dbHunterNY

out here the scent cone thing didn't work for shit. thermals and terrain always had it screwed up. i have to use weather underground app and then based on change in temp and predetermined actual wind for the station reported wind i know which way it's going.

Coming in late from the farm. Smoked venison quesadillas. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Got a Brazilian steak house style venison roast I bring slow cooked for tomorrow. Tonight was fair food; Fried dough, chicken parm egg roll, corn nuggets, and a dole whip for dessert. (Pirated a pic of the wife's corn nuggets and buffalo chicken egg roll for at least one photo) Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Minutes after what would be legal shooting light. One arrow at 60ish I figured. Then a group off the back deck at treestand height. Group was a little low. Form must have not been too rusty. Shot it for 20 yds despite target was at 25 or so thinking I'd be a little higher. Nope. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

First shot tonight at last light after kids went to bed at 22ish yards I'm guessing. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Its because you're crashing from a sugar high your candy beer is giving you. I used to live in western ny at one time. Grew up and been back east for 12 years. Not far from saratoga. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Both hold their own but definitely bottom of group I sent. Hop and taste bud chemistry is a finicky and subjective thing. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

It's called day drinking. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Should be a great trip. Good you committed. Best of luck. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

I only have had experience with plain maximas and newer maxima blu rz arrow shafts. All seemed to shoot good. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Sharper the better. I touch up most of my Rage broadhead blades and fixed blades from getting pushed into foam over and over. If new usually a leather paddle strop works well. Remove blades and hold them with small vise grips. For NAP Hellrazor or G5 Montecs an ultrafine whetstone is stupidly easy to use. Bevels on factory heads are pretty coarse so it seems like you're not sharpening at all then you finally get bevel polished down with the edge and then they get suddenly really sharp. WASP and Muzzys always seemed to be pretty sharp about 20 years ago when I started bowhunting. Not sure how they are now. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Thread is hijacked. Not intent btw. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

I'll definitely be finding time. Just hard right now with new baby and moving into family sized fixer upper house. I'm working on keeping a local QDM co-op at a size of 12,000+ acres. Way too big to people manage without more help. QDMA involvement, including being a mentor for the field to fork (new hunter) program posted on this site. Thinking I'm gonna have to scale back to bust out the cheaper half of the north American super slam on the weekends. lol your trips sound pretty cool but in seriousness I'd probably go after some common big game animals here in the US first. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

I hear ya. Hunts seem to be getting stupidly expensive. Cost of outfitters to do business only goes up. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

I better find some time. At the crucial point where I just started a family and things could go into autopilot. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

i heard they are putting off mailing out licenses for say lifetime holders to encourage those people to go get them at a licensing agent. Eliminates the costs of mailing. State's broke so money is tight.

irreparable damage with symptoms that never leave. good they caught it right away and snuffing it out.

i've always been particular with shot placement even with a bow. i hate the idea of opening up the stomach or guts at all. when this happens the tenderloins and ribs just aren't as good. i have seen some people try to salvage some left in the hanging carcass that's poorly field dressed that would require a hard pass. still not following the tenderloins being lack luster part though. i've done the gutless method a few times but not enough to be proficient. didn't seem like I gained much either. all ran past day light and was a PITA keeping things clean and accounted for. i actually used garbage bags and not game bags. still was a bloody messed.

i've heard this still waiting for someone to prove it to me.

just use 100gr points and broadheads that you have. don't get into the app quite yet. just focus on shooting well. all that other info will just make your head spin starting off. have someone stand several feet directly behind you and watch your arrow flight. if it's swimming through to air vs flying like a dart go back to the shop and have them tune it.

that pic doesn't do it any justice. lol more of the trophy room, library full of OLD ship wreck/pirate books, adjacent nice patio. got to put in the work to have nice things.

helps to be a TV producer to make a trophy room that big. i grew up watching him on espn's hunt sundays. here in NY, not Florida, we have Tom Hoffman who's a another bowhunter with a Super Slam under his belt.

i'm saying 2.5 but don't age a deer in velvet. characteristics people talk about are when they're hard antlered and pumped up on testosterone. bucks bulk up quite a lot and look way different. broadside gives good idea of front to back portions and leg length versus depth of body. your 2nd picture sure makes those legs look really long. head down distorts the view of how low or high the neck transitions into the chest. head way up reaching for browse or licking branch over a scrape makes a buck with thick hind quarters appear smaller compared to the front.

NJ has some weird land. seems like it's unhuntable small stuff in neighborhoods or pretty deep into state forests. not much in between?

likely a chupacabra.... i suppose there's a small chance it's definitely a bobcat with its summer coat though which would make the tail seem longer and thin along with the body having shorter matted brownish orange hair.