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3 nice does came around me right aftet I smelled them...never inside 50...hopin they come back...looked spooked.

In the orchard stand at 6am...52 clear and fairly quiet...first weekend sit in ny this season, first am back in this stand since I missed one here 15 days ago.

Out in my pm oak stand...60 overcast and breeze on and off. Hard rain last night and this mornin, hopin for a good chance.

Oct 12: PA Oak Stand 5:15 Fat Doe Oct 14: NY Orchard Stand 3:30 Busted by a Doe on the way in

Heading out in about an hour...debating between two stands.....HMMMMM!

In the pm oak stand at 245...50 overcast, breeze covered my noise on the way in... The adjacent cornfield has been freshly chopped...Come on number 2

The wife has meetings all say Tues and weds so I snuck out for the pm sit. 61 overcast and breezy...got to the stand at 330...got busted by a doe in the way in, had a several minutes staring match.

Season opened on a Saturday last year, but yeah it was this week...I scored a spike in PA on October 6th...missed a couple good opportunities here in NY so far....have not been out that much since the first deer...looking to get out tomorrow and wednesday when the temps dip a little.

October 9: PM Oak Stand: Past last light: 1 Doe and 1 Unidentified Deer October 10: Am Oak Stand: None seen

Nice work Irish...Every bow kill is a trophy!

Saw 2 last night after last light had to wait to get out of the oak stand. Went back there this morning in the same oak stand (saving my top morning stand for next monday), It was 45 and gusty at 545am...smelled deer around me all morning...first morning without a sighting though.

Can't help myself, not even done butcherin the first one yet but...heading back out in about 15 minutes to the oak evening/breeding stand. 55, overcast and 8mph out of the NW...sounds like a good evening.

That is why you gotta process yourself, don't waste a scrap....plus you know its actually your meat...I also use butchering time as a buffer of a couple days off from hunting after a successful hunt...good for me and my wife.

Healthy doe Moog! Great first! Nice Bucks NJG and Buddy!

Statewide? That would be interesting! Actually as long as its deer hunting I'm in. Seriously I rarely come across any other hunters in the woods, I think if you want to find somewhat remote areas like that you still can. But if you are hunting public property or on someone else's property, you are going to have to live with occasional overlaps in hunters.

Is that first one still hangin or did you quarter?

Great shot!

I guess it depends on what you define as not worth it...I don't pick them up personally, but my pop seems to have a good eye for them. Though admittedly some just get burried after they are caped and evaluated, typically he says that usually one side is good and often recovers 3 of 4 quarters...like I said though, not my bag either, though I have never tasted bad meat over there.

As a dedicated archer/deer hunter I kind of like to be in the woods somewhat by myself and strive to find public land that is very unknown or hard to get to/through. Here at home in NY I typically only have 4 hours at a time to hunt, so if one morning or evening gets unintentionally blown by a bunch of guys also trying to hunt, I'm not so salty. On the other hand, I hunt a couple pieces of public property that are fairly unknown, but that also butt-up against a land owner who allegedly guides without a permit. The deer in this area are the largest I have ever seen, and definetly the biggest necks and racks I have seen. Sometimes when I hunt over there I hear alot of 4 wheeler and chainsaw activity that sounds very will nilly. I have also gotten a mysterious flat in that parking lot and also had a seat stolen from a climber I had locked on just for overnight - needless to stay I have a cheap hang on over there and I never leave the bottom two ladder stick on.

That's why you have to be careful when field dressing deer, especially larger deer.

I had to recover a deer over 225 yards on saturday through two sets of pines sandwiched by mountain laurel and oaks...pindrops the whole time. One thing I learned on that recovery was that my cousin, grandfather and I are set up perfect on this years breeding ground. My cuz already had a brutus on his trail cam right by a giant rub and scrape and right under his new stand... But best yet, as we were on our hands and knees recovering my deer, we came upon about a dozen great scrapes and tons of other rubs...AND the little buck I got this weekend came right in on me after I hit a couple bawls and short and gentle sparring session. Granted this was in northeastern PA, but the climate has been very similar over the past 10-12 months between here in CNY and there. Also as I only hunted my local breeding/evening spot once so far, I had a giant doe right under me at 5:30, missed her, had the commotion of her taking off, and then still had a nice buck follow right up her same path an hour later. I would say pre-rut phase is full on and bucks are responding to other mild-mannered bucks at this point, with the potential for some bucks to be chasing early does.

Good effort, Crows and Coyotes gotta eat too...and one less road pizza.

My grandfather is a road-kill connoisseur, and also a hard-ass korean war vet...when he uses flintlock he never reloads on a wounded animal, he just gets the knife out for a back jumpin' throat slicin'. As for wounded road deer, if he doesn't have the knife a tire iron always helps them "die nice" in his words.

5 Morning hunts so far with 12 Sightings (10 Doe, 2 Smaller Buck) and 3 Legit Chances and 1 Harvest....Have seen atleast one deer every morning out. 3 Evening hunts so far with 2 Sightings (1 Big Doe, 1 Nicer 6-8 Buck) and 1 Legit Chance...did not see deer on 2 of the 3 evening hunts. I should note that I only went to my proven evening stand once, and I had two deer walk right under me that night..its also a breeding ground so I have a feeling when I get back there one afternoon this week I will be seeing deer.

October 5: AM Orchard Stand: 7:15am 2 Doe 8:00am 2 Doe (probably same 2 come around me), drew on one broadside at 30yds and 35ft down, missed clean over the top again d-Oh! October 6 AM: PA Oak/Hemlock/Laurel Stand: 6:45am 1 unidentified Deer in distance 7:25am 1 <3" Spike Buck, drew slightly quartering towards at 7yds, 16ft down... ...SCORED a good hit a little high and back (clipped one lung) and down on a sever angle through his belly but with no damage to the guts and with devastating power...the guts did plug the hole and give a 225yd pindrop recovery.