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I have been after this doe for a few years now, and she bested me on each previous attempt, as recently as last Sunday morning. Her luck ran out at about 8:00 this morning. None of the bucks that I have killed in the past were as difficult as this old mother. Had I not cleared the leaves under my seat, due to an unfortunate accident the night before, she would have escaped again. TC omega 50 cal Hornady 240 gr XTP , 100 gr 777 to the shoulder blade from 35 yards took her out. I did not see the two young ones with her until she was in her death throes. They looked to be pretty good sized and I hope they make it ok on their own.

Did you ever get your tree hammock seat. Oddly enough, mine came unhooked from the tree last night, landing me on my butt. My head was pounding for a while after that as the shock must have transmitted up the spine. I am not sure if I had it latched tight prior but I noted one of the teeth broken on the little plastic latch after. This morning, I piled up leaves under it to break my fall if it let go again. That worked out well because I was able to silently swivel for a good shot angle on this doe, thanks to the cleared leaves. The seat held my 210 pounds this morning.

BDD

Two headed, eight legged.

Awesome and you won’t regret saving that. I brought a couple packs of baby beef liver up to the in-laws with me this week. My mother in law says she will cook it for us and I can’t wait, but that don’t taste quite as good as bb liver.

Colin Powell passed from COVID 19 today, and may he Rest In Peace. I don’t suppose we will ever hear wether or not he was vaccinated.

About 45 degrees and steady rain most of the morning here in day 3. I am near the spot where I had a 15 yard encounter with the largest Adirondack buck I ever saw on opening day of gun last year. I will give it till about 11:30. I tried rattling a bit but the only game seen was a red squirrel and a grouse. I had my crosshairs on the grouses head, but it looked like it may have been a spruce variety, so I did not touch off. My orange hat is hanging on a branch above my umbrella. Not sure if that is legal but common sense trumps the law when it comes to matters of life and death.

As long as it had nuts and you saved the liver it counts. If the liver was left in the woods for the vermin, that would be tragic.

The smallmouth bass we’re hitting jigs pretty good out on the lake. I ended up with 8, all between 12 and 14”, before it started to drizzle. The water temperature must still be in the 60’s because they are still fighting hard and getting lots of air. Couldn’t find the 22 incher I am looking for, but I still have 7 more days. Now, I am back in my pop up blind until 1/2 hour past sunset hopeing the “driveway doe” that I spooked this morning shows up.

We spent a few minutes looking for the piece I broke off my EDC, but no luck finding it. Having the piece missing seems to make a little better for throwing, with a higher percentage of throws now striking blade first. Maybe the weight imbalance helps if spiral like a football.

One other way to tenderize is to can them. My buddy did an 8.5 year old moose that way. The frozen roasts were so tough you couldn’t chew them. He thawed them all out and canned them with a pressure cooker. That made the meat super tender. Your road kill buck looks 2.5 to me. It is relatively easy to tell a 2.5 from a 3.5, by comparing skull size after you get the hide off. They gain lots of width and length between 2.5 and 3.5 years. in this photo, the euro on the bottom and the top are 2.5, and the three in the middle are 3.5. Skull size is a much better indicator of age than antler size or body size. On these three 3.5’s, the skulls are nearly identical in size, but the one with the smallest antlers had the largest body. The size of the body might be more dependent on available food, and the antlers on genetics, but each of those has a little less bearing on the size of the skull, making that a better way to judge age.

That’s just dumb, because it is cheaper to grow corn than to buy it.

It looks like my poor little $ 1.00 Imperial EDC sustained some damage in Friday nights axe throwing event. I didn’t notice the damage until I reached for it in the dark this morning and could feel that there was a piece missing.

I am thinking dope. Now that it is legalized in NY, these type of issues will only get worse, especially for the liberals and Democrats.

I may do a bit of that myself after lunch, as long as the rain holds off. I am ok with hunting in the rain, but not fishing when it is comes with cold and wind. If I can catch a 22” smallmouth, I think I can get it mounted cheap, and that will make my father in law very happy. I have a bunch of 1/8 oz buck tail jugs ready to go. They are usually in shallow and ready for those, when the first good fall cold front hits, and we are about 12 hours into that right now.

