Originally Posted by
nysbowhunter
Breechplug, Those plates are sweet, I wish i would have thought of that! Them Fords make good deer haulers, I have one too. I updated my location, I should have wrote that out a little better. Anyway I'm from Kennedy and we got them big deer down here too. I have been pretty lucky over the years but no bucks this year I never found the big boys I was looking for and since I had a fat Doe in the freezer I was pretty picky. I am trying to get some pics of a buck that my friends neighbor found dead right next to a stand that I killed my Doe out of (in Busti) 16 point non typical and unofficially green scored at 158, What a shame. My friends son killed a 10 point near there sunday with a old $30 wal-mart special percussion rifle, Now thats cool. It's gonna make a dandy mount. As for the cask 16 Crown Royal It's the top of the line. Aged in Cognac barrels. Hands down the best Whiskey on the planet. IMO. Doug.
Kennedy, heck your just down the road on Rt60 from me. Chautauqua County has some of the Best Whitetail Deer Hunting in the Country, we grow some BIG Bucks here for sure, I've been fortunate to get a few of them.
Yea I hold out for the Big One through Archery, if I dont see at least a 140-150 Class Buck I pass on the rest and save my Tag for Late MLing, there's no need to take a smaller buck when I can let him grow, and I know that I could have taken a few so going without does'nt bother me when someone ask if I got a Buck.
I then hold out with My Regular Season Buck Tag for a good one too, I usually wait untill the last couple of days of the regular season and If I dont see a big one I'll fill that Tag and still know I have My Late ML Buck Tag. My Wife also Hunts and she was fortunate again this opening Day to tag a nice 9pt, I took a big ol fat Doe so the freezer is always full. Plus on the Last day of our regular season at 4:28pm I took a 5pt.
But out Late ML Season came and ended tonight, I never saw a decent Buck, I could have taken a couple of smaller ones or some does but passed on em all. We already had 3 deer in the freezer and that's pleanty enough for me and my wife. I have no regrets about this Season except for a SNOWLESS Regular and Late MLer Season, that Does'nt happen much here and Im sure you know that.
(BP)