Buckmaster7600

I have a pair of wool ones that I think were handmade that I bought at a garage sale. I will cry when they rip. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If you're tracking you can't worry about wind because it's out of you're control, still hunting I like to have the wind hitting me in the side and not in my face. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Pinch the neck skin with thumb and pointer of both hands on their "throat" tear an opening put finger in opening and tear skin down over breast. Use pointer finger and push it in next to breast bone until breast is loose from bone repeat on other side. No knife needed and absolutely delicious! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I played "guide" today trying to get my buddy a buck in the big woods. We tracked all day on fresh snow, we had a chance at a 4pt but he was a little to slow on the draw. It was a great day anyways I'm frozen and tired! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Same with me, burry the 2 1/2" blade all the way in with finger in the "eye" cut around 360 as deep as knife will go. Reach in from other hole and pull out and done. By the time someone would have their "butt-out" out of their pack I have the butt out of the deer. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I have never been a big scent guy because I almost never sit but the few times I have used it up north it was 3 out of 4. Never a big buck and always in area that I knew their was bucks. When I used it I bought what was on sale and used a lot of it, like the whole bottle for the day. I'm sure there are guys on hear that use it and can give way better advice than me on the stuff. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Still hunting and tracking are things that are learned the hard way. You can read books, Hal bloods and the Benoits are the best but they will only give you a little direction. Try it and learn from your mistakes is the best way to learn. It's about the only way I have hunted for the last 15 years and I still suck at it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I would hunt the wind and use attractant scent. I have had my best luck with scents in the ADKS. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Now that's pretty funny Pyg! Sounds like you won this battle but he's up in the war. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You're right, I guess I am the idiot lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If I'm driving I have a loaded gun in the truck, I can't figure out how that makes me an idiot? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

No, I'm about 15 miles south west of lewey. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I probably average 6 or 7 miles a day but that depends on sign. If I'm in a spot with a lot of sign it can take me a few hrs to go 300yds. If if not on good sign I'm covering ground. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

No, 10 came from blue mtn lake, 8 from newcomb 6 and this 8 came from speculator. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Awesome buck! Go with Barnes and you will never shoot anything else! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My alarm went off at 3 because I forgot to turn it off from the other day. Woke up at 6:30 wide awake like I was late for something, looked outside and saw snow ran to shed to put on some wool grabbed the 20ga and have been "hunting" since. There is nothing I like more than being in the woods with a fresh snow! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

From someone who has been there and done it there isn't a worse feeling in the world that seeing a deer that you have shot staring at you when you have an empty gun. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yesterday I shot 8 times at my buck, I hit him with at least 5 of them but I will do a better autopsy when I skin him. I carry 10 bullets all together, 1 in the tube 4 in the clip 4 in the spare clip and 1 more in my pocket just in case. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It will effect you way more than them. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I walk. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks, When I get home and situated I'll try to get the pics off the computer. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

story in big woods Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If I still had a tag it would take handcuffs and shackles to keep me out of the woods! There isn't anything in the world that I love more than hunting in a blizzard. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I parked my truck at 4am and started up the mountain. I had found a spot with a ton of big buck sign last week and I wanted to be in there at daylight to still hunt the swamp. I got back there around 5:45 and sat and had my candy bar "breakfast" and waited until legal light. Once legal light I started my way down into the swamp. About 150yds into my hunt I was in an old clear cut that had a few islands of brush. About 40yds away a doe stood up but didn't run, I knew she had a buck with her but I couldn't find him in my scope. Thank god it was on 1x because I caught movement in my scope and swung on him as he was getting his legs under him to go. As he was getting up I started shooting. He fell down and I couldn't see him anymore. I sat down put a good chew in and waited about a half hr because I knew I hit him well and didn't want to bump him. I went down to the where he was and found good blood, I started on the track and continued to have good blood for a little over a quarter mile. His track lead me to the edge of a beaver pond the he had clearly went into. I couldn't believe he had made it that far as much as he was bleeding and I was baffled when he swam across the pond. After standing on the shore of the pond for a minute scratching my head I heard a crash and a splash on the other side, I couldn't see him so I moved down the back 20 yds and I could see him trying to claw his was up the bank and I put a couple more in him and he rolled back into the pond and tried swimming again but only made it 10yds and died. I was able to get across the pond in the waste deep water with my boots, pants and gun over my head. I got a rope around his head with a stick and got him to shore. I knew he had a huge body and a decent rack but there was absolutely no ground shrinkage! The drag was the worst I have ever had. After I had him gutted I turned on my gps and had a 4 mile drag around the hill or a little over a mile over the hill. So I started up and over gaining 6" at a time. It was a huge relief when I finally made it over and started down hill. I was very excited to get him on the scale at camp and certainly wasn't disappointed when the scales read 226lb. My 2nd heavies ADK buck! It was an amazing day and an awesome buck. I'm sad I won't be up this week in the snow but I guess I can't complain. I am still completely baffled by how far he went after I shot him. While gutting him I found 5 entrance holes and 4 exits. He had no liver and only 1 lung, a shot in the neck, a shot high in the shoulders a shot in the guts that came out the hind leg, and a shot in the white patch of his neck that finally turned the lights of, I can't complain at all about the performance of the35cal 225gn Barnes bullets performed very well and left big holes. He had a will to live like nothing I have ever saw before. All in all it was an awesome experience and I wouldn't trade any of it for the world. Getting an old bruiser still hunting in the big woods is what I live for. An old guy that was in my fathers camp when I was a young kid used to always say "a lot of guys kill bucks in the Adirondacks and a few shoot big ones but very few shoot big ones year after year" this buck was my 4th mature buck in 4 years in the Adirondacks. I can't wait for next year!