dbHunterNY

i hope you heal up quickly. docs are probably playing dumb. nothing to worry. they couldn't tell you that you should've tossed it back in there and then zipped up your barn door you didn't know was down. i mean it would've restored your center of gravity and balance. you could've strutted right back to the truck then. sure caught that young ladies attention. you should be happy you made her day. i suppose if anything else was the case i hope the docs find it but yea. it's pretty obvious. still keep us in the loop.

i know what i'm legally obligated to do. point being i wouldn't be baiting. deer travel. they aren't asking random folks to see their gut piles or spots. there was some evidence of baiting to cause them to ask. it would be blatant stupidity at that point to ask to see guts because he or she knows what they'll find. i'd be blunt tell them so then tell them they can see my stand and search the area of my property because i wasn't baiting. then tell them it was here so there must be a pile somewhere relatively close by. go find it. point being if you know you didn't do anything wrong then be honest and work with them to help them sort it out. if you act all shady they'll only be up your ass more and give you the benefit of the doubt that you're breaking laws when you're not. they deal with this crap every day they can tell better than the average person when you're full of BS or being serious.

you really don't know that. i took one minute to google earth that shit and came up with multiple ag fields that were tilled dirt.

bill winke is the man. the show (Midwest Whitetail) was very good when i watched it back in its early years. skimming through that clip i remember a lot of the people but the show seems to have gotten extremely sponsor based. i mean that thing was packed. all the usual cam angles and shots they used to do but a ton more. they all put in lots of time and energy into hunting. that kid that missed the big one somehow bought a farm super young, then does all kinds of stuff, and has giants every year it seemed. at the end of the video it looked like there was a clip from the previous season in which he had another 200+" buck in front of him but managed to make the shot count. she was comical but hell she was out there trying. i'll give her that much. i rarely watch hunting shows anymore. i'd rather be out there doing it.

hinge cut and return re-establish a sanctuary/bedding area that has matured and thinned out over time. hit all the TSI and logged areas to remove invasive honeysuckle, buckthorn, etc before it's harder to get into with equipment. put in a mid to late season food plot in a secluded spot that's already being bush hogged every year. put in an early (september - october draw) food plot that's buried into cover and adjacent to a three landowner boundary with a sanctuary on the neighbors and harvested ag/corn field on the other neighbors.

i'm a slow hunter so i don't rely of visual and audible hunter skills to let me know the deer is running away. lol

sh*& Pygmy wins again. i'm out.

any good deer hunter gets a feel for how old a buck is but i'm always looking at jawbones. hell i have to look at over a 100 every year. i've learned you should easily be able to get between two years and if you send teeth in to compare you'll pick up on other much less subtle stuff to pick one of the two years. antlers, body size, chest girth, and weight can always vary a bit within the same age class. also there's a little variation in jawbone wear within the same age class. even then jawbones seem to be pretty accurate. i'm glad we're up north vs down south with supplemental feeding. back checking with sending in teeth for cementum analysis wouldn't do you as much good. i've just heard another one on a facebook hunting page to measure the skull from the eye socket to the tip of the nose to get age. i know for a fact that won't work though because i've seen skulls with various lengths within the same age class. always good to keep an open mind though and give a method a chance as Jerry did.

in a whietail buck's home range of 600 acres or more, plus any excursion it could be doing from say several miles away. there's no way of knowing some joe hunter didn't plant a corn food plot for deer that the deer in question happened to walk by. i fully believe wooly when they already have most of the pieces to make you guilty enough but they're giving you a chance to be honest and come clean, not to get out of it it all but maybe they're contemplating writing more than one.

what people need to realize is a 3 year old could be 90" or 140+", even around here where antler potential isn't as great. regardless taking a 3.5 yr old deer is a respectable endeavor, even more so on public land.

not making you guilty by association. not my intent. with what you posted it seemed as though you were stating that you know people who legally take 3 bucks (antlered deer) here in NY, not just in the past but now. you cleared that up though in another recent post that you were talking about past seasons.

peak from us seemed to be right around 2 weeks into November that'd put any second rut in line with this coming weekend. there will still be a trickle of first cycles or fawns getting up to weight though. has been that harsh on them yet.

this is pretty interesting. not a lot of people out there with one that i know of.

i'd go with a varmint caliber like 223 then. you can shoot woodchucks in the summer or coyotes. easy to get permission to shoot woodchucks and targets are plentiful if they're there. good practice and fun for your son too. ammo is cheaper and prevalent. i'd even get an AR with a pinned mag. you could still shoot deer with the right bullet at close range if you wanted to, despite much better options.

you don't have a smooth bore shotgun? or is this just under the context of big game firearms? have any varmint rifles like 204 ruger, 220 swift, 223, 22-250?

congrats to FourSeasons for stirring the pot hard when we weren't even into late season yet. lol

i know a guy that saved the teeth and made a necklace. the rear claws would be cool and more bad ass. the teeth were pretty small.

i haven't taken a bear and honestly haven't seen one yet in the wild here in NY, despite a big boar was shot almost under my stand one year. i have heard you need to cook them well versus medium rare to make sure you don't get trichinosis (if that's how you spell it). heard it can taste really good but can very a bit. watched a Steve Rhinella that's been posted on here shoot a bear that was gorging in an area with wild blue berries. he rendered down the fat first and cooked the bear meat in that. said you could definitely taste the blue berries. i know some older friends that make a trip to Maine every year.

sorry to hear it Mowin.

i grip and rip too, just most likely not to the same capacity as yourself. lol gotta grab high and tight for the stomach though unless you want to make a mess. that was the first hard earned lesson i found out gutting a deer. another was a drained deer. otherwise every time something pops free there blood spatter to go with it.

sorry for your loss of a family member Jdubs.

for batteries and because it stays lit i've never done night time video. i'm actually going to use some cheap cameras this season to put up on public land. it's notorious for getting cameras stolen. i'll have to really up my game then.

i've done it both ways and agree with the legs being easy to skin around when angled down. usually though i'm not screwing up cape hair for a buck by hanging it by the neck. also doe are typically hung from a grambel attached to my Moultie scale to weigh anyway. if either left hanging for any period of time it's hind quarters up so it's not draining into them. all depends on the situation. most deer are hung nose to the ground for me.

this too.

i should've just shot another doe yesterday but i admit i was buck hunting and it was a warm Sunday evening.