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Its been a long great season. I was targeting a big 8pt all of bow seasom. I shot a couple of doe with the bow and passed a bunch of smaller bucks waiting on the big boy that never showed. I took a doe at gman/ Greg's place with the rifle a week ago I took a big fat doe at local spot with the muzzle loader. Today I passed on 2 very tiny doe that had to weigh less than 40#s. At 130 I could see a large bodied deer in the thick stuff working it's way toward me I thought it was just a doe it stepped out at 30 yards and I realized it was a buck hile trying to decide if i was going to shoot it or not it came to 10 yards in front of me and started pawing up the winter rye. I decided I was taking this buck but for some reason I couldn't get the hammer to go back on my muzzle 4 or 5 tries and nothing now I'm thinking this might isn't meant to be. Lol I took the breech plug half out twisted it back in nothing. Tossed the primer to the ground popped in another one and he's still standing there. Cock the hammer back.and boom. Very successful season 4 doe and a 8pt.i was able to give a deer to my brother and grandmother.

Last hunt of the year for me. Shot a small 5 I’ve had on cam the last few days... I told the SENY crew I was shooting the first deep that gave me a shot today but I hoped it wasn’t him.... well it was him. Took 3 arrows to bring him down.... well two bolts and a arrow.... but he is down First shot was x bow at 20 yards. Hit the top of the heart... he ran about 20 yards and then just walked off spraying blood. He dropped at around 80 yards and I climbed down and walked over to him... when I got within 20 I could see his head was still up. Recocked the x bow and shot again. He was at a weird angle and the shot was high but he didn’t really move. Figured I would go drop x bow at my truck and grab my Brother in laws quad and by the time I got back he would have expired. Brother in law went with me and when we got back he took off and struggled to go about 50 yards. I told my brother in law to wait there and I went back and got my compund from the truck... when I got back my brother in law had pushed him again. Blood was easy to follow and he had gone another 50 yards from his last bed and curled up under a blow down... I got within 10 yards and put one through the lungs. He again just looked at me.... I backed out the 50 yards back to my brother in law. We watched him try and stand and fall Over 3 times before expiring. One tough little son of a bitch this guy was. Honestly I’m happy to have him meat before horns Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Little more salmon action today. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

No internet all weekend, so I'm just getting caught up. Sorry I missed the hunt at Greg's but with all this Covid crap I didn't want to chance it. So I hunted Angelica with a friend just 2 of us doing small 2 man drives. Saw a nice sized doe bedded so I put a stalk on, as I was trying to get close I see her standing and looking right at me. So I put the scope on her and fire. Well somehow she magically transformed into a bb! Sorry Wolc but the land oysters stayed in the gut pile!

