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Here is my first buck with the bow!! He came in around 5:30 with another smaller buck down a heavily traveled path towards my stand. The smaller buck split off from the larger buck and started heading towards my 9:00 which is directly downwind of me. The larger buck kept heading down the trail, stopped at a scrape with a licking branch, took a piss down his back legs and then started heading towards my 12:00. As this was happening I notice the smaller buck now directly downwind of me is putting his nose in the air and staring in my direction. The larger buck begins to turn and present me with a quartering shot and what is going through my head is "I better take this shot now before the little buck figures me out and blows"!!! So I drew back and launched an arrow..... He jumped and ran ten yards... then took 7 or 8 slow steps and then went out of view disappearing under the canopy of branches. Now I am texting my buddies how I screwed up and missed a nice buck and I'm not worthy of sitting in this stand, etc. So 30 minutes go by and I decide that I at least want to go find my arrow and broad-head. So now I'm on the ground looking around and I notice blood on the ground!!!!! As I am having this epiphany I notice the buck laying under a tree about 25 yards away looking at me!! So I grab my bow and the only shot I had was through his neck so I took it and ended it for him. Turns out my first shot went through his one lung and then passed through his gut on the opposite side. I know I should have just left the woods when I saw him down and waited it out but I couldn't contain my excitement so I took the follow up shot. Can't wait till November 16th.

9 pt shot in Westchester came in about 4pm following a doe stopped to eat acorns from an oak tree then followed a trail directly under my stand. Presented me with a 15 yd shot quartering towards me.

Please keep the posts to the guidelines of the thread. This is for YOUR harvests, not posts from other sites.

October Lull is a myth.

Fished the Schoharie Creek yesterday: Took 56 minutes to string my limit of FAT smallmouths, 15" - 17"...All caught on live bait: crabs and hellgramites. Caught 13 bass in all on probably my last day of fishing for the year.

This came to me last night. During this last weekend, Sunday, a 15 year old youth was lucky enough to put his tag on the buck of a lifetime. This weekend was his first time hunting deer. 13 scorable points, going to gross in the mid 160's. Bases just shy of 8". Deer was aged at 5-1/2. Taken at 20 yards How do you top that in a hunting career.

Okie dokie was just looking for some insight. Didnt want to get lashed for my lack of knowledge

Nice! Did you use a tree limb,horse tail hair for fishing line and a wooden carved hook? Or did you use one of those technically advanced things called a fishing pole, reel and even maybe some flourocarbon fishing line? There had to be some young guys around there using those things.

This is a list of what will be available on Nov. 1st. http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/6399.html

It's amazing how a thread that started out as a reminder turned into battleground for a few. This thread should have celebrated the fact that the youth hunters in NY could have posted their stories of in the field. Their successes and their experiences in the deer woods. As a bowhunter and gun hunter I can honestly say that I am disgusted with the exploits of some members on here. Now we've even resorted to name calling...makes you wonder who the real "youth" are!!

Here is another nice one taken in Livingston county by Andrew Stanley! https://www.facebook.com/NYHuntClub

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I was reading a book when at 5pm I thought I heard a grunt...there had been nothing but squirrels and that stinking wood chuck....ha the gun comes out tomorrow,,,,...I glassed the woods and there was a large doe and fawn...all spooked up...they exited stage lft...when I saw legs moving 140 yrds out...in files some fawn but absolutely huge doe with some yearling doe....Great they will be headed this way ...the fawn already were headed for the big oak behind the blind....when on the scene charges a rowdy 6pt...and he manages to chase all the older doe out of the area...then proceeds to feed...well this doe wasn't look too big to me until she had another doe and fawn walk by...the 6pt was headed our way and she kept a weary on on him...at 20 yrds she finally turned broad side and I let the arrow fly...it hit her and she nearly tipped over and then reared up and flipped over on to the arrow...it had hit her opposite shoulder...she never left that spot until I picked her up with the tractor.... But alas she then promptly sought her revenge...besides breaking the arrow....when returning with the tractor there were to good sized fawn standing over her ....geezzz....thankfully she had no milk so they will be fine and have each other....I glanced back as I drove away with her in the bucket...the two just stood on the edge of some sorghum watching us leave ...Oh well it won't taint the taste!

8 yards shot ran 20 yards and dropped. Simmons Tree Shark and an arrow that weighs 630 grain did the job.

Three local Steuben County bruisers...several years of history with these deer...all 3 are 5.5 - 6.5 years old. 2013: 2012: A friend of mine has been watching these two for the past 3 years... 2013: 2013: 2012:

every year it's the same thing with you people, anyone who gets in another person stand without permission is a scumbag, who don't deserve to be called a hunter by your logic, while your out hunting public land I should be able to jump in your car and hang out, listen to the radio? it's on a public highway right, you want your car left alone, by your own road

Biology shows that deer daytime movements as a trend increase throughout the given hunting season (our context of Oct 1 through the rut period). Their Core expands, too. People who believe in the myth can't seem to remember changing food sources and hunting pressure impacts deer. They're still hunting the stands they hunted first and applied pressure and then don't see deer and attribute it to some imaginary reduction in daytime activity.

