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Posted: 11/19/2016 4:51:40 AM EDT
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42 degrees here in Jewett. A bit too warm.
Hopefully tomorrow will be better |
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61 degrees here in Livingston county.... I'm in a t shirt lol
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Passed on a small 4 point this morning. All that I have seen so far today.
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I saw a few does . Not much moving hopefully sunday is different.
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I thought I seen Andy running through the woods towards the Tupper Lake area.
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http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/Shaylex/hunting%20photos/IMG_20161119_105329532_HDR_zpsmgagcau6.jpg Dropped a nice, fat doe at about 10:30 this morning. I'll be back out there again tomorrow morning if the wind isn't too crazy. View Quote Nice! What wmu, if you don't mind saying? |
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http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/Shaylex/hunting%20photos/IMG_20161119_105329532_HDR_zpsmgagcau6.jpg Dropped a nice, fat doe at about 10:30 this morning. I'll be back out there again tomorrow morning if the wind isn't too crazy. Nice! What wmu, if you don't mind saying? 8N |
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Another crappy opening day, weather wise
Sat the temp reached the 60s then in the afternoon the wind started blowing 20MPH and the rain started falling hard |
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I woke up at 5am to go enjoy hunting in the first snow. The first thing I can hear Is the howling of the wind. Hunting in the first snow is supposed to be peaceful and beautiful, when the deer don't realize that their camouflage is gone. I can't hunt in this! The snow is knee high and visibility is shit.
Which is why I rolled over until 8am. . Coffee is brewing, I'm off for two weeks. I guess I work on the honeydew list today, and try again tomorrow. |
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I woke up at 5am to go enjoy hunting in the first snow. The first thing I can hear Is the howling of the wind. Hunting in the first snow is supposed to be peaceful and beautiful, when the deer don't realize that their camouflage is gone. I can't hunt in this! The snow is knee high and visibility is shit. Which is why I rolled over until 8am. . Coffee is brewing, I'm off for two weeks. I guess I work on the honeydew list today, and try again tomorrow. View Quote Same thing over here.. did'nt even bother going out this morning, I will however sit the evening, or perhaps see if I can find some fresh tracks and try some stalking.. Last night I got out of my stand at 430 and started to walk the woods, caught some fresh tracks and stumbled upon a pile of doe (15-20)... But, my red dot was covered in snow and ice, rookie mistake... |
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didnt go out this morning...went yesterday for a good chunck of the day...saw nothing. The wind was howling all day though and we were up on a hill.
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I have traded hunting for plowing the driveway. With snow falling and wind drifting everywhere it doesn't take long before the driveway needs to be re-plowed
Saw 4 does and fawns running at top speed near dusk yesterday. I saw them from the warmth of my kitchen No use going out until this blizzard dies and the wind goes below 10 MPW. That would be this coming Wed AM hunt in the snow |
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I saw a mouse on Saturday. I was temped to see if I could harvest him with my pistol. I figure hell, anybody can hit a big fat deer.
Sunday and today I spent about an hour and a half outside, screw that its nasty here. |
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I've been seeing a ton of deer the past few days. Passed on a few little bucks. Snow is asshole deep today and didn't hunt this afternoon. I'm hoping I can get the truck out back for tomorrow morning. Might just have to drive and hunt off the tractor. Shot this "little" fawn eater on Saturday. http://i65.tinypic.com/2806pv.jpg View Quote Time to make a hat! |
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Nothing shootable either day this weekend. Didn't bother yesterday with the winds. Maybe tonight after work or tomorrow morning.
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I went out for the last day of early bow and saw nada. Worked the weekend. Not much going on. Doing work on the garage to get ready for winter yea I'm late on that thanks to some surgery.
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It started snowing here Friday night at 9pm and just stopped now for the first time. (2:30 Tuesday) Normally this wouldn't be a big deal but my truck is broke down so I had to take the car. I've spent the day getting it free. I'm out of kero so I will have no heat if I stay, I've tried "waiting it out" since it started but it looks like it will be all week. I figure I've got one shot getting down off the hill, better that I use it to go home than going to town for fuel.
Usually sit/hunt/waste the first two days basically in the front yard. Then durring the week I venture into state land. But it's a hump and a half when there's NOT a foot or more of snow on the ground. Oh well, I got one day in hhe woods, sort of. This sucks. |
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The NYHTF Christmas get together scheduled on the 3rd of December has been rescheduled to a new location. It's somewhere in 8N. Someone here can make a bunch of venison chili.
Soooooo....what do you want us to bring, Shaylex? I keed! I keed! |
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Shot my first deer today, 7pt, not huge but I figured I should stop waiting and pop my cherry. 6.8 tore the hell out of his lungs, ran 15 yards then fell over
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Congrats fish man!
