WNYBuckHunter

Not for stealing in general. Read the entire thing. Unless the person stealing the treestand was doing so at night, or threatening someone while doing so, deadly force is not warranted. Force is, but not deadly force. Shooting at someone would more than likely be considered deadly force whether you hit them or not.

Again, show me one state that would allow you to shoot or even shoot at someone for stealing something thats out in your woods. A link to a law or something along those lines would be great.

What state in the nation allows someone to shoot someone else for stealing their tree stand in the woods? Theres a big difference between that and someone entering your home, or car jacking you.

And that would be just as illegal as your booby traps. Im starting to think you watch too many movies lol.

Ill have a 3 day weekend this weekend, Halloween weekend and the first weekend in November. After that, I took Thanksgiving week off.

Boobytraps are illegal.

I dont think a cell cam would have that option. If its a regular Black 60, the option is there on the 2015. I have one. I dont remember off hand where in the menu it is though.

To the OP, sorry to hear about your stand. Some people are just dirt bags. To the guy talking about shooting at people, give me a break, if you are seriously willing to shoot someone over a treestand, then IMO you are worse than the people stealing the stands.

I use Python locks for cams

Its nice to be able to range trees and other objects before the animal you want to shoot shows up. Im guessing they get to their stand in the dark and would want to make use of the time by ranging things.

Again, you have no clue what you are talking about. DEC put the program in place for 2 years as a trial. It will not change next year.

8H heavy scraping, mature bucks locked onto and pushing does, bucks sparring and fighting.

Great buck wooly! Congrats!

Thanks! We worked hard on the plots this year and it paid off. My daughter is really into it, been going out with me since she was 4. I think she will get over being busted, shes like her old man, determined. She buys most of her own gear, its what she spends birthday, Christmas and allowance money on. Im glad shes into hunting rather than video games and stuff like that. Sounds like you and your daughter are all set to go! Good luck to you, cant wait to read about you guys and your season!

It was pretty much a perfect opening day wasnt it? My plan to keep the pressure off of the farm paid off, and I had the 4 year old buck Im after this year in front of myself and my daughter for over 2 hours, along with 10 different does. Unfortunately he didnt offer a shot, but it was a ton of fun to watch him run does, fight a smaller buck and tear up a scrape. If he hadnt shown up, Id probably have taken one of the does if I had a chance.

Ready to head in... In our stands... Does in the field The only pic I took of him...

Yesterday was opening day for me, though we only had the afternoon to hunt. The weather forecast was a perfect setup for a new set that I hung specifically to go after my target buck on this farm. Hes a 4 year old that has been using the area very frequently. Around 2, my daughter and i got ready to go and headed down to the farm. When we got there, I decided to leave the ATV on the trailer and silently walk back in, which is more than 1/4 mile hike. We spotted 3 does and a coyote on the way into the stand. The wind was a pretty steady 10 to 12 mph and blowing so that our scent would pass into the open pasture, away from bedding and travel corridors. It didnt take long after we got up in the stand to start seeing deer. Does started pouring into the pasture area right where I usually see them. My daughter had her video camera and camera arm out for the first time, and was loving the footage she was getting. I scanned the wood edge and saw a large body appear. I had a good itdea what deer it was, and when he raised his head, he confirmed it. It was the buck I am after. I whispered to my daughter and she spotted him and started capturing footage of him as he fed along the hedgerow and began chasing does around in the pasture. His full attention was on one specific doe, which was hanging with another older doe. He followed and pushed her around the area, never letting her out of his sight. He stayed in the pasture and ended up bedding down 60 yards from us. Thats where he stayed for over an hour and a half. He got up a few times, looked around and laid right back down. He finally got back up when a 2 year old 8 point entered the pasture and approached his does. At that point, I thought Id try grunting and see what happens. I let out a single grunt and his head snapped to our direction. He pawed the ground, turned and went over to a bush and tree where he proceeded to tear up the ground, grunting and thrashing the bush and tree. Unfortunately, my daughter did not have her camera on. In the mean time, the two does slowly worked our way, and he disappeared behind a patch of thick brush. Within minutes, we heard crashing of antlers as the two bucks appeared from behind the brush, with the big buck clearly pushing the 2 year old around. The bucks fought off and on as the does had gotten to the 20 yard mark. I started getting myself in position for a shot when the bucks headed our way, and my daughter reached for her camera to get it powered up. That was the moment when she made her mistake. The second doe saw her move and the jig was up. I told her to freeze, and the doe stared her down, stomping and head bobbing, trying to figure out what she was. After a minute, she turned and ran toward the bucks. I grunted a couple of more times and the does turned and looked. They all stood there for 5 or so minutes and then started nervously working our way again. Neither of the bucks were nervous at all, they were just following the does, fighting every few minutes. The big buck got to within 45 yards, but did not offer a shot. After 15 or so minutes, something off in the woods spooked the does and all of the deer headed off in the other direction. My daughter and I talked about how cool everything was, and about the mistake she had made. I told her she did great overall, but made the same mistake that all hunters do at times. I said she should not feel bad about it, she should just learn from it. The rest of the evening we were covered up in deer, and we waited till dark and got down and snuck back to the truck. She was a little upset, so I gave her a big hug and told her that it was the best day of hunting I ever had, because she got to experience so much cool stuff with me, and that we would get back after that buck another day when the conditions were right again. We headed home and watched the video she got. Lots of great shots of the action. Cant wait for next weekend, when her and I have 2 solid days to ourselves to spend in the woods. Pics to follow...

Yeah, you cant believe everything the commercials tell you lol.

Thats not a new article, it pops up every year. Deer arent trying to track you down like the dog is, so its not exactly apples to apples. My theory on it is that you cant get rid of your scent completely, but you can cut down its intensity, which most likely makes it seem as though your scent is older than it really is, making the deer less freaked out by it. You still have to play the wind, but if a deer thinks you are further away because theres not as strong of a scent, then the chance of them getting and staying closer to you when they are downwind is that much better.

No centerfire in areas where you can only hunt deer with a shotgun during regular season, only .22 or smaller rimfire or shotgun. If you are in a zone where you can use a rifle for deer during the regular season, you are good to go with whatever shotgun, centerfire or rimfire you want. That goes for any open deer season, not just archery.

Which is trajectory, not lift.

Looks perfect for tomorrow!

My roman nose comment was a sarcastic reference to a comment someone made about being able to age a deer by the profile of its nose a couple of weeks ago.

3.5+ for sure. Pretty near impossible to age one from that pic. Color of the fur doesnt matter really. Oh wait, he doesnt have a roman nose, cant be a mature deer. Or so Ive been told thats what the states top biologists go by....

Ive been hoping my Bushnell will die for the last couple of years so I have a reason to buy the Vortex.