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  1. I have had some pretty fun days in the field hunting during my lifetime but one stands out above all, hunting with one of my Airedales named TJ. It was a combination of this remarkable dog's game finding ability and the sheer non stop action and game variety taken that made the day unforgettable. The photo shows what game we did take, a grouse, a pheasant, a cottontail rabbit, a coon and a fox, had I not missed two Woodcocks he flushed and a squirrel he treed i would have been even better. Al
    9 points
  2. Biggest 4pt I've ever seen. Might of had 1 small kicker. 3S while I was working. He was tending a doe when she left he was right behind her. Definitely 2nd rut in Westchester.
    4 points
  3. This is the time of year I start doing deep cleaning and any seasonal maintenance on my firearms, also gives me a chance to play around with and inspect them. Did all of my lever action rifles this week, the lever rifles are some of my favorites and I have done quite a bit of hunting with them with good success. Had a friend of mine here while I was playing with the lever rifles and he asked me which one was my favorite, it is a very hard choice but if I had to pick one it would be the 99 Savage, it is a timeless proven design, What puts it over the top is it offers cartridges that have a bit more range in open country which gives it a bit more versatility, it is a rifle in my opinion that should still be in production today. Marlin 45-70 model 95 Marling 44 mag model 94 Marlin 357 mag model 94 Winchester 284 model 88 Savage 250-3000 model 99A Marlin Levermatic 256 Winchester mag Al
    3 points
  4. In stand in pine tree. Snowy snowy snowy! Like being a little kid on a snow day! Playing outside!
    3 points
  5. When I saw the title of this thread I thought it was about the people who left and went to a different site. lol Those rooms look like a very nice place to kick back after a cold day hunting in the woods.
    3 points
  6. Just like Trump before he ran for and became president, Elon was the lib leftists darling being invited to all the party's until he came to the realization that Dem leftists are a bunch of lying swindlers only looking out for their pocketbooks and not the people their supposed to be serving. For exposing them for what they are, he's been relegated to being a right wing nut job glorified party boy billionaire. I think a Trump/Elon 2024 administration would do wonders for America.
    2 points
  7. I have had my cookstove in the kitchen fired up for about a month now, on top of my refrigerator I have a quiet but high CFM Vornado fan blowing toward the living-dining room. I do not have a big house but it is heated pretty well with just this setup circulating and mixing the air. I have been using this setup for years now and it works fairly well. What you want to stay away from is one of those stove top fans that generate their power from heat, expensive, low CFMs and they do not last. Al
    2 points
  8. After shooting my 3030 lever this summer and hunting season my 13yr old son doesn't even want to touch his own rifles. He fell in love with how easy it was on his shoulder.
    2 points
  9. Interesting that there was no response to this reply. Musk is the messenger that all the libs want to shoot.
    1 point
  10. This has been a very depressing topic. So many of you putting into words the thoughts that have been running through my mind for quite a while. I'll be 79 in less than a month. Just about 63 years of hunting. Damn, I have seen all kinds of changes in hunting. I have also seen hunting partners leaving the ranks with the few that back-fill lasting only a few years. I have watched a time when opening day of deer season was an excused absence from high school to today where we rely on special youth seasons to try to pry their fingers of the electronic gadgets, and even that has limited or very temporary success. It is a losing battle. The sport is constantly under attack and our adversaries are winning. I am still hanging on to an activity and attitudes that have had top priority almost all my life, but I too have seen so many of my friends and acquaintances drop out without replacements. This core activity that so much of my life has been defined by is losing all significance in what this world is becoming. That is a sad thing, and this topic merely adds credence to the thoughts that have run through my mind in recent years. But as has already been mentioned, change happens. That is just a fact of life.
    1 point
  11. I believe that there are areas where hunters can no longer control deer populations. And if hunting continues to decline, that situation may eventually spread across the state.
    1 point
  12. Sorry to hear about the cold. Me and the wife got knocked on our rear ends by severe cold/flu symptoms that settled into our lungs. Good grief, here we go again this season. This time I'm sure I know where it came from. We attended my grandson's first Tae Kwon Do tournament last weekend and there were 400 plus competitors there, of all ages. You just know someone in that crowd would be contagious! lol It was worth missing the last regular season weekend though to be there for him. Just a week shy of 6 years old, and he won first place medals in both his events, speed kicking and board breaking. Good to see he's got strong little legs. He's gonna need them when I start having him drag deer for me. hahaha I sat for about 2 hours this morning then got down to sneak about the woodlot. I figured out quickly that they were not going to move much in such deep snow trying to conserve energy. I very slowly did about a 300 yard circle and never cut one track. After making my way back to my wheeler I pulled a camera card that is over my bone pile, then back to the house. On the way down I cut tracks in two places where they crossed the fields and were pawing at the ground eating. In a few minutes I'm headed back up the hill. This time with a pop up blind and seat. I'll stick it in the brush facing where they were foraging earlier, and see if I can catch one during the evening watch.
    1 point
  13. Yes, there were some guys that would walk and rarely if ever sat.
    1 point
  14. In the old days you walked until you picked up a track of a big buck and you walked and walked and walked until you got an opportunity for a shot. That was before all the land was posted and you were welcome to walk a mile or two after a good deer. nowadays you’re lucky if you can walk a quarter of a mile before you’re on posted land unless you happen to be on state land.
