Doc

Know your target and what is beyond. Almost all of us are using rifles now, and under some circumstances this allows you longer shots with more distance to scan closely. Beware of those that still insist on wearing camo. There still are some out there tempting fate and they could be blending in with any part of the woods behind that deer. So, while blaze orange is still the most effective safety item in the deer woods, there are those that like to place their safety in the hands of luck, and they are out there in the woods with you. Maybe a lot closer than you realize.

The question really is whether deer can be taken purely as a result of good luck. The answer is that it happens all the time. A lot of hunters do all kinds of time consuming things and form all kinds of grand plans and buy all kinds of super expensive equipment, and if they were to be honest, the results still turn out to be more good luck than good management ..... lol. But, in all seriousness, scouting and other proactive planning can really put the odds of good luck more in your favor. Scouting in particular can put you in more concentrated deer numbers which has to help the good luck come your way. So if you are asking if it a good idea to forgo the time-consuming scouting, I have to advise against it. Put the odds in your favor when you can.

Far better we should have voted for the gal that comes right out and brags about how she hates guns and wants to screw over every law-abiding gun owner she can. Buckle up boys, we just saved another set of your rights ...... in spite of you.

This is my opening day stand. It is on a plateau that is about half way up the hill and serves as an escape route for the deer caught down in the valley. This will be about my eighth year there and it seldom disappoints.

What I have found locally is that there is the initial shoot-fest, as the deer get a bit caught away from there sanctuaries. The survival mode goes into the start-up phase as they seek out the spots that no sane hunter wants to go. Once the survival mode is fully implemented About 11:00 am, the shooting starts to drift off and becomes almost non-existent. The rest of the season, there are times when you would swear you heard just as many shots during a good small-game day. Todays hunters are kind of into about a 1/2 to 3/4 day season. It used to be that people used the whole season, and special days like the first Saturday and Thanksgiving morning were crazy active. But not anymore. The advent of modern fabrics and designs of hunting clothing have kept guys hunkered in their stands, with no one disturbing the secluded and bedded deer. Others just simply stop hunting at all after opening day. Other times of the season when large groups of hunters used to start driving the deer sanctuaries, that all seems to have died out or severely diminished. These drives were useful for getting deer on their feet again. They aren't much of an impact anymore. So you've got about a 1/2 to 3/4 of a day of lively hunting, and after that unless you are ready to invade the little hidey-holes with some skillful still-hunting, things can get pretty darn boring. Things may be considerably different in other parts of the state or area, but in our area, that is kind of what our deer season has evolved into over the years.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "An assault rifle and tactical vest may now be in the hands of a drug dealer in Upstate New York after they were stolen from the unlocked vehicle of a Department of Homeland Security Agent. Lawrence RussellMonroe County Sheriff's Office The DHS officer, Leroy Doctor, "had left his machine gun laying on the back seat of the vehicle," according to an affidavit from Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent Sean Martineck provided to the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So, which was it, an "assault rifle" or a "machine gun"? Or maybe it was just one of those nasty-looking modern black semi-automatics

The flood of Trump-fearing American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified in the past week. The Republican presidential campaign is prompting an exodus among left-leaning Americans who fear they'll soon be required to hunt, pray, pay taxes, and live according to the Constitution. Canadian border residents say it's not uncommon to see dozens of sociology professors, liberal arts majors, global-warming activists, and "green" energy proponents crossing their fields at night. "I went out to milk the cows the other day, and there was a Hollywood producer huddled in the barn," said southern Manitoba farmer Red Greenfield, whose acreage borders North Dakota. "He was cold, exhausted and hungry, and begged me for a latte and some free-range chicken. When I said I didn't have any, he left before I even got a chance to show him my screenplay, eh?" In an effort to stop the illegal aliens, Greenfield erected higher fences, but the liberals scaled them. He then installed loudspeakers that blared Rush Limbaugh across the fields, but they just stuck their fingers in their ears and kept coming. Officials are particularly concerned about smugglers who meet liberals just south of the border, pack them into electric cars, and drive them across the border, where they are simply left to fend for themselves after the battery dies. "A lot of these people are not prepared for our rugged conditions," an Alberta border patrolman said. "I found one carload without a single bottle of Perrier water, or any gemelli with shrimp and arugula. All they had was a nice little Napa Valley cabernet and some kale chips. When liberals are caught, they're sent back across the border, often wailing that they fear persecution from Trump high-hairers. Rumors are circulating about plans being made to build re-education camps where liberals will be forced to drink domestic beer, study the Constitution, and find jobs that actually contribute to the economy. In recent days, liberals have turned to ingenious ways of crossing the border. Some have been disguised as senior citizens taking a bus trip to buy cheap Canadian prescription drugs. After catching a half-dozen young vegans in blue-hair wig disguises, Canadian immigration authorities began stopping buses and quizzing the supposed senior citizens about Perry Como and Rosemary Clooney to prove that they were alive in the '50s. "If they can't identify the accordion player on The Lawrence Welk Show, we become very suspicious about their age," an official said. Canadian citizens have complained that the illegal immigrants are creating an organic-broccoli shortage, are buying up all the Barbara Streisand CD's, and are overloading the internet while downloading jazzercise apps to their cell phones. "I really feel sorry for American liberals, but the Canadian economy just can't support them," an Ottawa resident said. "After all, how many art-history majors does one country need? The big question is why don't they choose to move to Mexico?

Thank God ..... and none too soon I might add.

Try to make promises you can keep. Take a look at the terrorist reactions of your paid protesters, and see if you can still say that with a straight face.

Are there naïve people who believe that any one party will foster policies that 100% agree, across the board, with their own beliefs. You do all understand that that only happens in fantasy .....right? If you have a mindset that is 100% in lock-step with any one political party, beware of how easily you apparently are influenced and controlled ..... lol. For those things that you have strong convictions on, you may have to work on influencing those policies within the party of your choice.

.270 American Ruger using 150 grain bullet.

That was exactly my point. Illegal acts by their supporters get a pass. This all gives a very clear view into how fortunate we are to have dodged the bullet of a Hillary presidency. Illegality has become the lifestyle for her and her spouse ever since the Whitewater days. Why would she condemn illegal activities performed on her behalf?

It is not that critical during bow season, but I like to be on stand 15 30 minutes before any daylight can be detected. But on opening day of gun season, I will be there about 45 minutes to an hour before the first traces of daylight. The early hour is to lay claim to a particular spot on the hill on state land that has proven to be a fairly reliable escape route. There is a bit of competition for this spot, and I try to get there first.

I tend to climb my way deeper onto and even over the hill for this reason. I do want to get in deeper just to enhance the quality of the hunt. I don't want to listen to the cars streaming by. I don't want to hear the neighbors arguing. I don't want to listen to the neighbor's do barking its head off. I don't want to hear car doors slamming. I head up to a very picturesque area that we call the "Dark Woods", a very dense, old-growth hemlock woods around a very deep ravine at the rear of my property. It is just a very nice quiet and very "wild" looking area that is completely different from the thickets and swamps down around the house. I do it simply because it enhances the hunt regardless of whether I am successful or not. As Elmo said....there is something to the idea that I have "escaped enough".

But I repeat.....Where is the condemnation of the Democrat leaders in whose name all of this is taking place?

I have no problem with civilized protest, but smashing cars and burning buildings and beating up people in the streets because of how they voted, goes well beyond protest. I really don't recall Trump ever calling for anything like this. Take a few minutes to educate yourself about what is going on out there. Take a look at that guy being beaten and kicked because of how he voted. Take a look at all those busses that are parked along the streets after having delivered their cargo of professional rioters. And then feel maybe just a little shame at having compared that to simple protest and not really knowing the difference.

There needs to be swift and decisive rule of law established and it should be done in such a way that violent anarchy deserves. At first it was funny listening to all these spoiled, weeping brats who have been trained to always get their way. But watching some of the coverage that shows dozens of buses delivering rioters, and people being beaten up because of their vote, it all starts becoming clear that there is organization behind all this mayhem. So, I have to ask, where is the Obama public condemnation of all this? Where is the Clinton condemnation of all this illegal hate-activity? Is there an implied condoning of this kind of lawless rioting being implied by Democrat leaders, displayed by their deafening silence? Where is the outrage!

Just because an area is dense, do not assume that it is automatically a bedding area. I have seen plenty of deer bedded down in open hardwoods using these thick areas simply as travel corridors and much of that travel happens at night. This is where trail cams would give you a heads up on how the area is being used. However, if you have jumped deer from their beds in that area, or you have found a significant number of beds in the area don't let that rule the area out for hunting. I have had a lot of successful morning hunts getting into these places first and having the deer coming in to me.

Yesterday morning I came home off the hill to take care of a few chores that had to get done, and there in the driveway in front of the house was a huge buck standing there in the open looking around like a dope. He acted like he was looking for does. I remember in my younger years when I used to hunt so far back in that I would have had a nearly impossible task dragging one out if I did get it. I don't go that far anymore....lol.

It is so amusing and comforting to hear the pinkos rolling on the ground, weeping, and wailing. It means something good has happened in this country. Each whine and whimper and boo-hoo from these pathetic people boosts my confidence that perhaps there is hope for rescuing this country from the Marxists. The Khrushchev quote that explains exactly where we were prior to this election is as follows: “We can’t expect the American people to jump from capitalism to communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have communism. “We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.” What he was envisioning was a political movement that looks exactly like the Obama administration, and the ascendency of his clone Hillary Clinton. All I can say is thank God for Trump's offering of an alternative. And thank God to the American voters who finally woke up and said, "enough is enough" and chose that alternative.

It is an unfortunate fact of life that Obama has been the President of this entire country. And being a citizen of this country that unfortunately made him my president. No, unfortunately there was nothing in my power to "will him away" as he went about trashing the country and stuffing us further down the socialist hole. But yes the bad news was that he did occupy the office of President for all that time and was indeed "our" president, one that represents a tragic period in our country's history.

Has anyone heard anything about the fate of the 2nd Amendment bandits and whether anyone thought to punish their support of the Safe Act. Or have we once again failed to vote these creeps out. I followed a lot of election posts here and I don't remember anyone using this election to punish those who voted for the Safe Act. Frankly, I forgot too or I would have resurrected the old standby thread, "Lest We Forget" .... I hope at least some of these state politicians learned that we take the 2nd Amendment seriously and it doesn't pay to mess with our second Amendment rights. But here I come just-in-the-nick-of-too-late, having concentrated on the presidential race to the exclusion of all others, I failed to resurrect old wounds that needed attention and retribution in this election too.

Unfortunately living in a deep valley, Our apples got nailed by repeated late, severe frosts. So if I was to get a deer that had apples in its stomach, I too would be extremely suspicious of baiting. Sliced apples really sound suspicious .....lol.

Don't feel sorry for Billy. Between the two of them, they've ripped off enough money so that they are set for life. Bill will continue to live life exactly the way he wants to ...... lol

I also have to admit that a large part of my faith in America has been restored. I was of the opinion that no one cared anymore about self-reliance, honesty and integrity and decency. I was beginning to believe that we were on a path to decline as so many great societies before us eventually capitulated to. I really did not believe that the majority had the spine and the will or desire to reverse this path we were on. I think this election shows that the American people are deeper thinkers than I ever gave them credit for. Perhaps we have turned the corner and are now poised to restore our place of greatness in the world and the future. Let's wait and see.