fasteddie

Welcome to Hunting NY .........

The area in blue is about 1/3 of my SILs 68 acre property . To the North and West are wooded areas . There is a large ditch on the West side of the property .The area in red is a lot of overgrown scrub trees . Not many big trees in the red area except near the middle . The Yellow dot is about 10 yards into what my son wants to make a sanctuary . He hunts the property maybe 3 times during gun season and I hunt the property 15 - 20 times between Bow , Gun and ML . I have had quite a bit of success on the Geneseo property . My oldest son has property in Italy Valley that he hunts as well as properties close to where he lives . I will be 76 this coming season so I am not all that much into a total deer sanctuary . Time is running out . The pond blind on the map is no longer good as the the guy that farms the land pushed much of the brush back so the deer no longer travel their previous route past the blind and go through the thick area . My youngest son shot a doe and a buck from the double stand in the woods on opening day of gun season this past season . I prefer having the deer get use to a blind but I have killed deer anywhere from same day to weeks later after installing one . Same goes for ladder stands . Trees in the thick stuff are small diameter and shooting lanes would have to be made . That is pretty much unnecessary with a ground blind that would blend into the background . And to reiterate , it would only be about 10 yards into the thick area . It would be an ideal spot for a pistol shot . That reminds me . I have to recheck the scope on my Contender 7-30 waters pistol . As for spooking the deer . I have had deer walk the same trails that I have gone on and walked up to the game cameras . .

My oldest son wants to leave the area inside the red lines in the map below as a Sanctuary . I placed a camera where the yellow dot is inside the red border where trails meet in the thick stuff . If I see action on that camera I am considering placing a Dog House Blind or a Double Chair blind in that area . I would put something there at least 2 weeks before gun season and use it for pistol hunting . We would stay out of that area during bow season and gun season except for the blind .

It might just be that the fox is Mooning the trail cam !

Red Fox took a dump in front of the camera

Little guy still has his antlers

Why not just say " let's give that SOB a fair trial and then hang his butt " ! Then again , that might give you contempt of court .

My sons and I get crop damage permits and can shoot deer until 11pm . We quit before it gets dark. We don't take any chances of an accident . Coyote hunting is 24 hours a day and lights are allowed . I wouldn't care to be shooting in the dark .

The Dodge Aspen didn't have a release inside the car . All you had to do was reach in the front vent and push the release .

I would no longer dare do that . I lost a spare key to a Subaru Forester and it cost me almost $200 to replace it . The keys a laser cut and also have to be programmed to the vehicle . I locked my keys in a Dodge Aspen that I had bought used . It was winter . I had started the car and got out to clear the windows . I must have hit the door lock . Walked back into the plant and got a hanger and was able to unlock the car after several tries and freezing my hands . Had a backup key made . A friend suggested putting it under the air cleaner . I unscrewed the cover to the cleaner , took out the cleaner and you guessed it , they was already a spare key . Duh !!!

I could imagine that old guy hitting a bump , have the deer hooves catch the spokes and go ass over tea cup !

Germane isn't with us any more . She was banned from the site .

Ole Shep belongs over on CNN !

Done

This thread reminded me of this ...........

My daughter told my son in law to get a bunch of Celery at the store on his way home . He brought home a bag of celery . We never let him live that one down !

A Tip for Garage Organizing --- watch the whole video https://youtu.be/Rw_tGPVyKYI

I pretty much say what I think and my wife often rolls her eyes up when I speak . I can tell she is doing it when I can't even see her because I hear her doing it !

Someone mentioned 60 as old so here goes

This is what I got when I clicked on the link ....... This posting has been deleted by its author.

I have a "Pocket Juice" gadget that recharges the battery that I carry in my backpack . I have another one in the car in case I go somewhere and might need one .

Hey , I resemble that remark !

I also wonder if the other guy actually recovered the deer . If Beachpeaz did a thorough search that Saturday and the other guy had already found it , why wouldn't he find a gut pile ? I think the other guy was just bustin' something .

To the OP --- I agree with the others that the guy should have called you when he found it . Even so , I am curious to know what you would have done . You shot it on a Thursday and weren't going back until the weekend . Would you have gone there on Friday am to retrieve it ? Would you have told the guy to gut it and drag it out of there which he couldn't legally do without tagging it .... ? Just curious as to what the OP would have done if he had gotten a call from the guy that retrieved the deer .

Many , many years ago , the Meteorologists had predicted a sever snow storm in the Rochester area that would cripple traffic in the area . Xerox chose to be safe and called for a snow day . Storm never happened and the snow day was a beautiful day . The company never did it again .