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Been a tough yr but seen her on my way in to my stand at 150 yrds and put her down

Been a very slow season but persistence finally paid off.Was on stand only 10 mins this afternoon when this 3pt walked out into my food plot.The only buck I saw all gun season.

And couldn't shoot him! I'm tagged out for buck! I was making a slow push to my buddy to try and put a doe in his freezer. All we had was a 4H DMP and a landowner antlerless tag. So I'm going through some thick stuff, just sneaking, cause I don't want to bust the deer out. Want to get them out easy to my buddy. Same area I saw a big buck during bow and even got a trail cam pic of him. We didn't see him at all during gun season. So I see a deer jump up in front of me about 30 yards and stand there looking to my right. I pull up get him in my scope and see it's a big buck! And I don't have a buck tag! He stood there for a couple minutes and walked out past my buddy and his jaw dropped too! Last hunt for us this year. Hope he lives another year!

Definitely not a successful harvest though. I've got a rack that I recovered much later. It isn't a trophy, like the rest of them. It sits in its own place, as a reminder that I need to make every possible effort to humanely & cleanly kill the deer I shoot at.

I feel for your buddy, unfortunately I think the story will always have a disappointing ending. If the guy finally gives in and gives him the rack it's only a band-aid and doesn't change the fact the deer went to waste, wasn't tagged and isn't a successful harvest. The only thing that heals this, is time and redemption, he needs to go out and shoot another. Sorry to sound harsh, I just wouldn't be overly enthused no matter what.

I dunno. If you fail to track and retrieve a shot deer, it's fair game for whoever does recover the carcass in the end. Once the blood ended on a deer like that I would have circled and circled until I was sure he wasn't close by. It sounds like a full 3 weeks passed before the carcass was discovered. I would have gone back every day for a week.

Oh damn! Sorry! DONT SHOOT! I forgot my TP, could you spare a square?Sent from my LGL16C using Tapatalk

Take a picture of them, it steals their souls. They hate that.

So after many of hours and passing multiple small bucks. I finally had the opportunity to harvest a fairly large doe today. I was having a crap day, starter went on my service van. Had an embarrassing moment when I had to rapp on it in their driveway but they were none the wiser. I went got a new starter, changed it and by the time I was done the work day was ruined. I decided to go for a long slow walk to ease the nerves and perhaps bump a deer. I never walk. Today I walked from 2-4 jumping only what I can only think was a pair as I never saw them. Was headed back through my food plot and checked my cam, nothing but coyotes. Decided on walking a trail I rarely walk out because it takes longer, I still had about 20 min of legal light. I start walking down the trail and everything starts rustling, then crashing. I stop and look around listening for the direction they are moving in. It sounded like they split but one was coming right to me. I turned down the trail, crouched down and waited. This doe popped her head out spooked and unsure. I put the scope on her shoulder and squeezed the trigger. She ran about 100 yards and died 30' behind my tree stand. I couldn't be more pleased with my harvest as it has been a tough year. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Shot this buck on November 28th at around 9:18 am at 70-75 yards. He was running along a cut hay field just inside the woods about 60-65 yards from my stand. I normally hunt with my father facing one way and me facing the other so when I heard my father snoring I turned to check his side to see if there was anything behind me. I saw nothing so I turned around, but as I turned around I saw the buck running with what looked like a limp. He was directly perpendicular from me in a shooting lane when I saw him so I gave a couple bleats to slow him down so I can get my hearing protection on and my rifle up. He was also running into an area that has a few shooting lanes but they are close together and you need to be quick to get a shot there. I had to make a second bleat to stop him from running again. Once I was all ready I had my rifle aimed at a shooting lane I knew he was going to walk through but he started to run again. I tried to stop him but he wasn't having any of it so I knew it was now or never so I shot. I've practiced shots like this so I was confident in the shot. Well as I was getting ready to shoot my father woke up and watched the shot. Well he thought I missed the deer because all he saw was the head. At the time I thought I might have missed as well because he ran at an angle to where I couldn't see him for more then a quick second. He thought we should stay in the stand because he was almost 100% sure I missed, but I felt that there was no way I could miss this shot and he did look hit and I thought I saw a glimpse of him go down. I convinced him that we should take a look just in case, so we got down about 20 min after the shot. I went to where I thought I hit him and I couldn't find any blood but I decided to take a quick walk because if he was hit, he would be down pretty close. Well after about 10 yards I look up and saw a tree that was covered in blood. Another foot and I saw the deer laying maybe 2 feet from that tree. All in all he went maybe 40 yards from the point he was shot. The shot took out the left lung and severed the heart completely. Turns out his right shoulder was dislocated and he had a healed up wound on his brisket so I'm thinking he got beat by a bigger buck. Good thing this happened early because I had 3 parties to go to so I was only able to hunt until 11 am max. I had to rush the gutting and skinning to make it home in time for my father and I to get ready. I got up at 3 and didn't make it home from those party's until 2 am. Great deer and great parties...what an amazing day! Only bad part is my parents convinced me to mount it so now I'm going to be out 500 bucks, but its worth it.

