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A short compilation of trail cam videos taken the past few years in Rensselaerville, Albany County NY Link:

This guy only shows up when it's dark .

A compilation from the past few years from trial cam videos taken in Rensselaerville NY Link to video Thanks!

Fred Bear

Certainly not all 5 acres are created equal, but having your own piece of land tends to mean you really know it, and spend a lot more time out hunting . I have a modest 10 acre chunk with a little cabin, but having a warm place to spend the night and not having to drive to it arriving tired means I am spending a lot more time quality hunting then ever before.

It’s a Ruger 10/22 carbine with a 4x Simmons .22 mag scope. I just missed a grey with it at about 50 yards over at my parents place. I aimed a little low and I guess maybe a I shouldn’t have. Hopefully, another one will come out a little closer before I got to go. Most likely, just deer will come out again. I seen quite a few of their tracks on my walk back and my parents have been seeing them come out in the turnip and clover plots again. It’s amazing how they seem to always know when the coast is clear and hunting season is over. I’m in the upper deck of my truck cap blind. I hunted the lower part one time during last deer season, on a rainy day, but have not hunted it here up on the ladder rack, until today. The bearings are froze or seized up on the swivel chair. Looks like I’ll need to replace or rework that during the off-season . I usually leave the chairs up until squirrel season closes. I’ve never taken a deer from the lower, enclosed part of this two story truck cap blind, but I did take what might have been my largest ever body buck from up top about 6 years ago. That was the year that I put a 3 ft barnwood wall around the upper deck.

This kind of stuff is the reason so many people hoard ammo and ammo components. I used to get irritated at people hoarding this stuff, but now I am beginning to understand why they do it.

Exactly. And regardless what prey you are after we all get to enjoy the same nature. It’s just the goals that are different.

I enjoy hunting to be out in nature. Enjoying what you do is what counts in life. Right?

That being the case, you are both a trophy hunter and a meat hunter. Die hard trophy hunters don't shoot anything but trophy bucks. Many don't even eat the venison.

I try not to worry too much about why other people hunt. I am just happy that they do hunt. If trophies are your thing that is between you and yourself and not really anyone else's business. If you simply want to hunt regardless of size, that too is just your own business and nobody else's. At my age, I have stopped worrying about impressing anyone but myself. I am pretty happy that I can still climb that damned killer hill behind the house and live to tell about it.....lol. The first legal deer that comes along that is not a fawn is in big trouble. i guess that is what my version of a trophy has become. I hope there is no one here that thinks less of me for that.