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Great pics guys.

Nice pics. Glad to see that your hard work is paying off

Congrats WNY. I found out a couple of weeks ago that my wife is pregant with our 3rd. Already have 2 boys and they are both excited when daddy comes home from hunting. Our 3rd child is due at the end of March so you and I both will become dads again around the same time. Congrats again (you can keep your golf clubs) and the best wishes to you and your fiancee.

I hunt 9Y just outside of Andover. Been hunting there for the past 10 years. I only hunt dureing the gun season and usually hunt the first 4 days.

Thanks guys. Glad to be here. Always check this site at work (don't tell the boss) since I don't have a computer at home. I like all the different view points and the knowledge you can get off of this site.

Doc, I would have to agree with you. Growing up, deer hunting was just that DEER HUNTING. I don't know why we have to place restrictions on the size deer you have to shoot. Maybe one of the reasons why the amount of deer being harvested is lower is because we are losing hunters. I guarantee that NY will lose hunters if they implement an AR state wide. I hunt with 7 other guys from PA and atleast half of them stated that if NY goes AR then they are going to stop hunting up there. I know what some guys think (I use to think the same way but have changed). If those guys quit hunting then that means more deer in the woods that they won't harvest. But now those guys are walking in and out of the woods moving the deer from one location to another. That just means less deer you will see.

I have hunted PA for the last 15 years and I have not seen 1 difference in the size bucks in the area I hunt. The only observations I have taken notice since the antler restrictions have taken effect is 1. the deer herd is still diminishing (which is more along the line of way too many doe permits are being distributed) and 2. There are fewer hunters in the woods; the main reason I have heard is: why do I want to buy a license when I don't see deer like I use to and if I do see one I probably won't be able to shoot it because it won't be legal. One of my main reasons of why I don't care for antler restrictions is I have seen and heard about dead buck laying on the ground because after the hunter shot it they notice that it is not legal so they just let it lay. I guarantee that most of you on this forum will see or will hear about a dead buck that was left to rot and feed the coyotes within the first 2 years.

I use to use a Remington 870 12 guage with a rifled slug barrel. It was topped off with a bushnell 3x9 scope. I would use the winchester 2 3/4 1 oz slugs and would hold a 3" group at 50 yards and would hold about an 6" group at a 100 yds.

I don't wear any orange in the early season of archery. As soon as small game season comes in then i wear orange. In rifle season the only things that aren't orange are my boots and my gloves. I just assume to be safe by wearing orange. It catches the eye even if you see only a small portion. People say that the deer can see your orange. In my couple years of hunting I have had deer closer to me in orange than I do in camo. Just my experiences and opinions.

Nice pics culvercreek. Looks like you are going to have a good up coming deer season. Best of luck.

My name is Phil and I am from central PA. I am a new member to this forum and an old member of the empirehunting forum. I get to NY once a year and that is during the first 4 days of the gun season. I hunt in 9Y outside of Wellsville. I wish I could spend more time up in NY but the work schedule doesn't allow me to. But glad to be part of the NY sportsmen's forum again.