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Leave her. She has to teach the others that your field is a safe haven. Best buck bait out there. Shoot her in the ass with a paint ball loaded with doe n’heat.

Good luck in the morning. Take your coffee with you, going to be cold.

Last sit of the year today. A couple of does at 15 yards was all. Fun gun season grind this year but the only buck I saw was a spike. I was able to hunt nine different public land tracts and was able to find some big buck sign to target during bow season next year. I think my take away from the public land hunts is we probably would be better served to follow how some states have a simplified method of regulation- your license gets you one buck tag and one doe tag (with no DMP units to add to confusion). Also, the number of land owner tags available needs to be reduced. If a farmer needs more deer shot of their land, they can give permission to hunters looking for a place to hunt.

Crazy location of brow tines! Congrats on a great buck!

Four mile trek this morning in four inches of snow at Bush Hill state land and never cut a track. Frustrated. I am hoping COVID has not affected deer numbers. I am not seeing the typical deer numbers, not hearing shots, and have yet to see a deer on a car. Mild winters should have more critters out there https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.studyfinds.org/coronavirus-animals-high-risk/%3famp

The other two front holes on the sled could be used with extra large zip ties to hold all four quarters through a cut tendon

love it. Very rewarding. Finally have some tracking snow for the next two days. Just put together a deer quarters sled.

Snow in south towns should help with deer take. Movement has been horrible since opener as indicated by the lack of shots.

Your deer came pre-sliced like bread?

They did have off but they would rather work. Opening day is their super bowl.

Sad state of affairs. With DEC funding slashed and no overtime allowed, my buddy (off duty DEC officer) was not allowed to go onto overtime and the local DEC couldn’t come out because it would be considered overtime for him.....one road in and one road out. It would have been easy to stop everyone leaving. Best I could piece together from the barrages, gun A fired three rounds at a deer in normal succession. Deer ran by gun B and they fired three rounds. Gun A was unhappy that someone was encroaching on “his” spot and decided to scare everyone on the hill. 10 shot barrages as fast as you can pull trigger.

If anyone have any information on the clown that shot 100 rounds tonight (with clearly illegal clip capacity) at Sonyea state forest starting at around 2:30 this afternoon please PM me. Thanks.

Wow!

Nothing better than the real thing. Sounds like you don’t need a doe decoy.

I think round 1 of rut has been over for a week. AFTER every sit, put out some doe n heat on some goldenrod heads to keep him think it is still game on when he visits at night. When you hunt put a doe decoy out in the middle of the food plot to tempt him out in daylight.

could have worse....could have been a buck.

I think that piece of paper he is holding is him checking on which Russian mail-order bride was calling.

5 years old and 145 ish

Vince, after opening week the public land blocks become hunter-free. No diagonal gun belts needed.

Opening Day Sh&t show summary. This year I decided to expand my portfolio of state land knowledge. The good.....my nice bow buck. The bad.....opening day of gun. I don’t want to get too specific on the whereabouts of this parcel but I will say it sounds like “Royce Hill” near “Branklinville”. When I did a brief scouting mission on the property I was not overly impressed with the deer sign but there is QDMA land on the southern border so to quote the movie Dumb and Dumber, “so you are saying I have a chance”. The lack of escape cover had me concerned but there is a small block of thick near the parking lot. So I hatched a plan, zig when I usually zag, ie. go short instead of my usual deep trek. Mind you there were zero cars when I went during bow season scouting mission...,.opening day we pull in and there are already 11 cars in the lot. My brother and I shrug our shoulders and say f-it we don’t have many options at this point. My brother goes deep and I go into my climber overlooking the thick. Up on the ridge I can see headlamps from hunters every 200 yards (scary)- looked like an airplane runway! Light comes and I actually have a doe come by. Ha! my master plan is working! It was mostly down hill from there. I could smell guys smoking, talking on the way to their spots, talking on cell phones on their way to spots, road hunters driving up and down the road all day. I had one dude set up fifty yards from the road, break out a rattling bag and proceed to make the worst sounding deer fight in the annals of deer hunting history. After the historic deer rattling sequences resulted in no deer seen, the hunter left the woods after 30 minutes and drove off. I decided my master plan sucked and got down out of the tree, placed my climber in the car and ducked into the thicket for plan B. Rubs, scrapes and deer poop told me I was in a bedroom at least. Still hunting carefully into the thicket I find a spot to sit out the rest of the day. After an hour I spot movement. Head down and birddogging so I figure has to be a buck. I can’t see the head and the deer is moving away out of range. I give the deer a Hail Mary grunt and snort wheeze. The deer locks into my direction and I am able to get the scope on ......her (crap). This is a strange finding a doe by herself I thought. Not sure if she she got separated from the group by hunters walking in or chasing bucks but she clearly was lonely. She walked right over to the strange orange grunting snort wheezing deer to within 15 yards and settled in. She knew I was not a deer but she hung out for a good two hours. I was hoping she would attract a buck but alas no. The capper was at 4:00 witching hour a truck pulls up and a guy comes walking into the thicket still hunting on what are now cornflake leaves. I grab my pack in a huff and say out loud “that’s it”! and walk off like a brat. When I got to my car I found out the car doing burnouts in the parking lot had done so to spray mud all over everyone’s cars. Such is the life if you covet the challenge of hunting state land. Back at it on a new to me block this weekend.

He is dominant

It died from rack envy

The ladies are kicking our collective asses!!!

I am fairly concerned about Mr Itchy. He had a run-in with a Reynolds aluminum foil box and his cuticle got dinged. I swear that company should go into the broadhead making business.