UpStateRedNeck

So, other than the usual does & 4's misc. little guys at the apple tree, I've been rotating my cameras every 2 weeks, and I think I'm closing in on the deer whom I have been referring to (see earlier pictures) as big balls, and his home range. He's bigger this year! Another? And this odd ball, who I scouted frolicking with a 4 that looks like a long tuning fork, but here's a good closeup of the oddball : Does that look genetic, or did he just break it? I have pictures of him earlier in the year with no nub, so I'm going to leave him and hope he makes it through to produce 2 good ones next year. And 2 that entertained me : Those are the corner of an oat field(knocked flat by the hurricane, not cut), which the deer have been surprisingly casual about eating. Only buck pictures are on acorns and apples.

Nice! I have one of a couple littler guys smacking horns last year, but not as good an action shot as that!

This Years: If you own 7 tree stands you don't have to move every single one each year (jesus I'm exhausted) Last Years: #1)Don't over-hunt 1 stand. #2)Follow the acorns 2 Years ago : #1) Buy a range finder.

The aforementioned, dead yote. Boot is mine, size 11 camo rubber boots (ie, not small!) for size reference. He's a big fella. Lovely orange color.

Couldn't agree more with your conclusions John. Last year they were getting HAMMERED. This year they're still getting hit, but since there is less (the ones that are dropping are big fat ones though) this year, they appear to be roaming a bit more. I noticed the hickory nuts crunched up real good in places too. I've moved 2 stands into big red oak areas so far, and have 2 more to move.

Yeah this. My hunting arrows all have blaze orange wraps and fletchings, thanks to my buddy who is 3/4 bowyer and 100% awesome.

Around the farm we sure as heck do. And it's been betting BAD this year, we've lost 2 calves, a horse, and at least 7 ewe's to them. The good news being in the past 3 weeks I've personally shot 3 of them, and we nailed another 2 this weekend. The one (whom I am working on getting a picture to my email, through my non-smart phone) was on the corpse of a sheep killed in broad daylight. Very very ballsy of him. Big freaking coyote, minimum of 50 lbs, probably more. Pour fauns and poults are getting annihilated, theres at least 3 packs in the area.

A little friendly advice : The best thing you can do for yourself, and for the puppy in question is to get another dog. My eyes still get moist thinking about my old dog, but giving another dog a great life is just the best thing you can do.

Sweet Hay-Zeus man. The trail camera pics you post have shorted out 3 keyboards so far from drool.

This is my Australian Shepherd puppy, only had him for 3 weeks now. He's 10 weeks old on Friday. He's already got paws as big as 50 lb. dog, no idea how big he's going to get. He's the great grandson of my childhood dog that I had from age 7 to 23. Not going to gun train him or anything like that, but he already loves a good hike.

Yeah slow Acorn year this year. Last year they were absolutely SLAMMING the acorns. Theres alot of good acorn trees on the farm and and it looked like 12 guys had a battle royale of rotor-tillers. I definitely saw less deer movement last year than I had the year before too. So that's a pretty solid theory. Beech and Hickory nuts + apples this year? My buddy, who I have yet to see wrong, is of the opinion those will be the big ones.

Are you going to cross your fingers and let little freak nasty go another year WNY? He looks pretty good, but I'd be positively drooling to see what he looked like next year.

Don't let it discourage you man, the deer have been acting weird for the past 2 weeks around here. I haven't got a SINGLE big buck on my cameras for a while now, when before I had a real big boy poking in at my apple tree spot at least once a week. I think they've switched over to beech nuts/mast for a bit with all the weird weather. Try moving your camera's, thats what I did on Monday. Switched one to a hard wood choke point, and the other to an oats field that got knocked flat by Irene.

Thanks for the advice Fellas! I don't think the wife would appreciate the container thing, but you've definitely given me food for thought as to what I want to do next year. It is nice that I have big concrete pad to start with, all I really have to do is slap something down on there. I'm actually headed out to the wifes home town out in Chatuaqua next week, so going to poke around Amish country and see what they're asking.

No doubt they will have a great story to along with how hard they hunted to get him. people suck.

Cabin Fever's cabin is exactly what I want someday. Everybody has really nice "camps", I'd murder for your setups during the season when I'm driving 45 minutes to and from the farm every single morning.

Does anyone have experience and recommendations with those prefab sheds you can put up? I'm looking for something I can throw my Quad (grizzly 550), the mower deck for the lawn/trails, a wagon for the quad, and possibly a few cords of wood either under a large overhang, or in the shed itself. So not exactly a teeny affair. I Do have a large concrete pad just begging for a shed to be thrown on it right on my property (basketball court sized).

Do you ever feel like a kid in a candy store man? Very very nice camera placement. I'm sure you have answered this before, but what do you have planted there?

Don't bother with ScentLok. Windproof Fleece is nice. I recommend Predator camo pattern, breaks up your silhouette so well. And invest in multiple base layers so no matter what you get outer-wear, you can layer appropriately underneath. Cabelas is a wonderful thing.

Just got in May a Grizzly 550, hunter green.  Also got a 44" mower deck for mowing my 3 acre lawn.  Still have to get a moose plow and winch and set that up for the 100 yard driveway.   2 questions : #1) Anybody have a recommendation for a shed I can throw up real quick (and cheap) to house the quad, mower deck, + maybe a chord or two of firewood under the eaves of the shed or even inside? I'd like to park my car IN THE GARAGE this winter, instead of the quad. Theres alot of trails right up the road from my house so Ive been riding her around a bit, miles and miles of power lines.

Good call Fantail. I quit smoking for my wife, but I told her straight up that hunting season is MINE. Besides women who want to spend time "chaning you" seem like that's all they do with themselves. I like the fact that my wife has her own hobbies she does, and doesn't need to be around me every second of every single day, like some of my buddies wives who are either stage 5 clingers or just plain bored because they don't have their own agendas.

Still without power near my house. Out near the family farm things are in pretty rough shape. Schohaire creek/valley got the full brunt of the run-off from all the hills nearby. Lot of people without homes.

Ha, that would be, ours is only about 1000 acres (couple hundred of which is really rugged hillside) abutted TO 5000 acres of state land. Makes for alot of border guarding during gun season.

None taken, none taken. Our farm is abutted 5000 acres of state land so I definitely know where you're coming from.

Hallelujah brother. What part of 4G? My stomping ground is right on the border of 4g/4h