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Homemade pierogi and venison pepper jack hotdogs from Costanzas . Forgot to take a picture so I had to draw from memory .....

Some ugly SOB's in this thread... I got no problem being associated with something like that. I must have been MIA when this thread came to life. Good resurrection Larold,lol!

Grilling up clams in the snow and Chesapeake oysters Snack time

Met Jack Nicklaus years back when I took some lessons from Jim Flick. We talked hunting for awhile. Jack used to schedule an extra day or two around an event to do some hunting .My rep for Nicklaus golf forward this pic to Jack who then signed it and personally mailed it to me. I thought about asking him to come hunt NYS with me. Yup , I'll be picking him up at the airport from his private jet in my then beat up Subaru Outback. It was a fun thought at the time lol.

Good thing the title of this thread isn't "Show Your Puss".

Bar none , best fish I ever had was in ASP. We hiked miles upstream to a beaver dam. Crouching down and pitching panther martins. Caught a few native brookies. Took back to camp. Cut off heads , gutted , little salt n butter in cavity. Wrapped in foil and thru on grate over fire. This even trumped our salmon from AK while we were there.

im with Skillet. That's a 36" pan by the way...

I like to cook them in a hot cast iron skillet with butter. Just gut them, cut off head & tail, rinse & pat dry. Melt butter in skillet. You want it hot, but not hot enough to scorch the butter. Lay the fish in the butter & cook it until the skin is crispy & the meat flakes off the bones with a fork. For thicker fish, cover the pan. Try to only flip it a couple times, or they start to fall apart. I season it with salt / pepper & lemon juice.

Went with my buddy, his daughter and mine. We were in Cablevisions suite. It was amazing being right behind the bench and the suite was out of this wold! Something we will always remember!

Yesterday afternoon I glanced out the window , and for a split second I thought it was a huge red winged blackbird. After doing a double take I realized it was a banded crow. Apparently a guy named Kevin McGowan from Cornell has been banding and researching crows since 1989. I forwarded him the info he requested on his website.

I only have 2 of these types of box calls in my collection. One is by Quaker Boy, called their "mini-boat paddle" and this one really sounds awesome still. The other one is made by a good friend of mine Tim Fralick, and he makes one called the "Burrville Bomber" , it's a rather large call and doesn't fit well in my vest due to it's size. I usually end up carrying it in my decoy bag. They both sound great to my ears.

I'm pretty good at clams and getting better at oysters. I agree with the " foil on campfire" method for cooking fish in camp..I usually throw the foil wrapped fish right on the coals and turn it once a minute . It doesn't take long, less than 10 minutes.I have done that with leaopard rainbows, grayling and dolly vardens in Alaska, trout all over the continent, and bass and walleyes in Canada..It's always succulent that way.

I understand where that thought comes from. It is simple..... Many (most?) gunhunters would love to force their way into bow seasons and enjoy the benefits that bowhunters have fought hard to establish over the years. They just don't want to use a bow and undergo all the pain of mastering that particular weapon. They want the bennys without the effort. Well now they have the crossover weapon that allows them to do that. We'll see if we become another Ohio where the bow season is now a "crossbow season" where they happen to allow you to still use your vertical bow. You have to admit that a crossbow is a very attractive alternative weapon for those who don't like all that archery form and discipline crap. So we wind up with a simple re-distributing of hunters from gun season to bow season. All those reasons that so many took up the bow for. The attempt to escape the frenetic party atmosphere of gun season for relative peace and quiet of the bowhunting world will undergo an irreversible change to something that represents a gun season without the bang.

My kid got this one today.

Smoked trout sliced thin and served with Goatcheese and crackers yumm

Thanks , I also had a dill pickle , but could not find a green colored pencil . Sometimes we tend to get too serious and worked up over hunting , I like to break stones and laugh, often at myself .....

Got to be one of best posts in this thread...lmaoSent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk

This is me after a nice 80 yard shot, I hit the X!!! So I had a BIG Grin! And someone mentioned puss so I will post my 2 new rescues, got one in January and one about 2 months ago after the big snow storm trapped the orange guy in our parking lot. Say hello to Cup Cake (I did not name her!) And Bucky! Bucky is the orange guy.

Love it!! Loud and proud! I'd have to sell my tractor to get another bike, but it's been on my mind. The tractor makes things easier for me now, but the bike was Freedom Incarnate 35 or 40 years ago! The Soros-backed disrupters are going to have to rethink their game plan.

First I'm hearing of it, but I like the idea. ;-]

I am still confused that your worring about recovery and safety factor, the bow hunting course will be mandatory! At least when i took the course 30+ years ago recovery , tracking, proper shot placement , were all highly stressed and i am sure they are today! I dont see any similarity between a gun and a crossbow other than the stock, it must be drawn(guns dont) loaded with arrow( guns dont use arrows) kenitic energy of a 200 lb pull crossbow is only the same as a 5 or 70 lb pull bow,unlike the thousands of foot pounds produced by gun. Distance is only limited by shooter skill with any weapon. as for more pressure if there are 250 bow courses available through out the year and 50 students per class thats only 12500 more ehunters entering the woods and that is a high estimate as class sizes are smaller on average.. plus you have to remember hunting losses in hunters that give up the sport for 1 reason or another every year some permant some temporary. if a new hunter walks through the woods with a xbow trying to hunt like gun hunting deer will get up and move which can be a good thing in warmer weather..

No geoducks??