    1 point
  15. Maybe the hunters who had private land and didn't allow too many others on their land had these wooden stands, but hunting back then was very different where neighbors let each other hunt their land and there were many more hunters out there than we see today. You'd easily have a dozen hunters or more on a hundred acres of land. If everyone was hunting out of treestands back then they'd be within visible sight of several other hunters for sure. I sure as heck don't remember seeing these stands in the late 70's where I hunted or heard anyone talking about hunting out of one. You sat on a stump or with your back to a tree and that was your deer stand. If you saw another hunter sitting close to where you were planning to set up you moved off until he was no longer in sight and set up there.
    1 point
  16. Not buying any NFT’s
    1 point
  17. Nice group of rifles and I like the eclectic calibers. Very nice.
    1 point
  18. I plan to sit tomorrow morning for maybe my last morning sit of the year and I feel myself coming down with a cold... ugh. good luck!
    1 point
  19. Great day! Does your dog point/flush? All taken with a shotgun?
    1 point
  20. I agree with you, during archery I do like the whole setup of drawing & shooting from the tree
    1 point
  21. You bet, hope it helps. I really like the look of your knotty pine walls there.
    1 point
  22. We have a woodstove and have two of these little fans on top and they work great , they use no power ! https://ecofan.caframobrands.com/
    1 point
  23. I'm shooting the 250 shock waves and in my tc pro hunter with 3x50 pellets. At 100 yards my group is much tighter with 3 pellets than with 2. I have a leupold muzzleloader scope that has a 2 pellet verses 3 selector to compensate for the difference. With a ballistic reticle. Off a bench I can smack 200 yard 10 inch pan ever time . My gun was designed for 3 pellet charges . Should you decide to try 3 pellets check your gun info before you try this.
    1 point
  24. Sick or not, I'm out there in the morning with the MZ. : )
    1 point
  25. Dang i thought you were trying to get the wife in another room .
    1 point
  26. Interesting now the cold boundary is at the fan thank you!
    1 point
  27. The cooler air in the house is more dense and can be blown towards the warm air and moves the warm air to the area where the cooler air left. We use a small fan on the floor of the cooler area of the house and point it toward the wood stove area.
    1 point
  28. Do your cathedral ceilings have ceiling fans by chance? Having that will help circulate that hot air back down to ground level. I've used something like this (not this exact one) in the past to move heat from my coal stove to another area of the house; it worked pretty well overall: https://www.amazon.com/Blades-Heat-Powered-Stove-Fan/dp/B07ZKDJMFJ/ref=asc_df_B07ZKDJMFJ/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=385309235643&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2531962703046623205&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9005171&hvtargid=pla-844529193522&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=75980285662&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=385309235643&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2531962703046623205&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9005171&hvtargid=pla-844529193522
    1 point
  29. Admittedly, I kind of think that, too in that I always feel like Im not actually deer hunting if/when my feet are touching the ground lol.
    1 point
  30. I had stick-built treestands even back in the 60's, eventually "graduating" to the old Baker climbing treestands. But somewhere along the line (about the mid 80's), I started getting a fear of heights, and have been a ground hunter ever since. Yeah, when I started (early 60's) there were no videos or TV programs telling you how you HAD to hunt. We all learned from our elders or one of the hunting magazines. A lot of the methods were by trial and error. And of course there were the B.S. sessions around the coffee pot at work. It all seemed so much more exciting before we all became educated and scientific about it all. Heck, it was years before I even knew what "scoring a buck" was all about. Didn't know.....didn't care. Counted points and that was good enough.
    1 point
  31. A survivor of that era... Can count at least a handful of deer taken from her.
    1 point
  32. I don't know. With the hunters I was around in the late 70's when I started hunting, treestands of any sort were not very common. You sat with your back to a tree somewhere and that's where you waited and hoped that a deer would come by.
    1 point
  33. How about the breakfast at all the diners that would open early. And the stories at night and many of the same home cooked diners for dinner. Zero ATVs used but an orange army (Sometimes Red mixed in)
    1 point
  34. I still have the tree that I used the " Screw in Steps " years ago , up where I sat the wood is gone !
    1 point
  35. Actually, I still pretty much hunt many of the ways described above, I am a ground hunter so there are no stands for me, I have piled brush to make a ground blind on good runs if I am in the mood for a sit. No phones either, I have a cell phone but it sits here on my desk and use it if I do any traveling, when I do use a phone it is an old conventional cordless house phone. I do have a pocket camera that I use quite a bit these days. Never checked one in at a country store either. Al
    1 point
  36. Got this guy last day of the season. He came in to about 40yrds and wasn’t letting him go last day of the season with a tag in my pocket
    1 point
  37. I’m dead on at 50 yards for my Wolf. I see about a 1” drop at 100 yards with my setup. I don’t hunt in too many places where I’m shooting 100+ yards late season. I don’t know what it’d do beyond that. My Vortek UL is 1” high at 50 yards and I’m capable of deer accuracy out to 140-150 yards without accounting for holdover. I lose a lot of height after 150 however as my load is not hot. Runs out of steam fast. With MZ you do need to test each scenario to know limits.
    1 point
  38. Definitely nocturnal or holed up where humans don't intrude. Guessing Holiday hunt season when we will see some day time activity again.
    1 point
  39. He went along ways, I think. The shot was maybe 100 yards with a 50 cal, 245 grain sabot, and two 50 grain pyrodex pellets.
    1 point
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  41. A little snow this morning. Finally felt like gun season
    1 point
  42. He brings nothing, he is here only to start trouble which he is good at. Al
    1 point
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