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I have to get up and walk around the house so my sinuses will let loose and drain It's like a pressure valve is released, our poor son has the same problem, my mom's would get Impacted...ahh heredity...could be worse....Lol

Same here..wake up suffocating 2x' s a night.

lol...I don't even use these apples...they are a wild apple and have a very ...hhhmmmm....mealy texture and taste.very dry...actually probably a great cider or wine apple...The deer love them though and at least two of the trees right there hold their apples well into gun season...only dropping in high winds. Right across from this tree I have a mitzu-crispin...it was loaded with blossoms...got 4 apples...doesn't it figure the ones I spray and prune well. Same with the plums loaded with blossoms 8 plums and I lost the branch those were on...so I just left it..because it was still attached but on the ground...the deer finally ate them this week so I can prune off the limb and remove it...

Back not fully erupted,3 cuspids and less than 6 teeth...

I mentioned today my apple tree cam has gotten 200 pics two days in a row since I put it out..this is at the garden gate where I am always around... So far just doe hanging under the dripper ,but day and night..Sometimes minutes after I've been in the garden....I set a stand here a few years ago there are 6 producing apple trees all around that stand and a line of plums in front of it...I open the garden gate during season..... but the wind is a real PITA. The deer up on the neighbors trail 60 yards above me wind me ...oftenSwirling winds right there...with all the doe the buck should start showing soon..

I mentioned I planted the oats early for a few reasons... the turkey and they have headed out ,I was working out in the garden and had turkey sounding off where I just put the new stand...they are hitting those acorns. They will be hitting the left over corn in the garden and the oats as they dry...I also planted alfalfa and clover I wanted protected...That may back fire a bit...Same oats but these went a tad crazy over all the others...WAY taller crazy thick and very wide bladed....This is around the old goat paddock ...I had soybeans get 39 inches tall there one year and last years turnips were the size of my tea kettle.. Then the deer...Well I knew they would browse a while on them but what I wanted was bedding......they have eaten "holes " in the plot but realized, hey flatten these down and they make a right comfy bed....It was a bit smaller Thursday morning...but they needed more room last night...right up near the barn.

Your right on that...I put a cam on a new scrape drip under the apple tree....over 200 pics day and night 2 days in a row...the doe have been eating and standing under the drip...not a single buck picture another scrape drip..cam has doe all over it...no food around just a travel route drip...no buck...They are still hanging together on two different areas of the property both are big corn areas......Also in the WW I need to go spot my field just once because they have MOWED that WW down the rye...not so much and I'll take a pic of where at least a few big beds are in the oats.

Send that into QDM and ask for a score...I do their scoring a buck every E-Mail.... Interesting ...Moog what in the nose suggests a 3 to you...I have a deer the guys named old shovel nose..an older buck...but I don't see that in this deer....I'd like to see the depth of the jaw line...older bucks show a significant depth over young ones, I wouldn't put him over 3 from the pic. https://www.qdma.com/7-sins-aging-bucks-hoof/

OK please read this before getting worked up . It is JUST a question. I know you hunt public not sure where, now I have looked through lots of Public hunting places and where I have looked they USUALLY range 500+ to thousands of acres... 100 acres just seemed small to me Do you have larger public hunting spaces in your area? PS... I agree with what you said and leave the seasons alone.

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This was one of my first plot areas on the property...I had to bring the back hoe down and dig out a lot of stumps and dig a drainage ditch..Very wet in spring and wet seasons due to the hill run off. It's what I call the oak flats...as you can see not really flat..nowhere on our place is actually flat....It's a small opening with bedding islands next to the cam tree and where that little one is headed...there is also another small area next to it over a drainage ditch and two planted trails into it. Actually on either side of that bedding area...the bedding is surrounded by plots. It's been this way for nearly 20 years and they all use it, bed and lots of doe chasing occurs here.During season I hunt the edges and thanks to quiet trails,I can get in close enough for shots. from the angle you see from the camera, LONG way in, and from the north east side. I have a great turkey blind on the north west but I really have to know their movement times and have a good south wind to hunt it in deer season because the doe love it, the buck do to and the doe hang here mostly midday ...but travel through morning and evenings to bigger plots and mast on either side...That is when we don't have the great acorn drop we are having now. Anyways.... It's one of my most relaxing pretty spots to hunt in the middle of our property. More than once dozed off in the surrounding stands....I cut a 130yrd shooting lane from the new tower blind to this plot for the 243..catches the far left edge,your left, all the way down the connecting trail plot which makes it closer to a 200yrd shot op. What are some of your most relaxing stand sets...The ones that make you sleepy?

