Author Topic: NY hunters (Read 1789 times)

bobg · « **on:** November 26, 2012, 12:32:05 AM »

Haven't heard anything on how the NY hunters are doing. I can't hunt anymore but still like to hear how others are doing. I have seen 2 hanging in a tree and a couple guys loading one in a truck. Nothing at a couple places i usually see 2 hanging by now.

Lets hear it folks.

Mikey · « **Reply #1 on:** November 26, 2012, 01:30:50 AM »

A 5 pointer, a 270 lb 7 pointer and a 8 pointer from my area, and now we are looking to fill doe tags.
I think someone on Long Island took a serious record buck, or at least that is what I think I read somewhere; probably dropped a wallet for bait and took'm with a switchblade......................

DANNY-L · « **Reply #2 on:** November 26, 2012, 02:57:10 AM »

Seems like there has been a lack of bucks taken up this way this year,mostly yearling bucks that I do see or hear about. Mikey you say 270lbs, is that on the hoof?

oldhunter · « **Reply #3 on:** November 27, 2012, 02:38:35 PM »

Have heard of very little success locally. Perhaps the weekend snow will produce some numbers. I was lucky on Sunday and filled my doe tag (with a button buck) in Cattaraugus County. Still trying for the buck with horns to put more meat in the freezer.

oldhunter

bobg · « **Reply #4 on:** November 27, 2012, 10:26:18 PM »

I talked to a couple guys yesterday that said they didn't even hunt this year. Said all their old hunting spots were now posted. I had a great place to hunt deer. 3 years of hunting it and i took 2 bucks and a doe out of there. Now there is a house right smack in the middle of the woods i hunted in.

Mikey · « **Reply #5 on:** November 28, 2012, 02:41:23 AM »

Danny - that was on the hoof, estimated by both the hunter and the butcher after meaurements taken in the field and a hanging weight of 220lb. The heart and liver were harvested with both being quite large. The remaining viscera was left for scavaging coyotes and should have provided for quite a family meal. EnCon estimated his age at 4 yrs 4 months
We felt this guy was a 'traveler', one who was passing through looking for a doe in heat rather than the 'resident big guy' but since he wasn't packin' any sort of identification, we will never know. We know however, upon examining his stomach contents that he had quite recently dined and filled up somewhere to the north, which is closer to the Mohawk river, a bunch further downhill and warmer, and loaded with corn and grain farms. He was just up sniffin' around and following doe trails when he got whacked.

DANNY-L · « **Reply #6 on:** November 28, 2012, 04:59:17 AM »

That would definently be a nice one to take. Them dang doe's got him in trouble just as women do men. I bet that wasn't a fun drag if it was deep in the woods but ya can bet if it were me I could have cared less about how far it would be to drag.
Me and my brother went out late yesterday afternoon and did a couple drives and as I was on watch I could see a flicker out about 100yds,I watched it for about a minute and relized that it was a deer and not my brother so I scoped it and got just a glimpse of an ear and then the only thing visible through the scope was a huge neck. Never did see the head to tell 100% that it was a buck. 5 doe's came out of that drive a few minutes later and when my brother came out he said the stench of a rutting buck was very strong and we found that the tracks went out the side of the drive so maybe next time we can cut it off to atleast tell for sure what it was,but we do know that there has been a big buck within the area and since it's private land may help us. By the way it's buck only in our area unless you were lucky enough to get a dmp,which we didn't.

Mikey · « **Reply #7 on:** November 30, 2012, 10:17:11 AM »

Our group has both landholder and dmp tags and we intend to fill the tags. Last winter was very good for the Whitetail locally as the snow cover was down, food was fairly plentiful and they could see predators far enough away to escape them. When you begin to see their bodies literally littering the shoulders of the roads then you know the may have over populated a area and the herds need to be culled. We're planning to make these coming weeksgood for doe tags.

lonewolf5348 · « **Reply #8 on:** November 30, 2012, 12:29:18 PM »

Passed on a 1/2 dozen DOES on opening day :we did fill 2 does tags on Sunday other then that a few small bucks not having 3 point on one side for 4W area.
I did try a long shot with my Mohawk 243 cal. 130 yards plus on a large doe using the barnes 85 gr.TSX Man she took a few steps and it was over.
The bullet did a perfect mushroom and weight out at 85 Grains.
I was up the last 5 days seen nothing I thought the snow would have moved them but no deer at all
I know there is a huge 8 pointer no one has taken yet I had him 60 yards on the last week of bow from my stand but never came any closer.

ironglow · « **Reply #9 on:** November 30, 2012, 01:04:38 PM »

Quote from: oldhunter on November 27, 2012, 02:38:35 PM

Have heard of very little success locally. Perhaps the weekend snow will produce some numbers. I was lucky on Sunday and filled my doe tag (with a button buck) in Cattaraugus County. Still trying for the buck with horns to put more meat in the freezer.

oldhunter

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Same for me too..got a button first couple minutes of first day. I haven't been out much since then, but plan to spend more time out in the woods. I live and hunt in Catt Co..but last week by invitation, I spent a couple hours in a tree stand near Holland, NY...had to break out my old 20 ga for that..but didn't have to use it anyway..

