Ny Opener
 

Good luck next weekend, post your pics or deer sightings.

what part of new york are you in ??

Dutchess County, you?

Hey, I'm in Columbia.

Odd year so far, not seeing the deer do anything they normally do.

I know acorns are everywhere, but something else is different too.

No signs of rut at all yet, very few scrapes & minimal rubs.

I generally lay off rifle season in favor of bow and ML, maybe not this year...

i'll be hunting in cattaraugus county and not sure on the other my buddy bought a place in 8n but not sure on the county. will probably hunt niagra county a day or two if time permits. good luck !!

Good luck guys. So far this bow season I've only seen one big buck but he never came within 60 yards of me, and just to mess with me the same buck made a huge scrape under my stand and a rub line.

Deer down
 

Boy, they were moving this a.m; felt more like late Dec than Nov!!

Only hunted archery for a week and half this year;finished it out yesterday by bumping deer all day long but no shots.

Woke up at 4:15 ready to go, grabbed my boyhood 20 ga and a few slugs on a whim and headed out up the hill.

By 7:00 I'd heard a dozen shots or so and my feet were freezing. Naturally, that's when the deer started passing by, so I sat tight.

After 45 min or so, and having 2 doe and a small buck pass within 10 feet of me, I finally couldn't contain myself when #4 came along. A medium sized spike, he was headed right for me and would had to have stepped over my legs to get by when I pulled the trigger-heart shot.
Still, he ran 50 yds before going down.

Field dressed him, came down to the house to drop off some gear, post this & now I'm back to drag him down.

He'll be tasty!

Opening day for me I heard very few shots, I had a really big racked 4 pointer walk right under my stand, gonna let him grow another year also saw a doe.

Anyone get anything this weekend?

How'd it go New York guys? I think I'm gonna come up there and hunt next year.
-Jake