WNYBuckHunter

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Spare? Psshhh. It should be your primary. Probably will be after you buy it and use it a bit.

Thanks Eddie. It has been a fantastic season so far. Geno, no shes not. Shes a great friend.

LOL Larry, she is a looker. Trust me.

Heres a series of my buck fighting with a smaller buck just last week...

Next, here are some trail cam pics I have of my buck scraping not too long ago...

Tuesday, Nov 26th... All I had on Tuesday was the morning hunt, as I had to pick my kids up in the afternoon. It was a chilly, windy sit with no sightings. I left mid morning and took the day off to relax and spend time with the kids. Wednesday, Nov 27th... I got down to the farm and started with still hunting, as we ha the snow storm with about 6 or 8 inches of snow over night. I tried my hand at tracking a deer by its fresh tracks, and ended up bumping it before I could get a shot. I continued to still hunt, and ended up taking an off hand shot at a doe at 60 or 70 yards, and I clipped a branch, sending her running with 3 others that were in the thicket with her. 10 minutes later, I botched the shot on another doe, about 125 yards out. For the evening, my buddy offered for me to use his Remington 870 12 ga. I accepted and we headed out to do a ground sit. We sat about 400 yards apart, on either side of a standing corn field. Right before sunset, I had 2 does come across the field edge. Both met their fate before they could reach the corn. 2 does down, and 2 DMAPs filled for the farmer! A great evening! Thanksgiving Day... Thanksgiving is a day that we start out with drives and keep going with them until everyone has to head to dinner. We ran drives on 3 different properties and ended up with 2 does down, and a few misses at the end of the day. 2 more DMAPs filled. I left at 2 and headed home to dinner and stuffed myself. Fell asleep on the couch. Friday, Nov 29th... Let me back track. Earlier this year at work, I met a girl, Sara, that is from Cypress and goes to one of the local colleges. She was doing an internship at one of my client's offices. We developed a good friendship, and in talking, I mentioned to her that I hunt. She told me she has always wanted to go hunting, and that she was thinking of getting her safety course done and buying her license this year. I helped her with all of the info she needed, but she never had a chance to take the course, with her busy schedule. A couple of weeks ago, I was talking to her and asked if she would like to come along with me on a hunt this week, since I was on vacation, and she had Thanksgiving break from school. She said yes, and we planned it for this morning. She got to my place at 5:30 this morning, and I got the truck loaded up and we headed out. We were in my newly placed double ladder stand before daylight and sat there talking a bit and enjoying the woods, and great scenery. Around 9:30, my hunting partner, Mark, gave me a call and told me he was going to do a still hunt, and asked where Id like him to go, so if he bumped anything out, it might head toward us. I told him where I thought would work well and he said he would see us soon. I explained to Sara what was going to happen, and told her that if Mark disturbed any deer, they would either go one of two ways. One way would put them right in our laps. Less than 10 minutes later, I see a deer heading across the field, right toward us, so I nudged Sara to show her the deer. I decided that unless it was a small buck, I would take the deer if given the chance. As it crossed the field, I noticed it had a very nice, big body, so we watched as it approached the edge of the woods. It stopped before entering the woods, and stood there, looking around. As it entered the wood line, I noticed it had a rack, so I put my scope on him and saw he was outside the ears. That was the last I looked at his rack, and I looked his body over. He was a tank, so I started concentrating on a shot. He got onto a horse trail that goes by my stand at 30 yards and started trotting toward us. I got my gun ready, and accidentally made a noise on the blind material. He stood there looking at us, with his vitals behind a tree. After 30 seconds or so, he continued down the trail and I got my muzzle loader in position for a shot in the first shooting lane. As he stepped into the lane, I gave him a quick "mehhh" and he stopped, slightly quartering to us. I put my crosshair right on the front of his shoulder and squeezed the trigger. I heard the impact and he dropped his tail and head and started on a dead run. After giving him 2 hours, and a 100 - 125 yard track, we found him piled up in the old apple orchard. Hes a great 2 1/2 year old with 8 scorable points, but he has a 9h small point and you can see where a 10th small one had broken off. Pics from todays hunt...

So I have had the whole week of Thanksgiving off, and my kids werent around alot, so I spent almost all of it in the woods. Ill start at the beginning of my vacation... Saturday, Nov 23rd... After missing the buck and a doe on the previous Monday with my Encore, I took my old Mossberg 500 20ga out for the morning sit. It was a cold morning, and I didnt see much at all. After the morning sit, the guys wanted to get together to do a few drives, so we headed to my buddys place to grab a bite to eat and get the plan together. We headed out after making plans and started our drives. In the afternoon, it was very windy and started snowing. It was great hunting weather, especially for the areas we were working. We ended up with 1 doe down, but a few more had slipped by in the blowing snow. After doing our drive, I headed back to my buddys and we sighted in my muzzle loader. It turned out that the scope was off, it was shooting 6 inches high due to being knocked over and having another gun fall on it. No wonder I had shot over the back of the buck the previous week! Sunday, Nov 24th... The morning hunt was cold, and snowy, with about two inches or so of snow on the ground from the night before. It was a very pretty sit. I sat on our food plots, hoping for a doe to stroll by. No such luck, but it was a great sit. The afternoon was spent on the property of a person that we know. We did two drives, with the first one producing a great 2 1/2 year old 8 point to a girl that had never shot a buck before. I was very happy to be a part of her getting her first buck! Monday, Nov 25th... My morning hunt on Monday was a sit in a stand that had produced good sightings all during bow season, and I was very hopeful. Nothing showed that morning, but it was still a nice sit. I still hunted part of the swamp for the rest of that morning, then went to my buddys for lunch and we made plans for the afternoon. I headed back to the food plots to sit in my new gun stand there. No sightings that day.

