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Great Job! You should make up a couple of them and practice with them and then see if you could get a deer with one (any deer). I often thought it would be a great accomplishment to build a longbow and an arrow or two and take a deer with that kind of self-made archery equipment. Imagine how it would feel to take any deer with homemade archery equipment. I think I would be tempted to have even a doe mounted with the home-made bow and arrow hanging directly underneath.

Shooting with a 775 gr and a 100 gr broadhead

Yeah , I also recall parked cars all over the hunting areas and seeing so many Red and Red&Black plaid hunting coats in the woods . Also the 5 shot barrage noise from the shotguns . You could pretty much tell which way a deer was running from the sound of the shots . Seeing hunter's vehicles parked near hunting areas is far and few between . No idea how the DEC gets a count . Maybe they use A.I. .

The auctions are the best place to find hard to get fowl, if one is just looking to get some hatching eggs from fairly common birds I would say Craigslist can be a good source. There are some good deals to be found there and if the seller is local that is an advantage as you can pick them up yourself foregoing the rough postal service handling, your hatch percentage will rise significantly. Al

I can relate

Great job Al. Very cool! I always wanted to do something similar.

.60 caliber and very accurate. Should workout. I do have something else for those late season meat deer though. Good luck fellows!!!!! Robby

When it comes to hunting conditions you always have to deal with the hand you are dealt. Personally I can not walk through the woods in dry crunchy conditions silently, so I am traveling shorter distances and doing more and longer sits scanning with my binoculars. I aways have my Hot Seat clipped to my belt and can make a comfortable sit just about anywhere before I pick up and move on. So yes I basically still hunt all of the time but modify my technique some according to the conditions. Going into the wind in drizzly wet conditions have been the best for me moving undetected and not getting busted. Another tip I picked up recently was to have a diaphragm Turkey call in your mouth while still hunting in nosier conditions, if you make a misstep and make a loud crunch let out a couple of soft yelps, may put any Deer within earshot back at ease. Just started using that one and do not have a concrete opinion but it was given by an old time expert still hunter who took a lot of Deer and to me it sounds good in principle. Al

The best thing about back in the day was hunting huge pieces of property that someone owned from Manhattan and never even cared about who was on it. Zero posted signs. We had a lady down the street that owned 60 acres and had no idea how big 60 acres was. She thought it was the size of her lawn which was only an acre. Now every piece of land is accountant-ed for and someone is watching at all times... I was completely legal on the property lines a few years ago and other property owner was showing me the boundaries on his cell phone...

If you ever had your hair parted by a shotgun slug, as I have, then you might feel safer up off the ground. Having felt the pressure wave of that slug against my face, before I heard the gun shot, was a feeling I will never forget. I “hit the dirt”, after that first shot. The next (4) landed close by, some spraying dirt against my face. The only place where I am comfortable now, hunting deer from the ground, is up in the mountains where there are seldom other hunters within miles of my location. The steep terrain also minimizes overspray. The two locations, where I hunt in WNY, are both flat as a pancake. I very rarely hunt from the ground in either of those spots. My pop-up ground blind was destroyed in a wind storm this year, and I was thankful to see it go. I am also not overly fond of heights, so I am most comfortable hunting from stands that are only 4 to 10 feet high. That’s high enough to get my own vitals out of the crossfire, yet low enough to minimize injuries from a fall. I never wear a safety harness, but I do have rails around all but one of my stands. When hunting from flatlands, I also appreciate the fact that getting up off the ground puts my own shots into the ground. I’d rather take someone else’s shot than hit someone by mistake. I hunt shotgun-only areas of WNY that are densely populated with people. I like to be able to fire at deer that approach from any direction, without concern of striking an unintended target. Getting up above the ground helps a lot with that. The folks who say “what about ricochets” in such situations are overly paranoid and/or clueless. This is one of my favorite and most comfortably stands. I made it with a 4 ft square vinyl deck, 8 ft above the ground level, with 3 ft high, weathered barnwood walls around 3 sides. The entry opening is on the back side, which is lag bolted to a tree. The front faces the prevailing wind direction, and is supported by (2) pt landscape timber’s. There is a super-comfortable padded, swivel base office chair on the center of the platform. I paid $ 8 for that, at a barn sale, and $ 5 each for the front timber’s at Home Depot. All the other materials of that stand were “free”, and it took me about (3) hours to build. If I bring along my tree umbrella, I can hunt it in any weather conditions. I put it up last year, and killed (2) bucks from it then. It has produced one for me so far this year, and I still might score another from it, before the holiday ML ends on January 1.