First-light

Hell Yeah!!!

Common sense and BO go along way together. To answer you question I have in 30 years (in the southern zone) only ran into a handful of hunters that didn't wear blaze orange. Seems BO is taken seriously in NYS.

I would take the shot, always have and always will.

Did a deer drive last weekend, I remember saying be careful when shooting and I wish the pushers had a bit more orange on. This had nothing to do about identifying my target (I do have a brain Bubba) it helps that person stand out. Actually I had a logging road that offered me a great 100 yard shot. For a split second I saw something then orange, it was one of the pushers. If he just had camo my mind would of processed that as an unknown. Hunters with minds do not shoot at unknowns but in this case the orange clearly identified the target as a hunter.

Cool deal Joe, good luck on that smoke pole buck!!

Joe you donate or eat all the meat? oh yeah congrats on the harvest!

That side profile would make for a great mount, full sneak!

The drums are slowly beating. I'm getting requests to go up next weekend for muzzleloader/bow. My brother, his son in law and Zach all want to go…..how can I resist?? lol

Yeah they need to know their boundaries. Just because the land owner is from out of town doesn't mean the flood gates open to the drivers. All my years hunting I see this happen every year by local drivers. They get bored with the traditional hunt and need land to do the drives, nobody is safe.

You gonna get spanked!!!!!

We put on one drive last Saturday. 2 standers 2 pushers, I saw 14 deer in a span of 15 minutes. They work for sure but just not my favorite way to hunt.

No I would not push it another 20 minutes it would be dark. I don't wear it at bow season because I don't have a guy with a 7MM in the woods with me. A lot more hunters out there with a gun which equates to more trespassers. Safety for me at gun season is know who is on your land, where they are and being able to spot them.

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He is stout, linebacker body for sure!

I would like to see a 1/2 hour before and after. Like Doc said you have to be a fool if you don't wear orange at gun season.

May be a bit more expensive but a safety harness vest?

Take it from me "first light" is always the best……...

It's a bird that landed on the wound and is cleaning out the maggots.

I'm sitting at camp cleaning things up and going to head home at 9:00. Yesterday was a good one. I went to my bottom stand and didn't see a thing, stayed to 9:00 and walked my property. To my amazement there wed twice as many buck rubs than opening week. These were very aggressive rubs thrashing pine trees and a few large rubs were found. Got back to camp by 10:30 and the neighbors I spent the evening with stopped by. They asked if I wanted to join in a push at 1:00 I agreed and we met not at 1 but 2:30. I was a stander and picked a great funnel area. It only took 10 minutes and I had 3 doe come by then a single deer hauling ass. 5 minutes later here come 7 doe right at me 3 hogs 4 yearlings. I didn't have a doe permit so I tried pushing them back into the drive. They wanted no part of that and ran past me at 10 yards. One last look behind me and I see 3 deer headed to the flat on my property. The lead doe stood for 5 minutes before crossing my field. The other two deer with her were a small doe and a half rack buck, probably one of those small 8's I saw. I watched as they cleared my field and headed up the hill side. As the two boys and their father approached he asked did you see any deer? I told them what happened and he said why didn't you shoot a doe? I said I used my doe permit last week, he says I have a few extras in my pocket thought we told you that??? I say nope!! We laughed and moved on. It was about 3:30 I was headed to a stand along the cut corn. I watched from the trail as some geese were landing, I take a pit stop and turn to see a yearling doe bedded in the brush 15 feet from me. She was sleeping and had no idea I was there. Fist time this ever happened. I watch for a bit and gave a little cough she bolted with out even looking my way from 0 to 60 in 3 seconds! 4:30 30 turkeys walk in and roost all around me. Good size birds hope they make a lot of babies. That's it until Long Island season in January. Be safe folks!

Had a few beers with my neighbors to the north. They border my backside of the property. 3 generations at the camp it was nice just hanging out trading stories. Two young men there wide eyed and eager to join in on the stories. Nice to see the youngsters carry on the tradition. Probably last hunt at the camp this year hope it a memorable one. BTW the guys told me last night they tracked that buck with the injured leg into their swamp. Guess he is in his comfort zone. Hope he makes it………...

Same here. Last hunt at the upstate camp for 2014……..

Same to you Zemm! Just got back in still hunted in at 3:30 saw very few tracks. Went down to the bottom of the swail and saw nothing. Just a couple of shots that was it back at it tomorrow.

Headed back tomorrow. Should be able to hunt last 2 hrs of Friday and the whole day Saturday. If we have snow I will find the tracks of the big buck that I saw on Opening day. I will hunt him down and have pictures up Saturday night, yup my mind is made up!! lol Seriously the amount of land around me and the lack of hunting pressure will help in my quest!

Enjoy the day folks!!

115-120 at best.