grunted, he pawed at the ground with his hoof thrashed his antlers in the brush but wouldn’t budge. All of a sudden I hear a twig snap to my opposite side and that’s all it took him and the 2 other bucks he had in tow bounded off in the other direction. I look to my right and see another hunter with his climber on his back walking right towards me…. I wave him off and he moves back the way he came. Fast forward to 12/8/21 I’m in a stand deep in the Swamp and my hunting partner is in one of our early season stands that is on the route from food to bed. My phone buzzes and it’s a text from him. It’s a video of the 7 walking out of his bow range and sort of parallel to my position. He then tells me how cool the encounter was and that he’s still shaking. He says the buck is kind of headed my way but not really. About 15 min later while scanning I see antlers about 100 yards out but moving parallel to my position. All of a sudden he makes a 90 degree turn and is headed straight for me. He’s coming, just cross the creek all you gotta do is cross. He stops at the creeks edge and leaps across. I raise the cross bow, put the site on his heart and pull the trigger. I could have sworn I watched the lighted nock sink into his chest cavity. He leaps back across the creek, looks back at me and slowly walks away hunched up. I know this reaction…. Gut shot… dead deer but it needs time. I look around for the lighted nock and see nothing. It’s getting dark now. I back out and say I’ll come back in the morning. I come back in the morning and look for my arrow, blood, anything. I can find nothing except for white hair at the hit site I grid search for hours… nothing. A trail cam pic a few days later confirms it.. he’s fine I missed somehow and just gave him a haircut. It’s now summer of 2022 and the pictures start again Many pictures but no encounters. Season starts off great, get my hunting partner his first bow buck. I’m not seriously working him at this point, just sitting a oak tree that’s producing and seeing what’s out there. And then it happens antlers in the brush, I can swear it’s him. It’s getting dark but I can still see. If he clears that tree I’m shooting… he does and wham the arrow zips through him. Shot looks good a little high but good… I follow good blood for 250 yards before loosing it. Called deer search and they came out the next day… no dice I’m devastated I killed him and won’t find him. Search for days looking for birds, coyotes anything.. no dice. Fast forward to Friday October 14th I finish work early and head out to my stand. I’m in for about 15 min when I see my first deer. A small 5pt he comes and goes quickly. A little later I have a altercation with 2 hunters trying to hunt with crossbows out of season… they walked right under my stand. I also have pictures of these idiots stealing cell cams of mine. I yell at them and they head back to their car and leave. I figured I blew up the spot and I should leave but in the end decided to stay. It turns into a great sit… two smaller bucks come by and are sparing out of range. Some does join in the mix and decide to watch while they eat.. finally the commotion scares them off. The small bucks leave and the does come back and start eating. It’s getting close to sunset. About 30 Min to go when I see him. He’s 80 yards out and headed straight towards me he makes it to 20 yards and turns broadside slight quarter to or so I think. I draw my bow settle the pin on him and let one fly… he takes two big jumps stops stands there for a second and then takes off running. I hear what I think is a crash but I’m not sure. I climb down and check my arrow… it’s covered in dark blood and smells kind of sweet sour. I go look to where he stood before bolting and found 2 pin pricks of dark blood. I decided to back out go home and look in the morning. It was a long sleepless night I woke up on the hour every hours… finally at 5:30 I can’t take it any more and get dressed and head out to start my search. I go back to the pin pricks and see what I can find… nothing. The pin pricks were 5 yards from the power line cut. Let me look there. I step into the cut and shine my flashlight into the opening on the other side… OMG there he is. He didn’t even go 70 yards. I walk up to him and finally lay hands on my prize. He was quartered much harder than I thought, the arrow entered the chest cavity, hit both lungs, cut the diaphragm nicked the stomach hit intestines and exited out the back leg. I know I’m supposed to be ecstatic that I got him and don’t get me wrong I’m over the moon… but I’m also kind of sad he’s gone, sad this chase has ended and this chapter of my hunting career is over. I guess it’s time to move on and do some fishing, shoot a doe or two and get ready for the regular season      Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Oh man that’s sucks, I feel for ya from one bad back to another . It never happens at a good time that’s for sure.

I always carry a few MFK diaphragm calls and a squeaker just in case the electric call dies or I want to try something different in heavily pressured areas. I don't remember the last time I predator hunted in the daylight, but I do have a Mojo decoy and a Foxpro wildfire 2 with the foxjack5 remote controlled decoy if needed. Before I started night hunting, I used to love calling them in close during the day and blasting at them with the model 37 loaded with #4 buck.

Some previous 4H Pics (this year)

10/17 got #3 behind our house. I love when you can hear them from the house..

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