New York Hillbilly

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!

Doewhacker....... Lololololol......that made me laugh out loud!!!!

If that much penetration and still in the deer = dead deer. Any luck finding him?

TeeBugg you posted as I was editing. Lol. My comment wasn't meant for you. Sorry about that. I was just commenting to Jesse's post, and giving my thoughts. For what ever they're worth.

I agree about the hunting in the rain. And, If you have to bend, twist, stoop over or other wise put yourself in some weird position to get a shot off, its not worth the risk of wounding a deer, rain or no rain. If you are hunting the same stand over the next few days, listen for the crows.

I'll try to do the picture thing tonight. I only have my phone now because I left my "MIFI" thing back home in Oneida county and I'm all the way back north in St. Lawrence county. Without that thing I have no way to use my laptop. The buck was a very heavy mass 8 point. The body was enormous. I've killed lots of deer over the past 40 plus or minus years, and I tell you this deer body wise was beyond impressive. If my wife can help me post with the phone I'll do it later today. If not I will when I can use my laptop. Funny thing is, my brother in law is the one that needs to overnight the MIFI thing to me. Lol

Anything that can interest and excite people to get outdoors and enjoy the woods and wildlife gets my vote. I think trail cams add a whole new, and fun, dimension. You still have to scout and put the effort in, but now you can get yourself all psyched knowing what might be lurking out there. I was using them years ago when they first came out because they gave my 80 year old uncle something to do after it got to hard for him to actually sit in a stand for hours hunting.

So here it is: My brother in law who has never bow hunted a day in his life is going with me for his first time. To his credit he has put time in shooting his bow a lot since he bought it a couple months ago. He has been shooting my deer target in my cellar and has gotten proficient. We are hunting my land yesterday afternoon and had not hunted in the morning. I was going to sit in the same spot I do every season even though with it being early in the season with no rutting yet I pretty much figure ill see nothing. He on the other hand wanted to go sit on the side of a hill where he likes to sit in gun season. Instead, I tell him to go sit in my little apple orchard because I figure the deer would be in there munching apples. About 5:30 he texts me he sees a doe, then a fawn, then the doe is 35 yards away chewing apples. I text back don't take any "iffy shots". Then he texts me "there's a big buck coming and I can't count his points he's about a hundred yards away". I text back to just stay still. Keep in mind he has never scouted, is standing on the ground next to a tree where I told him to go, has no clue really what is going on. Lol I text back after a few minutes, "is he still there"? Lol He looks around the tree and days back "yes and coming closer". I text back, "stay real still". More minutes pass and guess what? He texts me "I shot a buck now what do I do?" Again, I text back to just stay still. This time I leave my stand and walk all the way across my property to him and when I get there he tells me the details. He points to where the deer ran after the shot and said he heard "a big crash". I know just where the buck was heading so I tell him to stay where he was when he shot and I slowly poked through the tangled mess into a small creek bottom. There was his buck.....and holy what a brute. This slammer hung around for better than a half hour and then walks 15 yards and quarters away from this first time hunter, standing next to a tree, who the delivers a beautiful shot straight into the deers heart. Moving it was a nightmare because of the weight. After dragging it by hand back into the orchard we were able to get it onto the four wheeler. I'll try to post a picture tomorrow to share. I watched this buck when I was brush hogging during the summer. He was a 3 1/2 or 4 1/2 year old buck. After living that long he gets taken by one lucky brother in law. Lol!!

Anybody recover their deer today? Updates?

Back in the saddle again!!!

Oooooh foggy!

First time out this year.....pitter patter pitter patter of the light rain, finally stopping, really is a soothing sound. Bring on the deer!

Welcome!

Uh....ok!!! lol..........Either nobody knows or nobody is saying. I've had a very busy summer working at my new job in Ogdensburg, and fishing the St Lawrence river has been excellent. I covered the other providers vacations all summer and as a result will be heading home (Sangerfield) to hunt the entire firearms season. Bow hunting will be hit and miss with some weekends and other times the middle of the week depending on the need for hospital coverage. The question about "Walworth" comes from an invite by a fella at work who is from out that way. I'm not sure if I want to give up any of my hard earned time off to go poking about a new area, but with my daughter living in Webster it is tempting.

Just curious because it's out by my daughter and I may have an invite. Thanks in advance for any info you might have.