[What to do with tick infested deer ?]

with that many ticks on it, the meat is definitely ruined. you'd better drop it off at my house so I can dispose of it properly!!!

[Salmon River Spring Steelhead Guide???]

Trying to plan a trip out there this spring with my girlfriend. found a ton of guides online but I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations. definitely prefer wading to drift boating, I just want to learn how to catch them so we can take future trips on our own. and must be spin or centerpin fishing not fly fishing. any help would be greatly appreciated

[Scrape cam pics...]

that 2nd one looks real cool with his brow tines curled back!!!

[meat or antlers ?]

definitely meat for me and my girlfriend. if we got it then we'll eat venison 3-4 nights a week. don't get me wrong, there's nothing better than a huge rack but it's not everything.

[Lets see your hunting rigs]

here's mine and the old lady's hunting rig, bow and gun season. PSE Fire Flight for me and a Bear Apprentice for her. 2 Mossberg 500 in 12ga and 20ga. And 2 Savage Axis in 30-06 and 243

[Bear, Bobcat, or something else???]

C'mon just say it, it's chupacabra....:-)

maybe like a chupacabra - mountain lion hybrid.... yea, its gotta be a chupacougar!!!

[Bear, Bobcat, or something else???]

When a bear does scratch on a tree, haven't heard of that one too much, don't they usually do it standing? I mean reared up, and front claws rippin the tree? So too low.

Bobcat would be the same right?

 

Doesn't really look like a deer rub to me either. The way it fades down the right side of the tree in this pic.

 

But, if I had to pick among the tree, I would say deer.

 

 

Looking at your Username, where in the 518 was this taken? If I may ask.

Selkirk Albany county

[Bear, Bobcat, or something else???]

found these claw marks on a tree about 40yds from one of my stands. tree is huge, at least 18 inch diameter. heard about some bear sightings 4-5 miles away so that seems like a possibility. saw a bobcat down there last year but I don't know if they scratch trees like that. or it's the biggest friggin whitetail rub ever (fingers crossed). anyone ever see this before???

[Back tags/do you save them ?]

keep all the unused tags in a folder, used tags get taped on the side of my gun cabinet

[what percent?]

20% tops, backstraps become roasts along with some of the bigger cuts of the hind quarter. most of the rest of the back legs become stew meat chunks. this year we tried doing some bone-in roasts from the front shoulder, cooked one last night in the crock pot, came out great. kinda like a pot roast. gonna do something like that with the shanks too.

[Live From the Stand / Woods 2014!]

thought I shot a doe, turns out to be a button buck. happened so fast I didn't see the little 1.5" horns. gonna be some tasty meat though. first time using mechanical broadheads and I can't say enough about the wasp jackhammer. shot was a touch low but it tore his lungs up good. didn't go 60 yards. just happy to get the first one down for the season!!!

[Southern Zone Opener]

planning on an all day sit, hopefully it's gets cut short!!!

[Shotgun Suggestions]

Mossberg 500 combo, comes with smooth bore bird barrel and rifled slug barrel with scope for around $350 brand new. hunt almost anything in NY with one gun

[My hit list buck "Pitchfork"]

massive body, good luck!!!

[Good hit?]

glad you found her, congrats!!!

[WMU, where are you?]

4b and 4c

[Bob or House]

mountain lion for sure

[Opening Day Weather]

who cares about doe?  lol.

 

I could shoot a doe literally any day, under any circumsnance of weather by me there are so many. 

 

I was specifically referring to mature bucks.....which do care about the weather a great deal.

 

does are idiots

I care about does, they don't taste like idiots!!! so no one ever gets daytime trail cam pics of bucks in the summer when it's warm out???

[Opening Day Weather]

Got one oct 1st last year 730 am, was about 70degrees out

shot a doe about 715am that day too. plenty of daytime pics on the trail cam when it was hot out too. unless it's pouring rain I go hunting whenever I get the chance

[Coyotes]

The OP edited it out

oh ok, makes sense now

[Coyotes]

am I missing something??? where in his post did it say anything about shooting them out of season?

[First Day / Few Days for the Bow Season - What are you going to do?]

small bucks are getting a pass at least in early bow season(trying to hold out for the 10 pointer on the trail cam)but the first decent doe to walk by might be in trouble. never brought home a fall turkey before so they are on the list too

[Looking for some]

Mossberg 500 combo, about $350 brand new. smooth bore barrel and rifled slug barrel with scope(make sure to use sabot slugs for that) all you need is an full or extra full turkey choke and your good for almost anything in NY

[WHOS EXCITED 12 DAYS LEFT TILL BOW SEASON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

it's gonna be a LONG 12 days!!!

[When will you start your all days sits?]

I'm getting deer on my trail cam at all hours of the day and night (probably because it's raining acorns in front of my stand) so I'll probably sit all day right from the start and see what happens. Turkeys are coming in right around 3:30pm almost everyday too so that might be too tempting to pass up. Even if I get a bird I could stash it somewhere and wait the rest of the evening out for deer. Plus it's way easier to hunt all day in early bow season because we've all been waiting almost 9 months for it!!!