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Got him. Hit one lung, and stomach

He went along ways, I think. The shot was maybe 100 yards with a 50 cal, 245 grain sabot, and two 50 grain pyrodex pellets.

Stalked him using his tracks in the snow we got in 3M on Sunday. I tracked him for about 2 hours before I saw him. I was at 31yrds when he heard me, he turned around, stood up on both legs, right arm on a tree, left arm covering his heart. I shot him dead on in the heart, through his left arm. 452grain arrows, Sevr 2.0 broadhead. The arrow shattered the bone in his arm, shattered 2 ribs, and stopped in the heart, no passthrough even with 200ishlbs of KE. The bear ran 20yrds, let out a loud moan then expired.

First hunting in the 70's for the first days of SZ crossbow. Then it was days of only seeing doe and few of them as it be. Finally, today I see a lot more movement. Around 10:30 this guy comes trotting by at 35 yards. Double lung shot. He only went 30 yards.

Been so busy past couple of weeks , I haven’t been able to post on this topic until now , but better late than never , right ! So , getting right to the point , with the release of the Twitter docs by Musk , it is now abundantly clear that there was significant election interference in ‘20 to suppress the Hunter Biden story. The FBI was meeting regularly meeting with Twitter execs, presenting it as “ Russian disinformation” , which has clearly been proven to be untrue and inaccurate in and of itself ; moreover , Twitter was more than eager to oblige as they’re run by hardcore partisan Lefty Dems ( well , at least they were at the time !). This is unconscionable and VERY disturbing . I don’t care how much you loathe a public leader , ESPECIALLY the Prez of the Uniate States , you do NOT put your thumb on the scale to interfere in our National elections in order to make sure your guy wins !! I have VERY little faith in our elections process as it is ; and even less now . This MUST not be allowed to ever happened again !!

He was dead in the next bed. Had spray about last 30 yards.He was facing more quartering towards me then i thought. No exit hole. He was full of blood inside. Tracked him from low side of hill, across, up, and back down. Found him about 11 am. Shot was a little after 730.

!2 point buck that was shot on the property next to where we hunt in Geneseo .

Last 15 minutes of Northern muzzle. Freezer Queen number 3. Two giving to people in need and this one headed to Miller’s for Jalapeño and Cheese summer sausage. Life is good.

Dead is dead.

My perspective is from shooting less than 350 fps. I can see that if one is shooting a higher speed xbow then sinking into the ground may be an issue. Probably a bigger issue is hitting a rock or something in the ground that will break your bolt. Of the 10 deer that I have killed with a crossbow and six that my 2 friends have killed, we have had no problems finding the bolts from our "slow" crossbows. One of my buddies did break a bolt this year after his passthrough shot hit a rock. It should be noted that we are all hunting from elevated tree stands in the deep woods and not in grass fields. Everyone has a different situation, so choose what will work best for your situation.

I think 23. I can fit inside this guys spread when we hung him. In a rush since Sunday evening. But I wear 38-40” waist jeans and I could fit inside his spread without a prob. Got a couple busted times but still a stud. Let us know when freezer gets room lol. Weighed 185 field dressed. Better pics tomorrow after work.

One that has not made it in yet.