I don't have a video but as I ,sat in what I now call the toxic blind,during gun season a couple of years ago I watched one running through our woods headed toward the neighbors swamp...It was a big one and yes it was like a pouncing type run , but what stuck with me was how due to it's length, it looked like a big blk. fast moving inch worm with a tail, against the snow as it went through the woods... Last year I saw one dragging a rabbit through the same area.

Sweet!,there was one one a c as title farm down the hill last year not sure if it made it through the season. Always fun to see.

Eewww...those suck... if it "felt shedding" I'm thinking connectve tissue..for people like us..pain is your friend...mine is like a whap to the back of the head, saying Hey stupid! Enough already

I believe if you go to the 2016 harvest thread you'll see a buck shot by a member showing a picture o the scale..reading over 220 as I recall....go back through a few years and I'm thinking you'll see more

Just be careful. For if you had that much pain just switching releases...there may be an underlying cause getting ready to surface.

I actually have big stands due to being built between trees I have used camo tarp and fleece to cover it works well. But in honesty have only one stand that all animals look up at..it's crazy really because it is set in a triple trunked tree with a large pine behind it. Cams show doe, Turkey, and Fox all looking up at it. All year long. It is completely silent with low brush all around the bottom hiding the ladder. I don't think I use it 2x' s a year. Then I have a few huge wooden hang ons that stick out big time and at the bottom of a hill facing the hill and have NEVER been picked off even when half way upthe ladder and a buck walks under me. They are eye level when coming some the hill. My best big deer stands. One I have shot 8 buck and 4 doe out of..you can't miss the thing nor the huge ladder we built for it I believe some of our best cover is trunk width and position,thus multiple when possible but wide ones, we as hunters need to learn more about how deer see things my best stands face hills that are higher than the stand..deer scan the woods floor as the crest them,so eye level for me means they are looking down. Our movements we have to learn when it's Ok to move and when it's not. I spent years practicing this. Standing and sitting drawing when non target deer are near( yougins ). I have been able to walk in a bright orange suit down our open lane ways with deer feeding and glancing at me to with in 10 yards to purposely spook them so they'd run up on to us and not down to the neighbors..I kept my arms close to my body and would wave my hand back and forth behind my thigh and I kept my head down so my eyes weren't visible. The hand looked like a tail flick to them. I kept my legs together and took slow steps..never moving when they were looking. Let me tell you it royally ticked the neighbor sitting on our line getting ready to shoot them in our lane way. Thats actually how I learned to do that. I'd literally walk past him..Lol. I've climbed and gotten down many many times with deer with in yards of me during light and dark hours...it's movement ,how and when that will spook a deer every time,cover helps with that,knowledge helps more.

Well Otters really are big water fans I could see that...

Now that's brush hunting! Pretty...Can't really make out individual plants save the sumac, but that tall clump on the right looks familiar to me....I haven't been to camp in a couple of years...It's was very bad then. I can't imagine how bad it is now I tried cutting out a section one year and you could barely reach the trunks with a pruning saw with out the risk of a blinding. Crawling under to cut you risked body puncture when they fell..

They are in RI, Conn. , and NJ. Coyotes were on Long Island long before anyone finally "confirmed" them...What makes anyone think that Fishers couldn't be there? Hell I would think in a big city that Obviously has rats...a Fisher population would be welcomed and encouraged...lol But I suppose...they couldn't adapt to their environments,like coyote, deer, even bear have in highly populated areas.

On the computer...so here's the link...really excellent examples of deer drop shown... http://www.growingdeer.tv/#/bow-hunting-kentucky-whitetails-land-management-tips-for-hunters

You have buckthorns in the area?...man nasty sturdy thorns...glad it wasn't an eye...poor little guy..

Funny.....This and correct me but aren't you also in an "over runned ' deer area as well? I know they consider 8N to be.

My late trees are just starting to drop now and I have leafless sugar maples and ash already ..our drive is covered in leafs...acorns and nuts were a tad early...