Doc

It is not even close......my Bow is the weapon that gives me the most satisfaction and fulfillment. No, it is not the most efficient or the most productive, and that probably is what the attraction is. I do hunt with both, but the gun is more of a carnival atmosphere and the sole reason to use a gun for me is simply meat-gathering. When it comes to matching wits with the critters and taking on additional challenge, the bow has always been my weapon of choice.

Could it be that humans feel a need to respond to ancient predatory DNA. Perhaps responding to a time when hunting to survive was a way of life for our species? Ha-ha-ha.....Now that is an interesting theory.

Hard to believe isn't it? One thing they did not mention is expansion of factories or additions of resources and facilities. This is going on far too long.

So are the ammo people ever going to get on board with matching the production to the demand? What the heck is the matter with them. Look at the amount of money they are passing up.

I understand the advantages of having both eyes opn, but I never adapted. Left eye automatically closes. That is true even with my bow shooting too.

I don't have it all right in front of me at the moment, but I believe the wording included "during the firearms season".

Thinking way back to a time before I was even old enough to hunt, I often recall the things that inspired me to even want to hunt. As a youngster there were some of the books that I read about the mountain men and the relied their their abilities to outwit critters and live off the land in ways defined their place in nature. At that age I was too small for those things to be a part of my daily life, but they all provided the goals for hunting and other outdoor activities. They all seemed like things that young men grew up to be a part of. And indeed back in those days, I was not alone in those feelings. Our entire culture in that small farm area was about outdoor activities and our place in nature. The trapline that I ran at the age of 11 taught me even more about how to become involved in nature, to study it and become a part of it. I also grew up wandering the hills and valleys of the Finger Lakes where huge forested lands were a constant part of my life. All this was a part of my life for as long as I can remember even before I was of hunting age. How could I have not become a hunter?

We talk about political divisiveness like it is a new new invention of the decade........Ha-ha-ha. You should have herd the kinds of red-faced arguments that the adult males used to have around the Thanksgiving Day dinner table when I was a kid almost 80 years ago. I still remember that huge vein that used to expand down the forehead of my father as his face turned red and the volume of his voice elevated as he was arguing about the Democrats. And then the same kind of impassioned response would come from the other end of the table. All of us kids sitting ate the "kids" table wre convinced that there would be violence breaking out any minute. But you know as heated as those political arguments got, there was laughing and joking that always happened afterward. Has anything really changed over the years? Political debate...... it is healthy and keeps the brain activated and exercised.

My Brother-in-law asked a simple question that I had no answer for. He asked how long does it take to fill up a battery for an all electric car. I know that filling my car with gas is a rather brief interruption in my life that uses maybe 5 minutes total foe each fill-up. But if I had an all electric car, and my batteries were getting low, how long would my car have to be side-lined at a charging station before I could resume my driving? Another question that puzzles me is, what is the average life of the batteries that these cars use? And what does it cost to replace them when they refuse to take a charge? How about the massive disposal cost and difficulties that occurs with these. I have to confess total ignorance when it come to these batteries, but do we have any electronics wizards here that know the answers to these questions? Are electric cars God's gift to the planet that we are being told?

We have discussed why we are hunters a long time ago. But now we have many new members, so I thought it would be interesting to sample attitudes among hunters again. So the question is simple. Why do you enjoy hunting? What are the elements of hunting that push your buttons?

I have a dark gray ghillie suit that does the best job of concealment of anything I have tried. It is a loose-leaf almost a Tree-bark color. The only problem is that it is difficulty to shoot a bow with it on. Very easy to have unexpected interferences.

I guess I can't see any reason why not. I'm in that high risk age bracket. Is there some reason why I shouldn't?

It used to be a massive event at the DEC region 8 complex at Avon until they just decided to dissolve it. Thousands of area people became acquainted with hunting and fishing and trapping at the event. Thousands of young kids were introduced to outdoor activities that they would normally never hear about. But for some reason, the DEC didn't feel it was a good thing for them to be associated with.

What they can't achieve with these crazy laws they will achieve through taxation. Even at the pump if that is what they have to do to get their way. Consider for a minute how they used taxation to control citizen smoking. They have perfected the technique of behavior modification through taxation. They can do what ever they want and the voter will never rebel. At least not here in NYS. Yes, the voters can get as angry as they want, but that anger never gets as far as the voting booth. We ARE a socialist state already and NYS government has mastered the technique of using the power that that system affords them. You can buy what ever you want, but getting to use a product that the state government does not approve of may be a very different story. There is no 2nd Amendment for car choice.

