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Heard lots of shots in my area of northern Columbia county (4u). My nephew missed a spike, twice. Said he was shaking too bad. He took a small doe later in the morning, and seen a dozen or more deer on the neighbors property thats off limits. Walking in yesterday morning a few minutes after legal , I see several deer about 100yrds out running around. Binoculars showed two smaller bucks chasing a doe. They were in and out of the field several times before they ran into the scrub for good. Had a BB walk past 3 times with his nose to the ground grunting trying to figure out where those deer went to. Buddy across the road had 10 does, fawns in the thick stuff. Only deer he could get a clear shot on was a spike, which he passed. Afternoon hunt I went in the same blind and had several does, fawns and a spike milling around in the brush. Took this doe with one ear and half a tail.

Had a successful holiday hunt this am with my father. I walked, he sat. I got this buck about 930 am. Nice way to spend the day off after Christmas

My kids have quite the sence of humor.. They know how much I like a Christmas story

Got invited to go out on Champlain to troll for salmon and lakers. Went out 7:30-2:30. Really nice day. The wind died down, we caught fish and grilled bacon wrapped scallops and venison kabobs. Also had homemade cookies and a couple beverages. 15 lakers. Biggest one was about 8lbs. Caught a bunch of nice sized eaters, but didn't keep any. I need to get a smoker set up. 7 salmon. Mostly shakers, but I reeled in fish of the day. 24+" female. She stayed down and never jumped. Released her. Also a couple white perch. The guy who owns the boat took all the pictures. He hasn't sent them to me yet. Good day all in all. His boat is set up with great electronics and a full canvas. It's a true trolling boat with a huge back deck. Hoping to get invited to go again! Heck of a nice day on Champlain!

That's sweet.....Santa brought our 5 and 7 year old boys Red Ryders. The 7 year old almost lost his mind when he unwrapped it. Sent from my SM-A716V using Tapatalk

I always thought shooting downward eliminated concern but I learned that bullets bounce and ricochet like you wouldn’t believe, even when shooting downward. Just an FYI. its actually part of military training for shooters to understand how crazy bullets react. Not criticizing. I was surprised myself.

A white TRD Pro would look real nice in the driveway next to the Cat. The interiors are even similar.

I'd sure like to see him pop in here for quick hello...........

With a gracious invite from Lomax, got out to hunt in the buckform with him. We didn't tag any deer but had a good time BSing for sure. Even seen some deer but didn't send it, a little far for the muzzleloader. Good day to get out and enjoy a late season hunt and catch up.

Prime rib

Some light snow for the afternoon. Haven’t been out of the house since the 21st. Figured I’d spend a few hours of quarantine in the woods.

The platform is about 9 ft up (those are 8 ft pt landscape timber’s that I bought from Home Depot in the spring for $ 6 each. There is a little bit of blocking below each timber. I only have $12 invested in that blind, because I used an old chair in it that I already had. I had to spend an additional $ 8, on a fancy, adjustable office chair on other new one just like it, that I put up this year. I am not complaining, after shooting two deer off that $ 8 chair. I just saw my first two deer of the Holiday season at 2:15 pm. Rather than walk back along the corn and risk spooking a deer out of it like I did last Saturday, I took the long way around. There were two of them standing on the edge of thick brush “sanctuary” area over on the other back corner. They ran towards the corn and I am “boxed up” in my blind over there now. I had to make quite a racket breaking loose the ice on the windows, to open them, so I think the odds are low that those two will come out. Probably better odds of seeing something than if I had stayed in the house though, because there is still some corn on the stalks back here, unliked the stripped bare ones in my front plot. I put a finger condem over the muzzle to keep the rain out on the way back. Good luck to all those who are still out there.

Yup lol

Watching over a crappy little corn plot this morning from one of the two new blinds that I put up this year. I have not had any action out of this one yet, but I have been able to kill a bb and a BB from the one that I put up over at my parents place, about 20 miles away. I am saving my better corn plot out back for this afternoon. I planted that one a couple weeks earlier and it has more then double the yield of the one I am watching now. It was still holding lots of corn (and a deer ) when I was back there last Saturday. I moved a big box blind to the south end of that plot this summer. I made that about 7 years ago, but haven’t killed nothing out of it yet. Chances of that ought to be good this afternoon. I don’t expect much this morning, but this sure is a comfortable open top blind. I will have to try and do a better job with the food plots around it next year.

Now leaving downstate. Will burn clothing tomorrow.

A scale. Did anybody get the man a scale !?!?!?! Happy bday you bass eating, ball frying, bb slayer. Sent from my SM-G998U using Tapatalk

Googled it quick and looks like he's been busy making a bunch of Christmas decor!atta boy @wooly

Lunch at Barnwood Grill (Yorktown/Somers) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I haven't checked in in a while, mostly because there's nothing to report. I've been out a few time with the smokepole over the past few weeks but haven't seen anything. Come to think of it, I haven't seen a deer while hunting since shooting that lame young buck the day after thanksgiving. Weather, work, and family time has kept me away from the woods recently, so I'm definitely not putting in as much time as I was back in bow season. I was driving in to the office this morning and saw at least 6 deer, no less than 5 of which were bucks, about .5 miles from my office. I drive through Durand Eastman park to get here and the place is loaded with deer. One of the bucks I saw was a nice mature 8 point walking though a clearing not 20 feet off the road around 8am. His horns were heavy and about as wide as my shoulders. I hope to get out again on Friday for one last chance at a doe before the season ends.

