[Live From The Woods 2017 edition!]

4 minutes ago, crappyice said:

Here's a wild statement- I have NEVER seen rutting activity in my 10 years of bow hunting - no vocalizations, no chasing, no scraping or rubbing of trees, no bucks fighting...while i am in stand - I know it must happen but I also know that I am not able to be I he woods for any consistent chunk of time/days in a row based on my teaching schedule. I know it MUST happen but I have just never hit it right: maybe I will get to see it in 9 hours after an Evan Williams induced nap that is set to commence in 5, 4, 3, 2.....zzzzzz


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[Live From The Woods 2017 edition!]

3 hours ago, Thejmack said:

Anyone having luck in Putnam or 3M lately? 

Not really. I've spent a couple mornings near Lake Carmel.  Seen some does but no rut activity.  

I was up near saugerties Sunday Monday and saw young bucks on the chase. 

[Live From The Woods 2017 edition!]

I had a funny experience this am. Lake Carmel area. First season w bow, have yet to get a deer. Got a bear two weeks ago. 

So this little doe comes up to me this morning at 815. I'm on the ground, back to a stone wall.  She's barely a shooter and I try ignoring her but she's persistent.  Gets maybe 7 yards away. Looking at me, trying to decide what's up.    Finally snorts five times and walks off. Rest of the family never show. Now I'm kinda regretting not taking the shot. She was so trusting though. 

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Free tags

Most of you probably  already know this already, but this is my first season using bow so it was new to me:  

Doe tags for Westchester and Suffolk counties are free. Just got em today.  Dicks sporting goods had a little difficulty figuring out how to use the licensing computer but it worked in the end (I called the state tag phone # and they walked us through it). 

[2017 HuntingNY Archery Harvest Thread]

Repost from live in the woods thread... Got my first bow kill on sat at 4pm.  First bear kill also... 

 

[Live From The Woods 2017 edition!]

Hadn't planned for this.  Can anyone recommend a processor /butcher in the saugerties Catskill area and also someone to do a rug or tanning.  With deer I butcher myself but i don't want to ruin the fur. Thanks. 

[Live From The Woods 2017 edition!]

Got my first bow kill last night. Five miles west of Catskill.  Was in the stand by 3:15pm. 4:15 I hear something crashing through the woods.  she charged down the hill behind me and then stopped one tree behind mine. Close shot. At first I thought the arrow went through because I saw the back of it on the ground but it broke.  She ran 40 yards and lay down, grunted, that was it. 

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