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Can I get a ghost writer, please? As a young boy I remember my father going duck hunting in the Alabama Swamps. On the odd occasion he'd bring some ducks home it would just freak me right out, I thought they were so cool! He also hunted pheasant and deer but the deer were a rare sight for him in the mid 60's. Another fond memory was going to my grandmothers house and messing with an old longbow that my uncle owned. I was maybe 7 or 8 years old, shooting arrows up in the air then running like hell to hide! I got my first bow for xmas in the late 60's. A lemon wood longbow that broke in half the first time I drew it back........SOB did the tears flow. Shortly after that I got a Bear recurve. I had a ball with that. In 1970 my father bought 10 acres of land in Canadice. The following year he had a modular home built and the die was cast.............we spent just about every weekend there until 1983 when, due to a divorce he decided it was time for a change in his life. Those 13 years on Lawrence Hill Rd were filled with all kinds of good time. From fishing every small pond, stream, creek or ditch for miles to spending time on Honeoye, Hemlock and of course Canadice. My buddy Steve & I had a boat stashed on the east and west side of Canadice for our uses. The best one was a 16' Lyman that his dad helped us set up. How about two sets of oar locks? We could darn near get 'er up on plane That boat was great until it was lost in a storm........ I got my Jr Archery license in 1975, the first year it was made available. I killed my first deer at 17, a button buck which was fitting! Killed my first racked buck a year or two later. a fine little 6 point. I also was doing some killing with the shotgun then too. I started hunting Pennsylvania in 1981. I've only missed one year there since then. It was in the late 80's and I don't remember why but I'd like to think it was work that caused that....In the 30+ years hunting there I'd guess I've killed 20 or more bucks with the rifle and one with the bow. I only bow hunted there 6 or 7 years though. Killed a few doe with the bow and a couple with the flintlock in PA that are very memorable. Most of my buck/rifle season hunts there were only a day and a half at the most. I've hunted Tioga primarily for deer with some flintlocking in McKean County. Killed some spring gobblers in PA also. Fond, fond memories of the ride down before opening day and the first few days of the season. I probably did that hunt from about '81 until the mid 2000's. I kind of lost a little interest........ I went on my first out of state hunt in 1982. Texas deer and turkey hunting, via a motor home and a tag along p/u. We had a blast!! The deer I killed there still hangs in my house and the pictures tell the story. We all killed a doe or two and turkey also. Then there were the jack rabbits with the spotlights and CF rifles!!! All killed from the back of a Jeep.......sometimes moving. All with the blessings of the rancher From there it was Wyoming in 1985 for deer & antelope, 1989 for caribou, multiple trips in the 90's to Colorado for elk, antelope and deer, Saskatchewan for spring bear, Alaska for spring bear and Wyoming for antelope. The 2000's had me heading to Colorado for a mule deer hunt, an elk hunt and a couple trips to Alabama for January deer hunts. Of all those hunts; only the caribou, both bear hunts and a Colorado rifle elk hunt were guided. The Alabama hunts were kind of guided too I guess, they just pointed us in a direction and said have fun........... The self guided trips were always more fun, hands down. Lots of unfilled tags but always a good time!! Here in NYS I am blessed to have more than my fair share of land to hunt from a family member and a couple very close friends. At one point close to 2,000 acres but that is shrinking a bit as time marches on. Plenty of deer, turkey and all sorts of small game has fallen to my weapon of choice over the years. I've filled deer tags here in New York with the rifle, shotgun, muzzle loader (flintlock, smokeless and original in-line) bow (recurve, longbow and compound) and even a couple with a pistol. Over all these years, dad has still hunted but nowhere near as much as me. He sparked the fire and I have burnt out of control since! He went to PA on many dove hunts with me and we hunted antelope in Wyoming also. His still gun hunts for deer but is loosing a little interest. Here is a buck from a few years ago he shot. (actually he wiped out the entire family that day; he killed a doe and a fawn and the buck all on the same drive, hence the big smile!!) That about does it for me for now. Thanks for the time..........

I started shooting bow when I was very young. I remember shooting in a Saturday morning kids league with a recurve. My Father and older Brother (arrow flinger) both were heavily into archery and bow hunting whitetails, so I wanted to be like them. I used to tag along with them into the woods before I was old enough to legally hunt. I remember many times, freezing my ass off sitting on a limb in a tree with the ol' man. Just watching him shoot deer had me hooked. I couldn't wait to do it myself. When I finally turned 14 I had shot my first deer with a bow ( half rack 8 pt). I hunted a lot for a couple years and then I found girls and hanging with my friends more interesting . At the age of 25 I found out I was going to be a Father. That slowed me down and totally changed my lifestyle for the better (Thank God!). This is when I started getting really hardcore into chasing whitetail again with my Father and Brother. In the past 12 years I feel that I've been pretty accomplished, I've killed some really good bucks with archery tackle ( really not much into gun hunting), introduced archery to my daughter ( which she loves), I prostaff for a great co.( Hudalla Associates) and recently just made the shooting staff for Bear Archery. I hope to enjoy many more years of it and can't wait until the day my Daughter get's her first kill with bow.

