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Some pics from Saranac 2 weeks ago. Good time camping with some sunny weather. The pike was one of the bigger fish, about 6 lbs, nothing huge but a decent fish. All fish where released.

Didn't see the one I was looking for last night, but he'll be back. I had to switch locations to get a little closer to the action. This field is the first to fall into the shadows as the sun sets. While not very good for photographing deer, it's a great spot to see them before they hit the main field. .... and a shot from the adjacent "boneyard".

Hit up my aunts farm pond in Darien today.

Venison burgers with Gorgonzola and bacon. Mama was happy to see them after her long day at work

The trip was OK. Cabins are very close to each other. Fishing stunk! I heard a lot about Indian Lake being great fishing. If you have a boat to get to deep water for the trout or hit the coves and points for bass and pike. We mainly caught 3-5" Rock Bass and Small mouth Bass. The biggest was around 9". Great food, and lots of beer! The g/f took more pics so once she gets them from the camera to her PC I have a few more.

Some things I have used over the years. Hike up high early and still hunt/stalking downhill while inspecting for sign. If you have a good area with deer this is a great way to hunt and you can do it very slowly if you can get in undetected. Get a good pair of binoculars they will help when scanning the end or beginning of rivers, swamps and any other thick pinch points deer use to cross or bed in including ridge tops and sides. Find the swamps, deer like swamps for cover, security and food. Rivers and streams hold food deer like check them good. October or later check for beechnut and other mast crops in the higher elevations. Scrapes and rubs are great to key in on early season but during rut look for the doe. Learn how to talk to deer, I can not explain how much this and tracking has helped me advance in my personal knowledge of deer. This is a great way to spot deer when the season is off or you want to see if deer are in a swamp and jump them out. Peter Fiduccia is da man! Love his videos! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rrOWSZOCq8 This next one is great to pull in doe, I have used it many times still hunting and had doe as close as 4-5 ft before spotting me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9Udgb_imWM If we get snow get out and follow the first track you find and see where it takes you. Usually it will cross other tracks and then you found a X to put on the GPS. I tend to find doe with young stay in the lower land, valleys and swamp areas more than bucks that like the higher elevation. Bucks swagger and have a wider track than doe that walk a thin line. Track a buck can tell you his size, rough weight and antler width if your lucky. Benoit videos are great along with the Salerno brothers for great deer hunting info. Cover as much area as possible when scouting, deer know the sound of human hikers is different than hunters and see it as less of a threat but will still run usually unless they freeze and let you pass. Find the Doe! It's as simple as finding the core area of the doe and making sure you are in it during rut because that is where the bucks will be looking for them. If you find no sign go to a different area, don't waist to much time scouting an area with no sign. Number one tip is enjoy your time in these remote locations where many other hunters say no deer roam and don't give up, ever! Be safe and prepared, these woods can be a beautiful landscape that can turn into a unforgiving place of isolation and calamity when things go bad. I can promise you this: If you get a deer it will be an experience of a lifetime! Remember to thank your prey for all that it has given you! Congrats on your quest for an ADK deer, I wish you the best of luck and hope you get lucky this year!

The title of the thread is my opinion and that of a few friends. I got this Speedy Stitcher in 1989 as a Christmas gift. It was recommended by friend......... The other day the winch strap on my boat trailer busted while cranking the boat in. I bought a new one today at Cabela's and it was about 4' too long. By "too long" I mean that it filled the spool on the winch before I got to the hook. I pulled it back off and compared it to the junk one and noted that it was too long. I cut the strap to the correct length and stitched it up like it needed to be. A bolt goes through it when putting it on the spool and then you just crank it in. My Speedy Stitcher has gotten me out of quite a few jambs over the years. I might not use it every year but when I need it, it's handy as hell to have. My turkey vest would have been chicken chow mien years ago without it. I think it's one of those things every hunter/fisherman/outdoors man needs and should fit all budgets.

Your sources speak volumes!

I am by no means lazy, I hang 40 plus stands a year,trim countless lanes for shooting,place.and monitor 12 plus trail.cams, plant 12 acres of food plots ,over 500 trees this year, prune apple,and hing cut trees, manage my timber and fallow.field.. I use gun and bow, and I bought a crossbow.. so I'm lazy? It's something different.. lot of criticism from people who get their info off Web sites.. many have never shot one, let alone sit in a stand with one but they are experts or feel they know better.. I've used one and it has benifits and drawbacks. If you want to use one so be it.. my opinion is one of let them be.. heck if spears are made legal I'd try one of them. .

How come every time Uptownfake posts something, I imagine a semi finished basement, Hot Pockets, skateboards and weed?????

I have done a lot of management for grouse the past 10 years and this year the added benifits seem to be an abundance of woodcock! The grouse numbers are up this year as are sighting while putting in food plots and some timber management. I have never seen resident woodcock here in 20 plus years I have owned the land. A few in fall for a day or two as they migrated south ,but I have 4 that I see almost every day I am out ( and they are different birds for sure)they don't chase me on the tractor like the grouse,but scamper and flit ahead for about a hundred yards then stand to the side as I drive by.. I don't really knkw much about them other than they eat worms.. but there must be a reason they decided to stay this year. Perhaps the forest floor thay was sold pine has broken down enough for worms to thrive.. I've looked for habitat info and foods but have not found to much ,but I welcome these funny birds!

Here he is, I didn't get to tuck his hair in around the wall and such. I had to hang him fast, and get to a few appointments for my wedding last night. Just snapped a couple pics before i left quick.. He looks awesome, I am very pleased

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Just remove all of the pins. Then its like throwing a baseball. Isn't that what they all say? lol I guess I use this method with the recurve since I aim using a gap. But with the compound, I am with Grampy. Pin on!

Just a feeble attempt at self depreciatory humor. My point is for me to keep things as simple as possible for hunting situations. That works best for me.

Great pics wooly!!

I was watching a documentary with my grandson about the Grand Canyon, a good part of it was about a pair of condors that were nesting there, this would have been their first chick to survive, and either one or both of the parents were routinely trapped and tested for lead. Lead seems to be the biggest obstacle to the recovery of the species. A couple of great links here: https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/nature/condor_updates.htm https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/nature/condor-re-introduction.htm and this one on how a program to switch to non-lead ammo seems to be encouraging for the condors. http://grandcanyonnews.com/main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=114&ArticleID=10998 So, this is what I believe about the issue with lead in ammo. I started hunting some 50 years ago on my family farm in Delaware County. All our ammo was lead, there were no laws even for hunting waterfowl with lead. My house had shingles(for siding) made of asbestos, and the town would oil the roads once a year to keep the dust down, some of that oil probably had PCBs in it(it was cheaper),and it was perfectly legal. http://www.balch.com/files/Publication/a398308c-8127-41ee-b6bb-38fa16d76bda/Presentation/PublicationAttachment/569e4dcf-dc3c-4d54-b543-0a7fa02d93cc/PCB%20-%20THead.pdf My point being, is that we learn from things, and what we have always done, sometimes we can’t continue to do, and shouldn’t because we know better.

No one is discussing a ban. It is just education.

Nice job on the video. I've been a user of Barnes X, TSX and TTSX bullets in my CF hunting rifles for many years. Not exclusively but quite often. I didn't choose to use solid copper bullets to benefit the OTHER critters that may be feeding on gut piles sprinkled with lead fragments, it's just a great extra benefit to using the monolithic bullets.

Why all of a sudden there is a problem? I mean hunting is and has been on the down slide for years. There was never a problem back when half the people in the country was a hunter?

My wife trail rides a crf230 , My 450 won't stand for her pace in the woods so my bike of choice is a 91 honda ez cub 90 , nobody gets off the cub with out perma grin .

Buying a "mobile" home was the best life decision I have ever made, being 30 and completely debt free and never having a mortgage allows me to live! My friends and coworkers constantly ask how I afford all my guns and toys and I remind them that my house costs me 1700$ a year! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I've been using an old 'C' needle and a spool of waxed sailmakers thread to repair stuff since the 1960's. Shoes, belts, holsters, upholstery, work pants, tool belts, and even a couple of favored beer coozies. Duct tape only goes just so far until you start to get strange looks..

