Buckmaster7600

Sitting in a 60acre wood lot that I haven't been in all year. I didn't carry a stand so I'm sitting on the ground and can see 6 nice rubs. Have no intentions of shooting a deer today or the rest of the season but it's hunt or honey do lists so I'm hunting. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm not big into trail cams because I don't need them but I do run a couple around the house and they can be fun. My cousin that I have the camp with in the ADKS runs about 12 up there from July-last day of rifle and of the 70 or 80 deer pics he got 3 were in daylight. Those deer aren't hunted enough to make any difference. The fact is deer are mostly nocturnal. I think a lot of people put too much into the "deer go nocturnal" argument. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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No chops lost on this one, muzzleloader NZ cva accura MR with a .451 250gn Barnes XPB bullet did the job again. Hit her right behind the elbow got a lung and a liver and she didn't go far it will be good eating for sure. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Just got her loaded in the truck. 1 doe and a spike came out about 250 yds above me in the field with 20 minutes of shooting light left. They were feeding away from me so I knew I had to make my move. I didn't really have a clear shot because of limbs and so I had to stand and shoot freehand. I held about a foot over her B hole and let her rip. I planned on going to church on Sunday for the first time since I was baptized so I knew JC would help guide my bullet. Ok so the real story the doe and spike came out about 250yds above me and I knew I only had 20 minutes to make it happen so I got out of the stand and started towards them on my hands and knees I closed to about 150 yds in the very crunchy snow, thanks to the hard wind for covering the ridiculous amount of noise I was making. I looked up and saw both deer running and they were heading towards me "no idea why they were running but I'm not complaining" they stopped at about 40yds looking back and I shot her quartering at me a little bit and she did the front end skid and got back on her feet and went about 30yds and died in a thick deep ravine. Big old doe and my great aunt will be happy. Nice easy drag in the sled. Sorry for the crappy pic but I was in a big hurry to make the concert. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Cookies and pies for me! Shot a big doe just before 4 just got her out of the ravine running home to get the jet sled. Gotta hurry and get her home because if I'm late for my daughter concert she will kill me! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Just had a big lone doe at 10yds but she was on the other side of the fence on property I don't have permission to hunt. I hope she crosses this fence! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It's been a good knife. Never been washed, Just wiped off and sharpened. If I lost it I would cry for a year. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My buck this year went over a mountain and died in a pond. The only guarantee is a fatal hit will kill them, where they die is up to them and time. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My grandpa bought me this knife when I was 8 before my first VT deer hunt. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

A lot of you are complaining about the courses but have any of you done anything to try to help/fix them? If anyone is interested this is the number. 1-888-HUNT-ED2 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I haven't read all the reports but to me most of these haven't been accidents. You don't shoot at movement and say you thought it was a deer. A negligent discharge is accident and negligent discharge that shoots someone a few feet from you is not. All of the reports I have read this year I haven't read about 1 accident everyone has been stupidity. Regulating stupidity is very difficult, often educating is often difficult as well because common sense is tough to teach. To me a hunting accident would be a ricochet, bullet traveling through a deer and hitting someone or missing a deer and hitting someone etc those are accidents. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Smartest thing I have ever done is put an anchor in the barn where we hang deer. 2 bags of concrete in a hole big enough for he concrete and a couple inches of gravel above it. Put a long i bolt in the concrete before it dried to use as the anchor. Slit around the throat put in the golf ball, rope around the ball and down to the i bolt push the button and the deer goes up and the hide stays on the ground. It couldn't be easier. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I took a 15k a year pay cut when I took this job just for the hrs. I make up the difference with side jobs when it's not hunting season. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm still thinking climbing sticks are the way of the future. They just need to figure out how to make them so they don't bang together and make them smaller for transport. Until then I'm sticking to my 6lb hang on and 5 steps. Nothing lighter or faster. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Unfortunately yes, but I do 40hrs in 2 and 1/2 days so that leaves be with 4 and 1/2 days to hunt. Sucks when I'm there awesome when I'm not. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hunting a small farm that I have sole permission to hunt. I haven't been here all year and saw a ton of tracks coming in. My great aunt called last night to let me know they cooked their last pack of venison last night. I'm thinking that was my hint to kill her another deer and if any of you have ever tasted any of her pies or cookies you would completely understand why I have an itchy trigger finger this morning. I had said before that I didn't need another deer this year year but that's changed and if it doesn't have horns or bumps it's getting it this morning. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well said doc, I agree with you on knowing ones limitations. The difference is when I do the majority of my hunting I have absolutely no worries of another hunter being anywhere near me. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I've hunted the area a little and wouldn't say there is many bear. Honestly if I wanted to hunt bear I would go south not north. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Very well said! I always tell people that I couldn't care less if I ever kill another buck. Most people don't understand, I spend so much time and money on something I don't care if I accomplish. What they don't understand is that it has so little to do with the buck and so much to do everything else. The buck is just a little pot of gold at the end of an amazing adventure. To me hunting has very little to do with the buck and it's more about me. I don't like bringing one to me or having one patterned, to me it's killing them on my terms not there's that is the biggest challenge and what I get the most enjoyment out of. Some of my finest hunting memories are of days when the buck won. Hunt however you want and enjoy it. I don't like tree stands but I don't want them illegal for others. Just because you don't want to shoot small bucks don't try to make it so others can't. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I second that, I finished it in 3 days. My person favorite Adirondack hunting book is COMPASS COUNTRY by Dale Wood. Its even digital so you can get it on your phone. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Awesome, hope everything works out. Good luck next year. As soon as I have snow enough to get the snowmobile into camp I will start scouting for next year. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Depends on where you're hitting them, a lot more wasted meat if you can't find them because your first shot wasn't as good as you thought. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well I covered a bunch of country and lost track of how many deer I saw but it was a darn good day of hiking w/a muzzleloader. Time to dry out these wool pants I think I'm going tracking up north in the morning! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks, how did you guys make out this year? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk