UpStateRedNeck

Big Balls. Anyone care for an explanation?

Nice bucks all! I took a doe Saturday the 29th just as the real snow was starting, freezer meats.

You're right doewhacker, but I was just thinking about the state land adjacent to where my property is, there's one road through it, so you could at least check vehicles, maybe leave a note on somebodies windshield. Just sympathizing with his nephew for the most part.

So it turns out I'm a liar, I took a doe with a faun saturday afternoon just as the snow started flying. She gave me a slam dunk shot, and I'd already passed on her twice this season. There was another deer, I think a yearling, hanging out with the doe and her fawn, so at least the little guy should have some company for a while.

Nice pics, thanks for sharing. Got a stand near there?

I guess at least somebody got it, and not the yotes? that has to be a huge let down for your nephew, especially when you slam one with a recurve. Personally if I found one like that I would make a big effort to find the owner.

Wow what a freakin' beast. Congrats!

Only about 4 inches down in the valley, more up in the hills in 4G. Looks pretty mild for the next week so it won't be around for long.

Thanks for the info, glad I get an anterless for Bow.

Nice video! The 4 I was watching this morning did the same thing over my mock scrape, didn't scrape at all, but really licked the crap out of the overhanging branches.

Started snowing on the farm (2000 ft elevation) around 9:30 this morning. I imagine there will be an inch or two of tracking snow around tomorrow morning. Good stuff!

I'm going to start dragging and putting out scent on my mock scrapes too starting tomorrow. I saw some chasing happening today in the morning, gets me all fired up!

Love the rack on that one. Helluva mount he would make huh?

Yeah I updated it sometime around the 15th. Also as a side note, no big boys on this camera since last wednesday. It was HOT HOT HOT before then. I did some trimming for another stand I threw in there, I'm wondering if that's spooked em. Coincidentally another guy hunting there shot a doe which we tracked through and made alot of noise in that patch for about 3 hours. So either way, spot seems spooked for the moment.

Yeah i was a little too stoked for today. Made it to noon, and everythings drying out right now for tomorrow. It poured from about 7:30 to 8:30 this morning, then turned over to snow around 9. Even with the umbrella up it still got to me after 6 hours. Saw a weird 4 point yearling, one of his antlers is swept back over his ear. I also saw a bigger boy chasing at 7:45 just as the fog blew off out in the field. He was head down running a doe, it wasn't the big man himself, but it was either the little 8 or the 6. Either way it makes me feel good for this weekend. As a side note, I have no big bucks on the apple tree cam in the past week. I'm headed out to travel corridors tomorrow.

Gonna get cold for the first time this weekend, with snow 4+ inches in the hill towns predicted tomorrow night, mixed precip during the day. All of a sudden I feel so sick........ No I definitely can't come in to work tomorrow, or Friday. The weather for this weekend has me all antsy in my pantsy, and with the chase hopefully ramping up, let's hope it's a good weekend! Good luck to everyone, time for all day sits!

Nice! I like it! I'm also surprised theres not more smallbany area people.

I don't, I assume that having momma around is going to make life easier on them, and I'm just a big softie in general.

Great Buck, grats!! You did what I'm trying to do, how does it feel?

Buddy lost a doe to them last weekend. We've shot 3 yotes so far this year. They're a friggin plague. Our turkey population is way down (biggest flock I've seen is 5), they kill my grandfather's sheep, they kill newborn calves. If I could kill every single one within a mile of the farm, I'd kill all but a couple. Theres way too many of them right now, at least 2 active packs on the farm. I neglected to mention, we're in 4G, right on the border of albany/schohaire counties.

I've called sizeable bucks in with everything except rattling. Just doesn't seem to have worked real well for me so far. I'm going to do a little tickling starting this weekend and see what happens. maybe I'm just not doing it right/enough/too often? I like to blind call with the trailing grunt later in the season, say December, and blind call with the doe estrous as soon as the later part of the chase/pre-rut begins.

Thanks NY, I'll put him on the list then.

Yeah I've seen too many big vet bills from my aunts german shepherds and my parents aussies to like porcupines. The current generation of dogs seems smarter about it though, so I haven't been blasting them on the road in to the farm whenever I see them. I saw HUGE one, thought it was a tree stump at first, last sunday.

Everything is dumber in Texas. "Yeah we gone done put about a gallon of that there c'mere deer out in this here game farm, gives you a real feelin' of accomplishment." I bet feeling up their sisters and shooting fish in a barrel does too.

I shoot the rage 2 blades, love them to death, but I shoot a 28.5 draw and 65#. My reasoning being that they seem the most humane way to drop a deer very efficiently, at least for my setup.