G-Man

Doesn't look to big 250-300 max ... got this pic last night

Simple, tradition, and politics. The thing most people want, and hate. Monday opener, no sunday hunting, don't kill does. Separate seasons, traditional seasons,primitive seasons. When your hunting is controlled by politics, and lawmakers influenced by lobbiests and not a separate game commission what do you expect?

I'd let the guy know his salt lick and dogs running loose are illegal, while wearing plain clothes, not camo. Tell him you prefer not to have problems but his dogs have been seen chasing deer and your trying to protect his dogs, and him from fines,and possible harm to the dogs by a lesser man than you, helps if you print out the laws and give him a copy. He may resent you for it but its right as a good neighbor to inform him.

I have a lot on my property and had one mounted, seem to do better in areas with interspersed pines. Where the black color aids in hiding from hawks.

The best hunting is in spot no one else would go, like the 1st time hunter that kills a huge buck in the middle of a goldenrod field that all the seasoned hunters walk by on way to the woods. If your legal distance or have the proper permission HUNT!

Welcome to the fun world of nys politics and laws....always changing and confusing as hell...really wish we had separate game commission that could make and enforce its own laws....

My encore 204 ruger is a tack driver to 500yards . I know several others who would put their encore vs any gun you want...unless you get into custombuilt guns all factorys are pretty much the same. A lot is dependant on the shooter and optics......not the gun

apples first,corn second. why not try the ground? great way to hunt!!! of not back on trail entering fine. but thats why i dont use a climber, you need the right tree and its never in the right spot..... better to be in a spot to get a deer than see one........

Sm bucks are excited and will chase any pretty doe out there so to speak watched it all week,A single doe hear and there may be ready but actuall breeding is 2 weeks+ away. main scrapes are just being opened. i 've had multiple sm buck sparing matches on camera. but the big boys know to wait..why expend their energy yet.

I thinkk the love or enjoyment comes from trying to unravel what happened , where is it going, what kind of shot placement was it? I have found a blood trails going across my property that are from another hunter but no hunter is ever seen... i've recovered the deer once a nice buck 9pt and back tracked the blood to the shooter who swore he must of missed. he was very surprised i gave him the deer i spent the whole day tracking. Another hunter refused the doe he had shot i found dead . i informed the landowner where he was hunting and he no longer has permission to hunt there. While yes they may have been a bad shot, many were good shots but just never followed. To many hunters especially during gun if they don't see the deer drop they figure they missed , or they are looking in the wrong place for the inital hit especially since they came out with rifles in the southern zone. If you follow enough trails on your hunting grounds you will learn where wounded deer head to die.especially helpful when there is little or no blood...

I love tracking blood trails, and back trailing in snow to see what deer were doing before it got shot. @ 2 points! 1. never walk on the blood trail or the deer trail blood was on!!! 2. if tracking with a partner one stays on trial with head looking down and the other off 5 yards or so with head up scaning the woods looking for wounded/ dead deer. These 2 i have found to be most important. If blood is lost mark last blood and again not walking on trails go up each intersection of deer trail and look for blood 25 yards at a time for each trail it may have gone including backtracking looking for intersection. There is a lot more to it but those are very important!!

As a left hander myself, have you looked at savages? 30-06 is a very versitale round. But 100- 300 is not considered long distance by many. I almost shoot that with a 45-70 gov 250 is my max.. I assume you plan on using this in ny. So 308 is a reduced 30-06. But you can get 30-06 ammo anywhere and in a great choice of bullet weights as well. What ever you get plan on spending almost double on a good scope for the gun. Best of luck!

Depends if your going to skin it, or pluck it. Skinning is easier but you need to pluck if your planning on deepfrying it. If skinned, remove crop ( found between breasts where neck enters) then cut around anus and remove innards (its a small space and the lungs and kidneys are recessed in to the ribs and pelvis respectively). Same way is done when plucked but keeping skin intact. Thats for a whole bird cut off legs at knee joint and wings at 2nd joint. Many people just breast a bird. Which is just pulling back skin and removing just the breast from the skeleton. ( no gutting required)

congrats!!

Try finding master of the black bear video by whitetail visions, shows lots of bears and howto judge size. Was a great help!

I've hunted bear spring mt. and had good luck off the ridges looking in cherry leaves for scratchings. Didn't get out there this year for oct 1 opener just to busy at work. I've also had good luck driving around in delhi/walton area looking off road for flocks in fields. A few knocks on doors and i have a bunch of land to hunt for turkey only! One farmer has let me hunt there for 10 plus years now even intoducing me to his son who took over his farm! I do not even ask to hunt deer there.. i don't know what it is but people are way protective of their deer. but seem willing you let you hunt birds no problem..... I also recomend you give a little some thing to the farmer for letting you hunt there at end of hunt a 10 or 20$ tip for them is nice and make sure you thank them even if you don't have luck, i also send christmas cards and a small ham to farmers that let me hunt year after year.

they have been low here as well for last 5 years , but there are 3 mixed flocks around. had a great hatch! I know most people like their gobblers spring or fall, but i like to hear em and hunt them best in spring. I prefer to take a big hen in fall. I leave the gobblers/ jakes for spring. especially this year as my nephew will be experiancing his firs spring hunt! jake love to come to calls easily, as do 2 year olds. I'll take a hen this fall!! A good nest can have up to 12-14 eggs so if there are 18 birds in your flock with 2 hens, i try for one of them. the remaining poults will have at least 8-10 jennys... to lay eggs come spring. those 3 jakes will be 2 year old gobblers and maybe its just me but seems there are never enough gobblers around in the spring! i'd leave em alone.

I would hang a stand in the hedge row you are walking in to your stand about half way to your stand. you didn't show which way predominant wind blows from. but if you have to hunt that stand i would walk way around one side of the bedding area or the other rather than thru the middle....regardless of wind.

250 lbs plus for me.

Good luck tommorow! You call call em right out of the roost or wait till they fly down and break em up! I like calling back in after broken up myself.

Barn swallows flying high is a sure sign of rain in next 24 hrs, low ground skimming evpect dry n fair weather. Best one i've ever heard and it seems to work as well.....

Geno, the hair on the back is very thick , if you grazed it you would have ton of hair, no blood on shaft, you shoot high poundage arrow shaft is probably smaller than ferrul on broad head as well leaving the shaft slide thru with out much contact , plus thru thick fur both sides and it could wipe the blood on shaft/ fletch pretty clean. I've hit high lung before it is not fun or easy to track as blood must fill chest before it will come out mouth / nose i've gone 100 yrds without "first blood" . As the deer walked out and up the hill it may go up a bit and than level or head back down up hill required more blood to fill chest to come out and down hill less.... The hair will tell you where your shaft entered and exited. then it just come down to hardwork tracking. Hope you find it!!

You have hair you hit him, wait and look in am. Steep shot even high will still get into high lung, on opposite side. Take the hair and compare it to a mount u have at home, or check online for comparison chart, hair tells a lot even if you doubt the shot arrows do funny things if you hit bone. The hair will tell....

High lung hit most likely, spark maybe from carbon arrow on fur, static charge if it was dark enough. Give him some time for lungs to fill blood will have to come out nose mouth... push and no trail to follow till they fill.. best of luck my friend!

I always shoot a doe with fawns, especially button bucks... does are what force young bucks to leave an area to prevent inbreeding, kill the mom, buttons grow to 1.5 year old and stay using the mom's home range as their own , unless chased away by more mature bucks. Even if i am not interested in 1.5 year olds its nice to see bucks out while hunting!