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Today was very quiet on cameras vs the past few days

23.5 degree shot angle (according to my math- 120" rise vs 276" run) 1/3 of the way down on the body Ends up in spine... Still puzzles me

Pa buck down! 2.5 year old 8pt. Since my kid and I were tagged out here in NY we headed to Pennsylvania to hunt with a small outfitter in Millville, Pa. I didn't have any major expectations but my hopes were for a possibility of a 3.5 or older buck. I didn't see anything more than a handful of young bucks but my kid saw at least one shooter everyday. 2.5 year old 8pt on Thursday, a tall thick racked 8pt on Friday, a solid 8pt on Saturday, and a hammer 10 on Saturday. The biggest deer he said he's ever seen in the woods. Each of the first 3 days he saw some chasing. He just never had a shot at them. The hammer he saw on Sunday chased a doe past him at 25 yards! We hunted all Thursday Friday and Saturday. I never saw anything worth shooting in those first 3 days. Sunday we planned on just hunting until 10 and then heading home. My kid hunted the same place he had been hunting the past 2 days but with a slight adjustment to his set to the drainage ditch the deer had been using. I hunted about 200 hundred yards in between him and where we thought the deer were coming from. I was just on the ground tucked into a downed tree on the hillside just above the logging road. At 730 this 8pt made his way along the Ridgeline adjacent to the logging road. 23 yards and he didn't go 6 feet. Something odd about the shot. It was 23 yards and I would say I was at least 10 ft higher in elevation than the deer. I would say the arrow entered about 1/3 down on the chest but somehow the arrow ended embedded in his spine. So one lung and spine on that angle? Strange... I gave the meat to the outfitter who was happy about filling his freezer with burger and jerky. A win win for everyone. Great ground down there. We will be back Im sure.

Good morning from Pa. Day 3 Action has been slow for me however my kid has had action all 3 days so far.

Cold morning here in Pa. One spike so far...

No doubt the most mature buck midday activity all year has been today. Cameras were very quiet right after sunrise but have been on fire since about 930.

Well I'm back in the action. First ever sit in the state of Pennsylvania! No action yet for me. My kid however had a little action with two young bucks brawling.

LFG!

Cameras have been on fire all week, lots of doe bumping, and scrapes are getting crushed. Great time to be in the woods. With that being said... I am heading to PA today to get in the action. Ill be back in the woods Thursday- Sunday. Hoping I have some good action to give a play by play.

Wow So what happened with him? What was his excuse?

Cameras have been on fire overnight... 16 different bucks so far (from what I can count)

Well camera sightings have changed significantly this week. Bucks of all sizes are all over cruising but does have not been showing themselves. I would say doe sightings on cameras are down 75%. Lots of pictures of does being bumped by smaller bucks. Patterns seem non existent. Shooters walking between 930-230. Chaos has started. I think its crazy that even with the current weather pattern the action out there has still been good-great. Sat pm- Monday am look great weather wise here in 8A. and Sunday AM looks to be textbook perfect.

I hunted the northern zone for 15 plus years and the change in scenery was always nice. I always went up there for Early muzzy season and then the gun season. Too much time and effort here to spend any time up there anymore. Id much rather hunt my herd and I have my eye on 3 bucks that Id like to wrap a tag around on my home territory.

Well I have to admit Im getting stir crazy sitting on the sidelines. I decided to look around PA and find some where to hunt during the rut. After exhausting a bunch of possibilities I found a small outfitter in the middle of the state. My plan is to head there November 6-9 and hunt the rut. I dont know much about the outfitter so it is definitely kind of a risk. We have had a couple of phone conversations and it seems like it should work out. It will be nice to get back in the game!

I have not been hunting so my observations are purely what my cams tell me. Cams have been on fire. Full of bucks of all sizes. Most of my pics at this point are of horns. Im seeing lots of premature chasing by young bucks annoying doe groups. I have 4 cameras on mock scrapes and they are crushing them. (lots of visits from does and fans also). I have also witnessed on cam 2 new scrapes made in front of cams in the past 2 days. One of them has had 5 bucks visit it including one that performed the classic rub urination in it. That methodical and very predictable summer pattern that was here for the first 2 weeks of the season is history. The mature daywalkers that I had patterned seem to be moving much closer to last light and first light. I have one cam that is literally in the middle of bedding and that one still produces daywalkers on a regular basis. One of my shooters was on cam yesterday at 340 pm. I will say now if I put a deer to bed it seems highly unlikely Ill catch him on the same cam in the afternoon. The crops around me have all been harvested so its not as easy to eat as it was 3 weeks ago. Late September and early October I had such a great acorn drop that these deer were too easy to pattern. You just needed to find their travel route. I assumed that is where the buck I shot early this month was headed and the buck my son shot was literally shot as he arrived to our oak ridge. (his belly was full of acorns). Its that time of year and all hell is about to break loose. Good luck boys!

Saw this video today and I thought I would share. This is easily the best bow tuning video I have ever seen. It is long but damn it is good!

and by far the most buck activity I have seen this year

Probably the most active my cameras have been overnight this entire year so far... Curious to see how far past daylight the activity goes.

Lots of deer on their feet overnight....

Im curious to see how cameras are during this front vs those "better mornings"

Some awful weather has moved into NY this weekend and looks to be here all week. A couple of notable time periods that stick out to me are ... Tues morning Kind of a calm in the middle of the storm. 2+ days of warm temps, wind, and rain. about 12 hours of great conditions. temp= 44 wind= south 8mph sky cover= clear pressure= 29.92 Friday Afternoon Looks like that rain will finally let up on Friday. However it depends on the wind... right now the forecast says 16 mph Saturday Morning After the storm temp= 42 wind= south west 6mph sky cover= partly cloudy pressure= rising to 30.32 (by 9am)