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He looks like he will be a tank !

Some photos taken off my trail cameras October - December 2024

I would think twice about being around that house in the middle of the night with my pants pulled down!

The killing scene in this guy's video reminds me of a kill I made on one of my better Bucks. The gang I hunted with back in the seventies and eighties hunted a huge farm on big hills outside of Norwich NY called King's Settlement. I had an escape route spot where I built a brush blind a couple of weeks before season about 3/4s of the way up on one of those hills and I was in it on a cold opening day before daylight. I hoped as the orange army made their way up the hill someone would push something past me. I heard a noise just as it was getting daylight and could make out a really nice buck moving away from me through a scrub apple orchard, he was too far away and there was too much brush in the way for a clean shot so I just watches him disappear, the best I could hope for is he would run into some other hunted and maybe comeback through. The rest of the morning was uneventful and around noon I headed back down to the vehicles and meet up with some of the guys to warm up and get something to eat. So while we were going over the morning's events one of the guys spotted a nice buck way up the hill standing in some high goldenrod only a couple of hundred yards from my blind. I grabbed my gun and started to haul ass back up the hill jogging up a farm dirt road, just maybe I might get a crack at that guy. The farm road was in a gully with high banks on both sides and as I got in that buck's vicinity I hear some shots from the buck's direction. I stopped and listened and all of a sudden here comes the big Buck running full tilt right at me over and down the bank. I was ready and when he saw me, he turned and I let him have one broadside, he went down on his haunches, and I gave him two more killing him, that was the last time I fired more that one shot at a Deer. Everything happened in just a few seconds, and I did not have any time to think. I was using an Ithaca model 51 Deerslayer 3 shot semi auto, probably the most accurate slug gun I ever owned. I gave that shotgun to my youngest son and a few years later he killed a nice buck with it just a short distance from the one killed above. Ahh, the good old days!! Al

Saw three doe this am. Headed to pa camp. Told my dad to hunt where I hunted this weekend. Tons of tracks and sign from early Nov.

We have seen this before. Little or no blood for hundreds of yards. Non vital hit, they can go a long ways without bedding down. So many today give up so easily, on blood trails, especially with no antlers involved. It's great to see someone so in depth in recovery efforts. A lesson here, for all of us to learn by. That was a big doe. Do you think that was the triplets mother?