nyantler

True hermaphrodites are almost non-existent... it is way more likely that the deer has a testicular abnormality or injury to the testicles. Hormonal imbalance is usually the culprit in these deer. Deer born with both male and female genitals is EXTEMELY rare!

My knife was made in the Adirondacks... antler is from an Adk buck.. steel was hand forged. You can't see it on the sheath, but there is a stamp shaped like a deer's hoof that was punched into the leather that was created using an old adk railroad spike. An awesome example of custom craftsmanship... it's been bloodied up pretty good since this photo.

I feel that everyone should do what they enjoy... my view on deer management and conservation does not enter into how I enjoy my day in the woods... how someone else is hunting and what they are shooting never enters my mind... because I don't care. Not to say that if I caught someone being unsafe or doing something illegal that I would turn a blind eye... I just don't concern myself with what others do to make their experience in the woods enjoyable. If a hunter wants to hunt button bucks only, I don't care. If he doesn't believe in shooting does, I don't care. If he fills every tag every year, I don't care. None of it stands in the way of how I spend my day hunting. I don't care if someone loves the way I hunt or hates it... don't care if they like my weapons of choice or not.. none of it concerns them as long as I'm doing it safely and legally. I can't ever remember coming home from hunting and being depressed or discouraged about the day, whether I see a deer or not. I have opinions about conservation and management but not to the extent that I would push those opinions on any other hunter.. I may speak them but only as a point of conversation or information... other than that I believe it's always better to just " shut up and hunt". I save all my BS for this forum

I don't think they would have him... he is a liberal ...not mentally stable and shouldn't own a gun.

Bob is a great guy.. I have read all his books... they are especially exciting for me because I personally know many of the people that he has written about and have hunted in many of the camps and places as well. He has another one he is working on as well... should be ready soon.

I usually find that the guy who screams the loudest about hating big buck hunting is also the guy that is pissed that he doesn't have the ability to hunt and kill the biggest, baddest, most elusive whitetail in the woods... so he cries about those that choose to. He starts to blame other hunters for his inability to see and kill deer, or he blames the DEC for the lack of deer he's seeing, too many doe tags, too many buck tags etc. etc. He doesn't like the fact that there are some of us that simply enjoy hunting and don't look at it as a contest. I hunt for the excitement and enjoyment. A big buck gives me the most challenge. He is not my trophy... he is the bonus at the end of an exciting day in the woods... me against him... the ultimate game of hide and seek. I often say that some of my best and most exciting days of hunting didn't end with a kill. It doesn't matter to me how many deer there are or how many big bucks there are where I hunt. I only need one big buck to hunt... I will walk miles until I find him... and if I find him and kill him and hang him on my wall... why should you care that I killed him or that he was big? Stop worrying about how and what kind of deer the rest of us hunt and start concentrating on what you're doing... stop your pissing and moaning and start enjoying yourself. Your hunting experience has NOTHING to do with the size deer I'm hunting.

I would definitely still hunt, but with much less enthusiasm. To make it more fun I would probably hunt with longbow from the ground the entire deer season. Not being able to hunt a mature ADK buck would ruin hunting for me.

Yeah... they're are great picks aren't they? Well unless you were expecting Hillary to get elected.. I suppose then his picks might make you want to retreat to your safe place.. or there is always a "cry-in" you can attend with some university "cupcakes" somewhere.

It's all about the chef!! My grandmother could make a boot taste good.

Liberal logic... "We hate Trump because he's a hater." If you doofus's could hear yourselves.

"poisons" exactly the right word... The left's screams are something not to take because its bad for people just like poison. The left has been poisoning this country for long enough... you liberals have now been served your medicine so just take it! I can see you don't like the taste. Has to taste better than the crow you're eating though.

Sorry no more Kool-Aid for sale... sales ended Nov 8th

I will be scoring this buck taken by Jim Murphy... have seen it personally and its BIG... didn't have time to give it a green score. Looks to be in the 190's gross as a non-typical Link for the story on the giant car hit buck https://m.facebook.com/story.php…

Some of the bigger NY bucks taken so far in 2016... more on the New York Antler Outdoors facebook page http://www.nyantler-outdoors.com/2016-new-york-whitetails.html

That's a fatty!

I usually pass the time by walking by my tree stand and spending the rest of the day on foot..

You da man Wooly!

1000 acres southern tier.... 6 million north

At this stage of the game... just killing a deer doesn't excite me... it's about the experience for me... and personally I think the bigger deer give me the greatest challenge. But, even that doesn't do it for me anymore... I like challenging myself as well... more primitive style weapons, staying on the ground, getting up close and personal, and hunting in lower density areas. It makes the kill all that much more satisfying. Meat hunting is easy for me... big buck hunting not so much.

Great pics Moog!

HAHA... if they think Assange wasn't prepared for this they are more stupid than everyone already thought. The emails keep on coming!!

Ethical or not I'm not real fond of tracking a wounded deer in the rain. I think it's the hunters call... I love hunting in the rain on the ground, but am not willing to risk losing the deer I worked so hard for. Totally different story with the gun.

Good luck up there... looking like the possibility of some white stuff Sunday morning... cross your fingers. I'll be hunting not all that far from you.

I think mine is probably an easy one to figure out