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LMAO- not a problem on my end. I won a spelling bee at one point that I'm quite proud of. Hey- cant' beat smarts sometimes no matter how dumb someone says you are! ;D It's all good....no it's not >

Where's antler? lol

Irrelevant...you're a bully here! Are you a teacher or a dictator? If neither of those, expect to get beat up if your in no positio n of power. Don't piss on us, we wont piss on you.

I was a good guy, and still am when it comes to putting out informative valid points to a topic. If you want to argue that point, I'm more than willing. You keep attacking guys here and it's getting f**** rediculous. I'm now gonna go look up the last intelectual post you made here, but I may need some direction............... : I don't need to back anyoneone up that's ever spoken against you. I give all these guys a lot of credit for having a set of marbles of their own while you's are stashed in your wifes purse. Let it go dude! It was kinda boring around here today.

Lighten up bubba....you were never like this on the other NY site before it **** the bed. WTF's YOUR DEAL? Thinking back, you were rather helpfull...silent unless called upon, respectfull,.and respected. Now you're just turning into an AZZ. :

Lots of shady things go on at pawn shops Burt. The authenticity needs to be questioned to a point, but when a dealer finds a market for something he can push 2x's or 3x's the cost....well, that's what he does for a buck... and caution is thrown to the wind far as legality goes. I can't fault them in that regaurd as much as the seller for not doing their homework. I fell victim that myself. My guess is most mounts are genuine. To some extent, even the pawn shop owners do a bit of research to authenticate what they pay out or loose their rep with any others in the circle looking tro purchase simalar chit.. I sold 4 fully functional 12 guage shotguns to a pawn shop before I sold them a 50 cal ML. Same guy every time..., but when I brought my ML in, he didn't recognize me and said, "Yeah, we can buy this without an FFL" My shotguns never got me as much as a receipt. ..but I did get the option to trade them in for something smaller. If I were a shady charachter, I'll bet I could get my hands on a whole bunch of questionable, yet functional crap just down the road here if I needed to if I knocked on the back door the right way, or at least came through the front door presenting myself propperly. ???

Maybe this is why they can't get the deer reports counted accurately. Too much time spent looking at otter pics rather than enforce reporting,lol! Cool shots skyhunter! Never seen one around here.

Yeehaw!

Sabres squeaked out the win in OT. What a nailbiter! ??? It just keeps on getting better from here on out.

I don't think the state could justify putting somebody on the payroll to collect on a handfull of infractions by non-compliant hunters. It wouldn't be cost effective, and ultimately they'd be loosing money to give money back. When it comes down to getting an accurate harvest report, or financial benefit...which way to you think they will sway? :-\

Now your onto something!

Absolutely! I've got a bunch of them like that. Sometimes they'll pop off with what looks like a cork or plug on the bottom of them. Other times there nice and clean cut and sometimes, just like yours, all jagged looking. I've never watched a deer shed an antler, but it's my belief these are the ones they kick off or rub off. Either way....definately a shed!

That's not a broken antler boss, that's a shed! Sometimes they come with a little skull plate on the bone. Congrats!

Are you kidding me.....I'm just getting started! Good luck today, maybe I'll see ya out there somewhere.

It's funny you say that WNYB, I just moved here last fall and I'm still learning the area. I'll gaurantee you if I were here last spring I could have saved a few of them from the squirrels! ;D

Thanks guys. Burt- I'm no pro by any means. If I had to pick one of the two that makes me sucessfull at it.....I can't... it is both! As for your predicament, here's what I'd do. Cover the fields first. They will stand out here most obvious. I don't put to much faith in them because they are the areas covered first by any and all looking for antlers. If you keep tabs on the fields throughout the shedding season and don't have much competition, you can bring home a mess of horns if that's where they were. From here I'd move along to your bedding areas. Try to cover as many trails as you can leading into these spots. You'll never accomplish it thouroughly enough in a day so sometimes you just need to go back and follow a different path. The terrain will tell you how fast or slow you need to move. Most of my sheds are spotted within feet of me so don't expect tall tines to jump out at you like a neon sign. One pass through an area that turns up nothing might turn up a few next hike. We never rescue them all. :'( North facing slope, south facing slope, east and west. Cover them all in the same fashion. Obviously your souths are gonna melt out first and like I've said before, they are hot spots...but deer are free and travel where they desire so you can't rule out any other slope directions. Once you get on some antlers, you start to put the pieces of the puzzle together. I've been hauling in a mess of oldies this year in one location and never found a freshy. Now that a few freshys are showing up at a different spot not far from here tells me where they've been spending their time doing daily things. My search expands now around this area untill I think I've covered it good enough before I move on to the next. You just gotta keep doing that untill greenup or when you run out of time or propperty to hunt. Heck even durring the dawg days of summer I've caught a few. If you're not looking you wont find them no matter what time of year or how good a spot. Staying focused on picking out any piece of an antler or anything that looks like one I'd have to say will be your best bet. Good luck!

I know it's been getting kicked around for a while now. I go to my photobucket page and there it is again. ??? How's that make you feel? Hard to grow them much whiter than him.

Looks like you're in for one exciting season growalot! Keep us posted and great shots!

Eminem- Not Afraid

Very cool! Sometimes guys with cameras get carried away more than guys with guns. Kinda what makes wildlife photography so intense when you think about it. One thing I'll assure you of, these guys aren't stupid when it comes to knowing the habits of these creatures and how they react to their immediate environment. It's an adrenaline rush very comparable to if not more so than any hunting encounter! The risk factor is easily forgotten when your sitting behind the stearing wheel of a camera trying to capture a momment. Some may call it stupidity, but man what a rush! I'd love to do something that intense!!

Today decided to leave the fishing pole at home for the trout opener and "just take a walk" to the store checking out some creeks along the way. Good choice! Just wish I'd have wore my boots and had my pocket cam with me. :'( No tall tines in this field, but I did manage to stumble on this spiker....and it was fresh. I was pretty happy about that seeing I'd already been through here a few times and found nothing. Sometimes it's just a matter of aproaching from a different direction. So I get down to the crick and it's thick as pudding in the bottom. I walk into a spot that trapped me with no way out other than the way I came in. .....woah, right at the point of no return I spot this guy! ...as I'm snapping a few pics I notice this guy right beside him in the redbrush tangle. Here they both are in the same shot. I only had my biggest lens with me and couldn't back up anymore for a better ATL. So a nice match set oldie 7pt and a freshy spiker. I aint gonna complain about that when all intentions were to look for a fishing spot and grab a pack of ciggy's! Just as I found my way home, I found this little old shed head cranium capsule to end my smoke run for the day. ;D Now that I've reached my 20 horn goal, I can finally quit smoking! :

What's the occaision?

As long as it's within legal spanking time. Dave Who the heck do you think you are to tell me what time I can spank at.

....maybe a little spanking would have been ok!

Yeah, just don't get some folks. :'(