Heres my 2013 Regular season buck! Hes not the big boy I was after, but Im happy with him and have a good story to go with him. Earlier this year at work, I met a girl, Sara, that is from Cypress and goes to one of the local colleges. She was doing an internship at one of my client's offices. We developed a good friendship, and in talking, I mentioned to her that I hunt. She told me she has always wanted to go hunting, and that she was thinking of getting her safety course done and buying her license this year. I helped her with all of the info she needed, but she never had a chance to take the course, with her busy schedule. A coupl of weeks ago, I was talking to her and asked if she would like to come along with me on a hunt this week, since I was on vacation, and she had Thanksgiving break from school. She said yes, and we planned it for this morning. She got to my place at 5:30 this morning, and I got the truck loaded up and we headed out. We were in my newly placed double ladder stand before daylight and sat there talking a bit and enjoying the woods, and great scenery. Around 9:30, my hunting partner, Mark, gave me a call and told me he was going to do a still hunt, and asked where Id like him to go, so if he bumped anything out, it might head toward us. I told him where I thought would work well and he said he would see us soon. I explained to Sara what was going to happen, and told her that if Mark disturbed any deer, they would either go one of two ways. One way would put them right in our laps. Less than 10 minutes later, I see a deer heading across the field, right toward us, so I nudged Sara to show her the deer. I decided that unless it was a small buck, I would take the deer if given the chance. As it crossed the field, I noticed it had a very nice, big body, so we watched as it approached the edge of the woods. It stopped before entering the woods, and stood there, looking around. As it entered the wood line, I noticed it had a rack, so I put my scope on him and saw he was outside the ears. That was the last I looked at his rack, and I looked his body over. He was a tank, so I started concentrating on a shot. He got onto a horse trail that goes by my stand at 30 yards and started trotting toward us. I got my gun ready, and accidentally made a noise on the blind material. He stood there looking at us, with his vitals behind a tree. After 30 seconds or so, he continued down the trail and I got my muzzle loader in position for a shot in the first shooting lane. As he stepped into the lane, I gave him a quick "mehhh" and he stopped, slightly quartering to us. I put my crosshair right on the front of his shoulder and squeezed the trigger. I heard the impact and he dropped his tail and head and started on a dead run. After giving him 2 hours, and a 100 - 125 yard track, we found him piled up in the old apple orchard. Hes a great 2 1/2 year old with 8 scorable points, but he has a 9h small point and you can see where a 10th small one had broken off. BTW, I have a ton of trail cam pics of this deer, including a series of him fighting with another buck. Ill post those in my hunting journal later on today.

Holy crap it's cold....

I have a Crossfire 4-16x50 with illuminated reticule and a Viper HS 2.5-10x44. I love both of them.

Ill be out with all of the guys doing drives. Its our Turkey day tradition. We have certain properties that get driven and certain ones that dont. Its always a good time. More about the camaraderie than killing deer.

It may have something to do with DECALS going away after this year or next. If you do some searches on the dec site, youll find some memos and reports that mention it.

I have no shame with does lol. Thanks man. Lots of skinning and quartering to do tonight.

Filled my 2 DMAPs on the farm this evening. Had 2 does come trotting across the field edge, as I was standing on the ground with my buddy's Remmy 870. I shot the first, taking out both front shoulders. She went skidding into the woods and the second one followed right in her tracks and met the same fate. No hero pics of these ones, too much work to do. One was old and the other was a yearling. Its all trophy hunting for me from here on out.

Sitting in one of the food plot stands again this morning. Great wind for it. Sounds like a zoo here. Fox barking just a ways up and the neighboring farm has cows and a donkey, all making noise.

Finally have a perfect wind to sit in my newly set gun stand overlooking two of our food plots. You can see them here, seperated by the strip of thick brush in the middle. I've been getting pretty consistent evening pics of does in the plot to the right. There hasn't been much in the way of shooter bucks at this farm this year so I'm just looking to punch a dmp tonight.

Got in my stand a half hour ago. Already had 3 deer go by. Hopefully my elusive friend makes an appearance today.

Just watched a big red fox creep up and pounce on some unlucky rodent. Really cool to watch.

Sitting on the plots this morning.

20 gague lmao.