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Last week it was in the low 20s with some snow, the past few days has been in the low 40s with off & on rain so walking in the leaves is really quiet..
The southern tier of Upstate New York use to be mostly family farms that are converting back to woods from lots of decades of no apriculture takeing place. It is over run with deer and with a latge deer herd there are lots of coyotees.
Between myself, my brother and two sons we have four buck tags and twelve doe tags. We only harvest two deer from an area then leave that spot alone until next year. So there are lots of deer in that area to replentisg what is harvested.
If we see gut piles we will move on to another area.
We have alot more open hunting land here then you have down there in Texas. New York is split up in to wildlife management units. We are in #7, there is over 100 State Forest to hunt on from arount 500 acres up to over 11,000 acres and some of this land is perfect deer habitat. I deer I shot a couple of days ago was harvested over in the Bobell State Forest.
Yesterday we hunted the Bumps Creek State Forest. Some one shot a buck there, i came across a deer kill site. Thery completly dressed the deer off where they shot it. The guts, four lower legs, hide, head with antlers cut out, and full skeliton. All the meat was cut off the bones.
We will hunt that area until we come across another gut pile then stay out of there until.next year.
This state forest is just over 500 acres and is mostly hardwood, beechnut, oak, cherry, hard maple with a few mixed in pine & hemlock.
My oldest brother was in the army and served over twenty years, three tours over in Vietnam. At the end of his service he was stationed in Texas. They lived in kileen. They lived out of town and had a five acre lot. Way back then about thirty years ago in that area it cost to much to hunt private property so he never hunted there. >'m sure it is worse now with high prices to gain acess on ranches to hunt.
This area it is easy to gain acess on private land to hunt & trap on.
I take a month off of work every year to fly out here to deer hunt and visit my family.
We will.be selling our house in Washington, forty miles north od Seattle and will be moving back to New York. Probably some where in Chenango County, cheaper taxes and excellent deer hunting and there are snowshoe rabbits there. > love rabbit hunting with a pair of beagles, love coon hunting too.
Our place will sell for around $325.000, we owe $40,000 on it so we will have close to $275,00 to buy a place back here.
I can buy a four bedroom house on twenty-five to thirty-five acres for around $180,000.
I will probably buy a beagle pup next spring and get it started on rabbits out there in Washington so when we move back here it will be trained out and be ready to hunt.
I have a couple old Ithaca model 66 in 20 gauge
That I like to use when hunting rabbits. One ofvthem has a vent-rib.
I might pick up two 20 gauge Ithaca pumps and two 20 gauge semi-auto shotguns for small game hunting.
I take my grandson out to shoot every weekend from spring to late fall. We go for the day, from 8 am until it starts to get dark. I reload so he gets to shoot a lot all day long. Centerfire rifles, centerfire handguns, rimfire rifles & rimfire handguns. At nine years old he can shoot better then most adults.
I have a old Stevens 20 gauge side by side double barrel shotgun he uses to shoot trap with. He can hit them pretty decent for just starting out shooting clay pigeons.
I raise pigeon (white racing homers) for doing white dove releases for weddings, funerals and memorials so I raise plenty of culls( white birds with dark feathers). So when he gets better on the clay pigeons he can shoot the real deal and we will have pigeons for diner.
We are raising three of our grandkids, mason which is 9 years old, a 8 year old granddaughter and a 2 & 1/2 year old granddaughter.
I thought my kid raiseing days were over twenty years ago but things in life change. You never know what lies around the next corner in life.
Over in Greene New York there are two round dairy barns built in the early 1900s. Still in good shape.
Next trip to Greene I will get a picture of the other round barn, they are pretty neat.
Last week it was in the low 20s with some snow, the past few days has been in the low 40s with off & on rain so walking in the leaves is really quiet..
The southern tier of Upstate New York use to be mostly family farms that are converting back to woods from lots of decades of no apriculture takeing place. It is over run with deer and with a latge deer herd there are lots of coyotees.
Between myself, my brother and two sons we have four buck tags and twelve doe tags. We only harvest two deer from an area then leave that spot alone until next year. So there are lots of deer in that area to replentisg what is harvested.
If we see gut piles we will move on to another area.
We have alot more open hunting land here then you have down there in Texas. New York is split up in to wildlife management units. We are in #7, there is over 100 State Forest to hunt on from arount 500 acres up to over 11,000 acres and some of this land is perfect deer habitat. I deer I shot a couple of days ago was harvested over in the Bobell State Forest.
Yesterday we hunted the Bumps Creek State Forest. Some one shot a buck there, i came across a deer kill site. Thery completly dressed the deer off where they shot it. The guts, four lower legs, hide, head with antlers cut out, and full skeliton. All the meat was cut off the bones.
We will hunt that area until we come across another gut pile then stay out of there until.next year.
This state forest is just over 500 acres and is mostly hardwood, beechnut, oak, cherry, hard maple with a few mixed in pine & hemlock.
My oldest brother was in the army and served over twenty years, three tours over in Vietnam. At the end of his service he was stationed in Texas. They lived in kileen. They lived out of town and had a five acre lot. Way back then about thirty years ago in that area it cost to much to hunt private property so he never hunted there. >'m sure it is worse now with high prices to gain acess on ranches to hunt.
This area it is easy to gain acess on private land to hunt & trap on.
I take a month off of work every year to fly out here to deer hunt and visit my family.
We will.be selling our house in Washington, forty miles north od Seattle and will be moving back to New York. Probably some where in Chenango County, cheaper taxes and excellent deer hunting and there are snowshoe rabbits there. > love rabbit hunting with a pair of beagles, love coon hunting too.
Our place will sell for around $325.000, we owe $40,000 on it so we will have close to $275,00 to buy a place back here.
I can buy a four bedroom house on twenty-five to thirty-five acres for around $180,000.
I will probably buy a beagle pup next spring and get it started on rabbits out there in Washington so when we move back here it will be trained out and be ready to hunt.
I have a couple old Ithaca model 66 in 20 gauge
That I like to use when hunting rabbits. One ofvthem has a vent-rib.
I might pick up two 20 gauge Ithaca pumps and two 20 gauge semi-auto shotguns for small game hunting.
I take my grandson out to shoot every weekend from spring to late fall. We go for the day, from 8 am until it starts to get dark. I reload so he gets to shoot a lot all day long. Centerfire rifles, centerfire handguns, rimfire rifles & rimfire handguns. At nine years old he can shoot better then most adults.
I have a old Stevens 20 gauge side by side double barrel shotgun he uses to shoot trap with. He can hit them pretty decent for just starting out shooting clay pigeons.
I raise pigeon (white racing homers) for doing white dove releases for weddings, funerals and memorials so I raise plenty of culls( white birds with dark feathers). So when he gets better on the clay pigeons he can shoot the real deal and we will have pigeons for diner.
We are raising three of our grandkids, mason which is 9 years old, a 8 year old granddaughter and a 2 & 1/2 year old granddaughter.
I thought my kid raiseing days were over twenty years ago but things in life change. You never know what lies around the next corner in life.
Over in Greene New York there are two round dairy barns built in the early 1900s. Still in good shape.
Next trip to Greene I will get a picture of the other round barn, they are pretty neat.
The jeep fired right up, in spite of 10 months of neglect.
), so this one is still out there. 
