Dan Andrews

I've decided to hunt coyotes this year. There's definitely an abundance of them and many other hunters give me the cold shoulder as if I'm not doing my part. That said I know it's illegal to hunt with deer hunting gear without a current tag but I'd be using the same bow and broadheads. Aside from calls what are the main differences in gear? Killed my first yote this year and have since let his brother and hunting partner walk twice now. However my son finally wants to take up meat harvesting so I figured we can hone in our bow and stealth skills in the off season. Any advice is appreciated. 😎

Do we have a used b&s sale section here? Looking for game cams and tree stands if you got an upgrade for Christmas. I do not buy stolen items.

Those yotes look like they have winter or breeding coats already. It's been a strange year. I took my first one this year. I may go back after my deer season ends and take a few more. Yes the deer pops seem to have crashed this year.

Well you gotter done! I've averaged 2 days per week including the weeks of shotgun (didn't hunt just added for stats). Saw a shooter today and 5 more yards and he would have been in the truck but he winded me and turned just on time. Dam NE wind

Just posted on yt a few minutes ago

I saw trail cams for sale at Costco in Niagara Falls this week. I believe they were 179. Shows 199 online. Personally I'd prefer both cellular and IR. I think the lights just help them get stolen so I'd prefer no LEDs This is the first year I really gave them any consideration. I've never had a problem finding the deer before. I have permission on a large property with hardwood, bedding scrub and bean field. Used to be twice the size but the owner severed before selling to this farmer. I'd actually just like to set up on some scrapes to see if it's the little guy I've been passing on or if there is a nocturnal buck visiting. I'd love to do some of the videos for social media where they leave 2 kinds of food in the woods to see what gets eaten first.

Do you do them? I see calls being used successfully in the hunting shows down south but I've never had any luck here except for antler clacking. I find clacking antlers brings in young bucks. I have several grunt and bleat calls that were given to me but I can't say I've ever heard an actual deer call while I'm hunting. Are our deer not vocal in the North? Snorting and nasal clearing yes I've heard that but the only calls I've ever heard sounded more like a fawn grunt and always turned out to be a sassy bluejay. I usually only hear the nasal blows when I've been busted. Anyone here ever have success grunt calling in a buck or should I just be more concerned about set up placement and sit silent?

Oh ya getting ready now but the rain is supposed to return around 2. I found some new scrapes that are a good size so I'm guessing they just know where my usual set ups are. So going out around 12-1230 for a 5 hour sit. I have been seeing big bucks just not where I have permission and a buddy had plenty walking by but I wouldn't eat them from there. They are what they eat also so I don't hunt industrial areas. Any see the leaders for Erie tracker's contest this year? Wow that's all I can say. There are.some.massive registrants so far.

And no sooner do I post this and the sun comes out unexpectedly in Fort Erie

Yep I'm just going to start giving all my business to Malloy. I've had a beef with him for years over Bob Mackie but it's well past time to put that to bed. Mackie is long passed away and Malloy knows his stuff and has great local customer service and we don't have to pay inflated prices for all that bling BP has.

Those are expensive turkeys. I'd have no issue controlling myself but I'd be nervous. Deer and turkey hang out together and a Turkey's keen vision will bust you long before a deer's hearing or sense of smell. I usually only get mornings like that if I have no camera and especially in the off season like during the spring shed hunt.

I've certainly been putting the time in this year, but I haven't been seeing any shooters. I've got plenty of does and fawns and I've seen one small six-pointer out of range. There's a fork that begged me three times to kill it and I regret passing up now. Last year I plinked an eight-pointer on my second sit (Oct 6) and I had my choice of him or his twin. There were so many deer to choose from but not this year for some reason. This weekend us archers got ripped off for the weather. 7° c and I'm dressed for January and I'm wet and the deer are bedded down. Only three days this year have I not seen a deer while hunting and although I did not go out this morning, I'm expecting more of the same as I did yesterday. Tonnes of squirrels.and Bluejays. I can't hunt afterwork since the time change so after today I'm looking at 2 weeks off and that leaves only a couple weekends left. It sure would have been nice to get a little sunshine this weekend but that's hunting I guess. Good luck today. Your season temporarily ends at 5:12pm.

