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NO KIDDING Funny I alway have a hard time finding Small - Med but always find XXL-XXXL

All of the plots are planted, now we just need some rain. Borrowed a 6 foot disc from a buddy yesterday and cleaned up plot 2, then broke ground on plots 1 and 3. I would have liked to have been able to bust the ground up a bit more on all of them, but we were working with what we had this year. Next year will be a different story. We ended up putting the same rape, radish, turnip, chickory mix as plot 4, into 1 and 2. Plot 3 got Whitetail Institute Pure Attraction, which is a mix of oats, brassicas and winter peas. In a couple of weeks, Im going to go down and hit everything with fertilizer. Once we get a bit more rain and things really start popping, I will get some pics of everything. A couple of things we learned this year, is that with the equipment we have, we really do need a tiller. The discs worked pretty good, but we are keeping most of the plots small, and not very wide. With the tractor we have, you cant cross cut them, as the areas are not wide enough, with the exception of plot 4. We also discovered that spraying by hand sucks lol. The goal for next year is to have a boom sprayer, tiller and a cultipacker, which should be all we need. Heres a few pics from yesterday. My daughter was goofing around with my phone and took some pics and ended up with a neat one of the one plot with my truck in the background. maybe she has a bit of a photographic eye lol. It really was a fun and productive day. The kids had a blast wandering around, etc.

Comments in the VIOLENCE thread have encouraged me to share the following poems with you. Both have been published in our local paper. Readers have told me that they made their kids/grandkids read them...and then posted them on the refrigerator door. YOOHOO Put down that cell phone; Look at me for a minute. I know...I know... You are afraid you might miss something. But, let me tell you what you are missing: You are missing me! The lines in my face Represent over 70 years of experience you can benefit from. Come out from behind that I-Pad; I have 70 years worth of stories to tell you. Why must you spend time on Face Book, When my face is right here? The wrinkles in my face represent mistakes made; Mistakes I could help you avoid. If only you would put your electronic gadgets aside, And talk directly to/with me. I did a lot of things right, too. I'd love to share my success stories with you. If only you would turn off your machines, And listen to this old man's real voice. You know, my days are numbered; You cannot put me on hold and come back to me later. So, the choice is yours: Me, a living breathing human...or Your I-devices. HEY!...Over Here!..... It's me... your Grandfather !!!! SUMMER FUN There's nothing to do...I'm bored! Bored??...Or, just lazy? There's nothing in this house to eat; I'm hungry...starving, really! Pull down your Grandma's cookbook; Give one of her recipes a try. It is soooo HOT !! Why can't we get a pool? Because the State or Town Park lake/beach Is bigger and better....and cheaper! Can you drive me to the Gym? I need some exercise to get ready for Fall ball. Walk...behind the lawnmower; Stack that load of firewood that was just delivered. I'm still bored... Life around here is so dull! Explore the trails/woods of our local parks; Get lost....In a book! No air conditioning...no pool; I'm dying with this heat! Let's go wade in the local creek; I'll take you fishing. If you had just coughed up that travel team fee, I could, at least, be playing ball. Get a few friends over here... I'll teach you to play scrub in the backyard...with a wiffle ball. Cable's out...no TV... No computer; My phone battery is dead; I am soooo unconnected! GOOD !!!!!

Tommy, not everyone can sit for hours without a butt itch....

Glad your ok Paula.... Looks like you get the first kill of season!!! Lol

Not trying to offend.... Under no cercumstance would I recomend this shot to a beggining bowhunter.. Broadside or slightly quartering away shots only.... I wish someone had beaten this into my head when I 1st started..

