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I would suggest that you call the DEC and educate them, or become a teacher and educate the newest worker drone hunters. I for one don't shoot small bucks and none in my group of drones does either, unless their a new hunter. They get one legal buck and then their not new anymore. I hunt for meat, so the same results for me, is meat on my table, not a rack on my wall. Personally, I would rather see the bigger bucks not get killed so they can pass on their genes, but with all of the trophy bow hunters annihilating them with their new fangled sniper bows before breeding season, the lesser bucks do most of the breeding and the weaker genes are passed on. Teaching in the Hunter Education Program Hunter Education Program instructors who volunteer their time to teach others about the safety, responsibility, and ethics of hunting and trapping help to keep these valued traditions alive today. This page offers information for prospective instructors. Become an Instructor Complete a Hunter Education Program Instructor Application (PDF) to join other volunteer hunter and trapper educators. Your participation helps teach and continue the American heritage of responsible and safe hunting and trapping. If you submit your application electronically you should receive a confirmation email reply within 48 hours. If you do not receive a confirmation please call to confirm that we received your application. Qualifications Be at least 18 years of age Be of good moral character Pass an initial background history check and continue to pass random background history checks Have good communication skills Hunting experience preferred, but not required Requirements Completion of instructor training and apprenticeship Teach at least one course per year Attend a refresher course every two years

Here's the deer plan that the ignorant "Idiots" at the NYSDEC have come up with. Maybe the two experts here could attend a meeting and show these ignorant "Idiots" how it's done ? DEC management plan I'm sure that the same deer plan they use in the mountains of Ohio, will work in the Adirondacks ? You know, the Largest park in the US, 6 million acres, with several mountain peaks over 5K high, just like the mountains in Ohio and Missouri. I've been hunting all over the US and abroad for longer than some here are alive. I've never ever heard anyone at SCI say that they were booking a trip to NYS to deer hunt, or any other type of hunting either. Small mouth bass and great lakes fishing, Yes, Hunting , No.

I wish you would tell your buddy Fauci that !

Here are some recent numbers about deer hunting in NYS. https://www.dec.ny.gov/press/119982.html NY doesn't manage the deer population for making money in license sales, as a lot of the states out west need to do. There's a lot of factors about deer management that some here aren't considering, listed here. https://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/104911.html And This, 2021. NYS big Buck And another broad brush assumption about NY hunters being made by other's here also. I've hunted all around the US and abroad, as have many of my family + friends and members here on this forum too. Assuming that everyone posting on this topic doesn't know anything about deer management and are behind the times, is as closed and narrow minded as you can get. Having a family with a history of deer hunting all over this state for nearly a century, I'm told by the old timers that this generation is living in golden times, as far as deer numbers go. Using some of the logic being touted here, a compound bow using mechanical broad heads, string release, sights, arrow rest and carbon arrows would be considered a more efficient weapon compared to a traditional long/ recurve bow, using wooden arrows with flint broad heads. Should the non traditional Bow hunting season be made shorter and the Spear season made longer for that reason ? Maybe some should take a step back and look at the whole picture in NY, instead of a slice before assuming idiocy and the lack of experience in hunting other areas of the country as the basis for their position on the matter at hand.

The new thing is, contract covid again, get a doc to say your disabled because of PCCSD (Post Cuomo Covid Stress Disorder) and retire on 3/4 disability. The NY way.

After buying land in a shotgun restricted area of NY, I went through a gamut of slug guns. Started with the 12ga Deerslayer, 870, 1187LH , 20Ga Ultra slug hunter, 12 Ga Tar hunt, 212 and ended with the 220 LH. Sold everything but the Ultra after the restrictions were lifted and not because it was the cheapest of the bunch, it was the most accurate.

I was skeptical about antler restrictions, but after a few years time, I've seen the benefits of the program. As the antlers get bigger, so do the bucks, which means more meat in the freezer. The deer programs that have had success in other states, generally won't work in NY state, as this state has a vey diverse environment, with a lot of dense human population areas and a lot of land that's off limit's to hunting. Programs that are suited to work in the sparsely populated western NY AG tier, won't work in the vast mountains of the Adirondacks, Catskills, Southern tier or the populated capitol + lower Hudson valley regions. A broad brush approach won't work.

220, if you can find the slugs to shoot !