Where "IT" comes from is the manufactures of the xbow, promoting the ease of implementation. Any Tom, Dick or Harriet can gun down the unsuspecting deer, hog, turkey etc. with a xbow. Things get a bit trickier in real world applications IMO. The old guy with the bum shoulder is kind of a horse ball reason for the xbow. A guy who's shoulder is bad enough that he can't shoot a vertical bow, is really going to use the xbow? Cocking a xbow with a bum shoulder ain't no fun, holding a xbow with a bum shoulder ain't no fun, climbing a tree with a bum shoulder ain't no fun, gutting and dragging out a deer with a bum shoulder ain't no fun. Face it, the xbow is for the healthy....................

Because, for some reason, I have too much fun with this app. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I usually leave the heads on too..The cheeks are excellent.. Don't eat fish ??.. How sad.. I love anything that swims or crawls on the bottom of the ocean..

The fins are like potato chips!

Bump

Very rarely do I ever get to see the mommas. The kits are usually are out playing while momma is out hunting down dinner. If I don't see them out, I'll stay away assuming they are in the den with her and she wont let them out while I'm there anyhow. I also try not to stick around longer than an hour when I do see them out. When I was running cams over the dens last spring, they showed momma coming and going every hour, on the hour like clockwork. I wouldn't want them to miss their feeding time.

And still, with a crossbow, you have to have the skill and woodsmanship to consistently, put yourself 30 yards or so downwind of deer to kill them. Even with rifles, some "clowns" can only hope to get lucky. No matter what tool is in their hand. A good hunter is still a good hunter. A stumblebum in the woods is no threat to the deer population. Especially with a crossbow! Let full inclusion happen. And let each hunter decide for themselves what tool they want to hunt with.

Full inclusion and be done with it and move on. That's all. Have a nice day!!

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Let me be second. Sadly my Mug is empty, I hope to fill it and empty it a few times watching the Mets though!

This year i had my heart set on getting some trail cam photos of some red heads strutting. After doing some TSI and hinge cutting early march i threw up a camera where i figured the birds might start scratching... heres a few from the card pull Will be putting out a few more cams soon..

yes he is Dan. he also makes a nice glass call as well.

I have wanted one of these chairs for a few years now for camping. G/f caught a sale and got me one as an early b-day gift. Now, after dinner when we are camping the only time I have to get up is to put more wood on the fire and to use the potty!

Baked a ham. No idea what the g/f is doing for sides and a veggie, I think she said box-mix scalloped potatoes. I did my part for this day.

As I'm sitting here at the table I can hear the neiborhood start to make noise..Love it! Everybody gets together bringing any guns they own pistols, shotguns, rifles,etc. Target and skeet shooting.. It started with one neighbor and has spread to 3 or 4 spots within a few miles of me. It has become a local tradition. Is this statewide or just a local thing?

Great pic's!!!

NOT TODAY...HAVE A 10 DEGREE WINDCHILL HERE TODAY! Have a few on the road that shoot but never at the same time or together. Happens all the time almost daily in Rochester!! On Friday even the cops joined in!!

You are a management tool, many will take a deer, with dwindling numbers if you are in a high population area you need to take doe, donate them if you have too! You lose the right to complain if seasons are changed to anterless only ,or x bow become included in all of archery, the dec is mandated by the state to control deer numbers , they have to use what is available to them if that doesn't work changes are made.. you as an individual have a role to play and Untill people's attitude changes about taking and donating to a person or group, the dec will keep making changes.. game management is more than making a hunter happy. He has to realism he/she becomes a tool for management.

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All mags are ridiculously expensive..If you want quality and RELIABILITY ..go with original factory mags. Pay the extra money. Stay away from after market crap like Pro Mag.. Trust me…...

I never thought that stockies (browns and rainbows) tasted too good. But natives are a bit different. Brookies are the best …stocked or not IMHO. Light dusting in seasoned flour and pan fried in butter. always good. Use enough butter.

Tasty

Very respectable, awesome job! Father and son making memories, it doesn't get any better! Congrat's to the both of you!

Doc said, "More and more people are beginning already to ask that question, and perhaps rightly so. Special seasons? ... special rules? is that getting to be an obsolete idea? At one time bow season was a rather benign low impact form of hunting that drew little attention. The idea of some special seasons and rules actually had some necessity and justification. That necessity is being erased a piece at a time ..... one precedent at a time." ============================================= Back in the day special seasons were granted and put into place for bow and muzzleloader hunters because it was supposed to be hard. The thing is people always find ways of getting an edge and getting it approved and legalized for their genre. With the Archery recurves went to compounds with less and less effort needed to draw them back, finger tabs to mechanical release, wood arrows to fiberglass to aluminum to carbon fiber. Arrow speeds have basically doubled. Muzzleloaders were sidelock primitives firing a patched round ball. Went from there to firing conical type, to inline rifles to sabots to modern jacketed bullets to black powder substitutes to smokeless powder. Muzzleloaders today can virtually duplicate the ballistics and range of a cartridge gun. The way it looks to me is it is all about money, some greed and not about being hard anymore, there is some kind of a special season going from September till January and for each one it will cost you. Al

I was surprised at the cost of those for a 10/22 when I bought a spare a few years ago. It must be a "supply and demand" issue. It is handy having two, one for hollow-point high velocity and the other for solid-point, standard velocity, but hardly worth the cost.

Jenny called on my way home today and wanted me to take her shed huntin'! I was pretty pumped! We gave it hell.., but nothing but big fat goose eggs for us today! She's having some friends over tonight, so I'm stuck entertaining!

yeah, I would think that bowhunters leave a very small "footprint" in the woods compared to other activities....

That was me, Rob...I realized that I had forgotten my toilet paper..