RobC

I can't wait for the season to start. Bought our bass boat in feburary. I have to walk by it every day in the driveway and its driving me nuts not being able to take it out. I check the report for chautauqua lake every day lol.

I also went with the xt model.

I just bought one sat. I went with the 35. I'll be using it for bass fishing this summer but first it's going on my 10ft st. Croix for steelhead fishing

We're all geared up to go sat. Looks like the temps are going to be lower then first expected. Pretty excited even though I'm hearing less then stellar fishing reports. Either way should be a good time. I'll let you guys know sat evening how we make out. You'll have to take it with a grain of salt though being our first time.

We both had to work the 14. So we planned a ice fishing date for this Saturday. 1st time for both of us

So I decided that I want to start ice fishing this week. I ordered a couple of poles and reels, fishing shanty, sled and other accessories this weekend. It all should be here by the end of the week in time to go out Sat. But wouldn't you know it the temp is suppose to be up in the forties and rain. It looks like its suppose to get back below freezing at night. As of now the lake has about 9 inches of ice. What effect will this have on the amount and stability of the ice for this coming weekend? (I'll beat any one else to it and say "yes I know ice melts when it gets above 32 degrees" lol) I'll be pretty bummed out if I have all these new toys and not be able to use them. Also anyone else that fishes the lake in the winter have any tips on the area. I fish it quite a bit in the spring, summer and fall but this will be my first time ice fishing here or any where else for the matter. Thanks for reading.

I've got a savage model 10 muzzleloader and read double loads could catastrophic in the gun. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

Anyone familiar with the 9x area? Seems like it has a good healthy deer population, but since we've had our property which is in the Olean, Cuba and Hinsdale area doe permits have all but almost impossible to get. The last 5 years you've had to have preference points to even have a chance at one. Between the 4 family members who put in for them in the 5 years only two have been drawn. I've always gotten one because of land ownership at least. Now this year only landowners can get one. Is our deer population in bad shape out there?

I never would of thought that not pushing the bullet all the way to the powder could be bad like someone early posted. Make sense with more space to build up pressure. I always made sure for accuracy though.

Sorry it took so long to get back. I found one of those screws for my cleaning rod in a bunch of muzzleloader odds and ends I had. Don't know why I was trying to make it harder then it had to be. So simple. 5 mins of tug a war with the wife and I had it out. Thanks again for the help guys.

Hey guys long time member but haven't posted in awhile. So I got a traditions percussion muzzleloader pistol awhile back and took it to the range to try it out. Well I got to talking and not paying attention and I loaded a wad and ball in BUT....... forgot to put powder in the damn thing. I'm sure you guys can figure out my embarrassment at the time. So now what do I do. I don't think the barrel comes apart where I can just push it through on end or the other. I've thought of ways to drill it out in chunks but really dont want to do that. I know its a cheap gun but I still don't want to risk damaging the barrel. I've thought about drilling a hole through the the center of bullet and trying to pull the wad out and dump powder through the bullet but I'm thinking thats a far shot. Any ideas would greatly be appreciated. Or do I just take it to a gun smith or try sending it back to traditions?

Thats a good looking shop. Just started rounding up tools to start wood working myself. I have a long ways to go before my shop looks like that though.

+2 For Perrysburg. Got them on cameras and 2 years ago another one got hit by a car.

With the help of some gift cards I finally spent the money on this scale that I've been looking at for a couple years now. If you're not familiar with this product it is a scale and dispenser in one. Well finally got to test it out over the last few weeks and I have to say I love it. Makes weighing out charges easy and accurate. Sad to say my beam scales will be collecting dust from here on out. Anyone else use one and have an opinion on it. I would definitely recommend it to anyone thinking about it.

We were both super excited about his and it also put a little pressure on me to get out and get one two. Sent from my SM-G920V using Tapatalk

we have a whole pack of dingos

heres a better pic of his.

I'm a little late to the party but here's our first two bucks off our property. My son got his first deer opening weekend. 9pt with 15 inch spread. A week later I got this 7 pt with a 19 1/2 spread.

Thanks for the info guys. So last night I ordered the president and the okuma ceymar. Looks like this weekend I'll be going out to gander mt to pick up a rod or two. I have a few bait casters that were giving to me that I've never used I've always had trouble with them spooling up on my cast, guess I just need to get out and practice more. Pretty excited to get out and fish this spring. My parents bought a cottage on Chautaqua Lake this winter so I'll be taking the boat out hopefully every chance I get. For steelhead and bass I'll be fishing the Cattaraugus Creek. Lake fishing has always overwhelmed me and I've never had too much luck. But I bought a few books and maps for local streams and lakes so hopefully I'll finally have some luck on the lakes. Thanks again guys the internet sites are great but it's almost too much info.

When we were younger we did this thing called bump firing. Where you would hold the gun at your waist and with one finger on the trigger and another finger threw your belt loop you'd use the recoil of the gun to simulate fully automatic. There was absolutely no accuracy obviously also probably not safe and stupid but it got old very quick. But it caught on because now they make bump fire stocks. Could be what your hearing.

So I'm looking for a rod and reel combo for steelhead in rivers and small mouth bass, pike, and musky. I doubt there is a do all combo so I'm open to a few options. For steelhead I have a nice st. croix rod so I really just need a reel for that. I'd like to keep it under 100 dollars for the reels and same for the rods, so less then 200 for a combo. I haven't really been a hardcore fisherman in years so I'm not sure whats out there anymore. I mostly cast spinners and mr twister type baits but also like to float jigs and sacs for steelhead. I can't believe how many differents reels and rods there are available. My research for reels has brought me to two options so far Okuma Ceymar c-40 or pflueger president models. Any opinions would be greatly appreciated as I'm drowning in stats and specs lol.

The only time I ever had problem bleeding brakes was when the brake booster on the truck went bad.

i always chamber the first round by hand. Makes me more confident knowing it'll be a little more accurate and a good luck charm. Now to knock on wood because I've gone 9 years without getting skunked in gun season. Not so lucky with bow or muzzle-loader seasons though. Still need to figure out a lucky charm for those.

How many did or are going to opt out of having their pistol permit on public records? Are permits now publicly accessed?