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My son qualified for the Nassau County Wrestling Championship Tournament at Hofstra Universty this coming weekend. He worked his ass off this wrestling season, missed some hunting trips ( not without an argument) I am so proud of him. 5 of his teammates also qualified for their weight class. My son is 99#. Good luck to all these hard working boys !

Laying in bed with the wife..I ask, You want to have sex, She instantly says NO. I say, Is that your final answer, She says YES. I say..Then i would like to call a friend! And here is where the fight begins!

I'm single...... and that's how the fight ENDED!

Wife ask if I was going to do something today because I didn't do anything yesterday ? I said I am going to start up where I left off & finish it up today! Then the fight started!

My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary. She said, "I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 200 in about 3 seconds." I bought her a set of bathroom scales. And then the fight started... ( not a true happening )

I think I got it figured out. Whatever you do..... NEVER hit the RED buttons!

Below are some photos from the past couple of weeks of this winter's Appalachian Eagle Project in New York. These images are from sites in Delaware and Otsego Counties that operate under my license to possess deer carcasses. For more information visit http://www.appalachianeagles.org/. To read my article on Golden Eagles in NYS, go tohttp://www.dec.ny.gov/pubs/99834.html There are 10 Bald Eagles in the last photo. I was going to have you guess but it is too small to see detail. That's a napping bobcat in the 5th photo.

I asked my wife to get me a cup of coffee. She immediately starts complaining that she is always waiting on me. I say to her, "I am constantly waiting on you too". She replies, "When do you ever wait on me???" I said, I'm waiting right now for you to get me that cup of coffee... That's how the fight started! True Story!!

My satellite service data limit is getting close but I had to share this photo. More will be coming once the month rolls over.

She said can you go to town for me? I said no, she hands me a list I said what part of no didn't you get. She did Not find it funny. That how the fight started. Some fights are fun some you should just give up. Belo go shopping with her you will find out that you can hit a $400 grocherie bill fast and it still looks you didnt get much. Prices are rediculous. $4 for gallon of milk or $14 for 3 pounds of hamburg is nuts.

If only it were that simple ants. You have to also consider who's signing their paychecks when you ask for their opinions. It takes a lot of digging to find a truly unbiased expert on the subject today.

My wife & I took a little hike this morning to a local park. Snowshoes were the mode of travel and it was fun and great exercise. Along the way we were right next to Ellicott Creek and we saw where the local beavers were working hard. I'm always intrigued by their work. No dam that I saw, just trees that being worked on. Just another amazing animal amongst us! I grabbed a couple quick pics with my phone of some smaller trees and unfortunately didn't snap a shot of a couple HUGE trees, probably 40" in diameter. I don't know if they'll ever get through them!?!?

My understanding is that fireplaces will be exempt from the regulations. Politicritters like their fireplaces. Similar to the tobacco tax laws that exempted cigars and pipes. It's very important to not inconvenience the ruling class when making laws.

Not even a little bit true.. someone else needs to redo his research to re-enlighten himself. I'd love to see the research you are talking about. I can't find it anywhere.

Think I'll head up to camp and burn some seasoned cherry, grill a steak,sit and watch the embers while sipping wine, and kiss my arse EPA...

People considered to be important have different rights and privileges. They maintain those special rights and privileges by being important enough to have a say about how to keep the rest of us from having those rights and privileges. Chicken vs egg conundrum. But it's always for the public good, so there is really no need for mere mortals to even think about these issues. Just shut up and do as they say and everything will be fine, because they're important and they really do know what's best for everyone.

All I know is when I actually see the governments...Hey U.N. your included...and all the politicians pushing through these feel good laws that effect ...the TAX paying ,WORKING class ppl that keep them afloat. Well when I see them not flying here there and every where, for their much needed meetings and summits, economic tours, and God help me, campaigns...that can be video cast or comcast what ever it's called... Then I'll say "Hey it could be something useful"...but THAT isn't EVER likely to happen....When the Government shows me that the military forces with all there old trucks, fume spewing jets and planes have REALLY cleaned up their emissions, well then I'll say "Hey maybe they are on to something"...BUT that isn't likely to happen. Oh and when I don't have to see weeks of out of control wild fires and rich ppls houses burning(because they are living in areas that a baboon could tell you they should not be,using sign language) Then I'll say "Hey maybe they are on to something"...BUT..that's NOT likley to happen....

Biologists indeed want to get rid of cats, but not coyotes. Notice I qualified this post with the sentence that this is a touchy subject. I do NOT recommend the trappers engage in the issue of house cats. However, it is of interest to trappers because it is impacting furbearer populations - I would keep it there. There are enough people fighting with the biologists on this issue, it is hard enough with mute swans, never mind house cats. People used to let dogs roam, that would be radical today, same will apply to cats at some point in the future. Wouldnt behoove the trappers to engage this one though.... Keep it in your fodder next time the population status of NY muskrats is discussed though....

Thanks wooly.............after 24 years of marriage you show me THAT? Oh if I'd have only known...................................................

I'm thinking you meant to type Nixon, rather than Nikon. The EPA and it's policy-making mission were at one time a good and admirable thing. There were very few people against it. Hence it came to be. And they did a terrific job, doing what people wanted and expected them to do. The stated mission hasn't changed, but the agenda that is easily seen with a little scrutiny has changed dramatically. The long-term wants of a few are being legislated to take precedence over the immediate needs of the many. You may argue that humanity will be better off in the future because of everything that regulation does today, I've even been confronted with the argument that the sooner I die the better off the future will be. I countered that argument by asking, "Where will that thinking stop?".

I'm a PM away my friend. I'm mostly a dumbass hick, but somewhat knowledgeable in a few areas.

A followup on a serious note; I smoked cigarettes, pretty heavily, for almost 40 years. I quit for almost a year around 1980 when I was racing motorcycles professionally because there was just no way to do both and be competitive. Turned out I wasn't good enough to keep the sponsorship anyway, but I started smoking again. Every time I tried to quit after that was a failure. Maybe I didn't want to or whatever, but the patches and gums didn't help. I picked up a basic e-cig starter kit on July 8, 2014 after talking to a few friends. The result: I haven't had a cigarette in almost 8 months. I'm pretty proud of that accomplishment. I have an interesting new hobby, and a new reason to despise the government entities that are working hard to take it away from me. I keep my vaping gear next to my guns, and neither will be given up lightly. Molon labe. Anybody interested in quitting smoking, send me a PM and I'll be happy to help you out.

I need to do this. I'm in this much deeper than I thought I'd be cost wise already. Wasted a lot of time and money trying to find the right combo and results I needed and got ripped off a few times in the process due to my own ignorance. Things should quiet down some now that I'll have one main set up, one back up, and a back up for my back up...

I know. I was expecting to see a pick of Wooly all jacked wrestling some type of farm animals! Jaja!

Same here. Thought this was a sustanon or deca thread. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

"Hittin the sauce" always meant "doing steroids" in my neck of the woods. You had me for a minute. The guys at work are into vaping. One dude has one the size of a flask only twice as thick. He's gonna pass out one day. That thing has 2 9 volt batteries! I told him I was worried about him. He informed me it's pure vegetable oil?

What about fire places?? The day they tell me that I can't have a fire on a -0 winter day is the day I burn old tires and dead baby seals in my backyard fire pit. ….If I can find dead baby seals…Maybe I'll just throw some wood on top of the tires, but you get my point….

COME AND GET ME!

No looking back now Mark! I've got another Nauty on order too. I'm afraid to get away from that tank any more I'm just that happy with it's performance and durabilty. Looks like you've been busy test driving a lot of new equipment too. Are those MBV juices? I think I'm gonna try to limit any new purchases to just coils for a while now that I'm pretty well stocked up. I'm sure the next "must have" is only a few weeks away as it seems to go with these things.

Actually, " It's So Fluffy" reminds me of one of my old girlfriends... They don't happen to have a " Tuna at Dawn" flavor do they..??

Bunch of random shots I took below, most of them taken on phone so they don't do much justice for how it really looked in person. Wyoming Arizona British Columbia, Canada Pumpkin Buttes, Wyoming San Juan, Puerto Rico Hudson River from Croton on Hudson Fenway Park, from my season tickets seats Boston, Massachusetts Boulder, Colorado Hudson River from Tarrytown NY Aruba Kensico Reservoir, Valhalla NY Boca Grove golf course in Boca Raton, FL Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It is relatively common in Maine and parts of Canada to bring moose out whole...Often it requires hiring a logskidder, but many moose are killed close enough to woods/logging roads so that they can be winched to a vehicle with a long cable. When I shot my bull in New Brunswick, my friend, who is a dairy farmer ( and licensed guide) sent for his hired man with a huge 4WD tractor...The guy drove across a clearcut, going over and around stumps and downed timber, hooked a chain to the moose and dragged him out to a logging road. He then picked up the moose with front end loader on the tractor and set him in the bed of a pickup truck.. Having previously done three bulls in Alaska the HARD way, I thought that was pretty cool.

Coming from someone who never seems to post anything except insults and attacks on other forum members, I have two words for you pal. and they ain't Merry Christmas.

BIG OIL wants you to heat with oil. I will repeat, BIG OIL wants you to heat with oil. No other fuel sources will be tolerate, that includes wood, coal, oh yes and any of that green energy stuff like wind or solar. So shut up and support your BIG OIL companies and continue to heat your home with OIL, its the God Damned American Way!

The new Realtek is based on skyline camo ,took patterns in 2012.. was by.far best camo.for up.north.. have to go to predator or natgear now

I hope this goes over as well as the no grilling law they were thinking about a few years back.. it never got off the ground once the people got word of it... No barbequing? Yeah, like that was gonna happen.

