good luck dave! 262 206 8507 for a pic from the stand or your kill tonight.

Did not see a darn thing tonight, wind was swirling like crazy. No hunting on Sunday so I may head down to finally pull my camera cards today.

Dave

Going into work for half day, will be hunting this afternoon. Good luck to all hunting and be safe.

Dave

Good luck... let the air out of one...

Good Luck Dave. Only a few more days until our season starts on Sunday.

This is my first year so who ever wants to be team captain is fine with me. Don't have any pictures of deer yet the bear finally moved out about two weeks ago so hopefully they start coming in soon

what is an average deer for most of you guys in your local hunting areas?
I hunt locally and the avg deer is actually only a 1.5 year old buck.. sometimes a 2.5 year old. Hunting pressure is crazy around here... and there are big chunks of land w/ very little agriculture. As bad as it sounds, any deer with the bow is good around here in MA or NY.
I do go out to Western NY every year and hunt with a guy who intensely manages a couple thousand acres. He wants nothing but 3.5 year olds shot that generally go P&Y or better. I have hunted there 6 years and shot 3 very nice bucks, a cull buck, and took a 2.5 year old by accident one year. It happened so fast.
CT has alot of deer, but I rarely see big ones..

I can count on seeing a few 2.5 yr olds that are hard to pass on every year, sometimes I just can't :) And almost every year I get at least a brief encounter with a 120+ deer, it's just depends on if everything goes right. I know there are at least 4-5 150+ deer around our property, but they usually only become visible during daylight when the rut starts.

On our lease we try to take bucks at 4 1/2+. While the place is low fence/free range we seem to keep a lot of our deer so I often have pictures of bucks over multiple years. Based on this my buck last year was 5 1/2 and the year before that was at least 6 1/2. This year I have 4 or 5 bucks coming to my setups that are mature enough to kill.

-john

that is awesome... the large bucks i have shot in NY at that spot have all aged 4.5 year old up to 6.5