New York Hillbilly

Heard half dozen rapid shots just as getting light enough to see. Startled the heck out if me. I thought goose hunters or turkeys but was quite the fire storm. Now this post reminded me this other possibility. If that was someone being mentored, they need a new teacher.

Nothing since the six point at about 7am. Windy, noisy, non stop crackles, pops and crunching. Absolutely beautiful fall day though.

Little six point comes in gives me perfect angle... But on my wrong side!! He gets antsy and slips back into the brush. Holding my breath the spit goes down wrong pipe and pine tree comes alive with choking. Gotta live this deer hunting stuff. Lol!

wow wow wow!!!

I just cant figure how "we" all got so hooked on deer hunting without the benefit of a much needed special "youth season".

Chin up! Most of our swamps where we (you and I) hunt are at the bottoms and surrounded by cornfields. There is frequently brushy areas and tangled stuff, rock piles, old farm equipment etc., pushed up against these swamps to get the junk out of the way of the actual land being used to farm. I've glassed areas like this and watched buck hang back and let does and smaller bucks walk out into the fields first before stepping out. These brushy areas also have saplings and small trees growing in them and they are used heavily for rubbing. If there are no trees big enough for a stand and you don't like hunting from the ground, use a ladder stand if you have one. If I was home I would let you borrow one of mine. Good luck and go get em!

I had a a few cups over the years that smelled and probably tasted like deer p1$$

Nice job. Congrats!

Cool.....much appreciated. Now thats my idea of a welcome wagon!

I wouldn't go walking into the middle of the place leaving scent all over. Find yourself the nearest apple orchard on the place that has intersecting trails and set up on the ground. Good luck!

Thanks Bubba. If I ever get a day off I might take you up on the generous offer. Looks like my only time off this season will be firearm season back home in southern tier though. I'm hoping next season will provide me with much more opportunity to putter around up here. Then I'll really be looking for your input an expertise in this expansive northland.

They might get you for baiting if it's from Star"bucks"! lol

I'll buy the coffee! Until then have a nice season and get the big one.

Whoa...........the Phoenix has risen from the ashes! Hello Bubba. I've wondered if you were still up this way ever since I moved here. Hope you have a good season.

If hunting from the ground its more important to break your silhouette than to hide. Think about when you are scanning the woods for deer. How many times do you first see a "line" or shape that is out of place then see the deer? All the trees are vertical then your eye picks out the horizontal back of a deer and as you focus you then make out the rest of it. Now imagine how quickly you would pick out something weird that showed up in "your" house. When we're sitting out there we are in "their" house and I firmly believe they recognize quickly when something is different. I think they recognize our shape and most often smell us long before they actually "see" us.

Trespassers on their four wheelers who either drive through my property out joy riding, or all to frequently are parking it close enough to my property line to hunt on me, and "amscray post haste" when they hear me coming or shoot something and beat feet out of there. Number two..... My one male beagle who will bark non stop only when he knows I'm on the hill without him. Lol he only stops when I call the house and have my wife yell at him.

Shot, recovered, meat for the freezer, nice shooting WNYBuckHunter! Congrats!

I still have my Bear Kodiak (sp)Magnum from 1977. I killed lots of ears of corn that I pinned to a straw bail, but never had the confidence to send one towards a deer. For the first few years I let deer after deer practically walk on me as I crouched under apple trees and squeezed apples all over me to mask my smell. I would l love to string it and shoot it at a target for old time sake but am deathly afraid it might blow apart in my hands and split my skull or take an eye out. Lol

Cool story, nice buck, and with that kind of luck are your sure your not my "other" brother in law? Lol.

Yup we both shoot Bear bows. I retired my Martin after shooting his Bear Strike. I shoot a Bear Legion. They are a lot of bow for the money and can zip arrows with excellent precision. For those interested he used a two blade Rage. Yes..... he had his Happy shirt on... Cracked me up because it was fitting the situation.

NYBowhunter my land is southern Oneida county. And yes I wish we could have weighed him. I have taken some heavy deer over the years but this fella was a freight train. Lol!

I'm trying one more for those like me who like to keep it natural. I had him pose with his buck right where I found it laying in the tangled up little creek bottom. My favorite picture from the hunt.

And for those like me that like it natural. I made him pose with the deer before field dressing it, right where I found it laying in the little creek bottom.

Get a load of the ripples in the neck and size of the body. And I'm talking about the deer. Lol! Pics compliments of my tech savy wife. Thanks to her!