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NH deer season ends today with only an Archery buck tag left I decided to do some tracking in the snow yesterday was following the only fresh track I could find & looking like a doe I decided to follow it when I started noticing coyote tracks also very fresh following the set of deer tracks. Then another after about a mile hike there were 4-5 coyote tracks following the deer I came to a crest of a hill with a stream at the bottom. There I saw both sides of the stream bank littered with blood. When I got to the stream a head pops up & it is a doe she has what looked like a softball sized hole in her face. I thought she had been shot with a rifle (rifle season ended Dec.7th) further inspection her hide was peeled off her face she stood up very wobbly & shaking bad. I then noticed they also had gotten to her rear end a little. this poor deer was very weak & most likely in shock as for over an hour she stood ten feet from me never taking her eyes off me & never moved a step. I knew she wouldn't survive & wanted to put her out of her misery but I had already used my doe tag this year made phone calls unsuccessfully to fish & game multiple hunters my problem was my phone was dying & really was not sure of my exact location to tell someone where I was. I finally got a hold of a hunting buddy who still had a doe tag & was willing to come put her down luckily we have a map locator app on our phones & he came right to me I honestly don't think I was more then a couple minutes behind the attack & think the yotes heard me breaking through the snow. This is the first time I have ever come across something like this in the woods. It bothered me really bad to see her suffer & I wish I just arrowed her but sucks I couldn't legally. I am still thinking if I couldn't have reached someone I would have had to put her down myself & leave her to the yotes to finish I know this happens It is nature but it really proved that hunting is a hell of a lot more humane then nature she was legally tagged check in & weighed 114 dressed

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said it before and i'll say it again and I don't care if I get flamed for it. Putting any animal out of its suffering is the right thing to do regardless of the law.

Hell, I will post it every month from now on.

This is from a cam of one of my hunting buddy's , it's not really a six as it has a small 7 pt. It was later taken in bow last year , not far from me...

Picture doesn't do him justice . He is a big 1 1/2 year old north country deer.. 135#s all day.. the bucks don't have to go far here in farm country to find good feed and all the does they can chase with very little competition.. the buck to doe ratio is terrible.. And now I joined in ....Lol.... It is fun to shoot deer regardless, though....[emoji3]

Buddy just took this in 7s

The list is published for a deterrent. Think it works?

Is it just me who thought I'd see a Z28 Camaro??? Lol!

I just finished this tonight. I do mine own that way they are personable. the other pic is of the ones I have done for myself. the one in the middle is the one I got this bow season

I got to stand at 3:30...3:45 she had a G5 go thru her at 20 yards..ran 40 and dropped ...Talk about last min.....

3:45 big ole doe doe 40 yrd run and drop....

I had one steal my gun and my hat once. Thankfully I got pictures of the little thief in the act and alerted authorities who hauled this career criminal away where she could serve her sentence behind a fence where she belongs!

scenes like this is why I love deer hunting. I've seen some wild stuff even in my short hunting career.

the difference being that one list committed crimes.

5 hours in stand so far. Only saw a set of legs off aways. Still have thermos of coffee so hunting til dusk it is. Should have brought food. Think pizza delivery dude will follow my footprints, cross the creek for a 20 spot ?!

Why?

Its a link to a news website. Are you on the list or something???