End of regular and MZ has been fun but somewhat of a disappointment despite filling some tags. My hunting partner and I each put down deer that had been injured from a prior shot - one gun and one bow/xbow. It put a damper on the end of a great, fun season, but in the end we were thankful to be there to do the right thing. I ended up putting down a great up and comer two year old 9 point; after watching him try to cross a plot and me trying process what was going on with him, I had only a few seconds to make the decision due to cover and did. Felt very questionable post-shot (shot was good) if I did the right thing, but upon inspection it verified what I saw and bow/xbow injury. I won't go into detail but the deer was partially paralyzed in the rear legs and the wound site was getting worse with infection. Rough smell, too. Real rough. I'm sure I could have gotten a replacement/salvage tag but it is what it is and I had already had a good season and my desire to take another was all but gone after that. Same property a few days later a BB shows up on cam with a wound that defies logic and biology. A cantaloupe size hole with two exposed parts of the shoulder, one being a big section of the paddle. My hunting partner set up to get him and it only took 30 minutes as this BB was staying tight to a 50 yard area with water/cover/food as we got piles of pics of him overnight and the AM. That deer was hit with a 100% kill shot with a slug or MZ and somehow it just didn't have the energy to get into the chest. The hole was drilled maybe a touch forward but any reasonable hunter would look at that and go, that's a DRT shot. No tracking needed. But, alas, the initial shot tore the hide off to the size of a cantaloupe. The hole from the projectile was clear and the shoulder and leg bone probably had 6-8" sq. of clear exposure to the elements. This little guy was trying his best to make it, even trying to eat, but the bone and meat was turning necrotic. He could only go 20 yards before bedding each time for a few minutes and it took a few of those circuits for it to be clear enough for my partner to get a lane. Neither of us felt great about these encounters and I am impressed with their will to survive. A part of me always wants to give them the chance to make it, but even when you KNOW they won't, it still feels like shit when you do what you have to, removing any of that chance actually happening. Unfortunately, we have a history of encounters with injured deer here and a strong propensity for two year olds being high shot with a bolt or arrow leading me to think it's the same person. This marks the fourth two year old since 2013 with a high bow shot that we have A, put down, B. Found dead shed hunting with the arrow/bolt, and/or C. Got pics of with the bolt/arrow still in it. Add to that this BB and one other doe that was also high shot. On a positive note, we have this one-sided spike with velvet (maybe 4-5 inches). We think it might be a doe. Anyhow, on October 1, when the season began, this was the first deer I saw from the stand. Last evening, for my final sit, I saw only one deer, that one-sided spike with velvet. She/He/It fed on the plot as the sun set and I watched it with the binos for a while. Started and finished the season with the same deer. Doubt that will ever happen again. Pretty neat.

Buddy and I just doubled up on does. Shot the 7th one out of 8 seen. Dreading this drag. Smaller than I thought too. Meat for the freezer Sent from my XT1635-01 using Tapatalk

Well number 18 fell this am at camp, a sub legal spike while friend was walking in to a stand..

Nephew Kayden got a start on next yrs firewood. 245g powerbelt preformed well.

Out for my second to last hunt. Dropped a doe on the way in, ran 3/4 mile to other side of property and now super sweaty but back in the game. Buddy just shot a good buck out cruising at 2. Gonna be a busy night! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

In time to get home and hunt. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Headed out for last hunt of the season and last ever hunt in my 6S spot. Hoping for a last shot on a buck I've had on cam all season, he made it thru gun season. Would be great to round it all out with one on the ground. Doe might be in play will make the in game decision if it happens. Gonna sit for a while in stand then push into some bedding areas and see if one jumps.

They have been running around the yard all day today. Turn up the volume.....it's pretty cool.

Small doe in 8h this evening with the CVA Wolf :)

A couple of months ago , I was driving around town when I noticed someone had an old doghouse (Dogloo) at the end of their driveway. The sign said "Free", so I threw it in the back of my truck and brought it home. I then applied some spray adhesive and camo material to it and left it outside for a few weeks to air out. Then I took it out in the woods and covered it with branches , twigs , leaves etc... After adding some bait inside and some "Gusto" call lure outside , I hung up a trail camera to see what might stop by. I was fortunate to get it set up last Wednesday afternoon hours before we got hit with a nor'easter. I'm not sure if I want to set any traps or just leave it be for a few months.

Watched a doe from 725am - 9am walk around and dig for food or a bed. After 90minutes and no buck, she finally went out of sight. Oh well. Cam shows bobcat, fox, yote, does and small buck. Nothing big the past few weeks here in 3S. There’s someone else’s cam 68yds from mine but it’s legal and Over the boundary. Haven’t seen anyone hunt but maybe it’s a ground guy like me and he’s over the next hill. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I would have to rank this season overall between bow season and gun season one of the worst in the past 20 years. I saw 4 decent and I saying decent as in nothing over a 120/8 on camera since late summer. Between my son and I we saw this 120 once each 2 days apart Nov 6&8 and never again. Saw a nice mahogany colored 110/8 on Nov 15 and again late gun on Dec 6 and my son saw him again last Thursday on neighbors so didn’t shoot. Did take a doe last Sunday and son took doe yesterday. My most exciting day was TG morning where 2 smaller bucks were chasing different doe all around me for about 15 minutes On a scale of 1-10 about a 4. Still enjoyed the hunting and it’s never really a bad season especially when you’re 67 yrs old. Never know how many ya got left.

