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Bears breed in the Early to mid summer. So generally as a non-issue here in New York they’re pretty much only concern is food and even a fairly concentrated natural food sauce source is is not enough to keep a bear from moving. That’s why baiting it’s so effective in keeping bears in the vicinity

Get it hung up and hose it out be very well with cold water then dry it with clean towels and it will be fine

I have bowhunted during Ohio Muzzle Loader Season. With the right weather and property that’s has preferred food sources it can be a great hunt. It’s a way better time for the season than NYs muzzle loader season. Something to keep in mind are killing possible shed bucks if your shooting antlerless deer at that time. While it wasn’t common in the area I hunted you did see some shed bucks in early January at times.

If you purchase an additional muzzleloader privilege you will be issued an antlerless tag

Biologist said it was a 5 or 6 year old lion. We checked him in and they took a tooth sample. I should be able to look it on the website after all the test come back

It’s difficult county but not too bad. About the same as an elk hunt. Though cats tend to tree in some pretty narly spots…there are times it’s a hard hike into and out from the tree. Packing about meat and the hide is no picnic but it’s no worse then anything else

I might do a rug, not sure just yet.

I waited about an hour before he moved into a position that I could slip a shot into his vitals. Unfortunately the tree he was in was very dense and he was high up, 35 feet or so. I had to move around and back farther to get an angle with a clear albeit very small window. We got a great video of it.

It’s so rewarding when it all comes together.

Wrapping up my bowhunting for 2021. Had a great year despite no luck drawing any good tags. Started the season in January hunting mountain lion and passed up a female and a small Tom. It then went to British Columbia and got lucky and killed very nice Mountain Goat, he is a 7.5 year old Billy with 9.5 inch horns. Next I hunted deer at home and got lucky and killed a buck. And then I traveled back to WY for another go at mountain lion. Again got lucky and found a very nice mature Tom. All in all it was great year and I am very thankful for opportunities and experiences I have had.

As 2021 is heading to finish line I headed back to Wyoming to finish out a mountain lion hunt that started in January of 2021 with my best friend Although we came home from that hunt without a lion it was a success in all respects.A great time, awesome hound work in amazing places, treed cats and life long memories. Knowing that I was still had that unpunched tag in my pocket, our buddy had me back to finish what I started, a few more days hunting that hopefully would hopefully find us the right track that would lead us to a big Tom in tree with dogs below. Well we found our track and after a stellar performance by two exceptional hounds, we had a ring side seat to one of the best chases you could imagine, we finally meet Punch and POW POW at the base of big spruce with a mature tom treed way up high. Those two bitches really put on a show while running that cat. And what great cat he is. Thankful for so many things, the hounds, for great friendships , wild places and amazing animals that inhabit them . Here are few pictures

We had an up tick on our river farm, I was averaging about 30 pictures day on 4 cell cams before the gun slaughter season. Getting about twice that now . In years past it would be nothing to get 100 pictures a day. We aren’t hunting the farm at all this year, not during the bow season or the regular season to give it break and let the area recover. So deer are moving into this large piece with no pressure. I can’t say other hunters in the area are doing the same as there seems to be as much hunting, and trespassing as usual In the vicinity.

Got some work cut out for me today.

Yea the pictures are just getting silly, deer and elk pictures from the instafamous are asinine at this point .

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Everything was right on time, same as always Fawns will be dropping the same days as always in the spring. Regardless the gun season in NY starts way to early. Should be pushed back a week and shortened.

Hard to tell with just that picture and angle with nothing to draw references to. However based on head size and shape he looks like a mature boar. I don’t think he is quite big enough to go PY but I think he shooter here in NY, 225 ish or bit better, maybe 5.5 footer

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This is a fact. Hunters pressure limited private tracts way more then most public land. They go to the same spots and the same stands over and over …it doesn’t take long for deer to avoid those properties during day light and even at night, especially if there is unhunted spots in their home range. Deer sightings follow a pattern of diminishing returns, the more you hunt it the less you we see.

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About 15 is the lowest I would even consider, closer o 20 is way better. In most forest cover it becomes a trade off. The higher you get, to a point, the your visibility suffers, the lower you are the more likely you will get picked off from their eyes and noses. Being strictly a bowhunter I will trade long distance visibility for the added befits of getting my scent higher up and have more concealment. Also the location plays a roll. On my Midwest properties I can get away with set ups that would never work in NY and CT. The stupid amount of hunting pressure in this area will have deer hyper vigilant and more prone to looking up . My NE set ups tend to higher and in way heavier cover then the Midwest.

Got my first deer license in sept of 1990, at 14 years old. Killed my first buck/deer Saturday afternoon Oct 21 1990. Thanks to my mother who drove me to our county house for the weekend so I could bowhunt. She was and is the best. In fact she would take me every weekend in season after that till graduated high school and once I started college I was on my own. Skipped a week of classes in my sophomore year of college and drove out to Montana to bowhunt elk. I was so far in over my head when I killed the dumbest scrub horn in the state, looking back on it was funny but I managed to get done. Since then I been lucky enough to have bow hunted deer in about a dozen or more states, one provenience and have bow hunted other game from Alaska through Canada to Mexico. Who would have thought a kid from Queens that would buy Bowhunter magazine at newspaper stand and read it cover to cover about bow hunting far off places and critters would end up living the dreams he had. I am ever grateful for the love and kindness that others have showed me in my life.