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Brother got it done tonight perfect 8 point slob! 30 yard shot rage broadhead probably saved us from tracking. Hit was back but out a huge hole in the deer. He went about 50 yards.

I am going to do an afternoon sit on my son's small property in Honeoye Falls . This will wrap up a disappointing bow season for me .

Tomorrow morning will be my last bow hunt, going to a 200 acre property I just got 2 weeks ago and have no clue what to expect. Tons of tracks with trails and very thick off some standing corn and fields. St a stand the other day.

Up in stand give it try with crossbow before the gun opener. I'm at my sister's and I can see slot more as they cut the corn last week. Good luck anybody that's out

Good luck you guys! It’s a beautiful day to be sure. I just came out for lunch break and am dying to be out there today. Can’t wait for Saturday!

Too funny not to share .

Dennis Wood in Wurtsboro (845) 888-0554

Ed Grund in Cochecton is very good, been using him for years.

Shot this 4 point this morning at 9:00am on the ground. This late in the game meat matter more to me than unedible horns. Thank you Jesus for this deer

Out on a new to me private lot on pillar point a friend has brought me to. It's only 30 acres but theres Alot of deer sign in here. Good luck to everyone going out. Sent from my moto g power (2022) using Tapatalk

One of my favorite books "Hunting Big Game With Dogs In Africa" by EM Shelly accounts Paul Rainey's expedition to Africa with his pack of highly trained Hounds and Fighting dogs to hunt Lions and Leopards among other game. The book is rare and costs a fortune these days, thankfully Google has digitized it and it can be read for free. I paid the shot for the book about 20 years ago. It is a good read from where I sit. Al https://books.google.com/books/about/Hunting_Big_Game_with_Dogs_in_Africa.html?id=CcBYGQAACAAJ

Congrats.. With that shot most probably cut the aorta https://www.deeranddeerhunting.com/content/blogs/dan-schmidt-deer-blog-whitetail-wisdom/femoral-artery-the-blood-highway-in-deer

Well, we were busy this afternoon.

Should have been able to fill a tag this morning on a doe. Goofed up! I have a nice two man stand at the edge of a grown over field where the deer "always" travel on multiple cross trails just inside the woods. There's a pocket of open woods right in front of the stand that has an old logging road that winds up my hill, sandwiched between some really tangled scrub apple trees. This is in front of the stand and the field is directly behind me. This morning is the first time I went to this stand this season, and with it dark when I went up the hill, I could not find where I tuck my wheeler into the tangled mess at the field edge. So I just ran it into the top of a blown down tree. Then without a flashlight, I bumbled around trying to locate the stand. When I found my stand and climbed up, I turned around and right behind me was my four wheeler. lol Well, I was not the only one who saw it! Around 7:15 as I was watching the trails in front of me where the deer "always" travel, I happened to turn my head to the field and there was a big, lone doe standing there head bobbing at my four wheeler. Then she bounded into the woods to my right and at about 15 yards just stood there in the thick stuff. All she had to do was take about 2 or 3 steps further ad would have been hanging in my garage. But it was not meant to be because she turns and walked off in the opposite direction, stiff legged walking obviously still shook up about the wheeler. I was sick about the deal because it would have been a chip shot with the crossbow. Then over the next hour I froze my feet and hands so bad I couldn't hack it. I stood up and put the crossbow down on my seat, as I tried wiggling my toes and shoved my hands down in my pockets trying to get the burning to stop. It was about 8:30, and I was standing looking in disgust out at the field now, when I no sooner got my hands in my pockets and here we go again! I hear a snap behind me and turn my head back around to the trails. Here comes a small doe with a bigger one following behind her. In the meantime I'm now turned the wrong way, my hands are in my pockets, and the crossbow on the seat of the stand. I tried as sneaky and careful as I could pick the bow up, turned myself around , and they both ran off, up the hill. They were under 20 yards away and would have passed me broadside if I was in position. Again, would have been easy shot. What can I say other than I blew it this morning! After that I got down and worked on a ground blind where I used to have my son sit when he was a teen and hunted with me. He's coming for Thanksgiving this year, and I'm hoping he might decide to go out with me for the first time in over 20 years. I went out this afternoon for about 3 hours and sat in the ground blind. Saw nothing, but at least it was warmer than the metal ladder stand.

Feels like forever ago sometime around the early 1990's I brought my Browning Bar to a gunsmith to be reblued and have a synthetic stock put on to replace the wooden gloss finish stock I tend to hold that gun while still hunting right where the forearm meets the steel receiver and was wearing out the bluing on that spot.. He talked me into a parkerized matt finish instead of bluing . I have never regretted it. I bought this gun in 1985 new. So in 8 years or so the bluing was almost worn out down to the metal . I hunted with that gun the same way until 2018. Roughly 25+ years since it was parkerized. Still looks new minus a couple surface buff marks from branches that never made it through the finish. Im not a fan of the camo colored barrels . I will stay with matt finish for barrels and receivers. But I do like some synthetic camo stocks.

Getting all my last minute prep ready for Saturday, it’s been warm and dry but Saturday is a whole new ball game. I was more excited about gun season this year than any before, but this morning the phone rings and my aunt passed away. 98 years old lived and seen it all , funeral is Saturday, good luck to everybody I’ll be a day late. Sh))t happens.

Didn't see anything but that's not a surprise since we caught some trespasser walking around during the last 15 minutes of light. Sent from my moto g power (2022) using Tapatalk