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My Dad took me hunting on opening day archery which was my first time hunting I think it was 1990-'91 season. We left our house on Long Island around 3:30-4:00 am and got up to where we hunt got into our hunting gear grabbed our bows and started into the woods. It was just getting light my Dad was 10 yards in front of me and there was a ravine down to our left. I thought I heard something snap behind us down in the ravine so I stopped and looked and here came a doe with a little 4 ptr on her tail and then this huge rack was behind him. They weren't running but they were walking fast almost at a trot. My Dad by this time had turned to look too and then we looked at each other with our jaws hitting the ground. I tried hitting the grunt tube to get them to stop but it seemed to make them walk even faster. So we watched that rack bobbin and weavin through the woods in awe. Just about the time we lost sight of it a couple of seconds went by and then BOOM ! My Dad and I looked at each other and said no F' ing Way ! We walked towards the shot and here's this Moron climbing out of his treestand with a rifle over his shoulder and a bow. We started for him and when he saw us he tried to hide his rifle behind a stone wall. My Dad went right to the wall and picked up his rifle. At our feet layed the biggest buck we have ever seen in the woods. My Dad and I held this guy until the Trooper came and arrested him. It took all of us to get the deer in the troopers trunk. We asked the DEC for the antlers of the buck but they had already got rid of it for study. What a deer. That guy still has a house close to where we hunt but he doesn't come up there during hunting season. What a strange way to begin my hunting experiences. We got a reward for our effort from TIPS. I also learned that poaching is wrong and potentially dangerous. We could've been shot by that idiot since we had no orange on.

You know what, that is the BEST Idea I've herd YET!

"one guy...he and his wife looked to be in their 80's had several trophy rocks in his cart...lol" So you had a chance to meet fasteddie I see. He thought those were stone tablets for writing on not bait.