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As I am loading the truck my dog decided he was ready to hunt and was in his blind watching for birds.

Maybe i'll spray doe pee on those 2 arrows .

I mean for god's sake, it's deer hunting, it's supposed to be fun, not a competition on who get's the biggest deer......the deer camp's of old are going by the wayside and we're seeing more and more solo hunter's consumed by the quest to harvest the biggest deer....growing big deer with food plot's and sitting over them for deer is not what I enjoy, to me this turned it into more of a business than something we do for pleasure.

Elmer, youd have to post a pic of your spike first, slammer second....

Early season success in Washington County.............thanks Tyler and Brad !!!

I know it's 7 days away but looks like great hunting weather for opening day!

I use the Tink's rut sticks. It's an incense that burns for like 2 hours. They make an all season and a rut one. You need to use some sort of chimney to protect it from wind and moisture and to slow the burn. Without a chimney, they burn in about 30 minutes, I've killed a buck over them, and had many deer respond to them, which is more than i can say for most scents i've used. The things reek, and it sticks to everythinr for hours, so make sure you don't get in the smoke too much. You can buy the chimney, but we make them out of PVC or welding rod holders. Drill holes in the sides, all the way up, and cut an angle on the bottom so you can stick it in the ground.

Ehhh, give me a bagel Mon! lawd have mercy!

It's stupid to think deer die in the woods?

well said elmo (tipping my hat to you sir) well said

Saw off a leg and count the rings.

This has turned into a big joke and you can quote me on that ! ... ...

We don't have a "Mad Deer Containment Zone" anymore anyway.

Make the effort to hang it 15 ft up the crotch of a tree so anyone that finds it has confirmation of a NY mountain lion in the area to share next time they see ya!

i would definatley focus on 2bc and 3c, by the topo grid. nice shelf, trail comming off a saddle, ridge to marsh 2 and looks to be edge of steep hill. 2 efg will need some foot work as they are larger benches and thickness/edge of cover will be important. as your small field doesnt show at all it is also a coever break/edge stand possibility depending on sign.

16 x 20 with 16 x 15 ft loft area that hangs over front porch... my loft will only fit 2 beds, but if the pitch of the roof was raised to 12/12 or even a gambrel style... you could maybe get as many as 6 beds in the loft.

I'm 61. My parents used to ask the same thing.

If I had to look back and say what I would of done differently it would be a full basement under the main cabin. We now have a 16 x 20 extension with a full basement off the right side.

Enlighten us all mighty one.

I hunt a 2,500 acre or so farm. I have a small chunk of it to myself,hard woods,brush,thick field with crops all around it.This year corn,beans and clover. Farm across road is cutting corn. called my wifes cousin and he said they were a few weeks away from cutting corn by me !! Nice come over here and eat the corn,pay no attention to the man in the tree...

I had a bloody leg poke out of a contractor bag one time when the garbage men went to toss it into the truck. These two guys (black) freaked out!! They called the Amherst Police woh called the Town Highway Dept. The garbage guys thought I whacked my wife up................!!! The town took it all and told me if the EVER gave me a hard time again, give them a call and they would take care of it. Pretty cool on their part, IMO. Funny stuff I guess when the guys first saw the bone. They were screaming!!

My slammer! oops.

This is the one I'm after.

Kalamazoo Straight To You The house my father's friend had, farm actually, in East Chatam was actually just outside of East Nassau in Rennsalear. It consisted of the house a barn, chicken coop, duck coop, Canada Geese coop, father, mother, two kids, two pigs, two Airedales, a Beagle and a goat named Suzie. The pigs, chickens and ducks didn't get names because you don't get too friendly with dinner. Sitting on Dusenberry Hill Road, Mrs MIller's cows across the road and you went to the crossroads for milk...unless you milked Suzie. The house itself, the main building only consisted of the kitchen, a bedroom and the stone basement, more like a cold cellar than a basement. That part of the house was from the 1700's and had rifle ports in the stones basement walls for fighting indians. The 'new' addition was a centerhall colonial, big dining room, huge den, huge fireplace and four bedrooms upstairs. There was no heat upstairs, just vents in the floor so the heat rose from the downstairs. At night in winter you'ld get undressed fast and hop under the heavy quilts and when your feet hit the floor in the morning you woke up fast. The upstairs hallway was racked with old Winchesters hung on the wall. Octogon barrels, they may have been other than Winchester for all I knew. The beams in the den were also full of antique rifles and pistols. It was like the gun room at the old Abacrombie & Fitch. Since the husband was a surveyor the den was decorated with Inuit walrus tusk carvings from Alaska, Canada and Greenland. The kitchen stove was a 4-hole wood stove but the wife could cook and bake on it like no tomorrow. Always fresh bread at night for a munch. That's where I had my first moose meat, wild boar, helped slaughter my first pig, and shot the Colt Python in 357 magnum, that was the misses gun. We once put a big coffee can out in snow in the field behind the house, 100 yards away. I was about 10 or 12 at the time. My father says see if you can hit it. I knelt down, used a railing to rest my hand on and pulled the trigger. Damn if that can didn't jump. When we walked down, my windage was perfect but the bullet hit 1/8 of an inch under the can and the snow made it jump.The only thing that place lacked was a front walkway. Why a colonial was built with a huge front door but no walk to it mystified me. In summer I discovered catfish in their pond and being a fish nut wanted them for dinner. So I was sent down the road to Mrs Miller's farm to learn how to skin catfish. She was a widow but remembered her husband doing it. Cut behind the head, nail the head to the barn door and pull the meat down. In no time we had enough skinned catfish for a fry. Again me and the kid rambled around, not like you can do what we did today. We went to a friend's place to camp out in the woods once. Not backyard camping, at 10 years old, three of us hopped in a canoe with some blankets and a cast iron frying pan and rowed down a lake for a mile and just set up on the ground in the woods. No food, no water, we speared frogs and had frogs legs fried over a wood fire and lake water for dinner. Didn't do much sleeping that night with the critter noises around us all night. Picked eggs from the hens for breakfast, duck eggs are good but stronger than chicken I'll tell you. Vegtables were home canned from the previous fall, pork was fresh, bacon was slab cut, eating was good. The airedales were bred so there was a bushel of puppies to play with every couple of years. One summer crows were a nuisance so my brother asked teh misses if he could take a gun and shoot them. She said sure, grab a double from the bedromm. The bedroom was like the den only with doubles. So he picks a good one and a fist full of 12 ga shells and off we go. We get to the corn and he drops two shells in and they rattle in the breach. We look at each other perplexed, DOH! he had picked up a 10 gauge. What an elephant gun that was. They got divorced when I was a teen, the husband passed away some time later and the guns disappeared into the ether. A few years later one of my uncles bought a house in Cobleskill. They had an old hand pump well for kitchen water and another 4-hole stove. The name on the stove said Kalamazoo Stove Company "Kalamazoo Straight To You" I found the house on Dusenberry Hill Road on aerial photos. The barn, pond, chicken coops, duck coops are all gone. Mrs Miller's farm has houses built on it but, it still doesn't have a walkway to the front door.