Thanks to the Forum I have had the pleasure of meeting a new friend, NYDAN. I have also had the pleasure of meeting a Canadian gentleman who I shall identify as John_K while hunting at Upper Canyon Outfitters in Montana in 2014. John and I have maintained a casual connection in the interim and decided it would be nice to hunt together this fall for big NY Whitetail bucks.
Not having my personal hunting preserve to host John, I approached NYDAN with the possibility of hunting his 267 acre preserve at the end of the rifle season. Dan graciously consented and offered his Mother's house which is now vacant.
Dan went above and beyond being a good host. He wrote out a list of the 8 different shooting huts/blinds and the conditions in which each would likely be productive, ie. north wind/evening.
John was very impressed by the variety of options and varied terrain available, level valley to hilltops, and the quality of the blinds. John said that Dan's farm is the most beautifully maintained hunting property that he has been to..
John said the his experience in Whitetail hunting in Ontario usually yields less than a handful of deer sightings in a season. In the 4 days that we hunted Dan's preserve he saw in excess of 50 different deer of which four were bucks, none of which were shooters.
Yesterday, our last day to hunt Dan put us on watch while he bird dogged for us. John saw two bucks and I shot a nice Whitetail doe to support a Youth Group church function. Dan and John both agreed that if I had shot her with a 35 Wilhelm in addition to being DRT, she likely would have been dressed out too...
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John and I both enjoyed Dan's Yankee Hospitality, and an awesome 4 days. Now I will end this post and leave it to Dan to fill in the details.
Not having my personal hunting preserve to host John, I approached NYDAN with the possibility of hunting his 267 acre preserve at the end of the rifle season. Dan graciously consented and offered his Mother's house which is now vacant.
Dan went above and beyond being a good host. He wrote out a list of the 8 different shooting huts/blinds and the conditions in which each would likely be productive, ie. north wind/evening.
John was very impressed by the variety of options and varied terrain available, level valley to hilltops, and the quality of the blinds. John said that Dan's farm is the most beautifully maintained hunting property that he has been to..
John said the his experience in Whitetail hunting in Ontario usually yields less than a handful of deer sightings in a season. In the 4 days that we hunted Dan's preserve he saw in excess of 50 different deer of which four were bucks, none of which were shooters.
Yesterday, our last day to hunt Dan put us on watch while he bird dogged for us. John saw two bucks and I shot a nice Whitetail doe to support a Youth Group church function. Dan and John both agreed that if I had shot her with a 35 Wilhelm in addition to being DRT, she likely would have been dressed out too...
.John and I both enjoyed Dan's Yankee Hospitality, and an awesome 4 days. Now I will end this post and leave it to Dan to fill in the details.
