Recreating a Deer Woods
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Great deer both of you guys got! Chainsaw that buck is a hoss you got and that is a good heavy “fighting” rack! Your place is paying dividends!
Chainsaw
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Thanks Willy, I'm not often a 100 yard shooter so I have not observed the pass through at over 100; I have noticed that the CORE LOKT is advertised as the deadliest mushroom in the forest and it sure has stood the test of time here.
Chainsaw
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Thanks Dead Eye. That is very observant of you to pick up on the blue "tub". The blue tub is a heavy duty kidde swimming pool; Got it on sale one fall many years ago. It's normal price is around $150 so it is not to be confused with the $40 elcheapos'. After each use the pool is placed out in the open so it can get rained on; the water and diluted blood is them dumped out and it is placed on end between the board pile and the barn and is ready for the next deer. It is important that it is a heavy duty type for two reasons.
1. When working on the lower section of the deer the edges provide a comfortable seat.
2. Blood accumulates in the bottom of it in pools and for the heavy duty one it is no problem; the lighter ones bend and twist when stepped in and the blood then flows to your feet--very messy and dangerous due to becoming slippery.
The "blue tub" has been a wonderful tool to our deer processing efforts over the years.
Chainsaw
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Thanks Chummer,
We are very pleased to have had a hand in growing such a spectacular animal for this area but truthfully while the harvesting part was well thought out there was also a lot of luck involved.
Chainsaw
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Thanks Lak, dogghr and Pinetag for commenting and reading the stories. As you all have experienced one of the best things about the old deer camps were the many stories told each night. At one point we had 33 guys in one of our old deer camps; that was a lot of story happenings each day. These days our deer camp consists of just a couple or a few of us and I consider the forum to be part of deer camp. I would like to see more guys tell their stories on here. Most of us don't have the huge racked deer that some have so we feel sometimes a little like no one will care but in reality every deer we hunt is special in some way and while giant scores are great no doubt it is the sharing of stories that show the importance of each hunt we each get to enjoy.
Chainsaw
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Thank you Okie and Elk, Each of your properties are a great inspiration to me. The deer that you pass up Okie is a reinforcement to all of us that it won't happen, deer will not grow older if we take them ourselves for sure. And Elk seeing what you have accomplished in a short time in such a heavily hunted portion of NY is just plain awesome. I'm a firm believer that if it can be done in your area, it can be done anywhere.
Chainsaw
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Thank you George; your previous Iowa property has always been an inspiration to me. In time I came to see that you were not successful just because you were in Iowa; in fact you had the same challenges all of us had in getting deer to a proper age. And I agree with "Build It and they will come" but want to add; BUILD IT AND THEY WILL GROW. I had never dreamed that we could get deer to this age ever in this heavily hunted area. We still have our challenges and not every year here will yield even one near mature deer let alone two or three but in the beginning the property produced only four flags sighted in two weeks of two people hunting dark to dark. For all new guys; it can be done and the shared experiences of everyone on this forum is the fast track way to get there.
Chainsaw
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Thanks Buckly, I know you are putting in the same effort I am and have no doubt that if it isn't happening fully the way you want yet at your property that it will even knowing that you have even more hunting pressure than I. The plan does work for sure. It just takes time. Again we never dreamed we could be hunting deer like this in this poor genetics area, lousy poachers area, road hunters, shoot out of their windows area and with bad winters to boot but we have proved ourselves wrong; Thank God!
Buckly
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I don’t want to highjack your thread Dave but, Just an update. I pulled a Geo so to speak. I built it and they came. Someone approached me with an offer I couldn’t refuse and I took it and ran. LOL. So looking to bug out and maybe start again and it won’t be in NY. No timetable just looking around a bit further South. What you’ve done up there is really inspiring and I mean that. I know now that if you put in the time and effort it can be very successful. I did keep a little spot to hunt, can’t totally vacate so if I can connect I’ll update as there’s probably some of the best deer yet walking around.
Chainsaw
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Yikes, Good for you Buckly since that is what you wanted.There are definitely better places than others to both live and also to do this sort of thing. Keep us updated, I look forward to hearing how it all goes and am glad you did get to grow the best deer yet there as I know from experience here that more often than not it seems impossible. And good luck for your coming rifle season which begins soon.
Deadeye
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I thought maybe that was what it was. I'll keep an eye out for one now!
I remember that days when I was a kid that all my cousins and I would go to our Camp, which was an old 1-car garage that was given to one of my cousins and my dad took a chainsaw and cut it right down the middle and set it on his Log Truck and hauled to a spot in our woods and we set it back up. Lots of memories made out of that place. We used to do Man Deer Drives after opening day where we would all gather and then split into 2 groups of Standers and Watchers.
Having those memories and hearing my SIL telling me that it was hard to believe some of the stories I tell of those days motivated me to start our Camp. Seeing reports like yours on here makes me want it even more. Great reward on your work.
Chummer
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Is that the biggest buck ever off your property? 205 dressed is very rare for any where in NY, I would think. Pretty impressive how close you get to these deer hunting on the ground. I was walking most of yesterday. Had an inch of snow so I could see long distances. I covered a lot of the state land behind me as well as half of mine. It wasn’t till I was almost back I spotted a big doe bedded down on the edge of a beaver pond chewing her cud. I got to the knob above her and waited and searched for a bedded buck in the souronding cover. Finally after about 20 minutes another set of legs appears behind one of my hinge cuts. This has to be it and I am inside 50 yards. The adrenaline quickly dispearsed as another set appeared. A few minutes later I identified them as her twin fawns. I backed out to not spook mom but the fawns were feeding up the hill towards my trail out. Clear of mom I started down the trail the fawns were feeding on the briars and I walked by them at 30 yards and they never even looked at me. I had a 30 mph wind in my favor. Not a buck but a thrilling incounter and on a different day a buck would have been bedded with her.
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