I'm done already! First nice buck I've seen all season, I'm tempted to shoot it but I paid like $80 for it, so is that cheating? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I will never, ever, welcome people to this country who's greatest wish is to participate in it's destruction.

The biggest threat to America today comes from Washington DC. The Socialists, Communists, Enviro-nazis, gun-grabbers and alternative-lifestyle folks don't mean a damn thing until they get legislation passed to 'normalize' their views. I'll keep working hard to thwart that. "Never give an inch."

What kind of doosh takes someone else's antlers and tries to claim they are his own? You Can't Beat My Meat!

Absolutely none.

I dislocated my pinkie, it was flipped sideways. When I was filling out the form at ER I put "Concert Pianist" under occupation. Highly recommend, I got some sympathetic looks!

Those long pieces along the spine are not fit for human consumption, however if you don't mind if like to have them for my dog...

That's the spirit. Who needs 10 ?!

You can hang quite a number of deer and bear with that thing.

Well I'm done at 11:30 up to 52 here done for the day have my daughters sweet 16 party today. Good luck out there.

I am kinda wild he should have been scared Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

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Heard 2 grunts and some scruffling to my right in these thicks hoping for it to come out

Still no desire by Outdoor News to factor in two bad winters: http://www.outdoornews.com/December-2015/A-weird-deer-season/

Hey , c'mon , we speak English here !

Burmjohn, your cabin is beautiful. Love the workmanship and style, great job!

Homemade pizza tonight. I was a good boy and only had 3 slices. One white garlic, one pepperoni, and one peppers, onions, and mushrooms.

I sure would like to go duck hunting with the rifle only guys.

And what a waste of space in my gun safe to only have one. I'll join the 12 gauge people

I will say this it is not deer numbers I hunted bow and saw deer almost every time I went out.... Bucks does fawns what ever.... I have trail cams out have many pics on all the cams.... Gun season has been dead have not seen much at all.... I know the deer are still here but something is keeping them from moving too much after sunrise

I'll be out there Monday with the smoke pole. All day sit in rain and winds. Still beats working. Killed 2 already with it during gun season. I post "milk" from my Iphone awhile back. Somehow it became "MILF". Hmmm, how'd my phone build that into it's memory I wonder