So lets see, 8 yrs under Bush, I had a great job, Making good money, bought a house, 2 cars, got married and had a daughter. 5 yrs under Bammer the place I worked went bankrupt had to take a job making half of what I was making, down to one car because i cant afford to fix the other one, and having a hard time paying a $400 a month mortgage. I would walk across the street to punch his dumb ass in the nuts thats about it. I have a suggestion Mr dumbass in charge how bout going yer arse back to Washington and try being president for once. I get he doesnt want a repeat arse whopping in the mid term elections but all he's doing is wasting taxpayer money with this trip. I highly doubt NY will go republican anytime soon. House up for sale, as soon as its sold moving to North Carolina. If anyone wants a real eye opener research the differance in mortgages between NC and NY. or any other state for that ,matter. Moving to New Bern. Right on the beach and 40,000 acres of state land full of pigs and deer. Sad really what has become of NY especially the triple city's. What a dump.

The fall of civil society can be traced back to the rise of the Liberal Great Society. In the 1960’s government replaced fathers as the family provider. Inner city, poor and others saw that the government was the answer to their problems, the government would provide for them. Yes the government fed them, housed them and educated (indoctrinated them) towards liberal group think. But at the same time the father was removed from the picture…The man wasn’t needed anymore. Today nearly 80% of black kids are born to single mothers. Before the 1960's more black kids were born to married parents than white kids. For those of you who vote democrat, look in the mirror to see who to blame. Sorry to be so blunt. But in elections between Republicans and Democrats. Its choice between a Turd Sandwich and a Giant Douche. But the democrat is always the worst choice.

I can't wait to get back out stomping them again. This was our best day last yr, we didn't have a dog & jumped them all on foot. Kicked out about a dozen that got away. We were West of Rochester, in Bergen. My Girlfriend and my buddy did most of the shooting, I was playing beagle. I think this will be a good year, been seeing a lot of them around. Anybody else get into it?

Hi Folks, My name is Tom Ballos and I currently live in Hyde Park. I've been happily married for 30 years, have three boys and two grandsons. I like motorcycling, shooting, photography, camping, vegetables, meat, and Jameson. I've never been much of a hunter but at 59 years old I've always had an air rifle of some sort in the closet. Currently and for the past 25 years I've been using a .20 cal. Sheridan pump. As a matter of fact the kids grew up with it. It's been a great plinker and I've taken my share of yard squirrels with it. But now it's time to move up. I've decided to expand my plinking to small and medium size game, probably mostly squirrels and rabbits which are plentiful around here, tasty to, I've heard. I've been lurking the air gun forums, reading reviews of guns, scopes, pellets, fps, fpe, etc. and I have decided to go with a precharged air rifle (PCP). The power, accuracy, and ease of use just seems unbeatable as long as you can get some portable air to carry along. Or a hand pump! I bought and recently received my new Daystate Air Ranger Tactical in .25 cal. with an FX 6-18x44 SFIR scope and the Huggett shroud upgrade (pic below). Now it's time to find a place to shoot it. I need to take the Hunter Safety course soon and plan to look for a Sportsman's Club in the area so I'll have somewhere to BS about my hunts. I welcome myself aboard and I'm hoping to hook up with some local folks down the road as I don't have much woods experience when it comes to hunting and don't really know where to go to shoot.

That's actually one of the biggest arguments for our 2nd amendment rights. Cops will not always be there for you and in a situation of social breakdown you "will be on your own".

The question just needs to be... What is legal in NY anymore ?!?!!??

Welcome! I am actually going to be mentoring my son and his best friend this fall. Got my brother into hunting too.

I'm liking the mass in the last picture.

