http://www.eders.com/products/military.

it will save them a bunch of money and God knows those guys deserve some credit for all they’ve done for us.

As i’ve mentioned in the past, I hunt primarily two spots. One spot in New Jersey and another in Long Island, New York.

LONG ISLAND
My hunting buddy, Harry shot a really nice eight pointer in Long Island on Holloween see below:

This land is only 4 acres and is surrounded by the suburbs. The deer Harry shot was the resident “nice buck”. I had seen it along with a little 4 pointer before. After harry shot it, we gave the property a break for a while and eagerly awaited the Rut so we would get more big bucks travelling through our little hunting spot. I don’t know if it was just us, but we haven’t really seen good signs of the rut on this property. I’ve hunted hard since the 5th and seen very few deer there and no deer chasing. From talking to other Long Island bowhunters, the rut is actually starting to end now and my last good hope will be next week.

NEW JERSEY
Its been a similar story for us in New Jersey. Where we were seeing tons of deer before November and had great expectations for the rut. While my hunting partner there did finally see the Piebald in the woods while hunting..see below:

Though he didn’t get a shot at it. He also had a big pig come to his stand but also didn’t get a shot (that was a little over a weak ago and since we never had a photo on the game camera of that one, we were thinking the rut was starting to kick in). Making a long story short, after seeing that buck (over a week ago) neither of us have seen any good bucks and not many does. It has been very strange. The only thing I can contribute this to is the fact that I’ve seen a number of coyotes on this land recently and had never seen them before. If the coyotes are holding up on our hunting spot it clearly cant be good for hunting.

FUTURE HUNTING
Today is Friday November 13th, and the weather in the northeast is terrible. 25mph wind and rain. I’m taking tomorrow off but will be hunting hard on sunday and monday and will hopefully have good news to post early next week.

Good Hunting
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I’ve got trophy deer within two hours in every direction and in four different states. This year I will be hunting New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.

NEW JERSEY
The New Jersey land is a beautiful piece of property that my hunting buddy got us permission to hunt. We have permission to hunt about 80 acres of land…woods and fields. We put the camera at a natural bottle neck (a small strip of land that leads from the woods to a river/food supplies)

The Camera location/Treestand Location is right between a river, two fields and a prime bedding/staging location. As you can see from the photos, there are plenty of deer walking by.

This photo was taken in early September...I was surprised the buck was still in velvet.

Every year we have a pack of does and fawns running around the woods. Usually, these are the only deer you see. Of course on the opening day this year, we needed to fill doe tags first and we didn't see one of these girls.

We've got a bunch of pictures of these two bucks hanging out together. Both my hunting partner and I saw this Piebald last year and werent sure if we'd shoot it. It put on some good antler growth and now we are both hoping to get a shot at it.

What do you think...would you take this buck?

The camera I used was the Reconyyx RC60 – Reconyx RapidFire Convert Color IR High Output Camera
http://www.eders.com/products/reconyx-rapidfire-convert-color-ir-high-output-camera-camo.html
or
http://www.bowhuntingoutlet.com/rc60-rapidfire-covert-colorir.html

It was very easy to set up and I got hundreds of great photos from the pre-season.

The coolest deer that showed itself to the camera was a piebald buck. I hunted a week ago with no luck but now I know what I’m looking for. I’ll be hunting Jersey again next week.

New York
Hunting Long Island, New York is really interesting. I primarily hunt a 4-acre piece of woods that a friend owns. To most people hunting four acres sounds crazy, but believe it or not this piece of property has a ton of deer on it (it is surrounded by corn and a vineyard and there are not a lot of woods around the northfork or long island so this little spot is a tru honey hole. I’ll be putting a camera out on this land on sunday

Pennsylvania
My brother Rob recently moved to Pa, near the Pocanos and has a lot of deer running around his woods. I will be getting out there at the end of october beginning of November. He’s been scouting a lot and i’ll post some pics of Pa soon as well.