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Hope everyone had a great season. Either freezer fillers or some bone on the wall. I was lucky enough to get 2 of the 3 target bucks I was after this year. I was beat by all during the bow season. Late November I started to get the Letchworth buck back on cameras and was able to close the deal on him. It was into December before I started again getting pics of the buck I had hanging around on the North farm. Finally sealing the deal with him during late muzzleloader season. Was another great season and have been getting some pics of a couple of new bucks that have been hanging around a couple weeks now Hopefully those will be 2 that I will be chasing around next year.

One of the most famous Whitetail Bucks, I had a chance to see him a couple of times and he was impressive to be sure. Al In the 1930s, Roosevelt Luckey owned a Ford dealership and garage in western New York’s Allegany County. Every year, he’d drive a Ford across the state to the Adirondacks in the northeast corner to hunt deer at a cabin owned by him and a few friends. He killed his first deer there in 1926. He would make the long drive because there were relatively few places open to hunting in New York until the late 1930s. That’s when state game managers opened a short season in Allegany County. In the fall of 1939, Roosevelt, his brother, and a few other hunting buddies gathered for a classic deer drive close to home. Late in the day, Roosevelt saw coming toward him a buck bounding in 20-foot leaps. Roosevelt set up at an opening. When the buck crossed it, he pulled the trigger on his Remington Model 11 shotgun. The buck stumbled at the slug, but it kept going. After trailing the buck, the men found it piled up. They saw its rack up close for the first time—all 14 points of it. In those days—and still today in some parts of the country—a deer’s weight is just as important, if not more important, than the size of the rack. Roosevelt’s field-dressed buck weighed 195 pounds, which makes a lot of meatloaf. But meat doesn’t stick around as long as antlers. Records suggest the Luckey buck hung in Roosevelt’s Ford dealership for years. When the garage closed, the rack made its way to Albany and became the property of the New York State Conservation Department. In May 1955, Grancel Fitz wrote to the department on behalf of the Boone and Crockett Club. Grancel wanted to measure the buck with the Club’s new scoring system, which he helped devise. After putting a tape to the antlers, the Luckey buck was declared the New York state record typical whitetail—and still is to this day, according to Big Game Records LIVE. At the time, it was also declared the biggest typical buck in the records, crowning it the World’s Record

Started out in bow missing a couple .. Got things worked out in my brain Got a avg 8 pt and two nice does

After a three year decline in game due to the severe Gypsy moth caterpillar infestation that defoliated all the mast trees things picked up in my neck of the woods. Saw a good increase in game especially Squirrels. Turkeys have bounced back and have a few Cottontail rabbits showing up. I hunt big woods and there is not a lot of Deer but enough to get some meat and fill the freezer. The Fall weather was great for the most part and I was in the timber frequently seeing enough game to keep things interesting. Now that Deer season is over I will me messing around training my young Airedale pup and plan on doing some Varmint calling so long as the snow does not get too deep. So all and all I am pretty happy on how fall hunting has gone so far.

Two in the freezer ... very thankful !

We actually shot 10 this year. The most ever. 8 bucks 2 doe. I found this season to be a weird one. Had three shooters on camera and missed the biggest twice with bow. After Oct 8th I only saw 1 other shooter in the woods. Cameras went silent also until the end of season we picked up 1 big one. Did learn a lot about the property we leased across the road and food plots paid off for sure. Will be expanding plots next year. There sure are plenty of deer out there. Combined acreage of my property and neighbors is about 1500 acres. Seriously only single digits on Doe harvest. Couple of the big pieces get hunted by 1 or 2 people usually just first week. Another piece most hunter are out of state and only stay for the first 4 days and they look for bone. I don't mind taking 10 deer between 4 families with all that going on.