OK, there is a huge point! The almost religious worship of technology in this electronic age has changed the way we as a society relate to each other. All these toys help remove us from society. Instead of fostering communications, I believe it warps communication. As we all crawl off into our own little electronic hide-a-way, we begin to lose sight of the fact that there are other real people around us as we begin to see them as text displayed on a screen. We all create our own little version of reality as our world focuses into the little screen of whatever electronic contraption we happen to have our fat little fingers wrapped around. Humanity is being washed away into a series of ones and zeros to the point where many begin to relate in weird ways to others through the keypad. Sure enough, can it really be surprising when some individuals all of a sudden completely lose sight of the fact that there are real living people involved in their world and lose the appreciation for the fact that those lives have value. Oh sure, there are mental health problems behind each of these horrific headlines, but one has to wonder just how much all this impersonal techno-relation to those around us facilitates that mental disorder and the way it is all played out. Another outfall of techno- amusement is the fact that just like any other addiction, the needed high is always escalating. It keeps taking more and more to fill up our lives. If some of that need happens to come out as a need for violence, I guess that shouldn't surprise anyone. How many of these killings happen simply because the perpetrator wanted to just experience what it was like? We are becoming conditioned to receiving more and more stimulation in our daily lives .... The need to reach that next high. As mentioned, kick-the-can, hide and seek, baseball on the vacant lot, and simple face-to-face conversation just simply doesn't cut it anymore. Does this all mean we are each going to go off into a killing rampage? ..... probably not, but you have to wonder how many additional people are being pushed over the edge by the impersonalization of our world and the constant expectation and need for stimulation.

My favorite hunting book is "Shots at Whitetails" by lawrence Koller. It isan older book and is available on E-bay, Amazon. Very informative book about deer hunting with most of it taking place from Windsor, NY down to the Catskill Area. It's worth every penny you spend on it, I've bought several of them to give to family & friends back there in New York. There isone story in his book where he shot a deer, I was hunting down in the Damascus NY area about twenty years ago and found the same situation that he wrote about. I retraced his foot-stepsand shot a nice eight point buck. I highly recommend this book if you hunt deer in the southern zone of New York.

Reading over some of the posts there is indeed a lively exchange between folks. heh heh

How about rowing a boat 3-4 miles a week?

Doc, I agree with what you say,and you certainly hit the points better then I did, but TV makes it worse, in my opinion. It incites hatred and intolerance I remember, as I 'm sure you do, Kruschev's words around 1960. "We will win without firing a shot". It didn't happen, but I don't like the direction we're heading, because, in my opinion, we are destroying ourselves, and I don't like where it could lead.both domestically and internationally.

Hope your OK Paula , bike accidents are never a good thing !

Noting is broke on me. No pics. Deer was small and husband didn't want it. My bike skid like 20ft but I didnt. My bike oh my poor bike. I was only going like 40 so that was a food thing. They just need to see me walk and I will be heading home. My husband foot is broke so I can ride his when I am able :-)

Looking at a quad that I might order offline today. Then to get it tuned and some practice in. Pumped I am !!

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Trip has come to a close - 2,847.3 miles over 20 days - all went as planned for the most part and the kids had a blast. Two parts of the journey were dropped-visiting my cousin in Beafort(he was in assignment for a five day stint). The other part we did not get to do was Cumberland Island- massive storms predicted(and they wee right), ridiculous heat and the fact that we were staying at a beautiful beach-near condo in New a symrna beach that we were able to extend. Cumberland Isalnd is on the family bucket list by for March or so. First Dusney experience for my kids and wife and they were blown away. Glad to be home! Time to start shooting the bow!

There you go. Most people aren't going to just give up any hunting area to some guy off the web. Knocking on doors could go a long ways to helping your cause if its private land you're after.......................... OP.....do you have a car or do your parents have to drive you?

Grow hit it when she said television was the cause..Bad behavior is glorified and everything is forgiven especially for celebs. There are excuses for everything from sex to weight gain. EVERYTHING is an addiction and no one has to take responsibility. If you eat too much cake , it's not your fault, they'll say, sugar is like cocaine . If you get caught having an affair it's a sex addiction. Living together is totally acceptable, so when teen, or any unmarried pregnancy occurs ,how can we think it's wrong. What do you think happens at night(or whenever) when a couple lives together. Drug addiction, and alcoholism is no ones fault. It's a sickness. I agree to treat it like a disease, to cure it, but I doubt someone forced hooche down someones throat, or stuck a needle in someone's arm.It was party time that got out of control. Whether, or not you agree with gay marriage, it is easy to see why young people vote for it. For the most part, from what I see, marriage does not mean what it used to. In addition, the divorce rate is around 50%, so failure can be expected in 1/2 the cases, Marriage is viewed different then it used to, and that will never change. I read here that it's government policies causing all of the problems. As I wrote earlier , I disagree. It's fashionable to blame government for everything now. It's just another excuse. WE elect the politicians. They do the bidding of those that elected them in their local areas.If liberals put them in then they pass liberal legislation. If conservatives put them in, they serve them. Politicians goals are to be re elected. Compromise, which was the old way that everyone wants to go back to, is now demonized. In addition, TV and radio "newspeople", push their agenda to incite hatred for opposing views and the public reacts with hatred towards those who have those opposite views.Their followers believe the lies and half truths and follow their media heroes like sheep. They do not question anything ,as long as the host tells them what THEY want to hear and believe. There is no tolerance for any one who opposes those listeners, the hatred is rampant and contagious. These same people will then say that they love democracy, but won't accept that in a democracy, "sometimes the other guy wins". As long as this intolerance exists for other views, nothing will change, or get fixed.

