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Ya so isn't my shepherd...but it was a yellow lab that charged me foaming at the mouth with a red chest and it's chocolate partner I ended up hitting when I shot to protect my self...The DEC said it would have gone for my throat and I was lucky I had my shot gun with me... It is not the breed ...it is the owner...I have known some of the best pitbulls around raised with baby animals and submissive...but poodles and poms that would just as soon gnaw your hand or foot off as to look at you...

Oh that stand never got a trespasser in it...I removed the screws to the support brackets on the foot platform and pulled it up and zipped it to the rails...this prevented them from climbing pulling the platform down and using it as a rung and still sitting..I carried zip ties with me and locking linch pins to attach supports ...but when I first put it down there no one realized that my way in was completely undetectable. They assumed it was road access only for me. A few guys got tore up running I am sure...I would never hunt opening gun anywhere near there.The first week ..just too dangerous they would stand on the edges and even the road and shoot in...So 9 pm every day before opener I would carry down my decoy...a stuffed orange hunting suit with a light wooden T frame and knit cap...The orange was visible for a long ways...I also had my cut out orange painted hunters placed in different places...They work pretty darn well...Now I use open blind windows with half orange decoys...the hunting forms and plastic vests in the trees...they get moved around at night. The swamp now has the new owner next to it keeping an eye on things, this after we had a hell of a phone brawl with him accusing me of shooting deer in his yard and his tenants saying I was down there hunting illegally...This while I sat in a stand a half mile up the hill.. Well I drove up his drive the next summer and we had a "chat" When I was done he had apologized ...moved his posted signs off my land and told me he'd call if there were any problems and I told him if you don't see me...call the cops. The other neighbor I had a very good relationship with, we would call each other a lot...committed suicide ...so now I have no idea what will happen this year...God bless his soul. That swamp is just a great place to sit...Once I had a flock of grackle fly in all around me and they had frogs dangling out of their beaks ..It was a wild site to see ...other times I watch mink and the Eagles soar over often..the sound of the water and it is the last place on our land where I can hear the grouse drum. Turkey love it to...in the winter there are flocks of robins that live there...but That is very early for once those people wake up it's non stop noise from them and traffic and yapping dogs

The only plots I have where deer do not randomly enter are the ones I have put barriers around...The big open field one with a fence along one side...they pop in from ALL directions and even occasionally hop the fence. It all depends on where their wondering through my woods or the run something may have caused them, leads them...or where they end up coming out of the neighbors woods and swamp. I swear are the deer here the only ones that guys can't set a watch by,as it were? They bed, where ever, they walk where ever...They don't even go down the hill in the mornings and up in the evenings like the use to years ago...but even then it was a guess as to where they'd decide to do that. The one thing apparently is you can see them gather just before dark in the farm fields adjacent to our back line...I seem to be the only one from here to Arkport that has rarely seen that and yes 50-60 all summer long then I dare ya to see a deer there unless it's on a dead run.

...Thanks to guys like you,4FSW...take note I have not posted trail cam pics of any of the velvet buck,save one young six in a new plot pic. There will be no 2017 or future trail pics of buck posted by me on this site. Thanks to you other 3 guys for stepping up, it's appreciated.

What I said is it is my biggest tresspassing area, it's where the big boys hang out. I put the stand down there to keep the tresspassers at bay years ago before it was even legal to hunt...the property is only 411 ft wide,and had 2 trailers to close to allow hunting witha 500 ft rule. This is how I got the taxes lowered so much and the property rezoned as waste land. BTW...I have discissed this SEVERAL times over the years. It only became huntable once the trailers were removed and the bow restrictions reduced. I of course would take the time and work to "save" a stand from a dead tree..also trim trails to just walk my own property. I don't buy land to never use it. Even though it's just to walk. Though when it became huntable I took advantage,and big boys hang out all over my place..years of pictures show that...you are a toad.

Some think they are..I suppose I think they could be. This is why I do things the way I do. That is in having dozens of stand and blind sites in what many consider a small area with many different small plots. Plots set up amongst natural browse and mast trees. This giving the deer so many choices and me so many choices that much of the time it's a coin toss as to where either of us may end up. I don't want my hunting to be a sure thing. I just want to have a fighting chance against the local farm crops,large santuary non doe hunting areas and known baiters around me.

Your mind works stfangly sometimes...

First time ever,Mr B Got his first. Arrived Yesterday.

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Chicken burgers, yellow rice , mixed green salad, mix of broccoli and cauliflower.

HOBH...LOL....No check out the dates...just examples of deer not caring about being near my smelly cams...

But also note... when they do go after the owners of dogs running deer in NYS there are big fines to the owners. I think it's federal as well... I remember turning one neighbor in and it was mentioned he could get jail time as a 3 strike thing...not sure if that was true but there was retaliation towards me for turning the dog in instead of shooting..go figure!

ny hunter that is a totally different situation...It is illegal PERIOD to shoot a dog running deer and the DEC are the only ones that can do that...get caught and the fines are steep. Calling the DEC and insisting on filing a report...should you know who's dog...and this is what the officers will tell you.." We talked to the owners and either : 1. the kids let it out, Never happen again'' 2. wasn't our dog ,our dog never left the house'' Then they will say so we gave a warning but YOU need to get pictures. BTW you better have a damn good camera because ..Well that's not the best picture...blah...blah blah... been there done that, several times...INSIST on reports or record your conversations and I can tell you they HATE that.

