Geno C

Nice Bucks!

nice! is the camp still in the family?

thats a neat pic to have bubba...

i always have a good time. it is the same stuff but its a good way to get and enjoy the day. ill meetup with you guys there if you guys go. keep me posted what day you plan on going. either sat or sun...

right on brutha...

lol sorry, i take that back, most of the guys in it said they would...

LOL Damn, i want to find my albino deer thread where everyone was saying they wouldnt shoot an albine from what i remember haha...

Hey look, I agree with steve! LOL^^ i like the debates, i have not really peeked into the threads with the name calling so im not sure about that aspect... It would be nice if there was alittle more open mindedness but its a forum and what you see is what you get on just about any open forum. There are some VERY knowledgeable guys on here and i enjoy hearing what they have to say and reading the opinions of others but sometimes things can tend to be monkey see monkey do and you tend to have some guys come on strong like they know everything and not really willing to back down, you know not even back down but atleast try to see the flip side of things. But at the end of the day, we seem like a good group of guys and i do enjoy this site very much and i am happy to be apart of it...

Rich from Fin to Feathers says those are the dates, its on and he will have a booth set up...

im with ya... heard alot of myths. infact i even think i had a thread like this a few months ago i started... I would love to even see one in the woods let alone shoot one.

My low point would probably be the property i was hunting was very un eventful and just totally working against me.... the season started out slow and windy but i would have to say my high point was probably meeting another hunter from my club in the woods who became my hunting partner. we teamed up, shared trail cam photos, scouting info, hung tree stands together. It was great. Another high point for me this season was: 1 - Just being fortunate enough to get out in the woods as often as i did this year and having a nice season experience. i saw a good amount of deer and passed on all the small ones i saw... and 2 - harvesting my 7 point, its not always about harvesting a deer but when you do it makes your season that much better knowing the time you put in really paid off.

i was just looking at it from another angle, no pun intended... believe it or not people giving up on a deer is my biggest pet peeve. i hate it and i did voice my opinion on some who lost their deer in their threads and i thought about it and i may have been harsh at the time. its just i do have alot of passion and love for these animals and i hate to see them go to waste just like anyone else. I hunted with a guy, he was my dads friend and he gave up on deer if he didnt find them dead with in 100 yards. I stopped hunting with him and he still hunts like that till this day. So trust me im not defending those who slack on track jobs.

I have no idea the proximity to the property lines in this story but I think Doe is right on the mark. A deer hit as described could have easily stayed on it's feet for hours and covered a lot of ground. Hit where it was I would bet the blood trail could have been tough to follow. Mix that in with a god population of deer and a lot of tracks and this could have been a tough one to get. Geno----I think the general theme in all the posts was to emphasize the need for follow up....and that some out there may not do everything the absolutely can to recover game. This is one of those topics that as hunters we have to make a big deal about....hold the people we know or hunt with to a higher standard. There is no law against just shooting and making a half hearted peek to see if it was down. With no law we need to police ourselves. If you have trouble...get help.....make yourself available to others to assist in others recoveries. Tracking is a skill and there are ways to do it that are better than others. It should be practiced just like shooting itself. And when you have exhausted all options and can look yourself in the mirror and say "I did everything I could do"...feel bad....learn from it...and move on. Every missed opportunity...mistake...and even success makes us better hunters .....if we are doing our job right...lol your right in cases where its blatantly obvious, yeah lets make a big deal about it. but theres no one giving any of these dead deer found the benfit of the doubt that the hunter did indeed do all he could do and assuming he did all you listed and looks himself in the mirror and said he did all he could no one here would know that. instead every deer found is flamed to the hunter by other hunters. im just saying how much sympathy did all the guys here show to the hunters when there was all the lost deer threads. now can you really believe the time and effort put forth in some? how do you know what they did. For all some may know those same threads that were made during the season on lost deer that were never found could be some of the deer showing up now dead. Probobly not but im just saying. ever loose a deer? you know how much time you put in to recover it. now your neighbor happens to find it and starts bashing your ethics mean while you did the right thing. Not very cool when the gun is jumped and a bunch of assumptions are made. yeah a dead deer found 50 yards from a house with a cross bow arrow on the front law, yeah flame away that s*its gotta stop, poaching wise but when a dead deer is found in the woods, like i said before reading someones threads you can make comments and assumptions but no one knows 100% and all it does is makes everyone seem very judgmental. i am in no way for poachers and in every way possible for guys following up on a deer and doing everything they possibly can do to find it. but we all know in a perfect world that may be the case but lost deer are common year in year out and where is that same sympathy and brotherhood shown in those lost deer threads? its almost like when no one knows who shot the deer its easier to start flaming a hunter then when they do know who it was. i will tell you culv, if i was your bordering neighbor and i knew you shot a deer and lost it i doubt you would like me to post a pic of the deer dead in the woods and rant on how its got to stop, when you know you did everything you could. i do know from what i am hearing it is all to common now a days that guys do show lack of follow up and i get that, but every dead deer we all come across now will be lack of hunter effort? really? lol it just sounds to stereotypical. im not saying any of this in a bad or mad way, i just find it comical that all the guys who showed sympathy to the ones who lost a deer this year are the same ones bashing an unknown hunter for his unknown efforts... all those deer threads we read about not to long ago with all the lost deer, i am sure some of those deer were recovered after the fact by another person and guys may still come across them weeks or months from now. they may even be posted on here and flamed for hunter fault in one thread and sympathized about previously in a lost deer thread. see what iam saying...

