Outdoor Lover

Took measurement this AM @ work - Lake level is 249' 4" & climbing.........

So is Spring......& it gets later every year.

As of 7:00 AM, the Lake Ontario deep water temp. is 35 degrees........

1 hour ago, Guppy35 said:

Beautiful Bucks!! What was the actual spread on the one on the left in the bottom picture??

If you use binoculars to scan your area as you walk, it helps. Believe it or not, antlers show up better on a cloudy day than a sunny one!!

You will hear them before you see them, lol.....

There has been a small flock hanging around Round Pond in Greece for the past couple weeks........

17 hours ago, NymphO said:

17 hours ago, whaler1 said:

I swear these guys know when I’m not home.
Wife’s cell phone pic from the kitchen. WTF


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U need to get wifey on the gun !!

OR.....Set a trap

Weather doesn't look so hot for this weekend......

Saw a flock of about 25 birds cruisin over the complex around 12:30pm yesterday, heading west over round pond.......

17 minutes ago, NymphO said:

1 hour ago, GAMBLER said:

Coyotes running across Braddock Bay when we were ice fishing Monday!


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Send it !

You Guys Are crazy! The ice just started to form on Monday!!

13 minutes ago, LazyRiver585 said:

If I just want to tag along with some buddies on a predator hunt, do I need a license? as in; I have zero intention of pulling a trigger, or even carrying a gun, and just want to sit out and watch the process; does my participation require me to have a license?

If you are not actually doing the shooting, you don't need a license. 

1 hour ago, chowder said:

 

Check out YouTube. There's plenty of vids on there that should start you in the right direction.

Anybody who's looking for a partner to hunt dogs - I'm available. Have a Foxpro electronic caller & am getting pretty good @ using it..........

5 fast shots?? Dude was shooting @ tails.......

3 hours ago, fmrdd0331 said:

I have always been locked in every year on this thread.  Looking at everyone else shooting nice deer I was a little envious of everyone that had succeeded with filling that tag.  Three years of tag soup.  I've been celebrating the last few days but I lucked out on monday.  Its weird because I shot a buck on this day 15 years ago, the day I went on terminal leave from the Marines.  My wife always thinks we are all nuts for going out into the brutal extremes of weather for the chase of whitetail.  I explain to her that its worse than a disease.  But when I was overseas it was thinking about the fall and whitetail deer that got me through.  Filling a tag once every four years is worth it for that one moment.  Our kids will understand.  Now I wait a few years to take our kids out.  Threads like this help.  Thanks to everyone for contributing.  

Nice buck & thanks for serving!!

1 hour ago, Legacy said:

Thoughts?

 

"Encouraging hunters to voluntarily pass up shots at young bucks best balances hunter interests across the state and is now our management direction"

 

 

 

http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/27663.html?fbclid=IwAR0N7-QUFADhtYnkQlmiL6MiamJ60UTccgBpz3dCmKhMritjghaP88BdQtc

Passed on a small 6 pointer opening morning just to have another hunter shoot it 30 minutes later, abut 100 yds. away. This management plan only works when you own the land.......

1 hour ago, SharkHunter said:

Congrats on a beautiful buck, what brand n cal is ur rifle, nice looking combo.

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2 hours ago, thumbburn said:

...... got this guy yesterday morning...... couldn’t get an arrow in him..... it was cat and mouse for 2 weeks..... congrats to the people that filled tags


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He looks like he's still alive!  Lol.

Still waiting on the name of the processor/location so I can avoid.........

This has been one of the wettest bow seasons in recent memory. The ONLY good thing about it is it helps keep your scent down. Good luck Saturday! 

9 hours ago, longspurs said:

Sorry lots of work ! Well, I got in to the stand at 345. On the way in I bumped 2 does . At 445 1 of the does came back in . It was a fawn doe. She hung out for awhile then I look behind me and see a basket 8 . He goes in the swamp for 10 min then ends up coming by my stand at 20 yards chasing her. Then I hear more noise where the 8pt came from and all I saw was rack in the thicket. Now the doe is 10 yards away and the 8pt 25. They are both froze and watch the big 8 come in . I know this Buck is bigger than the basket so decide to take him . He stops 20 yards broad side . Perfect lung shot he went 40 yards and fell over as I thought. That basket rack went looking for that deer 4 times before walking off. I have had tons of chasing and grunting action the past 4 days . Good luck to all and those who punched already. He is a 11 pt with the junk points but a good Buck! Got some funky growth at the base kinda cool. Time to duck hunt !!!

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I don't think I've ever seen a brow tine that thick! Congrats. 

That's a SICK rack. I feel for ya man!

1 hour ago, Tboo said:

That picture is also going to be my future. My search Sunday three hours trudging through 2 feet of water in a swamp turned up empty. To make matters worse I pulled the camera 80 yards from the direction he came and got to see exactly which buck he was six minutes before the shot. Unfortunately I’m going to have to go through the rest of the season knowing he was the biggest buck I ever had a chance at. I can only hope he somehow shows back up on camera


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Didn't make use of the search dogs then??

Nice Buck! Congrats!!

15 hours ago, pap said:

You guys have a closed season on coyotes?? If so that sucks, my brother in law and I scored a all black and regular colored dog a week or so ago. We can hunt them 24/7-365 here in pa.

It ain't easy being a New Yorker. Four more years!!!