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Why do some blast other legal methods for taking game?? If you want to hunt with a recurve, make your own arrows, great... I shoot a compound... We should both support the other and not bash one another... If I hunt with an in line and you want to take out a flint lock... Awesome!!! But to tell me I shouldn't be able to hunt during muzzle loader... Why... I pour powder down the barrel just like you.. I get one shot just like you... What's with the bashing between the groups... I hunt deer with a gun.. you only bow hunt them... OK... but why bash the gun hunter or call the bow hunter a wounder?? Seriously.. if it is a legal method to hunt with, the hunter is ethical, respectful to other hunters and land owners... Who cares what they use??? Most of the time on here it is good posts, helpful, etc.. but sometimes I see an almost elitist approach to hunting either a specific weapon or method that really would turn away any new hunter from talking on here or maybe even hunting... I just don't understand it,.. We are hunting brothers/sisters, no one but us understands that feeling we all get when the quarry gets close... Why bash each other??? Or... as once was said... "Why can't we all just get along?"... LOL

Well said. I see two main issues.One we have the purists in both bow and ML, who seem to feel the 'new' equipment is not as pure a challange as theirs. Yet most of them find no problem with tree stands,scent loc and the like. Then there is the me,me me crowd. Those guys kill MY deer,they mess up MY land,they kill, MY deer before they get to the size I want blah blah blah. Obey the law,the landonwers wishes,hunt safe oh and have FUN. Its just deer hunting, get over it.

the thing to remember is, the people here aren't the ones making the changes.. so being rude here does nothing but make us fight amongst ourselves... Trust me.. I am a strong believer in a lot of things.. When I see a post I don't agree with, I try to either avoid posting or just give my side... Attacking someone does nothing positive for anyone.. If you want to make changes, sadly the political route is in order.. Not personal attacks here... my thinking only...

I don't know about that - it depends on who's at the check out. I've had clerks allowing me to use a $10 coupon on a sale of $45 and others who made me buy something to make it over the $50 mark.

Well, obviously that isn't the way I interpreted it. Perhaps I was reading it with too much of a bias based on other similar threads that I have read. I think it is because the lines often get blurred between just expressing an opinion, and using opinion to bash other hunters equipment, methods, etc. At any rate if that is what was meant, then I have to agree. We had two topics on here in particular that I felt were out of line. They were basically the "I hate Bowhunters" and the "I hate Gunhunters" threads. That's not really something that I think belongs on a hunting forum.

I hunt with bow, shotgun, ml, rifle, on the right day any of them are easy to kill with, on the rest of the days its a challenge. That is whats called reality.

No wonder I didn't see any deer. You shot them all! lol Congrats to you and your family.

We're pretty much screwed in the long run. The anti's could sit back and watch us destroy ourselves with internal conflict. Between our own bickering and the pressure from the anti's, we really need to smarten up if we want to exist much longer.

Unfortunately many of the regulation changes ARE based on opinions of the special interest groups. Not to turn this into an AR thing but DEC has openly said their moves in those areas are based on opinions with no benefit other than social. So a opinion against your view could and should be viewed as a move against your position. It can happen and has. I think the key is to do it in a civil way.

Guys we manage them every year, hunting season is management.

Neither. I'm not in favor of AR's. I think the buck take should be based on wildlife biology. If the population can only handle 1 buck per year, fine. If it can handle several, cool, though I don't know what I'd do with all that deer meat. I trust that the DMP's would still be given out based on the same theories that they are today.

Thanks Burt and Wny, first doe that gave me a good chance this year and I didn't waste it.

Sorry, this post has nothing to it, I just wanted to get my 900th post. Carry on..............

great prices shopped in middletown better than gander down the road ten fold also shopped in garden city but being a LARAGE dept store you feel like home depot when asking for help , i like glencove ,bensons and il outdoorsman, more personell and they actually hunt and fish

Wow first time im ever hearing you can hunt shotgun in long island. How do you apply? Where to hunt state land?