Grant Woods eats his...not sure if site has a recipe..they are grass fed so people say they are good eating...I drove past one of the bigger ones we have..he was peacefully sitting on the rocks in culvert, no blood no open wounds looked like he was sleeping...must have ran into a tire...drove past him again on way home ..flies had found him..next day..something else took him.

Thanks Ya wasn't at all happy to see that...saving grace is it's a recent dead ash so my biggest issue will be an up rooting.its packed in with shrubs and rose ,so even though dead roots are bound up in live root systems. Then there is the ladderstand which has sunk past the first rung into the muck. This is a bit of a stablizer. Thankfully it's a quick release of strap and heavy rubber strap as well. Then quick back down...taking a ride with tree isn't as scary a thought as landing in the monster rose it would fall into...So you can imagine I'll be treading very carefully...push comes to shuv Ill get the long pole pruner and cut both straps.

Oh Doc.....there are only two things that will control these in that area.. a dozer, but it would disappear in the muck...or to let a herd of goats loose on it for a summer. The goat pasture was sick with it even though the farmer brushed the field each year..the goats killed it off the first summer. I actually want that area covered in it. It's always been my worst tresspasing area. Its where the big boys hide out. I usually go down with hand pruners and clip a few narrow assess routes through it about this time of year. I have to say though,this surprised me a bit..I hunted that stand last year several times. So I had cut that rose back pretty hard.its up to the seat of the stand and you can't even see the ladder now. They did love all this rain...BTW so did the poison ivy vines as thick as tow rope and every where. I dont need to cut the tree ,just un hook the ladderstand from it. I can't maneuver the area because The overgrowth of ferns and swamp grasses meke paths hard to see. Deer paths are easy to make out in less thick stuff but one wrong step by me and I sink calf deep..thats scary actually. Then I can actually hear the streams running under the ground...dropping through that wouldn't be a happy time either. I don't see things drying up either...it rained from 2:40 and still raining now...rain due everyday but Wednesday his week.

Unless a person has been bitten and seriously injured you don't have a clue how much damage can happen in a split second. I have been hospitalized 3 times with bites. One straight through my calf muscle. What saved me on that was adrenaline and knowing what to do. I immediately reached back and grabbed it's snout and held it to my leg,preventing a shake or ripping out of muscle. Another I had my finger tipped and arm latched on to. Then lost a good part of a pinky finger. That happened so fast I didnt even know it was gone untll my son told me and I looked down. Surgery to clean and repair " amputation" months of hand rehab. Way to many scares..muscle and tendon injuries don't always heal right they can bulge and harden....dead dogs Never underestimate what just one bite can do. BTW...That pinky causes me real problems in the cold. Makes cold weather hunting a problem ,trying to keep just that pinky warm enough to avoid tissue damage and pain...this years after..also arthritis developed in that hand and the arm that was bitten has numbness issues years later.

My I have my work cut out for me...top swamp has really over grown and 16 ft built blind needs work. Streams are flowing heavy..what a wonderfull sound the cascades are making. The lower swamp is completely over grown and wet! I have an issue with that stand..the tree died and I have to get it down. Couldn't try today for it is also encased in a giant wild rose. The trails look like cow paths though. Will have to set up a bit out side the swamp then I was because most trees are now dead. Couldnt make it all the way down do to rose and I slipped on mud which jammed my thigh bone down in my knee...with the ACL being torn out it seriuosly messed me up..took an hour to hobble back up the hill. So I have a few extra things to do I wasn't planning on.

I gathered kale,swisschard,beet grees,and collards for cooked greens..ate last of just shelled garden peas(planting again tomorrow),hand cut steak fries coated in garlic and chili powder. Chickem fingers in parmesan breading. Ice cream with blue berry sauce.

I usually down load them as a copy and paste form the computer file to my picture file...then open it into the thread..usually works. I hope what ever situation that kept you away had a posative out come for you.

Where did you find it?

It down loaded but wouldn't open..but great to see you on the boards Jala.

Are they saying it's land locked? No private assess route to it? The town has the market value as more than a 1,000.00 an acre? I wonder what it will end up going for....

Do you have a chain harrow drag? I just did the lower plots and had al ot of green material that I disced in...I went down the next day with the teeth down on the drag to lay in fertilizer and lime and to up root any missed plants...I then turned the drag over teeth up and after seeding dragged it again... this rolled all of the plant litter into nice little piles that fell away as I contintued to drag...I left a lot of little roled up weed bundles but cleaned the soil so they couldn't re-root. We have a york rake but I only use it for rocking in the spring

He's a cutie looks like your work with him is paying off ....