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If that guy from the other thread was in this video I am betting the buck would have been laying there. lol

spotted a buck this evening. Still sporting his hardware. I walked to within about 70 yards of them in a bean field.looked like five doe and a buck.

It's hard to get motivated with all this snow hanging around, but today I gave it another good try, and saw enough incentive to patiently wait out ol' man winter as bucks are still packing! That makes the snow a little easier to tolerate for now, and the big goose egg in the antler count a little easier to swallow. I wasn't seeing squat my last few hikes. No sign, no deer, no tracks, no nothin'! Today that all changed, and the woods around home look like they're infested with deer again! I saw quite a few from a distance, saw a ton of sign, and it just looks like they're hammering the winter places they're supposed to be in right now! No antlers today, but I did get a shot of this buck before he could take off with his partner! They were bedded in the pines off the cornfield as I expected. They'll be back. I'm pretty sure this is the beefy 4pt I got TC pics of this fall durring bow season. Always nice seeing a few farmiliar faces make it through season. Probably go run around the park tomorrow to see what's shakin' there since the bucks around home aren't ready for me yet! The good news is, I haven't found any more dead deer around home! Pretty sure this is him... Quick vid below of some young bucks behind my house tearing up the hickory, or chestnuts, or whatever they are! They're digging these up everywhere I go right now, so I've been combing over these spots as good as I can right now under less than ideal conditions.

I use to love taking my old 96 dodge intrepid hunting it handled great in the snow and I loved putting deer on the back of that white car lol

Holiday Valley is as good as it gets in the Northeast. Variety of trails and great lodges. Bring plenty of money if you plan on eating or drinking at the lodges...of course they drive the price way up. You can also pack a cooler and leave it in the car or stash it in a lodge near the dining areas. Helps the pocket book a little when you brown bag a lunch. If you get your ski legs under you quick enough there is a run that takes you right to Burger King! Deff. save a few bucks eating off the dollar menu. Enjoy the Day, imo there is no other better winter activity!!

I tnk AR is going to take its toll too, not on the kids raised upstate who have time to hunt but, the kids downstate that have to be driven 3 hours on weekends and have school during the week. They shoot whatever for two years on youth hunt and then its 3-points or better and no doe permits like in 3A. That and they can't put their stupid I-Phones down for 30 seconds.

True ! The next poster has plugged up their toilet in the 24 hours

In my tree...gonna sit to 12:30 take a lunch/warmup break and then back by 2:30 for the pm sit. Hopin for some NJ whitetail action! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

At our camp in the ADK's we actually have more hunters now than we ever did... most are our kids that come up to spend time with their dads .. unfortunately our kids do not have that same passion for hunting as us dads do... although our kids have a great time with us ...we know that when we are gone our kids might not have the same desire to keep the tradition going... we can't force that on them... we can only give them the best experience we know how and hope they carry on the tradition with their kids

So I got an Ultradot red dot sight and put it on my pretty new stock Ruger Mark III Hunter. Shot at standard 25 yards resting on the shooting window/box. I used CCI AR Tactical 22lr (40gr 1200fps). 10 shot group. I pulled two and anticipated one.

I have been hearing that all over the place . Sometimes they show that damn commercial 2 - 3 times on a program . If he was on the roof of my car , I would peel out and dump his butt !

These videos are so old, it's time to move on.

I'm sick of watching these Michael Bolton / Honda commercials......enough already !!

I have to agree on a couple of points: First you are absolutely right. It really is no trick to recognize the rut when you see it. Second, I really don't require any advanced notice. I'll be there when it happens. I guess that is why I never invested a whole lot of study into some of the predictive theories. Even when I was a working stiff, I was always able to set my own hours and always had a pile of vacation. Now..... what the heck. I'm out there all the time. I'm sure that I will not miss the rut ....ha-ha.

