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Post by hornet22savage on Dec 12, 2012 8:23:09 GMT -5
I don't know how everybody else has done this year in NY but I struck out and never even pulled the tirgger not once. I saw one live deer and 450 yds. opening day and a dear one last thursday. In my area 8J and 8H their are permits galore and I have not idea why. I'm not seeing the deer.
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Post by slugger on Dec 12, 2012 8:42:16 GMT -5
BUMMER!!!
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Post by mrbuck on Dec 12, 2012 17:25:40 GMT -5
Never have had the best of luck in NYS. Only hunted the first and second day in zone 7M and did not see a single deer. This zone gives out no nonresident doe permits. In the 70's you might see 25 deer the first day. A "war'' until noon, plenty of shots the rest of the day,and plenty of shots and deer moving on the second day. Now,seems like the shooting is over by 9:00 AM on the first day and if you see three deer you are not doing too bad. Over harvested ? Not enough hunters to move what deer are left ? And the sign...runs, rubs, scrapes are not there either.
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Post by mike3132 on Dec 12, 2012 19:35:14 GMT -5
My season has been good. I shot 4 doe deer with xbow and one big 10 point buck a week ago using the .50 Savage. Heres a picture of the buck. He field dressed out right at 200 lbs. His antlers almost touch and cross each other by 1". I picked up 30 lbs of hunter sticks and summer sausage today from the processor. Mike Attachments:
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Post by jims on Dec 12, 2012 21:22:12 GMT -5
An unusual buck, good hunting I would say all around.
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Post by hornet22savage on Dec 12, 2012 22:37:12 GMT -5
Nice odd deer
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Post by lakeplainshunter on Dec 14, 2012 4:59:53 GMT -5
6 point on Opening Day and a doe the next both with my new Remington Pacnor .45. Saw deer every time out but one. It was a good season for me.
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Post by hornet22savage on Dec 14, 2012 8:59:12 GMT -5
jsteurrys are you wayne county?
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Post by lakeplainshunter on Dec 14, 2012 12:31:58 GMT -5
jsteurrys are you wayne county? Yes, Wayne County DMU 8F
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Post by hornet22savage on Dec 14, 2012 17:24:37 GMT -5
I'm ontairo 8J and 8H. I went out today and saw two Does at say 1200-1500 yds. too far for the old KRB.
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Post by lakeplainshunter on Dec 14, 2012 18:15:37 GMT -5
I'm ontairo 8J and 8H. I went out today and saw two Does at say 1200-1500 yds. too far for the old KRB. You really need to go smokeless. It is a lot more fun than smoking guns IMO.
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Post by hornet22savage on Dec 15, 2012 7:45:08 GMT -5
I would love to build a smokeless gun but right now I;m in the midlle of buying my first house and money is tighter than the norm. It will get better after the first of the year.
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Post by wilmsmeyer on Dec 21, 2012 15:09:26 GMT -5
After shooting a 130 inch 8 point opening day, I chipped away with my 2 DMP's and 2 transferred DMP's....then the either sex and antlerless only Bow/Mz tags. Filled those on Dec 15th & 16th on two does.
We are very fortunate, unless you are a farmer, with tremendous deer numbers. I probably could have tagged out opening day but wanted to stay in the woods all season with gun in hand.
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Post by DBinNY on Dec 22, 2012 18:34:25 GMT -5
I think it all boils down to what kind of land you have access to and how much pressure it gets. I'm fortunate enough to have access to some private farm land with a few close friends. We don't lack for meat but if we waited for 130 in bucks we would almost never get one. Too many neighbors shooting everything that walks. Wilms is talking about bucks that are 3 1/2 or older. We do get some 2 1/2s. They are nice but they don't get to 130 inches.
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Post by wilmsmeyer on Jan 6, 2013 13:55:58 GMT -5
DB is correct,
It is hard to wait for a 130 class deer if they don't exist. My deer was aged at 4 1/2 - 5 1/2 years. Not a hog but very respectable around here. We can usually get a decent class of bucks raised up this size...but anything bigger is just a bonus and not anything we can control.
We do our best to be selective but there is immense pressure all around us. Still we grow a few good ones. Anything over 140 and we think we smacked a bruiser. If we don't get these guys our opinion is that a poacher will...or a car...or an injury...or a bad winter. Even thinking a 170-180 class might show up is truly a dream and nothing we could control.
One of our guys shot a 150 class 10 pt this year that we had on trail camera. He was across a small creek where others hunt. Someone had put up a ground blind during bow on the other side of the creek. Well....opening morning came and the big 10 pt was ramming a doe on the other side of the creek. He literally rammed this doe into the ground blind...which was unoccupied...and than she crossed the creek into my buddies field of fire. MISTAKE. Nicest deer we've taken in several years. The other guy we found out was not hunting his blind due to a personal problem and surely missed out on a slam dunk shot at this swamper.
In heavily hunted areas, it is very hard to grow the big one! However, the adrenaline still flows when a 135-140 buck gives me a shot.
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Post by hornet22savage on Jan 6, 2013 15:00:19 GMT -5
The land I have access to hunt used to be a great place to be, but the lack of hunters lately has really brought down the numbers of deer moving through. I saw three deer during MZ season two were way out at the 2000+ yd. mark and the other one winded me. It nevers fails I'm in the wrong place at the wrong time. The other problem is I only hunt on weekends, I get two weeks vacation and usually end up using it for other things which sucks. I was looking foreward to getting my third week this year but my company sold out back in Oct and the new policy is tens years for three weeks, at least I get to keep my two.
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Post by AJ on Jan 6, 2013 17:32:12 GMT -5
I hear ya. My deer tag went un-notched this year. It is common for Game & Fish to sell a lot of tags for units that don't have that many animals. One of the ways they keep their revenue up.
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