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3rd deer for the freezer. 11-12 came flying out of the dark pines down in front of me. Tails were down and hauling azz. They ran right under my stand. Don't even know if there was a buck or bucks in the mix. Picked out biggest body and bleated verbally , they locked up and shot her from 10 yards. It ain't easy picking something up in a scope that fast. Good thing I was only on 3x and not 9. Took out top of heart and I believe both lungs. 2 hours later of dragging I had her to my car. This was at 1:30. Still one either sex tag left for Monday and or Tuesday. Come on snow in 9H

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I'm not saying poaching isn't an issue, but it seems so many guys instantly blame their neighbor for their lack of success. I hear it from EVERY hunter. "If my neighbor stopped shooting doe" "my neighbor is brown it's down" "they shoot spike horns" "they drive the hell out of the property" "he invites his whole family to hunt that small plot" "I think I found a footprint on my posted land" "my neighbor walks their dog/rides quads/target shoots during bow season" "i know he uses his wife's tag" The list goes on. At some point, you do your best to control what you can and go out and just enjoy the woods

No doubt on this one and certainly not the same one from a few weeks ago. This is a studly looking beast, IMO. The first one looks smaller and has a (at least it appears to be) longer tail and looks to be younger or maybe a female?? (totally guesses on my part and uneducated at that!) Enjoy........ BOBCAT!!.AVI

I screw my bow hook into trees on public land. I've even snipped a branch or two. I'm a monster

People around us will use all there tags and anyone elses tags, legal or not.. they do not care, wrong tag per season, wmu you name it. But it has a tag on it. (for everything) Start holding people accountable for their actions, and punish per crime committed, people may start to think twice..

The difference is you are showing evidence of using violence in an unwarranted manor. Plus, when applying for a pistol permit, you are agreeing that your permit will be revoked for being convicted of such things. BTW, If you call punching your wife a lapse of judgement, I dont even know what to say.

The last chainsaw I bought new was set at the factory to run so lean that it wouldn't have lasted me a month! EPA regulations for emissions... too much exhaust or something...? I fixed that problem before I even fired it up. It's been 6 or 7 years now, and that saw is still getting better. I bought a new log splitter 4 years ago that was set up the same way. It was built to die, but I fixed that carburetor too. The air pollution caused by all the chainsaws and splitters I've owned in my lifetime wouldn't come close to that of a single city bus just getting warmed up at the start of the day.

I am very glad I allow myself to be the only judge that matters when considering what a trophy is to me.It makes life so much more enjoyable.

LOL... lots of "you can't eat horns" hunters... until they finally shoot one with horns... then it's posting photos "til the cows come home. There was a guy here on the forum (no names) that claimed not to post pics of any deer he gets... until he killed a nice buck this year.. first thing he did that day was post it.. LOL

Less than 9 and a half months until bow season. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

The guy who said NY is the worst state to hunt deer is the guy who doesn’t like the cold. North American whitetail ranks NY 22nd out of 50 for deer hunting. Take a look at the NYBC book and that’s just the deer put into the book. To the guys who go to Iowa and Ohio and places like that. It’s not the state that makes the deer hunting the way it is there, it’s how the properties are manage by the owners or leases. I hate to do this but look at Lee and Tiffany when you lockup a couple of thousand acres and only let a few people hunt it look at what you can do. If I read the Iowa regs. right a land owner in some places can kill up to 3 bucks. So there goes the 1 buck rule.

If someone farts in the middle of the night, it's most likely to be me. But, there was that time when the wife had a burrito for dinner! Thought someone was firing a Thompson machine gun! She doesn't remember.......

His wife's name may be Bruce.

I have fun hunting during the day, but night hunts are what I really like to do. Just something about a pair of glowing eyes bounding toward you in the dark while the sound of a dying animal plays on an e-caller that gets the blood pumping!

So you forget to check a box on a tag and you lose your license for life? Really? We set rapists and murders free after a few years on good behavior, and you want to hand out a lifetime punishment for tagging a deer wrong? I think the fines are pretty low right now, but increases need to be kept relative to the crimes. Get caught jacking deer the first time? Suspension for x years. Get caught twice? Lifetime loss. Illegally using another persons tag? Suspension the first time, then longer the second, lifetime loss after the third. Maybe start fining the people that are allowing others to use their tags as well as fining the person using it? That might make people think twice about allowing others to use their tags. The options are endless really, but ust going for an extremely harsh penalty right out of the gate for most things, makes about as much sense as no penalties at all.

You guys dont think people use their wife or girlfriends tags in other states? Please. NY is not unique for illegal activities.

