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Did you "catch a deer" - Which I respond with, I tried but they run too damn fast so I just shoot them

A mountain lion and a Cougar in the same pic ...... near Poughkeepsie

"I'm pregnant......"

There should be an 'open season' on self-righteous idiots. No daily limit.

It's snowing AGAIN!!! Oh dear Lord...Please stop the snow for this year....We have endured the cold and the snow and shown our resolve to struggle through. So listen enough already, Please...Amen

even worse when two of them are the same person.....

I "harvested" a nice buck.

Wonderful. We're idiots in two languages.

I don't care what the laws are in New Jersey . That is one lame ass charge. I would be too embarrassed to even try to charge someone with weapons possession for having a 300 year old unloaded flintlock. Something ain't right.

Over the hills and through the woods, Lane chased big bucks like only he could. He would chase them high and chase them low not many escaped his final blow. He taught us to be proud and feel no shame for hunting whitetail deer was the name of the game. We will miss you Lane that is for sure but we will pass on your hunting lore. We will try to emulate your hunting skills, tracking big bucks over the hills but as much as we try to be like you no one compared to the whitetail guru. RIP

It's cold west of us in Buffalo

Hard to believe any prosecutor would ever do this to an upstanding citizen, right? http://downtrend.com/robertgehl/72-year-old-retired-schoolteacher-faces-ten-years-in-prison-for-possession-of-300-year-old-flintlock?utm_source=fnot1&utm_medium=facebook

I started out a little slow but I'm starting to get the hang of it now. I don't think I need to set this up any more than that,lol Damn it smells good in here!

If I hear "hashtag" ...anything again I may vomit....

Just wanted to say I. I'm in Suffolk on the north shore. I'm retired and mostly hunt upland birds and waterfowl. I shoot skeet and sporting in the off season, just to keep a hand in things. I don't hunt deer as much as I used to and will be getting back after turkey this spring after a 10 year lay off. I also kill time between seasons by fishing for trout and sport fish in the sound. I've spent a good portion of the past two summers carving decoys for my duck boat and making some duck calls and some other items for the field (i.e. priests, lanyards, etc.) I'm also into taxidermy and mount all my own birds. I do a little trapping, too. NEW

Sure you can…Problem is finding the ammo to do it with……..I finally found a Winchester 94/22 a few weeks ago, but Im afraid to take it out because I only have a little over a brick of 22's and don't know if I can replace the stuff I shoot up…What the hell?? Finding 22 ammo use to be like finding ugly women in a field day beer tent. What happened??

One older sister, one younger brother. I was stuck in the middle but I always could and still can take both of them…LOL!!

Just saw a bunch of tracks by grass areas and under apple trees. 8P and there was no hard crust of ice for them to dig through.

What's a house phone?

when someone call's you on the house phone and ask's are you home

3 bucks in my fenced in backyard last night hammering my bushes. Youd think they'd see all the deer heads on the wall through the window and realize i play for keeps

That's true , they didn't deny the one that wandered thru and left evidence . It just took them 6 months to acknowledge it .

I'll fix your wagon!

I don't know what it is with 22LR. At one point, after Lil King Andy lifted his leg on us, you couldn't find anything other than shotgun ammo. 9mm, 40cal, 380, 45. 30-06, 30-30, 223 ….. name it..it was gone. Pretty much everything else came back other than 22LR. I hear of guys selling bricks on line and at gun shows for 2 to 3 times what they paid. That may have a lot to do with it.

I think they just needed more time to read every post on the topic that has popped up on this site.........

I switched to 9mm luger in a carbine for.plinking, on sale the are as cheap as .22 and everyone has ammo. Plus it's reloadable

"Not tonight, I have a headache."

In my humble opinion... I for one have no humble opinions...they are usually in your face ones...Ohhhh theres another...In your face.....lol

It's even WORSE when you hear it from your wife, your teenage daughter and your girlfriend in the same week...

What you SMOKIN' in that thing, Son..??... Hehehehe..Very interesting , my Friend...

At the end of the day the guy told the police that he had the flintlock and he gave them permission to search his car. According to the little information in the article, the police did nothing wrong. Although I think they could have used a little discretion, given the type of pistol it was, and the age of the guy.

