Dorsilfin

Sat this morning in the rain in 3a. Froze myself. No sightings. Been in the stand since 3 just rolling past 6. Not a deer sighting at all. Lots of noisy chipmunks and squirrles but no deer today.

goats get to wonder during the daytime, and are penned at night. The whole property isnt fenced in.

As for the legality of the salt block, I have it out there for the goats on the property

I showed that baby fawn video around, and the general thought was it was maybe 1-2 days old tops.. its amazing what happens in the woods when were not there looking =)

I heard about the early bear season over the weekend. This great news for me in the catskills. I have more bear around my property then deer and last year the week before bow season opened, all the food ran out locally on the property and the bears vanished to another part of the mountain. This is going to give me a huge window to take a bear and I hope that one of the regular bears will present me with the opportunity to take one.

I've had my trailcam out now for months capturing what I'd never see even sitting in a tree as quiet as can be.. The 120 bucks for a trialcam and Sd card have been the best investment for me. I have 100's of videos of wildlife surrounding my cabin in the catskills and Its nice to finally see some of them.. even if it is on camera. I've cropped some of the best videos together

Thanks all!.. and yeah as a 30 year old guy living alone.. house goes as follows.. Sheetrocked and painted? If yes.. Leave alone lol

My First buck, and the mount came out great! well at least I think so. Added him right to the living room wall. Thinking about putting the arrow that I got him with up in in his antlers and maybe a little plaque putting the year/location with the bow name. So Shout out to my Taxidermist Joe! From Fin and Feather right here in the hudson valley. He did an amazing job If you ever come across this post - Thanks again!

I love my SR22, I ran 200 rds of cci mini mags through it. gave it a solid cleaning and lube and it chews up 99% of everything I throw at it now without a hickup. It will ftf/fte on standard velocity 22, but anything high veolicty it works solid most of the time. probably have 5k+ rds through it now

with all the new gun laws in new york state, I would not count on anyone from any internet forum allowing you to hold, much less shoot their guns.

The woods are all old growth at this point and the coyotes are running wild around me. would be nice if the state would come in and start logging places out and get some new growth going.. let the sunlight hit the forest floor and get some vegitation growing to support the animals. But ill never see that day happen and I dont forsee the herd getting larger.. if anything it will just skimp along and remain so so. Im going to keep looking for land, maybe find a 30-50 acre property somewhere in NYS that I can cultivate into a hunting ground with food plots and water and some thick stuff they will hopefully bed down in.

While I am all for having huge racks walking around the woods.. I mainly hunt in 3A in the catskills. So no doe permits and antler restrictions. I got spoiled during bow with a large 8 pointer and put alot of meat in the freezer and I am very thankful for that. However Opening day I had to pass on a solid 4, because I could not see if it had browtines making it a 6. Yesterday morning I was out and had to pass on a 2 pointer.. because well 2 pointer.. Fact is I would have much prefered to have him hung up in the wood shed getting ready to butcher him up for meat. I dont eat antlers.. I eat meat and when hunting state land I want to take anything legal to fill the freezer. I have to say, Yes the 8 pointer was abnormal for this area and was awesome to have gotten a shot at it with the bow.. but New york will never be the midwest.. we do not have 1000's of acres of prestine ranches built around land management to improve the deer herd and we will never have huge racks as the norm around here. If someone has land or wants to make agreements with neighbors thats all good and well for you to pass on deer but I want to just fill the freezer. Anyways /deadhorse I know its been talked about ad nausim I just had to have a little rant about having to pass on deer because of it. -Dors

its 909 acres after its name the Taconic hertford 909 multiple use area

Funny you guys posted, I was actually over there this morning. Dead quiet no one around.. Also no deer seen for the 4 hours I sat this morning. *shrug* some deer signs around the places ive looked but no large well beaten game trails. I guess if I had the time to literally burn in the woods I might see something.

Slow start to the season. Well, it would have been a great start if we did not have antler restrictions haha. Opening day around 7:15am, I had a solid 4 walk by around 75-100 yards. I couldnt fully see if he had brow tines and as much as I wanted a buck opening day I had to let him keep walking and he dissapeared into the mountain laurel. Did not see anything the rest of the day, and heard no gunshots locally. 2-3 for the whole day up/down the valley (28 corridor for locals who are familiar) Sunday was raining.. Did a slow walk through the woods for a few hours, stopping every 10-15 steps and pausing for a min at a time. Didnt kick anything up didnt see anything. Monday morning I tried the DEP property near the ashokan reservoir. Kicked up 1 doe getting in and saw nothing for the 5 hours I sat. so all in all.. very slow for me. Glad I have the 1 buck from bow season in the freezer or id be feeling the pressure. Heading to 3m tomorrow to hopefully fill some doe tags. Hows things going for you?