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I thought for a while these bears were coming in and eating these apples. After setting the camera to video mode and inspecting the apples I noticed they wait for them to rot then step on them and eat the seeds out of them. Pretty interesting to see them in action.

wait till deer opens up lol

CWD does suck and i also believe its been around forever. It is the same prion as Scrapies in sheep. There is a live test for CWD that has proven itself to be 85% accurate but thr USDA will not accept that as a viable test for deer farmers because its not 100%. Well the funny thing is..We have to Tb test or herds every 3 years and that test is only 70% accurate and they are fine with that. All these states that are bringing in Elk from CWD positive states and Untested states are using this live test before they bring them in and they are calling them CWD tested animals. Funny how that works. This was just another shot taken by some to try and stop or atleast slow down the growth of Deer Farms and High Fence hunting...Didnt work again! Now they claim they want to stop the spread of CWD so they outlaw the use of deer urine from farms. Now there has never been a documented case of the CWD prion being found in any whitetail urine in the wild or fenced and that includes 100% brain and Node positive animals? Strange Huh? But on the other hand there is 100% proof of the prion being found in Corn and Alfalfa yet they do nothing to stop big Ag and stop the harvesting and sales of corn and hay from any CWD positive states? Strange Huh? The corn on you local Agway store very well could be loaded with the prions after being harvested for Wisconsin and you but it to feed deer,cows,chickens,whatever and you just threw CWD prions all over the ground in your own backyard to infect that land for the next 16 plus years! Strange Huh?

What a pick up line! "I want to take you up in my bucket to see the lake". grin,grin wink wink!

Helping my fm silly and friends understand hunting is far more helpful than someone else's. I pay my dues, and have for a number of years. You guys don't have to like my take, I am not bashing them- just expressing I feel like they do nothing for deer with regard to the politics/dec aspects of hunting. I belong to a bunch of other groups- they can claim wetlands saved, habitat improvement, etc ..... I laugh looking at the responses here- most are balled up and defensive against my opinion but are too dumb to know I reach out to the dec and at one point was starting a Qdma division here before some personal matters stifled that. Typical old huntingNY- if you don't agree with us, we will wagon train around you and fling arrows until you quit. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I always keep my finger behind the trigger while drawing. Another hint of advice. Never draw your bow with a release and no arrow on it. Releases can fail Causing dry fires.

Check out the images. A bit far away but they look good if you download and expand them. My lab is primed for ducks! Had her retrieving 3 sticks at once and I am hoping this translates into doubles. I wish I had time to go for resident Canadas.

Probably the most endangered tree is the Eastern Slippery Dingleberry Tree... The Eastern Slippery Dingleberry Tree was once the favorite, and exclusive nesting habitat to the now extinct Kazoonie-zoonie Bird... The Kazoonie-zoonie bird is now extinct because of its strange social habit of flying in ever decreasing concentric circles until it flies up its own asshole... Any questions..??..Anyone..?...Anyone..?..Beuhler ??

Yeah I just enjoy being in the woods so the deer is a bonus

0 replies and only 58 people even opened the page..Yet the post on..Acorns Dropping..gets over 500 views! Guess that answers your question about this drummed up political crap and what people think. Yeah a few deer may get it, Even less will ever live long enough to die from it and its been proven not to do any harm to any deer herds in any state and proven not to harm humans. Shall we sit back and worry for the next 60 years and see if something that has caused no harm for the last 60 years may mutate into something? What ever happened to Ebola?

Allow me to carry my pistol during bow season, I can carry around people but not deer?

make me any angrier..but got the NYODN today front page" Deer Kill expected to decline"...due to winter kill they say yet...here I am...as I type this the corn next door is being chopped ...which means over 200 acres around me is being chopped...So where will the deer be in 2wks...my place and my neighbors...but I can't hunt buck here...and refuse to take my normal doe....this is the earliest corn harvest we've seen...

the first two I believe to be the same buck. These are a couple I'll be hoping to see come october! Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

This subject is a bit painful to discuss, by nonetheless important because my family and I basically live on venison and have for decades. I shoot a lot of deer. The little ones, the grand-kids, run around with a stick of jerky as soon as they are old enough to walk. We rarely buy beef and pork and eat free range chickens and buy a free range lamb at the fair each year. We grill a lot of deer meat and I am just about out...as it should be just before the season starts.

