Doc

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.

I know that investigations and trials and convictions should be begun, to display to the country the dangers of not maintaining a vigilance against these kind of people who have no respect for the laws of the land. That has to be balanced against her continuing to be a distraction in our path back to Democracy. Frankly, I am not sure that she and her sleazy spouse really deserve any more attention. Better minds than mine will make those choices.

Ah yes..... The sound of sour grapes. Those that fell in love with a nanny-style, commie type of government is just as broken up over the failure to keep it all going south as they were broken up when the Soviet Union failed. That's ok. I realize that there are people who were looking forward to the looting of America and the tax-payer's publicly paved road to socialism. I know where this pinko is coming from......we had a pile of them back in the 60's. Of course they all eventually grew up and became Trump supporters. Others are a bit slow and some never do get it and become modern versions of Communists feverishly feeding on the words of Marx. It simply means that it takes all kinds. Fortunately this kind finally suffered a defeat and now hopefully the country has a chance to restore itself to the style of government that made us great. It is with great satisfaction that I read this nonsensical sputtering and fuming of these kinds of people. It means that we voters did our part correctly.

And so Uptown Redneck now has to change his name to Uptown RedFace.....lol. It has to be extremely embarrassing to make an absolute jerk out of yourself so many times on a public forum and then be proven so embarrassingly wrong. Your credibility (which you never really had) has just taken a heck of a spanking!

How is this possible? The all-knowing members of the media have been telling us for months that he couldn't win. The pollsters and other members of the new religion of statistics showed that he would bury the Republican Party. And yet, behold the man did the impossible. He has been elected and will serve with Republican control of both houses.

Tremendous! I am on some batteries that were in use last year and for the past3 months have never faltered. Battery life is not really an issue. And the quality of the pics day or night is phenomenal.

While I agree with the spirit of what you are saying, there has to be a bit of slack cut to those of us who were told first that there was no chance Trump would ever be nominated and then having to listen to weeks of, " he cannot be elected". There needs to be allowed a period of vigorous celebration at having saved the country from a path of socialism. It is unfortunate for those who are fans of an all-powerful government which promised to provide cradle-to-grave support like that which eventually toppled the Soviet Union, but we won an election that they said couldn't be won. I am not a rabid Trump fan, but I did vote "against Hillary" as apparently many others did. But this whole campaign from beginning to end finally won my respect for a man that did the impossible. With a unified elitist media that was daily pounding out the Hillary left-wing line throughout the entire campaign, to the members of his own Republican party who ran for cover in abject cowardice, the man overcame staggering odds. It may turn out that he saved the U.S. from an irreversible move away from the Democracy that we have flourished under. I gave the man my vote and now it is time to give him the rest of my support. America won a great victory last night. So while I know that if the situation had been reversed, the Hillary folks would have had great fun rubbing our noses in it, and I will not apologize for raising great fanfare and celebration because she lost. And those who were wrong will just have to buck up and accept the defeat that has been too long coming.

My favorite trail-cam is a Cuddeback white flash that takes some real high quality color pictures. That really is all I am interested in getting with it. Well, I have learned a bit about deer behaviors with them, but I am real happy when I get a good color picture of a beaver, mink, muskrat, coyote or fox or whatever. I'm still hoping for a bear or bobcat picture. But the point is that for me it is a wildlife photography tool and not really a deer scouting implement.

I was always taught to "pick a spot" when aiming at a deer. Mother nature made that rule easy to follow with fawns.

As seems to be traditional in recent years, you are forced to choose the lesser of the two evils. But choose you must! There are differences between the two and some very, very big ones in my opinion.

If it will be used in gun season, I would suggest that you attach some blaze orange material onto the outside of it. Remember the whole idea of wearing blaze orange in any deer season that has guns, is to be seen by other hunters so they know not to send a slug (bullet) in your direction. If your blaze orange is covered up by the camo of the ground blind you really are no better than hunting in full camo.

Right now, with the leaves immediately covering up all ground sign, it is pretty tough to be looking for trails, tracks, droppings and such. Things occurring above ground are where your focus for scouting has to be right now. Even scrapes can cover up pretty fast with leaves. However, rubs, and browse activity, can tell you a bit of something. But really the main scouting should have already been done prior to leaf-drop. There is a lot to be said of prior hunting experience, but remember past performance is not an indicator of future results. Crops change, natural food sources change or may not even exist from one year to the next. Hunting pressure and other land-use activities can change patterns. Of course topographical maps can point out pinch points and other land features that promote deer travel. Satellite maps can show swamps and fields and thickets that may suggest likely travel and bedding routes and locations.

The particular camera location that made me take note of the patterns watches a very heavy trail (down to dirt) coming out of a very large swamp/thicket dense area into a grass-lot that I keep mowed. The unique thing about this trail is the high percentage of the pictures that are taken in early morning and late afternoon daylight. The whole area could be described as dense valley bottom that was last active farmland in the 1940s to 1960s. It is lined by two hills that are old-growth hardwoods. As far as human population, I would call it very rural. It is pretty typical of a lot of western NY. There is no current ag activity to form regular repetitive daily patterns. Actually, the cameras that I have had up on top of the hills show the deer movement to be even more random than the low-lands. It is no wonder that it is so difficult to catch up with these critters since there patterns seem to be no patterns at all.....lol.

Loved it! Need more.

That same exact argument would be just as valid if you were talking full inclusion of rifles in bowseason, wouldn't it? A lot of the pro-crossbow arguments hold true for inclusion of firearms.