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Happy Birthday ! Have a Great Day ....

No can do . Sundays are for church and football . Plus I have to visit someone in re-hab and give him some support .

Drove to Geneseo and arrived at 6:30 . That gave me an hour and 21 minutes to be ready for legal time . Figured I would take the easy way out and took a cross bow but also had my compound in the car just in case . My son was there before me and was already heading for the woods . Nick said he jumped 2 doe and what he thinks was a buck in the dark . He saw them with his head lamp . He didn't see anything while sitting in the woods stand and decided to leave at 11 so I walked up to the car with him . Before that I was moving an extension ladder that I had used with a chain on so I could take down a big limb to clear a shooting lane . Damned if I didn't have the ladder slip and took a chunk out of the end of my left index finger . I'm on blood thinner and it bled for quite a while . It still stings but I don't want to take the band aid off to check it out . I unloaded the atv and put my chainsaw on it and went back to the willow tree after having a sandwich and a bottle of water .Dropped the big limb . In the meantime I had pulled the trail cam cards . The one I put in the woods last week had the wrong year and times . Didn't realize that until I got home and checked out the pics . Didn't see any deer all morning . Sunset was listed as 5:58 pm . so I shot the de-cocking bolt and got down . Way out in the field was a lone doe . I stood in the thick stuff by the willow waiting for the doe to cross the field so I could get out without being spotted . It was a Long Boring day !

Took cross bow today. Shot a Thumper decocking bolt when I got down this am. It drove the rubber stopper up the shaft 3 inches. Can't budge it back. ????? Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

What do deer look like. .. haven't been one all day . Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Haven't seen a thing all day. My son kicked out a couple doe and a buck on his way to the woods. He left at noon.. I sliced the tip of my left index finger earlier. I'm on blood thine r so I bled a lot. Sitting 15 feet up in a stand bored out of my skull Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

All is quiet on the Western Front .... Geneseo. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Gotta be careful confronting locals also . If you only hunt a spot once or twice a week or you are only at your camp on weekends and you piss off a local . Your stands or property could get trashed . They can be there when you aren't . Ya never know !

I am going to give it a try tomorrow and get it out of my system . I am taking my compound bow along as well . I bought one after watching the video that First Light made . Impressed with the ease and simplicity of the crossbow .

OOPS ! Sorry . When I saw the topic I thought it saw a choice between a Dog or Boots .

The property is owned by a Construction Company . The family that farms it gives us permission to hunt it . Where the guy is standing is on someone else's property . We used to be able to hunt there when the original owner was alive . His son now oversees the estate and they built a house on the property on the Rt 64 . The son left a note on one of our stands that it was private property so we took it down . The son had screwed up a couple of my sons hunts by coming into the area and making a lot of noise back when his father was alive on his father's land . He even called the cops and by sons showed them the permission papers signed by the son'd mother . I am guessing this guy is a local . No other vehicles were parked anywhere nearby . I don't know what the original owner's son looked like but we thought he wasn't a hunter . Maybe he was just doing his screw up someone else's hunt routine . Wasn't expecting this to go to 3 pages .

You are so full of it ! It couldn't have been you because the guy in the photo was carrying 500 pounds of Bar Bells !

The only time I am seeing bucks is at night while driving or on my trail cams . I hope that changes this weekend .

Welcome to Hunting NY .....

I definitely didn't want to confront this guy . A while after he ducked into the wooded area , I spotted something about 100 yards south of me . I could see orange on the right and blue on the left and thought maybe he or someone else had left some gear out there . Then I saw some movement and the guy got up off the ground . He had been laying on his back . He had to be one weird dude !

I try to place my ladder stands at a 90 degree angle to where I would expect the deer to approach from . If I thought the deer would be coming out ot the thick growth to the south of me I would place the stand facing west . This way I would be shooting to my left with no obstructions to the shooting form . If a deer approached directly from the west I might hit my elbow on the tree trunk when drawing . I also prefer a tree with multiple trunks if possibe . It gives you a bit more cover when the leaves are gone .

Congrats . Great looking buck .

Growie. .. say a prayer to Saint Anthony. It often works for me . Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

That ladder is something someone used a couple years ago when he had a chain-on in the willow . The guy stood on the bottom rung and didn't go any higher .

No idea who he is .... There are 6 of us that have permission . 3 of us hunt bow season . Another guy , his wife and daughter hunt during gun season . I am guessing this is a local .

Saw a large red for while driving on Thornell Rd in Pittsford . Then as I turned onto West Bloomfield there was a buck standing about 20 feet off the side of the road . I was in the stand by 6:30 . Sat back and relaxed . A little after 9 I saw a couple doe go across the back lawn over 300 yards away . Didn't see anything else and left at 11 . Dropped some stuff off at my son's house , got something to eat and went to DICKs in Victor . Bought a few items and went back to the hunting area . Sat in the stand from 2:30 to 6 pm and didn't see any deer . Some guy in an orange tee shirt and blue jeans was walking around . I spotted him 300 yards down the field and he ducked into the wooded area at about 200 yards . I figured he saw me and was avoiding me . Later I saw him throught the trees , vines , etc south of my stand . I thought he was using a grunt call but he was smoking . Smelled like those small cigars , cigarellos , whatever . He came within 35 yards of my location and stood looking into the tall stuff . He never looked up at me or in my direction . Since I hadn't seen anything all afternoon , I kept quiet and hoped that he might kick something out of the thick area . Didn't happen .

Surprised to see this guy out with a crossbow . When I 1st spotted this guy he was about 300 yards away at the end of the field . He came within 200 yards and ducked into the wooded area . I spotted him a few other times and almost called to him as he didn't appear to know I was in the stand . I thought he was smoking an E-Cig until the wind changed and I could smell the stinking Cigarello . Took a few pics .

Sometimes , if I am sitting in a blind, I take my military mummy type sleeping bag with me . I have been able to stay out a lot longer that way . Got a lot of deer while doing this . I would just put it over my shoulders . It really kept the body heat in . My son in law said I should take it with me when I buy a lottery ticket but that didn't work .

Some guy in an orange tee shirt and cross bow came out of the wooded area about 200 yards away from me. He just squatted down along the edge of the field . Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Saw a couple of doe way across the field in someone's back yard. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk