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we broke our existing record of 82 coyotes and 2 fox from 2010.. this year we shot 83 coyotes and 2 fox. all takin in Westmorland, waterville,. paris hill, Brookfield, madison and Hamilton areas heres a few pictures from the season

He was on a sales mission and he has a lousy attitude.

better close up of the hawk - looks cool

I was out this mornign scouting for birds and looking for morels. No morels - I agree it is probably a bit early still. I'll take the mesh bag advise for transporting them. Never had wild leeks, but maybe I'll give them a try. Found a massive snapping turtle and a large garden snake - always cool in spring to find the animals out and about.

No problem with the safety switch . I put a jumper cable on the Hot and touched the other end to the starter screw . The starter motor turned a little bit ( slow ) but it wouldn't crank enough to start the mower . So it must be somewhere in the circuitry . I was running the battery down trying this so I will have to keep playing . Thanks again for the suggestions . Mothballs smell terrible plus it's hard to get their little legs apart !

I just found this site recently, I just picked up over 200 acres of property for turkey hunting. Went to do some scouting this morning and was greeted with a plethora of gobbles. Didn't lay any eyes on the birds but I didn't stick around long. Got an idea of where they were and where they are going, pumped about May 1st. Good luck everyone

The fob on my last car had a panic button on the back of it, i was always hitting it by accident. Super glue fixed that problem. On my truck, the remote start button gets me quite a bit. Last weekend I was planting a tree in the yard when my truck fired up. In a panic I ran down the hill as I thought someone was stealing my truck, when I realized i had accidentally set the remote start off with the fob in my pocket lol.

Electrical problems are one of the leading causes of malfunction in consumer products.

Just further proof of how folks don't understand our love of nature... Great photos and thanks for sharing the experience with us!

See if there is a Safety Switch Under the Seat.If the connection is Loose it will drive you Nuts tracing the problem.

Bending over causes the Panic Button to sound the alarm ........ hmmmmmmm !

I'm fine - heard it before, used it before, but there is a time and place for it. Open, public family areas are not it. Most are smart enough not to do so like in a restaurant store or any other public place, but obviously a few are not. Shame you don't understand and probably never will. You are the one needing the basket - let us know where to send it.

Just made the call.....camping in a tent on my father in laws property. Only reasonable way to ne able to try and roost a bird and hunt!

Follow all the wires, I've seen mice go to town on wires. We tried to start up a ATV after sitting for 3 months, some reason it would run then die. Well long story short we had to re-wire everything. They ate the whole damn thing!

Christ man I live like a hop skip and a jump away, coulda thrown me a bone.

Pulled the trigger on the Weber, it will be here tomorrow and they take the old one away. After grilling on it for the last time tonight, it will be the last char-broil i ever own.

My buddy killed nothing but had a very eventful day. There's always tomorrow. Ahhhhh crap.......I forgot, you CAN'T hunt in PA on Sunday. Crazy............

Don't be afraid of shipping. All you need to do is make sure it goes to an FFL. Take it to the post office, insure it and send it to the FFL. Easy as pie............ (you don't have to insure it but you should) The USPS DOES NOT NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS IN THE PACKAGE. Just answer the questions that the clerk will ask. (He/she will NOT ask WHAT is inside) they say liquid, perishable, hazardous blah blah blah batteries. <grin> You, as an individual, can ship that anywhere in the country as long as it goes to an FFL. You don't even need a copy of the FFL's license. All you need to do is verify that the FFL is legit and there is a web site for it. If you need it, I'll get it for you. Don't pass up a sale!! Any questions, I'll forward you a web site for help.

People are screwing each other. I heard that people, at the show, were selling bricks of .22 for $100. Stop being selfish pricks!!!

You have to be a Mod or Admin to do that ....... It's done ..... might not be what you want but , it's done .

I'm guessing it was the booze talking.