I have never heard the terms "hashtag" or "Bae"... Must be I have led a SHELTERED life.....<<grin>>....

Just a FYI: Bae literally translates to doo doo in Dutch.

Nice work wooly!!!

It's a Grandson!!!!! He will arrive in August...so no Hunting season birthdays....he can be out in the future hunts with grandma then....

Does it matter why it was in the glove box,?

Not sure if that is a tail, could be background.

By all accounts, a good family man and a great deer hunter. RIP....Lane.

Friends, Sadly another member of the Benoit Family has passed away on 9 February 2015, only 16 months after the passing of Larry. http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/whitetail-365/renowned-vermont-tracker-lane-benoit-dies-at-60 I truly enjoyed watching and listening to Lane on video and at seminars. I spoke to him a few times at seminars and shows. He always had an easy smile and happy way about him. His enthusiasm was pretty contagious. He was a great tracker and teacher of tracking. He will be missed by many deer hunters, especially those who hunt big woods. Our prayers go out to his family. May he find good tracking snows and a joy of the hunt that will be never ending. R.I.P. Lane.

Nicely put, NFA-ADK. I've never hunted 'the big woods', but their stories and teachings have been with me for the past 40 years. A legacy family for sure.

About eight years ago in my area of Albany county, it seemed that just about everyone was seeing a couger or mt.lion. Some very credible people made the claim to have seen it. People like a local state park superintendent claimed to have seem it twice. Local farmers, even my buddies father and brother claimed to have seen it on their farm that they have lived on their entire lives. School teachers and even some local law enforcement claimed to have seen this mt. lion! I too have lived here most of my life, and have roamed this same state park and surrounding woodlots and farms since I was a kid. I know every nook cranny and brook, swamp, hill and field for five square miles. I don't know anyone that spends or spent more time in these woods than my hunting partner, who also grew up on said farm and myself. Nether him or I ever saw any sign whatsoever of any mt. Lion. We do have quite a few bobcats in the area maybe that is what they saw. Though some of the people I talked to swear that it was no bobcat, and that they know the difference between the two. It's hard to look someone in the eye that has known you since you were a pup and tell them they don't know what they saw. I do believe that they believe they saw something. But there is no way I believe it was a mt.lion. With my own eyes I never saw a scrap of proof. If there was one there we would have found evidence somewhere, somehow.

Yesterday I took a road trip with a buddy to do a welfare check on his cabin in Canisteo. We traveled from Clarence via Rt's 5-77-20-63-390-36 and 248 (I hope I got all those right!). We saw quite a few deer after we got on the 390 and then the other routes heading south then west. At the cabin we jumped a couple that were browsing on pine needles, it looked like. IIRC that isn't a good sign? After we left his cabin we head over to Addison. We had to do a welfare check on a member here, Pygmy. He and the Mermaid were in EXCELLENT shape and even offered up a cold beer, which we graciously excepted. We had had one other quick stop before heading back via the 390 and retracing our tracks home. It was great to see some deer and I'd guess we saw over 100 total for the day.

I guess anything is possible but I think that when it comes to all these alleged sightings its less of a Mountain lion and more of a Mountain of Lying.

I picked up a Rossi model 518 stainless looks to be made in the mid 90s And didn't have a scratch on it! It's a 6 shot ss 4" barrel with fully adjustable sites. Similar to this one. And tommorw I'll probably head to tioga sportsmans club or a friends house to shoot, should be mid 20s after noon! ($324 with tax out the door and original box, Mclains in west corners.)

Pics. Not sure why some have lines showing up? they look fine on my end, until I upload them here.

Lucky you! I like Mr. Troy

pretty cool... Tim Andrus was also there. Heard it's getting bigger and better each year.

Thats pretty cool, those guys are down to earth...choot em', choot em'..lol

pretty simple, I pace off landmarks by foot prior to getting in stand.....all part of scouting, and I would hope if you've been hunting for 60+ years you have some type of method you use...and please, no BS......if you've been 10 yards off all these years in some of your shots you need more practice.