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Ok you get the idea!! These are a few of the pic's I took this summer in Yellowstone National Park. I actually took over 400 pictures. The first pic of that bull elk was on a hike and walk right by him and for some reason looked back and there he was. And he was huge!!!

Good luck and I hope you find the the 10pt. is still there.

I practice AR in what I shoot. But as for a law that makes everyone do it I'm against it. To many hunters don't have much time to hunt and to have to pass up the only buck you see is not right. There are also alot of hunters that don't care about the horns and want the meat. They will shoot all the legal deer they can and will eat them. There are also area's of the state that the deer densities are low and just seeing a buck is a treat. Still by passing these deer would increase the the age structure but the price of a license one has to get their money's worth. I understand both sides of this delema and I feel it's wrong to dictate to everyone what size buck they have to take.

The camera idea is great. Check it to see if the deer are moving through there when your not there. If they are there when your not, then you need to move the stand.

I hunt with a Thomson Contender in 35 rem. with a Burris 3X6, sling and a harris Bi-pod

I have a Lyman single stage press, Lyman powder scale, RCBS powder measurer, Foster powder trickler, Lyman case trimmer, Foster bullet puller (ruins the bullet) RCBS bullet puller (hammer style) Lyman dies and RCBS dies, Lee case lube (wax base not grease) auto priming tube, RCBS dial calipers, assorted other accessories that I haven't thought of. I reload 270 win. 30-06 222 rem. 22-250 35 rem 38 special 357 magnam 40 cal. auto 44 mag.

The plan for now is to head north.

Great pic's good luck this season.

c'mere deer is mostly calcium which is a mineral. Thats why it is illegal and should stay that way. A salt block without the block. If I was going to bait a salt base bait would be my choice.

Thanks guys. Good luck in the up coming season.

You guys are high tech. I like it. How do you get your way points from your GPS to the google earth map?

Mast crops are just a sample of what deer will feed heavily on. But aren't found every where. Mushrooms and ferns are other things deer will consume alot of. My neighbor hit a spike with his car one fall and asked me to gut it for him. I did and opened up the guts to find these red topped mushrooms the size of a half a dollar. With all this rain you can bet the mushrooms will be growing. Good luck.

What I've found in years past is it's food related. wether it is apples, corn, acorns usually it is something they are feeding heavily on. If you know someone who gets a deer or a road kill open up there guts and find out what they are feeding on. It seems to happen every year all of a sudden the deer disappear.

A small bull was seen in Cobleskill, NY on 9-29 east of walmart on rt. 7

I don't bait and I don't believe in baiting. But there is baiting going on all over the place. Many of the neighbors brag about the deer and bear that they've got pic's of on there trail camera's at there bait piles. Yet come hunting season maybe only 10% score on a nice buck. Like I said I don't bait and I have shot a 2 1/2 year old buck 9 out of last 10 years. Just by spending the time in the field and not on the couch.