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Is this the guy that was just mentioned in a predator Xtreme article? I just read about a guy from PA that hunts and traps an unbelievable amount of reds Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk

We've been renting one during gun season for the last couple years and it always seems like there are plenty available. I can't remember when exactly we booked the cabin but I don't think it was until sometime in September. I'd imagine archery season is even less busy so you should have plenty of time to decide. Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk

I'm not sure. A buddy of mine posted on Facebook the other day that they were illegal but I can't remember why. I'll see if I can find the post again. Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk

I'm not sure about NY but I've heard these heads are illegal in PA Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk

What brand are the fixed blades? Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk

I want to hear the story about the one you killed from the couch Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk

Here are a few bucks that I've been able to confirm did come out of state park. None of these deer are mine. Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk

I've done more camping, scouting and spotlighting there than hunting but during my time there I've seen some awesome bucks. I live nearby the park so trail cam pictures and pictures of bucks taken there float my way every year. Along with the pictures have come some pretty great stories. I have talked to a couple guys on here that either have or still do get there every season so hopefully they will chime in. I'll see if I can dig up some pictures I've had sent to me from there. Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk

Thanks guys, another year older but not sure if I'm another year wiser yet Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk

I've got to get the pictures from my dad but he set a camera up on a gut pile and actually had another small buck come in and eat the undigested acorns from the stomach contents. Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk

Yea I would much rather have taken him while hunting. It's nice knowing there's bucks like that running around near where I hunt but I hate to see them get hit like that. Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk

The skull is more fragile than the antlers. Too bad I ended up finding out with my truck. Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk

Me and a buddy were standing around talking after hunting today and the conversation turned to bucks we've taken with broken tines and main beams. One of them was a quite heavy based buck that had both antlers snapped off at less than 3" long. I can't imagine how much force it would take to just break off an antler like that but it does seem fairly common. Anyways I mentioned that I couldn't believe they never fracture their skulls or bust the skull plate by taking such a beating. He said years ago he watched a hunting show where a guy had shot a buck that looked like it had close to a 30" spread which turned out to be a buck with a fractured skull that allowed the antlers to flop around. I've never heard of it seen such a thing have any of you guys or girls? Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk

I always thought the same thing until this past archery season. I was still hunting through a fairly brushy area when I caught movement just through a little brush to my left. The movement was less than 20 yards from me and I immediately thought deer. As I stood and watched for a few seconds I could even pick out what looked like little spikes on a deers head through the light brush. Then all of a sudden something just looked wrong and I could instantly tell it was a guy in a brown sweatshirt slowly walking through with a bow in his hand. It amazed me that since I was looking for a deer that my mind could make me perceive the movements and shapes as such. This guy was never in any danger of me shooting him because I never draw on something I THINK is a game animal without 100% certainty but some people may not have waited to clearly identify before drawing. I'm not writing this to defend anyone or excuse carelessness. The sole responsibility is always on the shooter, no matter what the target "looked like." I never thought in a million years someone could mistake a person for a deer, I was wrong. Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk

I can't wait to actually use mine on a deer. I got mine purely out of luck but definitely glad I did. A buddy of mine picked up 2 muzzleloaders dirt cheap to flip and make a profit and one ended up being a blued/synthetic 10 ml-II. I offered him $200 and he took it. Definitely not as pretty as the stainless/laminate but still the best shooting muzzleloader I own. Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk

I've been wanting to do that for years and never have a cam on me while hunting. Have had gut piles completely devoured by the next day but never set a cam on one to see what did it. Thanks for the reminder. Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk

Story and pic of the actual deer are in another thread but I just got the euro back today. Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk

We were in tree tops and saplings when we picked it up at about 30 yards on the screen. I'm sure it would have picked him up sooner if he wouldn't have been tucked back into some logs. Even after being gutted, dragged out and laid in the yard for a short while last night it still showed a good heat signature Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk

I don't know if we ever would have found this deer without it. We had given it our all with our tracking skills and came up short. We may have eventually found him by grid searching but probably would not have been able to salvage any meat. I remember reading your post and I think you were in the same boat as us with no blood trail and pretty certain you're deer was nearby and already dead. I think this could have definitely helped you pinpoint him sooner. Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk

