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Big buck down!

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Ok boys take a deep breath with me cause I am still shaking.  Mainframe 8 with quadruple brow tines on one side and a row of junk on the other.  Redneck hang a ring on it 16 points, but I am thin

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no one told the deer it was to warm.... He came in chasing 5 doe which are walking past me on the ground at 40 yards tight now !

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Begrudgingly back to civilization for a few days, might have to travel to another state after this weekends snow to find tracking conditions. Had a great 5 days was on 3 good bucks tracks but couldn’t get it done, after Tuesday the snow got very crunchy and made tracking a lot harder. My miss Tuesday just keeps playing over and over in my head, 40yds full run through a 3ft hole is a shot I’ve made many times before, but I flat out missed! Oh well a few days I’ll be back at it, might have to head to Maine or New Hampshire to find tracking snow but I’ll be somewhere.

Total on the gps was 71 miles but over 25 of that was on the roads heading back to truck so I don’t really punt it. Let 5 bucks go saw 2 shooters and a bear. Now I’m back home and sitting in a damn tree stand.


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40yrds, full run, 3' hole... With a bow !?!! Many times before !!?! You should join the circus and trick shoot !!!

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I hope I don't regret this later.. seems like a slow morning out there though and we need something to fill the thread for the day.. so i'm curious what y'all would guess at this guys age? I got him on camera waking past one of my stands a few days ago. He looks like a real slob based on the body, but the head gear isn't what I'd expect on a deer that size. Thoughts? Maybe an old buck on the decline? Sick?
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I can't say my name is the field ager, but I'd say he looks 2.5 with that flat back and belly.

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I have never been a fan of underarmour, anytime I ever wore it , I felt cold and clammy .


Cold gear 2.0 and 4.0 base layers work amazing for me and I hate the cold. Been in -20 temps sunrise and sunset with it and was fine


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Cold gear 2.0 and 4.0 base layers work amazing for me and I hate the cold. Been in -20 temps sunrise and sunset with it and was fine


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I agree. Best stuff I ever bought for cold weather. 

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I use Duo fold for under/base layer and works well to keep warm.Going back to state land for the morning found a lot of rubs scrapes that wasn't opened last weekend.I think this snow may turn a curve on the activity of the past few days.

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2 hours ago, Buckmaster7600 said:

 My miss Tuesday just keeps playing over and over in my head, 40yds full run through a 3ft hole is a shot I’ve made many times before, but I flat out missed! 

 

 

Following that many miles after the shot in the snow, with no blood evident, is pretty good proof that it was a miss.   Did you use your scoped .35 Remington pump-action ?     What magnification was the scope ?   Do you think that a semi-auto would have been better in that encounter ?   Were you exhausted when you fired the shot ?  What were the weather conditions at the time, and what was the shot angle ?  What do you think you could have done different to make that shot connect ?

 I have only killed two bucks in the Adirondacks.   My first miss up there has been playing in my head since 2014, even though I killed him with a followup shot, from about 300 yards with my 3-9X scoped bolt-action 30/06.  I can not remember where the magnification was when I missed.     At this point, I am about 90 % certain it was a branch strike that did that first shot in, but unless I locate that busted branch, I will continue to wonder.    "Clean-misses" bother me almost as much as unrecovered "hits" because absolutely no skill is required to make them.   I know I missed him twice (the second one does not bother me as much since it was rushed offhand).  The autopsy showed that buck was only hit by one bullet.    

I snow-tracked in on a couple antlerless deer up there a few weeks ago, but of course they were "off-limits" for my rifle.  Naturally, there were no deer at all around (and no snow) when I was up earlier with my ML and could have legally taken one.   It sounds like soft, silent snow and a steady wind provide the best tracking conditions.  If I see those over Thanksgiving, I will probably give it a try again.   If not, I will try to find good spots to set up my tree-hammock chair and try to ambush one, just as I did the other (2).  Good luck on your out of state hunts, and you still got the tag and plenty of time to get it done in NY.   If you want to try something different, I can think of a good book that you could read a page or two from on the morning of the hunt.              

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I have never been a fan of underarmour, anytime I ever wore it , I felt cold and clammy .

I find that once I get it sweaty/smelly I can never get it scent free. I think I do...but then as soon as it heats up on my body, it smells again. Also, I noticed a difference between the UA that was too small vs properly fit. The ones I “grew out of” always made me feel cold at some point.


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I find that once I get it sweaty/smelly I can never get it scent free. I think I do...but then as soon as it heats up on my body, it smells again. Also, I noticed a difference between the UA that was too small vs properly fit. The ones I “grew out of” always made me feel cold at some point.


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Following that many miles after the shot in the snow, with no blood evident, is pretty good proof that it was a miss.   Did you use your scoped .35 Remington pump-action ?     What magnification was the scope ?   Do you think that a semi-auto would have been better in that encounter ?   Were you exhausted when you fired the shot ?  What were the weather conditions at the time, and what was the shot angle ?  What do you think you could have done different to make that shot connect ?
 I have only killed two bucks in the Adirondacks.   My first miss up there has been playing in my head since 2014, even though I killed him with a followup shot, from about 300 yards with my 3-9X scoped bolt-action 30/06.  I can not remember where the magnification was when I missed.     At this point, I am about 90 % certain it was a branch strike that did that first shot in, but unless I locate that busted branch, I will continue to wonder.    "Clean-misses" bother me almost as much as unrecovered "hits" because absolutely no skill is required to make them.   I know I missed him twice (the second one does not bother me as much since it was rushed offhand).  The autopsy showed that buck was only hit by one bullet.    
I snow-tracked in on a couple antlerless deer up there a few weeks ago, but of course they were "off-limits" for my rifle.  Naturally, there were no deer at all around (and no snow) when I was up earlier with my ML and could have legally taken one.   It sounds like soft, silent snow and a steady wind provide the best tracking conditions.  If I see those over Thanksgiving, I will probably give it a try again.   If not, I will try to find good spots to set up my tree-hammock chair and try to ambush one, just as I did the other (2).  Good luck on your out of state hunts, and you still got the tag and plenty of time to get it done in NY.   If you want to try something different, I can think of a good book that you could read a page or two from on the morning of the hunt.              

Peep sight 35rem, semi wouldn’t have helped that was the only hole I had, was only 300yds from the truck wasn’t tired at all. Only thing I could have done better was not be surprised so much but I had no indication the buck was going to bed down.


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Back out this afternoon. Changed things up a little bit kind of scouting a spot for gun. Saw a small doe at 4:40 and as I started to get down saw a big doe 40 yards away in the thick stuff. As soon as she blew two more took off with her but couldn't tell what they were. Saw a flock of turkeys in the cut corn on the way in. About 3:00 it started to rain and then changed to snow,  then ice, back to snow, and finished up mostly rain by dark. All I accomplished today was to get myself and the Mathews wet. :angry: It didn't take long to ice up once it started>

 

 

 

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