LanceR · « **Reply #10 on:** December 03, 2012, 01:45:03 AM »

Due to the mild winter across the southern zone last year the DEC issued about 12% more doe tags in the zone and that along with the higher population resulted in a 12-13% increase in take across the zone in the early part of the regular season. It will be interesting to see how the total take is as last year wasn't too far from a record. Locally the deer processors stopped taking deer last week so they could eliminate the backlog. Of course there is a big difference in talking about the the entire zone and local conditions.

As expected the bear take is down. The low mast crop production and poor growing season overall due to the dry weather seems to have had many bear hibernate early.

I normally has 2-3 deer by now in the regular season and don't have one yet.

I should have 2, maybe 3, does in the freezer. On opening morning I was in a ground blind that usually produces well in the early season. I was dozing a bit and had a nice doe walk up from behind me on a grass lane way between a field of corn stubble and a woodlot. My ears had been tuned to listening for the dry leaves in the woods, not the grass and I blew it. I had my chair turned 180 degrees from the direction she came from and she spooked just as she got to me. She rocketed past me at about 7-8 feet away and took a sharp turn into the woods...

The day before Thanksgiving I had a good look and a very large doe at about 80 yards. There was still a little standing corn on the farm and the combine was parked right next to the corn where it had been shut off. She was standing about 6 feet behind the darn combine for what seemed an age until she wandered back into the corn. I know darn well the 165 grain .308 bullet was going to pass through so I couldn't shoot. Note to self: Park the darn equipment away from the standing corn in the future.

Due to the dry year we were able to brush hog several acres of wet ground that had some sort of drainage tile failure 10-12 years ago and prepare for replacing the tile when the ground firms up from frost. That area usually produced 2-3 deer a year and the oly deer I ahve seen there was a young of the year one passing though.

The corn mentioned earlier was in what has been an alfalfa field forever. That in turn made a stand that has always produced 1-2 deer in the early season no good. Add to that a brush line and clump of woods removed on a neighbor's farm for us to sit in an ambush deer and he and I are both having to relearn hunting on our own farms. Usually by now we are giving away deer and neither of us has scored yet.

There have been a lot of deer taken in the area but other than my two mistakes and one I let go as it was still before official sunrise I haven't seen a deer inside 300 yards in two weeks. I also haven't seen a deer in the evening at all. I used to think I had deer hunting on the farm figured out but it has been like my first season on the property all over again. The only saving grace is that a bad day of hunting, fishing or shooting is still better than a good day of most other stuff.

I hope all of you have a great season.

Lance

DANNY-L · « **Reply #11 on:** December 03, 2012, 04:27:30 AM »

Lance you know how deer work,once you know thier game they change the rules.

LanceR · « **Reply #12 on:** December 05, 2012, 05:04:01 AM »

Dan, unfortunately, the deer didn't change the rules, we did. The bad part is that the last of the corn came down Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend and all the brush mowing happened as the corn came down. It is bad mojo to get rid of that much cover during the season and we're paying for it.

Have a good day.

Lance

bubba · « **Reply #13 on:** December 15, 2012, 02:17:01 AM »

Early Muzzleloading, I passed two small bucks and a couple does. I also missed a decent 6 point mid season. I did not get a deer, but I had a good season. The neighbors shot a 9 point drop tine weighed 218 dressed. He walked off my property to the neighbors corn field at 11 AM. I had pics of him, and that spoiled me season lol. I wanted him and only him. BY the number of small bucks I saw this year, season should be good the next couple years.

DANNY-L · « **Reply #14 on:** December 15, 2012, 06:55:06 AM »

Bubba did ya's get many coyotes over your way? We heard quite a few around here on my brothers farm and weren't seeing much for deer so we took a week off of deer hunting and switched our attention to coyotes. Took out 8 and the deer were being seen again. Kinda weird though to use that all but 1 were males.

bubba · « **Reply #15 on:** December 15, 2012, 12:17:07 PM »

we heard a few at night, but not much sign on the property. We had a lot of deer around, but they went nocturnal early.

Mikey · « **Reply #16 on:** December 16, 2012, 01:19:53 AM »

We regularly hit the yotes out here and that usually sends them packing to other areas. I took a nice black and grey male in the early part of the season and two prior to that. We bait them with old deer guts and the like and they fall for it. Our local EnCon officers like to ehar stories of successful coyote hunting.

IronBrigade · « **Reply #17 on:** December 24, 2012, 02:36:30 AM »

I Didn't have much luck hunting this year. I became ill and missed part of the hunting season. I got better for the start of muzzleloading season, on the second day out, I bent over to put my boot on and blew my back out. I am now sitting home, out a work for a while, but thankful it wasn't worse. I will be back next hunting season for sure.

chrsm · « **Reply #18 on:** January 20, 2013, 12:27:50 PM »

Just herd today the NY state record was taken this fall in Nov. scored in the 150s. I be leave in the southern teir area. Will try to find the link. After reading I think it may be a club record. Nice Buck the all the same

http://www.stargazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013301190053&nclick_check=1

Stock up in Ammo and Fire Arms. Don't forget to pick up a flint lock to.

LanceR · « **Reply #19 on:** January 22, 2013, 03:28:54 AM »

That may be the biggest buck taken in Chemung County but the state archery record for a typical buck is over 180". Darn nice deer though. I have occasionally wondered if I'd be able to focus on his lungs instead of his head if I ever drew on one like that.

Lance