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A basket 8, 40 yards. Opening day. Hope he makes it!

Cant say I would pass him while stalking but in a tree this guy was given a pass by my buddy this year and is off limits till next year if he makes it.

Bolt for accuracy and long distance. Lever for up close and personal. 5 ft -70 yards.

Get tested, I don't have it but my 2 brothers and father have it. It can be treated but the longer you wait the more damage it can do!

And they (Our PETA friends.) say we hunters are out of touch with reality, lol. Crazy! "But he was wearing a pink ribbon with a rainbow next to it! No really that's NOT a doe!" LMAO Thanks I needed a good laugh this morning! Trying to shake a cold, wish I was out!

What was the story with this brute? The other deer are nice but this seems to be an exceptional deer. I see no hole did he run this one over, lol, j/k.

Epic! Very cool, congrats again on a great hunt!

The shot broke the hip bone and dropped him, continued through the stomach. Not sure how far in it went in exactly. Low powered 308 semi auto about 40 yards.

That's great Wooly! Love it!

Kaboom! I just got a brute! Wait what was the question, sorry I had a 220" buck in my sights and could not think straight! Real easy to say no I would never take that shot on a forum. To be honest I would have to have the chance to determine what I would do, that shot is a kill shot but not recommend. Did it once before by accident and had to finish off the deer. Not the way I would want to take my deer but a texas heart shot is a kill shot!

Yes!

Sorry to hear that, it happens even if we practice year round it can happen. I would try deer search a good dog should be able to recover. Keep your head up and keep at it! It can happen to anyone.

Don't shoot them! Call the number! Good luck hope you get them back. Funny post!

This basically sums it up! Everything I was going to retype was just a copy, lol.

Great card, awesome buck, really cool pics! Thanks for sharing and good luck with that brute he looks real nice!

Looks like a great spot, good luck! Nice pics thanks for sharing, I would Like the post but ran out of them today. Typical as I like this site, lol.

Big difference between the old cans and new cans. The old cans typically did an alarm call. The new cans are much shorter and have better reactions from deer as this is more of a contact/mating call. Another point made in one of the other videos is the area you are in. Thick cover and deer call more often, less deer in the area and they will respond better to calls. I figure this is why they react better up north than on LI where so many deer are present. In general they do not call that often, if they did we would hear them all the time when we hunt. So knowing how, when, where and how often are key. Also using the right call at the right time. I try to wait at least 20 min between calls minimum. The more you study and are familiar with deer the better at calling you will get, practice makes perfect. I practice year round, Baaaaah, doe, Maaa fawn Burp for a buck but I like the tube better than my mouth for grunts. Good luck to all this season, hope some of this helps! This shows the new call that is shorter and closer to a doe in heat than the old can that sounded like an alarm.

This is a good sequence of calling I just don't like the way the doe call sounds with the tube call. Sounds much more real to me by mouth or using the can. The sequence is spot on!

Fawn distress call, basically the fawn wants milk and is not stressed out like in an attack. The higher the pitch the more stressed and the quicker the doe will come in. Works great. The next video is much more stressed out animal as it is being attacked and when done properly sounds just like a rabbit in distress. Just be cautious with this call on the ground as the doe come in fast and alert and it makes for a hard shot. This next video shows how calling in a young yearling doe, this is typically how they react as they do not have the same maternal instinct as a mother doe would have. While the calling sequence was not what I considered great it did work on this inexperienced young deer TWICE! Shows how young deer can be fooled easily. This is a great call to start using as of this weekend and throughout the rut! Try it out. This is my new favorite call during the rut and has worked many times if you have a hot doe not fully in heat or a buck looking for a doe in heat or if trying to pull off a buck on a doe track. This also explains how to use the can properly.

Steve D I think you hit the nail on the head! And Shawnhu I agree 100%, nothing compares to fooling them with a call for me anyway. This will be a bit long so if interested bare with me! You have to be careful with using an aggressive buck grunt or snort. 90% of the time I see most bucks cringe when a dominant buck is in the area and lets his presence known with an aggressive call. Goes back to what Steve was saying about getting beat up by a larger male. This is NY and large dominant bucks are not very prolific, while rare I have heard of 2 dominant bucks clashing after a good rattling sequence but this is not the norm in most of NY unless you have a large amount of 3 year olds or older in the area. (Not typical in NY with some exceptions.) Calling in doe with a doe call is dependent on how many deer are in the area I believe. JMO (Compare NYC to a small local town upstate.) In NYC the country guy or gal is use to saying hello to everyone but does not get the same response as when they are home where everyone waves and says hello regardless if they know you or not. If you have an area of large population many doe could care less about another doe in the area. If you where in NYC and someone who passed you said hello you probably would not acknowledge them but in remote area where few people live they communicate with each other more, I believe the same is true of deer. One exception is when they are aggressive towards each other like when entering a food plot, they don't mind eating at the same location as long as they have their own table. The best calls for doe I have found are fawn calls, more so if they have fawns that are not with them! The best thing about fawn calls is all deer respond to them. Bucks know a doe will be close soon and all deer are inquisitive, use this to your advantage. Biggest issue with calling using a can is many of us are using them wrong. We try to make them loud and long by using the full can when this is an aggressive shout that most deer run from! If you use the can only use half of the call, if you let the diaphragm go to the bottom it is considered an aggressive call. Half way is a contact call or doe in heat. Best call to use when pre-rut is starting, like this weekend! Doe in heat 2 calls followed by one high pitched buck grunt indicating a young buck trying to mate a doe in heat. Maaa, pause Maaa Burp. Next time you have a buck pushing a doe you want, try that followed by a grunt snort weeze if he is a large dominant buck. Otherwise a high pitched grunt call can lure in a doe that is not fully in heat to get that buck off her track and possibly into a fight to keep him off her back. (They get tired of being chased by young bucks when they are not ready!) I will post a couple of videos that have helped in my learning of calling. It works but has to be done at the right time that's for sure! PS: Young bucks will come to almost any doe call when they start to come in heat, they just can't help themselves unless they are on a hot doe track. Like and LIKE! And another like for Jeremy K! I ran out of likes today.

Congrats Wooly! As stated above nothing wrong with advancing in your own hunting choices. From the looks of the young bucks you have plenty of good bucks to target in the years to come. Good luck and love your posts!

We have thousands of public acres on LI with many small parcels, I have not even begun to test the waters of all this land. Up North 3 million acres is all I need to get lost in bliss. Southern Zone, Roscoe 600 acres, Prattsville 300+ acres, Long Eddie and Port Jervis about 200 acres. More area's I have hunted but I do not go to these spots anymore since I really started to hunt LI a few years ago. These are the larger parcels on private land. I have hunted as small as 1 acre on private lands that my buddy has about 10+ parcels.

RIP Prayers to family and friends.

Funny but these are some of the spots I key in on up North. Much easer to find a bunch of doe and where they bed vs finding a lone buck! I just need to spot them before they bust me so I can act like the drunk girl in the back of the bar! lol Couldn't have said it better myself Phade!

Happy I am not the only addict! lol This is just something we as hunters have to deal with. I was really bad after I got my first deer in 2000 but not as bad as when I missed several over a 8 year span in this remote area! Lucky for me it all worked out when I finally connected in 2010 with a brute. Only problem is this did not cure my addiction but it did help me easy up on it. Right now a cold is keeping my spirit down, hope to clear up so I can hunt Friday - Monday.