Real quiet here. But. ...... I think I heard a mouse fart. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Weather shows 35 in Geneseo. It has to be at least 36 degrees. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

I dont, but I hang all the small shed antlers that I have found over the years on our Xmas tree. Its the antler tree. They make the best ornaments.

Nice to hear things are progressing . Been in a couple hundred fires, saw a lot of death made a couple saves . But we leave go back to the firehouse clean tools take a shower and go to bed and wait for the next one, while folks like yourself are left to try to move forward . Something I need to focus more on. Kind of makes this whole " bad deer season" seem silly doesn't it ........ Keep,the faith brother !

Eddie, I only use two sections of ladder for my stand and have a third section just collecting dust. It's yours if you want it but I'm over 2 hours away from you. If anyone is headed through Owego area on 17/86 towards Rochester, let me know and you can pick it up to take to Eddie.

I've had many more pics, but thinned the collection recently.

You haven't LIVED until you've experienced a Genny Cream Ale fart in a snowmobile suit. I've emptied my share of Genny cans over the last 50 years...For quite a few years now, they have been mostly Genny Light. However, in the last few months I have found myself buying Labatt's Blue Light more often. Must be the onset of dementia... Now what was I talking about ?

Getting my coyote gear ready...I bought a new Nikon 4x12x40 long range bdc scope and a sitting Harris bipod for the 223 this year...should be fun..now iam just waiting on my new wicked 400 predator scope light and iam all set...

There are laws in place but only law abiding people fallow them.

You want to make it so the deer can get into and around the hinge cut trees , cut them at least 5 ' off of the ground so the deer can walk under them also. An area with pines and hemlock will be good, they were hitting them hard by me last winter , they like to bed under them also.Any over grown apple trees can be cut back and thinned out in Jan. to March with out hurting them if you want to let some more light in. I was trying to post the Above vid.'s but could not they are good.

We are all set to start calling yote's right after Christmas. This will be our first year calling. I assume my 7mm-08 deer hunting gun will work just fine for coyotes.

They have a small book of excuses that they keep for years when the harvest is down. They will just fish around in there and find one that they believe everyone will swallow .... lol. Sorry, I guess I'm just getting old and cynical, but I have seen a lot of these "stories".

Well, the dispute is not over the cape. It is the antlers that the hunter #2 took home. If the original hunter wants the cape, it is probably still there rotting away.....lol. But of course, even that would not be available if it were not for the fact that hunter #2 actually found it. The thing for hunter #1 to do is to be satisfied that he even found out the fate of the deer that he shot and lost and let the antler collector add his find to his collection without harassment.

Man, don't you guys EVER work????????

And that my friends, is exactly why the DEC sometimes throttles public comment, as discussed earlier in this thread.....

Only takes one minute to change everything! Best of luck and we are pulling for ya Eddie!

You dont get an either sex for ML and bow. You get an either sex you can use in ML OR bow, a doe permit you can use in ML OR bow, Regular buck tag, that if not filled turns into an either sex in late season, and between 0 and 4 DMPs. You wonder why doe numbers are so out of whack in many areas? Think about the fact that you have essentially 3 doe tags that you can use anywhere in the state. Even in the areas they dont hand out DMPs in because the population is considered too low.

Havent searched the Food plot threads too thoroughly just yet. And, I prefer the indoor strains.

I'm not sure how P&Y works. Is there a fee to get your buck in the books? maybe the $ goes towards conservation?

Sad day today I'm hunting in the spot where I killed my first deer with a gun. Sadly this is our last year hunting here because the owners are selling. It's been nice having this 400 acres even if I never hunted it much other than late season.

I've never entered any of my bucks in the books. And with good reason, they don't qualify

Good for you Jay!

I have a pope and young book there sure isn't mean in there from ny. When the new comes out I'll tell you how many are in there. Mine is one of the few from ny in there

Big difference between 35 and 100, and 47 and 75. The former being nearly 3x the sight in distance. With a basic load of a 250 gr selection and two 50 gr pellets or similar loose ragging holes at 47 yds an inch high isn't going to result in an unethical shot at 75 yds according to my convictions. Others here seem to believe that this guy needs to be drawn and quartered. Everyone wants to be ethical (most normal people), but sometimes you just need to play within the rules/situational context. Everyone can say they should have done this or that before hand. I haven't yet met a hunter who can't come up with something he or she wished she would have done better or different before/during the season to get better results. It's really easy to Monday morning quarterback other people, but the guy has a 47 yd target to hit. Let's get him the best possible answer - other than you shouldn't hunt you unethical bastard (so to speak).