I wondered the same thing about wether it would work on blood or not. I think the real small drops would lose heat too fast and end up the same temp as the leaves pretty quick. Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk

Nope, just a handheld thermal imaging camera. We just walked and did a panoramic scan the whole time we were walking. Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk

And I posted this in another thread last night but here is exactly how we found the deer. You can even see the entry hole from the arrow just behind the shoulder. Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk

Yea we weren't nearly as prepared for a night search and recovery as we should have been but this will probably always be one of my favorite hunting stories and memories. The difficult parts make the success that much better. Haha but I think in the future we will try to eliminate the difficulty caused by lack of good lights. Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk

Bit of a long story. So yesterday I was sneaking through some beech brush while still hunting just over the edge of a ridge. I was about to come to a new lease road when I hear a side by side coming along the trail and can see the road is only about 30 yards away from me now. The road is perpendicular to me and he rides from my left to right and I hear him turn around about 75 yards away and start to come back then stop and shut the machine down. So I kneel down and think about what to do when I hear a deer coming through the brush towards me coming from the way of the side by side. At 30 yards I can finally see him and then see he's buck. I draw right before he hits a small alley in the brush at an estimated 25 yards from me and he stops perfectly in the opening. I honestly got a case of buck fever and saw that all my pins were on his chest cavity and released without ever picking an exact spot. He tore off in what I thought was a parallel line to the lease road and was quickly out of hearing range. A minute later the side by side fired up and I saw him ride by back down to my left, the way the deer ran. It was now 9:20 A.M. I backed out and returned with a friend a short while later and we were able to find the back half of my arrow snapped off almost next to the lease road and covered with hair and a little blood. We were able to track him onto the road where he ran down the road about 20 yards and cut down the hill on the other side. Right next to the road we found my broadheads and front half of arrow covered in great blood and the blood trail started picking up. Now we hit a posted sign and don't know what to do. We come at the property from a different direction and actually run into the well tender who is just about to leave for the day and says he can't really give us permission but wants us to find the deer so says he will go along with us. We tell him the scenario and he says "I think I saw where you're buck ran into the brush." Turns out he was the guy on the side by side and saw the buck along the lease road and turned around to watch it when it went into the brush towards me and he just sat and waited to see if it would come back out. He said it came back out alright but was running flat out down towards the bottom of the hill. He helped us search and we were able to track for about 50 yards before losing blood. Then another 40 yards and 2 more drops. Then nothing. We ended up having 4 guys do arcs and grid searches in the area an found no more blood or the deer. The area is thick with tree tops from road construction and and oil wells that were started about 3 years ago. The well tender says he's got to go and we will need to get the landowners permission to keep searching without him. We track down a number and make a few phone calls and finally get the go ahead to continue and also put a call into deer search just in case. While sitting around thinking about what to do I all of a sudden remembered we have a thermal imager at work. We make the half hour drive each way to grab it and make it back out to scan the tree tops and brush for any warm spots. We start looking in the general direction of the last blood we were able to find and follow the terrain through a thick brushy gully with tree tops and downs logs all over. Within about 10 minutes we see a hot spot come up on the screen and we get excited. Just a large rock warmer than the surrounding ground though. We walk a little further and find another hot spot. My buddy says "wouldn't it be awesome if this thing takes us right to your deer?" I'm fairly skeptical and as we're getting closer to this spot we still can't see anything that looks like a deer. We get to within 5 yards of it and he's like "there's a deer right there, it's a buck" he actually didn't even see the deer at this close, he saw the antlers sticking up a little. It had bedded down in between 2 logs right tight up to a tree, looked just like a log. We had walked right by him earlier while searching and never would have seen him with the naked eye. We finally found him at 8:30 P.M. Took an hour to drag him 50 yards out of the brushy ravine with one of those little clip on hat lights because our other flashlights all died while searching. Then another hour and a half to get it to the top of the hill where I could finally get my side by side in to load it up and drive it the last half mile home. Finally got it to my house just after 11. He's not the biggest but he is definitely one buck I will never forget. Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk

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