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Nov 17, 2018. Upstate NY A Catskill Mountain deer season starts. Snow fell 24 hours earlier. Cloudy, windless, good snow, 28 degrees. In darkness, we hike uphill. With John settled, I head further uphill. At 2100 feet, I climb the ladder. Now wait. Season 48 now. How many do I have left? One can’t hunt if weak. I’m fit, but far from my prime. I focus on shedding weight, in equipment and myself. The mountains keep getting steeper. Keep exercising. Daylight, then legal time. It’s quiet. Nothing moves for two hours. A shot to the south stirs me. A kill? Half an hour later, a shot far east. Coyote? Not long after, a closer shot to the north, then another follows. A miss? I look for movement, Kimber Montana in hand, a 7mm-08 chambered. Movement. Binoculars identify a shooter! It’s running. I mouth a bleat to stop it. My scope finds the heart. I shoot once. Photos follow. It sports only my hit. I gut, drag and hang it. Nice 8 point. Good mass. Goes 160 dressed, maybe 200 alive. My biggest yet. I still have enough in me. God willing, next year I will too.

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Last day, last hour of the ML.

OMG look what my husband got me !!! LOLOL I can practice throw balls at it and then maybe I can stop shaking when I see a real buck. Lololol

there will be a handful of guys here that point to the safe act, but if we're honest those that were that angered by that law left a long time ago. It's the economy/taxes and the progressive push being so strong that it alienates a large population of this state. I think what really makes it bad is that he's unapologetic about it. He wants people that think like us gone and is on record saying it.

Shot this doe with daughter sitting next to me. Happened fast abd she wasn’t going to get on them. 6 came through. 12-15. Shockwave did some damage. 142 pounds dressed.

I figure you guys plan these as far away from me as possible but that's ok.....I'm just gonna hang with turkeyfeathers, Fletch and Crappyice and I don't have to pay for their beers !

Was very fortunate to run into this guy the last Saturday of muzzleloader. Shot wasn't great as I had a tight window, and he was quartering away. It was good enough that he bedded down within 20 yards of the shot and gave me the opportunity to reload and put another one in him. He didn't have a liver left which is probably why he bedded down so fast. No idea what he scores (upper 140s/low 150s?), but he field dressed at 195 pounds. To say my wife is excited for a new wall decoration is an understatement

I love how veterans have to wait at the back of the line in this country to get the healthcare they EARNED, but when an MS-13 gang member jumps our border and shows up in an ER they get fast tracked to the front of the line.

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I most definitely agree. My personal ranking of what makes me look to move out at retirement; 75% Property taxes 20% Liberal laws and policies 5% Gun laws Weather isn't a reason at all for me. I'll throw in a bonus 20% that Andy said he doesn't want me here anyways. No sense in living where I'm not wanted just because of how I think. Hey, that sounds discriminatory..

He absolutely loves to rub it in everyone's face. My dislike for him goes far beyond guns. I just can't stand the attitude he has. Like he knows everything and everyone else is a total idiot. It drives me crazy that people are just fine with his arrogance and keep voting him in. Trump can be an arrogant cuss, too, but Cuomo honestly has him beat in how he talks down to the people he is supposed to represent. Trump generally will talk down to the media and other politicians, but in general he is not too harsh on the average guy on the street who doesn't deserve it.

send it!

Jusr got done building my new hunting rig . Its a Ruger #1 stainless steel, black laminate stock in 450 Bushmaster topped with a leopold vari x 2 .

To those serving this Country over sea’s on deployment, we say Merry Christmas, we support you and a heartfelt Thank You!

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My interpretation: Stop gun violence: 1st step of many to finally remove guns from all NY. Jersey banned the bump stocks, not one turned in, in they NY banned assault rifles yet millions are not registered, shows the people will not bow to unjustified regulations that go against our second amendment! Dream Act: LMAO We have to many immigrants, once they cross the border it is known that in NY you are protected and will not get deported. I have no objections to immigration IF they come here legally! Stop making me pay to educate 1000's of illegal aliens and the health care they put such a burden on! Improve our democracy: Pay more so we can help people you never met and pay for there kids education and health care and anything else we think they might need, LIKE HOUSING! Protect LGBTQ rights: Just another ploy to get more votes. Plain and simple they now want to regulate and force you to allow gays and transgender and any other gender they can think of to be married in you church or any other religious location! Forcing all to comply or loose there none for profit status! Legalize pot: They finally figured a way to make more money off of drugs! So lets stop putting people in jail for it! After how many years they might actually understand the war on drugs has failed! Can't keep it out of schools, jails etc. So now that the drug war is over they are gearing up to take away your guns and your rights to them, step by step. Starts with lets ban, assault weapons, then 10 round mags, then bump stocks, then a longer wait period then...

