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| 9pt Bloomfield NY |
Day three of the season was a good one. The wind was out of the NNE which dictated my hunt yesterday AM. I decided to hunt the area where my trail cam had picked up all those pictures of nice bucks the previous week. I purposely came at dawn break as I knew it would be quiet walking. I had observed the rut in full swing the last two days so I thought I might catch one nosing a doe or hear one grunting. Sure enough 100 yards into the woods this buck ran up to me with his nose on the ground. As I raised my gun he took off, and hunting with a black powder Omega 50 cal I was not going to pop off a quick shot. The buck stopped about 50 yards from me and presented his front shoulder between two trees. I shot, he ran about 100 yards and died literally on the main tractor path.
I got him home and tried to call in the tag # to the DEC, but their system does not allow you to use Blackberrys to key in the report. This is an unfortunate flaw with their system as I had to find a land line to call it in.
That evening Jessica and I headed out to the Krause property and sat in the large platform. We counted 11 turkeys. At dusk two does walked up to us and Jessica did not have a quality shot. I took a shot, hit her, but after an hour of looking we decided to come back this AM to find it. Day 3 and our hunting party has 5 bucks hanging.....not too bad.
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