Gun Season

Well the annual whitetail deer gun season is upon us here in WNY. A time we look forward too for the entire off season.  This year was no exception.  For a week before opening day I anxiously awaited departure for our southern tier hunting and fishing camp, Plumbottom.  Gear packed, food and drink purchased, tree stands in tow we were ready to harvest an Alleghany County monster and start the season off with a bang.  How appropriate cuz that's how the season would kick off, with a bang.  A bang. A bang at one of those times when you are no where near prepared to harvest a huge mature whitetail. At about 11:45am the second day of the season I was sitting in a rocking tree stand as there was a good amount of wind when there was what sounded like a bulldozer coming through the woods behind me.  I stood and turned slightly to see what the commotion was about and two doe were standing looking behind them when a huge 8 point buck all of 140" stepped from the scrub brush at 75 yards. Bringing the gun up and focusing on the stud buck the prize does trotted to a patch of pines and the buck started after them. Safety off, trigger pulled and into the pines the buck followed his girls. Down the pines they scooted and out of site for the Rest of the trip.  The largest buck I had ever had the chance of harvesting and off he trotted with one thing on his mind and it wasn't my horrible luck.  Shortly after just for me I was kept company by a small doe who took up bedding fifteen feet from the bottom of my stand for three hours. Not having dmp's for the area I was stuck hanging with the young lady for the afternoon.  

Now Mike Baehr, Gary's brother, had no problem with his four year old stud opening day. Harvesting a score able  11point opening morning just after sunrise.  This is a beautiful buck that we've seen on the Beahr Farms for a couple seasons and have plenty of pictures of him on trail cameras.  

Also on the Beahr Farms GTO Outdoors jr member Trevor got the job done with his first ever deer putting this nice list swamp donkey on the ground around the same time I was missing the buck of my career done in the southern tier.   Great job Trevor. Trevor's dad team gto member Gary Beahr has had a great season so far filling all his doe tags, but has not had the chance to fulfill that buck tag. Gary is looking to tag out with something that puts his little brother's monster to shame. Good luck with that brother.

We will continue to keep on these whitetails while we fit some late season ducks and steelhead into the equation as well. Stay tuned for more GTO whitetail updates from the 2013 season. 

Thanks 

 Billy