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If I was ever fortunate enough to take one that large with a bow then yes maybe once just to say I did. Wouldn’t change anything about how I hunt or go about my life.

My wife is looking into a job that would allow her to work from home. She would have to take 6months of classes. The starting wage is more with more room to grow salary wise than the fields she’s in now. Plus not traveling with the current gas prices and mileage on our car. She averages 20k miles/year between going to the office and going to clients homes. So I am all for it if she can but it’s not for me I need to separate home and work. I’ll find something else to do if I was home all the time. I also don’t mind my 4 12hr shifts guaranteed 3-5 days off between my weeks.

One of my wife’s friend is the same way she works maybe 6hrs a day gets payed for 8 and was told last month she will be permanent at home minus the monthly meeting. Most of her afternoons are just checking her email.

She needs a haircut but she loves my sons little chair.

Buck probably not maybe if I had a deer camp be a funny story. For doe the other hand I have a doe that gives my garden until September 1st to grow then eats everything. So she keeps it up into October this year I will have a very short drag. going to get those vegetables back one way or another.

12 gauge or 20 with 2 barrels is hard to compete against for the most versatile firearms for hunting. I agree with what you said maybe let him know that 270 and 30-06 are also great deer calibers.

I have to be out just because it’s early. However I try to find a buck that is on a certain pattern that time of year. I’ve had encounters with some big deer the first 2 weeks just haven’t been able to harvest any.

Great deer beautiful mount as always

Farm hand on my friends family farm at 10. Started non farm work my junior year worked half the day on a tree farm from june-August and worked a factory job the same time and throughout my junior and senior year.

Figured I would start this thread. Post your velvet pictures up here if you want to share them. 1st two are from end of may second are the pictures I got last week all in the same area.

A lot of people are starting to get them out in the next month or two. Just wondering how people set them up in the summer? ground level or elevated? are you looking for a particular deer to show back up or just an inventory count? do they tend to shift a lot from summer to fall on the property you hunt? I personally have mine elevated since they are on stateland. On occasion I have some at ground level in a couple swamps I hunt. I usually tend to put them on heavy trails heading to and from agg fields or known summer bedding areas. This year I’m looking for a particular buck that I saw last year. Most of the time all I’m looking for is a decent buck so I know I have something to chase. Most bucks I find don’t move to far and if they do I’ve learned most of the bedding areas in those areas ahead of time.

Wish I was home to look what I have. we use an iodine type treatment that heals cuts quick. My dog opened up her side pretty good last summer. It was shallow but about 2 “ long. We put that stuff on it and 2 days later couldn’t even tell she had been cut.

I have a gift card for Dicks my wife got me for fathers day and I was looking at picking up a cell camera. does anyone have any experience with the Spypoint LINK-MICRO 4G-LTE cell camera? Keep reading mixed reviews on them and was wondering if anyone had anyb knowledge or insight on them. Thanks

Big bucks are completely different type of animal compared to any other deer in the woods. However if you learn to hunt them you can have a chance of getting on a good buck or any buck. The big bucks will most of the time have the best bedding spots with the youngest on the outskirts. So you can hunt a big buck and get a chance at a smaller one. Mature bucks are hard to kill and are mature because they are smart and aware of everything around them especially if they have lived on stateland their entire life. Just remember a 2.5 on heavy pressured stateland is even a hard deer to kill. As for setting up don’t think you need to be 1mile in just because pressure is up. All you need to find is the spot hunters aren’t going and sometimes that’s right next to a parking lot, corner of 2 roads, middle of a swamp water deters many people. Just stay on the hottest sign and you should get on something. If you get busted or winded and don’t harvest a deer for a year or 2 just try to learn something every time you go into the woods. Get busted don’t get mad or upset try to figure out what you could of different.

Finally put my eyes on a couple good bucks coming off stateland. I have cameras in the bedding they came out of and plan on putting my time into this year. They let me drive right up to the.

Happy Fathers Day. Just got back from the Gilbertsville Father’s Day bow shoot. Hope everyone has a great day.

Feels like yesterday I took her to a father daughter dance when she was 6 now she’s all grown up and graduating next year. Very proud of the young lady she’s turned into.

Just be careful even the most seasoned loggers can get hurt. Few years back my BIL who’s done fire wood since he was 10 forgot to look up before he cut a tree and never saw the widow maker. It killed him instantly so always make sure you pay attention.

Bow arrived today. Put my extra single pin on it along with an arrow rest just so I could shoot. Man is that bow smooth glad I picked it up. thanks again @Jeremy K

Sorry for your loss

Doesn’t help you out but my dad got his in PA just south of Binghamton said it took him 10 mins walked out the same day with it.

Doesn’t help you out but my dad got his in PA just south of Binghamton said it took him 10 mins walked out the same day with it.

Congrats

I used to work on a commercial farm and one field I was working we had 5 dead fawns, 3 were within 75yrds of each other in one row. so I can see where 400 can be easily done with those bigger farms. Think we did 1000 acres just for silage.