First of all, I want to say thank you. I'm sitting in a Quality Inn room, with my wife sleeping in one bed, and my 17 yr old sleeping in another. Luckily, my 18 yr old is still at his dorm in brockport. Little background on the dawn events: At 3 AM, I am woken up by someone frantically pounding on my door and ringing the doorbell. I open my eyes and my room is lit up like mid-day. I grab the wife, go downstairs and grab the kid, and bolt out of the house. As I leave the house, I look back and see that the garage and both vehicles are on fire. I rush my family across the street in fear of explosions. By the time I get across the street, the fire has trippled in size. The shear heat of it literally melted the siding of my neighbors house 30 yds away and the peak of my back porch had burst into flame. A teenager approaches me and I realize he is the one that rang the bell. He saw the fire from a street away, called 911 and races over to alert us. In the space of 15 minutes, the garage went from a fire that could be handled by a few extinguishers to a roaring blaze that chars all of the surrounding houses, shattering windows and melting siding. By 4am the fire was out, the garage was barely a skeleton, the car and truck are not even recognizable. It was so damn fast! If that teenager had walked by 10 minutes earlier, he wouldnt have seen it. If he were 10 minutes later, we probably would have died. (I looked for him later when I could think, and he had dissapeared. never saw him before, and never got his name) As I sit here, I am filling out my itemized loss listing. With my family finally peacefully sleeping, at 41 yrs old, I am feeling like I want to cry. I don't care how un-manly it makes me. To all you parents, you must understand what it takes to be the rock of the family. The steady presence that holds things from going over the edge of hysteria. It's a job I happily take, but it tears me apart. When I realize I was just a few minutes from losing everything, it literally has me shaking as it kicks in. I posted here because I had to get it out in a safe place, so as to keep my spirits up and to not let my family see me falter when they needed my strength. Again, I was not looking for sympathy or handouts. I didnt even have a need for people to read my post. I just needed to write it. (If that makes sense) To all those responding, and especially to those that are offering prayers and assistance, I cannot thank you enough. Even if I have no idea who you are, your support and understanding are priceless to me. I don't know what else to say. Thank you. Joshua O'Campo

Or kinda like using a condom...Not quite the same, but less complications..

The pattern seems the same, considering what I observed, what my local friends observed and what lots of members on this forum observed. VERY little deer movement during daylight hours after the first weekend. I blame it on the tremendous acorn crop plus lack of snow cover. The deer don't need to move. They bed in the thick stuff and when they get hungry all they have to do is stand up and gorge themselves on acorns. If they venture out of thier secure bedding cover to feed in fields, they do it at night.

We also need to do something about American citizens who want to destroy Rule of Law, the US Constitution and the country as we know it today.

Your funny!!

One other thing that you might want to add to your list is the possibility that the DEC has absolutely no idea how many deer are out there and are just winging it with some occasional years of offering too many antlerless permits for the size of the population. A few years of that nonsense, and sure as hell you will be hearing some unanimous negative reports and results.

It almost sounds hypocritical to say it was a shame that the deer died by a vehicle rather than being shot with an arrow or bullet . Never the less , it was a shame ! That buck should be mounted on a wall with it's antler embedded in a fender . Now , that would be a conversation piece .

Funny an axe is what i wished for last year, santa got me a nice Fiskars hand axe. Got good use out of that puppy so far.

Although I can't put my finger on it , I think I could forgive her.

Reminds me of Ron Whites stand up routine where his cousin is bragging to him about going to the woods and shooting a big buck with a 30-06, and Whites response was "well I got one with a van, going 50 miles per hour with the lights on and the horn blowing"

sure is harder to spray and pray with a bolt action 30-06 vs the semi 12 gauges a lot of us toted.

I'd like to add as well that in my field we over emphasize that we all need to learn from our or others unfortunate events or mistakes. I just realized I do not have a smoke detector in my garage and your story has reminded me to put one in.

^you just became my go to guy for gun questions

Like I said above, if your sighted in at 50, 100, 150 etc. would you never take a shot at 43, 87, 126, 167 yards just because you've never shot that exact range? (if you can shoot at every range, 1 yard increment at a time, good for you). I know where I'm hitting at 47 yards, I know the velocity and bc of the bullet and the trajectory out to 200yds. I only trust the tables out to about 100. After spending 8 years in the Marine Corps 6.5 of them as a sniper. When I am shooting If my max range is 800meters I would shoot 0-800 in 100 meter increments I can do the math giving 2 known poi's but having 1 poi and reading about the other in a book and getting an imaginary poi for the other distance and basing Kentucky windage off that is absolutely ignorant. To be honest you will most likely be fine deer aren't hard to kill and have a large vital area. You asked a question got answers that didn't fit your "plans" and then criticized the people that took their time to help you, makes sense to me.

Weird, I had exactly the same number of mature bucks come by my stand during gun as last year and the year before - 0. At least I am consistent.

Can't shoot a deer from the computer chair I know that. Hunt don't type.

i have been saying all along there were a ton of acorns in most of ny and the deer did not have to move to feed just like when there are no nuts the squirrels are dead all over the roads when there are a lot animals do not move a lot there were not many deer dead on the roads this fall and i am on the road all day