deerpassion

for sure paula haha.... for sure....

man i knew this guy was gonna get raped on here from the moment he posted !

3 1/2 to 4 1/2... has nice blocky body, short legs, little bit of saggin belly, and little bit of a sway in the back.... nice buck though! i'd sling one at em! good luck

How many times u shoot him? Looks like 2 definite and maybe a third?

NOW THATS A BIG 8!!!! Nice buck guys , makin me crazy for Saturday when I can get out! Gonna sit from 11 till dark, only I hope to see one at least half as big . Def dip into the credit card to shoulder mount that bad boy, great mass throughout !!!!

Beautiful buck!! Congrats, gonna make a good center peice for the living room!!!

Yup got one stolen in September,,, luckily it was only my p.o.s wild game ... Still set me back 50 bucks and the deer I had on the card... Lock box every cam from now on... Got a truth cam with a lock box on it n got a few pics of guys walkin up to it n checking it out... Guess the hike back to the truck to get the bolt cutters was too much for em

Nice try Paula!

Nice job!!!

ah the college life just have the dinky little freezer that came with the apartment... lookin into gettin a little deep freezer... I must, because where is that buck gonna fit

Interesting... Never really thought mock rubs held water... Guess so !

Still havnt seen nything besides a crap load a geese n ducks, think I'm callin it quits here shortly

It's a cool 40 degrees , 2/3 wnw , got my doe outa the way last night. in buck mode now... C'mon horns!!!

Thanks, unfortunately quartering is my only option, don't think my apartment would like me hangin a deer out on the balcony lol...

congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

well decided to get out there this evening as the temps were dropping tonight, and it was a pretty eventful evening... first had a skunk come waddling by, then some squirrels... and then two doe that im guessing were playing with each other, they ran past me four separate time, stopping and darting all over the place.... no amount of baaaaa, heeeyyyy, or whistles would stop em... was at full draw three times, but they just wouldnt stop... finally with 15 min of legal light left one come back from behind and finally settles down, and walks right under my tree ever so slowly.... guess my coon urine on my boots worked like a charm cause she was feeding and walkin right where i had walked to go take a leak before i climbed up... and to answer your questions about takin a leak from the tree... i took another one in that direction about an hour before,, she never got nervous!!! so let er rip lol.... i know i took some flack for not finding the doe i shot opening day, and im sorry for that, stuff happens sometimes, and thats NOT how i wanted to start the season... but without further ado .... freezers full, and good new s... Dont have to eat chef boy ardi anymore backstraps for this guy tonight....

had an officer come in during bow class and said it was fine but you might get it stolen...

Sure is, better have a nice lock box n cable on that bad boy!

Well sat last night from 12 till dark in a spot that I've gotten pics of numerous doe's and good bucks and not a thing showed.... Sat this morning till 11 .. Same story, went back at 5:30 knowing they weren't going to show themselves till just about dark.... Well wouldn't ya know it, two doe's poked out at 60 yds with maybe 10 min a light left, n u guessed it, took there sweet ol time workin towards me till I couldn't see my pins... Now I got two doe's fartin around under me that I can't shoot for a half hour after legal time.... Oh well , it's early , least I'm seein deer

ok so three points for response, one,,, a buck in florida is about the same stature or weight ( maybe a little more) than your doe's here.... so no point there... second, a warm day like today, lol, it was 45 degrees out today, i can kill a buck in florida in 80-95 degree weather and not gut it for an hour and a half and NOTHING spoils, wise tails of the north.... third, the video and what i saw are two different things, from where i shot the deer to my left at 20, she then ran to the right and stood at 10 yds, paused , and i physically saw an entrance wound picture perfect behind the shoulder for a hi heart... however that does not convey angle.... which obviously video does.... do NOT question my ability to track a dam deer you spoiled northerner... you complain about tracking a deer after it rains cause rain washed away the blood trail, try tracking a deer in a swamp that is 60% water, you don't just look at the sawgrass, pepper grass, and palmettos , but you have to be careful when walking through water to not make too much wake because blood floats as an oily substance on the top of the water because of its phatty acid content, unlike the abundant LEAVES you have up here for blood to conveniently land on.... ohhhh and FOURTH point, i did NOT give up sooooo easily as you assume, i tracked that thing for almost three hours, well if your not having any progress, take a step back and think about it for a second, .... reflect..... so i hopped up in a tree(god forbid i should HUNt while im already in the woods) then got down a little while later and tracked it till dark... walked through every possible trail, though immature maple stand invested with thickets and shoulder high grass, she could have been lying right next to me in that stuff and never would have known it.... also, grad student, low budget , state land, far from house, GAS equals money incase you haven't paid any attention to todays society, so i don't necessarily have the TIME( class, lab, clinicals) or MONEY to track a dam deer for 2222222222 dayyyyyssss.. get over yourself... new name for you,,, GREAT WHITE HUNTER...... aka weekend warrior.. , like i said to another member, what started out a a joyful hopeful post (first deer in NY on the first day, of the first season, think im doin pretty well when majority didn't see squat) ended up as my inadequacy and lack of patients for giving a deer its due.... good day sir,,,, I SAID GOOD DAY!!! lol

