Steuben Jerry

Wife’s deer! 260 yd shot and dropped in its tracks! Sweet 8. I’ll post up story in harvest thread. Tower in the background is where she was sitting.

Wifey just dropped a nice buck! Better pics upon retrieval.

Good luck today everyone!

X2 on the botfly. Congrats on a good day Eddie!

Now that’s a great hunting experience!

I babysat our cute granddaughter this morning so wife and daughter could go out, and I took the afternoon shift in the corner of our hidden field. Busted three does and a small buck out of the field getting to the stand, and then had three does slide in from the far corner just ten minutes after sitting down. Had a bald eagle looping around the woods. A few more does and a few more until nine are in the field. Spike comes out and starts to dog a pair of does, and then just romps around with them kind of playfully. I watched that for over an hour, and then around 4:15 I heard some sticks snapping about 150 yds out. Every deer in the field picked their head up to look in that direction. Buck gallops into the field and is just showing all kinds of bad attitude and acting badass. I get the scope on him and can only see side view, but looks good. He lowers his head and takes a dead charge at a couple of does. The does start to break off toward the far tree line with him picking one of them as the other doe veers off. I had the crosshairs on him the whole time, and before losing him in the far tree line I yelled to stop him. He hits the brakes slightly quartering away, 150 yds, crosshairs dead on the boiler room. Dropped in his tracks. I had about 5 seconds to get the scope on him, identify him with only a side view, stop him, and drop him. He’s not among the top 6-7 I’ve had on cam, and I have to admit I was a little let down when I walked up to him, but he’s an adult buck, decent body, nine points, and I would guess 160-ish pounds. Wound up disconnecting the main pump from the manifold. I’m a firm believer in shoot what makes you happy/be happy with what you shoot so I’m not unhappy with the deer, but a little miffed of my lack of restraint on the first day knowing what’s running around. Still have tags, still in the game for doe or bear which are around. Looks like I’ll be baby sitting tomorrow (doesn’t break my heart in the least - she’s huge fun) and let the ladies bring in the bigger boys.

I have him on camera, but definitely not one of the bigger ones. Had to make a quick decision but no regrets. I’ll post in the harvest thread, cool afternoon!

Nine pointer down.

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In for the afternoon shift!

That’s bizarro!

Stopped at Walmart on the way home last night and counted 23 people in the license line. Might have been one on them siting in this morning - lol.

My fault - I'm done.

If I actually answered that, you'd just drag it into a circular repetitive diatribe, and blow off any useful information that you may receive. You know, like usual.

HAHAHA - talk about plastering the internet, you have over 5000 posts, and few, if any are about you hunting.

LOL - since when?

Haha - you and I are on the same wavelength today.

Nice! Congratulations!

If you consider 9/10th of a mile a backyard, you can go ahead and call it that. Still, unless I missed a post somewhere, you never seem to have any hunting experiences that you talk about...

Yup, it’s pretty cool too. Back stand is 9/10’s of a mile walk.

As usual, you didn’t answer the question.

Just curious and I'm not asking just because you troll this thread and others constantly, but do you actually hunt? You don't seem to have any hunting related experiences that you talk about..

Super psyched for tomorrow. I haven't missed an opening morning in 35 yrs. That said, daughter is up from out of state with our 2 and 1/2 yr old granddaughter for her annual buck, and between my wife, daughter, and I, someone has to stay behind with Evelyn. I'm thinking I may do the chivalrous thing and volunteer for the morning granddaughter watch. Sounds crazy, but this little smiling face makes it easy. Plus I'm off work til the 25th, back for 3 days and then off for 4 more. I'm more into the ladies getting their deer this year, and I can bat cleanup. As long as they don't have me recovering dead deer all afternoon, I'll be fine with getting out at noon for the rest of the day. Facetimed with her last night and she told me for the umpteenth time that she wants to go get a buck with me. I can always lay the rifle outside on the deck...

Well, in that case toot your horn as you pass exit 40!

After being born and raised in the Rochester area, we moved just outside of the Bath town limits about 12 years ago. I'd been hunting the area since the early/mid 80's so I knew all about the area. It's no different than most other rural towns. The only difference is that Bath is the county seat. Courthouse, county jail, all county offices are located there. We've loved living in the area and my only regret is not being able to pull it off earlier in life. Beautiful area, neighbors are great, and not as much snow as 30-40 miles north of us gets.