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I have seen no increase and I am part of that social media posting NY buck harvests... any uptick in buck posts would probably be from more hunters each year on social media as well as more pages available to post bucks. If the vast majority of hunters were taking bucks instead of just a small percentage of the hunters I would be more apt to agree with a necessity for a one buck rule.

No changes for me.. My only expectation when entering the woods is fun, so I'm rarely disappointed.

You can't be sure if he took a bad shot our just made a bad shot... they are not the same. Lots can happen from the bow to the deer.

I think it's a good idea to always have a compass on you and know how to use it. In the big woods a map is good also. Getting monkeyed up even in a small 1 square mile woods can ruin a day of hunting trying to find your way out when there is no sun.

We as hunters shouldn't be giving any other hunter shit for his legal way of getting the best hunting experience possible . One hunters challenge is not another's... for some it might be a challenge to get a deer with a crossbow. Who are we to deny anyone their right to the best hunting experience possible.

Sorry but none of what you say makes any sense. It's like you make it up as you go along. You need to read more about coyotes from the people who have studied them for years. I have never had a problem donating a deer a year to the Venisen Donation Drive and there are coyotes where I hunt, as well as an ample population of whitetails and we don't hunt coyotes indiscriminately on the property.

Did you forget making this statement? " I would like to see NY state open up coyote hunting and trapping season year round. If they do not, it probably will not be too long until the coyotes kill more deer every year than hunters do. That seems to be a shame, with so many folks struggling to get enough food. Look at the food lines at urban homeless shelters and so forth. Why have fat coyotes and hungry people ? " There are about 30,000 coyotes in NY and 213,000 taken by hunters last year. Each coyote in NY would have to kill and eat 7+ coyotes to match hunter harvest numbers and deer are not the main diet of coyotes. So tell me how they will kill more deer than hunters. And, coyotes have nothing to do with hungry people.

That buck could no longer exist just as easily if someone kills it with a longbow... and there are many casual bow hunters, as well as determined crossbow hunters. So, you're in favor of reducing hunter numbers in NY so that you can have the woods to yourself?

Please tell me how 30,000 coyotes are going to kill and eat 213,000 deer per year. Again the kind of ignorance that makes it hard to have an intelligent conversation. Animals are suppose to be fat, that is how they survive... and their main diet is NOT deer.

Any biologist will tell you they CAN have an impact on controlling deer numbers, the "aficionado's" are convinced that they will not and can not eradicate entire herds... which is what most ignorant hunters would have us believe. The coyote is no less or more important than the whitetail deer and shouldn't be killed just for the sake of killing.

You mean you can't just pull the thing out of the box and go hunting and kill deer on command like people would have you believe?

Dwindling habitat would cause a problem because the elk would be competing for the same food as the whitetails

Probably due to fur prices and the high amount of trapping as a living back then.

Here is a great article about coyotes and the truth about how stable family groups is a better solution than indiscriminate killing. http://www.coyotelivesinmaine.com/coyote/understanding-ecology-and-behavior/

I hunt simply because I enjoy it

I always say it's all about the experience... this was an experience you felt you had to relive... good for you!

Thanks guys!!

Just below the cut grass line

The antler pedicle is small which usually indicates a younger buck... probably a hormonal imbalance that isn't producing a typical rack configuration. It does happen sometimes. Or possibly a defect in the pedicles which will produce funky racks on a buck... maybe even just a genetic trait. You never know a bucks true potential until he matures.

Looks to me like that is the way it developed... young deer that will probably carry a big non-typical rack later in life.

Nice to see a fellow Trad guy.... Congrats!!!

Having done a hunting show I can tell you it is only about business at the end of the day. It takes a lot of viewers and sponsorship to finance a hunting show. It takes hundreds, even thousands, of hours of filming just to get enough material to do a seasons worth of episodes. Some are willing to do WHATEVER it takes to attain all those things... I can tell you first hand that 99% of these shows are staged BS... that doesn't mean they are not entertaining sometimes... but lots of smoke and mirrors to develop something that both gets viewers and appeases advertisers. I didn't care for the type of prostitution needed to maintain a hunting show, hence, the reason I don't have one today. You'll learn more watching amateur self filmed YouTube videos.

That passed deer might live to eat apples under a neighborhood tree that may save a young child from slipping on the apple and hitting it's head on the ground causing brain damage. Makes the same kind of sense... right?

As tragic as the story is there is no correlation between passing any deer and the fact that someone was killed in a car-deer accident. If she had hit a huge buck and been killed would you only hunt huge bucks? This kind of illogical thinking is why it's hard to get people to understand the things that DO make sense.

That is a HUGE 8-point... they don't get much bigger than that!