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Banana peppers stuffed with grated pesto Gouda , grated sharp cheddar and spicy hot venison Italian sausage off course wrapped in bacon. Using Apple wood chips. http://i.imgur.com/ekgXheS.jpg

Steve Phade, another hunter and I often hunt together. I cannot imagine a situation where we would be fighting over who killed a deer. I would be happy to finish one off for one of them (and its still their deer) and I am sure vice versa. If that is really a concern, I agree that hunting alone is a better option, but if you are hunting with friends it should be a non-issue. Forget first fatal shot, if a friend wounded a deer and I finish it, its his (whether the first shot would be fatal or not). That's what a friend does.

Why do you assume the police cannot do any good? You would be surprised what simple interviews of neighbors can turn up. Also, your report may be another clue to a pattern that they may need to find these creeps. One of the best protections of crooks is the unwillingness of victims to report crimes. Also, as has been said earlier on this thread, a report is necessary for any stolen items that get found later on to be returned to you. If the cops get these guys, how the hell are they supposed to know that some of the stolen items are yours if you haven't turned in a report? Another tip .... If you are going to resort to cameras, make sure they are well concealed, or you will just be contributing yet another item for them to steal.

I thought you all might get a kick out of these and maybe lighten up the mood here a bit....

probably around the same time we realized that washing your hands kept you healthier, not breathing in coal dust was good for your health, that smoking caused cancer and having to clean dried blood off your steering wheel and antlers could be easily and cheaply avoided.

No carpet in your truck bed, no gloves when gutting .... vile, just so vile .... So truthfully, half the time I forget the gloves or to put them on, but when I do remember, I am happy not to have to scrub so hard to clean my hands of the residue, especially since I am more of a grip and rip type field dresser.

I'm in for lunch but 2 walls up 2 to go...almost ran over a turkey on the way down this morning ...they were running every where...lol

never had the best luck rattling around here. I've called in little guys but nothing spectacular. I feel it's more to do with such an out of whack buck to doe population back when I tried it more where I was.

I hope youve never gotten anything infected in a strip joint lol

Its not a motor vehicle until you put something attached to it to move it. I do think even in NY and thats where I am also, you can use a trailer for a stand but it cannot be attached to anything motorized.

Karma sends me a smile..won a drawing...1/2 acre of clover,dual grunter ,rattle box,folding buck knife, bow sight, some decals and another surprise yet unknown....Then the mail lady drove up with my Gander Mnt freebies...the Gold tip XL's and the G5 broad heads...and another buck growl and doe in heat calls....That's a nice morning indeed!

I agree with practicing at longer ranges than your hunting range. It does make the closer shots easier. And I do that myself. But I really don't want to argue with you as to why ridiculously long shots (like 85 yards) are a no no. I'm not gonna change your mind. Good luck.

Well first of all I am thankful that I have never come across a bowhunter that was wearing "just nothing at all except a hat" ..... lol. Serious answer to your question ....... Whiskers. I have had a beard and a moustache since 1972 that always did a good job of covering my face. Only one problem with that ..... as the years have gone on, it has turned pretty darn white. As far as I can tell, it doesn't seem to be a problem though. I think it may not be as important as it is made out to be unless you are wobbling your head around constantly. Movement is what catches their eye, and I keep everything nice and slow while on stand. Likely, they will catch the motion of my drawing arm long before they see anything stationary on my face. It may be that camouflage is highly over-rated. From what I've seen during gun season, wearing solid flashy blaze orange, I have gotten away with all kinds of things without being picked off .... that is, until I make some fast movement. And it is the fast movement that has burned me even when I am wearing camo.

I've hunted 8.guys on 30 acres and we all had good time and hunts, I've had 8 guys on 300 acres and had good times and hunts, I've hunted 2.5 acres with 1 and had successful hunts. Habitat, style of hunting, surrounding pressure all play a factor. In muzzleloader we do drives, 20 plus people on 300 acres, it's very effective 2 drives 1 before lunch and 1 after.. each case is an individual basis

Wish I had the money in hand I've spent on attractant scents over the years, from buck bomb, doe estrus (OTC & farm fresh), drag lines, Tinks 69, Code Blue, blah, blah. If you take all the above posts and condense them it'll tell you what I've learnt over the years - they'll work in the right place at the right time, but nothing works all the time, everywhere! Short of having a real doe tied to a tree in front of your stand. lol

I.wear a face mask but I'm cheap I usually use a $10 mask and some times as the season hours on ill let my facial hair grow and then I stop wearing a mask.

