Doewhacker

Just teasing by the way. I usually go with, "I think I could have got a shot" that way there it still leaves room for anything that could have happened. lol

hahahaha I love guys like you, never killed one but could have. You know what is good practice for killing a big one, killing a medium sized one first.

Thats easy, you hit the Femoral artery that runs down the back and through the hind quarters. It is as quick a killing shot as you can get, did it once due to a walking shot I took(never again). I walked past the dead deer on the way to get the flash light, it was dead with in 20 yards, just over the hill from me.

Guess who is driving the semi? muhahahaha

Simple answer, shoot what makes you happy. If I were were in your shoes I would wait it out too because you have seen so many bucks and Im sure you know what is in your area. I never had a good doe in range either this year, just fawns and a few bucks, what can you do. I see no sense in trying to compare what one hunter see's to another, different areas and different methods of hunting give different results.

That for sure and possibly a different food source for the doe's.

"Dick's was out of sawyer's!" Thats cause every one he knows was told to run out and buy it!

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Damn drunk Moose's!!

I rarely go to Richmondville because we don't see much there, but there are some nice bucks. I haven't seen a deer in the last few times that I have gone there, but that is spread out over a couple of years. Seems to be more deer in the Leeds area but then again this year was poor in our main spot because of the flooding, it knocked all of the cover down and made things tough for us. I'm sure some of the guys out west of us have seen more than I have.

No just weekends, I did hunt by the house in the NZ a couple of evenings early on when it was hot. I did go every weekend this year though, some times only a few hours and some times 8 hours. We hunt in and around Leeds NY, and then outside of Richmondville and of course Saratoga near home. 6 of the sightings were home and the rest were in and around Leeds. Did alot of still hunting this year and zero treestand hunting.

Depends on the spot, one spot we are lucky that we can go in a bit late because the deer come through between 820 and 1000am. Once in a while they move earlier but most often not. We are there any way as early as we can be.

Not to sound like a know it all but, if you had hit the Femoral artery he would have died with in 20-30 seconds, it was most likely a liver hit.

At least we know he didn't have to track any of them, good shooting right there.

I live life on the edge and shoot with out a back stop down there..lol We use a piece of carpet streched over a wood frame at my Dad's because of a steep hill, it works but not so much if you hit the same spot twice.

I will be the first to admit to making crappy hits on a few, one with the gun in my youth I hit in the tail. Beleive it or not we tracked it a ways and my dad caught it beded down by spotting the ear of it. We then put a plan into action and surrounded it and sent one person in on the tracks and when it got up my dad was the one to put a good hit on it. I have liver hit 4 with the bow, two beded down with in sight and died after a few hours of waiting. The others we tracked and found after waiting. I had one other leg hit with the rifle that we tracked a real long ways and caught it beded and finished off. As has been said 100 times on here, bad hits happen regaurdless of how great we think we all are. Its what you do after the shot that makes the difference.

I have taken hair off the backs of 3 in my younger days, thats about as non-fatal a hit as you can get. Other than that I haven't lost any, been hunting with bow and gun since I was of legal age and I am now 31. I have killed 14 with the bow and I don't know how many with the gun because I don't keep track, not because I have killed a ton.

We hit our average for bow kills this weekend so I guess it was a ok season. I totaled 49 seen 1 killed. I did see more bucks this year than I have in past seasons. My sightings dropped way off when I started to stand in one spot the last 2 weeks. I also saw Turkeys, 2 Eagles, an Osprey and a few coyotes including one at 10 yards that had no idea we were there. All we need is 2-3 more with the gun to hit our season average and things will be good.

Thank you, my wife handles all of the names of the places we have been and those are familiar, no hard trails though as I cart my soon to be 3 year old in on my back. Last year she picked one that rose 900ft in .9 of a mile, I thanked her for that when we got to the top.

Ok after some looking around I have found that the Mtns. in the distance are Algonquin and Wright, I have been on the other side of them closer to Mt Marcy. Beautiful area.

Nice, I think I can see Mt. marcy in the back ground. Wonder which trail/mountain it was taken from?

Busters Law prevents this type of thing, so I have a hard time beleiving the story, sorry just don't sound right to me kid.

Yes the QB coach, and he still has a job because he reported it to Paterno. And that was years ago which is what is the worst part.

Last I heard it was around 20 that have come forward.

Um yea that was a joke for you, you referenced short term memory loss and I acted like I forgot what we were talking about.