Still waiting on my first. No action at all today... |
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Hunted a small piece of property that my father in law owns on the south end of Owasco Lake and he pushed a nice sized doe to me at about 8:15 this morning; toughest deer I may have ever harvested. We were hunting the side of a hill and I was sitting over a gully when she came on a B Line directly at me. I put my crosshairs between her shoulders (brisket) at about 40 yards straight on and squeezed off a round. She never flinched, whimpered, slowed down and kept the same line down the gully and up again appearing now 30 yards uphill to my left. She slowed down and I got off another round which dropped her temporarily to the ground but she stood up and was back on her feet a few seconds later when I fired the 3rd and final round which finally put her down. The first shot (which I had assumed that I missed) had hit her directly where I had aimed leaving a 6" hole in her chest. The second entered and exited just behind her shoulder and the third round first found its way through a 4" maple and then again hit behind her left shoulder and cleanly out the other side; a total of (3) rounds of 30-06 180 grain SST and she still made it 60-80 yards on the hoof, pretty impressive http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c177/thedough_007/B04DDB21-32FA-48F5-B297-2D87533AA131_zps08zmtdt0.jpg http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c177/thedough_007/1291410E-9E4C-452E-84B7-8960C3F6DF13_zpsjs0orho8.jpg View Quote That was one tough deer. |
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No luck thus far out here in lima NY... Had a halfway decent 8 point trot in this morning, however it appeared to be his first rack.. This deer was no bigger than a yearling sporting some nice head gear, so I left him to pass his genes.. Had a shot nice buck tonight at....400-500 yards, but I he wouldnt hold still enough for me to get a correct range estimate, that with the failing light the slight wind, I just watched him through my scope until the light faded.. So far this has been the worst season I have seen in years.. Late rut, toppled with a freak snowstorm, and the major drought in the summer had made for a very interesting season..
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No luck thus far out here in lima NY... Had a halfway decent 8 point trot in this morning, however it appeared to be his first rack.. This deer was no bigger than a yearling sporting some nice head gear, so I left him to pass his genes.. Had a shot nice buck tonight at....400-500 yards, but I he wouldnt hold still enough for me to get a correct range estimate, that with the failing light the slight wind, I just watched him through my scope until the light faded.. So far this has been the worst season I have seen in years.. Late rut, toppled with a freak snowstorm, and the major drought in the summer had made for a very interesting season.. View Quote Last year the season was worse ,in my opinion Yes, without a doubt the warm opening morning followed by rain that turned to a foot of snow and 30 MPH winds screwed up opening weekend I am not far from you, in Honeoye Falls so we get very similar weather. The advantage you have is that you can use rifles while we can't |
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Saw nothing this afternoon in wayne county, six this morning including the buck i shot, this afternoon, nada
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Last year the season was worse ,in my opinion Yes, without a doubt the warm opening morning followed by rain that turned to a foot of snow and 30 MPH winds screwed up opening weekend I am not far from you, in Honeoye Falls so we get very similar weather. The advantage you have is that you can use rifles while we can't View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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No luck thus far out here in lima NY... Had a halfway decent 8 point trot in this morning, however it appeared to be his first rack.. This deer was no bigger than a yearling sporting some nice head gear, so I left him to pass his genes.. Had a shot nice buck tonight at....400-500 yards, but I he wouldnt hold still enough for me to get a correct range estimate, that with the failing light the slight wind, I just watched him through my scope until the light faded.. So far this has been the worst season I have seen in years.. Late rut, toppled with a freak snowstorm, and the major drought in the summer had made for a very interesting season.. Last year the season was worse ,in my opinion Yes, without a doubt the warm opening morning followed by rain that turned to a foot of snow and 30 MPH winds screwed up opening weekend I am not far from you, in Honeoye Falls so we get very similar weather. The advantage you have is that you can use rifles while we can't There is a very good chance ( unless your in the village) that my father is your mailman... lol.. And, while we can use rifles around here, if you saw the land I hunt, I have no shots over 100 yards anyway so it's not much of an advantage... |
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There is a very good chance ( unless your in the village) that my father is your mailman... lol.. And, while we can use rifles around here, if you saw the land I hunt, I have no shots over 100 yards anyway so it's not much of an advantage... View Quote No, not in the village Ironically I am at the end of monroe county so maybe 500 feet and I could use a rifle |
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6.8. Flipped over, dead 7pt. <a href="http://s1152.photobucket.com/user/ducatiman1098s/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-11/5D050610-CD1A-4FA0-9C6F-54D0E2186798_zpsusljcaez.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i1152.photobucket.com/albums/p500/ducatiman1098s/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-11/5D050610-CD1A-4FA0-9C6F-54D0E2186798_zpsusljcaez.jpg</a> View Quote 6.8 club for life |
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Shot my first deer today, 7pt, not huge but I figured I should stop waiting and pop my cherry. 6.8 tore the hell out of his lungs, ran 15 yards then fell over Congrats Buck hunter! thanks man. Hopefully I'll be out this afternoon to snag a doe or two. There is a big buck hanging around where we hunt and I told my dad if he walks in front of me I'm filling hid buck tag for him |
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Last year the season was worse ,in my opinion View Quote Judging by other people shooting, it was a much better opening day. There wasn't tons of shooting like years gone past, but there was some. Last year was the quietest I've heard in 30+ years by two or three times. Warm opening day ruined it for me. I was just wasting the day in a bad spot. I did something I'd never done before, set up a blind with a comfortable chair inside. That combined with the warm weather mean I spent as much time asleep as I did awake! I did spend more hours in the woods than any opening day ever, but I don't know if it counts if your eyes are closed. |
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Spent 5 days in the woods at my Uncle's place in Otsego Co. and saw NO deer at all. Had plenty of tracks in the snow and deer on the game cameras but they went nocturnal after opening day. Before gun season my Uncle was seeing tons of deer and some nice bucks, very strange.
