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I never stop at a dine and avoid stopping at all . I don't want to get any smell on me . I generally have coffee and Instant Oatmeal at home and Granola Bars at my site .

During shotgun season , I take the shotgun opening day and then the ML the rest of the season . The ML is more fun to shoot and more of a challenge than having a backup round in the chamber . Bubba , I probably would have shot the doe if she was a good size .

I have never met anyone from the site . That's probably why I am still alive .

One one that gets me is a friend knows you hunt and asks " did you catch anything ?"

There are a lot of excellent bow manufacturers out there . Don't get caught up with a specific brand . i have a Pearson TX-4 and a Parker Phoenix EZ draw . They are both great bows . Find a bow that feels good in your hands and try it out . Also having a dealer close by helps .

Here are a few that I posted about a year ago ................... You might be a Hard Core Bowhunter if:-- 1. You have more parts than bows laying around the workshop; 2. You have 47 dozen aluminum arrows in various sizes ... none of which are straight; 3. Your archery tacklebox is bigger than your car trunk; 4. Your family is used to the smell of doe pee and cow in heat lure; 5. You have more sets of camo than you do business suits; 6. You bathe more in hunting camp than you do at home; 7. The neighbors no longer call the cops to report a scream when you're practicing with your bugle before elk season; 8. You've got more McKenzie body parts laying around your yard than most pro shops have in stock; 9. Your bowhunting setup cost more than your first honeymoon; 10. Your kids and dog forget who you are during the hunting seasons; 11. You only spend 8 hours a day at work so you can spend 16 hours a day sitting in a stand on the weekend; 12. Your grandmother/grandfather/uncle/aunt/cousin/etc have each been buried more than once and you attended each funeral ... or at least the boss thinks so; 13. You've ever mixed up your pee bottle and your thermos in the dark (My Joe this coffee sure has a whang to it!); 14. You spend more than 3 hours a day reading threads on the Bowsite! 15. You know the date of bow season but can't remember your anniversary. 16. Your scared of heights, but, have no problem hanging on a tree 20' up with one arm trying to hang a stand with the other. 17. Squirrels in your hunting area treat you like family. 18. Your regular street clothes are all shades of brown and green. 19. You're license plate is "BUKFVR", or "BUGLER". 20. A corner of your garage looks like a display for a museum entitled, "The History of Treestands." 21. You costantly estimate the range to everything 22. While watching tv that shows any game animal, you always look for the best angle and time to shoot. 23. It kills you to get up at 6:00 to go to work but you pop out of bed at 3:30 to go hunt. 24: If your neighbor's wife asks you to move your Mckenzies because her kids think they are real deer and they want you to stop killin em. 25: If you have eye-bolts screwed into the ceiling of the garage to hang deer on. 26: If you keep extra rolls of carpet around to put in the camper instead of trying to wash the blood out. 27. You go to a 3D shoot on Valentine's day and just leave flowers on the table 28. You compare the insides of your wife during a C section to deliver your baby to a gutpile. Been there, done that, regret the comment for the rest of my life. 29: If you've got targets placed strategically throughout the house so you can shoot after dark, with walkways blocked by baby gates to prevent injury to your spouse and kids. 30: If you've got a tree stand mounted to your chimney for practice. 31. The people who take your order by phone at Cabelas ask how the wife and kids are doing. 32. You wander aimlessly through the hunting department of your local Wal-Mart during the offseason. 