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


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We were out first watch in 3 inches snow. Wind just sucked. Not many hunters.

My bil and nephew pushed some but 2 snuck out behind my son and I. Not where I was expecting and they saw us first no shot. We are on a shortage of luck! The wind was brutal 20mph all day. We pulled plug around 1. Watching football and will be cutting deer in a few.

The wind is supposed to be 25 mph all night and tomorrow! I may just go to work!


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So I went out late...blizzard conditions and decide to walk over the hill into the wind to a blind I was in... I had the cam cards so stopped to put them in on the way...standing next to the tree and finish closing cam door ,look up and yelp!...For I wasn't expecting the triplets to be standing 10 ft from me  just staring...well they turned and ran the way I was headed... I'm sure telling every other deer over the hill to run too.....lol

 The guys saw a bunch of spikes and a few doe with fawns...

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22 minutes ago, SteveB said:

Why?

I agree- if ANYONE thinks this about enforcement, you're wrong. This is to generate revenue and publicity.  They write a lot of traffic infraction tickets during this nonsense. There are better ways to enforce the laws than inconveniencing every driver on a highway.

 

PS- I write this because State Police roadblocks, with the Border Patrol in St. Lawrence County piss me off. 30 minute delay while they look through cars for a leaf of weed. ... or an inspection sticker being out of date

 

Look , I have a ton of clients up that way, so I know. 

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So for the afternoon hunt I switched with my buddy. He took the blind and I took the stand.... Big mistake.... Within 2 hours I was soaked to the bone from the wet snow soaking through and melting off the tree.... I radioed him to tell him to expect company.....

Got settled into the blind with him. About an hour later her spots movement.... It's a buck at 60 yards through the scrub... It stops in space where we have a clear shot....

He spotted it so he's up. Click. Dud shell..... I get into the scope to shoot and it's fogged all to hell.... The deer takes a step. My buddy shoots. It's a miss.... Deer takes another step. And slowly walks off into the brush.


Must not have been his time....

Froze my soaking wet self off until dark. No more sightings......

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Saw a few does and a spike this morning. Got out of the blind around 9 and still hunted with my buddy for a couple hours. We bumped a doe but that was it. Caught a few buck tracks but they weren't fresh enough to bother pursuing.

Decided to get a few hours sleep and forgo the afternoon hunt. Back to work at 5 for the 7th day of 12 hour shifts. Except I think this is gonna be a 14 hr shift as the guy coming back from vacation in the morning probably doesn't know he should be in at 5am instead of 7. Gonna have to send him a text. Been a long week getting 3 hours of sleep a day. I hope I get a crack at a buck soon cause I'm wearing myself down this huntin season.

Congrats to everyone who put one down today! And good luck to everyone going out in the morning!

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Just read from page 189 to page 205 to catch up as I've been at camp since Friday night with no service. Congrats go out to everyone on their harvests.

Shot this 7pt at 7:55am on Saturday in the fog. Story and more pictures in my journal.

 

https://huntingny.com/forums/topic/35467-in-the-zone-with-zem-2016/

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8 minutes ago, Gencountyzeek said:

Gave a doe the pass this evening. She won't be so lucky in another week or 2. Also ZEM is that a 788? It's what I'm hunting with. It was my dad's first rifle and mine. Very accurate ugly rifle.

Yup sure is. The old plain Jane 788 in .243. I bought it about 18 years ago used as my first rifle and I haven't bought another since. I love it and it gets the job done. My Dad gave me his 710 in . 270, and it sits in the Safe. 

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3 hours ago, turkeyfeathers said:

Interesting. 20A and 78 had 10 or so Trooper vehicles and 6 or so DEC vehicles for roadblock. Checking deer and guns. Popped hatch , 870 breech already open Never saw anything like it before. A good 10-12 cars getting checked as I left


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Seems like a huge waste of resources.

 

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