A little snow this morning. Finally felt like gun season

I haven’t seen too many deer at home so far thru crossbow season (just one 4-pointer), which I passed at 15 yards on the second morning. I also haven’t seen any fawns this year. I trapped (7) coons in my sweetcorn in the late summer, all but (1) were adult males, and all were exhumed by coyotes within (2) days of my burying them. Almost every night, one can hear the yips and howling of coyotes. I was out hunting this morning, in the upper deck of my favorite stand. At about 8:15, I noticed motion in the hay field to my north. It was a large coyote, running across, from west to east. There were others behind it, spaced about 20 yards apart, 6 to 8 of them in total. The path they were on, would have taken them safely past, at about 100 yards range, but the leader turned in my direction, and stopped, facing me at exactly 40 yards. That just happened to be the maximum distance, where I had sighted in the third green dot, on my Barnett Recruit crossbow. I always wondered if those NAP Spitfire, 100 grain broadheads wound hit exactly the same as a 100 grain field tip, but I was too cheap to try one on a target, to find out. There is no more need for that “waste” after today, thanks to this coyote. I put the third dot on the base of his neck and squeezed the trigger. That’s exactly where it struck: That shot dropped that coyote right on the spot, but it did not kill it. It paralyzed both front legs. For at least (5) minutes, it spun circles with its back legs, and lifted its head. It barked quite a few times, sounding just like a deep pitched German Shepard dog. Again, being very cheap, I was unwilling to send a second bolt into it. When it stopped moving, after about 10 minutes, I walked over to it. It was still drawing shallow breaths. I had nothing to club it with and I didn’t want to risk a bite. I held its head down with the foot bar of my reloaded Recruit, and stood on its chest for about 10 more minutes, until it finally drew its last breath. While it had dropped very easily, it certainly died hard. I already have one tanned grey coyote hide in the house and my wife didn’t want another. My neighbor, who traps them, said the hides were virtually worthless. I cut off its tail and skinned, salted and hung it down in the basement, with my deer tails. Maybe, I’ll try making some jigs from it. It must have bit off the back part of the bolt, trying to yank it out of its shoulder. The broadhead pulled out rather easily, and still looks to be in decent shape. I’ll touch up the blades on a stone and keep it in reserve. Tomorrow will be my last chance to fill a buck tag during archery season, because I have to leave the state for work the rest of the week. I’ll hunt the first hour and the last 4. If I can’t get it done then (I’ll settle for a 3-1/32” unicorn), it will have to wait till late ML season. I hope I don’t regret passing the 4-pointer on the second day. I was surprised how heavy that big red male coyote was, when I tried lifting him by the tail. I had weighed the last one I killed at night on the butcher pile, years before (55 pounds) and this one felt heavier. Apparently they have been very well fed from coons and antlerless deer that the neighbors have been nocking off with their nussance permits. I roped a back leg to drag it up front.

Been super slow and was getting very discouraged,, had this buck on trail cam at night and thought as years past I would never see him in daylight hours well tonight thinking I only going to see does again,, he sneaks up on me and blast him at 25 yards and watch him drip at 80 …

You do raise a good point DD that Twitter choosing to oblige the FBI is not directly election interference on their part as they’re not a govt entity , but a private corporation - but the FBI certainly is !! And They have no business trying to coerce Twitter to supremes the story which is , IMHO , election interference , even if it in reality , had no direct impact on the election results ( which I believe it did ). Now , if the shoe had been on the other foot and this had been the FBI attempting to pressure twitter to suppress a story damaging to Donald Trumps candidacy for re-election , citing the reason for their request as “ Russian disinformation “, do you really think they would’ve acted in a similar manner ? Hells no!! They’re biased - like we all are - and they would have augmented the story as much as humanly possible InOrder to damage him !! They were not acting as good , responsible citizens when they suppressed the story, DD - and I’m sure you already know this .

Photos were taken last night. Work beckons. Once they are back to me I’ll post. I don’t think I got a single “good” photo of it in the field Sunday. Too much of a rush to get dressed and out of the woods across an ag field we had major issues crossing with the truck. Ugh. So bad we called the farmer to let him know before he saw it. Short of a hand drag the ground was that soft mud. Thankfully farmer is cool and knows we take away mouths that feed out of his pocket.

Way to go!! Al

So, it sounds like the majority so far feel that the drop in the number of shots is significant. So what does that mean? Fewer hunters?.......I have seen a lot of near empty state parking lots where years back they would be filled and cars parked along the road from over-flow. Different hunter habits?.......I seem to remember a lot more still-hunters who were quick to get walking. It does seem to me that with today's clothing and foot-gear, it is easy to stay on stand for hours and hours. So perhaps it is a situation where everyone is sitting tight, and so are the deer. Less huntable land?.....So much of my former hunting areas now have houses built there and posted signs. I remember when posted signs were a rare sight. Farmers didn't have the time to be doing such things. That's not the case anymore. Less actual hunting?.......To me it looks like deer season has become a 1/2 day event for a lot of hunters, and after the first opening weekend. everything goes dead. So there may be a lot of people buying licenses and never using them, or using them in a very limited way. So I am not so sure that a license count is telling the whole story. Is there a migration of hunters from gun to bow/crossbow?..... This is one that is hard to pin down, but I do know a lot of people who have been scared out of the gun season by all the (unfounded) fears of hunting accidents and fatalities. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any other possible reasons?