Daughter opted for Duffs chicken wings for her last day of school meal.

I have hunted the ADKS since I was a young kid with some success. Get a gps and a map and a compass and don't ever forget any of them. Get boots that are comfortable and light. My success has come from covering a lot of miles, sometimes 10+ miles a day. The important part of this is knowing when to move fast and when to slow down. I pack very light and carry light guns that have had the barrels sawed off for better portability. Most of my success has been when I found a spot with buck sign where I can see a long ways. I have shot a bunch of bucks over 150yds in the ADKS. My buck I shot last year I shot in a spot I had found 3 days earlier and it was 3 miles from the road. When u find a spot that has buck sign you want to be there before light. This usually means early mornings and long walks in the dark "compass and gps." Hunting the ADKS is my personal favorite place to hunt and can be very rewarding and very frustrating! My cousin and I have had a camp for 11 years and he has yet to kill a buck. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Family headed out of town. It's me the dog and a pile of grilled venison steaks and some cold beers! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Didn't take you long to jump back in and prove my point about unintelligent trolling.

Uptown --- Do you post your replies during school recess ?

thats my she's catching more fish than I am smile. " fish on " and " fish on " is all I heard

Holy PANFISH , Batman !! Those are some awesome perch and bluegills !! The bass are fun to catch, but the panfish are some FINE eating !! Nice to see you had a fine morning afield with your lovely daughter...

Good stuff TF! We need to work on your "happy days" smile! Looks like your daughters had a good time with the grumpy old guy anyhow!

I'd be calling that dinner. Toss the bass back and run with the perch and bluegill. Nice going Jay. Live bait? Don't worry, I won't say a thing to your brother the King of fly fishing.

Looks like she's already surpassed you from a fishing standpoint! Nice job.

I have 2 of them 1 is proberly the original that my mom had and one that I bought 50 years ago , I made or repaired so many things in that time it would fill a page or two to list the , such as arrow quivers from deer hides to repairing load binder straps. A very handy thing to have around.

How much let off on that one Stone? I think they go 65-75-85? I never really looked at that bow closely, but I assume that since the wheels are round, the pivot point really serves as the cam? Good luck. Hope you enjoy it.

Nice, what do you think that mark in the 3rd pic is?

Lol, Shortly after i popped the question, she suggested I sell my truck, the boat and or the tractor.. LOL!! i looked at her and asked her politely to re think that idea haha. and so far i still own everything I had all along. Haha, ill work my butt off to pay for something rather than sell anything.. if possible anyways. Sorry TC, nothings for sale. If there ever comes a divorce ill keep you in mind! lol

Funny I just put a new winch strap on and "sewed" it with a few zip ties, it's not holding. This is a great idea

Haha when I was stationed in SC I had a cr500 super moto it was a blast and the single most un economical thing in the world 30ish miles to a tank but boy was it fun, I used to ride it to work with a 32oz Gatorade bottle of gas in my backpack because I couldn't make it to work and home on a tank. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I just looked on my phone and I don't have a pic of them, next time I have them out I'll take one and I'll put the CR500 in the middle. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yes they are, nothing in this world makes you feel 14 again like riding a 250R And riding a 350X is like having a Tyrannosaurus rex as a pet.