Then they all know to wear a mask when breaking in your joint.

I don't see a problem with locking up land as long as there are enough hunters hunting the property to be beneficial to the habitat as far as deer take and sound management... and although it is ones right to own 1000 acres and keep it only to oneself... it does an injustice to real deer management. In the same respect it would be an injustice to have too many hunters on a smaller habitat. It would be nice to somehow find a balance somewhere in between. I'm sure self proclaimed QDMers can fall into any one of those categories. Someone, or a group, not taking into account all aspects of a good Quality Deer Management program is not really a QDMer at all.

They will be back. You need a security system, possibly something with a cellular connection so that it can contact you when it goes off so that you can catch them in the act.

Well I just went to look and that turned into a ruger American .270 And put a Nikon 3x9 bdc installed gun was 330 scope was 150 minus 10 percent plus ten dollar coupon seemed like a decent price

Just a reminder where your safety glasses and a mask.

I realized that I completely forgot to post this. Back in the early spring I finally took my 2013 buck head to be cleaned up and whitened. I got it back and it looked great. Last year while I was out scouting, I found some 100+ year old hemlock fence posts that were fallen down on the farm that I took him on, so I got the idea to use one of those, along with the old, rusty barbed wire as a way to mount the skull. Heres how it turned out, looks pretty good I think.

Good luck preaching to many of these guys. They don't understand how it is out west. They wouldn't know how to hunt spot and stalk and shoot long range. No tree stands to hide in, and very rare to get a short shot. 40-50 yards on an elk, muley, antelope is a chip shot out west and that's with the heavy winds that we don't have here on the east coast. Those guys out west laugh at how boring it is to sit in a treestand all day waiting for something to walk by. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sure sounds like Japanese beetles, Grow. I fight them off my roses and they do the same exact thing.

Yet?

Warning!!! Carbon fiber is really bad for you if you breath it in! Be careful and use a respirator or vacuum to remove the airborne fibers!

You can't go wrong with a biscuit for hunting. I bought the Pro model with year for my bow ONLY because I got it for $50 shipped on ebay. I don't think you need to spend the extra money on it. I have killed 8-10 deer with a biscuit that is about 15 years old. That one is now working fine on my sons bow.

Here is my arrow jig. Super simple Take the dremel and secure it to your bench top with a GOOD cutting tool attached. Then I take the jig and align it just so a tiny portion of the cutting wheel is over the lip of the L. Then you just mark your arrows where you want to cut them. Slide them into the cutting wheel and then rotate the arrow against the L on the jig. It works great and you get a very even cut every time. Let me know if you want more pics this was just a quick one to get you an idea.

What's the matter. Just because you can't hit anything at long ranges means no one can? I always shoot to 100. Makes close range shots a breeze. I shot my antelope at 88 yards. Hard to get close to a lot of western animals so being capable of hitting them at long range is a must. I practiced for months before that hunt and made sure I was rock solid as I don't like wounding anything just like anyone else. I'm young with better than perfect vision (thanks lasik!) and have been practicing to 100 yards for 6 years now. Never said I'd take a high risk hail marry shot at 100 through dense forest. But on a feeding deer in a open field with no wind. Yep I'm letting a arrow fly. With today's new bows why does this seem like a ridiculous feat? Not only does practicing at long ranges make you a better shooter in general it makes the way more common shorter range shots much easier. But the biggest thing is the confidence boost you get

i would take the right acre over average 50. I have a place in west chester thats 200 and i hunt it with one buddy and we both agree 2 is enough for that spot. i have 4 or 5 stands and he has a couple and to be honest most of the deer are shot from 2 particular stands. I have made a move on some deer with a climber but generally to adjust for wind in a couple pinch points. I had a place in ct that was 2 acres that always had 120+ bucks there and all the does you wanted. many double kill days. and it was a small strip of woods that I was super careful and only hunted a se wind. By hunting smarter you will kill more deer. you dont need 50 or 100 acres or food plots or any of that... find the bedding, natural food source and pinch points and you will kill.

