Doc

I just can't get myself to get out there in this kind of weather. Bugs, sweat, leaves. It just doesn't seem like hunting with the sweat running down the middle of my back.....lol.

One of those old-guys with a crap memory...... But, I don't remember what the carcass tags were made of before that fancy plastic-style paper, but weren't they just a "card-stock" kind of paper?

Yeah, it might be a good idea to have some zip-lock sandwich bags with you to put the tags in for attachment to the carcass.

Do you think it would have ran away if it had been a sow with cubs? I always wonder about that when I am walking to or from my stand in the dark.......Ha-ha-ha-ha.

So with deer season opening so early in some areas, are there any tricks that some of you have for combatting the heat and the flies on a kill in the 80+ degree heat to avoid spoilage or maggots and such? Or isn't that a problem?

I just like to see participation in the forum, and hate to see anything that stifles that.

Which is exactly what I just got done doing. As it turned out, The DEC sent me only the cover letter and left out all the other stuff. So I was beat before I even got started. She did her magic on the computer and now I've got carcass tags and DMPs. I'm happy again.

Yes, and that is definitely belittling posts that have been put up here on this site. Look, forums are not required to have only topics that you are interested in. What you consider to have been useless banter may be of some interest to others. It's not your place to critique activity here. I would suggest that you simply pass by those topics that you consider to be "useless banter" or You-Tube vids or whatever you think is beneath your attention and try not to suppress participation with criticism and ridicule.

That is an amazing fish!

Is there anyone else here that is having problems with endless chasing of links around the DEC website trying to find Carcass tags and DMPs to print. I'm about ready to call it quits. I was expecting a straight forward, step by step, process that tells a Lifetime License holder how to get the carcass tags and the DMPs to print. Well apparently I am too stupid to chase down all the links to links to links to even find the process. I hope this is only my denseness and that everyone else is not having this problem.

Are you seriously criticizing the content of the few messages that are being posted here? I think I now understand why so many people left.

It has been quite a few years since I resigned as Moderator. We had a lot of moderators at the time and I was quite sporadic in my participation at the time and decided that I really couldn't do a very good job. So I left the job to the great guys that were doing the job at the time. Now we are down to only fasteddie as the last active moderator and fortunately he is doing a great job. The site is running just fine with one notable exception. Without the ability for new members to join, the site will eventually whither. Why Burmjohn did not do the proper thing and explain that he would no longer be engaged in this site, I haven't a clue. Apparently the structure of the site still relies on him for certain critical activities that should have been changed before his disappearance. So without those changes, things are what they are. I imagine that one day we will try to access this site and find out that it is gone. I am not sure what is keeping the bills paid as it is. But I suppose we must just enjoy it for as long as it is here.

Airedale- That was an excellent assessment of the Democrat party. I've been around for a pile of years and have observed the way this country changed. Yes there are a lot of things that have been changes for the good. But the most troubling thing that has changed is the way people think these days. The attitudes of individualism and self reliance has faded into an attitude of seeking out the nanny-state as being the answer to all of our needs. It is an evolution that perhaps can never be turned back, but it is the evolution that people like Harris and Biden feed on. It is an evolution that deserves push-back. I have watched 3-1/2 years of true Democrat influence and what the cost is to our country. This Biden-Harris team has shown just how quickly this can all come tumbling down. They have done a great service to us by showing us how quickly the progressive policies can wreck a country. Now it is time to take this great lesson and do the right thing at election time. The country cannot withstand more of the same.

By the way, this topic was brought to you one of our past members, good ol' growalot. She was a good gal that fed this site a whole lot of interesting topics on a regular basis. She was fun. She knew how to get under some people's skin a bit, but that kept the site lively. I wish she was here now.

I have always had kind of an aggressively active life. I have always lived at the base of a very steep hill that some would call a mountain, and found that I enjoyed hiking that hill and all over the top of it, in almost all kinds of weather. However, here I am now at 80, and I find that the old body has some limits. I find myself hunting much closer to home, and a lot of the long-distance scouting has become a thing of the past. There does come a time when things just have to slow down, and in my case that slow-down has begun. I know there are a lot of guys that can keep going to a much older age, and I truly envy those people with those genes, but as Clint Eastwood used to say, "A man's gotta know his limitations".

Happy 59th birthday. Are you doing anything special for this special day?

I understand completely.

Just keep them coming. Damn 83 years young. I'm right behind you at 80.

So, what is the strategy to get that one?

I saw one of those little guys just yesterday hovering in front of a window, looking in. We do not feed them, but we have a lot of flowers around the house that seems to attract them.

My ground blinds are usually made out of natural materials found right at the spot, and are used year after year. I have bought a few market ground blinds, but many are too restrictive and need more height for the upper limb of the bow. So I guess a pertinent question would be is this for bow or gun. It makes a difference.

I definitely will be going after the squirrels in our area. They stripped every pear off my two pear trees. I want revenge. By the way, my wife asked a question about what the squirrels did with all those pears. Do they try to store them like nuts? It seems that that would not really work out all that well. On the other hand if they ate all that they took off my trees, they would be laying on their backs with their bellies about to explode. By the way, I know it was squirrels because I saw them doing it.

My new posted signs.

Just made me kind of laugh.