CuseHunter

you sir are just digging your hole deeper and deeper. :peace:

You find Goldie locks in there?

Welcome, can't wait to see some harvest pictures this season. Good luck!

I have a venture and can attest to the accuracy. I have 3 inch groups of .75" at 100 yards with my .308 ammo. Mine prefers the hornady custom 160gr. Ammo, I tried federal fusion and it shot like 2" at 100 yards, Remington corelock 1" at 100 yards and tack driver with the hornady. With that being said, my next rifle will be a Weatherby vanguard series II. They are affordable and beyond accurate with amazing quality. .300WSM is my choice.

Nice buck. It must have been a lot more fun than just sitting in a stand waiting. Awesome job!

Put it this way, there are hundreds of outfitters. I would never give my money to one with a questionable reputation. "I can give you references" who knows if those references aren't just other emails he owns. Either way, I'd book through a person with a good reputation as thousands of dollars are on the line.

Just use his nuts and dip stick as a scent wick for the rut.

I was thinking the same. It almost sounds like it's something the dec inserted to the survey company as a title page. The type of writing definitely isn't cut and dry like a survey should be, there is too much input which is its downfall.

Yeah, it was my 2nd archery season this year, no family to teach me the ways. And first time ever hunting from a ground blind. The only way is up I guess

Welcome, and you'll find lots of information here to help you along your way. Biggest advice I have is to simplify hunting in the beginning and not get caught up in all the small things. Get out there, don't use scented shampoo and soap before deer hunting or detergent. And just enjoy the great outdoors!

exactly what I thought. Personally I would look at who actually make the survey and find out personal information about them. Also I'd look to see who would be paid or construct the plan for DEC's management program IF they find from this survey there is a need for one. Usually you track the money and find your answer. Gotta love it.

For those who think that a selection of 1% of the hunting population is too small, you are wrong. Depending on how they pick that 1% is what matters the most, there could be under-coverage or a form of bias introduced. Hopefully it was a random selection and if that's the case, then it wouldn't matter if there is 500,000 hunters selected or 5,000. In statistics which is the basis of surveys, it's not the size of the spoon when tasting your pot of soup, it's whether you mix up the pot and get a a taste of all the components. Also I find that the biggest problem here is the voluntary response bias. The people who actually send it in are going to be those who feel strongly either way for the most part, and people who are impartial or not as likely to send it in. This will lead to weakening of the results. Lastly, the intro reading before the survey is extremely bias and starts giving a positive response bias towards antler restriction. At least the way I read it, it was definitely slanted toward people wanting to kill bigger bucks and seeking reform. I'm just a college student though with a good knowledge of statistics, but obviously no expert on survey analysis.

There is a reason my name isn't doewhacker after all.

it was the tent like material... I think it is the force of the arrow, right out of the bow hitting something.

Nice, i know the feeling of pressure building up as tag soup is tasting sour right now

Welcome

Welcome, the initiation here is take me where you hunt and show me where the dominant buck is seriously though, nice deer you got there

Finally saw a doe, nice slob body it had. I had the pin dead on and felt the shot perfectly... Until my arrow hit the groundblind instead of going through the window I was aiming out of. FML...

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who has hit the blind. I felt like such an idiot for not just moving over and kneeling to take the shot. Definitely learning for mistakes and not successes this season.

and it paid off good for you! Congrats on the buck

I can almost guarantee someone didn't shoot up into the air and it came back down. Imagine hitting a baseball straight up and having it land perfectly on 1st base... It'd take my changes using lightning bolts as hunting methods over the previous shot. If it's in a urban environment, who knows what happened. It could have been a kid or adult who owns a bow, saw the deer in their yard and shot it through a 2nd story window. We as hunters respect animals and hate to see any suffering from our actions and take pride in shot placement and ethical hunting practices. There are always some bad apples though in any kind of community though. If anyone posted in here they spine shot a deer out of their window, we would tear them apart for unethical practices. Hopefully it lives, deer are beyond resilient. I've seen them get hit almost perfectly and somehow survive. The human body can achieve amazing feats, and deer are no different. Your best bet is to just hope for the best of the deer. The DEC should be very helpful, sadly enough I doubt they will find out who did it though due to the situation. Only time will tell.

I also got the harness for like $70 on eBay new in the box

I just got a new gorilla G30 this season and love it. Amazing quality and easy to put on. Long tether strap is real nice when bow hunting. Hands down my #2 most important investment in my hunting gear. Right behind my HSS rope tree tether strap thingy.

I even checked to see if I'd clear the window... It looked good, then WHACK. Just hit the edge...

So I get out of my class and have an hour and a half before sun down, and decide to sit a stop right next to my college. The landowner told me about a ground blind and how there is a doe that walks right to it. So I sit in the blind, wait and it shows up... It presented a nice shot and I drew back. It takes another step and I wait for it to get closer as it was headed broadside walking closer to me. It stops and I let it go, nice broadside 25 yard shot. What do you know... My arrow hits the damn groundblind next to the window. It went right through the tent like material and broke into 3 pieces. Just my luck, not only do I 1) miss the doe 2) break my arrow 3)spook the deer... But 4) now made a star hole in the ground blind.