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This cracks me up. I can not think of one single fault in a landowner enhancing there property with foodplots. Wait........ nope not one. So since we all can read where this is going, please someone enlighten me as to how its different from sitting over an overgrown apple orchard or underneath that mass acorn crop or a trail leading to the farmers corn field. What some see is a man made field of bait, which is no different than that 80 year old planted apple orchard or the farmers crop you might hunt on the edge of your property blah blah blah.. What you are missing are several factors that are blind to some. Such as giving back for taking. Plain enjoyment of seeing animals of all walks utilizing your work, helping animals get through tough winters, time spent with family turning over dirt and watching it grow, pictures of what animals are in your woods. Some hunt over them some dont. I dont and never have. See I also know what some are thinking and that is foodplotters are a lazy bunch and dont want to put time in a stand to harvest a deer and instead bring them to the hunter. Well to that I have to say have you ever put in a food plot? I can promise that its a long hard tedious process that requires alot more labor than sittting in the woods for a hunting season, even at few hours a day for a couple months is alot less labor intensive. And yet we still do just that as well. You add up the time and work putting in a plot on top of the time in the woods hunting you might be rather suprise exacatly how many hours are involved. You see some things in life you dont justify with cost, you justify it with the love of wildlife and the passion to enhance a piece of property.

Fortunantly for the rest of us you are mistaken and gun ownership IS a guaranteed right.

Truly a sad tragedy! I already heard on the news that gun control has to get tougher. The debates are going to start again based upon this incident. IMO gun control laws should be more lenient and if someone in the theater were carrying, the death penalty could have been administered right then and there saving countless lives and preventing further injuries.

A couple of weeks ago, I got pre-approved for a mortgage. Since then, we have been looking at houses. All I have to say, is wow. Its amazing to me what people try to pass off and sometime just downright lie about when selling their home. Today we saw a house that was advertised as having 3 bedrooms, and when we got there, actually had 2. The realtor said, well, you could add a third by framing in a wall or two in the finished basement. Are you serious? Then others with huge, glaring problems that they apparently expect people to look past. Just amazing to me. The good news is, we found a house that we wre just waiting for the realtor to get back to us on, and we are going to put an offer on it.

Yes its a clip from a TV series but if this does not make you stop and think.................

I finally had a chance to get my bow out and clean it up this morning. I decided to shoot for a bit before things got going for the day as well. Figured I would shoot a group, then move to spots. Heres the first 5 arrows of the year for me at 20 yards. Not bad, I hope it just gets better the more I shoot. Ive been having shoulder issues for months, but have been feeling a bit better the last couple of weeks.

The shooter never should have been taken alive . Chances are that the prosecution will screw up and he will get off easy .

When I saw the Topic , I thought it was going to be a pic of Doc .

STOP posting photos... there are NO big bucks in Steuben County (everybody knows that!). Especially over bait sights!

Nice buck. Just an FYI, more than one guy got tickets from DEC last year for posting pics of bait piles on the internet. It was all spelled out on a couple of the lists of tickets handed out.

Just for the record, it is illegal no matter what time of the year it is. Just ask my neighbor pending a court hearing and a fine if they are legal or not!

I say we just ban murder.... .....oh wait.....

Yep - a few more 2 and 3 year old bucks to kill before they mature.

You have to wonder just how many gun control laws are enough. For decades, we have written and passed more laws regarding gun control than we will ever be able to completely understand. Volumes of local, state and federal laws have filled up law books to the point where every aspect other than outright firearms bans have been covered multiple times. What kind of additional laws will be the magic solution. I keep hearing that we need to pass more laws to somehow screen out these wackos from ever getting a gun, but the fact is that no one seems to recognize that humans often react randomly. And there really is no way of controlling the entire U.S. citizenry to the extent that you can eliminate all possibilities of some random person flipping out. It is nice to say, "there ought to be a law to ..... ", but I am more interested in what specific laws do people think would eliminate these unpredictable acts. I don't hear a lot of that kind of useful discussion. But I know where a lot of that kind of thinking usually gets to when you press people on this. That would be the complete elimination of firearms in the country.

Sad but true, they will use this as an excuse to blame gun owners. Funny how no one ever blamed the method to kill 87 people back in the Bronx in 1990. 87 people dead and no one called for new legislation to prevent it from happening again. Always remind those around you that gun control is about people control and not guns.

I despise the fact that my Tax Dollars are going to house and feed this lowlife for the rest of his life !

Excellent observation. I find it funny how many think they would blow someone like him away if they were there with their pistols. I say BS to that. Even highly trained law enforcement don't always get the job done the way they would want when the crap hits the fan. I really doubt someone who shoots a few times a year would turn into a superman in a situation like that. Yeah, there might be some cool handed lukes walking around with pistols, but I tell you they are very few and far in between. Just go to any shooting range and see how well the average gun owner can shoot. Nothing to write home about, that's for darned sure. Best way to be a hero is to get yourself and those around you out of there quickly.

skin him alive, then roll him in sea salt...

I have never heard of agricultural fawn deaths being factored into deer mortality figures..That's not saying it isn't, but I suspect it was higher 30 or 40 years ago when there was MUCH more property in upstate NY involved in actual farming than there is now. Most agricultural fawn deaths occur during haying operations.. In my area of NY there is far less acreage involved in haying than there was when I was a kid..At that time the main land use involved dairy farming, which requires lots of haying. Nowadays, the main land use involves recreation, either vacation parcels or hunting land.. I talked to two of my local friends just last Friday..One of them is 67 and the other is 70. They have both cut acres and acres of hay every year for many years..One guy said he had never killed a fawn while haying.. The other one said he had killed two, co-incidentally both this year. I suspect free running dogs kill more fawns than farm equiptment, and I am SURE that coyotes kill more, at least in my area... In parts of the state with more open farmland and less brush/woods/ scrub the fawn mortality is probably higher..

my guess..... they'd taste like sunflowers....lol