Whitetail Deer Hunting My Way [Hardcover]

Ten years ago, if it was deer season, I was in the woods. I still try to follow that rule, but New York State has made the hunting season so long I can't afford the loss of income for that amount of time. On top of that, seventy or more days open for deer season is a wicked strain on my senses. I'm hung up on the quarter-moon phase for my dream buck hunts. I always plan my hunts around these two moons. The old deer season lengths of the seventies and eighties only allowed for one full-moon phase. Nowadays, the length of the bow/gun deer season allows for two full-moon phases. A small part of my reasoning here for a shorter deer hunting season is envy, I suppose. The fact is, I'm self-employed and is forced to be on my hands and knees laying stone, watching these two extra quarter moons go through their phases, and not being able to fit them in to my budget. I will hopefully make more sense on the moon theory later on in the stories. Pay attention because there is tip after tip buried in each story, maybe not always a new one but there's a bunch of them here. In the last chapter in this book, I go on a bit about the way I think a quality deer herd should come about. I know this section causes a lot of friction among hunters because there are lots of folks who could give a crap about quality in a deer herd, and I do understand your side, but this is my book. This is a book of facts, and this is the reason I added this chapter. All items I argue for or against in this chapter have all proven themselves to me over a lifetime of deer hunting for the making of some big horns. Now you can sit back and hopefully enjoy a fact-filled humorous look at whitetail deer hunting done my way in Columbia and Greene Counties of New York State.