DeerStalker22

I know that a lot of young hunters now days portray hunting as they see on TV. Many of these younger hunters grow up believing that what they see on TV is true hunting. I myself, being a young hunter (only 21 years old) am proud that I don't find to many of these hunters on TV as my hero's when it comes to hunting. I know for myself that my hero is my father, who spent 7 years of his hunting to teach me so much about the woods, and not caring about what he harvested as long as I learned something each year. He has always preached that hunting isn't about harvesting an animal, its about much more than that. Its about the experience, and the time spent with friends and family, and the time spent in the woods.

Canada geese don't eat any fish, so I don't see them ingesting any heavy metals that way. Eating fish would cause them to contain mercury, not lead. Also I can't see how them eating plants would cause them to ingest lead, but you never know.

Yeah I would say a bear also, I have seen them where I hunt usually near a lot of bear sign.

unless it was a captive snake, corn snakes home range doesn't usually stretch into New York, it looks like to me that it could be a milk snake judging from the picture

Ya It is funny how it always seems to work that way, where you lose someone close to you, and all of a sudden you have great luck, and ya the emotions were really high, one of the best moments was right after I killed the buck and was walking out and my dad walked up on me and we had a big huge, and some tears were shed back to camp with the whole family

Ya my grandfather was also 83 and like you said you can only wonder if they had something to do with your luck, for me I dont have any doubt that it was my grandfather that sent those two deer in front of my father and I. Another weird thing about this year at our hunting club is that my hunting club went from getting 2 deer a year for the last 10 years to getting 10 this year and every one of them was a nice mature deer.

Ya he was double lunged and only ran about 40 yards

Thanks guys, this season was my best to date. During the muzzleloader season I shot a doe while wearing my grandfathers red wool jacket, and than the weekend after shooting the buck I shot another doe with his old Ithica 37 shotgun down in the southern zone. Phade heres another picture, we didnt really get as many pictures as i wanted to because I had to get back to college that night after driving the deer to my parents house.

my taxidermist aged with the teeth it when I broght him the cape. I have some other pics but i wont be able to get them up right away

It has been a while since I have been on the site in a while, and I just remembered I forgot to post a picture of my deer this year so here it is. So here is the story behind the deer, it was my dad, my brother, and mine first season since losing my grandfather this spring, so it was already an emotional season for the three of us. It was the weekend before the southern zone opener at our camp in the Adirondacks. Saturday night my dad shot a really nice 4 pointer back at a spot that my grandfather had taken allot of deer out of. So this weekend was already a special one. The next day was rather warm and miserable to hunt so I wasn’t expecting much from the day. That night with about 10 mins left of shooting light I heard a deer coming through the woods, I grunted at the deer, hoping that if it was a buck it would make it before shooting light had ended, well sure enough I see the deer running towards me through the woods. When it stopped I saw that it was at least a 6 point, so I pulled the trigger. The deer ran 40 yards and toppled over. The deer ended up being a 7 pointer aged at 6.5 years old and weighed 180.

I live in Ogdensburg, and have hunted and fished all around it my whole life, there is plenty of state land around, between Fish creek near Black lake, and Upper and Lower lakes near Canton, i have hunted both and have killed a variety game in both sites, as for the fishing, I dont think you can beat it in the area with the St Lawrence right there in Ogdensburg

I would probably guess a solid 300

Woodsman, if you're talking about Renesselaer Falls near Canton ny the name of the place is Basswoods lodge

Just because it takes two days to drive across Texas doesnt mean it shouldnt be in the United States, They fought their right into the US, and should stay, The US states should all be joining, not tearing apart

Ive ate both deer heart and liver, and i dont mind them, i feel venison is by far better, but ive ate both cooked liver and heart and pickeled heart. Both need a distinctive taste, but i like both

Congrats, im not to far from bubba my self, so you probably passed by me also

That sounds alot like what we have at camp every breakfast, I wish it was deer season all over again

Heres Shelby, my 8 year old Chesapeake

Well seeing how New York Giants are from New Jersey, and they are not the number one mark, in fact they are behind a few points for the win but I still have it for the Giants for the win

How did you end up doing this year?

nice sheds, even thought the winter has sucked i still have to much snow to look yet im just going to have to wait till the melt but I can't wait to get out this year and find my sheds

Hey Rifle Sharp Shot, are you kidding me, you say you dont spend all that much time on the internet, but yet your always on here having something to say, your nothing but a joke and i honestly dont know why everyone gets worried about ur posts cause ur nothing but a joke in which everyone should ignore,

Ive killed two bucks with a 243 without a problem never had to track either one, and then during the winter, it makes a great coyote gun also, for deer i use a 100 grain, coyotes i go smaller

If i remember correctly, sg0331 posted in the frustraded with bow hunters a post about until 308 gets off his lazy ass and shoots a deer like his (which his deer was a giant deer) than he cant bitch about bow hunters. In my book, thats gloating, which is just as worse as nocking someone down for a deer that they shot, no one really wants either one.

I know this is farther than 50 miles but the tooley pond road starting in the cranberry lake area is loaded with really good bear and deer hunting, my grandfather has killed two bears on that road as well as some nice deer.