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10/30 Was a busy day but got out the last 1 1/2 hours of the day. Decided to stand behind a fallen pine and watch a trail coming out of the hardwoods. Not expecting much. Was there ten minutes and heard a noise in the grown up field behind me and there was a doe standing there looking nervous. I tiptoed through the pines to a shooting spot and waited for her to clear some weeds. She suddenly whipped her head around and took off past me. I though she smelled me since she was under 20 yrds so I went back to my pine tree waiting spot to wait for dark. 20 minutes later I looked over my shoulder to see another deer standing in the same spot. So i snuck back over and peered out through the pines and it was a 3 point buck feedig 15 yrds from me. Stood there and watched him till it got dark. The cold weather has really got the bucks stirred up. On my way to work I saw 3 shooters crossing the road tonight.

Whatever is cheapest and shoots tight groups. Rem corloks 150 grains do it for me to.

Sorry, sucks to lose a deer no matter what it is. Been there done that, sometimes things just dont turn out like there suppose to, thats bow hunting for ya. All you can do is chalk it up to experiance and move on. Atleast it wasn't a 14 point buck in the 170's That would really bring you down.

That's a hell of a buck no matter where or when it was killed. Love the mass, just a monster. Atleast he came out and said its just a spoof, unlike shed gate where overwhelming evidence pointed to BS and the guy kept on proclaming it was a real set of sheds.

Funny I was just reading that and came on here to see if anyone had posted anything about it, first thread I see was this. All I can say is the trees are awfully green in the background.

Only in NY would that deer be considered a monster, jmo. Would make a nice first deer though. My 1st deer at 14 yrs old was a doe with the recurve followed by a spike and a basket 8 with the sticks and twigs the following yrs. Remeber them all just like it was yesterday. Love the split brows, if you get him this yr good, if not, hold onto your hat when he comes in next yr.

I had a funny feeling that the Bears would love this funnel I set the stand in. I was hoping they wouldn't be around as much because the Oaks did poorly this yr. Doesn't look good though. I dont want to shoot bears unless one gets frisky, I try to chase them off the property and hope someone else does. 10/25 Still to warm, decided to stay home and shoot the bow today, this weekend calling for some snow so hope with the rut on its way the bucks will start to move a bit.

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10/22 Got in stand early around 2:00pm, Squirrels are really starting to annoy me. But got to watch one get taken out by a Redtail Hawk not more than 20 yrds from me.hehehe. I heard a cadence of steps behind me over the racket all the squirrels were making and turned to see a deer walking past me 50 yrds away. Looked like a small buck hard to tell with all the leaves on the tree's still. He stopped to rack a tree and I could hear his tines clanking around, then he moved on. 10/23 Was heading up the hill to my stand when I heard what sounded like a herd of deer walking around my stand. Ended up being a bear under the stand scratching his back on my tree. Looks like he climbed up to investigate the stand and made a snack of part of my seat. bastage. No deer see from stand that night. 10/24 Went to do an armed recon of some stateland by my house. No tracks or rubs seen so I will hold off till rut to check it out again.

Looks like Bear, hard to tell with nothing to judge the size of said load with.

Seem's a shame to kill him so young. He's a ten pointer and that is probably only his second rack. Shoot a spike and let him walk, he's going to be a bruiser next yr or the next.

If it was truely a one lung hit your pretty much out of luck by now if you havent recovered the deer. Deer have a Mediastina like a human and some other animals which keeps the lungs from collapsing when one lung is punctured.A deer is able to travel a long distance on one lung and will give the impretion that it was a good hit with lots of blood and froth as I like to call it for about 100yrd eventually pettering out. The only way to collect a one lung punctured deer in a timely matter is to put another arrow in both lungs. A slow and steady immediate tracking job, trying to catch the deer bedded and put another one in her would have been recommended. The deer will eventually die usually from infection but some have been found alive living on single lungs.Sorry but unless you damaged the other lung or got an artery under the back bone you are probably out of luck. It is very hard to finish off a one lung hit deer unless you are gun hunting of coarse. Deer are pretty tough unless you take out something vital. You would have had a better chance recovering a stomache shot deer. So not to discourage you, but unlikely to find.

Nothing makes me shake in my boots and head the other direction like a good old deer drive. Especially if I run into one on state land. Ive been on the receiving end of a hail of bullets before from deer drives and its not a pleasent experiance.

Don't get me started, I would like just once for a big buck to walk out in the open at 20 yrds and stand broadside like they do on TV. It never fails there either hauling cord wood throught the woods with splinters flying up behind them, or there behind something or come in from the worst possible locations for a shot. Nothing aggrivates me more than someone who say's " I don't know I just turned and there he was standing there 20yrds away looking the opposite direction and I shot him ". I swear I have the worst luck, or maybe thats just hunting.

