Doc

By the way, for those that don't believe there is growing animosity in the gun hunter ranks toward bowhunters, just check out the tone of this reply.

Posted signs are valid as soon as they are up. Regarding spacing, I have a standing rule that goes beyond the legal requirements. Mine are all put up such that as you approach the line there are at least three signs visible anywhere along the line. This makes it liar-proof when someone claims they did not see the signs.

What I have always heard was that a falling pressure indicates an approaching stormy condition that makes the deer go on a minor feeding binge. However, that has not come from actual observation and may very well be a crock. But it does make me wonder. Has anyone actually seen any credible articles from people who have studied the relationship between barometric pressure and deer activity? That would be some good info to know.

I learned that sometimes procrastinating on health issues can make corrective action come right at exactly the wrong time of year and wipe out your bow season.

No....That was just me. I had quite a bit of chili the night before. It wasn't pretty. Yeah, I feel sorry for any does in the area too, or any other living critter for that matter.

I suspect the older more experienced deer are probably not all that fond of being buzzed by ATVs.

So when you get home and unzip that scent-lok stuff, does all the body-stinks of the day come flying out.

I just finished raking all the leaves out of my stand yesterday, and then listened to the howling winds all last night.....lol. Yeah, I know I was jumping the gun by quite a bit, but I needed the exercise .... lol.

These guys seem to be very professional in their work. They are the people I go to every year. Usually under a day processing time.

Please excuse my ignorance, but I know absolutely nothing about color blindness. My question: What exactly do you see instead of the different colors? Is it just all different shades of gray? Are all the colors missing, or only some? What is the cause of color blindness? Is it some missing rods and cones or something? Just curious.

Yes this is not a real good time to be encountering that kind of big expense. But consider this ...... lets pretend the holidays were over, and it is February, and we had a nice new 8" of snow over a layer of ice, and you were coming down that hill with no brakes. Maybe it was a stroke of exceptionally good luck to have at least had dry pavement.

You know, now that you mention it, it really does sound like a bit of ball-bustin'. I could really picture that ..... ha-ha-ha.

From the wunderground.com forecast at 11/17/15, 5:35 am, the forecast for opening day 11/21/15, in Honeoye, NY is: Sunrise: 7:08 am Sunset: 4:42 pm Temperature: 34 @ 7:00 am ............40 @ 5:00pm % precipitation: 1% @ 7:00 am ...........4% @ 5:00 pm Wind speed: 4 MPH @ 7:00 am .............8 MPH @ 5:00 pm Wind direction: SE @ 7:00 am ..............SE @ 5:00 pm

This reply has me wondering what effects human farts have on deer. That disgusting, over-powering, stench wafting through the woods has got to stop a deer right in its tracks. On the other hand, the diet you are listing here might work out pretty good. All you will have to do is to go out and pick up the "passed-out" deer bodies. Another thought: Can a deer run & puke at the same time? Just some curious questions and thoughts coming from an idle mind when it really is too early in the morning to do much else. .....lol.

Sounds like he has crossed over from non-hunter to anti-hunter. It is one thing to have a lone ATV motor past, but a whole damned gang of them ripping around through the woods is not going to enhance the hunting. Maybe it will get the deer moving a bit, or it might just send them right out of your hunting area. Of course he has a right to ride on his own property, but knowing there are people trying to hunt there certainly makes his choice of days a bit on the unfriendly side.

I only got laid off once in my entire career. That was when the company I was at decided to let go 2/3 of their employees all at once. It was "last one in 1st one out arrangement. What a kick in the gut that was. But as it turned out, it led me right to the door of a great company that I eventually retired out of after nearly 40 years. Sometimes a lay-off winds up being the best kick in the butt that gets you to make a move you should have made already.

Another freaky thing that I have noticed during the seeking phase of the rut is that many of the buck seem to be moving perpendicular to the trails. It's kind of like they are moving in a direction to cross as many trails as possible. So I am positioned watching a major trail, and the buck comes in behind me ready to cross that trail and assumedly scent check it before moving across the next one. So if I have successfully put the wind in my face, coming from the trail I am watching, it's a 50-50 possibility that the wind is blowing from me right to the buck that is coming from behind me.

How things change over the years: Pretty darn primitive at first Deer camp generation 2: Our two-man camp Current deer camp the final version: Roll out of bed, and start walking up good ol' Killer Hill to get on stand

I'm not. I still have my pumpkin suit on, but I did have to remove some of the layers because of the heat that day. So, I simply hang things around to get more red and orange on the stand itself. Hey ... It can't hurt.

Ha-ha-ha ..... He did that on purpose you know.

It will look exactly like this except that the Ithaca 12 Ga will be replaced by my .270 Ruger American:

Interesting. When does a weapon become considered so hard to effectively use that it is unethical to use for hunting deer? I suppose that argument could get real interesting and perhaps have quite a ripple effect back through our versions of so-called "primitive weapons". Should that even have an effect on our thinking or is it a viable concern when legalizing hunting weapons? Does the fact that there are a few individuals who might become adequately proficient automatically make it eligible for legalization?

Ha-ha-ha ...... share the grief and make everybody miserable by shrinking their season.

You made a point of mentioning that you moved your leg. Are you sure that was not the reason that the doe blew and ran off? Perhaps it had nothing to do with the scent at all.

Or you can look at the threat that he DEC currently has hanging over our heads that they will implement an early muzzleloader season in certain WMUs if bowhunters don't behave and somehow figure out how to turn around the doe take with bows. Or you might want to look at the existing youth gun hunt that the DEC insisted be placed in bowseason. Or you can look back at 2004 when the only thing that kept the DEC from implementing a muzzleloader season then was the organized uprising of the bowhunters. Never say never. The fact is that I would say the odds are that it will be happening. And how far beyond muzzleloaders they will ever go, remains to be seen.