Interesting ....

A cartridge in a bare tree!

Exactly and for the price it will pay off. Find the bolt after the shot if pass thru….My Scorpyd will sink them to the Nock after blowing thru. See where you hit the deer and even find the deer with the lighted nock if not a pass thru. Shooting 60-80 yards into targets show where your grouping. Definitely not a have to have but for the little they cost…Seeing though the crossbow was over two grand..They are definitely worth the cash.

What kind of power washer do you have ? I always skip the boil completely, with this 5 hp, 3200 psi model. It takes me about 1/2 hour, to blast out all of the soft tissue, after skinning the raw head. My wife still complained a little, walking past the mess on the driveway the same day, but the birds and vermin always have the mess completely cleaned up by the next morning. Far less complaints overall, than when I boiled them in the house. Another nice thing about keeping them raw, is that you don’t weaken the delicate bone structure around the nose or get any of the yellowing, that can come from too much heat. I don’t really care for shiny white or camo-dipped euros, preferring instead the natural “raw bone” color.

Check out some of the bigger New York bucks taken so far during the 2022 season https://www.nyantler-outdoors.com/2022-new-york-whitetails.html

not really about finding bolt after shot it is helpful biggest benefit i found is that u have a great idea of were the hit on the animal was.....

Peroxide paste after boil and light pressure washing

Did 3 seperate boils and powerwash after each. Was never a true boil, more like a good simmer, for about 3-4 hours each, with some Dawn dish soap in each boil to pull oils out of skull/bone, to lessen chances of those oily spots bleeding through whitener.

Finally had time to get to it. Was planning outside but it was a super windy day and figured what the hell...the Mrs did not have the same, no big deal attitude...LOL

I do about 10 in the house a year, dish soap and power laundry booster they don't even smell.

Hit a nice buck in thick brush at 730 am. He laid down 2 times within 50 yards. Only small spec of blood in 2nd bed. Just jumped out of bed again about 150 yards. Again small spec of blood. Semi broad sided. Blood appears to be from mouth based on bed. No blood in the snow while tracking.

Dude, this one is going on the wall for sure! Lol. It may rival David’s wide one for spread…

Oh boy. My big taxidermy freezer is full...I've got capes in my meat freezer and now I got a cape in my freezer hooked to the fridge LOL

Wolc….I’m praying for you pal. You have been wayyyy to quiet for me this year!!! My wife and I tagged out early November on my new property in NZ in 6k…nephew tagged out on this bruiser on my southern lease. We sat last Sunday with a camera…18 doe and 3 small racked bucks fed in our plots all afternoon. We have a nice group of 2 1/2 yr old 8s we are excited to see make it as well. Next year should be interesting.

Basically nothing but subtle personal attacks, you bring zero to this site, hit the road Jack!!!!

Well he's no 11 point but he'll eat nice. Thought he was a doe. Blessed to have some more venison to share with the kids. Sent from my moto g power using Tapatalk

No, but I have passed up killing a small bucks and does because there’s just as much work involved with little bucks and does as there is with a trophy buck. I hunt for mature bucks first because I can always get meat later.

I think it’s a plain brown deer that jumped into a bunch of fresh powdery snow during last weeks blizzard. Show me a picture of it on some green grass and I’ll believe it’s really a white deer. Notice how the part above the snow line (between the antlers) is normal colored.

Touched off a few handloads with the 44 mag revolver the other day making sure she is hitting where I aim. Got to thinking about the father of the 44 Mag Elmer Keith. I used to subscribe to Guns and Ammo and read his column every month, also have two of his books which for me were entertaining as Hell. The ultimate big bore fan old Elmer's idea of a Deer rifle was a 458 win mag. Gone but not forgotten. Al

This photo was taken about 75 years ago and put into a backlit wooden frame and hung behind a bar in an upstate pub. It resides in my home now.