Well, good questions...out of my area of expertise so I am just talking off the top of my head... But if I was running research, I would attempt to find a way to repeat the experiment. Then it seems logical that we could isolate the cause by focusing on the variables and eliminating them one by one. But if as reported "Wyoming did a 13-year study in which cows were put in deer pens heavily infected with CWD, and none of the cows became infected." It would be as you said, if people were put in an enclosure and had sex (or swapped bodily fluids) with those testing positive with HIV and none...zero came away with testing positive for AIDs, then we would have to go back to the drawing board. My point is there is too much emotion involved and not enough objective science.

They NEVER fail to show up during deer season !

Found a few pounds of chicken of the woods recently. These are great! Love the texture.

Every time I bring my 22 there gone, if I don't and just check cams there everywhere.

Thats awesome! Hopefully all works out well.

Yea he's going to call the county clerk office on both Monday. I did my diligence with tax mapping parcel viewer etc and so far everything ties out for both. So cheap that could potentially buy both pieces. The 20 acres is the most intriguing since it hunts much bigger since its surrounded by more vacant land and not houses.Both are under 30min from me in westchester. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

They did off when I switched over, .99 I think plus so much a month. I didn't want it, didn't need more of a payment. Now the more he plays with the old phone the more questions he has.

actually not that portable...the thing is huge and not a truck,,,we had it trucked up the hill...and it will stay on the high side...... pretty sure this steep hill ...even to get to lower plots field...just couldn't happen. but to be honest ...where it is now would make an awesome rifle platform...lol

The old stomp and chomp! Great pic's!

Great pics.

Cool pics!!

Can I borrow it, for just a few days, LOL.

It depends a lot on the time of the year it is, and also the carrying capacity for the statement, deer prefer young tender clover. I can take you to a clover field that is mature now, by November that field will be stripped to the ground, the clover heads go first. I cycle acres of red clover every year from first growing to mature. They visit it all through the fall.

I believe that every lawmaking or regulation-making agency (DEC included) should designate a certain amount of their time and resources toward grabbing a handful of laws and regulations each year and re-certifying them as making sense, not being redundant with other similar laws, and re-evaluating whether they should exist or be stricken from the books. My gosh ... we are buried in laws, most of which few understand or even know about. I am convinced that we daily break laws without even knowing it. We are totally buried under laws that are poorly written, and hidden deep inside of volumes and volumes of law books that damn few, even in the legal profession, are familiar with. And then we are told that ignorance of the law is no excuse.

Well i would not run off so fast. I understand the concern but after 60 years and nothing how long do you run scared and ruin peoples lives over a..What If? If what if was going to happen dont you think 60 years would have shown something? The thing i dont get about you science guys is that you report on something you made.Lets take whitetail urine...You white coats inject CWD prions into urine and then into a mouse and make him positive. Yet there has never been a case of the CWD prion found in a natural growing whitetail. Even 100% proven node and brain positive whitetails yet nothing in the urine. Now i get the jist of this but i bet you could inject that mouse with something to force hair growth and it would grow a beard. This what if this and what if that is a scare tactic used by those with agendas and they get their ammo from your research. Nobody wants CWD and wishes that man would have left things alone and quit playing with mother nature. Remember one thing...It was your white coats that made this prion way back when with Scrapies in sheep and it just jumped to deer and givin a new name. Science is important no doubt but when after 40-60 years does one say enough is enough? I believe if you look at a few states like Wisconsin they have already said it and the federal Govt said it way back when after they pulled all funding. Ebola Anyone!

Classifying crows as migratory birds and putting them in the same class as ducks and geese, seems to be a useless game law as well.

Can't blame the DEC for that one..It is mandated by the International Migratory Bird act, that the season has to be limited to a certain number of days per year and cannot be held during the bird's nesting season... By making the season open only four days per week,September through March, the state can stretch the season over a longer part of the calendar year...Many people can't hunt during the week, so the Friday through Monday gives more people a chance to hunt.. I think that in this case the state did a good job of maximizing hunting opportunites while staying within the legal boundaries of the Migratory Bird Act..

