It never ends

[Trigger518]

Missing the Adirondacks already, ready for ice fishing and turkeys in the spring but nothing beats chasing brutes around the mountains. I actually miss the misery of 3 mile/ 6 hour drags come on 2017.

[wolc123]

I hear you on that.   After getting a good taste of hunting up there, doing it down on the flat-lands of North-Western NY looses most of it's luster.  Even the racks are cooler looking up there.   The one I killed on Thanksgiving weekend had reddish colored antlers.  The breathtaking scenery and almost total lack of hunting pressure adds more to the experience than can be described with words. 

This was an exceptionally good year for scenery up there, with near-peak fall foliage at the start of ML season and snow-covered mountains at the end of Rifle season.   Killing deer in both those scenerios this year was especially awesome.  What made it even better was the ease of the drags.  The doe during ML ran right back towards my in-laws lake-house after I shot her in zone 6C, a short distance out back.   My rifle buck dropped dead just off an ATV trail (on the NE edge of the Adirondack park) that my father in law uses regularly.   After a call on the cell-phone, he and my nephew were there with the meat wagon in about 20 minutes.  

I know what those long drags are like and I don't miss them all that much.   The last one, that nearly killed me a couple years ago, was a heavier buck that died deeper in park.  I had to drag it a couple miles, thru a thick swamp, to get to an ATV trail on the edge. 

I am looking forward to getting up there in February for a little ice-fishing.  I will probably bring the 16 gauge side-by-side and try for some grouse if the snow is not too deep.  I flushed a lot of them while deer hunting this fall.  I like the taste of them a lot better than turkey.               

Edited December 25, 2016 by wolc123