Squirrelhunter91

100gr Slick Trick Mags!

They'll be just fine. The corn is helping I'm sure. If a few of them happen to die off through the winter, its just natural selection and they'll be promptly replaced come the end of Spring.

Yup. I just placed an order yesterday for some new turkey calls and decoys. Too bad we're a long ways off from May 1st!

I've shot TruGlo, Cobra, Sure Loc & Spot Hogg. Spot Hogg is hands down the best sight I've ever owned. I'll always put one on my bows.

Merry Christmas Tim! Save the marinade after you use it on the steaks to make jerky!

I'll be out this weekend. Also have a spot in Westchester County. Gonna check it out this Sunday and the hunting over there is open until New Years Eve! Should be good!

I am comfortable out past 60 yards to be 100% honest. Will I ever get a shot that far on a deer? Probably not. Atleast not hunting here in the woods of NY. The farthest shot I've ever taken on a deer was 38 yards and I executed it perfectly. The arrow buried right into where my pin was and the deer ran 75-80 yards and expired. I kill foam at 70 yards but on an animal, I try and limit myself to 50 yards and in. I absolutely prefer 15-30 yards but if I have to, I know I'm prepared to take a farther shot. Out west though it's a totally different ballgame and I've heard of 70+ yard shots on live animals on the open plains. I think a few weeks ago, I saw Lee Lakosky shoot a muley buck at 67 yards somewhere out west. Michael Waddell shoots them at 50+ all the time on tv. It's entirely a personal comfort zone. Shot distance is a personal restriction and everyone has their limit. I know guys that limit themselves to 30 yards and closer. It's all a personal preference.

Awesome! I started shooting Goldtip XT Hunter 55/75's last year when I bought my 08 DXT. I love them! Shot 5 groundhogs with the same arrow and now I have 2 deer with the same arrow this year. I plan on shooting Goldtips for a very long time.

Team #10 6 point

On 12/3/09 I shot another doe. She was getting chased by a nice sized 5 pointer but she had a broken back leg so I decided to thwack her. These are the only pics I have of this doe. They're off my cell. This makes 4 deer for me this year.

Ok well, this is all over due but better late than never... On 11/29/09 I shot a nice sized 2.5 year old 6 point. I went hunting with my buddies stepdad 2 towns over at a spot he had permission to hunt on. We got all set up in the trees about a half hour before sunrise. I remember the conditions being absolutely perfect. 40 degrees and virtually no wind. At first light I caught movement about 80 yards in front of me. Picked up the binos and saw it to be a 14" tall cowhorn spike. I saw some movement of a big body behind him but couldn't tell what it was because it disappeared behind a briar thicket. So about 15 minutes goes by and I look up and see 3, no wait 5, wait 7, hold on, 8 does headed my way. I had a doe tag that my dad had transferred to me for the WMU so I was ready to take another doe given the chance. So these 8 does came filing in towards me without a shot. They get next to my tree but I have the tops of some saplings in my way with only a few basketball sized pockets to shoot through. Which of course, not one of the deer was standing in one of these openings. The lead doe picked me out up in the tree holding my bow as I was sillouhetted against the sky. I was about 25' up. She started to lead the deer away and one of the bigger does was a little late on realizing that the herd was working their way up the hill. So when she turned around and saw the others nearly 40 yards away she started walking quickly to catch up en route to one of my openings. I drew my bow and sure enough she walked into an opening I ranged earlier at 30 yards. BAHHH!!! She froze. I dumped the string and the arrow was flying right on target then went upward over her back for no reason. She took off running up the hill unscathed. Then as it got lighter out I noticed a twig in that opening I didnt see in the morning light. Turns out the twig was at about 19 yards and the deer was at 30 yards. So after I took it all in, I realized a few things that went wrong. 1) When I ranged the opening, I had the brush mode activated on my rangefinder so it ranged right past the twig anyway. 2) My 30 yard pin did not have any obstructions behind it but my 20 yard pin lined up perfect with it at full draw. So the twig at 19 yards obstructed my "perfect" shot at 30 yards. I read an article about this a few years ago but never had it happen to me. This is something all archers should understand in my opinion. So we sat til about 10:00AM without seeing another deer. My buddys stepdad said that he never sat there and saw so few deer. So he said that they must be bedded on a ridge a few hundred yards away. So off for a walk we went. And sure enough, to make a long story short, we walked up on a 6 point. He stood there quartering towards us at what we estimated on the fly to be 40 yards. So I drew my bow, settled the 40 yard pin on him and let the Slick Trick tipped GoldTip fly. THWACK! It ate him up. He ran 75-80 yards and fell over. Upon getting up to him we learned that he was a 7 point but a 6 point. He had what was the beginnings of a G3 on his left side but it was only 3/8" long so it doesn't really count as a point. In this pic you can see the hole the Slick Trick cut on a quartering to shot:

Got a call from Tim earlier. Him and Rodney are snowed in. He said they got the truck stuck a couple of times. He said it's a major blizzard and they had to cut the hunt about a day and a half short.

Just got an update a little while ago from Tim..

Toddy beat me to it. Tim sent me the same text lol

Hey team.. I thwacked another doe this afternoon. She had a broken rear left leg so I decided to stick her. It's not any more points for us, but its more meat for me!

The absolute best broadhead I've ever shot has been the Slick Trick 100gr Magnum. Hands down. Entry holes are awesome and blood trails are phenomenal. I just shot a buck on Sunday at 38 yards quartering towards me and man you wouldn't believe the wound channel the head left.

Hey team.. I shot a 6 pointer this morning. He has 7 points but one isn't an inch long. Only about 3/8". He was only a 2.5 year old but we're getting down to the wire here in NY so I made the executive decision to take him. Oh and the best part about it is, I did it with my bow in the regular firearms season. It was a 38 yard shot on the ground and slightly quartering toward me. That's the farthest shot I've ever taken on a deer before and I made it. I was confident in my ability to make the shot as I practice out to 60-70 yards every year and can hold a 3" group at 50 yards with broadheads. So I knew I could make the shot without a doubt. The Slick Trick ate right through him and he only went 75-80 yards. He left a blood trail a blind man could follow. He's no monster but he'll eat good. I'll get the tag pics and everything taken care of sometime this week. These pics are off my cell. We took better ones with my buddies stepdad's camera but I'll have to wait to get a hold of them.

Don't you just love NY? God I hate this state. Absolutely can't wait to move.

Hey guys.. it was a slow weekend but I was given a doe tag for the area Saturday night so yesterday I was out to kill a doe. Aboput 3:30pm, a doe came in and I shot her twice. We couldn't find her. I know this is very vague this story but I'll fill everyone in once I get home from camp on Thanksgiving.

What a brute.

That deer has been dragged by that mountain lion through 30 different states past everyones trail cameras in the last year.

We start up gun season on the 21st. I have the whole first week off. No school. No work. Just straight vacation of deer hunting. Can't wait. I mean I can still bowhunt here in Rockland but I'm dying to kill something with the bangstick.

The Wide 8 was killed on 10/24/09 by my buddy Mike. Sad to see that buck go down, but atleast it was by someone I know and not a car or an outsider.