33. Your wife has told you that she refuses to wear any more of that funny smelling "perfume" thats comes in the little brown bottle. 34. your buddies ask you how is it hanging and you say there not there draggin. 35. You go thru the drive-thru at a fast food joint and you're 3 year old child yells out at the intercom that he wants a super-sized order of backstraps. 36. You firmly anchor the mouthpiece of the phone to the same place at the corner of your mouth every time you use it. 37:If you have your own tray in the refrigerator for scents and lures 38:Your wife buys all your socks and underware at the bow shop 39:If your wife dosen't ware white or brown PJ's to bed during hunting season 40.If your water bill triple's during oct.& nov. 41.If your family eats dinner without ya during oct&nov 42.If your kids were afraid to have Santa land his sled on your roof 43. If your children have watched more hunting videos than Barney. 44. You've ever gotten road rash from sliding down the tree you're hugging; 45. The term "tree-hugger" to you means someone who bought a cheap deer stand; 46. You shave your arm more testing your broadheads than you shave your face using a razor; 47. You've ever used the words "Bubba, treestand, bigun and gutpile," in the same sentence; 48. You take out a third mortgage on your home so you join a deer lease; 49. Every right hand glove you own is missing 3 fingers. 50. For 4 months of the year your trunk looks like a search and rescue supply depot. 51. You have knee surgery on December 23 and you still go hunting on Christmas day. 52. You walk in the house before dark and your wife asks you what the he__ you are doing home. 53. Your kids don't realize they sell meat at grocery stores. 54. Your daughter thinks 'camo' is a color. 55. Your reindeer Christmas decorations have arrow holes in them. 56. You find ways to fit archery terms into your nickname. 57. You've got more than one arrow hole in the side of your shed/house/garage; 58. You've developed a taste for crackers with either vienna sausages, potted meat and/or Spam; 59. SPAM Mail is how your wife describes you after a weekend hunting trip; 60. You're more concerned about your feathers staying dry than catching pneumonia; 61. Your wife finds the equivalent to three rolls of toilet paper in bits and pieces in her washing machine after washing your hunting pants; 62. You own any item of clothing that carries a tag with a word ending in "TEX" written on it. 63. You can field dress a deer faster than you can change a baby; 64. After about a month of bow season the lady next door asks your wife if she is separated. 65. You Are legally blind but can hit a quarter at 40 yds 66. You have your kids put a 3-d target in the back of your 78 ford, and drive really slow. This allows you to practice on moving shots. 67. You have tree steps in all your tool boxes. 68. you show up befoe dark and your wife asks "How big is it"? 69. We know we are hard core bowhunters, when we can not number these things in order! 70. You have looked at Bill Jordan/ Will Primos/ ect... more than anyone else lately. 71. You have seen more hunting videos than you've seen videos with your wife/girlfriend/boyfriend! 72. You have had more bows in your life than toothbrushes. 73. You paint your car different colors of green, brown, gray, and black. 74. You shoot your bow so much that your release breaks! 75. You say the word buck,elk,moose,bear,caribou, or turkey in every sebtence. 76. when you take family vacations in the car and your wife has to drive at dusk and dawn so that I... er you can search the ditches and fields for deer. 77. You re driving and you spend more time checking the fields for deer that watching the road ahead. 78. You see a painting of woods and fields, and you analyze it for the best stand placement. 79. You read the word does in a sentence, and you automatically think of female whitetail deer. __________________

