2014 Hunting NY Gun Season Harvest Thread

[Renegade Hunter]

I had a couple run ins with this guy during bow and gun season. During bow I had climbed out of my tree, was walking through the woods looking for sign on the way out. I look up and see him 70 yards away walking through open hard woods with a doe. Once out of sight I tried closing in on him quietly. He came back down the same trail, turned around then went back up. I drew on him at 40 yards with my climber on my back and he never gave me the shot. This past Friday I went out for a morning sit and it was snowing like crazy. Didn't see a single deer for two hours so I decided to get up and sneak through the pines. Found something that looked like a deer head about 60 yards away. Pulled up and he was bedded down looking right at me. Like an idiot, instead of waiting for him to stand up I decided I could probably shoot him in the neck. Took a crack and he ran off. No hair, no blood. Followed his tracks slowly for 200 yards and found he went right to that same brush lot where I had seen him during bow.

 

The following day I sat right next to that brush lot on a milk crate. Beautiful 17 degrees outside with open skies. Started seeing deer early, 7:15. One doe and a spike. 20 minutes later, 3 does at 50 yards crossed into the brush lot. Half hour later a single doe crossed the same path. Popped out in the hardwoods at 40 yards and had a hard time not shooting her. Kept telling myself to just wait. 9:00 rolled around and I am just shy of being froze to the ground. Really thought about getting up and strolling through the pines again to warm up but I told myself to stick it out. 9:15, I am leaned forward looking for deer, looking to the left. When I look back to the right I see a buck standing 60 yards away looking right at me. I pull up and see that it's the buck I have been seeing. Put it on his shoulder and let the .264 win mag eat. He buckled, spun his ass around and took off into the woods. I tracked him in to that same brush lot he had run to the previous two times. Let him lay for an hour, when I came back he was stiff. Didn't make it 40 yards into the brush. My third year back from the Marines and being able to hunt. 8 Point. He is my biggest buck to date.

 

 

Edited November 24, 2014 by Renegade Hunter

[BUCKANDAQUARTER]

Sunday 1020AM this fella came in zig zagging back and forth going over the same path a doe had walked at first light.

[Hock3y24]

Filled my 7s doe tag this am, good sized and will give land owner some

Meat.

[Meat First]

Filled 7M Doe tag now its time for some Antlers

[phade]

Turkey day double. Had fil and mooog with his daughter on her first tagalong hunt.

[BizCT]

My Dads 5pt buck. Shot Sunday 11/22, recovered Monday 11/23. Story in my journal thread

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[stoneam2006]

Took dad's 270 out on state land in 8n was there literally 25 min when a group Walked out and took this one at 50 yards ran 20 yards and done....put in truck went back out didn't see anything else

[Kludes]

My cousins monster 10 point he shot down sw of canadaigua lake his best to date .. his dad's been watching this buck for 2 years named it the bull and his son comes once and drops it ... some day I will see one this big

[WNYBuckHunter]

Doe number 3 for me is in the books! Got to bloody up my side by side finally too!

[meatmuzzy]

Shot this big mama on Saturday at 12:50 pm in 4G.  I was on stand for 45 min and didn't even get to eat my lunch before she came through with 3 other does.  She was the biggest by far.  This is the fourth deer taken off my property this season: 3 does and a 7 pointer. 

[cdmckane]

 

So I got home from work at 2 this afternoon.  This girl was in my field, but didn't seem to care that I was home. I used my truck as cover and retrieved the Savage 220f from the house.  Using the gas grill as my rest, I put a 250 gr Hornady SST through her pump station at 175 yards.  She went 10 yards through some THICK briars and this is where I found her.  Needless to say, it's an inner loin kind of dinner tonight.

 

Edited December 5, 2014 by cdmckane

[landtracdeerhunter]

My son shot this deer yesterday afternoon. Doe fawn came out of a thicket  and this buck came crashing through after it, giving a nice 35 yard muzzleloader shot. A nice heart lung shot. Live weight was 137 pounds.  It shed one side of it's rack, and broken off the other. Someone had shot it in the left front leg.

 

Looks like shed hunting season will start earlier this year, LOL.

Edited December 6, 2014 by landtracdeerhunter

[Fletch]

My nephew and I with opening day does. His first deer.

[Fletch]

My second weekend doe

[timberridge]

luck on the last afternoon! I've been reading on here for quite a while thought it was about time to join and start posting. Good info here - thanks to all

 

 

[adkbuck]

Lucky Last Day

 

I had a little extra luck on Sunday.  I was hoping to get up to the Adirondacks for the last day of gun season but personnel circumstances prevented me from getting away. So I thought I would hunt locally although I hadn't seen a deer in the last two weeks.  I wasn't able to get to my stand until 8:30,  climbed the tree and pulled up my shotgun.  Within 30 seconds of untying my shotgun from the haul line I heard something then saw a deer creeping through the brush about  80 or 90 yards away.  The deer's track would result in a CPA of about 40 or 45 yards directly upwind of me if.  I took the shot as soon as he walked into an opening.  Photo below.  Just lucky, pure luck.  Not a huge rack but he had some heft.  Right beam was partially broken off due to fighting.

 

The phrase "timing is everything" comes to mind. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 9, 2014 by adkbuck

[wooly]

12-9-14

Late season success on the timbered edge of a goldenrod field.

 I sat on my stump daydreaming about shed season and all the antlers I'd be scooping up from the field behind me in the coming months.

I had a sudden snap back to reality at 3pm when all of a sudden out of nowhere movement woke me up 25yds in front of me. This guy was casually following behind a young doe fawn and she led him right by me at 15yds before the ML swept him off his feet.

He piled up about 40yds away, and when I arrived at his carcass I discovered he knocked an antler off when he crashed.

 

I grabbed a few quick picures, and with sunset fast approaching I made a quick run home to grab a sled to make the drag out a little easier and protect his antler that was still attached.

At home I realized I had this bucks antlers from last season which I included in these pics, and that I killed him just over 100yds away from where I had found those antlers last spring.

This was the kind of hunt that made me thankful I could appreciate some of the finer points of the hunt without the size of the antlers clouding my excitement over him!

 

 

[phade]

Me left moog5050 right.

[BUCKANDAQUARTER]

Took this doe sunday AM... poked my way up a pine knob suspecting a deer to be bedded down. Sure enough I saw a head looking at me. She stood up and I pulled the trigger. Took out heart and both lungs and still ran 50 yards. I thought it was perfectly broadside but she had an exit wound under the front shoulder. I had one day to muzzleload hunt and it paid off.

Edited December 16, 2014 by BUCKANDAQUARTER

[JALA RUT]

Finally got one with the muzzleloader. 8 Pointer, 12/14/14 @ 4:20 PM. Decent late season buck! Not one of the big boys but I'm happy with him. I think I passed on him a couple of times during bow season.

[JJNY]

The Southern Tier Opener was picture perfect weather this year, cooler temperatures and about an inch of snow on the ground. The deer were very active, passed on 3 smaller Bucks throughout the day and killed a Mature Doe around 11:30 in the morning. About 3 pm, this Buck was just cruising thru and offered me a shot at about 100 yards. My bullet clipped a branch in front of him and grazed his belly on the first shot. To my surprise, he ran closer to about 75 yards and stood broadside. My bullet hit it's mark this time and piled up within 50 yards. 2014 was a very successful year for me, a nice 8 pt with the Bow (story in the Archery Harvest Thread), this 135" 9 pt with the Rifle and 2 Mature Does with the Rifle. Seems as though our Management efforts are paying off and those All Day sits are helping too!