Arcade Hunter

Found it.... Nice deer!!!!!

Made my sauce while in for lunch.... its going to simmer for 5 hours before dinner

That is an awesome deer!

I missed the pic and dont want to dig back far.. Repost please? and Thanks!

Great morning out there but no harvest. No pressure in there today at all and I had a troop of deer pass by me in the thick stuff... Couldn't tell you what they were... Had one snort at me earlier also. One gigundo rub has been revisited and found some big buck tracks nearby. New tracks. Tough getting back in this spot... It impossible to do it quietly, but the most promising morning I've had all season. Glad it got cold out. Tonight I will sit the ag field edge and see if anything comes out looking for a spilled bean. Nobody in this place today so my hopes are high for the evening Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

Heading out to 8g in a few.. hope the orange army over the weekend didn't run the population right outta this place! Good luck to all heading out this morning.... Allegheny was a bust this weekend... Not one deer seen between the three of us and no shots fired. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

Would have been a hoot if he was wearing a borrowed bunny suit!

Beautiful muzzleloader Tacks. Hope you get to drop one with it!

Congrats on an awesome buck, Don c

Congrats Dan!!!

LOL... I was just thinking...That's my kind of shot right there!

The hanger was pricey but I knew it was the one as soon as I saw it

LOL! You are the king of deer removal! ( I was going to say the King of drag, but it just didn't sound good)

Bear meat Chili... a dollop of sour cream and shredded cheddar... The last of the bear meat

I cant remember if I posted this somewhere else on the forum.... 2020 Bow buck Euro

You deserve that! What a beauty for sure... I'm ecstatic that you and Jay both shot nice bucks!

Thats one heck of a deer! Congratulations Moho

I reserved another cabin at Allegany for this weekend ( Ironically its the same cabin as opening week). We have 3 doe tags to fill up there... Ill be happy to feed one to my muzzle loader!

Thanks Larry. I still have a few weeks of vacation time left.. I am going to use some near the end of regular season and try to use more in late muzzy. I did get a lot of time in this year between bow and regular so far, unlike last year.

Making some bear meat chili with 2 lbs I found in the freezer... Sad to say but it's officially all gone now. We are eating good at the cabin in allegany this weekend! Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

Opening week of regular season 2020 Arrived at Allegany and was not able to check into the cabin early as the rental office would not allow it, so I did some driving around the park looking at alternate areas to hunt. Once 5 PM came about, everyone checking in was at the rental office and they called out cabin trails and numbers as they picked the keys randomly out of a bucket. Kind of an odd way to do things I thought. Got the key and opened the cabin and got set up. Just about all the cabins were rented, most with hunters in them, some with vacationers and folks having Thanksgiving holiday. The cabin was great. The warmth was provided by a propane wall mounted direct vent furnace which heated the place just fine. The cots were actually very comfortable to sleep on also. On to the hunting. It was a slow week for sure. I only saw one deer in the woods, or I should say in the swamps and it was a tall spike buck, maybe 12 inch spikes. He was way out in the water and I passed on him because he was in the water and I did not bring waders with me for that kind of recovery. My one buddy saw five does by Wednesday evening and another hunter pushed three does to him Thanksgiving morning. He was not able to take a shot at any of the deer he had seen. My other buddy had one doe sneak up from behind him opening morning and was unable to get a shot off. This buddy opted to hunt close to the cabin the entire week. The other buddy and I did some deeper woods hunting. I averaged maybe 4.5 miles per day, up and down the mountains looking for possible bedding areas. It was useless hunting over food as the entire park is just loaded to the hilt with acorns. You could literally hunt anywhere other than the swamps and step on acorns with each step. A few of the other hunters camping on the same trail were successful but not at all like the success we have seen some 20 years ago at the same place. There were two 8 pointers taken, two good size doe and one fawn. That was it for the week as far as the deer hunting went. I talked with some of the hunters while out in the field as we passed by and was quite pleased with the cordial interactions for the most part. Everyone seemed perfectly happy sharing the acreage together and giving each other space. Except for one gentleman I encountered opening morning. Opening morning, I decided to head out to a spot of interest that I located on ONX. The place was a small area of a particular 2100 foot mountain top. I wanted to hunt the leeward edge of the elevation line just below the top. I went out there early in the dark and waited 40 minutes for shooting light. At the 50 minute mark, I heard what sounded like an elephant trudging through the crisp leaves just behind me. I am hunting on the ground in between two fallen trees where I was very well camouflaged. I turned and gave the passing hunter ( the elephant) a wave to make sure he saw me and he gave a wave back, then I turned back to the direction I was hunting, facing the leeward side. Things got quiet within the next few moments until I hear the clanking sound of metal on tree trunk. I turned to look from where the noise had come and to my surprise, the elephant is attaching a climber to the trunk of a snapped off tree, the trunk being snapped off about 10 feet above the ground. This pitiful tree trunk was about 30 feet directly behind me. As I stare him down, he proceeds to climb the stump at which point I stood up and confronted him for setting up so close to me. He explained that this was his spot and he has ribbons all over the place. I let out a ramble of ethics, state land ownership, right to be there then I started on the inbred hillbilly nature of his actions. I got up and left now because the volume got loud up there on the mountain top; last words spoken by me were “F O ignorant bastard” I left the park on Friday and headed out to the family cabin just outside of Cuba. My son in law, his brother and I did just as poorly there as we did at the park earlier during the week. We saw two does collectively. This property is 250 yards wide by 40 acres with access only on the narrow section of the property. We had done poorly there last year also. The biggest problem with this property is getting to the back of it. It is on a mountainside and it is all uphill, the steepest incline being the first leg of the climb up. For that reason, they like to use machines to get up to the first landing. I am firmly convinced that two 4 wheelers and a side by side push the deer right off the side of this mountain on the way in. The second issue is the placement of an elevated blind. Being that the property is narrow, it is not possible to get past this elevated blind if someone is already in it. The blind is set up about half way into the property and I will not pass by it if someone is in there for fear of disturbing their hunt, as they can see you pass by from the blind. No one has hunted the back side of this property this year. Perhaps a conversation is in order.

Just catching up on the forum after my hunting trip... Jay and Biz, Hope this thing is over real soon. Take care and hope you feel 100% soon. Tim, Im glad you are doing well also

Morning all... No internet for the past 10 days .. hunting hard though. Good luck out there and congratulations to all that scored! Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

@G-Man Are you in 9P? Just curious because that was one of my choices and I was denied. I did get a 9S

I am for sure going to add one of these to my bow for next season. I make too many mistakes with more than one pin. Great thread