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I'll try that as well.........thanks for the tip.

I'm far from an expert on anything, but deer tend to follow the same patterns year after year......unless something drastic happens to their area to make them change.

why wouldn't you?........

I would think that's fairly accurate and makes sense.........but I think the question is whether or not shooting a doe first will have an immediate affect on you killing a buck that may be in the area.

I've yet to see one while actually out hunting....heard em, but never saw any.

I like that first photo......I was gonna say thanks for saving a deers life, but then I looked on the ground next to you........

I would refrain from putting anything in an injured eye that isn't prescribed by a doctor......

if you kill a doe, your first priority should be taking care of it as soon as possible............not letting it lay there as bait. But, to answer your first question, I would guess that all depends on what your goal is, if you want to put meat in the freezer, kill the doe and hope it doesn't affect the rest of your hunt......if it's more important for you to kill a buck, then pass on the doe and hope for the best.

obviously something is wrong if your vision is impaired...........you said you just spent big bucks on your bow, I would hope your eyes deserve the same.

usually, once you get something, it's very hard to get rid of it.........

it's fairly obvious that if someone or something is put into an environment where they are FORCED to interact with the source of a disease, that we can determine how it is transmitted...the question is, how easily or to what extent is it transmitted in a natural environment.....

I would think that forcing animals that are already infected with a disease, to closely interact with animals that aren't, would give a false report on the severity of it......kinda like putting people in a cage with one having aids and not telling the others and allowing them to have sex...and then coming to the conclusion that people who live in close proximity to one another and interact normally spread the disease.

I've said it in the past, and might be totally wrong, but I believe most of these diseases are not new......the only thing new is that now they run tests for everything and have a finger to point at the cause........

dirt cheap? plenty of deer?......might be worth a closer look.

that's taking portable stands to a whole new level...literally.

I second the not blasting off rounds especially if you don't know who or what is around you......unless you just shoot into the ground right in front of you, sure you may piss off other hunters but it's no different if you were making noise small game hunting and shooting. I think your idea of setting up near the roost is a good idea, they probably call to regroup after fly down.

would you mind sharing the smoking process? approximate time, temp and how long you apply the smoke for?......I seem to have a problem using to much or too heavy of a smoke and it leaves a bitter taste on the outside.

I suppose all animals are exposed to the smells of their sick, dying and dead, and maybe they don't associate it with danger??? I would think that the human scent that's left behind at a kill site would be more alarming to them than anything.

aren't mechanics only allowed to charge a set amount of hours of labor for specific jobs? I was always under the impression that if say a brake job calls for 3.5 hours of labor that is what they're allowed to charge whether it takes them 30 minutes or 8 hours......that alone might make a mechanic reluctant to take on a nightmare of a job.

having hunted in the Catskills for 30+ years, I fully expect the deer take to decline this year..........it's gotten worse and worse every year, blame it on winter kill, Coyotes, lack of food, too many doe tags in years past....whatever. The deer numbers just aren't there anymore.

oh, he may very well have had a good point.........but, he lost me with his opening line, so I never got to it....he needs to work on his delivery.

100's of people are arrested everyday based on the complaints of other people......the number of acts of retribution pale in comparison to that number. There's no doubt that there are those who stop at no extreme in getting some type of revenge, but I don't believe that is the norm....the vast majority of people arrested or ticketed are just those who made a stupid choice and it caught up with them..........now, I don't live in an area that produces hardcore poachers, and maybe they are a different type of animal, but I think as a whole, those who get caught smarten up a bit.......but that's just my thoughts.

how would a deer know what guts smell like?

looks like you shot half his body off.....

is he the accountant or the fur trapper..........or both the same guy?