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First few deer and turkey of the fall hunting s...

First few deer and turkey of the fall hunting season from HuntingNY members posted! Congrats to those what were able to get their first harvests of the season this past weekend.

Here are a few:

Bruno knocked down this mature 7 pointer on Long Island, nice buck!


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RangerClay scored on this turkey Saturday morning.



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And forum member njg0621 knocked down this doe up in Saratoga for the Northern Zone opener.



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Congrats to all, more pictures are already flowing in, make sure you keep an eye out on these the 2011 harvest thread as well as the bow hunting and deer hunting forums for more posts for the 2011 hunting season!


I almost left out this great buck by Tom, he knocked down this 8 pointer during the northern zone early season with his left over tag from last year.

Check it out here: http://huntingny.com...-to-the-season/

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Are you ready for the deer season and announcin...

The 2011 deer hunting season is upon us, and wow are we excited! in the Are you ready?

Check out the amazing trail camera pictures, there are some real monsters in New York: http://huntingny.com...amera-pictures/
Are you all set for the Bow Season? Chime in on a few of the posts in the Bow Hunting section here: http://huntingny.com...16-bow-hunting/
Check out the latest posts on the forums via this link: http://huntingny.com...arch_app=forums

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The site has grown leaps and bounds since started, there are over 73,400 posts as of today! Please remember to tell friends and family about the site and contest, you can even forward them this email. Please let us know if you have any suggestions, comments or are interested in sponsoring the site either post a topic on the site, or using the contact form located here: http://huntingny.com...p?app=contactus

We have decided to have our second contest, The Hunting NY 2011 Best Buck and Story Contest!

To read the full contest post and to comment on the contest click here: http://huntingny.com...y-contest-info/

First Place (Grand Prize):

- A beautiful professional deer head mount by award winning Fins to Feathers Taxidermy. (see below for details)
- A HuntingNY.com embroidered lighted 3 LED mossy oak hunting hat (trying to get a few of these again, if not it will be a embroidered hat)
- A one year subscription to one of the following magazines: Field & Stream, Petersons Bowhunting Magazine, or North American Whitetail
- Proving Ground DVD - Donated by our partners over at Venatic Outdoors (the DVD is amazing, great job guys!)
- Two Free Rounds at Thrill Of The Hunt Indoor 3D Archery Rang...

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Thrill Of The Hunt - 3D Archery Range in Calver...

My brother and I wanted to get some more pre-season practice in shooting our bows and we had planned on going to a new 3D archery range we herd about on the forums, Thrill Of The Hunt. Someone had mentioned it on a thread a few times, but after visiting their website I was sold. Finally, last Saturday we got together drove out to Calverton, on Long Island where it was located. My first impression was WOW, this is the coolest thing since sliced bread. They had every single 3D target you can think of to shoot at, along with obstacles such as tree’s and bushes that you had to shoot around. I kicked myself for not bringing my good digital camera, so the photo’s and video’s below are from the cell phone and do not do this place justice.



When we arrived we were greeted by Art Binder, Art owns and runs the facility. I was confused on how everything worked (I’ve never shot 3D either), I figured it was just a few shooting lanes and you shot at a select few targets and that's it. I was totally wrong, what Art did here is setup a complete game. There are 5 main ground stations and two alternative stations, the alternative stations are shooting off a “tree stand” which is an elevated platform and also shooting out of a ground blind. The other five main stations are color coded, each station has 6 3D targets places all over the facility (color coded and numbered). You have one shot per each number/colored coded target you shoot at. The 3D target placement was great, some targets require you to shoot through an opening in a tree limb and some required you to get down on your knees to get a clear shot. You were given a clipboard and score card, every 3D target has a number of different area’s where you get points. They use the ASA scoring as following:

“The ASA uses a scoring system of 14, 12, 10, 8, 5 or 0 points per arrow. Scoring is based on zero points for a miss, 5 points earned for a hit anywhere in the body, 8 points for the largest scoring ring in the center of the animal, 10 points for the 4 to 5 inch center circle inside the 8-ring, and 12 points for the smaller ring offset to the bottom or top of the 10-ring. A...

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Acorns, Deer Movement, and its effects on Hunting

I can't speak for everyone, however last year I could have shoveled the acorns off the ground almost everywhere on our property. Last year was quite a year for acorns in New York and I believe it had accounted for less action and movement during the hunting season, specifically bow season. Deer love acorns, and if they are dropping that is what they are going to hit first regardless of food plots and other food sources you have in the area.

If there are acorns everywhere, specifically in the area's where deer feel secure, near bedding area's and thickets why would a deer move out of those area's when they have everything they need right there? Most of the success around my area were people that had hunted near deer bedding area's. While others who did not observed minimal movement during the bow season, which was the complete opposite of previous years where their stands / blinds had a lot of action and success. Last year I observed that the deer movement basically changed overnight once those acorns started dropping. We had two trail camera’s up one on a major travel route to our two small food plots and another in the field. The deer were still hitting the fields at night, however action during the day nearly stopped on the fields once those acorns starting dropping and the one travel route became a ghost town, the trail camera was snapping a fraction of what it was before.

This year is different, I noticed a lot less acorns in the oak tree’s, and hope that this may cause some more movement during the day. Those with food plots might see the plots getting hit more frequently and earlier then last year. If you have an area's where acorns drop constantly year after year that might be the place to setup shop this year. There are a few nice white oaks where we had setup a friend to hunt during the bow season, unfortunately there was not a lot of action in this spot because the deer had way to many other places to fill up on. Something else to thing about is how has last years acorn crop effected this years deer population. I was speaking with a friend yesterday, and he is could not believe the amount of bear cubs and fawns he has seen this year, and attributes that the to the acorn crop of last year.


Acorn information:

“One ounce of dried acorn has on average 140 calories, of which 9 grams is fat, 15 grams is carbohydrate, and 2 grams is protein. Using some simple math, that means a whopping 50% (72 calories) of the caloric intake is from fat! Now you now why deer pig out on them prior to the onset of winter. But the buck doesn’t stop there.

Carbohydrates make up 43% of the caloric intake, which can also be converted and stored by a deer’s body as fat or immediately used as energy. Protein makes up just 6% of the caloric intake...

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