Must be pretty good guts,they are eating it all upside down!!!LOL

You guys can say bull to whatever you want, but the facts are what they are. Shorter seasons, etc might lead to "better" hunting, but we will never be Iowa, Ohio, etc. Certain portions of the state may come close, because those areas have better soil conditions, but there are other factors. Hunting pressure, number of hunters, the land is broken into relatively small parcels, farms being broken up, overly mature woods, the DEC does squat for land management, etc. Even if we change the things that we can, and do exactly what those other states do, the majority of NY will never come close. Then lets add in that, as has been said, trophy bucks arent everyones idea of good hunting. Im more picky than some about what I shoot, but who am I to tell someone that the things I value about hunting are the same things they should value about hunting? Ill talk to them and point out the benefits, and why I believe them to be benefits, plus Ill point them in the right direction for information, then just leave it at that and they can decide for themselves if its important to them or not. Im not into shoving my agenda down anyones throat.

I have had a lease in Ohio the last 3 years and shot 2 bucks in the 140's but I won't be going back next year. I think killing a mature buck in NY Is a bigger challenge and more fun. Seeing a rut in a big buck state is a must do for everyone it truly is amazing. To me I hunt for the challenge and shooting a mature adk buck is about as challenging as I have found in hunting.

Gentleman, all I can say is, hang on because before this is over we are in for a hell of a ride

Belo that face is exhausted went in deep and dragged out deep 2 hours from kill site to road was a work out. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This might help clear it up..... ISIS: "We did this because our holy texts exhort us to do it." DEMOCRAT: "No you didn't." ISIS:"Wait, what? Yes we did..." DEMOCRAT: "No, this has nothing to do with religion. You guys are just using religion as a front for social and geopolitical reasons." ISIS: "WHAT!? Did you even read our official statement? We give explicit Quranic justification. This is jihad, a holy crusade against pagans, blasphemers, and disbelievers." DEMOCRAT: "No, this is definitely not a Muslim thing. You guys are not true Muslims, and you defame a great religion by saying so." ISIS: "Huh!? Who are you to tell us we're not true Muslims!? Islam is literally at the core of everything we do, and we have implemented the truest most literal and honest interpretation of its founding texts. It is our very reason for being." DEMOCRAT: "Nope. We created you. We installed a social and economic system that alienates and disenfranchises you, and that's why you did this. We're sorry." ISIS: "What? Why are you apologizing? We just slaughtered you mercilessly in the streets. We targeted unwitting civilians - disenfranchisement doesn't even enter into it!" DEMOCRAT: "Easy access to guns is what drives your anger." ISIS: "It's not the guns! We will knife you, hang you, burn you, run you over, and bombs are easy to create in our kitchens! We don't care about the guns! In fact, civilian guns might actually make it difficult for us!" DEMOCRAT: "Obviously we need to ban all guns. We need to overturn the Second Amendment." ISIS: "By Allah, you are a motherless tool! The weapon is not the issue! Our Holy Jihad against you is the only thing that is important!" DEMOCRAT: "Climate Change is the reason you rage against us. We deserve it." ISIS: "WHAT??!? What the hell does Climate Change have to do with this???" DEMOCRAT: "Because of Climate Change, the oceans will rise by one-tenth of one inch, and that makes you furious...." ISIS: (facepalms) DEMOCRAT: "You see no future for your children because of Climate Change so you strap bombs on them and send them into shopping malls. ISIS: "NO DAMMIT. It has NOTHING to do with Climate Change or Gun Control or ANYTHING like that! It is because we follow the teachings of the Prophet Mohammad, who tells us to put all unbelievers to the sword! We are commanded by Allah to kill you all!" DEMOCRAT: "This is all caused by the fact we bullied gays and transgenders in our past. If we hadn't been so mean, and accepted Bruce Jenner for the amazing woman he was all those years, you would not be trying to kill us. Please forgive us." ISIS: "ARE YOU INSANE??? We kill gays the moment we find them! We hang them by their necks any chance we can! Islam hates homosexuality!" DEMOCRAT: "Listen, it's our fault. We resisted resettling you in our country. We should have given you more welfare and food stamps. We don't blame you for feeling unwelcome and lashing out." ISIS: "Seriously, stop taking credit for this! We worked really hard to pull this off, and we're not going to let you take it away from us." DEMOCRAT: "No, we nourished your extremism. We accept full blame." ISIS: "OMG, how many people do we have to kill around here to finally get our message across?"" DEMOCRAT: "Gun control will fix this."

I'm hip deep in a number of issues right now, and I work hard to support all of them. Preservation of the US Constitution is the biggie for me, because without that nothing else matters.. I may not have power to directly change things, but I have power to inform others that change needs to be made.

can I just mail the brewery a check and not drink Genny?

Shockwaves are SSTs made by Hornady I believe. The sabot might be the difference there.