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Spent 5 days in the woods at my Uncle's place in Otsego Co. and saw NO deer at all. Had plenty of tracks in the snow and deer on the game cameras but they went nocturnal after opening day. Before gun season my Uncle was seeing tons of deer and some nice bucks, very strange. View Quote Same in my area.... bow season was hot, deer everywhere... Soon as the guns start going off bam, the deer go underground... Been 10 days since Ive seen a deer worth shooting.. Deer spend there entire lives surviving in the wild, when something gets fucky they key in rather quickly and adapt... This is why old timers started doing deer drives.. At this point in time, you're very unlikely to see a deer during daylight hours unless you move them or something else does.. |
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Was out in Wayne County Friday morning and afternoon. 6:45am a coyote came out of the fog, running right at me for about 100 yards. Definitely thought I was breakfast. When it realized I wasn't breakfast, it darted at an angle about 30 yards from me, and ran right past me about 10 yards to my left through an opening in the trees leading to the next corn field. Could have shot, but would have screwed up the deer hunt for the rest of the morning. My dad scared up a pheasant at about 6:30am, which was fun to see fly above our heads. Also couldn't shoot, because my dad's 16 gauge deer slug may not have been the best load for the task. It was a very foggy day all day, but it was pretty cool to be out in it. Here is the view with my new Bison Armory 6.8 upper, Larue mount and Vortex 3-9. <a href="http://s877.photobucket.com/user/davepont3/media/20161125_075640_zps8azuqcda.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i877.photobucket.com/albums/ab336/davepont3/20161125_075640_zps8azuqcda.jpg</a> <a href="http://s877.photobucket.com/user/davepont3/media/20161125_075622_zpshigb1mvu.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i877.photobucket.com/albums/ab336/davepont3/20161125_075622_zpshigb1mvu.jpg</a> End of the day, just after sunset, I saw a doe 180 yards away while walking back to the car. Right over the property line, through the thin tree line, looking right at me. It got spooked a little, but not by me, so I knew a buck was folliwing it close. Sure enough a nice buck came down the hill slowly. It was still on the other property, and through trees, so I wasn't exactly able to shoot. Probably would have if it crossed over. It ended up going behind a small clump of trees. I waited 5 minutes, and kept my crosshairs trained...but it never came out behind the clump of trees...I think it knew I was there. Anyway, saw some fun stuff...but didn't pull the trigger. Headed to a huge 1000 acre state forest next weekend called Shawangunk Ridge State Forest, see if I can get a nice forest buck from the ridge line. <a href="http://s877.photobucket.com/user/davepont3/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-09-25%2011.01.20_zpspbyfjpei.png.html" target="_blank">http://i877.photobucket.com/albums/ab336/davepont3/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-09-25%2011.01.20_zpspbyfjpei.png</a>" target="_blank">http://i877.photobucket.com/albums/ab336/davepont3/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-09-25%2011.00.41_zpsa8vaghz9.png <a href="http://s877.photobucket.com/user/davepont3/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-09-25%2011.01.20_zpspbyfjpei.png.html" target="_blank">http://i877.photobucket.com/albums/ab336/davepont3/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-09-25%2011.01.20_zpspbyfjpei.png</a></a> View Quote My 6.8 absolutely liquified the lungs of the buck I shot. No exit wound, nice neat hole, no blood on the ground anywhere. He jumped up after being shot, then stumbled 15 yards and fell over in the corn 90 yard shot |
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