NYBowhunter

Picked up the rug today, came out good. Also looked up the 2013 bear take from the DEC stats. and she was the only bear taken in the town I hunt and was 1 of only 8 taken for all of Otsego county. Find myself very fortunate to harvest this huge sow , she went 260lbs. Now just waiting patiently for DEC to send me her age. Here's a picture of her laid out on grass then up on wall.

Biggest NY buck was a 10 pointer and only NY bear I've taken was this past season (2013), she weighed 260 lbs.

Yep..read it.

Sorry to hear of you loss..my prayers will be with you and your loved ones.

My buddy had purchased a new sako in 338 , was shooting reloads and was not getting very good groups. Turns out the crown was damaged.

Feel better real soon.

Congrats, great way to end the season. Merry Xmas.

Congrats, nice doe.

Thanks all. One bear and 2 doe in the freezer and I'm set. One more deer would be nice, if not, I'm still a very happy camper. I'm fortunate as to how this year turned out. Good luck all.

Thanks. Good luck!!

Got me a big old doe, came in with three other does. Shot her at about 80 yards with the TC. She's was really big with a huge head, she's been around the block for a while.

Congrats, real nice bear.

Happy Thanksgiving all...enjoy the day with your loved ones!!!!

Congrats, some good eating there!!

Thanks...Send one of those big mountain dack bucks my way...lol

Thanks all. BTW it's even more special to me that both my harvests were taken using my dad's 50 year old marlin 336 35 caliber using 150 grain spear points. I told my dad who's 75 years young that he better start looking for another gun if he breaks his current 30-06 because the 35 is now officially mine...lol.. it's a sweet compact light rifle that puts them down in a hurry and makes my trek up the mountain that much easier.

Yeah I have gotten 2 on my cameras but only in last 3 years or so. I have a picture of one in my clover plot from 2 years ago that was an absolute pig, I'm guessing 400 lbs or so.

I had posted these pictures in the general hunting and bear hunting sections of the forums, but thought I would post here being it's more relevant to people hunting region 4. Considering the DEC website indicates that for 2012 there was only 1 bear harvested in Worcester NY, I find my self very fortunate to harvest this beauty on opening day 11/16/13, she scaled out at 230 lbs. So if you see only one bear harvest for 13' in Worcester NY you know it was me...lol I also took this doe 2 days later 11/18 from same stand. Hope you are all having a good season.Now I'm just hoping for one of the bigger bucks to show.

Yes 7 hours on low temps in a crock pot, go hunting then come back to a done meal. It's that simple. We grilled some steaks on the barbecue the day before, but the stew was much better hands down.

Congrats real nice representative of a 3 1/2 year old buck for our area.Nice !!

Bear was 230 lbs.

Thanks everyone. Yeah that's the first time for me that I had to pull an apple out of a deer's mouth....lol. She's all butchered and in the freezer.

Have been seeing lots of does and our freezer was empty, took this nice size doe. 5 doe came in late this afternoon and proceeded to feed under the apple trees. Was really hard to get a shot as one would eat another would look in my direction, so I had to move very slowly and cooked the hammer on my dad's trusty 35. Took aim and drooped her in her tracks, heart shoot. She will make for some good eating.

Almost have the skull all cleaned up. Had some bear stew tonight and it was delicious. Cooked stew in a crock pot for 7 hours, used bay leaves, carrots, potatoes, daikon radish, celery and mushrooms...was unreal...yummy!!!

Congrats to the both of you!!