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Here she is fellas all clean for now, traded in my smaller 9 yr old Massey for this larger framed, larger tires, more HP Massey Ferguson. Nice feature is that the newer Masseys now use skid steer attachments so bucket, plows and other front end attachments are interchangle with the likes of skid steer, bobcat etc. Shes much bigger then my prior massey so the bucket needs to be stored separately as the tractor wont fit in the shed with it on. I havent mowed with it yet but i assume visibility without the bucket out front is much better. And if needed it only takes a few minutes to get the bucket hooked up. Hoping to use her next season to change up some of my food plots.

I think I am ready

This is in Chautauqua county, give me your guesses on size I have two of these cheap Stealth cams, this one was out there since mid November and took pics all winter and spring and still has battery life! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Homemade zucchini parmesan. And croghan bolonga. It was great.

Beef shank with the best wine sauce you've ever had with pablano pepper, shallot, celery, and secret herbs. Served with mashed potatoes.

Had a smoked ham steak with roasted garlic and Italian seasoned taters and some sweet corn. No plate pic. Trying desperately to empty the freezer prior to this fall but it's full of pig, deer, and turkey. Still working through vac packed garden veggies from last summer too. Garden starting to produce now too. Horrible problem to have I know. I buried a rubbermaid tote with some of the thick cut smoked bacon at the bottom as a constellation prize. lol Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Checked trail cameras today. Got another tree toad on the camera. It didn't move when I changed the card. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Small pork tenderloin stuffed with spinach and fresh garlic, garlic-parm rice. Sent from my SM-S327VL using Tapatalk

Steak, baked beans, roasted red peppers, home grown cukes, first local farmers corn of the year sauteed with some homegrown yellow squash. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

I’m in ! And Moog’s post and deer is void as the rules clearly state, the card must be a WHITE sheet of paper . Ha , got a lawyer on a technicality !

Hoppy Wheat Ale after mowing beer before I fired up the grill for dinner. Then switched to voodoo ranger. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

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We just harvested our garlic, which we split 50/50 with friends of ours. There are about 350 bulbs. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk

You guys laugh, but I know of a guy that actually does this. He takes at least 1 deer a season right from his hot tub.

PYGMY PHONE HOME.....

used to stop and get that when trout fishing as a kid with my Dad. Damn good stuff. Lunch of croghan bologna cheese and crackers and mustard on a trout stream. We fished the oswegotchie and the moose rivers for trout , used to be some nice ones in there .

Being overrun with squash and zucchini. Canned 6 quarts of fill pickles with whole garlic included.also pics of more zucchini and squash 8 zucchini picked today and 6 yellow squash after canning 6 quarts yesturday. First green beans from the garden included.

Smoked salmon dip. Treeguy special. Dang good Sent from my XT1650 using Tapatalk

Totally forgot this thread was here when I made my post this morning. Sorry about that. Sent from my SM-S327VL using Tapatalk

Being a time traveler, I will post the first entry. Put me down for 19pts.

Just got back from the cabin and I find this on one of my cameras!!!!! Too funny! looks like ET!

Personally this looks to me like it can turn into some trouble and ill feelings, from the hired hand's perspective you have already caused him lose one of his hunting spots, granted he should not have been there without having permission. So the farm hand has to retreat to his employer's land where he does have permission and has to hunt there only. Now you are wanting to leave the spot he had to leave and move in on the spot he has left, I would not think he will be too happy about it, something his employer will have to think about if they want to keep their help happy as farm hands these days do not grow on trees. This is the kind of stuff I would avoid like the plague!

I would ask permission and see what happens. It doesnt make you look greedy, it makes you look like a guy that wants to do things the right way. The farm hand doesnt own the property, so there is no reason to ask him/her for any type of permission unless the landowner says that you need to. I would not say anything negative about the farm hand to the landowner, and would not mention his stand that was on the land he didnt have permission to be on. Just take the high road. Good luck, the worst they can say is no.

Another expellant sable taken last week on his 80th birthday what a gift

you just need to tag out in a day or two to cut expenses

Let it rain baby! Just started up again.

I think that would have to be one of those things that just has to be done because it can be done. Like why not!!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We had a bit of a hodge podge John. I used Frigid Forage big n beasty blend with some whitetail institute clover at my place. In mendon, we used the same blend that Phade bought last year at tractor supply (don't recall name but it worked great). He was able to grab 2 more bags this year plus what I had left of the frigid forage. Now just hoping for some more rain.

I would have liked to have held off for 10 day more days or so but I had the tractor when I had it and rain was coming so I planted this last weekend. Hopefully is works out. The mix sounds close to what you are using John.

