nybuckboy

I use a dremel and etch my name and phone on it

Like Augusta or Oriskany Falls area. It's all good hunting up through there.

I hear some say that you never want to use estrous til first week of Nov but I can't help but wonder... does a buck look at his calendar if it's mid Oct and say to himself... hmmm it's a month early OR does he say it smell like it and comes in to check it out. I think if you hung the real stuff, fresh from a deer farm not some bottled up from Gander from who knows when a mature buck if he whiffed it would come in on a string. Your thoughts?

welcome and congrats

I can really see the advantage of a climber. Not having the type of woods until this year, a climber was not in the cards. I can see where I a climber keeps you mobile. Too me, I think once you know a good spot after using a climber to find it, I would choose to put up a permanent each season whether a hang on or a ladder. I have many ladders but my favorites are the 2 Millenniums. A seat you can sit in all day but a seat that folds up and allows a really nice platform. The best of both worlds. If you are sitting and see deer coming from afar you have time to stand. Even sitting you can shoot real well from them.

Not really Sudzy... been using the pendulum for years. No disrespect here. If you were on the same level the pendulum would not even move from the ground position so the sight was not the problem, you just missed. The pendulum works perfect right out to about 35 yards. The closer to the stand the deer is the farther the pendulum swings out thus raising the pin so to speak. If you want great 1 pin tree stand sight these are great. Here's what I use. http://www.basspro.com/TruGlo-Pendulum-Sight/product/48077/

What a moose!!!!

How bout a couple of atta girls

I was on my way to my a stand tonight and kicked out a doe from the food plot. Went on my way toward a stand and kicked her up again. Got in the stand and about 4 and was all set for the first sit of the season. Nothing moving and the rain started coming on stronger, not too bad but enough to make decide to walk back to the house. Bow down, harness off and just getting ready too stand up and get down and a noise under my stand. A doe and she walked around behind me for about 5 minutes and then she was gone or so I thought. She bedded down not 10 yes behind me and my bows on the end of the rope hanging a foot off the ground. She would def see it if I drew it up so I waited a few minutes and she was gone. At 630, 3 doe and 2 fawns, one a button buck came through as well. Lesson is: you never know when things will happen so stay put til dark. Don't leave early.

That is a true NY state trophy!!!! Rare to see or kill one better.

Wear a harness if you get in a tree stand. Don't be stupid!

Check out my tutorial. It may help. http://huntingny.com/forums/topic/5030-how-i-built-my-arrows/

With bow season around the corner many of us have a plan to hunt the season. Some will hunt afternoon only... some of us will do some am and some pm hunts but eventually most of us will attempt a few all days sits. Some will complete a few all day sits as well. What is season plan and why?

I am fortunate to live where I hunt so I cut wood, drive around in the mule or 4 wheeler or on horses so I don't think they care. When late Oct comes around, I will stay out of the woods as much as possible though, except for hunting, waiting for the bucks to begin looking for the hot does. I think if you don't spend much time in your hunt woods except come hunt season then you are more likely to disrupt things but what else can you do.

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The property has almost had the new survey completed and should be done today. The posted signs are about 75% completed/ By the end of the week it will be done. I will have 100 signs up when completed.

Bill... the large 4x4 signs clearly state and are easily visible from the road and posted signs on both sides. They are black letters on a yellow background. There are 2 signs on the power line. One on each side of the property. One by the road is only 50 yards off the road. They can easily be read from a 200 yards away. They read: NEW LAND OWNER ALL PRIOR HUNTING PERMISSION IS NO LONGER VALID

South East Madison

The past 15 years was the first time in my whole life I've had a tract of land to hunt and was very fortunate to have had about 200 acres (about 90 wooded) to hunt across from my house (very convenient) but I always had to share it with others and at times it was just not much fun. The landowner would give my son and I permission but would also give others permission too. Sometimes even though I thought I had exclusive I would find out that a few others thought they did too. Any way... In late May of this year I moved about 10 mile south of where I have lived and hunted the past 15 years. I am blessed to have bought a 4 year old home on 94 acres of terrific land with a creek bottom running through it and private land all around as well. I have planted about 1 1/2 acres of food plots as well. The problem I foresee is that this land has always been hunted by others in the area as well as the neighbors. I have made it a point to tell adjacent neighbors that only my family would hunting the property now and have posted entire perimeter every 100+/- feet between signs. I also placed a two 4'X4' signs visible from the road on the power line on each side of the land stating that I am the new land owner and all prior hunting permission is no longer valid. I did this in hopes that this would alert area hunters that may have hunted this land at one time or another that this land is no longer an option. I felt this was better than climbing out of a stand to chase someone through the woods to kick them out. Part of me feels a bit like the assh*le of the area but at the same time it is my property and something I've worked hard my whole life to own. I am finding that owning a large parcel of hunting land comes with the burden of having to put your foot down and make sure others know it is off limits. Once someone you know that hunts learns you have hunting land they think because we are friends that they should be able to hunt and it just don't work that way.

I have name and address but no phone number.

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Me too!!! Plus I weight them with a proper FOC

agree with this too

I got the turnips from Brown Bag Seeds and the clover mix and Northern Sweet Spot from Outside. The Northern is doing really good. Easily visible but the clover a little slower but from what I understand clover is slower to take. The Turnips and Mean Bean Crush is taking hold really good with at least a 50% coverage already. I'll post some pics soon.

Don't rule out west jersey and east PA up by Port Jervis, NY