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6 of 9 new hunters have successfully taken their first deer. Hopefully more to follow in late season. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Field to fork mentee Steve made it out to my family's farm. The farm is part of a community wide QDM cooperative of several thousand contiguous acres. Steve had practically no firearms or hunting experience prior to the program. Yesterday was his 3rd time out hunting and as you all know it was the last day of NY southern zone regular season. Steve ended up making a great standing shot on a nice doe with a 7mm-08 rested on shooting sticks. We managed to get within somewhere around 30 yards of the doe, for a close shot. The area had gotten well over 2 feet of snow in the beginning of the week, which changed up deer movement a bit. Thankfully I have a snowmobile for access and recovery. He got a hands-on field dressing tutorial. Steve is a chef with some butchering experience so I showed him how to skin, quarter, and bone out the rest of the carcass once getting them off the mountain. He's going to do the very last bit of processing that he's familiar with. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

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could be the case. i'll have to check them both out. once i get it confidently tuned for similar POI between broadheads and field points it could be game on.

thinking they both are. one a Bear Super Kodiak and the other custom made by Bruin.

@moog5050, @Culvercreek hunt club, @SteveB, and @biggamefish what are your setups with arrow spine? seems like i've got problems right now with 29" 400 spine arrows and over 200 grains up front of insert and point weight. trad charts all seem to point to 320 or 340 arrows but seems like nobody uses that stiff of a spine. bow's are all 50lbs @ 28" draw, i'm a 29" draw with compounds which i think is a half inch or so shorter for recurve fingers anchor.

crossbows can get really heavy. there's some nice ones out that aren't NYS legal. the new Ravin R26 is really nice with the bull pup design. i've been waiting for a while now to buy a nice crossbow. hate to buy a lesser one and then have restrictions lifted. you wouldn't be able to give it away.

Burlington beer co's New England IPA called elaborate metaphor. Not their best but still a 4 out of 5. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

good advice already given. good luck hank.

actually the participation prize is my sled taking him up the hill versus making him walk through at least a couple miles of 2+' deep snow and about 500' of elevation change. lol

they're still finding it worth it and enjoyable but we both know success will get set the hook much deeper. lol it ain't over until it's over. worse case is i still send him home with some venison as a participation prize.

just use a cheaper pressure washer and if you have a gas powered one you use a different nozzle that fans it out with keeping it at a low idle. pressure washer is the only way to go. you can get the meat off without simmering (not boiling) but you're taking some risk with that much pressure.

mines been out for two sits. to say i'm not worried is an understatement. had a deer the first sit at 50 yards but couldn't seal the deal. even with everything going on i'm hoping i can get him out this weekend. gotta get the smoke pole ready i think. in case this pushes into late season.

hoping for good news. plenty of time to hunt in the future. family first.

custom barrel makers usually have twist rate or charts for each caliber. it's to make the custom informed when ordering a barrel. https://riflebarrels.com/calibers-and-twist-rates/

all seems to be quiet with late season activity and now hit with 2+' of snow in 2 days. hoping to get my mentee out this weekend. saturday morning or sunday afternoon.

pretty crazy. makes you think about moving them away from those bigger trees? i'm not a trapper but i would if i was. shorten the chain?

i'll have to go on another run today or tomorrow for this weekend.

schaghticoke area not far from me got 27+" we had 16-17" in the first pass. haven't been out again to check total but i'm thinking it's about 2' feet or so. being mid week i haven't made it out to the farm yet. I'm sure i'll need the sled to get anywhere. deer still travel just not as much. i'm going to look in south facing slopes with oaks (acorns). thick pine stands too where not as much snow hit the ground. small saddles are no longer good but edges of them are fine if you're using a bow. anywhere deep snow will drift or pocket deer will obviously go around. they're still out there. they don't really go anywhere.

if i was to take an educated guess i'd say the orange and red has migrated down the mississippi river basin a bit more and out toward Ohio. it's funny to see how concentrated areas were before when book bucks were largely due to age and genetics. habitat work, food plots, etc (nutrition) were a forethought i feel like.

damn. good thing moog posted photos then! probably a disappointment seeing bucks on there anyway. we'll never be WI out here. same as we'll never be WNY. We do grow some slammers if we can keep the poachers at bay that now know where to go for scenic drives. top two bucks both got taken by tresspassers/poachers this year.

honestly i don't really keep up on B&C and other record books.

crazy mass. from the link it says that they're from WI where it went from closed to hunting to practicing QDM in one shot. no surprise they're big but still blows your mind. photos probably don't do them enough justice either. i've posted a dead head from QDM co-op land out here that's the biggest i've ever seen out this way. 3+" thick beams but that isn't even quite as big as them. true giants.

i registered. at least everyone posting there can do basic math. still can't view it until i'm guessing my info gets approved.

there's liquid (clear) and then more of a shampoo consistency. shampoo like stuff i'll brush on but i like the liquid and simmering. it gets in all the hard to reach spots and i'll never be done and realize one spot didn't get as much. kind of a waste if you're not doing more than one skull though. i get my stuff from a hairdresser surplus store around here called Sally's.