Hard to watch just due to the hair 😆 but he's got a good argument. Pretty much sums it up at the 13 minute mark. I don't buy his ear plug wiggling loose argument but the rest I think he is spot on

If you're looking for historical imagery go to the regions website and use Niagara Navigator. It has areal photography as far back as 1934 and depending on what your looking for some areas have clearer pictures in different years due to the wind. I have spotted many shipwrecks using this site as well as a car that's still at the mouth of the flight locks in Thorold. I wonder if there's still a skeleton in there

Jim Kinner and "deer meat for dinner" Some good local scuba videos on Jim's channel but recently I discovered polkadotperch. They have some educational stuff and they also have water trail cams which is cool. Here's their latest:

I see this down the Niagara Parkway also. I was actually duck hunting out of a kayak when I spotted some guy with a large pruning saw working his ass off to cut down all the saplings in front of his large waterfront home. He kept looking up to see if he had been caught yet. Those trees in Henley were a respectable size and mostly Carolinian species. Cutting them down may destabilize the soil. This is one way beavers have such a large impact on areas they expand to. I suggest they pay the city to replace those trees with something quick. Maybe they can negotiate lower growing cover but I doubt it's up for discussion now.

I don't have any for this exact reason. A buddy had one stolen. Only recovered it because of 2 things. 1: The thief was wearing a Kermit the frog hat. 2: He was caught on the second camera pointed at the first camera. Had he spotted the second camera it would have been an expensive endeavour. I don't have money so I'm not willing to hang $300 per unit in a tree for trespassers to take and even if you get a clear picture of them and have the cellular service, good luck getting them to give it back. Also never buy a used unit unless you know the seller. It's likely stolen or doesn't work well.. I'd really love to have a few but unfortunately poachers do trespass. Buddy caught one on cam last night a few fields over from where I hunt. Guy looked to be around 65 years old..

Leaving the windpipe isn't gutting a deer in my opinion. Get it all or it's a job not finished. I saw a picture yesterday of a deer being processed and there were nasal bots crawling out of the neck as he calved off the head. Ya no thanks not leaving those in there. I'm thinking taking the head off before hanging it might be a good idea now

These cops don't have confidence in their trade?

Wow! Kinda looks like a bit of a freak rack in the first picture

222TIPS line is the best way. Tell them you wish to speak to a CO.

Got a person at MNRF. Basspro is full of doo-doo. Second year in a row they gave me bad info. 89 still exists!

I was told that Bass pro today that they eliminated 89A and now everything is 88 Bows only, no shotgun and that this happened mid-season so it doesn't show in the books. So I went online to the ministry's website and all maps still show 89A with 88 North of the Welland River. Can anyone else confirm this? I was thinking of calling the MNRF but I don't want to be on the phone all weekend waiting to talk to a person. Did the guys that didn't hear back happen to apply for 89?

Gotter done early this year. Wasn't waiting for that time change and cold weather crap. Was probably the warmest day in Oct but it got cold that night for storage. 2 days before I sat in a blind for my first sit and saw 14 deer across the field. The 15th deer came in behind me and busted me. So waited until October 6th and a weather front was coming in. Wind from the NE so I grabbed a chair, headed across the soy field and snuggled into some scrub in a ditch. Soon came a set of twin bucks with their soybean vacuums on full. Both headed straight into me. Finally one turned for 2 seconds and just as he started to turn back towards me I let go. 3 more seconds and they be right on top of me and the chaos of white flashing would begin. I waited the 30 minutes and went looking in the direction I thought it ran. NO BLOOD!. Walked to the edge of the soy field then circled the entire field without spotting one drop. One last pass now in the dark and the spotlight spotted something white. He didn't run the direction I thought. That was the twin. He never made it out of the field. Now the work begins and its hot. Can't tell you how many times I laid on the trail exhausted but with the help of my wife I got him in the truck where he spent the night with a 2X6 holding his cavity open. It got cold so he sat for a day while I worked and after boning him out my son called for help with the truck so off went 2 large coolers of meat to the butcher to be cut and wrapped. We enjoyed the tenderloin barely cooked with a little steak spice. It's now Christmas eve and I have a large roast thawing as this Fort Erie blizzard isn't allowing us to get out for Christmas dinner this year. Merry Christmas everyone. Remember what's important like family and independence. Respect your prey and help prop up its environment. Make sure to give back and be thankful.

Aren't these made from trees? I agree though they'll make good kindling. I wonder if that private jet JT is flying all over the globe uses these. Probably dumps his royal hienes's turds right over the forest these forks were made with.