That's only true when that's all they ever see. I got the "belt" a bunch of times. Every single on was accompanied with a thorough explanation as to why I got the "belt". I was also rewarded very well when I did anything positive. It's a problem when the parent is never around and the only time they "show up" is to pull out the "belt".

Got some good footage tonight

For an archer who is a GOOD shot, on the ground, on an elk...Perhaps.. Low percentage shot for an archer of average abilities shooting at a deer from a treestand.. Of course, I know that every body that posts on this forum other than me is an EXCELLENT shot with archery gear...<<smile>>..

The day the mom's went to work was the beginning of the end. When the mom stayed home the children got the proper upbringing. This was the start of the decline of the Family Unit. This all started in the 50's. The 2 parent family began to fall apart. Mom and dad both worked, the kids went to daycare. The parents came home tired and less time was spent raising the children. The fathers would cheat now and then on the wife b/c she was too tired to take care of him sexually but the day the wives went to work it just got worse because now both sides cheated. Alcohol became more popular and then it was followed by pot and then other drugs followed. Addiction fuels crime and once you are busted for drugs and DUI's you become marked and never get a decent job again. Then people thought marriage was no longer necessary, it's is just a piece of paper they say and living together became the normal. Marriage was no longer the sacred institution it once was and couples did not work at and just divorced. Then a woman has a child with a man she lived with for a few months... they have a fight and tell each other to Frig Off and then the cycle continues. The woman has another boyfriend and he moves in or visa versa and another child is born. The women signs up for assistance and never gets off it again. Another man moves in the cycle continues. Look at the Births in the paper... it's running about 60% to unwed parents or single mothers. No father figures, No stability. TV becomes the parent. The TV is filled with violence. The child gets desensitized to this violence. There is no one tell him right from wrong. The homosexuality is shoved down our throats in the news and in TV programs. They say they should be able to get married and have children like heterosexual couple do. They say won't grow up any different living in this new era family with daddy and daddy or mommy and mommy. Well we will see how this whole thing works out soon enough. blah blah blah and the beat goes on...

Healthcare and welfare. Hit the working class big $ for having kids and give the uneducated scum free everything, including breeding of more scum. This is the result.

Yeah, Burt really needs to build some stronger fences. All we did was lean on it and down it went. Don't have a clue what they were doing on his land, but about a dozen Mexicans were yelling "gracias" to us while they ran out thru the hole in the fence that we made. Seriously though, hunting does seem to attract some lard ass people. It's the only outdoor pastime that sells as many XXXL garments as it does the normal sizes.

My grandpa left me a pre-war Remington model 11 (Browning patent, basically the same gun as the A-5). He passed 2 years ago, so I used it that deer season so I could feel like he was hunting with me . I found out that you have to flip the brass recoil ring over for heavy loads. The thing was recoiling back so hard that it knocked my front (tru-glo) sight off. Once I flipped the ring, all was well. I just wanted to pass that along in case you weren't aware. They are awesome guns and true workhorses!

Probably they are concerned about another animal smelling the decomposing carcass and digging it up. You would think the bleach would discourage that from happening, but it probably is just a secondary preventative measure.