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Nice...dandy buck. Neck is brutally thick.

NY Trophy...that buck on the left is awesome...I have never seen one without a white throat patch. Seen double and triples...but never one without a patch altogether!

You can also tie them up with dental floss to see.

That's a dandy buck period. Did you request the alert ears on that buck?

Matt Cantrell...he posts here from time to time.

Very possible. I heard the same thing a few years back...I know he does them out of his house when he does. Dave's a nice guy. He lives right down the road from me Moog...maybe 1/4 mile...if that.

Matt's got this year's one going. He looks like he is doing a great job at it too, from the pics he sent me. He's also been great at communication - which is one area I find many taxi's fail to do well.

Carol at Dream Season did this one.

Buck Dave mounted in 97 or 98.

Small shop in Newark in the same block as Parker's restaraunt. Small, but it's a shop. Seem OK. Genesee Valley in Caledonia is decent, but it's an hour drive for you.

For a practice head to be shoot TWO FEET off at that distance, as compared to the regular head tells me it's either a significantly off-weight or machined PH (highly unlikely to be THAT far off), or there is something else wrong with you or your setup.

3 Arrow quiver..two grim reaper razotips and one slick trick. Both tuned to shoot out of the bow. All for deer - I'm not out there to kill squirrels. One thing I do suggest, as of late, is buying several dozen of the arrows you shoot, if you plan to keep the bow for a few years. Buying a half dozen or dozen can be nice on the wallet, but I have found that manufacturers are starting to keep make/models for shorter periods of time. I bought three dozen Epic STs last season to keep me afloat since they no longer make them. I don't want to have to resight and tune to a new arrow just because they stopped making it. I buy them bareshaft off AT with all the parts once they go on sale from being discontinued. Cheap and I don't have to spend as much for complete shafts already done up...I can have them set up as needed.

I cam post up one of his mounts. One that from 97 or 98 for you tp see the aging. Ill take a pic tomorrow....busy keeping an eye on the house with this storm.

Dave lives by me. Good guy...he mounted my first ever deer.

Dang...not much you can do right now. Hope its not too bad.

The other thing is context - if the book is old as you say...property sizes were not as small as they are now. Running a buck a mile back then was no big thing. Now...you'd likely run into one or more owners who wouldn't let you on to track.

Matt Cantrell posts here but he is west side...IIRC you are east side somewhere? Dream Season...she's AWESOME. Absolutely AWESOME. Taxidermy is not something I would cheap out on. If it is mountable...I'd go with the best available in your opinion, regardless of price. This is hanging on your wall forever.

X2 I'd offer help but I'm nowhere near that area.

Leasing to Basecamp is for profit motives, plain and simple. MIddle men have their place, I guess. $2k for 313 acres in mediocre deer country is OK. I wouldn't pay more for that, and I'd want exclusive long-term. DPSM there can't be that high, and Oswego is middle of the road for quality bucks. I think if this were Cayuga County or westward...then the price starts to go up. 313 in the heart of 8 or 9 could be a pretty penny lease, especially if it's got sizeable hunting ground and not all fields.

I would think so. When the alerts start popping up, time to get in the stand.

All seems to flow downhill. LOL.

nice job...can't wait to see it.

Actually it does, it is real-time. Easy example would be woodlot to woodlot pushing. Say you stack the deer pushing to a 10 acre woodlot and they stack in the NE corner, which is then reported and marked by Hunter A. Hunter B moves in on the backside in response and shoots the deer, knowing exactly where they are. And, this can be done without physically knowing the person, either via group invite (which I am sure can be as easy as joining this forum), or global community.

If you are close to WNY, we're close...lol. I actually know WNY and I have seen some of the same deer. We've had PMs about it. I've never met him...but I bet if we had the app...we could share intel real-time. Wanna join?

You have nothing to lose by moving to a new spot on the ground on your 9 acres. Even something as small as moving 30 yards, or to a new corner of the property, etc. Just grab a chair, your camo, and have hubby snip some branches to make you a new blind there at this spot. I would avoid all 3 stand locations, even if that seems to put you in a tight spot vision wise. One thing I would do, is drop the idea of putting doe pee on your boots. If you want meat, does tend to be alert at a new, unknown doe, in the area. They simply don't like it. The other would be to get scnet free as possible as mentioned, if you are not already doing that. Can you ask neighbors to access their property to walk around yours to get to a spot, if you need to? That way, you are not burning up your ground with entry and exit scent.