I have come Across a few here n there. I never hunt them them nor do I touch them. It belongs to Someone else and I respect other people's belongings... Besides I also have a mental block on it lol I don't know what type of hunter they are, if they descent, of they move around alot and the deer avoid that spot or area due to it, so I just keep it moving. Besides someone else spent the time to hang it and scout that area.

No, I personally am not going to sit in another hunters stand. It may be state land, free for all to use, but I know that hunter scouted and worked hard to put the stand up. I'm respecting that. I'll turn away and keep looking for another spot.

It's Early forcing use back to the stone age.

I wish I started hunting at an earlier age. I would have loved having a mentor. Just never had a hunting family or anything to get me started. My first season was when I was 18 (20 now) and I fell in love with it since that opening day. Glad to see people out there who like to help teach the sport and pass on their knowledge. I know personally it was so hard starting out because I had no one, I was in the field googling how to field dress a deer. You guys should understand how valuable you are to the youth. Great job!

I ve found that over the 30 years that I ve hunted with the gun and bow nothing was more rewarding than watching others new to the sport fall in love with what hunters like us experience.i ve always believed that the more people involved in hunting only makes it better.and it truly disappoints me when I read or hear hunters preaching about how their way is the right way.....how ever they try to justify their reasoning it always comes out totally self serving.and it goes against how hunting was passed along to us and how we need to pass it on to the next crew coming to camp.kids hunting,crossbows,sat openers,...all ways to help get more people hunting.all good things,and shame on the jerks who say otherwise.

I try to call them in whenever I find one but they keep hanging up on me.. I'll probably just turn myself in this year. Probably deserve to be punished for all the roadkill and shed antlers I've rescued... I mean stolen from the environment.

Well after three days up in our Catskills camp seeing nothing but birds and squirrels we packed up Monday afternoon and headed back home. By the time we got back it was 3 p.m. I decided to jump right back in the jeep and head to my bow hunting spot in Rockland county (NY). I was settled in the stand by 4:30 and I'm glad I did. Right as the sun was setting, I had a few fawns and a young buck feeding below my stand. A nice mature doe came out and I began that slow, calculated process of getting the bow ready to draw. Just as I was about to draw I saw another deer coming down the trail. A buck! He hit the Y in the trail and thankfully he picked to go to the left. He came right under my stand. He paused and I let the arrow go, heart and lung shot, I heard him crash and sat shaking in my tree stand for a good 15 minutes or so. Only my second buck ever, I was absolutely thrilled to put a good shot on him and recover him. 100 grain Spitfire Maxx broadheads, Mission Venture bow.

User called tech support about their printer not working. I sent one of my guys and he discovered this to be the problem. Apparently you can't print on a ketchup packet.

I think you guys are a little early to be sitting all day. Sure someone will have success sitting all day, but with all this mast this year the deer don't have to travel far for food. I would be on acorns in the woods for solid AM and PM sits.

Lotion and a tissue please

I stuck this 8pt last night at 5:45 pm. All night long there was a light misting rain and it had the deer moving! I had a doe and fawn came in really early. It was the smallest fawn that I have ever seen this time of the year. Covered in spots and couldn't have weighed more than 40lbs. Shortly after I had a total of 6 does work their way in. They all made it within 20yds but I had no intentions of taking a doe yet so I let them all walk. The rain stopped, the sun went down and here he comes!! A nice 8pt worked his way down the lane a presented a 10yd broadside shot to me! Yeah I love it when a plan comes togther!

coyote followed a fawn past me.....not anymore Sent from my MB886 using Forum Fiend v1.0.1.

hello my name is jerry I live in suffolk county ny and I have been hunting for about 4o years in the sullivan county area. I have been hunting out of my cabin in monticello since 1999 with pretty good luck, my land has a load of deer on it so I am pretty selective on what I take, Im not crazy about venison so I only take bucks. I presently hunt by myself but maybe I will meet a future hunting partner on this site who knows It seems like there are some real sharpies here, we can always stand to learn another trick or two looking forward to meeting everyone.

I had over 1200 pictures in this spot. When i put camera there there were no leaves on ground. Tons of acorns, I changed camera to my covert. Still not the big bucks during day on camera but that is ok since the does are

This was sent to me today... "Hello, My Name is Tom Schultz Jr. I was excited to be with 15yr old Colton Brewslawki and Mentor him 10/12/2013 on his first youth deer hunt as he took a incredible 9 point buck that scored 131 1/8 “ on my In-laws Farm in Wayne County, NY i...n the town of Walworth. Could not think of a better young man to harvest such a great buck. I was honored that his Mom, Jen and Dad, Mark allowed me to give Colt this Experience of a lifetime everyone was high fives and smiles that day and I’m looking forward to the day I can share the same experience with my two sons." More youth hunt deer here... http://www.nyantler-outdoors.com/2013-youth-hunt.html

That's the problem is personal observation on all fronts, mine included. We're biased to what we experience. Two hunters 100 yds apart...one with chasing like crazy and the other with nothing. Funny how the unlucky hunter thinks the rut isn't going strong whereas the other thinks it's peak chasing.

