Comments on: Whitetails Only Watchers: WOW

By: green golfer

green golfer — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:55:26 +0000

You made a fair point, but have you actually thought about how it might affect other people? I do not say you are wrong, I just need to indicate that there’s more than one side to this story.

By: bob

bob — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:34:06 +0000

forgot to tell you this was Southeastern Mass.

By: bob

bob — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:32:33 +0000

Was out black powder hunting yesterday in about 12″ snow and came across a couple of red spots in snow seem there is a doe in heat in the area I was hunting and I did see two decent bucks in area and there still there (lol) as i missed them both .

By: Tony - Washington County, NY

Tony - Washington County, NY — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:21:13 +0000

There was alot of movement & feeding, and hitting scrapes after yesterdays storm, which dumped 6-8″ in our area. Mostly nighttime activity. They have started fighting again this week.

By: Elmer

Elmer — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:09:21 +0000

I wonder what you guys have for predators; bear, coyotes ,big bobcats. Between the bears and the coyotes around here”Ulster , Sullivan and Green ” counties they have really put a hurt on our herd. I hunt the coyotes and get a few, and I guide a few hunters after deer season thru the winter but more need to hunt them to bring the numbers down. As for deer, 2; 3.5 yr. olds were taken in the mountains not real big but one had heavy palmated left beam,another buck scored 135 in western Ulster county .Good luck guys.

By: Ken in Otsego County

Ken in Otsego County — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:43:18 +0000

Buck sightings were very few during gun season. The first 2 bucks I saw all season was a 6-pointer & a spike on Dec. 3. Not many bucks being taken around here, but the ones that were all seem to be big ones. The next town over from me, someone shot a 12-pointer that will be a new county record. The land next to ours is a 30 acre piece. It is hunted by 12 guys. Between them, they didn’t even see a doe. What they did find was 3 dead deer shot by a .22. They were an 8-pointer, 6-pointer & a spike. Seems like a guy on top of the hill is baiting them & shooting them at night as a vendetta.

By: eric

eric — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:59:50 +0000

Deer hunting has been terrible for my steuben county land. Myself and another guy saw a total of 5 deer this weekend. One doe and four fawns. I found two dead deer. One was a spike horn and the other was a female fawn. Trail camera picked up two bucks the past week, a 3 pointer and a 6 pointer. My food plot is hammered so i don’t think i can rely on that to draw any deer in this coming weekend with the cold weather. My oak trees didn’t have nearly as good a crop of acorns as my neighbors did (I’m at a higher elevation). I hope others are doing better than me.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:44:26 +0000

When do you expect the second rut to start? when will the older bucks start moving again? I have been seeing several 1.5 yr old bucks the last week or so, but nothing older.

By: Tony - Washington County, NY

Tony - Washington County, NY — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:08:55 +0000

Same here guys, and we do not have the ‘intense’ hunting pressure. There have been a couple of sighting of a buck we think is 4.5 or 5.5, in thick cover with no shot opportunity. During the past few days 2 bucks estimated at 3.5 holed up with a hot doe in Albany County. The only deer we saw Sunday 11/29 were bumped by another hunter leaving a stand.

By: eric

eric — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:13:54 +0000

deer sightings are few and far between for me since gun season started. road hunters got a deer thanksgiving night. there is lots of pressure all around me.