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Got to add in a point for team weak. Since can only put in three deer i was holding out for another buck, but that didn't happen so a doe it is.

Some slippage and it’s quite stiff which is fine since it will be a wall hanging (unless it slips too much) 24 hours of oxyclean and water paste. Should gets “whiter” after it fully dries Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Can we all agree: removable breech plug>Polio vaccine Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Well that seals it. The intimidation tactics of paid for riots worked just like the brown shirts attacked Hitlers opponents. Well done Democrats and you didn't have to depend on Soros alone the BLM movement got millions from large corporations to buy some goodwill. Now, there is talk of retaliation to Trump supporters. Again a move stolen from Hitler. And yes that's how the Supreme Court is supposed to function if you don't like the person you ignore a conspiracy of Democrat states using foreign owned substandard voting machines that can be rigged and 28 different locations stop counting votes at the same time, videos of ballots being entered repeatedly, Republican observers being refused to observe and the fact that the "winner's" son was under investigation for selling the big guys influence for two years but the Justice Dept protected his dad by keeping it a secret. Nice country you people have made for us.

I hear you....My good fishing buddy Handsome Howie won't eat any trout or salmon either, but stocks his freezer with walleyes, perch, and panfish ( including bullheads) plus smallmouth bass.. I consider wild brookies the very best tasting trout, followed by wild stream browns... I don't eat many, however, because I hate to kill them, but I usually eat a few each year because they taste so good...I like landlocks the best of any lake salmonoids...Never cared much for rainbows, although I do like smoked steelhead, as long as they are fresh run...However, probably the best trout I ever ate was leopard rainbows in Alaska cooked in foil on the coals of the campfire on several moose and caribou hunts... Of course the surroundings may have affected my taste buds on those hunts...

Developing situation at our lease.....got a call from my Dad who was going for the afternoon watch.....the neighbor is finally cutting his corn. Could be the game changer we were hoping for......kinda like xmas came a little early today! Sent from my moto z3 using Tapatalk

Season wrap up -best season ever on Oneida lake. Caught a lot of eyes and some good times fishing with Fishdo and son, and a trip out with Otto and the real tcIII. - love the new boat more than I thought I would. Wanted a swivel seat in the rear but glad it worked out the way it did with setup. It works out better than what I was even planning. - whiffed on a nice Tom in early May - My earliest ever deer on 10/3 doe with the bow - missed a doe with the bow on 10/25 shot under - a nice 6 point on Halloween night with the bow - a doe at the Lomax buckform on last weekend of gun. Great to meet and hunt with Tim. - after not getting a deer at all last season, 3 is a great year that filled the freezer and helped out some others as well. - was told before start of season I can no longer hunt my 6S spot. Nothing I did just a change there. Tough one cause it is my best spot and where I got my biggest deer. Tough one to take but I still am lucky to have my spot in 7F. And am panning for another. - was weird to sit out most of the rut with a buck already on the ground. - looking to do some work on 7F next year. 2 page list. Overall very good hunting and fishing year.

Or he shot both tens earlier in the season and is letting the woods rest til next year

Good luck to you Monday and Tuesday

Venison Saltimbocca Pounded thin some cutlets after I let them soak in some milk (draws out some “gaminess” making the venison a more veal-like) Marinaded pounded cutlets in oil, garlic, sage, some orange zest, crushed red pepper...floured and fried Then they get a blanket of prosciutto Parma and some shredded Fontina under the broiler. Quick white wine/chicken stock sauce. I feel like [mention]Otto [/mention] would enjoy this one. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Lasagna soup with salt bread. Good luck to everyone going out tomorrow for a Hail Mary hunt!

