Finally!!! Season was SLOW up until this past weekend. On Saturday I went down to the river bottom in Letchworth with Stryker. Shot a nice 10 point that ran across the river and bedded on an island. I finished him off there at about 100 yards. So now I have a deer laying on an island in the middle of the raging river. What to do...Swim I guess. 20 degrees and I am stripping down and swimming across the river (ice cold....see picture of me in long johns). Did get the deer though (about 110"). Largest bodied deer I have ever shot (had to be over 200 pounds dressed). Floated across the river well though, despite the weight (haha).

Sunday I finished off someone elses wounded 8pt in my backyard on my way to my stand in the afternoon (deer was shot in the rear...wound looked about a day old, but already had a good slime and smell to it). Got in my stand at 3:30 and by 4:30 I had shot two big does and seen 12. Dragged both deer out together (check out Jocelyn's photo of my drag marks). One doe was huge (check out how much bigger she is than the 8pt.). Anyway, what an unbelievable weekend. That's the way things go when we finally get snow. Hopefully you all did as well. Check out our winter snow plow tractor (should be fun!)