Safer????? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now that the southern border is wide open, letting everybody and anybody in, including gang members, unvetted terrorists and drug dealers and representatives of drug cartels and fentanyl runners. But now the Taliban has its own homeland and home to every terrorist organization in the world, and we have lost every hint of intelligence on the ground in that area. We have handed over all the modern equipment of war to the terrorists so that they can now use it against us or our allies or simply as sales items to raise money to finance more terror activities. We gave away our energy independence so we are once again slaves to countries that hate our guts? We have done away with sensible financial practices allowing inflation to run rampant destroying the value of our currency. We have let the progressives run nearly every aspect of our freedoms and lives with their desire to turn our system of government to socialism. We have government agencies and branches that are showing they are more crooked than a bunch of thieves We have major cities that want to defund the police forces. We have a majority of the news outlets who are simply the public relations arm of the democrat and socialist parties. We have a blithering idiot as our president who cannot even string words together in an intelligent sentence. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And you ask if we are safer as a nation than we were a year ago. Is there any reason that anyone that has half a brain would ever think we are. Ask this question of the Biden voters and see what kinds of answers you get. This jerk is still getting 30% -40% approval rating. Apparently there are still a lot of people who stumble along quite contented with how things are going.

So sometime in the next 14 years we are going to have to figure out how to blanket the landscape with those huge wind farms and acres and acres of solar farms so that we can handle the new electric demands of transportation. How much of the national electronic grid will have to be rebuilt or fortified? Well I suppose the government can also put out mandates involving the elimination of non-transport electronic drains on the grid system. They are getting good at regulating and controlling the citizens.

Fred had a pretty decent line of compound bows that he marketed and built. So I am sure that if he were still alive and functioning today, he would be competitive with the best of them. Yes, and he likely would have been selling a line of crossbows too. But I am sure that his favorite hunting weapon would have been his recurve.

Of course we already had our opening day of gun season here in 8N, and it was absolutely dead quiet completely through that entire useless season. I don't think anyone wanted to do battle with the mosquitos and the heat.......including me......lol.

Same old place that I always go. A couple hundred yards up the hill behind my house to a plateau half-way up the hill where I have a couple of ground-stands that I use depending on the wind direction. This plateau is a natural escape route for deer down in the valley as soon as the redcoats start marching in towards their stands. It is like a massive deer-drive with me as the stander.

I will never die or be injured from a fall from a treestand. I have a natural defense for such things. It's called fear of heights. Yes my productivity in my hunting went down, but I really don't care. I am safe from the fate of my very young cousin (he was in his 20's) who died from a fall out of his treestand several years ago. I actually know a few people who have come crashing out of their stands. Most of them were relatively unharmed when compared to that cousin.

I used to trap back when I was a kid, but it's been a whole bunch of years since I had a line out. Since my trapping days, the requirement for a trapping education certificate was put into play. And as a matter of fact, I have forgotten a whole bunch about trapping. I late for this one, but if you become aware of any other trapper education courses, I would be interested in attending. Genesee Valley Trappers Association is just over the hill from my place (10-15 minutes away) and so that would be my preferred location. So if you , or anyone else) hears of another course coming up there, I would appreciate it if you could post a heads up, and I will try to make that one.

It is only family that is keeping me here right now. But if they start messing with my basic transportation, I won't really have any choice. I can't afford government experiments in the way I get around. The Democrats have a habit of cutting off supplies and procedures before the technology is ready to go forward. This is just another example. I can't afford Democrats.

They are doing their best to turn NYS into an empty state. It may turn out that even I will be driven from my home state by the lefties. They are working very hard at it.

So what is it about our resident lefties that makes them so sensitive to actually hearing some of the things their commie mainstream news organizations do not want to report on. Who cares if someone is trying to crack through the mainstream socialist news blackouts regarding this wack-job that has wound up in the Whitehouse. Don't be so scared of hearing an opposing viewpoint. It won't hurt you, and you might even learn something. Heaven knows that our lefty voters truly need to learn a lot of things. Be thankful that somebody other than our U.S. version of Pravda is speaking up around here once in a while just to try to keep you informed about what your misguided votes have done to us.

Frankly the Biden screw-ups and anti-US idiotic decisions and scandals are coming at us so fast and furious that it is impossible for any of them to get proper attention all the time. The mainstream media doesn't want to report on any of them, and Fox news seems to be overwhelmed with the volume and magnitude of Biden-isms such that they can only cover a few at a time.