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unless it was a captive snake, corn snakes home range doesn't usually stretch into New York, it looks like to me that it could be a milk snake judging from the picture

Well I'm not here to preach so I'll spare ya the don't kill all snakes speel. I enjoy them myself. Milk snakes are probably a pretty good indicator you have a bigger problem with rodents. Not often we in NY encounter poisonous snakes, but with non native captive releases you can never be too carefull if your unsure. A good rule for to differentiate between a harmless milk and venomous coral snake... red touches yellow, kill a fellow... red touches black, friend of Jack.

I honestly believe Obama selected him as VP to give himself a bit more security...lol. Best assassination defense there is.

Thanks fellas! This was an extra special set I spent a lot of time wanting, but had little hope of ever finding. Deffinately one of the best highlights of all my hikes over the years!

my oldest is going with his troop whitewater rafting next weekend in pa. same weekend my middle boy's pack is having a camp-in and bird house building work shop.... which one do i go to?

There you go making look so easy!!!Great job..

They have little tiny license plates that you have to wire onto one of your fingers and one of your toes.

Yea. Dogs or no dogs she will win............(grin)

I do believe a snake in your kitchen counts as a nuisance/danger situation, regardless if it is poisonous. It wasn't in his yard to scurry away. It was in his KITCHEN. Milk snakes are known to have pesky attitudes. I've killed at least a half-dozen in my time. A neighbor got several in his basement. Snakes can get into homes pretty easy...sometimes ignorance is bliss until they show up where you can see them. I have a ton of snakes because I'm on a large limestone formation. My basement had to be blasted out....this limestone was one of the two finalist sections for the Mt. Morris Dam material. The other place won out, and this house was later built on it. I literally have inches of soil....very rare to get a shovel in the ground fully any place in my yard. As a result, lots of crevices to hold and house snakes and the stone warms up quick for their use. I once ran over 3 snakes in a single lawn mowing before I could see them in time to stop. I also hate snakes. God gets a chuckle every time I see one, I'm sure of it.

Haha, this post brings back a lot of memories. I am an Eagle also, and I'm currently the proud father of two 12 year old Second Class scouts.

Since they're harmless and all they do is go around eating mice, can't you just relocate it instead of killing it or are they an overwhelming nuisance? Snakes here in the city is a super rare sighting and you have to go into parks to find them.

Unfortunately I dropped out when I got to Star - got too old and too busy with school at that point. I certainly am looking forward to this trip and many more in the future. Hoping that my son sticks with it and reaches Eagle. BTW what is snipe hunting??

It's actually a well known fact. just google 'Wounded Knee Massacre'. You'll see what happened. depending on the story you believe, some will say a deaf indian started it, other said the US troopers, just wanted to kill indians. But one fact is not debatatable....The US governement wanted the indians off their lands...there was gold/silver and other resources that powerful men wanted.

I wish stuff like this had where they got there info. I don't doubt it, our brutality against the natives was unconscionable. But I like facts to back it all up.

I think, every now and then, they nominate a VP purely for comic relief. How else could you explain Dan Quayle?

A shotgun is just as likely to pass through a wall at the close ranges normally associated with home defense. Most home defense loads consist of Buck shot or larger projectiles.

Yes Split, that's all under one roof, it's all Agway. They do have spreaders , they were willing to lend me one. They also have larger spreaders, if you have a larger tractor to pull the spreader behind. The number you provided Is for agway, need to speak with Al, he has all the food plotting know how and is a straight shooter, also they have a pretty good variety of clover ,brassica , seeds, fertilizer, lime etc..

It's tough to comment, as once I think I've got these turkey figured out, they throw me a curve ball.

you can probably find an interactive tax map online, I know there is one for Delaware County...surprising how much land is owned by people who live outside the State.

I mean I wouldn't show up in camo opening day and expect to get permission. now is a good time, not 2 weeks before deer/ duck season. I go in the summer before hay cutting and offer to help do hay, spring and fall are busy seasons for farmers and they are usually busiest then and a week or two before getting equipment ready to go or fixing problems. How would you feel if your up to your elbows in grease fixing your car/ truck and some comes up and interrupts you so yu have to crawl out from under it ti talk to them??? Or the owner is getting ready to walk out and hunt and sees another hunter walking up his driveway? far away from a hunting season make you more respected as your trying ti secura a place in the future giving enough time to trade labor or lend a hand , scout , learnt the property lines before you hunt. asking someone to give up time to show you lines boundries no hunt areas (where he/she might hunt) ahead is just respectful and is much appreciated in todays world by good hard working people.

last year most breeding and egg laying was well underway by early april. hens can store male sperm for 30 days before they let it impregnate their eggs. I think last year toms were lonely early. this year is more of a normal spring and I expect the warmer last weeks of april early may to be good with gobbling dropping off by 2nd week of may. most hens should start to be laying by then. last year they were already sitting!!

There is a lot of county land that is public land in reality that is not marked. It was a lot of years before someone discovered this in my hometown on a few large parcels of land that a certain group of family members dominated and threw everyone out. Someone actually looked in to it and low and behold it was Theodore Rosevelt that turned a lot of land over to the county and got lost in the shuffle over the years.

Wow, great news. The Man made a mistake, wrong guy. Now some other poor son of a bitch is going to get a knock on THEIR door. Lovely. Who's next, me? You? Your father? Best friend? I guess we'll just have to wait and see..........................

One out of four people have a mental disorder . Think of 3 of your close friends . If they are okay , then it's you !

Thanks all - pretty good day. Telling everyone I'm 72 (rather than 62). They tell me how good I look for my age.

You got this voted up, congrats. Its like being safe with a gun, you have to think abstractly. Many people cannot, that's why in the past 48 hours a 5 year old shot a middle aged women and in a separate incident a 4 year old shot a 6 year old. You have to recognize the possibilities and coordinate your actions toward those possibilities... There are very strong possibilities minors will now or in the future read what you post... It wasn't the guns or the children that caused these deaths, it was the negligence of overconfident adults who due to that cockiness where unable to think about the possibilities...

First year hunting turkey, but I will give it a shot. Thanks. Count me in

I feel like I aced a test or something.

I was guessing this deer at 4 1/2 based on antler characteristics alone compared to other known bucks in the area. I know that's a highly innacurate method from one property to the next, but it seems for the typical age structure of bucks us average folks hunt, you can get pretty darn close that way most of the time. Dare I say.., almost as close as using the jawbone method with a little knowledge of the quality of different age class bucks roaming your woods. I guess that's why I posted this. It doesn't hurt to have a secondary method to back up or confirm your initial beliefs. Now that my interest has been peaked in a new method, a little practice over time, and experience through repetition, might make this a preferred technique with a slightly more accurate degree of of certainty to rule out the unlikely age of borderline bucks. Anyhow, this is the buck the jawbone came from. Thanks for the pointers all!

Shoot out the wings and steal the camera!

on my way to the office to pick up a few things for this coming Spring Turkey season. Got some premethrin spray for ticks, a box of 12ga shells and some burlap leaf blind. At the register the girl rings up the shells and then asks me to verify on the keypad doohickie if I'm an American Citizen. Of course I tapped yes and paid cash. So I was wondering how the hell is this supposed to regulate ammo and who buys it? I could have been a terrorist in a suit and marked yes. I was also expecting to have to fill in some personal information which did not happen. Dumba$$ laws.

Not really.., that was on a different forum with a few Kentucky boys that came to NY for a turkey hunt with us. Never a good day when somebody gets shot at intentionaly.