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There are stupid people that drive around like this !

My brother has a great attitude towards hunting. He has his name on the biggest deer taken on my property but he never lets that get in the way of a good hunt and kill. Doe , small buck or yearling. To him it's the hunt. Opening day he has his 14 year old Grandson with him. They have this half rack 6 pt come walking down 15 yards from the stand. My brother says for him to shoot, the kids says no I want a 10 pt. My brother looks at him and says this aint TV, that is your first deer now take it. We both had to remind the kid back at the buck pole what hunting is all about. He got it but it's unfortunate what was in his mind.

This thread kind of makes one wonder how it is that any deer ever survived before trail cams, food plots, and supplemental winter feeding and careful counting and record keeping and micro management. Deer hunting is now mandated to be an agricultural project. It is not hunting anymore, it is animal husbandry. It is amazing how even back when we had a lot of very eager and active hunters, almost behind every tree, the deer herd still survived without all the assistance from our "expert" private game managers. Thank heavens we have all these "expert" people today that try to shame all hunters into all these deer management schemes. How would the herd ever survive without these people who try to tell others what deer they should shoot and which not to shoot? Of course all of this "expert" arguing and cajoling is probably a big part of the reason that hunting is slowly fading from existence as the common activity it used to be. We need all these self-proclaimed experts.......Don't we?

Exactly! Unless someone is only hunting deep in the Adirondacks they are hunting animals that lives revolve around the fruits of man’s labor. To scratch out a 50ft area in the center of the woods and toss out a little Throw and Grow being watched by a camera is far from management. Very few have the land, equipment or means to really do any kind of real management. But again just giving your deer a sanctuary on your property is a small form of management.

I had a spike staring down an 8 ptr on trail cam, always wondered which one backed off first.

I love my muzzleloaders and I love hunting with them.

Yes we are guilty of sharing some of the trail cam picts with him. I get that but he has to learn about eating a tag. I'm glad he took the deer now next year let him decide how he wants to hunt.

Also probably a prime reason why so many members left this site- the same guy constantly picking fights, throwing insults, calling names, anointing himself the superior hunter, and declaring everyone jealous of his prowess. It gets a bit tedious after a while.

Great season, I took 7 deer between PA and NY, MY son took 4, nephew 1, and my dad missed one. We helped by giving 4 deer to friends and a few families in need. Now its time to dig my ice fishing stuff out and grind some meat to make more jerky, hot and sweet sausage. We just dropped hogs off at butcher 1/4 so ill have plenty of fresh pork to mix. First time in my life every deer I shot died in sight, with the longest "track" being 40 yards. 2/4 sons in sight longest track 70 yards, nephews just out of sight 50 yard track.

The pond is frozen except a 2 ft dia of open water The goose is sitting in the water , the fox sitting on the ice … The fox really wants the goose , but every time he gets close the goose hisses at him and he backs off This went on for about an hour , then the fox gave up

Or we could just let a hunter take the deer he wants when he wants and mind our own business. I notice you like to use possesives when you speak about deer and deer herds... they do not belong to any individual. Planting food plots and setting cameras to surveille bucks was never part of any deer management program... that was a creation of the QDMA. So lets stop pretending that its deer management and call it what it is... trophy buck management. It has done nothing more than create a breed of self serving hunters who show distain for their fellow hunters that choose to hunt a different way and take a different sized legal buck. It, in know way,is related to how good of a steward of conservation one is. Some hunters may not be the magnificent hunter that you seem to think you are... they just enjoy being out in the woods hoping to get lucky enough to see and take the deer of their choice without some "Im a better hunter than you" loud mouth ruining it all for him. I promise you I could tear down everything you think you know about deer management and what you think it is all about, but I'm not the deer hunting police and you wouldn't understand it anyway. I perfer to let you hunt the way you choose as long as it's within the law and leave others to do the same.

The beach plug just unscrews on mine. The hard part was clearing the round because the ram rod is shorter than the barrel. So I unscrewed the palm saver on the ram rod, pushed the ram rod as far as I could through the barrel from the break, then pushed the ram rod with a stick to clear the bad power and round out of the muzzle, then just pulled out the ram rod and reloaded. Sent from my Pixel 4 XL using Tapatalk

Muzzleloader WNY Buck Sat in a tree for 3.5 hrs. A few doe ran up to me about 10:30. I raised up on one and, pft.... misfire. Saw three run off I put a new primer in and after a few minutes wondered if my powder got wet. It did. Pushed the bad load out with my ram rod and pushed my ram rod through with a stick from the tree I was in. Reloaded and waited till noon. Got down and walked through the wet leaves in silence with the wind in my favor. Followed a trail of fresh scat piles every 50/100 yds and as I popped my head over a hill/mound i saw him standing about 70 yds looking in my direction. I knew he couldn't smell me. I raised up quick, pulled the hammer back lined him up and squeezed. As the smoke cleared I saw two more deer run off that were with him. I reloaded quick and peered through my binos. He dropped dead right where he was standing. 100gr white hots 300gr powerbelt aerolights Remington primer Cva optima Sent from my Pixel 4 XL using Tapatalk