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I was wondering if a deer can smell a freshly broken branch and cause them to spook? No more than 10 minutes after i got in my stand and cleared a couple branches i had 4 does come in stopped 10 yards behind me (where i didnt have a shot) smell a broken branch and back track out of there. what are your thoughts, do they care or does it make them cautious??

Found the knife, next to the gut pile.

you have to be sponsored by a member of the club, same for gun go ha in scotia which is a nice club

@biggamefish, my shot went in left side of her and only made it to the second lung, no pass thru which is the reason im getting rid of the rage broadheads. They leave a nice hole but the penetration sucks on them.

Congrats

Congrats on the buck.

I got her in the pine bush, im gonna weigh her tonight. she is definately one of my bigger does i've taken.

After a long year of misses and lack of seeing deer, i finally filled my dmp. 15 yard shot broadside double lung on a big doe. Had 2 yearlings come in and feed and slap each other around a little bit and 3 minutes later 2 big does come in. She ran 30 yards and dropped, bad thing is while field dressing her i had another doe come ripping down the hill coming within 2 feet of me making me jump back losing my knife. going in tomorrow with the metal detector.

Finally meat in the freezer.

i've been bow hunting for 7 years and have shot 2 does that i couldnt find. 1 being this year. ran out of blood trail and nothing turned up on the grid search.

i thought the same thing.. lol, like he said this is what i think of this scrape.

Today while hunting over a mock scrape i had a spike come to it and paw at it. i thought nice, till instead of urinating in it he crapped in it. Is this common or has anyone else experienced this?

Congrats, hopefully things start to move down here.

Went back in yesterday and had no luck, we are thinking that with the angle of the shot it shattered a rib and knocked the arrow out the same side it went in just knocking the wind out of her. we found no more blood and no more beds where we saw her go in last.

yeah we marked the spot and know where she crossed the road. Im hoping she laid up in the thick prickers as it seem as if she was staying away from the hills all together.

hunting 4j in the pine bush off of kings rd, the arrow was covered in pinkish to bright red blood with bubbles also where she was laying on her side was more bubbly blood. i just didnt expect her to get up after crashing there 45 minutes later. she ran head down into trees and sticks when she got up to run. her tail never raised.

shot a doe last night, high single lung with a pass thru that i believe took out the diaphragm. the doe ran eratic into trees and finally crashed 30 yards from my stand. i waited 45 minutes before i had my buddy come in to help me seeing how this deer never moved and was laying on its side, when he got 8 feet away the deer staggered up and trotted head down tail between the legs, very little blood so we decided to let her sit overnight. Do you think this deer will die??

I'd think you'd be happy for him if he's you buddy i was very happy for him, i just put the stand up last minute and didn't like the placement so didn't sit in it.

i did that last year and i'll never do it again. set a stand up and hardly hunted it, my buddy sits in it once and shoots a nice 6 pointer out of it.

i know when i bought my mathews bow the dealer took down the serial number of the bow and submitted everything to mathews.

i would say so, i figured i'd post it since theres so many people on here that doubt their existance in nys.

first confirmed case by the nys dec http://poststar.com/news/blotter/dec-confirms-wild-mountain-lion-in-lake-george/article_f70da502-ca83-11e0-b0bf-001cc4c03286.html

if you find one let me know, i wanna have a wallet made out of deer hide.

i see where your coming from and how you can see it as bait, but the definition is fairly open to discussion, like if i only have enough on the wicks to make them wet and not dripping i see it as a curiosity scent, if its sitting there being poured out i see it as baiting. i know the companies are coming out with the aerosol can sprays now (like buck bomb but its c'mere deer). i just wish nys would tighten up the definition of their laws. is baiting just when you put something out for the deer to eat or is it baiting when you spray something into the air that smells like food?? and in nys i was told its legal to own the stuff just illegal to use it, just makes no sense.

So basically, if your liquid hits the ground, a tree, grass, a bush, etc you are breaking the law. exactly so if it doesnt hit the ground and stays on the wicks it can be used as a curiosity scent, this is the bad thing about nys laws theres too many gray areas. we can read the same law and see it 2 or 3 different ways. so if i can get an edge in hunting deer legally why wouldn't i use it??