He is my story. Last season I was out hunting one of my spots during the first week of the archery season. I was sitting patiently against a rock wall and I eventually dosed off for a little bit. just enough to rest but awake enough to hear for any noises around my area.. I was awoken by some stomping and a quick snort. I opened my eyes and there was this nice 8 point standing about 25 yards in front of me stareing right at me. I tried to move very slowly but my nerves were out of control and hands were shaking. I drew my bow back and as soon as I hit the release I had a feeling it was not a good shot. He was standing broadside to me and the broadhead hit him in the lower part of his neck.(dont ask how I missed the vitals by that much). I waited and tracked the blood which slowly stopped. Once there was no more sunlight I decided to come back in the morning and track again. and I got the same results, except I did find my arrow a ways away from the last blood. eventually I gave up but I knew he was still alive.. I continued to hunt that area every chance I got trying to get him again but with no luck. He pretty much dissappeared.. Opening day of gun season comes around and I decide to go to that same spot. usually I go somewhere else during gun season and leave that area for the bow. anyway. after sitting against the same rock wall for 4 hours and not falling asleep I seen a large buck coming right towards me from about 100 to 150 yards away. Head down chasing that doe scent. he came within 50 yards and turned broadside showing his right side this time and BLAMO!!!! I knew it was a good shot, however I had my doubts because after the shot he fell from the impact of the slug then ran 40 yards or so and fell again. I was sooo happy until I seen him stand back up again after about a minute laying on the ground. I was dumb founded so I let him have it again.. that time he didnt get back up. Once I got over to him I seen my first and second shots were both heart/lung shots. I could not believe how tough this buck was. and I was soo happy when I saw the scar on the left side of his neck where I had hit him with the broadhead during bow season. It was scarred over and a missing fur . I briought him to the butcher and also ordered a shoulder mount( which I am still waiting on one morre month to go till I get him back). When I picked up the meat the butcher said that he had a real nasty infection on the left side of his neck where I got him during bow season. He said it was so bad smelling that his workers were throwing up while cutting this deer up. Below is a picture of him. He tasted sssooo great.. That was a great day, my hunting partner also got a 7 point shoewn in the first picture but his buck was underneath mine.oh did I mention that this was my first mature buck.....

I saw this buck during bow season and couldn't get him to come in my way. He walked across in front of me (About 55 yds out) on the trail a doe walked about 2 hours before hand. She must have been getting close to being hot...He walked by with his nose to the ground and wouldn't even look my way at grunting or bleating...Just kept walking on her trail. The big tree in the picture is only 25 yds from my stand. That was the only sighting of him during bow or gun season. Then he showed up on my trail cam on 12/24. The only time I got pics of him the whole season as well. Hoping to get some pics of him again and get a crack at him with the bow.

this deer changed everything for me, but I didn't kill it 2010 my wife missed a mega giant, first thing in the morning, her Bennelli jammed and it was game over missed at 7:30 she was ready to give up hunting, absolutely depressed, but after a quick coffee, she grabbed her dads Rem 870 12g and back we went....good thing, 12:00 this guy came buy and now he has a new home watching your wife have success on a deer hunt is awesome, I have never been that happy hunting, and the only thing that can top that is watching my daughters do it in a couple years

Just teasing me ...5:40pm and I look out the PC window...catch movement...this guy was wondering around out there 25 yrds from a blind and under a tree stand....looks like a good sized Jake...not sure ...200yrds away...really pushing zoom on camera...maybe a 5 in. beard?

Me and my cousin hunt the same very small piece of property but its attached to a lot of great deer hunting woods just isn't ours but noone hunts near where we do so its a great spot. had trail cam out in diff spots all year with a bunch of nice bucks on it. well him and i work at the same place but work different shifts. i work 830-5 he works 630-3, his stand is 80yards from mine and we can see one another very well after leaves fall. well i got a call at 4:30 one day of him going crazy saying he just arrowed a monster buck, (i'm already pissed lol) this was on October 9th. Here is the pic of his beautiful buck, nice 12pt. 203lbs hanging just a monster. This was literally his 3rd time in the woods and first year hunting, my second year but i hunt morning, evening and everything in between as often as possible, i hunt more in a week than he does the season. So next morning i go to my stand and check my trail camera which is 18 yards in front of my stand and i see this picture. can even see my stand off to the right was such a horrible feeling knowing this big guy was 18 yards in front of me and i wasnt there ugh. and my cousin who was sleeping in his stand for an hour wakes up and shoots him with his greasy workboots still on from his workdday. Story gets even worse. few weeks later im in my stand till about noontime get down and decide im gonna move my camera for a change but i had forgot my camera to check the pix so i bring the sd card home to check it and this is what i found. By now you can imagine what happens, found this saturday at noon so i run back out to stand for the afternoon and passed on a nice 6pt that walks right by me knowing theres a monster i really wanna put down. well he never does. monday rolls around i go to work and find out a kid that works same place i do and hunts the next property over shot him that saturday........ ouch. happy for my cousin and thats all a part of sharing a spot near mine but was really hopin to get a shot at the other big guy who was actually even bigger than my cousins.

