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conditions are ideal,but no its off to work I go.

Send those Bear numbers to Jon Corzine and invite him over for some Bear stew.

If were talking about the property in manorville,You would have to scale a fence to get in.All 2000 acres are fenced in.As far as big bucks,The property was fenced in back in the 60's,Trapping deer inside.Because they were not hunted like the ones on the other side of the fence,they died of old age.However now thats its not an active base anymore,Fenses have been left open and many of the deer have slipped out to the wild side.Also,toxic waste from that base has seeped into the ground and has contaminated the ground water which is showing up at a hunting club I belong to across the street.

As for number 3,I've walked out at the end of a day and had a deer print in my print that I left that morning,walking in.

As long as its been air dried for 60 days,Boone and Crocket requirements.

Lake Huntington has no snow,as of Friday.Leaves are wet but not crunchy.Should be good conditions this weekend.

Are you sure thats a bobcat? Could be a mountain lion!...... .

Just an updated photo of the 7ptr I got on opening day.Didnt see this buck all bow season,Actually only saw one buck during bow season,and he was a spike.3H has been quiet,anything taken?.Hows the season shaping up so far?

The neck and rump,The two places coyotes will take down a mature deer.I would say he was attacked by coyotes.The pack chased him,one or two grabbed on to his hind quarters another bit into his neck,But he got away.

Exactly,And they never give the viewer full discloser at the beginning of the show to say that they are hunting at a high fensed operation.It's always in Texas or Iowa or Kansas.Never from NYS or PA.And its always the final moments of the last days hunt with the sun going down that they kill the big one.But I guess they give the viewer what they want.Big racks and kill shots.On one of Jim Shockeys shows,He was fuming when he heard that his cameraman didnt get the impact shot, i.e. the bullet hitting the side of the deer.But we watch them anyway.

Several years ago,while sitting 20 feet up in a stand,A snow white owl landed on a branch in the tree next to mine.He stared at me for a minute,Then glided through the woods and out of site.He was a fellow hunter out doing the same thing I was doing.I hear them all the time in Suffolk County,hooting while walking into the woods just before dawn.

Monday in manorville 6:30 to 11:00,Nothing.

I guess all hunting is local.From my stand in 3H,It did not seem like an average opening day.Not as many shots as usual.I guess the AR and lack of doe permits has the action a little slow.On the ride home on 17 and then all the way to LI,I did not see a single deer on any vehicle,Very strange for opening day.

BTW,I was on stand from 6:30 until I saw him at 3.Patience does pay off.Good luck to all,I guess I'll go bow hunt Suffolk now.

After 5 years of AR,With little in the way of a substantial increase and size of the buck population,From my stand any way.I said this would be the make or break year for my continued support of AR.After dropping this guy today,Maybe it is working.

After a slow and unproductive bow season,today more than made up for it.From 7am to noon,saw 8 does.No doe permit.3pm,This guy comes running by chasing a doe,despite grunts ,whistles,Both would not stop.I fired at the moving buck,15 yards,And hit his throat which severed his wind pipe.

weather looks great for saturdays opener,sunny and 47.But the wind concerns me.7 to 10 mph with gust to 18 mph.

Good luck to my fellow 3H comrades.Heading up this evening.Lets hope the locals havent thinned the herd too much.

The weatherman says it's going to be sunny sat. and sun. ? You know what that means......Its going to POUR!!

The rear leg of that ''coyote'' is much bigger than the front.Like its used to standing on its hind legs like a raccoon.picture 3,Are you near a river or lake,It could be an otter.

lack of minerals in the soil make it a poor agricultural area,hence not a great area for big racks.The AR should help with that.Deer numbers are debatable.Burmjohn is seeing great numbers and I'm less than a mile away and seeing very little deer action so far.

That was a year ago,nothing since then.

was up today,depsite the 67 deg temp,had 4 does walk directly behind me this morning,Wasnt expecting them to come from that direction.They were very skittish.One caught my movement and they took off.saw one spike also.Tons of them back in town waving to me goodbye as I drove out.

give them time,before you know it,we'll have coyotes on LI.hey their being caught in manhatten,which means they had to cross a bridge or tunnel to get there.

My 5 ptr I shot last Nov. in Lake Huntington was filled with corn.That buck would have to travel pretty damn far to find a corn field near me.Sorry,I don't buy it.Some one is baiting up there.