Biz 2021 Journal

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12/9: Dad hunted the PM in 3N and no deer seen.

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This guy just showed up again. My dad has seen 2 bucks the entire season so far and killed one. This 8pt is back. I’ll try for him Monday first time ever carrying a ML


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And my 6pt came back aged at 3.5. Guess the DEC biologists were right. We thought 2.5 for sure. Just never know. Clearly a weak racked 3.5 and not an average 2.5.


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12/10: Dad hunted 3N dark to dark no deer seen. He’s not Hunting this weekend nor am I. But I may borrow his ML for Monday. Never held one before so May get a quick tutorial Sunday. If not, I’ll just bow hunt Monday. I took a vaca day to hunt


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12/13: Dad couldn’t hunt today so I borrowed his ML. I never shot one before but he gave me a tutorial yesterday.

Anyway, I went his land in 3N in hopes of catching up to they 8pt who recently has been showing up now that I have a valid buck tag again.

Great season of action continues. Kicked up a deer on my way in. Passed up this a 5pt around 820am at 40yds (took video and attached screenshot). Thought about taking him but he looked clearly 1.5 years old. Then still hunted late morning and saw 7 does/fawns yarded up together. Lots of fresh scrapes and rubs.

And I was 6 hours behind our new target buck (8pt). Every since we killed the 7pt and 6pt, this guy moved in and has been on 4 different cams. He’s going wild.

I moved to the powerlines for afternoon and saw nothing. Hopefully my Dad gets him this week.













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Dad hunted the PM today in 3G (Dutchess County) and saw 1 doe and 1 fawn feeding. Only cam pic of a buck was this small 6pt. 

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12/15: Dad hunted dark to dark in 3N. No deer seen but the target 8pt was on 2 cams. 12/13 at night after I hunted and today. He’s been on 4 cams but no daylight yet. Dad isn’t hunting tomorrow but will try again Friday I think.





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3N: The 7 does/fawns I saw the other day are together tonight in the acorn flat for 35 min. And a yote overnight. Dad will be back for the 8pt tomorrow





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12/17: Dad hunted 3N dark to dark and saw 1 doe midday around 1230pm. I don't think he's hunting tomorrow. I may bow hunt 3S sunday mornign (weather permitting).

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12/19: bow hunted 3S and no deer seen this morning till 930am. Im done here for the season, so pulled my folding chair and camera out. The wide 8pt, bobcat and broken small buck were on cam






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12/21: borrowed dad’s ML and hunted 3N in the morning. Didn’t see anything. The target 8pt was on cam last 2 mornings but still well before daylight. Also the buck I passed up 12/13 was on cam and a tom Turkey.

For the PM I met up [mention=327]crappyice[/mention] on stateland in 3S for a bow hunt. I walked to the top of the mountain and pushed down the side towards Chris but didn’t kick anything up. The last 2 hours we sat about 250yds apart and I saw a beauty buck (huge 6 or great 8pt) 60-80yds away and Chris saw a doe.

Not sure if I’ll hunt again this year but regardless it’s been my best season ever for buck sightings and I killed a 6pt that was 3.5 years old so tough to complain. My dad killed a 4.5 year old 7pt that was our top target buck. But otherwise wise it’s been a Slow year of sightings for him. I think he may hunt the new Xmas week.






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12/28: Dad hunted 3N dark to dark, but no deer seen.

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12/29: Dad hunted the PM only in 3N and no deer seen.

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12/30: dad hunted dark to dark in 3N and no deer seen. That's a wrap on the season for him. Overall it was a great year. He didn't see much but killed our top target buck, which turned out to be 4.5 years old. For me, I had several awesome encounters with the bow. Maybe regret not trying to make a shot, but still shot a fox with the bow and a 3.5 year old 6pt with the shotgun. Onto 2022!