WNY Bowhunter

Was checking them out yesterday. I'd like to try them.

I skipped the morning hunt today. I had an awesome encounter with my #1 buck last night. My wife shot at a doe yesterday evening. I was hunting the neighbors so I left early to help her look for her arrow. On the way back out to the stand this guy steps out into the field at 30yds!!! I had to beat a tree with a stick to run him off! This is the first daylight in season sighting since he was a yearling. He has been very daylight active this year. May have to actually start hunting him!!!

The DEC techs that check teeth at the butchershops are an utter JOKE!!!

No, he's 2.5 or 3.5...the pic is from mid August with the winter coat starting to grow in. He's fat and healthy!

Nope. Let him walk. I was tempted though...

Had this guy eating acorns at 10 yds this morning.

30 yd shot...quartering away...chinadermic performed flawlessly. Only made it 40 yds with blood spraying everywhere!!!

Not you directly. Just got one in from last season and the neck was done perfectly. Believe me...I want those Mendon deer frozen before I touch them...in liquid nitrogen if possible.

I haven't been splitting or turning most of mine lately. I kust pay my friend from Howard who tans my capes to do it.

Rochester or Elmira...

I'll be home all day. It's a long drive to Steuben County from Westchester.

Just thought that I'd post this with season opening in a few days: When you can't get to your taxidermist right away and have to skin your trophy buck and freeze the head and cape for a later date this is the right way to do it... First, a lot of guys think you need to "sleeve the deer" which is essentially to skin it by turning the front half inside out like a sock without making any cuts. Not only is this time consuming but totally unnecessary. When I get a cape like this, the very first think that I do is cut from the bottom of the cape through the underside of the armpits like in Figure 2B (where the short white hair meet the dark brown/gray leg hair). Also, take the time and carefully skin the neck ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE BACK OF THE EARS!!! As a taxidermist, there is nothing worse than waiting for a big frozen chunk of neck meat to thaw out. The rest of the face with thaw quickly and can be skinned out within a few hours of taking the head out of the freezer. Waiting for a frozen block of neck to thaw can take several additional hours. The shorter the time frame that the raw cape is exposed to the elements/bacteria the better especially is it's warm out!!!

All my hunting arrows are carrying chinadermics once again this season.

Just fletched these babies...quiver of death!!!

Sometimes it's the ones that you least expect that come out of nowhere with the huge jump in growth. Needless to say, I wasn't too excited when this sorry looking 2 year old showed back up after season last December. Boy, did he surpass my expectations with one of the biggest 2-3 jumps that I've ever documented!!!

Here's my top up and comer. I believe this buck is a two year old. Hope he doesn't tempt fate with my wife in November...

Out of all the bucks I have on cam this summer, only two have names...a 6 year old I call Wannabe and a big 6 with no brows I call Mulie. Both are on the "hitlist"...

Yes, the good ole Rage neck shot...lol. Your deer wasn't the worst I saw last year. The other one needed a whole new cape thanks to a point blank finishing shot in the neck with a rage xtreme/xbow.

Starting to put the pieces together to let the air out of this big 6pt. Looks like his daddy was a mule deer with those giant ears and lack of brows...

I've been scouting deer since turkey season ended. Got a few tag worthy candidates scouted out. Hope to get my opening morning stand hung tomorrow. Still have to buy a license and wash my clothes. Other than that.. BRING ON OCTOBER!!!

Two different bucks...

Had a few good pics on one of my cams. The dropper definately looks like he's only 2.5, would love to see him next year. The 8-pt. is new and the 10 is a pretty solid shooter... I'm pumped, can't wait for Oct. 1st!!!

Got my new threads on...back in business!!!

Hopefully, the local shop can get me tuned up. Was getting a pretty good left tear with it before. I should get the equipment to do my own. You know how to yoke tune a hybrid cam?