grampy

I totally agree with the previous post by H O B H, never give up and refuse to lose. Try hunting mid day hours between ten and two, I know from personal experience that this can pay off big time! Try still hunting by going slow and slower and sitting by big trees and blowdowns for a half hour or so before moving on. Always try to keep the wind to your advantage and from time to time check your back trail, as a buck you may not have seen may try to sneak behind you to escape. Try hunting in thick cover with buck sign nearby. The shots will be close, so again keep that wind in your face. As gun season goes on most deer in high pressure areas will seek out the thicker cover. Be there waiting! Good luck with the rest of the season!

Great bucks! Nice job and congratulations to both of you. What a awesome team!

Not much happening here ether. Sat for first six hours heard a few shots but not close and saw not one deer. Back in stand by one thirty and just before dark a doe and small buck came through. Compared to what I was seeing during bow it was very slow today. Hope it picks up the next couple of days!

Really nice buck! Congratulations!

Nice buck! Congratulations!

Nice story, nice shot and nice buck! Congratulations!

Very nice! Congratulations John!

You have a great talent behind the lens wooly, keep em coming! And thanks for sharing with us.

Love em! Great pics!

Best of luck to everyone. Shoot straight and stay safe. And keep warm!

I am 57 and tend to hunt the old style ways as much as I can. Don't bring phone or use trail cams and tend to put a lot of miles on my hunting boots. But I am getting soft. I now use those little hand warmer packs and will on occasion use an atv to move stands or haul a deer out due to old injuries and general aches and pains. Can't seem to sit still in the cold as long as I used to ether. But it's all good as long as I can still get my butt out there and hunt. I'm happy!

All good guy's,thanks for the comments!

Flip a coin..........heads or heads....................

Ithaca Deerslayer II Two and three quarter inch Remington Accu Tip Sabot Thompson Center Shadow Hawk 100 grains Triple Seven 240 grain Hornady

I was wondering if anyone else has a favorite or lucky song that has to be listened to before heading out to hunt on oprning day. Mine is Brothers In Arms by Dire Straits. The song has nothing to do with deer hunting but I have to hear it cranked up in my truck or on headphones before I head out. Been doing this for more than twenty years. I'm a guitar player too so maybe I am a little weird. lol.........

The best way to scientifically observe them would be to get forty or so yards away and about fifteen to twenty feet high. Let me know if another "scientist" will be needed for collaboration. I'll be on call for the next week or so.

For sure, what I call the crazy phase will coincide with opening day here in my area of 4 H. Saturday could be interesting, fun and down right crazy! I have a feeling that a lot of bucks will see their last sunrise chasing a doe opening day.

Do you have the half moon nocks? I have a barnett and have had that happen before. From shooting a small piece of the nock broke off and would not engage the safety mechanism correctly. Put in a new bolt and it worked fine. So replaced all the nocks before the season started and no problems since. Good luck hope it's a easy fix.

LOL.....That's some funny stuff right there......LOL

I didn't kill a deer this bow season but to me it was successful. Had a mature buck at thirty yards that never gave me the angle I needed for a clean shot,and many smaller bucks and does within spitting distance that I chose to let walk. I saw some awesome sunsets and sunrises and smelled the fresh fallen leaves on a cold fall morning. Had my two grandsons,10 and 12,with me more often this year and they are really getting into learning the way of the woods. My best friend and I shared some exciting hunts together this year and we had a couple close encounters with some decent bucks and had more than a few laughs together. Killing a deer is a big part of deer hunting but to me it's not the only measure of success. Looking forward to firearms season and hoping everyone out there has a safe and successful season.

In my years of hunting I've seen the number of hunting accidents come down slowly. But it is not at zero and in my opinion never will be. Do you really have to shoot at a running deer five times,reload and pop off three or four more? I don't want to be a statistic,so always be sure of where your bullets or slugs are going! Keep it safe out there and good luck everyone.

In 4 H over the last four days I have seen that the bucks are close to the does but the does are not quite in estrus yet. The younger bucks are chasing the does relentlessly and the more mature bucks look like they are getting very impatient. But I have not seen a doe stand ready for a buck yet. This could very well be an epic opening day on Saturday when those first does are ready to stand for the bucks. I'm hoping to see a flurry of activity for a few days before the bucks get lost with the does. Be safe and good luck to everyone in gun season!

Years ago I had a conversation with a DEC officer, and asked him about how he responds to early and late shots during firearms season. He told me flat out that he, himself, will not respond,up to fifteen minutes ether side of legal shooting time. Of course this varies from officer to officer, I'm sure. If I am to be totally honest, I don't repeatedly check my watch(no phone while hunting for me) to be sure I am within the minute of legal shooting time. My first and foremost priority is to make a safe shot. And if that safe shot should fall only a few minutes ether side of "legal" shooting time so be it. Just throwing in my two cents, and humble opinion.

The brows look similar too. But I hope for you that they are two different bucks. Then you may just kill two GIANTS in the same year! Good luck!

Where in 4j are you? Have you talked to neighboring land owners to see if they are experiencing something similar?