Got up to go sit at my usual tree and see what would be going on behind the house as far as the pre rut goes. On my way into the woods, I didn't bump or see a single deer which is very odd for back there. I got set up by 5:30AM and began my sit til daylight. Daylight rolled around and I didn't see a single deer. Usually I can see a few or have some underneath me just as it gets light out. 6:45 rolls around and I'm absolutely disappointed. Not a single deer. Then as I'm sitting there in self misery and pity, I catch movement up on the hill. It looked like a deer leg and a tail flick. Sure enough it was. 4 does make their way into my view but headed to my right down the trail 15 yards away. I draw the bow as they are on their way down the hill. I only had a small window to shoot through. So I sat there holding the bow at full draw in this window waiting for the lead doe to walk through it. First doe walks through the window, " Meh!", she doesn't stop. Second doe, " Meh!", doesn't stop either. Third doe, " BAH!", again, doesn't stop. Fourth doe, "BAAAAAAAAAAHHH!" doesn't stop. So all four of them wouldn't stop for me and they all run down to the stream bed. Then 2 minutes later they turn around and come running right back up towards me. Two hang up on the other side of the railroad bed, two cross and pass by me at 30 yards, but go running right back up the hill where they came from not even a minute earlier. Then 15 seconds or so later one doe comes running back down. I draw the bow and yell at her "HEY!" she freezes up and starts looking around broadside at 19 yards. THWACK! The Slick Trick tipped GoldTip ate her up real good. She went 30 yards and tipped over. Right about then is when I noticed the other two does that hung up were on their way back across. The big doe watched the one I just shot pile up and walked right up to it sniffing it wondering why it wouldn't get up. So I nocked another arrow anticipating a potential shot at another deer. A lone doe ended up coming off the top and back down to the other deer, two does and the dead one. They end up feeding on past me at a mere 10 yards. It actually turned out to be two does and a button buck. The button at one point actually tried sniffing up the does tail and she promptly turned around and gave him a whooping. But anyway, a big doe comes out in front of me at 10 yards. It was somewhat of a steep shot for me because I was 18 feet up and she was almost underneath me, but I felt I had a good enough angle into her vital area to take the shot. She was walking on by at 10 yards when I drew my bow and said " Meh!" She froze up and arrow #2 was on its way. THWACK! She kicked her hind legs and ran about 15 yards. She then walked another 10, button buck in tow and laid down right in front of me at 35 yards. I was trying to nock another arrow to get another shot in her because it did look a bit far back but just as I was getting ready to do that, a 6 point came down off the hill and started chasing her around. Bleeding and all. My entrance was high as expected and the exit was low. I called home, got my brothers to come out with the Cart of Death to help me take care of Doe #1. Once I climbed down with my Summit, a spike meandered on by me with his nose to the ground following the trail the does were all just on. I filmed him walking by. I recovered arrow #2 first because it was closest to the tree. It was all brown and smelled bad. Immediately I thought stomach and was sickened right away. Arrow #1 was coated in bright red blood with bubbles as expected. Double lung hit. Went over to doe #1 which turned out to be a doe fawn from this year. Didn't matter to me. It's meat. I decided to take care of the dead one and get her hung up. I was going to give the second doe a few hours to expire. I made some calls and texts and everyone said to give her about an hour and she would be dead. I ended up treating my brothers to breakfast for helping me out and they both said they would come back out later and help me find the other one. We went right to where I said she bedded down and found blood right away. It wasn't much, but it was blood. We followed blood all the way up to the thick swampy part of the property. I looked at this one tree and it had blood and hair on it. Then over the ledge and guess who lay at the bottom of the cliff? You guessed it! Doe #2. Dead as could be. I was soooo relieved at finding her. It was awesome. High fives all around between us. Even filmed the recovery. She was a big old doe and I believe she was the one I've been trying to kill all year because she was the only one with a button buck. In total, she only went about 100-120 yards. Probably because I let her go and didn't push her right after the shot. I dressed her right where she died and we dragged her up to take a ride in the Cart of Death. Upon dressing her, I found out I didn't touch the stomach with the arrow. Stomach was perfectly preserved. I got every bit of the liver and a piece of the lungs. How would that make my arrow brown though and smell? It was so awesome to accomplish my first big game double. I shot the first one at 6:55AM and the other at 7:05AM. Exactly 10 minutes apart from eachother. I was unable to get any in the field pics other than the few with my cell because my dad took the digital camera upstate with him. So the only in the field pics I have are off my cell. I did end up going to my buddies house later Saturday night and had his step dad take pics in the bed of the truck with his camera. But I'm not in camo or anything as you'll see. Doe #1 in the Cart of Death: One of doe #1's lungs with the perfect Slick Trick X through it: Doe #2 right where we found her: The two of them hanging in the garage together: I love this pic.. You can see doe #1 (closest to the camera) and the reason she only went 30 yards. Perfect double lung shot: Me and the does:

Team #10 Doubled up on does 11/7/09