Check In 2010

[First-light]

Great buck Deerslayer26, the picture is awesome the right way to do it! I hope you send it in to NY Outdoor news for the contest, not many better pictures than that one.

[sadass]

Well I took the last 10 days of bow season to chase that big 9 /10 point that I pass on shooting  Beginning of November.      I was so very sick nearly my whole vacation and only made it out The last 2.5 days of hunting bow.    I passed several bucks and already filled my doe tag when this Buck offered up a 24 yard quartering away shot on my last day last hunt.  The Rage dropped my 5th deer 4th buck in a row with in 50 yards .                  He is small, but I love venison too much to leave an empty tag in my inventory.  I do try to hold out for the big boys,    I resorted to the" IF its brown Its down"  guideline on the last day of the season.

  My 13 year old did his first field dress on this buck.    Next year is going to be a great year for this father and son team.

out

rage entrance

[ny hunter]

Way to go.I agree with you.Why have an unused tag.He is no trophy but he looks tastey.........................Nice going.

[Fantail]

slayer; nice buck! I see the grill about ready to go in the back

sadass; nice shot!!

[biggamefish]

    Went out last friday to a new spot and found that the deer are still scraping.  Of course i didn't see anything but I thought that was an interesting fact.  I even saw rubs that looked new.  Now I am starting to think I should have stayed bow hunting.  Oh well.

[ny hunter]

I have found a number of fresh rubs the second week of gun season this year.

[crowkiller]

hit a doe today, another guy shot her later

[biggamefish]

  Anybody hunting the last weekend I went out and saw nothing.

[132 eight pointer]

I went this morning.pushed a small deer past a guy in our group but it was too small.Jumped 2 doe that were bedded in the snow less than 100 yds from where another of our group was sitting.No shot.The deer were not moving much from what the 4 of us saw.tracks in the snow all around though.

[WNYBuckHunter]

I hunted all weekend, saw more deer than through all of regular gun season combined. Im a new believer in late season!

[biggamefish]

  I have one more day to get out I think I am going out with the bow in the morning then the muzzel loader.  Maybe all day with the now who knows.  we will see how it goes.

[backstrapper]

I'm new to the site so I am late to the thread.  Took this nine on a unguided hunt in Ohio first week of Nov.

[ny hunter]

Very nice deer.Congrats.

[biggamefish]

  Well I sat the last day morning and night I out in about 6 hours in the stand yesterday.  Saw some deer running away from me but nothing close enough.  It was a typical day in the bowstand windy imagine that.  haha  Good season after all I got some venision in th freezer.

[Geno C]

i went out with the bow on sunday, saw 2 spike horns and blew about 10 deer out around my tree stand walking in. i did see about 3 very fresh rubs and 2-3 new scrapes, fresh made within the past 2 days or so.

thought it was odd to see scrapes this time of year??

[backstrapper]

If you;re a believer in the stages of the rut revolving around the second full moon(nov 21) after the Autumnal Equinox (this year was funky) like I do then it's right on schedule for the second rut.  This year was a later rut then normal.  During early bow there was a mini rut so to speak but if you hunted areas without a lot of pressure the core of chasing and seeking took place late bow into early gun in the southern zone with most of the breeding hitting second week of rifle which is why they seemed to vanish.  With the full moon here scraping and rubbing picked up again about 5-6 days ago, saw a lot of fresh rubs and scrapes last weekend doing drives.  The little girls should be hitting estrous any day now.  Not every believes in the phases of the moon but I since I started following it about 5-6 years my hunting success has increased leaps and bounds. 

[ny hunter]

Bow season is over at the end of the month?

[backstrapper]

Bow season is over at the end of the month?

As far as the area I hunt it all ended yesterday, but Westcher and LI go till the end of the month and in Suffolk county on weekends there is a special gun season(permit only) that goes thru the end of Jan.  For me NY is over but I start up again in a week and a half in NJ for the month of Jan.

[ny hunter]

Good luck in NJ.I geuss I well start to put my gear away.Damn I hate this time of the year............