Well ya'll baby killers need to get to work and fill your tags with spikes and forks and baby 8's. Rut's coming and I don't need you arrowing my big 10 point while he's having his way with momma Doe.

Basspro would be sweet but not there. I think they should just level the whole strip and extend the park. I wouldnt be suprised if it flooded this bad again in the next ten yrs.They should start looking at the old Anetek site on the North side of Binghamton lots of room there and almost easy access from 17 which Im sure they can fix.

No, in Johnson City next to the mall.

It's offical in the Binghamton Press, Gander is closing for good. Looks like its back to purchesing off the internet and putting up with the boneheads at Dicks again.

Who has ever had a shot on a big buck and everything just gos to heck, or gives you one of those "are you kidding me " moments. The worst one I ever had was on a big wide 8 point of anyones dreams. it was on a 1st day of gun, Buck came running down the mountain right to me, 40yrds away turns right into the thickest jungle you could imagine and stands there. If he had run left or right this story would have had a different ending. Ive had them walk up to my stand under branches I never would have thought to trim off causing a no shot scenerio at 10 yrds on another great 8 point which then turned around and went back the same way he came presenting no shot. I had a wide 8 point come in behind me right in line with the tree and stand right under me on the opposite side of the tree presenting a shot only when he walked back the same way he came in and viering of to the left after 30 yrds which I missed right under him. I even had a big bodied 8 point walk right up to me on the ground one time and proceede to destroy a tree , after I had bow hunted all moring and not seeing any deer at all I decided to go home and trade out for the shotgun and hunt squirrel when he showed up. So anyone else have a scenario that left you with a sick feeling for a few weeks.

Especially for a 4 point. What are you going to do when you miss that 20inch spread ten point? You are going to go crazy. s--t happens to good people, move on aim lower . I had an 8 point last yr with about a 17inch spread that came in chasing a doe at 25 yrds. I thought he was 20ish and aimed to low with the arrow going through the outside skin low on the deer. The last time I saw the fletching it was halfway up the body of the deer. I heard the thwack and assumed it was a good hit till the deer ran 50 yrds off and stood there for 15 minutes looking around till his doe happend to come back through and off he went chasing her again. after 15 seconds I new it was a near miss when he didnt fall in his tracks. I got down and found the arrow laying on the ground covered in tallow and a fistfull of white hair. Tracked him to where he stood and there was a bit of blood where he stood but none after he left. I'm always amazed by the amount of hair that a broadhead blows off a deer. Most people dont even notice it because they are more worried about finding blood. I still don't want to talk about the over 20 inch spread 8 point I couldnt get a shot on a few yrs back that was under my stand on the opposite side of the tree, And only presented a shot when he was 30 yrds away which I then proceeded to shoot under him. I was sick about that one for weeks. He was a real slob.

If you didn't find any blood or arrow how do you know you hit him? Could have been a complete miss and the thwak you heard was the arrow hitting something. Was there any hair on the ground. The color of the hair gets darker the farther up the deer you go and the length of the hair gos from short and white along the bottom of the deer to longer and darker to almost black at the top. I would say it was a skimming shot up high at the worst. I dont think it was a low shot if you hit him because there would be a lot of blood for about 100yrds and then it would peter out. Ive shot a lot of deer with the bow and seen a lot of deer shot with a bow on TV and never once did I ever see one that was hit ever snort. Now missed deer I have had go out 50 yrds and cut loose with the snorting which I think is just there way of thumbing there nose.

My Kirkwood and Conklin hunting areas are covered with rubs no scrapes yet. Windsor hunting area I havent even seen a deer or a track yet let alone a scrape or a rub. The populations in certain areas are really screwy this yr. I'm sure food sources have something to do with it. The Oaks did poorly this yr Which is giving me fits in the Windsor area.

I sure hope he reads that script! It always sounds so simple when someone says that,lol! They never read the script this time of the yr, There constantly mixing it up and running willy nilly all over the country side searching for does. Good luck you never know when he will pop up right next to your stand. Atleast you know he is there. I wouldn't be able to sleep or function properly if I knew he was in my hunting area.

OK got a new one, was watching a show the other night and this guy was hunting antelope. He had a 100 yrd pin. Thats right a 100yrd pin. He was complaining he couldn't stalk closer than 115 yrds and he didn't want to shoot because unless they were 105 yrds away he would have had to hold over the antelope and he wasn't sure of the shot and that wouldn't be ethical. Seriously? Not ethical huh! Well thank goodness he went back to camp and got his rifle and polished off an antelop.

You shouldnt hear anything, everyone knows poachers use crossbows now!!! Sorry I just had to go there.