Lawdwaz

Nice job!

I'd wager a small bet the guy wasn't 30' up anyway. It doesn't matter anyway but I'm sure it was just a fireman/EMT nest estimate in the dark. Even us hunters have a hard time estimating height, weight, length etc. I really don't have sympathy for someone who has fallen out of a tree these days. No excuse anymore.

Why should it be from a buck and not a doe? Enlighten me please.

Deer.

I told you the other day, when you buy more than two tons of corn, Agway will deliver it ANYPLACE, no questions asked. Just keep quiet about it, O.K.? I love this new PM system the just configured!

I have found that when you go that high in a tree (25 feet) in a climber it is difficult to get the cable set to the right length to start up the tree and still be somewhat level due to the narrowing of the tree.

The other night when I went to search for 217, I took two lights. I took my friends MEGA Streamlight monster spot light and my high quality multy beam headlight. My light has two different bulb types, one high intensity and the other halogen. I used the HI to do the blood search and the halogen to just navigate to and from the woods to conserve the battery life. First off, the big Streamlight spotter was a total waste of time. I knew it would be but took it to appease my friend. The headlight worked perfect. The leaves were very wet as they had a couple of inches of snow that melted that day and of course it was dark. The leaves were mostly green & yellow. The entrance wound was high in the back and angled down into the right shoulder and had taken out both lungs. With no exit wound to leak, trailing was a bit difficult for the first 40-50 yards before he filled up with blood. I think he only went about 75 yards total. Get a good multy beam headlight and a couple other lights for your pocket, toilet tissue and your compass. TRUST me on the compass.......................................(someday I'll tell you about that night in the woods dragging a buck in a circle!)

Those were in NYS? And weighed live weight or field dressed? Lots of folks THINK they shot a 200lb deer but never put them on a scale. (That is NOT directed at you, erussell) I hear people say "he had to go 200+" or "the butcher said he went 200+" all the time. In many parts of NYS, 200 lbs, field dressed is a giant buck.

What a moose!

Ouch on the shipping and hauling up & down the stairs!!

I love my harness. Only a damned fool would climb up without one. Damned fool. I'd be happy to tell it to your face if you are.

No worries KEVA, Dinsdale is posting from the State Hospital. Just joshing with ya. I think he got out a couple days ago........................................<grin>

Well, here's another slob for you guys. I guess the live weight would have been 270lbs+/- Something in the water this year! Mine was shot not too far from the Italy Valley, maybe 20 miles or so as the crow flies??

The other one was small 1.5 year old buck. I'll post up a pic of him later. I'd imagine he might have dressed at 100lbs? He REALLY looked little when compared to the beast.

Friday afternoon I killed this buck in the Finger Lakes area of NYS. Only about 400 yards from where I shot the 140" B&C buck last year with the ML. First time I hunted the stand for this year (I think that has significance) and the stand/area has been very good to me for about 20 years. The shot was a quartering away at about 30 yards. He only went about 75 yards and piled up. Oddly, I found another buck dead, about 10 yards from him and he had not been dead very long, no arrow, blood or any other signs of trauma. Probably hit by car?? 100gr Slick Trick & BowTech Guardian. The body on this thing was amazingly huge. In the area I hunt this dude is very uncommon. We weigh almost every buck that we shoot that could be 2.5 years old and older. We've been doing it for 40+ years and never hung one over 172lbs. The fact that he was shot before the peak of the rut has helped as I'm sure he would be really hitting the does hard in the next 3 weeks and slimming down. Oh yea, when we first got him back to the barn and hoisted him up on the scale, he bottomed out the 200lb scale. I called a friend down the road (at 11:00pm) and asked to borrow his scale that went to 300lbs. I'll get him aged this week at the DEC in Buffalo. 4.5-5.5?? The rack is nothing huge and looks quite small on the body. He might go 100"-110"? (Maybe) I'll do a beetle job on him.

Great going! A 6 in the bag is better than a 10 in the bush.................................. Put that 4pt by me tonight and he'll be ventilated!!

Good luck with the blinker!

In the past 10 minutes, I've been text some pics of a REALLY white hill top in Naples. The woods are WHITE! That will keep the deer holed up for a bit!! Seems like they never move much during the first snow fall, IME.

Welcome! Are you one of those landowners?

yes.

Nice buck! Time to fix the wagon wheel.

You are so full of schit (knowledge) your eyes are brown! Grouse? Plausible. Like you said, no way is it from any turkey I've ever seen.

Nice first post. Any more tidbits you can share?

Yea, nice bucks!!

Chemical hand warmers and pockets. I wear a light pair of gloves when in the stand or nothing. My hands are almost never out of my pockets when hunting except for using the binos and pulling the trigger.