no never too late for forum where everyone gets a voice... im just saddened that an initial hopeful post of joy got turned into my inadequacies of trailing a deer... try trailing a deer though the swamp.. ya i said swamp... you all worry about finding a trail after it rains, try doing it in a place that is 60 percent water.... and yes i did back track about 30 yds or so .... the blood trail ended a little ways into an entrance trail to a vast immature maple stand with intertwined thickets joined by weeds at shoulder height... but where the blood ended there were only three possibilities , well four if you count stopping and backtracking a bit, that she could have gone down... a narrow area for deviation... i exhausted them all, the left trail, straight ahead, to the right, anyone leading off those three, and then working backwards from last blood to see if i missed any blood off the main trail which would indicate that she stopped, turned around, went a distance, and then went a direction... NONE!!! that's why i say i spent almost 3 hours tracking her, had to take a break and rethink, so i hopped up in the tree, then got down and searched till sundown... still no results after crashing through all the shoulder grass and immature maples... i think she survived..

given....

ok , my final thoughts on this post, yes it was a bit pretensive... but hey its opening day, and i was still hopin for a buck..., hadn't climbed down yet... whats good for the goose is good for the gander... of course a doe is not down until its in front of you in pics... later explained( w/ precursor of excitement) it looked to me as a heart shot.. excitement gets ya, ya know.... i will post the video of the shot, the blood, etc so you can asses for yourself.... i apologize for my distasteful post earlier, but as a dedicated hunter who loves this with all his heart, i was frustrated... of course i try to make the best shot possible, and yes i make every effort to find them ( side note, this is my first season in NY, moved here for gradschool from florida, and never lost a deer that i have shot at with archery equipment thus far) so firsts are a B(*tc&... but they happen and It's just a matter of time.... so i accept that... i also use tape to either mark last blood or direction if unclear, by trail or landmark... YES it is our job to make EVERY EFFORT possible to recover EVERY deer ...duhhhh.... deer search was suggested to me ( guess what) on this post, we don't have such a thing in Florida swamps where flag ponds and palmettos are a maze of similarity.... do you even know what a flag pond is? i guess the gators do the tracking for ya when you've searched and searched, however, your take home is much less interesting by then, so ya take pride in it, but hey, a little help never hurt if you exhausted every option, at least you may be able to salvage a good portion rather than finding it 6 Days LATER ..... sorry for that reference, you were rather nice... so i should say COYOTE GRUB... the basics of the shot were: she was broadside at 20, as i shot she took a step which made her quarter away, so an otherwise perfect heart/lung shot was a little forward given the angle.... the way she ran for 20, stopped, and then walked (not run) was a little discerning because when she stopped i got a good look at the entry, it loooked like hi heart, low lung, so when i saw lung blood thought it was done deal, however, after a walking blood trail with three dinner plate size pools of bright bubbly lungtastic blood, she began to clot, blood became more stagnant and dark, clumpy, then a spot every 10-15 yds at best... then nothing, so my assessment is ... da da da da dunt dunt da daaaaaaa........ she quartered away at the last second making for a more forward shot than anticipated leading to a forward/low lung shot with minor lung involvement entering the opposite shoulder w/o allowing complete penetration or fracture of the shoulder which would inhibit mechanical abilities in addition to physiological implications such as lack of O2 based on the lungs inability to oxygenate blood of the arteries, the hearts ability to pump that oxygenated blood to the brain for nerve impulse and to the muscles for mechanical function, therefore leading to her demise...... lack of pass through did not allow for exsitory flow of blood from the lower wound(decrease overall loss of blood) , the arrow was snapped off possibly inhibiting blood flow out of the body due to the pressure exerted by the arrow on the ruptured vessels.... and lastly she did not exert a maximal effort in escape, therefore leading to decreased O2 demands, which results in lower heart rate, and lower heart rate results in decreased level of blood lost... if this rant seems a bit precocious... it is.... haha, if you've made it to the end of this w/o shooting yourself, congratulations... ohhhh, did i forget to mention that i am in gradschool for physical therapy, and im a bit of a SMART A$$..... ooopppsss. in all seriousness guys,, thanks for the input, im glad we all can agree as serious outdoorsmen who are passionate about what we do.... thanks for reading -+=----, no seriously, im not gay... lol good night, and hello to day two!!!!!!!!!!