I've never seen a cook book with an antler recipe. I hunt for the meat, not some huge rack that'll collect dust on a wall, or end up in some box in the garage, like my brother does with the many trophy bucks he's killed over the years in his travels. He gets the meat processed and gives it to needy families we know, so I don't give him shit about killing for a trophy rack. My family and I have been hunting in NY state for a long time. I'm 5th generation and have been hunting deer in NY for 40 years myself. I remember the stories told to me from my uncles and grandfathers about times when seeing any buck was a cause to celebrate, as deer were overhunted and very scarce. NY has come a long way from those days. Last year was the only year that I didn't harvest a deer and it wasn't because I didn't have the opportunity. I had enough stag meat left over from a cull hunt on a friends preserve that I help protect from predators. As you know, If you want to hunt trophy deer, there's plenty of states with the agricultural lands that'll support a bucks nutritional needs to grow that big. NY state used to have the agricultural farms to support a big deer herd, but those farms have been sold by the younger generations and turned into subdivisions or have gone back to the woods they once were, which won't support as many deer as the land used to. To me , NY's human population growth and lack of farm land upstate for deer to live on is the cause for the "supposed" deer population issue, not the length of the hunting seasons or implements being used.

How do we have over 22,000 guns laws and the NY SAFE act ? Billions of dollars allocated, Total immunity, Emergency laws passed, Waters tested and limit's pushed on the masses. Any means necessary. No further further explanation should be required.

Did you get to check zero on the thermal ? Check mount, base and other attachment points ?

The end game by the party of Unity and total transparency, is total control of everything and by any means necessary, even if they have to sacrifice their own to get to that end game. It's called socialism.

All sanity is put aside, if the end goal is deemed a supposed benefit for the Chillllldrrrrreeen, Common good of society and the Planet. As long as the caring imbeciles feel and look politically correct now, who cares about the future ecological disaster when all of the batteries that power these vehicles need to be disposed of. Not to mention the harsh mining processes that are being used to extract them from Mother Natures Womb. Looks like a Win for everyone.

If deer are running by the standers during a drive, it's not being done correctly. I've shot more deer being a driver than a stander, So if your out with a new group, volunteer to be a driver.

Just to be clear left filed/Fauci, in this attached article, are we to believe the Expert person that's advising America and also contradictions himself multiple times about who funded or was responsible for the gain of function research to weaponize the Covid virus ? I mean, if Alec baldwin can kill a person with a firearm that he didn't pull the trigger on while he was holding it, I guess we can also believe that Fauci didn't fund the research to weaponize Covid ? Lying Scum Fauci

You don't remember the 3rd, 4th or 50th strain of polio and all of the booster shots they mandated soon after ? More proof of the Gov't taking advantage of the brain dead liberal slaves to line their pockets with money and wield their power over the minions..

Writes the critic that still believes whatever the proved Lying media tells him. You spout drivel with some of your "proof", yet turn your nose up to others "proof" as fictional and then insult the other person with more condescending drivel and insults. You don't need to hide behind the left field monikor Dr Fauci !

I would advise you not to wear deer antlers on your head while out in the woods !

Got my buck opening day, while I was walking to my starting point on the first deer drive of the season. I've been hunting and deer driving with the same crew of guys + gals for almost 40 years. We wear blaze orange and have radios. New hunters shadow seasoned hunters. With the lack of hunting pressure, if you want to see deer, you need to push them around, especially the bucks that wait until dark to move around.

Got a medium sized female yote Sunday, just after sundown. It was snowing/hailing and the cover was thick. By far the worst hunting conditions I've hunted in this year. The Thermion XG50 and FP X24 call both get a thumbs up. The coyote have been harassed by deer hunters and were sticking to heavy cover, even at night. I managed to call two or three in and connected with one of them. Saw some targets in the far background after the shot, but couldn't tell what they were, so I didn't pull the trigger. https://youtu.be/dX66z8oNGD8

On a nice day I would agree, but a pop up blind offers scent control, conceals movement and will keep you dry + out of the elements if the weather changes.

By ring style pop up, I mean this doghouse type blind that folds up like this. Blind fold up The two thing's I don't like about the ring style blind's, is that you need to insert the top poles to keep the roof supported and they weigh a lot because of the steel rings. No need to install top poles with the hub style and the carbon fiber hub and frame are very lightweight. The lightest ring style blind is still almost 3 pounds heavier than my hub style blind. When I'm out in the field, I always have a thermal monocular on hand and scan every couple of minutes. I usually see them way before their in a position to see me, even when their downwind. Blind, ladder or nose bleed height climber stand, I've been out many days when a deer isn't seen or spotted. Just the law of averages.

I've been hunting with the ring style blinds for awhile now and just bought my first hub style blind, the khampa ranger 3000, as it weighs less than 9 pounds. Took me awhile to figure how to set it up without making a lot of noise. It's still not as easy for me to set up and break down as the ring style blinds, but it weighs a lot less and I'm sure it'll break in over time. I've set up blinds the morning of hunting new land and have had deer walk right up to it, but I always treat my blinds with a UV killer, as there have been studies that found the water resistance coatings some manufacturers use makes them stick out to animals that see in a certain light spectrum. Never had an issue after using UV killer.

Proof that memory loss is a common side effect of the jab and booster. Hopefully you'll remember that I wished you well, but who knows if you'll remember your password to login to the site ?

Stop mixing up southpaws with leftist slaves !