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Move into a treehouse

Nice work Brian.

Had a fat opossum clear the field of my live doe decoys tonight. Funny how they know a warming trend is coming. Anyone notice the amount of black ducks and geese lately? I might have to get my migratory stamp this year.

We have to be careful with QDM. I believe in the QDM concepts and have seen it work with multiple deer hunting areas here in NY, however, shortening limits and reducing the length of the season is exactly what anti-hunting groups want.

Send a tooth in to have it aged. We are finding out deer are living longer than we thought. The Drury boys showed a buck they took on their show that was 14 years old. GREAT DEER! I love mass.

Anyone find Neotropical Deer Keds on their deer? My brother’s deer from Allegheny County was loaded with the creepy crawlers (yes another invasive).

Agree, cold end of October- November. There is food for the alewives now, the critical time is Feb-March. We need an early spring.

The part of natural reproduction of salmon that the lake managers don’t like is the lack of control. Lack of consistency in the salmon hatch make it more of a challenge to plan predator v alewife numbers.

If you google underwater footage of the lower Niagara on YouTube, you will see an amazing array of fish species-all qualified to eat eggs. Add Lake Trout, Browns, smallmouth, walleyes, muskies etc etc that will eat the parr that survive the egg eaters. Add toxic warm temps in the fall and sewage discharges all winter long.....the chances of natural repro of any relevance is small.

I think someone should start a venison dish thread. Tonight’s dinner was a venison roast cooked for 6 hours in a crock pot with two cans of Progresso beef barley cans of soup. Outstanding!

Wow! Deer looks almost 150”?? Good genetics in those northern counties.

Dead doe on death run.

Welcome to the “if it’s brown it’s down hour”.

Just went out and shot in this wind to check effect on arrows. With a 500 grain arrow and field point, I am getting about 4” of drift at 25 yards. Make sure your shots are close today boys. Heading out soon.

Slick Trick standard size.

All about timing of the rut cycle in the area you hunt. I was hunting Tuesday in 50 mph gusts and bucks were chasing all day. If some does come into estrous then it is game on no matter what the weather. Make sure you look up and be sure the tree you are in doesn’t have any dead branches above you.

Not a deer and I am 7hrs in. I think lock down has started here or does hiding in the corn.

Deer sleeping in this morning with calm conditions to relax them.

Fate

Gator, one thing I do to prevent funk in the body cavity is to work the deer poop up out of the colon into the large intestine before I cut it. I then do an overhand knot with the intestine to keep the nuggets from spilling out. Next I will find the bladder in the pelvis and give it a squeeze ( have a bottle handy if you want fresh stuff) to completely empty it. All muscle groups are bound by fascia (silver skin) and therefore not going to be effected by bacteria from gut. The only thing I can think of is the butcher used a saw not knowing the bladder and some poop was still in there and contaminated some hind quarter with the cut thru??? No clue otherwise.

As soon as that front came thru and the sun came out it was game on. My target buck was running back and forth birddogging with his mouth open. He came to a fork in the trail. Turn left take two steps and he is dead. Go right and I have no shot. He went right........ Then next four days are going to be great. Does groups are broken up with yearlings wandering around without their mothers. I saw five different bucks today with two being shooters.