Thanks Elmo, Good point. I found an interesting open letter to Obama from Australian Nick Adams, http://nickadamsinamerica.com/about-nick/ Dear Mr. President, You recently hailed “Australian gun laws”. In doing so: you praised a government for forcefully removing all semi-automatic firearms from its populace, you admired the banning and confiscation of guns. We expect to hear that from a European leader. But not you. You’re the leader of America: the world’s first free country, the nation that has inspired many to be free, that has protected the freedom of others, that has spread more freedom than any other. I am an Australian and I must set the record straight. The “success” of the 1996 Australian gun reform is a myth. The only thing achieved was to take away the guns of the law-abiding, leaving only the criminals armed. Is this what you wish for America? In Australia, if a citizen has firearms, the police have a right to search their property without a warrant any time. Does that sound like America? The laws you praise outlawed the Daisy Red Ryder BB Gun that my father played with as a child. Now you need a special permit, gun safe and serial number. For what? There are just as many guns on the street today. Gun crime is no lower. In Australia, mass shootings have been a rare event. If strict gun laws mean no massacres, explain Britain’s Cumbria shootings, Monkseaton and Dunblane. Or Anders Breivik of Norway? Gun laws achieve very little. Mass shootings are about illness, not guns. Any other so-called “gun issue”, if there are any, is related to the breakdown of the family, cultural decline and the age of entitlement. The Second Amendment defines American exceptionalism. It speaks to the character of America, and reflects why America is America. Civilian disarmament is based on the assumption that people are irresponsible (unless they work for the government). America was founded on the opposite premise. Don’t make America a namby-pamby society. The right to bear arms is not wrong nor unnecessary. It is: the greatest test of genuine freedom, the best protection of you, your family and your property, the ultimate deterrent against government overreach. The Constitutional right to bear arms is pivotal. The American idea is a value system. If you take away the guns of America, you take away America. Mr. President, your country is the one the world relies on. Right now, it is at a tipping point. Forget guns. Focus on: ending the waste, paying back the debt, limiting the government and axing political correctness. That’s how you’ll get America to boomerang. Your country is the greatest in the world, and respectfully, Sir, you should stop apologizing for it. Keep it up, and America will be just another European state. And that’s not good for anyone. Yours Sincerely, Nick Adams

Filled a tag today for a three legged doe who may have been hit by a car. One old rear bad leg held on by skin. Other rear leg freshly broken and bleeding , front shoulders "all Loosey goosey" as grow would say. Had to take her obviously, but on finding her ailments and weird crunchy belly decided to leave her in the field. No point getting tag replaced, still have more left.

I had a spike a few years ago sniffing the ground and literally jumping while doing 360s in the air, I think he smelt his first hot doe.

Agree with Cabinboy Lots of guys on this forum drive 40k pickups own hunting land and walk in the woods with $1,000 worth of gear to,kill a deer, a few hundred dollar fine and the very very low odds of getting caught once in a lifetime is not a deterrent .

Good for you ncountry! That is what it's all about IMO. Shoot what YOU want, when you want. More pics when you have time!!

$200 fine plus $75 court costs let's call it $300. I paid 6 figures it put my kids through college , my Mom pays $5,000 a month to assisted living, my Nephew is picking up hunting land for $950,000, my buddy just bought a$400,000 house on the Bay and last year bought 40 acres of hunting land cash. If they want the fines to discourage anything they need to get them in line with today's costs. That fine is less then the pocket knife I have on me.

We got him! We hunted him several days last week with no sightings. Saturday morning, I went to hunt a different property with my son, & my girlfriend hunted the stand at my uncle's. On her way out after the morning hunt, she noticed fresh tracks in the snow with an obvious drag mark, leading up into the bedding area. She called me, & we decided to go after him. The plan was that she would post at the end of the thicket, and I would ease through, trying to gently push him to her. My son went with her because it's illegal for a kid to drive, and I wanted to be as sneaky as possible. I slowly worked into the thicket, zig zagging back and forth toward her. The snow was soft, and I made very little noise. About 1/3 of the way through, I looked up to see him watching me from his bed, 20 yards from me. I cocked the hammer and killed him with a neck shot. He never got out of the bed. Walking up to him, I realized what a mess he was. I'm pretty sure it was a gunshot wound on his shoulder. I could smell his wound from 15 feet downwind, it was full of gangrene. His neck was nothing but skin and bone, His shoulders & hips were thin and his spine was sticking out. It was sad to see such an animal in that shape. When I went to pull him out, the antlers both pulled off with very little force. She said that a stressed or injured deer will lose their antlers early. It definitely wasn't any kind of hunt to be proud of, but I know we did the right thing. I'm glad he's not out there like that anymore. This was a real reminder for me of what can happen when we make a poor shot. Obviously the meat is no good, but that's not important on this one. He's definitely not a 10 point like I thought, but like I said, he was in very thick brush when I first saw him. I don't care at all about the rack anyway. Thankful my killer girlfriend was paying attention, and that our efforts paid off.