Now that the big game season is over in this neck of the woods I am back at it doing my favorite thing, hunting small game and especially Squirrels, and I finally connected on an off colored Gray Squirrel. In all the years I have hunted Squirrels I have only seen a handful of blacks, they are just few and far between in these parts and never seen a chocolate-mahogany colored one like I recently took with the Benjamin P-Rod Marauder pcp pellet rifle. These days there seems to be more than a few blacks in the area and I think this chocolate colored one is probably a cross between a black and a regular gray. Anyway, I think I will get this one mounted as he is pretty unique in my eyes. Al

Another great late season in the books. Sucks to get beat by this guy during bow season but pretty awesome catching up to him with the snow camo and smoke pole. We really are blessed to be able to chase these great animals around for sure.

1 minute before sunset buzzer beater 8-pointer tonight:

Their youtube channel has well over 100000 subscribers and it is heavily watched, so I would say they are getting pretty good money just from that but they also receive donations from viewers. Al

Down the road from where I live I found what was left of a small buck in the ditch probably hit by a vehicle, looked like the local varmints worked over the carcass pretty good. Figured it might make some good varmint hunting bait so I threw what was left of the body in the back of my truck and brought it home and placed it in one of my fields to see if it would draw any action. Did not take long for these two to spot it. Al

So I'll be heading out Sunday to change Trail Cam Chips and batteries if needed to just see whats still in my woods . Looking to hopefully take one or two more (between my son and I) Deer for the freezer during the Holiday Hunt !

Today was the first day they started feeding and it did not take long to get customers.

Exactly. Much more thinking and a lot less reaction’s!

I think your mindset has to slow way down and priorities take hold. Slow and easy.

I often think of how different it was when you didn't have the safety net of being able to return to civilization if the life got too hard. There was no one to call to come save you if you got into trouble. No planes flying in provisions or carrying you to a hospital if you got sick. Much different when it is a choice and not the reality of life. Still an impressive feat if you can do it.

Now it is time to do for our own state what we did for the country. Hochul's busted in the polls. Zeldin almost turned things over last senatorial election. Never too early to start getting the right people registered and primed to vote the right way.

Trap goes in after Christmas. Has been back a few times. Nice big Coywolf.

I managed to get out of work on time, hit a few lights just right on the drive home, and make it into my tree stand in the first hedgerow behind our house, 1/2 hour before sunset on December 17, the last day of SZ regular ML season. 29 minutes later, this 8-pointer stepped out into my awp/wheat/clover plot, 120 yards away. I cranked the old Redfield on my 0mega 50 cal up to the max zoom of 7x, centered the crosshairs behind his shoulder, and squeezed off the shot. He trotted towards my pond, 90 yards away, and piled up 10 yards short of it. Stomach was full, chest taped at 39-1/2”. I’m guessing 2.6 or 3.6 yrs old. I think it’s the same buck that I missed with my crossbow in early November, when my bolt deflected off a corn stalk. I wasn’t entirely sure I missed him clean then, but there wasn’t a nick or blemish anywhere on him tonight, so I’m more certain now that I did.

Of course all my cameras had deer all over them this morning.

I still have one to process yet.

The Progressive Party has done a lot of damage to this country, over the last four years. Going to take a Hugh amount of work to get back to square one .

My buddy asked me to do a euro on his son’s deer. He wanted a piece of “driftwood” from the property they hunt. I’m pretty pleased with the results overall, although I don’t recommend working with epoxy resin on a log. Extremely difficult to mix, and apply etc. There were too many runs/drips etc, but it is what it is. Thanks for looking

Nice to see a buck this afternoon. Only trouble is, he was sporting one side. Know the buck and hope to get a crack at him next season. Haven't seen him since around Halloween. Nice to see survivors still showing up. Four fawns and a fox to call it quits till the 26th.

Saw a fawn and a coon tonight.

My cheap New York State tags got all smeared up from all the moisture.

Ever have one of those sits when you just aren’t feeling it? When you keep thinking you should have gone to one of your other stands? Or the way this wind is blowing maybe stayed indoors to watch football? lol.

A portable version of the skinner I have, this one can be taken into the woods when hunting and used to dress out Squirrels as they are taken. They skin much easier when they are freshly killed. Al