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No wonder there are so many Mountain Lion "sightings" in NY LMAO

Biz-R- World...your over thinking this...you need to better utilize your thoughts and go help WNYBH with advise on his tattooed naked porn stars ..so he doesn't have any more trips to the hospital...

Some of us see that as an advantage, not a disadvantage. Also, I know quite a few guys these days who are opting for the muzzle loader over the shotgun because of range and accuracy.

Odd you should mention that... I sat on the crapper today and a long silky rope shot out my azz! Went out to hang a stand this morning and climbed right up the tree trunk without installing any steps.... Stopped for lunch at the restaurant in town and found a fly in my soup...... It wasn't half bad.

Problem.... Half my day is filled with thoughts of farm bucks and tattoed porn stars.

Nice! When the SHTF that thing will be sprayin' "S" all over the place!

Biz... You are confused that people hunt from Tree's with guns?? No reason to stay low when its alot easier to see things coming and going up high.

If cutting them doesn't impact it, then why do it?

Guess the weight of the dog in my Avatar, I want to see how close you are at guessing weights from a photo.

400k for 90 acres? Theres one born every minute I guess lol.

You would see the spots if it were in natural light. See the black band on the ear tops

i'd be back in the thick woods,top rt corner of the property. fields are nice you can see deer but the better bucks will not enter in daylight, even during the rut if they are mature, the older ones will chase doe and keep them in the thick stuff. you'll see younger bucks chasing around the fields, the big boy waits till they chse em into the woods esp if there are a lot of doe around

The deer issue in NY is the ridiculous amount of Doe btw. Not the bucks. I bet we have a ration of 100 to 1 in some areas. How about making the youth hunt a Doe only early season?? That would both help the overall population and still get youth involved. Nobody I hunt with ever shoots doe. You get bucks breading old doe and sometimes they don't even product fawns. That isn't healthy.

You gotta stop taking everything I say so literally hahahaha

Those are the same people that should not have a gun in their hand.

First off, 8 cylinder Cherokee? Sure you dont mean 6 unless its a really old one. That truck is going to limit you to under 21 foot for a camper, I honestly wouldnt pull anything over 19' with a Cherokee. If you are looking for used, the first thing to look for is water damage. When you find it (because you probably will), find out if the leak was fixed. Next, look at the roof and check all of the seams for cracking, etc. When you do buy one, do the Eternabond treatment to the roof immediately. I think I put a thread on here about it. Its fairly cheap and will last as long as you have the camper. As far as use goes in the winter, they are plenty warm, but you are going to go through a bunch of propane. Theres a thread on here already about winter RV use with lots of good info. Look through the camping forum.

I guess the good thing here is that he now may not be able to procreate.LOL

put 20 hunters in a room and you will likely get 20 different opinions on where how and when and with what, one thing that never changes is real world experience and nothing beats experience gained by boots on the ground. squirrel season is on and that is a perfect excuse to grab your bow with small game heads and sit your stand, see what comes by and when, from where and would you have gotten a shot? one of my friends is a legendary guide from a legendary family of guides, each member of the family hunts in a different manner and with different weapons but they all have one thing in common; they spend an extreme amount of time in the woods and on the waters. it is common dialogue for a sports instructions to be " follow the markers until you reach the tree with three tacks in it, then sit down facing such and such and between 6:10 and 6:30 a 6 point buck will come from teh cedars on your right and pass right to left in front of you and cross the creek at such and such location"...many sports are dumbstruck when everything happens exactly as told, but having sat in that spot and watched the buck do that very thing at those very times many mornings it is as challenging for the guides to forecast his movements as it is for a metro commuter to figure out when and where to catch his daily bus from A to B. go sit the stand and also move about and still hunt the property, spend a great deal of time sitting quietly and letting squirrels approach you, soon you will find deer and other big game doing the same, then its simply a matter of open season allowing you to take deer in addition to small game etc.

i think we should take all these jacked up American Evangelical Cristians who just wanna kill muslims and send them and their kids right over to the middle east and let them meet all these jacked up Death to America Muslims face to face, ohh and lets arm them all with the very finest first, LOL!!!

I think some guys over think and analyze things too much, relax, hunting is fun and we should get kids involved. Maybe instead of arguing BS go out and get involved some way. Just saying

What happens when the coddled kids that hunt the " special youth season " , become adults and wake up to the realization that they can no longer hunt in October when it was warmer weather and not a lot of gun hunters weren't out there ? They find out that the special season was a big lie and it's cold during the real gun season . Are they really going to stick with it ? Get them started hunting small game and varmints . There are a lot of farmers that would appreciate someone shooting their woodchucks . This would get a foot in the door for possible deer hunting property . Take them rabbit and squirrel hunting . Eventually graduate them into deer hunting . And once again , the Youth Hunt will not affect me . It could possibly be an advantage when little BillyBob gets fidgity , bored , starts moving around and makes noise .