So we were up at the cabin this weekend. My friend Zach tells me he sees 2 doe and two fawns headed his way. They get to thirty yards and stop. No shot yet, one of the fawns starts playing around and is pushing the older does jumping up and down doing 360's. She sees him and runs over to him and does the same to him. Here is a guy holding a gun ready to shoot you and you play around with him. He showed me the spot he was standing and I saw all the prints from what the deer was doing. The Mom finally makes him and they take off with the little one behind. He would of never of shot the little one. He was kind of speechless when I got to him simply because he was amazed at what the deer did.

well since there are so many out there who want to take our guns, posting my name and address I feel puts my family is danger. Posting a list of dec violations and fines puts no one in danger. Huge difference there

He might do it. Have him push the thick stuff for you on the way in! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Another big fella taken the end of the NJ 6-day season - 627 lbs.

Probably the single largest reason I hunt is because I love nature. You're not in the minority. I pick up litter as I hike, I enjoy watching the critters and yes this does mean that I feel a little bit for every animal I take. What makes it easy is that I know I consume the animal. It's probably why I never got into trapping and yote hunting although I'd like to give both a try. I would even go as far as saying most of us hunt mostly because we love the woods. Why the hell else would we spend hours and hours sitting in a tree for 2 minutes of actions.

I say no to blood in the urine being a sign of estrus. Doesn't happen with my cows. Blood in urine usually indicates injury or disease.

We have one member that repels down the walls of the gorge, dressed in his loin-cloth with nothing but a hunting knife clenched in his teeth and goes where no mere mortal can go to find the huge monsters that reside there. He must have gotten some near-record buck out of there this season.

Me personally there is something that just seem so primal and natural. I love the idea of eating what I personally caught and brought to the table. It feels like what a man should be doing. I look at things today and too many things that men did as second nature are gone... like carrying a knife for daily use (not for protection), wearing a wrist watch, and being a part of the outdoors.

Just admit it Burt.., you didn't pass him, you missed another one.

This is the biggest 6 I ever saw.. Got it with the bow a couple years back... The very long brow tines are actually split main beams on both sides...

Yes, but dies that mean Larry can do the crime because he can pay the fine?

Sounds like the Liberal distribution of wealth ........ pay for those that can't afford it . Don't do the crime if you can't pay the fine !

Yes and look at like the 9th from the bottom. Illegal deer from posted property and only $500 fine. Yeah thats going to be a force to stop people.

You are correct. There was a bumper crop of apples last fall. This particular cam was set up on the Apple tree and there were apples on the ground through November. I may have accidentally grabbed a few branches and shook them a bit to accelerate the drop age...

I like the ones that have the steps across from each other and not every other step.

Saw it on AT and decided i wasn't gonna wait on this one.

For years I have had this fascination with big 6-points... not the no brow tine kind of six, but the typical 3x3 with brow tines and G2's only... if I have one dream in hunting it would be to kill one... not sure why I'm so drawn to them, maybe because they are so rare. I have two buddies that have taken a big six... but I have never even seen a live one in the woods... does anyone else have the same fascination? My buddies with their six points

I agree... and, killing coyotes to increase deer populations is kind of counterproductive to how we are trying to control an already large deer population... and barely keeping up I might add... coyote hunting serves the same purpose as deer hunting... to keep the population of coyotes in check and allow for another cagey game animal to enjoy hunting... and again, we are barely keeping up... although we do need to keep in check any predator populations, we are far from any epidemic of out of control coyote populations as far as the deer are concerned. If the coyote problem was as bad as most hunters worry about for as long as they've been crying about it... there wouldn't be a deer left in the woods to hunt... that just isn't the case.. no matter what hunters think.

Because my wife doesn't .....

How about just putting them in a brass case and press the projectile on top. Could even put the primer in the base of the case.

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Two doe tags filled! Passed many 2.5 y/o and younger bucks, still waiting for the big guy!