That is probably because they were close to maximum riggormortis when you ate them. A 2.5 year old red-meated animal, such as the recent belo find, should be held for a minimum of 10 days at 33-44 degrees F (like in your refrigerator) prior to freezing or consumption for maximum tenderness. Certain individuals on this site, including one trained chef, seem to have no understanding of that simple biological/culinary process. Leave them suckers in your fridge a week or two before grilling medium rare, and they will be melt in your mouth tender, guaranteed. Been there done that many times. It don’t matter how they are killed (bow, gun, crossbow, ML, 1-1/4” blade pocket knife, Ford or Chevy) they all taste the same if properly handled after.

I must be sitting right below a major flyway. Big V flocks of Canada’s have been heading south at high altitude, almost non-stop all morning. The small local flock must have bad compasses, because they just headed out north, at tree top level.

It sure is a beautiful, cool crisp morning up here on the NW corner of the 6.5 million acre Adirondack park. I can see a little lake at the bottom of the ridge over my right shoulder and there are two grouse foraging in the leaves up over my left. Most of the leaves are down, making for decent visibility in these young hardwoods. Hopefully a deer or bear will make an appearance soon. I am about to pour my first cup of hot cider. Maybe that aroma will help draw one in.

Day 2 and what a difference. I stepped outside, 1/2 hour before sunrise, and was immediately struck with a breath of cool air, for the first time in about 10 days that I have gone deer hunting this year. I was worried after no deer signs at all, in yesterday’s heat and rain, that there may not be any deer at all within 50 miles of my NW Adirondack location. Those fears went way before I made ten steps, when I heard a deer snort at the end of my in-laws driveway. It took a left onto the main camp road and I took a short cut, up the ridge to a stand of young hard woods, where I guessed it was heading. One went up there at this time when I spooked her down below last year, probably the same old doe. Sure enough, when I got up there and set up my hammock chair, I heard her snort again, maybe 50 yards behind me in the thick stuff. I hope my evercalm, scentaway deodorant, and scent blocker jacket fool her nose a little and that maybe she draws a honrny buck over to this area. Either way, it feels good to finally have a little deer action in the cold woods.

Sounds like the arrow may have passed thru the thick back strap area above the spine and behind the shoulder if the shot “looked high”. Many people believe in a mythical place below the spine where an arrow can pass, but the reality is, any hit below the spine is fatal because the lungs go all the way up to it. The back straps are thick above the spine, just behind the shoulder. Deer often duck at the sound of release, resulting in a non-fatal hit thru that area with an arrow. A bullet thru that space will usually deliver enough shock to paralyze the back legs, but an arrow kills by cutting and bleeding, so your odds of recovery are not all that great. The deer has a pretty good chance of recovery if that’s where your arrow hit. I killed a similar basket 8 a few years back, on opening day of gun season, that had been struck there previously with a mechanical broadhead. I found that and a short piece of shaft under the hide on the exit side. That buck was on the trail of a doe, which I had dropped about 2 minutes before he showed up at her dead body, soon to be laying dead right next to her. I ended up trimming out a little bit of “questionable” looking meat around the arrow wound, but I think his odds of a complete recovery would have been good had he not showed up in the wrong place at the wrong time. Any how, I hope you find him but don’t sweat it either way, that crap happens, and that’s why they call it hunting and not killing. If you get another chance, aim low for the heart.

Nor do they have a sputtering, dysfunctional federal government.

Looks like a good 2.5 yr old that would have been real nice sized next year. You can have that euro done tomorrow with no mess if you can find a 3200 psi pressure washer.

That sucks and I know his you feel. Last year a big one got hit in my front yard around this time. When I got home from work, the horns had already been sawed off. I think it was a 3.5 year old 10 point that I had seen multiple times from when it was in velvet. I dragged the carcass back to my butcher waste pile for the coyotes.

Smoked brisket, German potato salad, macaroni and cheese and a negra:

It might fire, but I would be a little concerned with corrosion. I would pull the breech plug and push it out, reassemble, then spray in some foaming bore cleaner into the end of the muzzle and let it soak for a half hour or more. Then remove the breach plug again and run a bore snake though the barrel. Make sure the hole is open thru the breech plug while it is out (use a small drill if you need to), reassemble and you should be good to go.