I loved it just like I love it every year . To me it is my get away time . I love being on here with all of you and sharing the stories and pictures. I was happy to put. 2 does in my freezer . No bucks again ! some day I will stop shaking enough to get one . Love you all see you at the meeting and greet . Merry Christmas and Happy New years to you all !!!!

Apparently my season is not over, still have a pa buck tag. A friends parents is selling there property and are allowing me to bow hunt it for the late season. There is two 10 points and an 8 in there yard everyday. Hasn’t been hunted in 40 years!

I've been on the sidelines all this year enjoying everyone's posts. I'm keeping the thread alive. I'm in my stand in Long island hunting. I hunted Catskills one week at the beginning of bow season then Columbus Day weekend. Then opening gun and anothe week before Thanksgiving. All and all my buddy got a button buck. I don't want to surrender. So I'll hunt Long island as long as I can.

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Still have a month of open season here in 1c. This season has been average or better than average in some respects from my perspective as a public land bowhunter. Highlights: Saw deer most sits (a bit better than my 50-50 avg.) Doe pee worked better this year than in past years. I rarely hunt from the ground, but had a decent buck encounter from a makeshift ground blind - that was a first. Got a small 7 pt 10/8, and it is tasty. I have a month left in the season. Lowlights: Hunted less due to rain and a wicked cold/cough that was tough to shake. The shot on the buck was a bit high and back (even though it was a quick kill and short recovery, I am thankful, but not happy). Drawing the bow when it is cold is getting difficult, so may have to lower the poundage....again. It sucks getting old. Enjoyed this forum and hope to post a bit more before my season ends. Sent from my SM-G925V using Tapatalk

They have typical bar food. Its a meet up with some forum members ; its not a date.

This was my fourth season overall and third with a bow. I'm still very much a newbie. So yeah I learned plenty: 1) treestands aren't that hard to put up by yourself if you only go 12 feet instead of 15 feet. And they still work well enough. And aren't as scary. But I still used a harness and safety rope for climbing up/down. (60+ yrs old is just too old to recover from a fall without some lasting damage.) 2) button bucks can look an awful much like a doe on the last day of archery at 4:30 PM. I will use binoculars to verify no buttons before shooting henceforth (they are tasty, though...). 3) I learned that if your first shot on a deer hits left by six inches, then your next shot probably will also, if you don't take time to re-check and adjust your bow sight. 4) A friend told me, and I tested and verified, that deer don't spook much at sounds ("the woods are full of sounds") as long as they don't see or smell you. 5) Grunting and rattling actually works. It helps if you have done enough sits to hear real doe bleats. I found I had to cup the end of the call in my hands and squeeze it tight to get that soft, muffled doe bleat that I have heard real deer make. Like humming with your mouth closed. 6) micro food plots work great.. for a week or so.. until they are totally eaten up. 7) lighted nocks (Lumenocks etc) aren't any help in tracking a deer if you shoot pass throughs. And they don't help recovering the arrows either, if there are a few inches of snow on the ground. 8) tracking a deer in fresh snow is really really easy! Even in the dark. 9) don't push a liver shot deer. Just don't. Even if gun season starts in the morning and the deer is heading toward a neighbor's stand and its getting dark and the coyotes will be out soon. Just.. wait. There's probably more but I have to go cook dinner..

As far as a cashless society, I’m not much for that . Pretty much every guy I hire, from cleaning my gutters, to remodeling our kitchen ,to the guy who works on my kids cars , I pay cash . We save a ton . My car guy is off the books, and his labor rate is $50 an hour not $125 . Always need cash, bribes,hookers,blow , dont take CC .

Not at all. German engineering protects the Stihl's from dumb Polocks like me,lol

I didn't post this in the general chit-chat section as I'm sure this conversation will turn political. https://buffalonews.com/2018/12/19/new-yorks-population-dips-over-the-past-year/ Andy says it's because of the weather.

We have one. We do all kinds of goofy things with it. Do a google search for "inappropriate elf on a shelf" and look through the pics. Its a good time

That thing caused more stress to my marriage than anything else including all of my hunting

My wife and I decided we're outa here in 3 or 4yrs. We've had enough of this arrogant, pompous tyrant. This state is never going to get any better. I always tried to be optimistic that things will get better but I'm getting to the age where I can't afford to keep waiting . I decided to move to a state that had everything I wanted, so I just bought 75 acres of prime whitetail habitat in southern Ohio.Plan to retire down there in 3 or 4 yrs.

Wait til the rancheros come back out in a few years.