We had one heck of a rain late last night . The sun is out now for a while . I'll be in south Bristol Saturday am with 2 of my sons hopefully . The forecast looks pretty good but can change . I don't mind a light rain but to sit in wet clothes all day sucks big time !

The real question is ........why does the guy need to take booze in the woods at all ?

Even though the butchers tag the deer , you aren't guaranteed getting your own deer meat back and I don't want venison from a deer that has been riding around in the back of a pickup truck for a few days . The only butcher that I was pleased with is Sam Pagliuso in Williamson . His wife , daughter , son in law and a couple others worked out of their garage . Sam had to give it up . A lot of these guys that work out of their garage are good and others stink ! There used to be a place on Hudson Ave that butchered deer and did a good job but closed . A DEC officer stopped in periodically and checked the deer out . I also realize that a lot of internal damage can ruin meat and it gets wasted . But ........ if I get 51# of meat off of a medium size buck that I butcher and get only 33# ( including Box ) off of a lung shot pass through doe , I feel that I am getting ripped off especially when there isn't much for backstraps ! Say what you will but all of these guys that butcher deer aren't completely honest .

Hunted a spot in Mendon this afternoon . I was in a treestand by 2:45 and had 2 scentwicks with plain doe pee on them . I was sitting there for about 5 minutes with my harness on and all of a sudden thought I should attach the belt to the tree . Duh !!! Around 5:30 I had a small doe at about 10 yards and i'm thinking should I , shouldn't I shoot . She had no idea that I was there but was facing my direction . She didn't appear to be a fawn as she wasn't "box shaped" . Anyways , she sauntered off and I didn't draw on her . Later I saw a buck with large spikes about 100 yards out in a field . My son had hit a doe using his recurve bow . He hit her high and towards the back end . This was around 5:30 . She laid down so he waited . It started to get dark so I went to help him look some more . We gave up around 9 pm . His arrow had blood from tip to nock . The field had high weeds and brush . He is going to check it out again at daylight but I don't think it was a kill shot . At least I saw a couple deer on the outing . Rain forecasted for tomorrow .

Welcome to Hunting NY and congrats on your deer .

It looks like Twine from hay bales on their antlers ...........

Went back to Walworth today and saw nothing . Spent a while in the blind and there was a Copter flying overhead and hovering . It made a heck of a racket . It moved along and later came back . Finally realized they were checking the poles / insulators , etc . on the power line property . Walked up to my vehicle and got my harness and spent a couple hours in the treestand . Got down and walked the power line property . Saw where they had mowed and put up snowmobile trail signs . That's probably what all the noise was Saturday . Between the guys messing up the area and the copter , that area is screwed up for a while . Going to try an area in Mendon with my oldest son tomorrow afternoon .

I butcher my own and have for several years . A couple years ago I got lazy and took one to a guy that butchers during deer seasons and got ripped off . I had butchered a 6 point buck and got 51# of meat . I took a doe that was much larger to a butcher and got 33# ( including the weight of the box ) and it cost me $68 . . The buck was a bow kill . The doe was BP and double lunged so there wasn't any waste to the meat .

Congrats on your deer .

Real nice video and a great looking buck !

Congrats ! That's a nice looking buck ,

Congrats to both of you . At least you're seeing them .

It started to sprinkle as I drove from Ontario to Walworth . There was enough moonlight to walk to my spot but every once in a while the clouds would pass and it would get darker . I was settled in my hub blind by 6:15 am . Sat back and relaxed . Saw a fox at 7:55 and after that a few squirrels . Heard a few shotgun blasts towards Webster way in the morning . It rained off and on and the wind was moving the trees back and forth . I was ready to leave at noon after seeing nothing and the way the weather was acting . It was still windy at 12 but the sun came out . Shortly afterwards the sun went away and it got crappy again . I left at 2 pm . After checking the weather for today , I decided to wait until tomorrow to hunt . We have Mass at 8:30 and then I will relax and watch the Bills - Jersey Giants Game . The spot I hunted is the same one where I had gotten pics of several deer . No doubt that they were probably hunkered down due to the wind . The wind was in my favor but didn't help .

I'd like to visit one of those "boneless chicken" ranches just to see how those birds stand up ! ... ...

Welcome to Hunting NY !

I left my blind at 2 pm . The wind had started to pick up again . I was set up at 6:15 am and all I saw was a fox at 7:55 and several squirrels . The wind was in my favor and blowing toward the swamp . When i got to my vehicle it started to rain lightly again . What a crappy day !

I agree with Burt ------ " If mama ain't happy , ain't nobody gonna be happy" !

I bought a couple of the Lyman reloading books are read them both a couple times before starting to reload . Didn't have anyone to show me anything . I have reloaded for 223 , 7-30 waters , 270 , 25-06 and 44 mag . So far I have all my fingers and both eyes . I try to be extremely careful . The books were very helpful !

47 degrees at 7 am in Walworth with a high of 52 degrees .