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  1. the lake gave up some gold yesterday
    9 points
  2. I removed some offensive posts
    7 points
  3. My Neighbor took care of doing my Euro mount. He wanted to try a type of way of doing it with a constant temperature but changing out the water. It took three weeks and one week in peroxide. Love the end product. He used an aquarium heater to keep the temps the same.
    7 points
  4. If you're better off now then you were 4 years ago, you're probably an illegal.
    6 points
  5. Last sunday's hare hunt adventure. Barely any snow...just a patch here and there. Hunted 3 hours no jumps. Moved a different spot another state forest and not 50 feet off the road I spy a hare sitting in a 10 foot deep depression in the ground. I decided to let the beagle sight chase it And track it. The dog sees it jump out and begins barking trailing almost immediately. I maneuver Into an open area; But 50 yds or so away suddenly the barks stopped. ??? I'm thinking a hole ? I move to where gunner is and find an old house foundation with a hole aside a tree. I immediately remembered that it was the same hole from last year's wounded hare I shot at in a foot of snow . Go figure! Hare do go to ground . Contrary to popular belief. I'm thinking it may have been a female possibly? Either way a smart hare . We didn't jump another the rest of the day. Rain came around 2pm so I headed home. I'm glad the dog seen it at least. Those hare sit tight ! Till next season I hope this hare reproduces.
    4 points
  6. Noticed a little bit of white chalky haze starting to develop in places on my rubber coated binoculars, read somewhere about using Armor All to rid that stuff away. Have some Armor All wipes laying around for use in my car so I gave the binos a wipe down with one and bingo, haze gone and better than new, rejuvenated the rubber coating perfectly. Al
    4 points
  7. My friend that let me hunt his land and take my 8 point buck in 2023 knows I'm a motorcycle guy and was telling me his 94 year old father has an old motorcycle in the barn that he used to ride when he was young. I asked if I could see it and he invited me over yesterday to look at it. It turned out to be a 1914 Indian that is in ratty shape, but all of the original parts are still there (except the front tire). It hasn't been run in decades, but it's been in a dry barn and seems to be very restorable. After looking it over, the old man said he is not interested in selling it and invited me into his house to show me some other things he's collected over the years. He has a cool custom made 45 caliber muzzle loader that is beautiful and at least 50 years old, but I'm not familiar with the maker. He has many other things he's collected from around the world as well. Old firearms, bows, spears, shields and knives adorn the walls of his home. Each one has a story to go along with it too. He also has a 1970 Cadillac Coupe De Ville convertibe in the garage that is in pristine condition and keeps on a battery tender so he can take it out for a drive every so often in the summer. I never pass up any opportunity to meet and chat with people as old as he is. They experienced an entirely different world and the stories they tell and things they still have in their possession from decades ago always fascinate me. It's like speaking to living history.
    4 points
  8. https://x.com/endwokeness/status/1765802719883706763?s=46&t=inCz-cTYW-UskMOJaYD_Og
    4 points
  9. A couple of years ago my youngest son started to show interest in riding motorcycles (I ride an old Kawasaki). I told him I'd look for one for him. He's a new rider. We agreed it had to be safe, reliable and somewhat cool. "Right up my alley" I'm thinking. Enter a 1983 Kawasaki KZ440 LTD D5 into the show. Story and pics to follow.
    4 points
  10. We saw a dog running away when we were heading into the second stand of the night. It disappeared over a hill, so we kept going, but we decided to split up to cover more ground. This dog came right between the fields we set up in and I had to wait till it got into a safe area for me to fire. Medium sized female.
    4 points
  11. Broad daylight, and the deer have checked the calendar and the hunting regulations and are once again comfortable grazing in the front yard again. How on Earth do they figure out when to come out from deep cover. How do they know so quickly that hunting season is over and that the human scent all around my house is no longer something to fear? They look good. Everyone has got all their legs, and they are still rolling in fat.
    4 points
  12. Ha-ha-ha-ha.......we still have a functioning dial phone. It was a riot watching my nephew trying to figure out how to use it. It is kept mostly as novelty now, but it still works.
    4 points
  13. Dropped this dog after watching it limp across a field and then into the wetlands that borders the field we were setting up in. Beautiful night for thermal. Only had three and a half legs.
    3 points
  14. Holy $H!T! Thanks a lot! In my almost 50 years of hunting, I never did like going to or leaving my stand in the dark. You just cured me for good. I now think I will officially join the 10am until 2PM hunting crowd! lol
    3 points
  15. First ever one pointer/spike!
    3 points
  16. 189# And 206#. Most are 160-180lbs run down from rutting.
    3 points
  17. 217lbs dressed, my biggest although I did kill one other at 205lbs.
    3 points
  18. Took this New Hampshire buck 2 years ago, field dressed at 174lbs. I’ll never see anything that fat in Sullivan County
    3 points
  19. This state is only interested in the money that is generated by hunting,nothing more.That being said it will be another left wing zealot that is only put there for the governor's butt kissing.
    3 points
  20. I have done quite a bit of fishing in the Erie-Barge canal between Rome and Oneida lake, my main target was mostly Carp but I also caught good numbers of Walleyes, Small Mouth Bass, White Bass and Crappie and I ate them. Were they safe?, I do not know for sure but they tasted good and I am still around. Al
    3 points
  21. He was, eye was punctured. Small amount of dried puss near it. No other issues beside the droopy ear. Weighed 187 dressed.
    2 points
  22. Congrats, nice catch, no finer eating than Perch. Al
    2 points
  23. I wish Remington all the luck and hope they can Manufacture a great product again. They had some really good firearms, in the day.
    2 points
  24. Okay, so now take the next step and put all that into an Excel spreadsheet. That is where all historical and scientific data belongs. Millions of ways to sort, find, and massage and analyze the data that you accumulate. That is the system that I use to record all the hunting data that I have accumulated over the past 40 years or so. It should work well with gun performance and reload-recipe data too. Just imagine: Bullet manufacturers, weights, styles Powder brands, weights, etc. Case manufacturers comments about case sizing and techniques Primer I.D. Any notes about pressure signs or potential malfunctions Overall bullet length Trajectory Chronograph notes Group size remarks You might even want to include cost data for bullets and components And of course that all important "Comments" column What have I forgotten? there must be something. Oh this might also be a good place to record your inventory of reloading equipment: Powder scales, tricklers, presses, etc., etc. Anytime that I have data to record, Excel is my tool for that. Keeping a good back-up procedure guarantees safe keeping of data. For best records safety, back-ups need to be stored someplace other than where the computer is located. What do you think? Good idea or pain in the neck?
    2 points
  25. Yes, and whichever way one chooses to go about it it's still called "hunting". The meaning of the word doesn't change. Hunting has been around forever and I'm sure the hunters of 1000 years ago weren't challenging themselves and holding off for the biggest or best. They killed what they could to survive. We obviously don't need to hunt to survive these days but again the concept is the same as it always was.
    2 points
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