2016 HuntingNY Archery Harvest thread

[Hock3y24]

i guess ill start this off. big old doe ive watched for 3 years with fawns. I think she was nearing the end of her natural life and had no fawn this year. (sorry for the crappy picture)

 

[zoschag08]

Not a NY buck but filled my tag in the PA early season, WMU 5C. 

[Gencountyzeek]

Shot at 540, waited an hour I knew the shot was high. She went about 75 yards. Arrow passed through top of the shoulder and went through the ribs opposite side but never through the skin. I will say I'm happy with the NAP killzones, there is a 2" gash through the shoulder clipped high on one lung and made a massive wound on the second. Wish it would have exited the deer opposite side, but she died fast.

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[Bigbuckkilla90]

Shot her at 2 on opening day and hit her back due to my arrow hitting the blind window and I let her lay for a couple hours and recovered her around 6. 

[WNYBuckHunter]

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[bisceglia]

after eating tag soup last year i wasnt passing up the opportunity to put some meat in the freezer and take a little pressure off.  hoyt nitrum shooting goldtip tipped with a wasp drone 100g head she didnt stand a chance and went 10 yards and piled up instantly.  now to focus on the bucks.  

[Ocdeerhunter]

Nice little six I took out Sunday morning 

[chrisw]

Shot was 8yds, she went 40. Spitfire Maxx left a 5" hole out her armpit. Cut the heart in half.

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[Arcade Hunter]

Hit this guy at 6:00 PM Tuesday evening at 20 Yds after grunting him out of a bedding area.  I thought I may have hit him a bit too far back, so I went home and returned the following morning to track.  He went about 80 yards.  This is my very first archery deer !  Town of Delevan, Catt county.  Have a pic of him on the trail cam also.

 

 

 

 

[BowmanMike]

I am excited to report my harvest of a doe. So excited that I didn't take a picture until I was skinning her. You will have to excuse that,it was getting dark when I found her and then I had to rush to pick up my wife.

[FX62]

7:30 this morning this guy comes in behind me and passes 15ft from base of ladder stand while I've just hung up my bow to check weather on phone. Crap!  Quickly get phone in pocket grab bow which makes a slight click. He stops behind a tree nicely while release gets attached to bowstring and I come to full draw and analyze where I will have a opening. 3 steps and "thwack" as the rage tipped arrow finds its mark.  He goes maybe 50yds all in line of sight and piles up!  Only the 2nd time I've ever experienced that. Normally they go to the thickest, nastiest cover. 168lbs on scale and loaded with fat. Backstraps on the grill tonight! Good luck out there. Be safe.

Shawn

[moog5050]

Someone shot a big ole buck.  Heavy!   Congrats Phade!

 

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[grampy]

Not mine, but my best friend and partner from the farm property. We let him go overnight not sure of the hit. Only went 75 yards, but we let the young dog gain more experience. 

[kpkot]

0915 5 yd shot. Pressure is off now to hunt some horns.

[moog5050]

Better pick of Phades:

 

[phade]

Gonna be a long bow season lol. Pretty happy with the shot and buck.


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[rotorooter23]

After not picking the bow up off the hanger in 4 years. I figured last night would be a good night to break the drought. decent 2-year old 8 almost a 9 i took at 15 yards. Hit him back a touch as he started walking as I shot. The Rage Hypodermic did its job. Happy Camper. Next stop is Ohio.

[Kayakwilly]

WENT OUT YESTURDAY IN THE RAIN  got a little wet not to bad  doe comes in at 15 yrds did a full body pass muzzy 3 blade shot was just off base of neck took out lungs and everything in the middle came out just before her nipps .....good mature doe  she went 20ft

[Zag]