My largest buck to date was taken just this past firearms season in the SZ on opening weekend. Sunday morning (11/18/12) I get into my stand about 6:00am. Again it's cold, no wind and frost on the ground. About 30 minutes later several shots ring out - before legal shooting light. I sit and see nothing other than some doe over 400 yards away. At about 7:00am out of the corner of my eye to my right I see a buck walking toward my direction along the edge of the soyfield at about 70 yards. I glass him to check his antlers and I count only 4. I continue to watch him as he gets closer and I see 5 antlers, then 6. I decide at that moment if he presents a shot I will take it. He continues to walk across in front of my stand and he gets behind the same tree with the branches in front of me blocking any shot. He stops there and feeds for several minutes. It's about 7:15 now and my legs start shaking. I have my rifle scope on him following him and he stares right at me. I'm thinking - Crap! He made me. He stares at me for several minutes and then looks down and continues walking. I find an opening to my left and I wait for him to get to that spot. He slowly walks forward and gets into the opening. He starts to quarter away from me. I put the cross hairs on his left shoulder and squeeze the trigger. He stumbles to the ground and goes 7 yards and drops right in the soyfield. I get down from my stand and I slowly made my way over to the buck I shot. I look at his rack and notice he's actually had a small seventh point about 1" long but I don't care and I chalk him up in my mind as my first 7 pointer. I see the exit hole but no entrance hole. The exit hole was right in the middle of his chest. I then see what appeared to be a flesh wound on his right rear leg that seemed fresh. I'm looking at that and thinking - No way I did that! I flip this brute over and look for the entrance hole and after looking for several seconds I finally find it right above his left front shoulder exactly where I put the cross hairs on him. I was relieved. I'm wondering if that earlier shot I heard caused the flesh wound or was it from fighting?? I called my taxidermist yesterday and I was told he should be done by end of next week. I scanned through hundreds of trail cam photos but this guy was not in any of them. From what I gather his home turf must have been in the next property or two over and he ran onto ours after he was shot at early that morning.

My neighbor got this buck on cam 1/4 mile from my stand ...he'd been hunting him...Went to my stand in the dark and spooked him up laying under it...he stomped and snorted trotting away and I stomped and snorted...he came back when I was half way up the ladder stomping as he walked ..I snorted again and he moved off in the direction I came in...a half hour after light he walked right to the stand and I shot him with me new Venture bow at just a few yrds, I shoot instinctive...he went a hundred yrds and dropped The neighbor sent me his trail pic....

Hunting the ADK bear sightings are few and far in between. (We are not actively hunting them...) I think between me and my buddy we have seen 4 while hunting over 20 years all small and we watch them run when they see us. One in Long lake, Lake placid trail by Blue Mt., Bear trap swamp in Indian lake and Newcomb. If you can get into bear trap swamp that's a good spot to scout but access is limited and it borders a private hunting club. I see signs of them in Moose river but they are extremely elusive and rarer than deer. Good luck, they are hard to find in any large numbers but I think that is standard in any "forever wild" type area. Too bad conservation can't see the benefit of varying landscapes. And they wonder why they have to "Control" the population around rural areas... Otherwise just find the local dumps and you will see plenty of them... Just need to find a legal place to hunt in the area, some times the dumps might need some population control too. North Creek I believe has bear signs due to dumps close by. (somewhere on 28 in that area...) Good luck what ever you do! Hope to see some pictures this year of your success!