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Just took a big doe with muzzle loader. Three came in and only two left. : ) Picture is from my stand.

It's no longer a joke. It has become a threat. We need to be aware of where this is going and understand the goal. It's all about power and control. These are leftist, progressive, Marxist, totalitarian tactics.

Put the hammer down on this doe this evening. CVA Wolf does again

This was done with public funds at a public building and was promoting discrimination. I'm sure some laws were broken by this racist Mayor.

An xtp bullet, driven by 100 gr of T7, dont do too much meat damage in that area either: Nor does a relatively slow moving shotgun slug, wether it be a full diameter foster type or a sabot. The little screamin center fire rifle bullets are far better thru the lungs of a deer though, as far as the meat damage goes.

7m. Around 36 degrees, slightly overcast with some patches of blue, slight breeze, and wet snow covered ground. Very pretty but this far no deer. Quite a few shots off in the distance.

In Africa, the concern is to anchor the animal immediatly...(not so much on plains game...impala, Kudu, warthog, etc)., no one wants to have to change a big potentially dangerouns animal into scrub. It is the same philosophy from what I read on big bears, and i definitely have witnessed the same on moose. Whitetail...I really hate to waste any meat, especially by choosing a shoulder shot where very likely I will greatly damage both shoulders. The heart lung shot is a relatively big target, and little lost (but I tend to want to shoot high, we like the heart pickled.) I must admit though, with black powder (I shoot patched round ball) a shoulder shot I prefer. with the durn smoke cloud, it is often difficult to tell where the deer headed or to pick up a blood trail. And very nicely, the round ball leaves much less meat damage to the area....just a nice round hole.

I think the best meat on a deer is the back strap's, so no high shoulder shots for me, even on one of those saber toothed deer ! I strive for the heart/ lung area and no meat damage. SJC

I was in Walmart today 150 grain 30-30 Winchester PP was 20.00 a box of 20 That seems lower than I have seen.. another ? If I’m im Maine on vacation, can I buy ammo ?

Only if someone is dumb enough to Advertise the Transfer ! Just sayin !

Overcast, light Southeast breeze at 39 degrees. Great morning sit, but not looking for meat.

Just for the heck of it, figure out what the NY state sales tax would be, on the ammo you buy in Maine. When you get home, place that amount in cash in an envelope, mail it to gov Hochul, along with a note saying that you felt bad about spending your money out of state and you wanted to make sure that at least the state got their cut, even though the NY state business owners and their employees did not. Maybe that will help her see the error in her ways.

Deer live in a variety of environments including some that live in very close proximity to humans. Their behavior and reactions to human interaction are going to vary. Yes, I agree, a big woods buck is going to react differently to a bad human experience when compared to a suburban deer. But it'd be a stretch for me to say that a big woods deer is going to now be more freaked out and spooked, now more elusive in some way, now a mental basket case that's somehow now unhuntable, after one bad human encounter. If that were the case deer trackers in the northern states would never be successful.

I suppose they may have. That was the last time that I hunted that spot. My in-laws used to rent that cabin every year, but they bought their current place (right on the edge of the ADK park), the following year. I had hunted that old spot about 10 years and that was the only deer that I ever got there. The way the rental weekends worked out, about half of those hunts were opening weekend of early ML and the other half were opening weekend of gun. I never saw a buck while hunting there, but I did see a pair of 6-pointers run across, between the lake one cabin, on one weekend in late September. I also had another close encounter with a big doe, during gun season, on the other side of the lake. A connected river looped around the back over on that side and I would take the rowboat over, and hike up the ridge over there. No doe permits are given out up there, so I could only watch her. Some day, I hope to get back to that spot. It’s all pretty heavily posted, but my father in law is still good friends with owner of that cabin that we used to rent, so I could probably get permission to hunt it if I tried. They don’t hunt it at all. They only fish up there. After I retire, in about (7) years, I’d like to move up to that general area. There’s enough ag around up there, so that the deer taste just as good as the ones from back here in WNY do. The scenery is many times better up there though, and there’s a lot less people around.

I have the sniper 370 from CP, no issues from it so far.