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Nice Job and congrats on your first ! Good luck for the rest of your season

Good Stuff

I love special golden estrus. Great stuff. I've also had pretty good results with the Hunter Specialties scent wafers. I use the buck rut scent alot for an attractant and I use the fresh earth, pine and acorn wafers for cover scents. There was another cover scent that I loved but I can't find anymore it was Essence of Fall not sure who it was made by but it worked well.

Yeah basically all of the catskill mnts will be antler restricted area. I smell PETA

Hi and welcome.

Wow great pics and an awesome buck. I like the beer bottle comparison. Those bases are huge !!

Congrats on her first ! Hopefully first of many.

Wow that's strange. I can say I've never seen or heard of that happening. I only see one tag on the deer that was still alive when they found it. Where do you see both deer tagged ?

Correct me if I'm wrong here. The DEC states in their website that the only effective way to manage a deer herd is to take does out. I think they said something like 40% of does out to maintain or keep stable a population of deer and more than 40% to reduce a population. They also encourage landowners to voluntarily manage the deer on their properties. Yet now they make a regulation in which you cannot take does during bow or muzzleloader when there are no doe permits issued in that area. So basically they are telling landowners who want to manage their deer that "we" will tell you when you can manage the deer on your land and it's not up to you the landowner but us the DEC. That just doesn't sit right with me.

I'm with you. I tend to thing regulation usually winds up being a negative thing. I want to see where there has been restrictions if it even works.

That's like all of the catskills. Jeez. Not sure if that makes me happy or not. I usually let little bucks go but I like having the option of taking a marginal buck if I want. On the other hand I would like to see bigger bucks in my area. How many years does it take to start seeing more mature bucks as a result of these restrictions (if at all)?

WMU's 3A,4G,4O,4P,4R,4S,and 4W are the new antler restriction units for 2012.

They listed areas 3a, 4g, 4o, 4p, 4r, 4s and 4w as the seven new antler restriction units for 2012. What's the restriction 3 points on one side ?

The most important thing to remember when making bear is getting every bit of fat off the meat. The fat is what makes it taste bad.

Love Uncle Ted

Good Job !

I had a guy arrested for that exact reason where I hunt back in the early 90's. Opening day of bow my first year hunting with my Dad. We jumped a huge 8 pointer right to the guy. As soon as we lost sight of the buck we heard the gunshot. We went to check it out and here comes this moron out of a tree stand with a rifle over his shoulder and his bow in his hand. When he saw us coming he ditched his rifle behind a stone wall then ran over to the deer and stuck an arrow in the exit hole of the bullet. My dad went right over to the wall and picked up his rifle and we walked him out of the woods and held him until the Trooper got there. They cuffed him and took him away. It took 4 of us to get the deer into the troopers trunk. One of the biggest bucks we've seen in our area. They revoked his license for a number of years. Caused some turmoil with another landowner one of his buddies. We were always suspicious of them jacking deer and we were right.

Wow! Very nice

Hello and welcome ! Hope you have a safe and productive season !

Try 180 grain Federal Power Shok ammo. I shoot a Model 70 Win. in .30-06 and they seem to group pretty well for me. I also shoot the Fusions and I like the Hornady SST Interlock in 180. I've tried the Federal Vital Shok with Trophy Bonded tips and for some reason my groupings got very sloppy.

Yeah we had that wind down here in NC yesterday. I was born and raised in East Meadow where are you on the Island?

Ouch man! What's the saying ? No good deed goes unpunished ? How's the wind up there?

I looked into Hidden Valley Outfitters and they have a preserve but they also claim to have free ranging whitetails. It's located near Cooperstown. Thats pretty low that Deer City would leave the viewer to believe that fat Millis was hunting fair chase whitetails. What a load of crap that show is.

Bow has been open for almost a month here and it's still a little warm for my liking. If it cools off here I will go out.

Hyena ? jk