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LIVE from the woods 2016 Edition! - 7th Year, lets make this happen...


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Congrats biz! Must be a great feeling to harvest your first deer on your own land.

I didn't see a single deer after I rattled in that nice 8 to what turned out to be 36-38 yards. Decided to take a ride to my other property and check the cams. Ended up talking to the landowner to showed me the new 10pt xbow he just got. He asked me to set some things up for him which I did and he headed off to the woods. Cams showed 8 new bucks with 7 being legal and 6 of those being shooters. I'll post some of them when I get home. Found out the guy next to us is hunting the small thin 5 yard block of woods that's maybe 60-70 yards wide. He has a few good spots there and will probably get one of those nice bucks. Seems like a nice dude so I wish him all the best. He also is hunting with an Xbow. All in all it's a pretty good day


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Pm sit was another fun sit. It started slow and the neighbors decided to get their guns ready for gun season so we had about 45 minutes of continuous close gun shots. After they calmed down i heard a noise to my right, swiveled to look and all of a sudden a doe comes running right passed me to my left. Runs straight to@chefhunter86. Then decides to run back to me. Comes in behind me and stops and blows and then runs up the hill. No good shot.
Then about 70 yards up the hill a buck came walking in. He was smelling and licking and eating and working the ridge right above me. I decided to use the bleat can. No response. Bleat again. No response. Bleated again and I got a grunt! Amazing to hear it and it was my first time. We reciprocated a few times and all of a sudden the buck is running right at me. I see its a legal 8. Draw bow. It's still behind trees, pops out and gives me shot at 6 yards.
But I shot over its back.
Chef came over and gave me some additional pointers for next time.
He is the teacher and I'm the student here. So now I know how to aim next time they get so close.

But overall this spot had 4 bucks and 3 does today. All hot does with Horny bucks chasing.
Hopefully tomorrow I can land my shot

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That was my first dark to dark sit. I am never doing that again. To all of you guys that do it god bless you. My climber is so uncomfortable. Plus I didn't sleep last night and I couldn't take a nap. 11-3 was like an eternity. I had a small 4 pointer come under me at 5. I almost blistered him just so I could justify the time I spent up in that tree. No signs of the rut in 3s so I'm sleeping in tomorrow



Sorry if I sound angry. I'm not. I'm actually proud of myself for sticking with it.
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Out with my wife tonight.  Doe worked its way across a field toward her. Kept going closer close. All the sudden I see a flag semi up and the deer trotting away. It made her. Just before leaving I see four on the other side of the field. Just grazing. Leaving I get to the wife's tree and spook two more coming out of the corn.  They are around. Looks like they are moving..

oh oh also the buck I got this morn smelled fairly rank. But not until I got down close to gut him. My guess is he is just starting to rut up. I Think the rut is just really in the beginning stages here based on him. I think this is a good week to be in the woods. 

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Looks like some big bucks are starting to fall. Seems to be a great season so far in NY. I know ive had more chances at nice deer than im used to. While my deer was no where close to zag's deer, I would put it in the low 120's, which is good enough for me. 
 

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Good to see some of you got some nice bucks down today!! And it seems like there was some decent action for most of you.

Didn't make it out today unfortunately. . Worked until 730am. Then my FIL and his buddy came up to install some new French doors onto my patio. We were all done by 2pm but I was exhausted from a rough night at work and decided I needed to get a few hours of sleep before being back to work by 7pm tonight for another 12hr shift.
Hopefully bolting out of this mill at 7am and will be in the woods asap for the rest of the day tomorrow. Quick cam check Friday shows new bucks showing up left and right. Here's one that I've never seen and looks to be a nice buck. Not sure if I'd shoot him or not yet as the pic isn't great and it's hard to tell how good he really is.
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O and if anyone saw the pic of the buck my buddy shot that I posted a couple days ago....I put a tape on it and came up with 134 gross


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Nice deer all.....

Had a dandy 8 run a doe through the yard last night. Never seen him before. Doe was a late fawn from last year that hangs out around my place daily.

Sat on some public this afternoon in a spot I have used in the past, had a doe/fawn come through and a fork horn a little later right on her trail.

Should have shot the doe. 

Fun couple hours anyway.

 

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