I lollipop with a bow and iron sight, everything of mine is sighted in to impact the 12oclock edge of front sight or pin. This is most precise method of aiming, and why it's used in long range shooting with iron sights. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Been hunting Moose River Plains/Blue Ridge/West Canadian Lakes area since 1991 on and off. Since I got lucky in 2000 my buddies only want to hunt this remote area. Take it as an adventure because it is some of the hardest hunting in the state with very few deer in it. I drove the entire park after 2 days of snow and only found 2 sets of doe tracks crossing the road just to give you and idea and I covered over 30 miles. More tracks found in the woods vs deer crossing the road, not that they don't but sometimes it seems to be a barrier. I have never found a clear cut, apple tree or an oak ridge in this area. I have found food sources but most of the food seems to be the new vegetation in rivers and mast crops like beach nuts. Like mentioned before food is a hard thing to key in on, it is all over the place for them. No farms or houses to key in on unless you hunt near towns which really is not deep woods. 1)Hunting lake or river edges can be good spots especially if it is a pinch point. Do not shoot any deer in water or over a body of water, in NY it is illegal as far as I know. Nothing ethically wrong with hunting these areas. Deer need water, if they are not getting enough from the vegetation they will more than likely need to drink. That can be hard to pin point also as the ADK has many rivers, small streams and swamps that can satisfy their thirst. 2) Focus on open area's is ok but concentrate on the sides, bucks tend to like thick cover that masks their movement. Be vigilant in your inspections, is the area browsed, tracks, doe or buck tracks. Swamps are a good place to find tracks along with rivers and lake edges but you will need to cover some ground. 3) Only thing I have found that I could rely on was beechnuts. Again food is very hard to pin point, they can eat at any location. Small streams and swamps tend to hold food deer like. This is my worst area of knowledge. 4) Just like people they all have personalities. Some will run a half mile at the smell of humans. Others not so much. To me they seem just as skittish as any deer not use to people or who like to avoid people. Do you plan on using bow or gun. I have not bow hunted the area in 2 years, thinking about doing a scouting/hunting trip early October. Such a nice time of the year but the vegetation is still covering much and seeing past 30-40 yards in most of my spots is impossible. Some other posts about the subject, good info! http://huntingny.com/forums/topic/23282-first-time-big-woods-hunting/page-2 http://huntingny.com/forums/topic/19997-when-the-deer-move/

You people are being distracted by "old business". The crossbow proponents already have crammed themselves into the bow season ...... They saw a season that was created for bows and wanted to grab a piece of that and did. But what is slipping around the corner without a whole lot of notice is the fact that now the DEC is championing several versions of also cramming firearms into bow seasons. We knew that would happen right? The precedent has been set now and on goes the evolution of bow season into an "any weapon season". Already they are warning us of wanting muzzleloaders shoved into bow season in specific WMUs. Each precedent begets the next. Way back when compounds were shoved into bow seasons, some of the old-timers that warned that the compound was just the beginning, were also shouted down, and over-run. Amazingly, they were exactly right and the compound became the precedent for crossbows. And amazingly every one today tries to convince themselves and others that crossbows for some reason are the end of the evolution of bow season. Well, the DEC is wasting no time capitalizing on this "creeping incrementalism". The opportunities and precedents for firearms encroachments are already being used. But the crossbow enthusiasts are so focused on their part of the evolution that they can't be bothered with the next phases. Ha.... perhaps the crossbow proponents are even heavily in favor of the introduction of firearms. Why wouldn't they?

This is the perfect example of how a liberal will resort to name calling instead of coming up with a substantive response to why they think the Times didn't twist trumps words. So instead of the thread being a start to an intelligent debate... it just becomes nothing more than an example of unintelligent trolling.

Sure, make tags easy to get, as many as you want, and none of this charging for them if they are really serious about having a problem. There is a serious credibility problem when they continue to throw up road blocks to getting permits. The fact is if they have some serious areas that are a real problem, make the permits something you can copy off the internet. That is something that might even get some of the landowners who have their property locked up starting to get with the doe harvesting solution. That would not necessarily be the total solution, but it would be a couple of steps in the right direction. And for cripes sake, make it good for gun season where results can actually be expected. This playing around with bow season only is just a goofy half-hearted lip service (window dressing) to the problem. Is there a problem or not? Are they really looking for a solution or not? If so, act like it. Look, when farmers have a problem with deer numbers, they don't play games with bow season. They accept the problem and they aggressively go at it with firearm nuisance permits. I assume they get results too. They don't say, "This is a problem that only bowhunters must solve." They go after it in a credible way (whether we like it or not) and reduce problem populations as though they really have serious intentions of doing so.

When it comes to inside, I learned a long time ago, to just agree with her.