2017 Regular Season deer & coyote kill reports & pictures

[kgun12]

Good eating right there, I like the back straps cut in to 1/4" thick chops done in butter in a cast iron frying pan with a little garlic, salt & pepper.

I,m back out sitting until dark.

Now take the pan keep it hot, add a little water to pull all the flavors from the pan, turn the heat down add a some red wine (for venison I like a Cab or Zin) the amount depends on how much meat you are cooking, reduce the wine, then add a little corn starch for thickening. Once the wine is the thickness you like (gravy), take it off the heat, add some butter blend together, pour over meat and have some nice bread for slopping up all the goodness!!!

 

[Saltwater60]

Smallish 3 pt at about 830

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I thought you only killed people with those riffles??
I'm going to hunt next year with my ar too I think.

 

[FrankenCub]

Anyone bother to go out today? What a waste, it was way to windy to me. Had some trees in the area blown down then the wind picked up more.
It seems pretty calm now so maybe tomorrow will be better.

 

[Robin]

My son scored again this afternoon with my 8mm hand load.

He's a Fed and back in the area, I hope for a long time. I think I'm more excited for him than if I got it myself, Yeah, I am.
Robin

 

[1075tech]

I thought you only killed people with those riffles??
I'm going to hunt next year with my ar too I think.

I only have two rifles that have likely been used to kill any people, and they are not semi-auto.

2nd year for the Grendel. Took 2 doe last year.

 

[Airborneguy]

Anyone bother to go out today? What a waste, it was way to windy to me. Had some trees in the area blown down then the wind picked up more.
It seems pretty calm now so maybe tomorrow will be better.

We were out all day. Moved around during the early hunt, kicked up something but didn’t see if it was a buck or a doe. In the afternoon I only saw a butt load of turkeys.

 

[dubleuhb]

This afternoon out of the box blind had a decent buck cross down past my food plot, ranged at 180. Alas it's Niagara county, shotgun only still, out of range. Then at 1640 a Yearling came out to feed, to early to take one of those, couldn't make out if it was a doe or button anyway.

 

[GOPerfect]

Nothing, I watched three doe walking around. No Doe tags. Oh, and I saw two DEC vehicles this morning on my road as well. Almost never see them. I was in my stand for about 4.5 hours; I heard ONE shot the entire time.

 

[HighlandLofts]

I went out with my two sons this morning, we. Got on out post about 6.45 and sat until just before 11.
My oldest kicked one up walking in to the woods from the pasture. Other then that one we didn't see nothing, not even a squirrel or bluesy.

I will be going out with just my second done tomorrow morning at 7.30 over in West Windsor by the old Petrus dairy farm.
Old Nick Petrus hunted every year for decades and never shot a deer.

Tomorrow might be the day.

 

[Acer-m14]

No deer yet but little rat made me jump while checking Facebook nyhunt group pics .. damn thing was sniffing My boot .. got a pic just as he left to a tree 3 feet away lol ..

 

[NirvanaFan]

I shot a doe yesterday, right where @Cleck was the day before.

I need at least one more for my parents freezer. I wouldn't mind taking one of those big bucks on my trail camera pictures.

 

[Cleck]

I saw a few, but none were good enough looks for a shot. Had two doe in this area, one was younger than the other and eating in the X, lot of overgrown stuff there, didn't have a good view or shot. The colored in bits were the other one, and every shot would have been threaded through these trees, if it would have actually presented me w/ a shot. Was either pointed in my direction or quartered away. Only time it was broadside was when it was behind those trees and I didn't wanna move too much to make anything happen. They made their way to the trail and took off in the direction of the arrow, running and jumping as soon as they hit the trail.

A while later, I had moved up a little higher and heard a buck grunting, so I turned around just in time to see the bastard running on a ridge higher above me. Saw one of the doe I probably saw before running around too, but again, no shots available.

After the fact, NF tells me that I should have made a noise to stop him. Oh well, things to learn. For my first time, I was glad to see something at least. I'm sure I'll get something eventually.

 

[Airborneguy]

I’m heading home in about 2 hours. After I clean up I’m going to start cutting up my quartered buck. Hopefully I can vaccuum seal most of it today. Tomorrow I’ll work on grounding meat once my new grinder arrives.

 

[camper4lyfe]

I skipped Saturday morning because of life and family commitments, and hit the woods in the afternoon. I was on my way in to find a spot to sit when I hear rustling, and saw a brown blob making its way through the trees. I stopped and watched, trying to identify it. As it turns out, it's a doe, but while I was waiting on her, a buck came along behind her, and I had a staring match with him. He finally decided I wasn't an issue and he started moving again. I knelt down waiting for him to clear the trees into the path. About 3' before the path, he must have winded me because he whipped right around and took off in the direction he came from. No deer for me so far, as that's all I saw in the afternoon or the crappy weather yesterday morning.