nice!

Well, in all honesty. i would like to give some people out there the benefit of the doubt... i do know there are some out there who purely give up to easy or dont put forth the effort to track. But i do see on here alot of people jump the gun and bash others when they find a dead deer in the woods. whos to say that hunter DID NOT do everything he possibly could to track that deer but maybe the deer doubled back and the hunter circled patterned but was un successful in tracking that deer. this stuff happens but its sad to see so many guys on here bash or voice an opinion on what someone else is saying. For all robinson doesn't know is the hunter who hit that deer could have tried hard and did not come out on top and was bummed as heck to loose that deer. i would like to think some people have half of a brain and try to do the right thing. I DO NOT want to think everyone out there is INCOMPETENT and can not hunt, otherwise why the hell am i going to risk being around these a holes??? some guys on here have to lighten up and stop thinking every dead deer found in the woods was a poacher or a guy who hit it and gave up on it. NO ONE here knows the story of that deer and the hunter who shot it so stop making judgments on those stories you do not know anything about other then an un recovered deer. Is this what NY is about? criticizing others and thinking all hunters out there are incompetent? ??? i know there are some but to think everyone who looses a deer is, well thats just stupid. I get mad when i see an un recovered deer as much as the next hunter, but unless you were there, YOU DONT know the whole story. sorry to rant but ive been seeing WAY TO MANY guys voice an opinion on matters they are not 100% sure of and its getting old to be honest with you... A dead deer in a feild, must be poachers, a dead deer in the thickets, well the hunter didnt look or gave up on that deer. i mean c mon really???

Oh and nice rabit count!! lol going to be making stew?

lol everyones so fast to say people showed lack of following up on a deer or poachers... it is possible it was just an iffy shot and the deer ran off as they tend to do after being shot. unfortuantly there is probobly a huge percentage each year for lost deer. this stuff does happen...

LOL! nice...

Rich you should post pics of the deer that comes into your shop! im sure you get some brutes come in over the season.

wasnt you was it? lol

cool pics steve! i bet guys hunt all over the island where it is illegal to hunt... ive seen signs of hunters in place hunting where its not permitted. also heard of guys sneaking in to connetquait to hunt also. wish you can get that vid uploaded somehow.

holy crap WNY, such a critic lol! no one was stateing they would take a shot at living deer at that distance... and hey even if it was take 20 on getting 3 shots on that deer at 100 yards still way better then most of us id bet lol

yeah alot of people feed them so they are kind of used to people. i thought you lived more upstate bubba?

yeah that would have been cool to go over and see... its been so long since i have been there. Deff would have been cool to take the kids there forsure

LOL right...