My brother tested me around 9:20 just shot big buck. He waited 30min grabbed the arrow and backed out. He said it looked a little low, it was a 28yrd shot. We met up at my dad's and waited 2hrs and headed in to start the track. We followed the trail and finally found blood, not much though, we maybe went 15yards and we jumped him so we backed right out. Lucky for us our neighbor is an expert tracker and volunteers for deer search. We gave him a call and he was headed back from two calls, both times he recovered. About 3:30 we hit the trail with his dog. My wife dropped off my 8yr old son to tag along. Dog follows trail right off the bat, found his initial bed not much blood. About 150yrds later we jumped him and he takes off fast. Now the bloods pumping and he's leaving a decent trail not that the dogs needed much. We decide to press a little further, another 100 yards or so later u can see where he would stop so we kept going. Shortly after the dog does an quick right towards a ravine. My son and I stay back. I'm thinking the buck might have dropped into the gully, then my son says dad the deers right here and points to my left and it 5yrds away just laying there with his head up unable to move so we put a quick finish on him. Looks like he clipped one lung and maybe the liver. I have no cam pics of him. He did walk my camera seconds before my bro shot him. It's the best one off our land and out of a stand location I picked! He maxed out the 200lb scale, dressed out 175.

[Rebel Darling]

On opening weekend, she almost busted me from behind my stand.

This past weekend she snuck behind me again.

On Monday, I moved the stand to a different tree and cut down a few branches between two hemlocks.

This morning, with the stand re-positioned and about 5' higher, I saw her coming, and used the hemlock in front of me to grab the bow, stand, turn, and draw.

She quartered to me at 15 yards, and kept scenting and head-bobbing.  She was cautious, but not on high alert.  I had a small window before I lost her behind a second hemlock, so I aimed and took the quarter-to shot.

She jumped about five feet and stood for a second, and I thought I saw dark blood pouring out of a middle-bodied entry wound.  She looked around, but never looked up, so I hadn't been busted.  She then ran off, and I thought I heard her tumble, but maybe bed down, close by.  I decided to wait an hour before I climbed out of the stand and made any noise.

After about 40 mins or so of scanning around, I saw the arrow sticking up out of the ground, and there was blood on the fletching, brighter than what I thought I had seen immediately after the shot.  I climbed down, inspected the arrow, took a quick look in the direction she ran, and saw her dead about 50 yards away.  I got her lungs, and her liver, and a whole lot of dinner for us.

[518BowSlayer]

120lb doe at 8 yards, only my second time hunting with a climber. love getting some meat in the freezer early in the season. gotta give some credit to the flock of geese in the field, she seemed kinda spooked by them and ran right to me

[aboss014]

Shot on 10/4 @ 27 yds. First nice buck with a bow. Got the ol' buck fever going in me. I gut shot him on the first shot, thankfully he gave me a second chance. Nice heart shot with the Mathews Z7, rage hypo broadheads put him down 10 feet from where I hit him. Heading to Wyoming in a few weeks... This season is looking much better than last year.


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[Gencountyzeek]

Sitting on the edge of my property where it begins to open up into nice mature hardwoods, with thick bedding behind me and a swamp to my right. Was checking the live from the woods out at like 6 thinking I'm the only person looking at his phone at this perfect hunting time. So I put the phone away and a minute later I heard a branch crack back in the thick stuff. U could here each step and finally I could see a deer emerge about 75 yards away. Through all the branches I could see it was a buck so I got ready. He was walking right at me and started to turn down a path that would give me a 25 yard shot. Then he fed back in my direction coming straight at my tree. I sized up his rack and decided if I got a shot I would take it. Well he was walking straight at me and turned when he was 5 yards away and just stopped  and was checking the wind. I figured it was now or never, I put the  top pin on the top half of his shoulder. I've never shot at a deer this close, I was also 25ft up my tree. I shot and watched my arrow with nocturnal glowing run away. I watched the nocturnal as he went crashing through this thick brush and at about 50 yards away. I then saw the glowing nock on the ground and figured that's where my arrow fell out. Went back to the house got the 4 wheeler and kids and came back to track an hour later. No blood from where I shot him so we all went in the direction he ran. Then I could see the glow from the nock and yelled I found the arrow, I shined my light on it and yelled it's still attached to the deer! Dead at 50 yards. Arrow penetrated the should through a lung and into the top of the heart. Heads goin to a buddy's house to get the skull bleached.

[WNY Bowhunter]

Dressed 172...