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An 8 pointer, 4 pointer and a button buck are standing by a field browsing on acorns. The 8 pointer says, 'I'm happy with my 10 does, we're really getting along.' The 4 pointer says, 'I'm happy as heck with my 5, they really take care of me!' The Button buck says, 'My two are all right, better than nothing I guess.' Then all of a sudden a GIANT 14 pointer walks out into the field. The three bucks had never seen anything like him before, they were in awe. The big buck made a huge scrape and pissed in it, rubbed a tree the size of a telephone pole and snapped it off at the ground! The three bucks looked on in amazement. The 8 pointer says, 'I could probably get by with 4 does........... Who really needs 10 anyway?' The 4 pointer says, 'You know.............. come to think of it, I only really use one or two of mine!' The button buck was silent, as the other two bucks look over to him in confusion. Suddenly the Button buck runs out into the middle of the field! He rips and tears up some grass........ pisses all over the place, snorts & wheezes, rubs his head raw on a tree, and chews a lickin branch clean off! Then he runs back over to his buddies. His friends immediately ask him, 'What the heck are you doing!?' I'm just makin' sure that big son of a gun knows I'm a buck!' Sent from my XT1585 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Small buck just emerged from the corn... Sent from my XT1585 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Out of work and in a tree in time for an evening sit! Sent from my XT1585 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Pretty slow evening hunt. A couple deer in the field but nothing by the stand. Pulled a card tonight that had zero deer pictures on it. Craziness.

Holy poison ivy Batman! New set tonight. Dry edge of the swamp. Mosquitoes and poison ivy every where. Deer already on their feet. A doe with two fawns making their way out of the hardwoods and a yearling buck in the middle of the field. Sent from my XT1585 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Test test test

Rain has me sidelined this morning! Here's some more deer please no to pass the time... Sent from my XT1585 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

First Blood award!!!

October 1 pm 57 degrees NE wind 5-10 mph Overcast becoming rain at dusk Highlight of the night was putting eyes on two shooters that I have on camera. "Curley" and "Damage" as they have been named we're on their feet at 545 this evening. They made their way around me about 70 yards out until they disappeared into the neighboring woods. 6-8 does around also. Sent from my XT1585 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

After some trail trimming, tree trimming, and pulling a card I'm finally on stand for the pm. Wind doesn't seem consistent and I can see anything with all these damn leaves. Sent from my XT1585 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

I guess I can't complain. I got three years out of this pair of rubber boots but this mornings weather showed me it was time for a new pair. Thank you Amazon prime. Sent from my XT1585 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

October 1 50 degrees NE wind 5-15 mph Cloudy Misty rainy Opening day. A lot of deer on their feet this morning including a buck standing in my parking spot and i bumped two groups of deer on the walk in. Had something moving behind me this morning but never got a look at it with all the leaves on the trees. A bachelor group of five bucks kept me busy for an hour as they ate and sparred. Last deer of the day was a doe cutting through the corn headed to a know bedding spot. Rain started to get heavy just after 9 so I snuck out. Great to be back! Sent from my XT1585 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Single doe cutting through the corn... Sent from my XT1585 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

First deer sighting from the stand.. bachelor group of five bucks. Biggest amongst them is a 2.5 yo 8pt. Sparring, chasing each other. Great to see. Sent from my XT1585 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

I am! It's not bad. Rain quit at daybreak. Light NE wind now. Sent from my XT1585 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Good luck boys! Be safe and shoot straight.

So far so good with my Browning cameras...

WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THESE 10 MASSIVE FARM-RAISED DEER? https://www.wideopenspaces.com/10-uncomfortably-giant-farm-raised-deer/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=buffer&utm_term=mm&utm_campaign=mm

Bucks sparring!!! Sent from my XT1585 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Bachelor partys! Sent from my XT1585 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

I guess there is no cut and dry answer to this. Every landowner that applies for permits may request something different depending on what level of population control is needed. Actual "tags" are handed out on an as needed basis and from what I have seen they would easily issue more permits than deer population. In the situations I have seen.... rifles are allowed, you must shoot deer in crops, antlerless only, dawn to dusk, july-september "season". This is the best thing I could find on the NYSDEC website https://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/104956.html

Well the boat is on the hard. Fishing season is officially over for 2018. For me the fishing season and deer season, without any lull, blend right into each other. It seems to be impossible to fish during deer season or do anything hunting related during the fishing season. I think I need to retire... In less than two days, like a flick of a switch, I will be in full hunting mode! I told my wife that I would see her again around Christmas time. HA! As for the season, I am as ready as I am gonna be. I am itching to pull card from cameras but I refuse to make special trips. If I could drive and retrieve cards that would be different but until crops get harvested I simply cant do that. Sweet corn, and squash are being harvested here locally along with some soy beans. Everything I hunt locally is ag land. Apples, sweet corn, field corn, squash, winter wheat, cabbage, and soybeans are the major crops here in DMU 8A. There isnt any intensive fertilizing done so crop rotation plays a huge role in deer activity. Cabbage is awful and sweet corn isnt all that far behind. Give me field corn and soybeans please or a late season field of squash, and ill bet that is where the action is at. Its tough to beat field corn. Deer get to enjoy the food source well into November sometime and they love the additional cover. From a visual stand point I always seem to want the field harvested but once it is, I wish hadnt been. Some guys might not like the early season but these first couple of weeks can offer a great opportunity at a buck still in that summer pattern. Ill take the first two weeks of October over the last two weeks any time. Although I have not put a tag on one that early yet, the early season will produce for me at some point. Looking back through journals, the first 10-14 days of October have produced some great buck sightings. In 2017 I had 7 big buck sightings in the first 14 days of the season. Whether its a train of bachelor bucks in the am or a pm field sighting, they always seem to show early in the season without much fear.

Im thinking more like Belize...