Ate tag soup for the first time ever however I passed dozens of deer so I can't complain.. Most memorable time this year was ground hunting with my bow on a ridge and had 3 bucks cross my face at less than 10 yds without noticing me.. The two 3.5 year old bucks I was after did not show for me at all but for my friend saw them just out of range...one 10 and one 9 point.. Next year I'm going to take time off to hunt and use my vacation up.... only took 10 days off total this year and 7 were to get married... also I am going to get a muzzleloader.... Unfortunately a buck I shot last season hasn't been completed yet by the taxidermist.. as a 4.5-5.5 year old 9 pointer he scored 138" and yielded almost 90 lbs of meat.. it's the deer in my profile picture which came from my trail cam last year and I shot him about 75 yds from that trail cam a few days later....

You have that right Brother. With something like 22 vets a day committing suicide now that is a national tragedy, not some pee pee nonsense Cuomo, Schumer and their supporters whine about. We gave them a HAND in keeping America and the countries that want freedom free. Now they give us the FINGER.

I set my harvest goals pretty high this year. I had 4 bucks that I had on cam, all 8 pointers that I had my eyes on. I passed numerous 6,7, and small 8 pointers. When the snow came my sightings decreased. Then all I was seeing was 1 1/2 year old bucks. One good one got hit by a car and one might have got shot. I never released an arrow or fired a shot and I have no regrets. My mock scrapes were fun to watch and I had a blast using a buck decoy. Already planning some habitat improvements and new stand locations. I miss it already and I'm looking forward to next year.

Mac and cheese and mystery meat....any guesses. ... Chicken gizzards simmered for a couple of hours in stock , then pan fried with butter, Worcestershire sauce and garlic. Dad used to make them at camp.

Over all, not bad. It started early in September with a trip to Newfoundland moose hunting. All 3 of us bagged one, but I had a hell of a time getting around...plantar fasciitis (sic?) made my feet miserable....like walking on glass all day. I passed early on a small bull, but that meant all week to hobble around through awesome country, walking in horse shoe pitching distance of caribou, passed on a bodacious bear (I have enough at home) and on the last day shot a big fat cow. Back home, early on things were quiet, but we had early snow that stuck around from early November. After that deer sightings around the camp were frequent, taking a nice doe in early November and a darn nice buck the w/e of the 24th. The freezer is full, I was out as much as I wanted to, and never got bored. Good enough.

A few more good ones I got of daylight bucks, which I'm going to keep track of to optimize my hunting days. Shocker, all between November 1 and 17..... Then again I pulled most of my cameras first weekend of gun. November 7 8:00 am is the dude I single lunged 2 days later, like an idiot.

Was an average season at camp, 18 deer total for the year. 9 buck 9 doe. 4 were taken during archery, 3 muzzleloader, and 11 regular gun Of note were 2 big buck missed one in muzzleloader and one in bow.. guys at camp dont miss much..

Mistake # 1

Still working on that part

There is no "neg". It's proceed, deny, or delayed. If delayed, the Fed has 3 days to seek additional info. I don't think King Cuomo gets to tell a federal department how to operate and to work another 7 days on it. Just like his failed ammo background check. It's a meaningless action on his part. Outlaws don't follow laws, that's why they're outlaws. This is just another restriction on law abiding citizens.

You must be the third Cuomo brother that no one has ever heard of. There's Andrew Cuomo, Chris Cuomo and Sits in trees Cuomo.

I'm good with all of it. Protecting healthcare while republicons try to destroy it. If your Nics comes up neg than ten days is good. More time to prevent a wingding from buying a gun. With private sales being outlawed it now makes it pretty hard for a criminal to buy a gun under the radar. Getting immigrants legal and into the system is great. They work they're asses off and pay taxes and buy alot of stuff at the local level which helps support local business. Gays and their rights is fine with me. The marijuana thing, good, to many kids having their lives screw over for a pot charge. I'm glad I live in this state

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Circumstances made me change where i hunted this year, and it was a good thing. I have been hunting in Pavilion the last couple years, hardly ever seen anything unless it was dead from someone else being lucky. I hunted Nunda and seen more deer there and i have ever seen while hunting. Three bucks had been hanging around so i was hoping for one. There were so many doe, one just hung out so i took her. First time using my rifle and i love it. Finally i got my own meat at a time i needed. A few people thought i should just give up and stop hunting, but they just didn't understand i couldn't quit and i love being out there.

That brings back memories of my first antlered buck about 35 years ago. I had my Ithaca 37 16 ga and it was not loaded yet, near sunrise, when I heard crashing in the brush next to my stand. The buck stepped out, just as "legal" sunrise occurred. I jammed a slug into the bottom, hoping it got into the chamber, as I pushed the action forward (a side opening Remington 870 would have been better). Fortunately it did, allowing me to kill that 7-pointer. Shooting straight down has not happened for me since then.

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