Picked up my 2017 buck this week from S&S in Springville and could not be happier with the results! Those guys do great work! Just thought I would share, it is my biggest buck to date with a 24” spread. . Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This little guy took a selfie

I dont think it bothers a deer so much in the middle of winter when food is scarce, but if i was competing with neighbors I would try not to plant much earlier than need to. As bulbs grow bigger they become less palatable, vs younger baseball sized bulbs. Again, in the middle of winter and with no other bulb plots around you probably dont have an issue. On my end, I compete with many neighbors who plant bulb/winter plots as well. I try to keep my bulb planting dates around the 1st of August in Central Steuben county. I seeded mine Friday 7/20 this year because i wont have the time around the first of the month. They were also calling for rain this weekend and I wanted to make sure i had bulbs with an earlier planting vs the chance of no bulbs with a later planting. My winter plots this year are PTT, GHR, Rutabaga and Kale. Most Turnips need around 60 days to mature. some more, some less. But having to be planted in middle of summer when most places are dry. If you are within the end July Early august time frame when rain is near... plant on. Rain is more important than timing sometimes

Grilled steaks, hobo taters on the grill, and steamed corn. Used a little rosemary on the taters and steak along with my usual spices. Sent from my SM-S327VL using Tapatalk

Smoked chicken and Mac salad.

Took my son to papas pond, where I learned to fish. We caught a pile. My son kept asking if there were kings in the pond though.... Sent from my XT1650 using Tapatalk

Plot tilled, fertilizer spread, seed spread, compacted a bit. And it started rainIng as I was driving home. Good timing.

I'm just semi retired...I start my new job on Monday! Got hired at The Home Depot for overnight merchandising team. Looking forward to it big time. Haven't had any income for 8 weeks. Got denied by PA unemployment for technical reasons. Hired an Amish dude to help me get the roof on the addition yesterday and will get the sheeting on the sides today. Will have the metal roofing on in a couple weeks when I start making $, for now it will be tar paper and a tarp. I may even get windows in today! Sent from my HTCD160LVW using Tapatalk

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Yup, I would be all over it. I would tell them you have sole permission to hunt the land next door and would like to have more room to work the deer. Offer a fair price but only if you have it alone. If the hired hand gets to hunt it then you cant offer more than some meat. Dont bring up the part of going in to get shot deer.

barrel diameter is a bit bigger than the BBs. it's been years but i forget there's a method to it and usually one gun better than the others just by chance. the carny knows which one it is if that's their usual game. we took cattle to the fairs in my youth so we lived at the fairs all week. figured out practically all the games. carnies hated us.

Although I am not a big pizza fan, Aniellos is accepted as the best pizza place in Corning... The Mermaid orders pizza...I order one of their hot subs, which are excellent...Hot roast beef with BBQ sauce makes you wanna slap yo MOMMA !!

Rivas or the Goat . And pizza is like sex any kind will do and even if it’s bad it’s still good

Wow 400...... I wouldn't be too embarrassed. You hit the target. I'm impressed

usually its dry in and hour and will work.

you got a great deal! I got the same stand and its more comfy than any ladder stand I have ever had. I suggest getting those third hand archery straps. they connect the platform to the seat piece and make the stand feel rock solid while up in a tree. also the Sherpa game cart is a game changer. quickly and easily convert your stand in to a game cart for hauling out your deer. good luck with it!

8 hook ups with 6 making the net Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

Their are no tractors, to my knowledge on the market today under 60hp with three point hitch down pressure. International Harvester, Belarus and, maybe a few Case were the only tractors that had it years ago. It injured and killed to many people.

So many of these old pictures remind me of a time when hunting was a lot less demanding and represented a time when people "just hunted". No farming activities to train deer to make themselves concentrated and more available for easier hunting. We hunted the deer as we found them and did not try to train or program deer to behave in ways that we needed to take advantage of. There was less reliance on the efforts of some product designer trying to negate necessary skills. Many of the pictures in this thread were taken at a time when landowners did not post their land and there was free access to anyplace you were fit enough to walk. You could still-hunt without constantly stepping out in somebody's backyard. The bow seasons were known for rare and almost non-existent encounters with other hunters. Deer created real patterns that would stay stable without armies of people (hunters and non-hunters) interrupting them (except for gun season). Public lands were the domain of hunters, and not throngs of birdwatchers, hikers, and mountain bikers. State lands were not treated like shooting ranges. Deer hunting success was measured by body volume and/or the number of antler points and not some crazy intricate system of antler measurement. The 10 point buck was the talk of the neighborhood, and the mystical 12 point that everyone claimed to see but nobody ever got was what kept everybody out there trying. And probably the best part of those days was that there was no fighting and arguing over methods and seasons and equipment. The rules and laws and seasons were set and there was no constant loud combat about changing them. Hunting was a part of the rural culture, and never had to be defended. It was just something that a farm-kid was expected to become involved in. Even the teachers in school were known to have taken off an occasional opening day of deer season along with nearly all male high-school juniors and seniors. It was an unwritten day off.....not like today where you are practically spit on for taking the life of a critter. I began hunting in the last days of those times depicted in some of those pictures, and I feel quite privileged to have known that kind of hunting. I have seen a lot of changes since those days, and I often wonder where those changes and future changes will lead the activity in years to come.