Looks like its approved but I cant find anything on the town website. If anyone hears of details it would be appreciated. I care because it is close to home. http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/huntington-votes-to-allow-bow-hunting-in-asharoken-and-eatons-neck-belle-terre-votes-no-on-hunting-1.10857042

I've been in rut since my 11th bkrthday Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Prion diseases are dangerous exactly because of what we don't know about their mode of transmission And my point about deer farming is that...no offense intended...it's somewhat lower of a concern than human health. Like most neurodegenerative diseases, prions may not kill an organism. But make no mistake, there are consequences. So yes, a deer might die of old age with CWD. But how do you measure dementia in a deer? This is why most mouse models of human neurodegenerative disease fail to show age-related pathologies. Mice die at two years of age. How much longer do people live than deer? That's a lot of years for the disease to manifest itself. It makes sense to be concerned. Now, maybe there's an overreaction at the legislative level. But scientists don't make laws. I can't say I follow CWD closely, as there are other health concerns that steal my time and focus. And I can't claim to be an expert on CWD specifically. But, from an informed perspective, prion diseases in general are scary. What if it turns out that CWD jumps species and ends up a new Alzheimers? There's precedent: think HIV. I wouldn't just dismiss the potential impact based upon your experience, sound though it may be. Since I have no vested interest or agenda here (nor virtual knife or gun, funny as that was...), this is where I stop. I'm not in the business of trying to change peoples' minds, just opening them.

Hey some guys and pick and chose what work they take. Friend used to roof on the side , no city houses, only walkable ones, and only did tear offs not go overs. Had more work than he could ever do .

I don't use the rage broadheads. I never tried rages but the other mechanical broadheads never worked well for me. Opened up flew terriable etc. I figure it is just another thing that could go wrong so I take it out of the mix. I think alot of people use them because they don't have to tune broadheads to the bow. It seems alot of people want to take the easiest way to gratification, the less work the better. I find archery to be very therapeutic and I love messing and tuning with the bow.

Yes, indeed a wolf released by the DEC to control the mountain lion abundance they released years back. Next is the release of Sasquatch's to control the wolves. A vicious cycle

Realize that the DEC is a government agency and therefore inept

A DEC retired biologist wrote in and told the truth as he knows it...having worked for them and said it's all about the early ML and there's no masking it.

I actually prefer to gut on a slope if I am near one. the gravity seems to work great for rolling the guts out and draining the blood from the cavity.

money talks and it pisses people off. Mostly it pisses people off because they don't have it. It does not buy happiness, but it sure does make life easier. If you buy a 1/4 lot and someone clears the woods behind you to put in a development you're SOL. Unless you own it, anything is game. Even leases aren't forever. Neighbor lets you hunt his land, then his daughter marries a hunter. You're SOL. Old lady sells her land to a hunter? You're SOL. Pony up and pay to play or hunt some public land.

If you know the area and have good spots to hunter have hunted in the past...just Google a good hotel or even camping resort in the area ...they sometimes have campers to rent and this time of years things have slowed down due to school...want to do this before prime fall foliage....You could also search with other state DNR's and camp sites just a thought.

If you dont want everyone to have access to it, dont put it on the internet lmao

This has to be one of the worst first posts I've ever read on this site. And that says a lot.

I'm not gonna get in a pissing war here but I enjoy qmda. Guess what it not city folk either nor do I spend big bucks leasing lots of land. I think you need to differentiate qdm from horn hunters. To me qdm is about a healthy balance herd. I prefer filling my doe tags and passing up they typical smaller bucks in hopes for a larger one. JMO

"Cuomo said that while New York has strong gun-registration laws and requires mental-health professionals to report any troubles with gun owners to the state, there isn't a national system to control illegal guns being sold in New York." There isn't?? Does he honestly believe there are no laws on the national level that make selling guns illegally a crime? This man refuses to address the criminals with guns in NYC. These fools won't stop until they have a complete ban on gun ownership for all average citizens. They will make sure select connected citizens have guns and bodyguards though. They want it to be a privilege conferred on people by the government, rather than a Constitutional right. Even if Democrats successfully banned all gun ownership in America, like they want to, the criminals will still have them and crime would actually go up! Ban anything and you create a lucrative black market. Look how well it works with illegal drugs. The desire to ban guns has nothing to do with crime and everything to do with control!

Thank you ! Most states allow it now. NY once again must know something all those states don't , the thought I guess is you'll shoot a deer with it , if I was a poacher it would be with my .270 not a pocket .380 or short barrel 9. Heck I group better with my bow at 30 yards than my handguns anyway.

Maybe Andy should think twice about the people his people associate with. Just saying...

Old stands are often there for a reason.