This happen back in the early 80's 3 of us were hunting ducks on a farm pond a long the Lake Ontario parkway. The duck blind was on the far side of the pond one of us shot a duck and it crashed in some trees and brush between the pond and the parkway. So it was my turn to hunt the bird down I went around to the where the bird went down and went in looking for it. As soon as I went in to the brush I could smell it that’s when I found the body of a woman. That ended the duck hunting for the day. Some one was dumping bodies along the parkway they never caught the guy. They had a suspect but he died before they prove it was him.

For those us us that go out doors a lot....You all be careful out there this coming week...it is -4 out now and going to be worse next week.......there wasn't much not frozen any where near my moist breath today...face mask.... hat and my hair...tonight my fingers froze to the latches on the dog kennel...that wasn't fun!

Fletch I think you're definitely missing some inches. Those beams are 24-28" each, and I'd say you're weak in the G2's and G3's. He's def a 150" deer.

Nice shooting but you missed the dime .......

yea I'm not leaving this is my home.

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Well, now, that was very "hurtful." All I did was ask a simple question.

My wife needed the weekend to catch up on work so I dropped my Son off at my moms in PA and I'm bow hunting either sex in NJ for the next two days. Just pulled into the Hampton inn, got two free nights from my wife's travel rewards...I'm 5 minutes from my fav public WMA, not bad temporary free hunting camp: Frigid with a good snow cover...temps are supposed to climb into the mid20's tomorrow and upper 30's Sunday. Prolly head into the woods at first light with the climber and sit a few hours before setting up a little deeper in the woods for the pm and Sunday sits. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

absolutely bigger cut provides more of a margin for error to allow you to take out the small vitals. also all that energy has to go somewhere and if you don't get a complete pass through that means it went into the bird. also the arrow sticking out both sides sometimes prohibits the bird from taking flight, if it's not anchored right there.

city/suburban folk care nothing about deer when deer start to affect them. I'm sure temporary fences or barricades would be put up at the NYS border. where it's more level and open they'd hire out excavation companies to dig trenches to keep the deer in and instead head away from the border. NYS would order a shoot on sight but keep your distance until the caracass(es) could be collected. they'd even probably have the national guard and LEOs go shooting them with their AR-15 rifles. they will blast away not realizing they're loaded up with FMJ rounds. lots of deer will suffer from being wounded. the state will then be quarantined and despite not showing any other danger it will still be illegal to take game or have venison or deer mounts in your possession. even great grandpy's buck that clearly looks old as the hills. NYS will simply say it's deer remains and it has to go. then Cuomo will say there's no way to hunt deer so you don't need guns to hunt deer as they can be used as "assault weapons". they will be banned too, but "everybody will be safe as there's no scary deer or guns to harm you. Now vote for me (Cuomo) for President."

I would guess him at 4.5 years old hard to tell without a broadside pick but he does not look real old. I keep coming up with high 130's for this deer. I cannot get 150 out of it! Awesome deer!

Because I will wait for spring rats an mink. The k9 sets are hard to keep working when a foot of snow keeps dumping on them.

I'll be honest, I'd think twice about eating deer from an area with known CWD infections in the wild herd.

The statement has been made over and over that here are no known cases of CWD tainted venison effecting humans. However that is a long way from any statement that claims that it has been proven to be harmless to humans. Yeah, I would be a little nervous about consuming venison from a know CWD zone until these safety proclamations become just a little more positive.

Same amount of bullets he fired at the range to get ready for hunting season!!!

You don't "hunt" behind a fence in NY. You go kill livestock.

IT would not suprise me if this victory as it is being called is nothing more than a political ploy. I feel the seven round rule was added so it could be given back to us. Hopeing to satiate the masses. Remember this is cuomo's doing. Just my theory.

Well this may not come as a real shocker.., but this my favorite thread too,lol I still haven't found any antlers, but I did stumble across my first antler note that's worthy of posting today. I had to go downtown Buffalo this morning and saw a really nice buck bedded along Rt 400 northbound. Nice tall heavy rack! I did an afternoon hike when I got home. Some of you guys might remember this buck I called Whopper Jr from this fall. It looked like he was still in velvet on October 11'th in this trail cam pic. All other bucks here had shed long before this point. I saw him for the first time today 12/27/13 while hiking across the road! Still got both those antlers and it almost looks like he's still in velvet. Not the best pics, but I'm pretty sure I know what I saw with my own two eyes when he took off. In the first shot you can see the fuzzy tips of his/her antlers sticking up above that limb. I'm curious to see what he/she sheds first....the antlers or the velvet... or neither.

Do you guys really feel it reflects on ALL hunters? I feel it only reflects upon the person that posted it. I agree the comment was a bit crass, and that really only reflects badly (to some) on the person that posted it.

Doesnt bother me

He's been over 150 for the past 5 years (including this years rack)!!!