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Here's another mock rub I installed, this one behind my house. I cut down some aborvitaes for my neighbor and have been putting them to good use...

Procrastination is like masturbation; feels good while you're doiing it but in the end you're really only f!@#$ing yourself...

I'm trying to forget...

I hadn't looked at it that way but you're right; one fully mature buck, a couple of really nice 3yr olds, more 2yr olds, and some yearlings. The only thing missing is more yearling bucks, but there are at least 2 other yearlings not in either of those videos.

I'm not sure if they weren't just passing through?

Here's a couple of videos on active scrapes on the same property. The 1st video has 10 different bucks and the 2nd video just has the resident HOSS. Unfortunately I found out just a few days ago that I can no longer hunt this property as someone else has leased it.

I've used the Blue Star spray- amazing stuff, just don't use it up too fast.

I just read the artcle and it clearly states that Woods has seen deer that had healed broadhead wounds at the top of their lungs. He also said that most supposed "No man's land" shots are actually above the spine. He surmised that maybe an arrow could pass between the lungs and spine, but it would be highly unlikely and had no positive proof that it ever happened. The big thing is that they can survive a "minor" lung wound. I've seen a few cows survive after having a lung rupture. They actually get all kinds of air under the skin of their back. We had a guy that worked for us that had a lung spontaneously rupture when he was in college. He is still alive but could have died because his lung collapsed. The doctors removed the air from his thoracic cavity and it allowed his lung to reinflate. They also roughed up the interior of his ribcage and the surface of his lung so it would heal to the inside of his ribs.This made it physically impossible for his lung to collapse again.

same buck, twice

This is great! It's nice to see a thread that is useful to another member instead of some Hatfield/Mccoy deal. Phade is right on the money about not overhunting a particular spot. No matter what you do hunt the wind. Scent control is important but you shouldn't have to test it often.

Sitting in my Guido's web and used my new Climb Paws to get up the tree. My awesome girlfriend have them to me for my birthday -brother she's from Iowa.

You will lose/destroy many arrows shooting at squirrels ...

When I was in college I was able to hold resident licenses in 2 states. Most states allow a resident license purchase if you are a full time student in that state.

Beautiful.

I can't take all the credit- a guy at work made the comparison, i just put into words.

Shooting a deer behind a fence is like paying for sex; yeah you bagged one but it still doesn't mean you have skills.

4 does, 3 fawns, and 2 deer i couldn't make out last night. Crotch horn came by @ 10 yards this am. Never knew i was there.

Set up on standing beans. First sit in the Guido's web. Haven't fallen out of the tree yet so test one has been passed.

It may not be a pieplate but it'll work @ 60 yards.

So- how much for one of those home brew cameras? The clarity is amazing!

It could be cool to look at the offspring of a buck like this though.

Wouldn't the bucks killed per square mile and actual buck population per square mile be 2 totally different #s? If there are a little over 1.5 bucks killed per square mile in the units mentioned I would have to believe there were at least the same # of bucks not killed..? What are the actual deer populations per square mile in those units?

Are there less deer in NC-PA than in the adironacks?

NYantler- that deer will be 180+/- as a mainframe 9 and I get around 40" of nontypical growth. Its going to be close. Way over 200". Those MBs are pushing 30". FourSeasons- How come you didn't zip over there and try to collect some of the buck's semen to add to your breeding program? Its been done before and I bet you could get extra $$$ to shoot the son of the state record?

Honestly this site and its content are a biased opinion piece. Every deer population map I can find of PA shows as many or more deer per square mile than nearly all of NY. Yes, there may be less than half the deer in PA there were before Alt came along but there were 60-100/square mile.