I've had four brothers in law, and I only have ONE sister ! Actually, three of them are nice guys...The other one is a lawyer...

nope

Nice! My 7j and 7f... Gotta love it. Now I just need to be able to get a doe within 35 yards.

60 year old hooks? I'll have to see it to believe it. I also don't believe in 60 year old monofilament still working either. Nice try. X-Calibur Lighting Systems http://facebook.com/XCaliburLightingSystems

When clicking on a picture it is not opening its own little window that it has. Not even from my cell phone and it worked last night

I wear my contacts ALL the time while hunting. I forgot one time, and learned my lesson! The biggest problem have with wearing my glasses hunting is because of them fogging up. I hit a doe a couple years ago and she ran into a nasty thicket. I started tracking and my glasses fogged up terribly!! The blood trail wasn't great anyway and the glasses were so fogged up, I couldn't see anything! Had to take my glasses off and had one hell of a time tracking! Hands and knees!! NOT FUN!! Then, I got so deep into the thicket, without my glasses I couldn't see tall landmarks in the distance either, so I had a hard time finding my way back out! Lesson learned!!

I don't know how common this is but just fyi; my wife used to wear contacts before her lasix surgery and almost lost sight in one of her eyes. She was using those extended wear ones that you leave in for 30 days or something and she got a detached retina somehow due to leaving them in. I don't recall the specifics but probably worth asking your optometrist about if you're considering them.

I think the .308 is the absolute perfect round for a kid and even an older hunter starting out. Honestly they will never need another gun for deer hunting. Some will argue that the 7mm-08 kicks less and would be better for the young shooter, but I don't think there is too much of a difference in recoil between the two and you will have way more ammo choices available for the .308, and it will cost less too, since it's more popular than the 7mm-08. For me it's an easy choice with the .308 if you are buying a new gun. If I had an extra rifle in .270, or .30-06 to give the kid, I surely wouldn't buy something new in a lighter caliber just to spare him a few foot/lbs in recoil.

Yeah, the .243 will kick less, but it will deliver less of a punch on deer too. In my opinion the .243 is on the bottom of the list of where adequate deer cartridges start (and YES this means that the .223 is even worse. LOL). Yes, the .243 will kill deer, any cartridge will for that matter, but I see it being more of a cartridge for the experienced gunner who can hit his mark with certainty, and NOT for an inexperienced shooter like most kids are. I rather have the kid kicked a little by recoil and at the same time have a cartridge with a bit more punch down range.

My sons first bow kill and first buck ever. Opening day 2013 Sent from my SCH-S720C using Tapatalk 2

I know he's not too big, but it's my first deer with a bow. Taken in 7s 10/1/13 at 0725 am.

this is going to take longer to type than the actual hunt lasted. hunted the first day morning and evening with plenty of sightings but none of the decent bucks showed up. second day I skipped the morning hunt because of bad winds for all my morning stands and having some work i needed to get done. the evening hunt I had 2 of the decent bucks at 20 yards all out battling for 15 minutes and no shot at either of them. last thursday am i went in to move that particular stand up another 10 feet, it was at 20 feet and just seemed to be too low for my liking. seeing as we were leaving for pa that afternoon I figured get in move the stand up, spray it all down and get out of there and be gone for a few days. wanted to hunt last evening but we didn't get back in time. this morning with the impending rains I didn't dare hunt and the wind again was iffy for my morning spots. as the day wore on and the rains moved out and the temps dropped to 50 and the winds picked up from the west south west it was game on.... but there seemed to be a persistant little disturbance to the west and I was watching it on the radar and finally I decided that it was going to move out over the lake and be good to go with no rain. My concern over the rain made me later than I wanted to be to get to the stand I moved but I figured if I hustled I would be ok. I have been watching this buck for 3 months from long range almost on a daily basis in the evenings and any mornings I didn't have to work. i parked the truck at 4:45 changed clothes and sprayed down with scent shield. I litterally jogged the 300 yards to my stand. hooked up the harness and bow and up the tree. I pulled the bow up knocked an arrow and hung the bow on the hanger and then hung my fanny pack on the tree. I turn around and start to zip my jacket when I look up and see him coming towards me! I pik up the bow and he is now just about under me and he walks behind me as I ease to full draw he stops at 7 yards broadside he raises his head and tests the wind. It was too late the green pin was burning a hole through the top of his right shoulder, almost like a laser guide for the wasp tipped xx78. at the shot he lunged forward and sprinted 35 yards before I heard him crash... I was in disbelief on what had just transpired, I was not in the stand 3 minutes before I shot him... I knew it wsa going to be close on time but I didn't realise it was going to be that close. im done till I head back to pa to hunt there.

I get to hunt in Brockport this year again, This is what is hanging around. He just hasn't been seen in daylight for like a week now

This place is LOADED with newbies. They are showered with all kinds of horse manure from these horrid shows on the Outdoor Channel, Sportsman's Channel etc. With all the crap they see, how can you blame them? Hopefully they are here to learn a few things.

Proud Daughter sitting with Dad for the first time. Looks like we have a future hunter on our hands.

Can't wait !! Anyone hunting Long Island?