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Since he comes in left to right on the camera both nights......maybe you could walk his trail back(maybe the right side of the trail?) and bump him out of his bed. Since he appears to be a creature of habit.....you could pattern him with a stand between his bedding area and the camera. I don't think he will come to rattling because of his injury. This dude is secretive....but HEALTHY so he has to be feeding somewhere. Get some cameras on food sources if they aren't already. If you don't want to jump the deer.....keep moving the camera position back along his trail to plot his route.

To pattern this buck you have to think like him.....get into his hide and walk around awhile. I suggest wearing an eye patch. The Mrs. may find the look intriguing as well

Get up late, eat breakfast, still-hunt to stand location-be in stand by 9:30, hunt the 10-12:00 "bucks running/feeding all night....get up late to check rubs and scrapes" pattern that is prevalent in October.

Must have been an awesome fight. Those things get sideways and they put up a tussle! Nice sheep****!

Burt Dam for Browns and Steel. Lower Niagara for lakers and steel. Eighteen mile on Erie for Steel........sometimes good flow on Keg Creek at that time of year. Are Skis and pike closed during that stretch? PM me Richard if you want specifics.

Should be an interesting race. I don't believe the polls either. Many people will not to admit to voting Paladino, but when that curtain closes....... I also think angry voters are voters who turn out in force. I don't think any person is qualified for the post if they have never run a business themselves! Even if Carl wins, nothing will get done without fixing the legislature. We need a public referendum for term limits for legislators..period. In Vermont they pay legislators approx. $8,000.00/yr so not to be their only job/income. They get no staff, no office, no car etc. The ONLY thing we need legislators for now is voting on the yearly budget. There is not any real legislation that needs to get passed that hasn't already.....just the budget, so meet once a year for two weeks and be done with it!!!!!!

Items to buy. Gear oil for outdrive, gear oil adapter that attaches into the fill hole on the outdrive to add gear oil, muffs to run boat in yard, antifreeze system to hook up to muffs, antifreeze (5 gallon containers), fogging oil. Get antifreeze system set up, resting on transom or swim platform. Run engine with garden hose/muffs for a while so the thermostat opens and allows water to come into the engine to cool ( at least 5 minutes ). Open engine compartment and remove flame arrestor on top of carb. Hook up muffs to antifreeze system and run boat. When the antifreeze is 2/3 rds gone, use a screwdriver to open the air baffles on the carb and start spraying fogging oil into engine. The engine will start to studder. Keep spraying until you stall the engine or the antifreeze runs out...which ever occurs first. Replace flame arrestor. Remove muffs. Drain gear oil out of outdrive. There will be two screws to remove on the lower unit. The screw on the bottom near the skeg is the drain screw with the second screw a little higher (looks the same). Drain oil into basin after removing both screws. After all the oil is drained (may take awhile), hook up gear oil container to adapter to the outdrives bottom drain hole. Squeeze in gear oil until it bubbles out upper hole ( check owner's manual on gear oil amounts, but usually you need two gear oil containers to fill the lower unit). Replace upper screw, then remove gear oil adapter from the lower unit and quickly replace drain screw. Done. I like to change the engine oil in the spring before the boat hits the water. Some people will remove spark plugs and spray some fogging oil on them during winterization also. I have been told it is bad to replace old spark plugs because you introduce dirt into the engine so I don't.......not sure how true it is but I find removing eight spark plugs too tedious for my liking so I chose not to touch the plugs until I am ready to change them. Best part of all this is you will learn your engine, and not feel helpless if something goes bad on the water.

It ain't the broadhead, it is the placement......nice deer, nice shot. You could have killed it with a field point.

Textbook shot

Managed to snap off a few of the horny deer after he was responsible for running does under my stand, too fast to get off a shot. Afterward he stopped to rub a little and make some licking branches within 20 yards of stand Buck is a 1.5 yr old six-pointer. Will let him get bigger. This was in Wales\ Erie county. Now, my brother was down in Allegheny Co. hunting and he said he had bucks chasing and grunting after does as well. Maybe we will get three rut cycles this year? It certainly has been a wierd weather year. How many windy weekends are we going to have?

We had rutting activity this weekend. Young bucks chasing and grunting despite warm temps. I have never seen chasing this early.

By body size, those are probably 4.5 yrs old. Probably brothers. Keep us posted.

Why does the Streetsville Dam exist? Does not look like a hydro dam, so why not just remove the Dam?

My pants are bad luck. I usually keep a banana in my pocket.....for the ladies, so chaulk up the skunk to my bad.

Sorry for your skunk Tim. I saw those goof temps on NOAA and realized It was going to be tough fishing going foward so I pulled three weeks ago. Unfortunately, we need a LONG cold winter to bring the lake back to normal temps. See you at the LOTSA event.

Keep pluggin', you got to take your licks first. We all have gone through the growing pains when we first get a boat. Word of caution......don't go 70 mph with a boat trailer

I can't resize the photo, but I believe what you caught is a Chain pickeral

I don't think the fish care guys. Do you think they swim over to the wire and see if it is 20 or 30 lb, silver vs camo etc. The only issue is depth fished. Above 100' down fish #30. If you are trying to target below 100' it is going to have to be a mag dipsy with #20 wire.

Now that is a great deer Ray.

I don't know what to think. Is it possible there are mountain lions in NY.......sure. A neighboring property owner "swears" she saw a mountain lion cross the road next to her house during the summer months in back to back years. I have hunted the area for twenty-seven years and have NEVER even come across a footprint of a mountain lion, so I remain skeptical. Now, about twenty years ago I came across a dead coyote that died in a failed stream crossing which was LONG before coyotes were confirmed repopulating the southern tier and everyone thought I was nuts.......so who knows? A few years ago, we were driving out of the mountains of Virginia on route to the NC coast, I witnessed on the road dead what appeared to be a Mountain Lion. What was the line in Jurassic Park....."nature finds a way".

I am an avid hunter....but I wonder how anyone could shoot a bear...they are part human and part black lab. Great photos, my daughters and I had a chuckle over them.

Good luck Chad . Just don't end up on "America's funniest home videos". On your wedding night to make the evening last longer just keep thinking about Ray in his buffy suit...............scratch that.

I thought the last picture was Brett Farve doing another blue jeans commercial? I got to get my eyes checked.

Yes I see the glow eye down low now....that is a skunk with a very bushy tail. I thought it was a porcupine sitting on it's haunches with it's hands up near it's mouth...tough to see.