I would say about 40 acres minimum per person, but it is very dependent on neighboring properties, type of land, and deer density. In the southern zone, I used to have a pie-shaped, narrow, wooded, 6 acre slice out in the neighboring town that was very productive for several years. It was in an agricultural area with lots of corn and soybeans nearby. When hunters moved in on three sides and built stands I could see from my own, the action dropped right off. I sold it when the hunting tanked. Now I hunt about 100 acres total of family-owned land between our farm and my folks. That is just about right for me and a guest on occasion. This land is about 1/3 mature hardwoods, 1/3 brushy cover, and 1/3 fields. The fields are about half planted in food plots - mostly clover with some corn, wheat, soybeans, and brassica. Up in the northern zone at my in-laws camp, there was 500 acres of private land with 3 hunters for the last three years. The deer density is a good bit lower up there, so more than 150 acres per hunter was good. That land consists of 400 acres of hilly, mature wooodland surrounding a 100 acre lake. There is also a thick, marshy creek bottom winding thru the hills with several beaver ponds. The woods are about half pines and half hardwoods.

I have a large parcel that I hunt. We have taken many deer on it. All the other parcels around me are big, + 100 acres . There is a small 10 acre plot that borders me to the west. This small plot is a magnet to hold a few shooter bucks during the season. Thick with brush and pines, the does love to bed in it. If you were lucky to own this plot i would say10 acres is the magic number, All depends on the situation you hunt..

Close friend, just down the rd owns 70 acres with an iroquois gas line right of way down the middle of it.. gas company owns a" right of way" . The right to maintain,keep clear,etc... Friend still retains all of his rights as owner . Except for the obvious exceptions of being able to build or dig there.

Couldn't agree more with all the above: Happy Birthday!!

I some how missed this. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Hope you had a good day

Otis! My Man! Sorry had to say it. That sucks getting your stuff stolen twice but I have to agree something is amiss if you did not report it. What are you growing if I might ask? Does not sound like deer because those guys are serious and would have reported it. ​

Bump. We are the same age! You in years, me in spirit!

I don't understand why people wouldn't wear gloves. You're putting your arms elbow-deep into a cavity full of biological scum. You have one cut on you, one cuticle torn out, anything, and all that bacteria and god knows what else can migrate into your system. You can get parapoxvirus if you're not careful - who needs nodules and lesions all over their arms for no reason at all? Lastly, you shoot a deer through the ribcage and now you have sharp bone shards all up in there and why not protect yourself from a nasty cut like that?

Nice pics. I shot a buck a couple of years ago that always looked fat like that. When I gutted him, his stomach was huge, and packed solid with corn. Ive never seen a deer's stomach that big before.

Ive gotten so I dont even post pics of the bucks we have anymore. You guys will see them when/if we kill them.

Nice pics

85 yards should cover you. If a deer walks out at 100, just hold another foot and a half high. I'm personally tuned and sighted in for 150. But I only shoot 100 in an actual hunting situation. You never know if there is a twig 140 yards out that you might not see.

So, how are you going to handle it yourself without winding up in the slammer yourself?

Old hay wagons work pretty darn good for blinds. My buddy and I built this one on a farm in PA. that we hunt each year. We've killed a few bucks and a few doe out of it while staying relatively dry on some really lousy days.

Someone told me that all the blood and gut crap washes right off with soap and water…..Is that true or was he just pulling my leg????? LOL!!

No, I don't have a permit for Leggo deer.

deer also get used to certain behaviors and noises. so chances are this person might not be screwing anything up at all. be careful you dont end up losing recovery rights.

I think you are screwed . Unless said dog always finds a dead animal carcass to roll in on said property . Ya know ,but what are the chances a dead animal carcass will be in the weeds all the time...

Spent this weekend at my daughter's hunters ed class. She passed with flying colors! Now she is all ready to go for bow season next year. We are also talking about heading out to Colorado to visit family and go elk hunting next year. Ive been looking into the trip for a couple of years now, and now that she will be ready to go, Im going to start putting it together. Luckily, unless something changes, my family lives in one of the only OTC elk tag zones. Im also going to look into antelope just in case we both get our elk with enough time to try for something else as well. Yesterday, I stopped at the farm to take a peek at plots, they are still doing great. Heres some pics...

I should requalify my post. I'm looking for a gun that swings fast, is a fast repeater, and will be shooting 125 yards or less through clear cuts/mountain laurel/ dense hemlocks. I found a pre 64 winchester lever gun in 30-30 that had some nostaliga to it.