Don’t rent my house,,tv or, cars .

I put in 20-25 hours on stand with zero deer sightings before seeing them, so let's have some understanding here.

Since you are a newbie to hunting I will share some advice. Deer have ever changing patterns that change based on time of year, weather, food sources, pre-rut, rut, post-rut, and hunting pressure. Appreciate differences in any of these from year to year will effect/change the pattern you previously observed. Still go out and observe, but factor in these other variables.

Wolc with a sturgeon would break the forum! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

A few hours were all you could take? I don't blame ya.;)

Tomorrow I’m trying for an upstate surf and turf. Hoping to get a salmon through the ice in the am and a deer in the afternoon. A fresh venison heart and salmon filet dinner would be a perfect transition from deer season to ice fishing! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Nice and wet this afternoon, so I took a long slow walk through the pines. Nothing seen. Sat the last hour in my Taj Mahal and stayed warm and dry. Nothing bumped on the way home either. I hope to get out 1 or 2 afternoons this week, and hopefully Saturday too.

After a three month hiatus from the taxidermy stand, the first for the new season is headed for the drying wall. Guess I still remember how to do it. One down, 39 more to go...

Apparently the theme of this Christmas was “cookware”. I’ll be sure to put these to good use in the Dinner thread!

Live from the woods. Not hunting, just out for a little post-Christmas nature walk with Miss Ellie. It was beautiful out.

Smoked this matriarch on the 23rd. Easily the biggest doe I've ever seen. Her head was longer than my boot! Can't wait to see way her teeth age out as. She was a hard fought deer and a great way to end my season and retire my bow with. My first deer ever with that bow was a doe. This year I was able to not only kill my first coyote with that bow but also finish it's career as my primary with a doe. Seems very fitting and full circle. https://www.instagram.com/thejerkman #JerkmanCustoms #WeDemandUnlimitedLikes

I got the call today to pic up my mount anytime I want. My taxidermist finished it a few months ago but kept it on display during the hunting season. He said it was a big hot with the guys dropping their animals off.

Took my nephew on a charter a few months ago and he caught a bonito. I saved the tail, dried it and mounted it to a puck since he’s obsessed with hockey. He doesn’t know about it and I’ll give it to him on Christmas.

I sat tonight out in my woods and saw 3 adult does and 8 fawns. I shot one of the does. She weighed in at 127 field dressed.

He has a Facebook page, its something like woolygoatchainsawcarvings

Me too!!! Not too many, capture the true spirit of an all around outdoorsman like wooly. Pretty dang good artist too.

Happy Belated Birthday!

Congratulations!

Clover in the front, corn in the back and swamp to the right. Cams have been pretty slow though so I'm not very optimistic.

The deerless 10-2 period is over and the Bill’s have the Patriots under control, so I am back out till 1/2 hour past sunset. I probably won’t see anything, but at least I don’t have to worry about falling out of this stand, if I fall asleep.

Hoping for a Christmas miracle

We slaved over this lol! General TSO chicken, sesame chicken, vegetable lomein, crab ragoons, egg rolls, bbq pork, and pork fried rice for kids.

Pretty sure you have fast covered.

And the telegram he sent back to his wife (my grandma) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Dude, you’re doing it wrong.. You gotta wear a bib!

Seafood alfredo lasagna with a side of backstrap… goodnight.

Here is he folks! A bit better than a spike. I didn’t see his left side until I went back and retrieved him. I was disappointed earlier but honestly it was a cool hunt I won’t forget anytime soon and meat in the freezer which is what this is all about. I figured it was a spine hit since he dropped but double lunged him so backstraps are good to go! Second pic is the deer a couple feet away [emoji2357] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I've been hunting since the late 70's, which is before some of you "experts" were even born, and all I can say is that in general hunting has gotten nothing but BETTER in NYS. Yeah sure, nothing is perfect in life. Private land is harder to find and it comes at cost and that cost is getting higher all the time, but that sure as hell is not the fault of the DEC. Most hunters who stick it out will get a deer. That wasn't always the case 30, 40 or more years ago, so I won't be buying into some of the sob stories here of how hunting is so poor in NYS. I've never seen it written anywhere (in any states regulation book) that every hunter should be guaranteed a shot at a trophy deer or any deer for that matter. It sure looks like some of you younger hunters think that there should be guarantees by proposing these various regulation changes that you think will make it easier for you. Also, if some of you youngsters think there is too much pressure put on deer by the hoards of (gun) hunters out there today, you'd absolutely flip out if you were brought back in time to see the amount of hunters out there 30, 40 plus years ago. The number of hunters today are a drop in the bucket to how it used to be. You guys have way more elbow room than the past generations so please stop complaining.

A few from the dozen we landed today, felt good to be on a boat in December. Sent from my moto g fast using Tapatalk