I agree with earlier statements about lowering the age for young hunters. I was the least interested in hunting in my entire life at that age. It continued right through college which i almost regret. I had priorities ... Get them started young before the hormones take over. Let parents decide when their kid is old enough.

i live and hunt in 3J and we were the first to have AR in NY state, started about 6 or so years ago. i have never shot a buck to small, i just sit and wait till i can count the antlers, then make the shot. its not really as tough as some hunters might think it is, i might add that AR has most of us hunting bigger bucks now anyway, not uncomman to see nicely racked 8 and even 10 pointers in my area now when 10 years ago we were dubbed the land of the spiked buck.

Ha-ha .... I guess Mikey must have got to me. I hear that kind of crap all too often. It does get tiresome.

geesh doc relax. It is all good. Your key board must be smoking.

That does seem like an odd thing to do, purposely adding guns into a bow season. kind of like a slap in the face to bowhunters, for no other purpose that slapping them in the face. There is no need to have them both running concurrent. Furthermore their choice of running the two seasons concurrently automatically makes a huge number of potential mentors have to choose between the two events. I'm sure that this will have some potential mentors skipping the youth event. Was it necessary to force that choice on mentors? ..... absolutely not. It really makes me wonder about the value of "fooling" kids about what hunting really is. If they are sensitive to cold weather, or need to experience gun hunting in conditions that don't replicate real gun hunting conditions, then what the heck is really being accomplished? Are we just trying to temporarily fool them and set them up for quitting later when they do have to hunt within a real gun season? Also, I have to say that if you want kids to see deer and get a shot, there is absolutely no better time of the year than opening day for that. The pressure of the orange army keeps them moving on that day. There is also another intangible at work during regular season as the kids are also exposed to the comraderie of hunting with cousins, aunts, uncles, grand parents as well as their parents and friends. Also, in some cases there is the added benefit of camp-life. All of these things are missing during some trumped up special season that is held apart from the rest of the world. It is hard to know what is in the mind of a parent or other mentor who is not carrying on the tradition of introducing children to hunting as a natural part of life. You sure can't detect that attitude of selfishness by looking at them or even talking with them. But it has to be admitted that the job is not getting done or we wouldn't even be talking about special seasons. We can only guess at the motivation and I would maintain that selfishness has to be looked at as one of the possible motives for people dropping the ball. And once again, I am going to ask that question that never seems to get answered here: If we can't get parents and other mentors to introduce kids to hunting within the season, where does everyone expect these mentors to be coming from? Let me repeat that .... where does everyone expect these mentors to be coming from? It's not happening now in season. Why does anyone think it will be happening during some special season. And do we make that situation better by making potential mentors choose between bow season and a special youth season? I think not. But it does make us all feel good, doesn't it ..... lol.

Want a better solution if you haven't burned them out? Tried this several times over the years and works great. Take a large pyrex clear bowl at dusk and place over the hole tightly. Within 2 days the nest will be dead. They come out into the bowl and think they are out side and the heat of the day cooks them. In 2 or 3 days the entire hive will be stacked on top of one another like a death camp.

He said $25,000 a year to be a member of the Rose Garden Hunt Club... WTF !!!!!

High road, high fence, same thing! Carfax / Carfox.

That's not a 400lb deer, or a twelve pointer.

That statement just woke me from my day dream of a tatted up porn star shooting a 300" non typical while naked in my tree stand.....

Crossbows and vertical bows have the same effective range, so they should be in the same season. That and the fact that they are both archery equipment. The difference between muzzle loaders and most shotguns/rifles is mainly that you get one shot with the muzzle loader, which is why they seperate them out. Using that argument, why not seperate out longbows and recurves from compounds, then throw the crossbow in with the compounds? Id say theres a much bigger difference between a compound and a recurve or longbow than there is between a compound and a crossbow.

Hey I like to see big racks as much as the next guy, sometimes its on TV, sometimes its at the gym ! I find each as elusive as the next however .

Back then, if you messed up it's because you were dumb. Now if you mess up, it's the government/corporations fault because there weren't enough proper warning labels. People in the 80's weren't dumb enough to put piping hot coffee between their legs while driving.

Wooly, quick go see if you can fly or swing from a building with a web you might have been bit by the same spider that got spider man!

Ahhhh hell, you're still a young buck! Back in my day, momma used to flash the porch lights or simply slam the front door shut. If you weren't home by lights out, ya slept with the critters..... not that that was such a bad thing,lol! We all could use a little extended family some days!

Isn't it funny how short our memories are. Anyone remember the overwhelming national attitude back in the 911 days. Today everyone is asking why we went to war like they never agreed with the decision in the first place .... lol. Very short memories. That is one thing that other agressive countries are starting to catch onto. These are not the world war days when the American public had some actual resolve and a whole lot of backbone. Any aggressors today understand that there will be hell to pay for a little while until our public starts doing their thing. So a little patience and it's pretty well understood that we will back off. Once again we are hearing the results of that very same thing. But one thing that I have noted is that since the war started there have been no more successful attempts at terrorism on our soil. Who gets credit for that?

If it acts as a muffler and scent block I'm sold! Sorry couldn't resist.

I don't think its too late to set it up. I would suggest brushing it in good as opposed to just putting it up. But the bigger key is making sure you can shoot out of it. Esepcially from different directions. I didn't do that my first time out with mine and i ended up slicing it with my broadhead and spooking my deer. For what its worth, I only hunt out of mine with a rife now. Its much easier to maneuver and whatnot.