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Rented a man lift from pinicle in Hornell. Machine was great and I felt safe doing the job myself. My big project done, now to shooting bows, cross bows and guns.!

Nice job, looks great. While you have that lift use it to clean your chimney from the top down. Al

The game animals seem to know when it is open season and when they are being hunted. Back when I was hunting and training Coon dogs I would be running into Deer all the time. I always made sure my dogs were broke off from running them and they just would give way to me and the dogs and run off for a 100 yards or so and watch the festivities. One night my brother and I were out training and I had three dogs make tree and were treeing hard, as we walked in to the tree I saw a set of eyes shining about 35 yards from the tree the dogs where treeing on. A closer look revealed a big Doe just laying on the ground watching the dogs. I thought something was wrong with her being so close to the dogs with all that racket going on. I went over to have a look see and she got up and bolted off looking perfectly fine. I think as long as we kept our distance she might have stayed right where she was. Bottom line, I was in those woods night after night with my dogs and when Deer season came around I never had much problem getting in there, finding and killing a Deer, they stay home. Al

Now I'm not in my woods all the time. I do live here and will go cut trees, take the dogs for a walk and mow my paths. It doesn't bother the deer. I think we all "over think" pushing deer out of your area if you out and about. If you have good cover and food they will be right back in it after you leave.

To my eye there is nothing that makes a rifle stand out more than a nicely figured wood stock. These days they seem to be a thing of the past as most firearms use some kind of synthetic. Anyhow if one owns firearms with wood stocks good maintenance is key to keep them looking great for many years. Instead of just wiping a gun down with an oily rag give your stock a simple wax treatment. A buddy of mine whose Dad was a furniture maker liked to use a Bee's wax concoction to polish and preserve wood. He gave me a small can of that stuff and I used it for many years but eventually it ran out and it is no longer available. I am sold on the Bee's wax so I started looking around for something to replace it and found this Feed-N-Wax product. Used it for the first time recently and it seems to work as well as my original stock. Now the wax works best on satin oil type finished stocks where it can penetrate the wood, stocks with glossy poly finishes it does not do much other than shine. Give your old blunderbuss a treat and polish that old dull wood, you will be surprised in the difference it makes. Al

good info, gonna grab a bottle, i also and bringing my wood stock firearms out in anything less than miserable weather.

Wow! This is an old thread!! Good one to resurrect, Id say

Ran into these 2 walking the dog tonight.

I've just been granted access to an additional 50 acres which is alongside a 360 acre Wildlife Manage Area (4B) ! I requested to put up a Ladder Stand and been given the " Go Ahead " .... yippee ! I'm going to take my ATV for a ride there in the next couple days , do some scouting and if I see any trace of activity I'll be setting up a Trail Cam !

I have no cameras, but I do quite a bit of early scouting for both Deer and small game and it is usually combined with other activities like stump shooting with one of my recurves or plinking with one of my air guns. Also a good time to get my dogs in the woods and do some training. I go along observing mast crops and game trails along with finding other game sign, I just like being in the woods taking a walk and see what is out there, it is good for the soul. Al