A lot of aging hippies from the Woodstock generation are about to find out the EPA is NOT their friend.

We were in Fla. At a lighthouse a worker hears me talking guns with my brother in law, we start talking deer hunting. He says he goes back home to Wisconsin to hunt, the deer are small in Fla. A woman is listening and comes over and says, " I wish someone would come to my farm and kill them I got to many ". Oh I ask," where is your farm"? Illinois she says !! Let me introduce my self.....

yup the states say we can't burn wood but its ok for them to dump millions of tons of salt on the roads every winter and millions of gallons of petroleum products on the roads doing tar and chipping every summer.. it just makes ya and ask what idiotic ideas will these over paid government folks come up with next.

This EPA (Economic Persecution Agency) is going to be the biggest player in this administration's tyrannical agenda over the next two years. Meanwhile, ISIS will be burning human bodies to keep warm.

So, what's the deal with this apparent DEC shift in opinion on the attempted protections of 1.5 year old deer. I do remember a Hurst quote that essentially said that there is no biological justification for AR, and in fact it is more of a social (political ....lol) issue than a game management issue. So this reversal sounds like a decision to let hunters take over the management and the hell with good sound management principles recommended by trained biological DEC employees. Well it might be more accurate to say that maybe there is an ulterior motive to this strange opinion shift. I have not seen a whole lot of rules changes in the last decades that were not specifically aimed at herd reduction ... statewide. I'm thinking that the thought here is that the harder you make a buck harvest, the more does that will be taken to compensate for the likely "deerless" season results that new rule of buck harvest harassment will cause. Perhaps this is really all just a back-door effort to force doe harvests.

The biggest reason Id like to see everyone surveyed, is so that noone is sitting there crying foul because they have never ever received any survey about any issue from the DEC's random samplings. It would be pretty easy to setup.

From NYON 11/13

I agree 100% about giving ALL hunters the opportunity to participate in the survey, sending out only 7000 questionnaires to randomly selected hunters, in no way guarantees they'd be getting a fair mixture of ideas..............I know everyone is welcome to attend the open meetings, but we all know that's not possible. I wrote several emails regarding my opposition to AR's prior to us getting them, but I never got any type of response in return, so who knows how much weight an outside response from a single person even has.

That's kind of misleading. Short of explicitly reducing the ability to take 1.5s, such a statement could be made about any state model. Just as many states that have AR or OBR, don't have AR or OBR. That's spin language being used imo. At the end of the day, if there's no rule outlawing the take of 1.5s, the hunters are the variable that cannot be calculated into a model. They pull the trigger. This goes back to educate vs. legislate.

You just described nearly all the 2.5's in 7J. How will making them the main target get any bucks to maturity?

OBR isn't always driven by buck harvest numbers, so you are looking at it from the wrong lense in this instance. OBR impacts hunter decision-making on the age class of bucks harvested. OBR states have a lower take rate of 1.5s where the soil quality is high (like parts of our state). KY, OH, IN, etc. States like Maine or NH where there are OBR rules in place because of being on the other end of the spectrum where deer numbers are crummy due to herd instability. This is a regulation that shifts cultural thinking - the same way agencies worked on getting hunters to start shooting does. Don't get me wrong, I would love to take two bucks a year, but OBR is something I could get behind. If not that, allow the two bucks to be taken in any season, similar to IL, but that's just based on greed, I'll admit, so in theory I could be done before the orange army invades, ha.

Regions 8 and 9 would need four points to a side to advance the generally accepted rate of one year olds to two year olds. Four points. That's stupid and I base that on common sense; no data needed.

the DEC already tells you a lot of things. I also firmly believe that if deer were to magically lose their antlers you'd see 70% of hunters give it up. I hunt for meat first. But I love a rack. While it does not apply to some parts of the state, shooting a doe is usually easier and better tasting. the trophy folks are what has helped keep hunting going. Organization and money are very powerful. Look at crossbows for an example. The NRA is another example. While we may not all agree with their methods and all their ideas and goals, they generally help the sport. The outdoor and sportsman channel and all the magazines would not make money if hunters weren't interested in "trophies". I'd bet my Heuer that meat hunters don't read a lot of magazines and watch a lot of shows. They've most likely had their skills passed down to them. They do the same thing they've always done and they kill deer every year. Sometimes they get big bucks, but they're not running out and spending hundreds or thousands on gear. Look at Kentucky as a case study. the one buck rule brought that state back and it's now a destination for many out of state hunters. While the first few years of ARs will suck, i believe the end game will see better bucks and more interested hunters. your humble opinion is not fact, but studies in Kentucky are. do some research and get back to me

At this point with NY hunters barely keeping up with population control of whitetails... any restrictions that could result in less participation or decreases in hunting interest... would be counter productive. Reducing the number of buck tags and /or the length of the season will light the fuse... add in AR's and the whole thing will blow up. Everyone just needs to shut up and hunt.