 

[Cleck]

About 3' before the path, he must have winded me because he whipped right around and took off in the direction he came from. No deer for me so far, as that's all I saw in the afternoon or the crappy weather yesterday morning.

Bummer. I couldn't tell if the one that was looking my way saw or smelled me, but I was barely moving, if at all. I'm guessing it didn't smell me since they didn't take off like you described, but I felt like it knew something was up.

Hope you get one soon

 

[HighlandLofts]

I tried a new spot with my younger son this morning, he had a doe moving around acting a little weird. It presented s few opportunities for a few shots, but it was a little far and my son was cold and he didn,t feel comfortable with placing a good shot.
We will be going back out here shortly after. We warm up and grab some lunch.
I had a gray squirrel come about three feet from me this morning, should of took a picture but never thought about it.

 

[HighlandLofts]

Cleck
It probably smelled you.

 

[camper4lyfe]

Bummer. I couldn't tell if the one that was looking my way saw or smelled me, but I was barely moving, if at all. I'm guessing it didn't smell me since they didn't take off like you described, but I felt like it knew something was up.

Hope you get one soon

Sadly, that's the most action I've seen while hunting in 4 or 5 years. It's tough because I'm only able to get out once, maybe twice each year. On top of that, I'm hunting land that I'm just not familiar with, and end up just plopping down wherever I *think* looks good.

 

[Cleck]

Cleck
It probably smelled you.

With the way the wind was blowing Saturday morning, I wouldn't doubt this. It was definitely blowing against my back, downhill towards them. Hopefully Wednesday I get a better shot.

 

[Cleck]

Sadly, that's the most action I've seen while hunting in 4 or 5 years. It's tough because I'm only able to get out once, maybe twice each year. On top of that, I'm hunting land that I'm just not familiar with, and end up just plopping down wherever I *think* looks good.

I'm familiar w/ the land, just not hunting it. Taking tips from NF here and there to bumble my way through it.

 

[HighlandLofts]

Tomorrow will be close to 50 degrees, a more comfortable day to spend more time out in the woods.
Haven,t decided on where to try tomorrow.

It,t all about being in the right place at the right time.

 

[Cleck]

As long as it's not windy or rainy. That shit blows.

 

[MilesTeg]

Well I got skunked, but my father shot a monster. He asked me not to put a picture online so sorry no antler porn. Opening morning I took a pop shot at a coyote running 75 yards early on. I should have hit him, it felt like a great hold and shot. Later I let a 4 point walk about 25 yards from me. If I had the 1911 with me I would have probably have shot him to finally have a pistol kill. Later I had two waves of does work through, a group of 2 and 3. I probably would have taken one of them if the all of our deer hooks were already full.

Now here comes the funny part of the story. When word got out of my fathers deer everyone decided to stop in. Needless to say with no food in my system I got myself stupid drunk. Because of this I never made it out yesterday and still feel a little hungover today. I can't believe I wasted a good day of deer hunting.

 

[Cleck]

Why does he not want a pic of the deer, worried that people are gonna come get it or something?

 

[MilesTeg]

Why does he not want a pic of the deer, worried that people are gonna come get it or something?

Old people are weird.

 

[1911guy]

830 yards. Impressive!

I think he meant pounds.

 

[Cleck]

Say no more, I know exactly what you mean.

 

[togmaster]

My son shot this today (with his camera). I never saw this coloring before.

 

[Carlos Hathcock]

Prob doesn't have a lot of "dear" friends.

 

[HighlandLofts]

Before we went back out we took my son,s 357/9mm ruger blackhawk out behind his house to shoot the revolver with the 9mm cylinder. Two of the cylinders are getting light strikes and not foreign. I called ruger customer service about it. We are sending it back tomorrow or Wednesday. We tied a string in the two bad cylinders. I gave him that revolver a few years ago. It was bought in. 1976.

Right when we got back in the woods where he has a shooting spot set up I had a little cough and three deer took off, all good size. Needless to say none to hang up.



Then on the way out to go hunting we seen two does on the side of the road. A big one and the other looked like last years fawn.

After hunting we seen a huge doe eating in the grass next to an old abanded house.

I guess some days you eat the bear and some days the bear eats you.


Nice picture of that pied doe, I've seen several of then up in the Windsor are a years ago and one up by the Broome county airport.

This has been a interesting thread.