Buckstopshere

I have 90 or so mallard and woody floating duck decoys, and a few blue bills, different types. Want to get rid of them and will sell the lot (two big bags for $500.) You pick up at my home in Wellsville, NY. Call me: Oak Duke: 716-378-6703. Leave a message. There are 13 wood drakes and 14 hens, 27 mallard drakes and 28 hens, six drake and hen bluebills.

Always shot a bow as a righty, recurve and long bow (#70.) But too many softball games (centerfield) and the old right shoulder just began to crunch. One solution. Shoot left-handed. I switched, practiced and won two trophies at the archery league. I shoot lefty now. Don't know if that would work for you. But it worked for me. Use your left hand and arm more. I think that using only one side makes us...especially as we get older ahem...lop-sided. And the side we use gives out. Its a little weird swinging a hammer left-handed at first, or even brushing my teeth as a lefty. Just my two cents and what works for me.

And so it begins. Another deer season. Ready to go out the door. Best of luck!

The difference between a young buck and older bachelor group bucks is....? I had just set up this overhanging branch setup that afternoon. The little buck falls for it...but not the older bucks. Even though it was initiated by an old doe.

Got two stands in there within 50 yards. At first I thought the eight was camera shy, but no, there was something else.

Looks like an old buck from the photo.

Good luck man. All the Best!

That is exactly why I joined the local winter archery league, years ago. (And because I switched from right to left handed bow.) In a hunting situation, the muscle memory kicks in. Sometimes it's a quick shot, other times...the seconds tick on at full draw. Practice makes perfect.

The Iroquois believed something similar. "Owaneeyo sometimes suffers us to be in want in order to teach us our dependence upon him, and to let us know that we are to love and serve him." Tecaughretanego to James Smith. An old quote...but I like to think of it when these types of disasters happen.

I have a portable generator on wheels and use it for different building projects, like at a camp back in the woods to run corded tools, light, help buddies, etc. But when our power went out, rolled it out of the garage, hit the breaker (turned main off and generator line on) and had power in the house. Stoked the fireplace, cranked up the Coleman lantern in the kitchen for more light and heat. Felt a bit guilty though because the houses in the neighborhood were dark.

Very cool indeed. Just as that waxing Blue moon was almost full. I've seen sign of January ruts...rubs and scrapes torn up in the snow and frozen post Christmas ground in bygone years...but no photos from the cams. Thanks for posting. If that doe gets inseminated, it would be a very late fawn when it hits the ground...one of those few spotted ones we see in the following bow season.

Yep. She showed up early last fall, sporadically. At first I thought they were pinned back too. But she kept showing up. I've got other photos in storage...so many cams and photos...hard to find them of her. Frostbite seems logical too. But why no others? Ever?

Livin' next to a dairy farm has lots of benefits.

Now I like that. The property borders a number of hayfields, intense dairy farming for Allegany County.

Here she is on Christmas Day.

Makes sense...then do you think this was a real early fawn...like from the first rut...before the main rut...born in April...and we had a Zero degree F. day then...? I don't think so. She looks like about a 3-year old doe, so that puts her back about 2014 or '15 when she hit the ground. So have to check NOAA for the historical weather data. But I don't recall that low a temp around here in April...never in May. What temps to get frostbite in a deer's ear? And why no others?

No deer farm around here that I know of...one down south near Coudersport, Pa...just across the border. Frostbite...? Why not other deer?...especially where it gets really cold. I have never seen a deer with its ears like this.

What do you think caused this doe to have her ears trimmed?

I've read a lot of posts on this thread and just wonder why such a benign statement at the beginning seemed to generate so much acrimony and rancor? We all sit around the same camp fire…deer hunters.

Here are the two 10 points…the bare rack is actually a bit larger than the mount. Both archery kills, a couple 100 yards apart. (No idea why they are sideways.)

Interesting that researchers say bucks scatter when yearlings. And yet I have noticed over the years certain characteristics on one drainage that seem similar too. I killed two 10 points, 10 years apart on the same hill and their racks are very similar. https://www.qdma.com/yearling-buck-dispersal-how-far-how-fast-how-many/

Didn't Tyrod lead the Bills over Alex and the Chiefs 16-10? How did you do on that game?

Lilac is 11 years old. Never had an English setter that backs (honors another dog's point) like her.

I killed a one-antlered buck a few years back and have regretted it ever since. It was a quick shot through trees. I had that buck on a trail cam just a couple days before and it had both antlers. He would have been a real slammer the next year for me or somebody else.

I really like my Bowtech Carbon Icon. I shoot now at 60# where it feels good and I can shoot 50 arrows a day for practice. It has replaceable cams that give a choice between a hard draw and power, or a smooth release. I killed my buck this year with the smooth cam. It was not as pricey as some…but I shot it a lot this summer at the target and really enjoyed it's accuracy…tuning it. And a lot of fun experimenting with some of my older arrows…heads, and how they would fly. Never shot so much in the summer…dialed in at 25 yards. And killed my buck at 12 yards. typical.