Dont sell. Even if you make a few buck it’s probably not enough to make it worth it. Just put those under your bed and forget about them

Harvested far fewer deer at my 2 spots than we normally do - about 1/2 of normal. But I had no time/desire to shoot does this year and hunted less which meant others hunted less there too. Still got out with friends and had fun. 3 good bucks and 2 doe. I took two of the bucks and Duke scored on the third (that may have been my favorite hunt since we were targeting that buck specifically) - my friend killed the 2 doe Sat while I was home with COVID. No complaints at all - well except @TreeGuy passing a shooter for whatever reason. Time to get out after some dogs hopefully. Not for hunting reasons, but I am looking forward to putting 2020 in the rearview mirror!

Me and a buddy did two last night. 3.5 hours from hanging to cleaned up, lights out and walking out. We vacuum seal and have changed how we go about things over the last couple years. We are never sure what we want to eat at any particular time so here is what we opted for. Back straps trimmed and in about 8" long sections inner loins together in a bag. Neck is taken off the bone in a single chunk and used for pulled venison or chunked Hinds are trimmed into roasts and frozen as single roasts. (no cutting of steaks). Front shoulders and all the rest is trimmed and chunked. This is saved with all the like bags from the deer in the season for our February sausage making. If i want steaks I take out a roast and cut it appropriately. if I want jerky I take out a roast, partially thaw and put it through the meat slicer. It's there ready to roll if I want a roast. if I want burger I grind a roast. I can't glue it back together but can cut it however I want down the road. It' cuts down on the processing time as well

I dont know but we have the same counter tops.

Lot of habitat work.. something is done every year to enhance and thicken woods. Dropping 140 trees in a 30 acre sanctuary ,and having another 158 taken out for timber on30 acres and all tops left to create more cover. Not to mention 10k plus trees and shrubs planted for thermal cover and food over 27 years..

Its good to see your nys compliant and only have 7 shots still.

Not all muzzle stuffers would fit

This morning Samantha got to partake in a big drive at Gman’s. We were watchers. Gorgeous day out , she stayed warm and awake. Only saw a coyote at warp speed but enjoyed the day for sure.

Saturday 12/19/20. 815AM. 7P stateland. NEF Huntsman, 250gr TC shockwave. 40 yard shot, 40 yard recovery. My contribution to the @Swamp_bucks stateland smokepole snowshoe spike slaughter. I was just the lucky chump pulling the trigger. Best day and most fun I've had in the deer woods in 15 years all because of SB. His generosity and drive to help a fellow hunter knows no limit. They don't come much better than him.

Don’t know where this rates on Biz’s score board but I’m gonna take it! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It’s funny how similar most of our spots look, I’m in a similar spot and now looking around for you haha Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My buddy took a young buck last week with a Savage 220 at 100 yards. Was using a 3" remington accutip. Did some damage and didn't go far. Sent from my moto z3 using Tapatalk

Have not used one in over 10 years but use to drive one. Great for open roads but in NYC stop and go traffic...not so much.

Just to break my balls two of the bucks bedded in the field !

2 12 man drives at Gman’s today. I first pushed for the first then watched on the second. Sweated my azz off pushing in the snow and hills. Nice to sit the second , not gonna lie. These guys know what they’re doing. My first large group drive and loved it. Saw maybe this one early that went up large hill and then possibly back down. Saw big doe at light speed but no shot. Someone took out his front legs and he was still moving fast . Another heart shot so 3 for 3 this year in that aspect. Samantha n I going back in morning and hoping to get her on the gun. Button buck again. Went from crappy year to great eating year fast.

Got it done with the smoke pole couldn’t be happier I think he’s going back duckhunting tomorrow now he says shoot dux in the morning and bux in afternoon