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The Good Lord blessed me again on the second Sunday of the early antlerless gun season. I “doubled down” on the “Jesus first” thing in the late morning, after a short uneventful early morning hunt with no deer sighting, church and adult Sunday school. After that, my wife had a heck of a honey-do list for me. I knocked off everything she asked for and then some. Then I drove about 20 miles to my parents place, on the opposite corner of wmu 9F. They had lots of work for me to do also, before I could go hunting. Once again, I knocked all of that and then some. This is where the “Others second” came in. I was much later than I wanted to be, back in the double ladder stand that goosifer sold me for $20 a couple years ago. That’s where the “Yourself last” thing came in. I thought I blew it again over there, by picking the wrong stand, as I had the previous Saturday afternoon. My dad had mowed the clover plot out back, during the week, to a short stubble. Between that and hearing the old boss doe blowing downwind, 1/2 hour before sunset, I thought for sure I was in for nothing. Once again, I decided to give up before sunset, and started to pack up my stuff. Just after I pulled off my camo face mask, I heard the unmistakable sound of hoof steps, in the tall goldenrod upwind. She stepped out, 45 yards away, 2 minutes after sunset. I cranked the old Redfield scope up to 7x and verified the lack of headgear or buttons, then settled the crosshairs on the back lower corner of her inboard shoulder blade. When the smoke cleared, there she laid: The J.O.Y. doe, 28 minutes before the closing buzzer of the early antlerless gun season. T/C Omega 50 cal, 240 gr XTP, (2) T7 50 gr pellets, Redfield wide field 2-7x. Ive only eaten her fillet mignonettes so far (made tacos with them) and once again, they were “to die for”. She was about as close to perfect of a “grinder doe” that a guy could ask for. With both of my first draw dmp tags punched now, and our meat supply in decent shape, I’m going to be a bit more selective than usual with my (5) remaining deer tags.

The good Lord blessed me with this wmu 9F button buck on the first Sunday afternoon of the early antlerless gun season. Marlin 512, 2-3/4” Hornady SST, Redfield/Leupold Revolution. 2-7x. I got into my favorite two-story truck cap blind about 5:00 that afternoon. At 5:45, a smaller antlerless deer appeared in the clover plot behind me, 40 yards away. I saw it when I turned and made eye contact. My gun was laying on the opposite side rest. I attempted to make a super slow motion turn and reach for the gun, but if detected the motion and high-tailed it into the thick cover. As sunset approached, the mosquitos got very intense. I had a camo face mask on, but they were even getting in under that. I decided to give up under their repeated attacks, about 15 minutes before sunset. I removed the camo mask and packed up my other gear. When I looked up, I saw the little buck feeding on foot high Timothy hay, about 90 yards away. I mistook it for a mature doe, because the head looked long and it looked significantly larger than the deer that I saw earlier. It was very good size for this years deer. Must have veen born early and definitely has been eating good. The liver alone made two “to die for meals”. The rest of the meat will be saved for “special occasions”. I’m thinking of bringing one of the butt roasts (made (6) of those from that little guy) up to my in-laws for early antlerless week, so that she can stuff a Thanksgiving Turkey with it. My wife did that a couple years ago, and that was the best tasting meat I ever had on Thanksgiving in my 58 years.

Good bites lately, I love the fall fishing. Sent from my motorola edge (2022) using Tapatalk

Hey all ... I've been here since Sep. 2011 and am also on " the other site " and will not trash either one ! I enjoy both - always have - and will continue to enjoy both ! I want to give a big shout out to #FastEddie for being there during the recent tumult --- HooRah --- !

Freaking bears tore down one of my hottest scrape sites with their messin around. No real interest in taking one out but man the numbers are getting up there b

Out of control every where.

No that is up here on the North farm. With 1000acres of crops and 1000’s of acres of pretty lightly hunted military base across the road it’s a never ending parade of pretty much all critters. Will have to let a couple guys on to remove a few I guess. I just don’t have the desire to take one out.

Yeah I’m done with it. If people want to belong to the other forum, have at it. Want to belong to both, by all means. Trash this site in the process, then you’re gone. It’s childish bullshit that won’t be tolerated.

I wish I could. I’ve asked for that ability a few times and haven’t gotten an answer. I would really like to bring this site back to life again. We will see. I’m trying.

If I keep hand lifting and cocking this Excalibur Crossbow, so I decided to put on one of those crank cocking gizmos and stay a 98 lbs weakling LOL! It does make for more enjoyable long shooting sessions. Al

That's a real nice crossbow! Good luck this season!

So the few that thought there were no Mod’s on this site kinda found out a little differently I see. Welcome Back to that Mod.

Nice. I just picked up a new crossbow and handed my old CenterPoint down to my son. I bought a Wicked Ridge Fury410 that has the crank cock/decock sled on it. Just got it sighted in yesterday. Love it so far. A lot nicer than the cocking rope on my old one.

So another pain in the ass thing I have discovered is removing those crossbow bolts from the foam target blocks. I have one of those rubber grip thingys that work good for arrows fired out of my bows but it takes a lot more effort and time getting those buried bolts out. I got online and found this gripping tool that is highly rated with a thumbs up from serious shooters. Not cheap but will be well worth the price if it does what everyone says. I would rather spend more time shooting than pulling. Al

I hear you, smallies are more fun for fighting purposes, but not for eating! Oneida will be getting better and better right into November. Sent from my motorola edge (2022) using Tapatalk

It will come back around. And it will be better than ever. So,So much better in these parts. You notice the only bitching are from the ones that live on the computer and obviously don’t have much of a life of their own.

Was that over on the west side of the park? I didn't get my trail cameras out till Sept this year but I did see one going across a field just south of us.

Just picked up 300# of rye Will be broadcasting it in a failed brassica plot

The beauty of this site is that none of this is forced on anybody. You have to go out of your way to access any of the posts here. You have to consciously click on this part of the site to be able to view any of it. Even the general site menu does not carry any mention of posts that appear in this section. So those who find this stuff offensive are actually going out of their way to be offended and they know it.

Who wants to be angry all the time? Depressed all the time? There's forums I stopped visiting all together and others I only visit occasionally because it's all doom and gloom all the time. Even if it's accurate and true, I don't need it 24 hours a day. Sort of like the reason people object so much to things like football players kneeling for the anthem. Because watching sports is escapism, to get away from things like that, only to have it forced on them again. I visit certain forums for the same reason, momentary escapism. I don't need to be beaten over the head with sociopolitical aggravation everywhere I go.

Not just NY City, the Democrats are sucking the whole country into the shitter with their libtard-commie agenda, we have a big time mess on our hands. Al