dbHunterNY

yea I've got everything except a saw. contemplated getting one for a while now.

regular string D-loop is quiet and works well enough. also it's a lot cheaper and won't put as much wear and tear on your release. that's my opinion.

They make better silicone tubing that resists dry rot and breakage for much longer. I've probably got some in my shop at home.

Some strings don't need much shooting at all if any. I put Americas best string on my Evo to match what was on there to begin with. In two shots it was settled. I use a 1/4" peep for max light transmission with 2" housing.

Wooly next time wait more than 6 hours to post bonus info man!

Don't mean to be part of a gang assault on you Biz but you should want to do a little research enough to vote, at least once. Also your dilemma is the reason there's absentee ballots. Only half the active registered republicans in ny voted. If they did it would have been astorino as 500,000 votes ahead of Cuomo. You being inactive having not ever voted would've add to that number.

we tried to raise pheasants for a handful of years and there wasn't much for habitat to keep them alive and we didn't know any better back then. we were just doing it for 4-H.

...although it was a unanimously aged at 2.5 by those I know. comments where made that your buck was a heck of a deer for it's age. seems the deer are probably nice and healthy, fat, and happy where you are.

rarely do I get to eat such an old buck but I've ate bucks that old that you could cut with a fork. I think all the rest of the process and mostly how you cook it is way more of a factor. I always have filled my freezer with older doe because I can where I hunt. I think doe and bucks are different though.

4C 1) same (up and down within the past 10 years, and going down from here). 2) up and down 25% maybe. (not sure as it's only based on hunting several hundred acres chopped up but relatively close together). 3) doe population and then maturing of woods. 4) doe population was booming then caught up with habitat. nobody's logged in a while around me. not much for understory. also everyone looked down on shooting doe. more hunters and them shooting young buck population. so doe haven't had as many babies, not as much food during the winter, and hunters starting to harvest more doe. ...more QDM co-ops popping up in 4C within the last handful of years. in a few years numbers should be good every year and not change so much.

I'd say 5.5 years old. at first glance the second picture looks like 3.5 but it's not. look longer and you'll notice his gut would be lower without hind feet so far back. back definitely closer to below horizontal the above. legs are shorter opposed to looking just the right length for his body. also the full straight line taper of his neck put's him up there. at 4.5 it'd be just below the point his shoulder and leg bones make and this is beyond that and flush. next year he'll fill out his hind end and waist/depth of body a little more. icing on the cake assuming your trail cam pictures and history make it the same deer.... the 2011 pictures definitely look like a 2.5 year old and the 2012 picture looks like a 3.5 yr old. 5.5 and above is a true trophy for anywhere and especially here in NY.... good luck catching up with him Matt. I'm pullin for ya.

about 31% of ACTIVE registered voters voted this election. about half of registered, active, Republican voters actually voted. If they all or a majority did he would've won. if more of upstate actually voted Astorino would've won... regardless of buffalo, Syracuse, and NYC. the numbers are there the voters weren't.

He's got a race horse appearance with short legs so he's not at full weight potential which means 4.5 or the other way at over 6.5. If someone harvests him they should send the incisor teeth out for cementum annuli analysis. It'd be cool to know exactly how old this old buck is. It wouldn't cost more than $40. Imagine if he was like 8.5?! That'd be crazy for NY.

Without knowing history I'd put him at 4.5+ with that body bulk and stubby legs.

I've got Nikon Monarch ATBs in 10x42. Use them shooting outdoor 3D archery, indoor archery, rifle hunting, ml hunting, bowhunting, varmint hunting.... I use them for everything.

Only a waste because 2/3 of NY feel as you do but isn't voting. How well would things work if that mind set was changed and very one voted? Crazy right. Voting would work the way it's supposed to. Thanks for not being part of the lazy 2/3 regardless of how you voted.

The method has been tweeked over time and tested by universities like Cornell. There's specifics to setting up your survey that account for this. For example it should be no less than 2 week long, cameras in certain locations per every 100 acres, minutes worth of time delay between pictures, tracking unique deer, etc.

This is very true. Surveys are done before and after the season. Too many factors like hunting pressure and other stuff effect results during the season.

tough to explain but it's almost impossible to have a ratio higher than 5:1. if you think about it the numbers have to make huge jumps for every additional missed buck that's just a ridge over eating acorns or hunkered down with a single doe. realistically you can get 3:1 and maybe even 2:1. To do this you have to pass up pretty much all 1.5 and 2.5 year old bucks. Also you've got to take 33-35% of your doe population each year. Trail camera surveys are the way to track your ratio and population too like G-Man said. the QDMA has some tools to help you do this..... book that teaches you everything about trail cams and how to go about doing a trail cam survey.... http://www.qdma.com/shop/deer-cameras-the-science-of-scouting-by-qdma use this form to calculate your ratio and other important info..... http://www.qdma.com/uploads/pdf/QDMA-Survey-01.pdf

so it was passed on. got my feedback and the consensus is that it's aged at 2.5 years old.

You start to realize quickly that you setup and hunt differently then if you had a gun. It's a choice. Doesn't make you less of a hunter if you choose not to use a bow. However it is without contestation more of a challenge then using a gun.

Congrats on finally taking a deer with a bow and congrats to your dad too. Sounds like you've learned something for next time. Small button bucks can easily be mistaken for a small doe. Try to get a look with binos or wait for other deer to compare. Also button bucks will be flat between their ears where as a small fawn will look rounded between them.

Did you pull the jaw bone?

I can't see him being a 3.5 year old in last years pics. Forward point at which shoulder bone meets leg bone is below where neck meets chest. Legs still look long. Chest isn't heavy at all compared to waist. Hind end still up in the air. Neck isn't that thick. Definitely thinking 3.5 now.

Yea we've only gotten younger deer here in the past so try typically don't have stickers or trash on their bases. If it was a nub that wouldn't even had a ring people would start calling it a point. I've always figured 1".