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  1. Are all your pictures coming out white or is it only specific times of day that they come out washed out. If it is only specific times of day (such as sunset), moving the camera so that the lighting is changed might help. If you are getting that effect throughout the day and into the night, then there is a serious problem. What are your nightime pictures looking like? I mean those pictures that you know are in total darkness. They're not washed out are they?
  2. Yeah, that all makes a lot of sense. I thought it was funny that just a few days after I got my first "white-out" picture that SMcCray would post a message about getting the same thing. The only thing is that I got the impression that his problem is a bit more prevalent than my one and only. It would be interesting to know whether his "white-out" pictures occur at a variety of times or only around that sun-down lighting situation.
  3. Ha-ha, there's an interesting thought ....... neighborhood food plot wars.
  4. Here's the deal for me, and these comments are aimed at the heavy parts of gun season. I know that guys will be getting up out of their stands anywhere between 10:00 and 1:00. They will begin a massive drive as they move toward the roads to go out and eat. I want to be there when that happens as there is a secondary burst of deer movement. Having a pile of food and drinks to get me through the hours when most hunters allow hunger and boredom to drive them from the woods allows me to be one of the standers while they all serve as drivers. No food, and I become one of the drivers. Not good....for me.
  5. Is this what you are talking about? As you can see your brand of camera is not the only one. This is a Bushnell Trophy. This is the only picture that I have ever had that has turned out this way. And I have taken a lot of pictures since that have been perfectly ok. So I have no explanation for it. By the way, I just noticed that the time on my picture is coincidentally 7:16 PM. By the way this picture is facing south with a little bit of west if sun direction has anything to do with it.
  6. You're absolutely right. It is so easy to get lured into a pissing contest when every opinion that is stated that is contrary to crossbows is met with a full-out combative stance and aggressive insult mode. I find that outside of the internet, I would normally not even associate with people that conduct themselves that way with that kind of personality, and I can't understand why I have been lured into doing so here. So, I guess the thing to do to spare other members from having to put up with this kind of nonsense is to simply stay out of commenting on anything to do with crossbows as others before me have decided to do. I know that it is not normally my nature to engage conversation with someone of that kind of combative personality, and I refuse to do it anymore. Unlike some, that's not the reason I participate in internet forums and I don't see any need to change now.
  7. Not yet. I've got more bow things to work out and I still have to figure out where all my deer have gone so any free time will be spent scouting. I'm running way behind this year. Once the regular deer season is over i'll be heading out after them.
  8. Everybody loves chicken. I had racoons, mink and weasels all figure out ways past the chicken wire. Some of them were pretty darn clever about it too. I had a mink find an empty knot hole in the wall of the coop way down at floor lever. I went out one morning and saw one of the chickens snugged up against the wall. When I pulled her away, I saw that she had no head. The tracks in the snow outside told the story. He apparently went through the knot hole, killed the chicken and then spent a considerable amount of time trying to figure out how to get a chicken to fit through a knot hole.When he finally figured out it wasn't going to happen, he ate off the head and left the rest behind.
  9. Ok guys.... According to our weatherman here in Western NY, we are supposed to have a significant cold snap where temperatures will not be getting out of the 40's. There is even some talk about wet snow flurries (no significant accumlation) in the higher elevations. So, we will all be getting a chance to put on some of that bulky winter clothing and see just what kinds of interferences and form difficulties we might be encountering with all that junk on. That's always an exciting bunch of experimentation for me each year. Sometimes it's no problem and other times it becomes a nightmare. Lol ... anybody can shoot well in a short sleeved shirt. Sometimes those insulated coveralls can change anchors, follow-throughs, back tension, string/sleeve clearances, and all kinds of more mysterious problems. We'll soon be getting a chance to find out.
  10. Next time you are walking in the dark to your treestand, just start imagining Hogzilla with rabies stalking you.... . That should quicken your step a bit ...... lol.
  11. I have had some "slowness" issues with the new site, but then some of that may just be my computer. Often it will go into a stall for a minute or so while the fan starts working. However, this is not the only site that it does that with. There is another site that acts the same way. My take is that unless there is a whole bunch of similar complaints, I would assume that it is a problem at my end. I have noticed the refusal (sometimes) of the Back arrow to work as has been described above. When that happens I use the path at the top of the page to navigate back to the previous page. Other than that it all seems pretty good.
  12. State land here in the southern zone has gotten a lot of bad press in terms of crowding and safety. Some of it is deserved and some of it is pretty much exaggerated. I hunt state land and just accept it as an additional handicap and occasional inconvenience, but nothing that will cause me to stop hunting. However, I was raised around hunting and guns and some occasional crowded conditions, and I think I have a bit more realistic view of it all as opposed to someone who is just thinking of taking up huting, or perhaps someone who has been in it for only a short time. Such people take some of those exaggerations quite a bit more seriously than I do, and I can see where they might decide to give up hunting or not even start in the first place if they believe the only land available is public land. It's too bad that they scare so easily, but I do understand. So yes, here is an example of having scarcity in the midst of plenty.
  13. Getting back on track with your original post, my quick answer to your question is, "Yes". I have seen dramatic changes between last year and this. And that is using the same camera locations. However, you will notice a significant drop in doe photos as well. Here's the records: 2010 Cam Data: Total entries - 207 Bucks - 25 Does - 126 Unidentified gender - 34 Misc animals - 22 2011 Cam Data: Total entries - 128 Bucks - 0 Does - 74 Unidentified gender - 31 Misc animals - 23 It's pretty interesting, but only shows me that patterns have shifted. Maybe it's food sources, or maybe there has been some outside influences from bikers or hikers or small game hunters. I am dealing primarily with state land, so I have a lot of influences that can change the patterns at will. I'm not too worried yet, but I do have to locate some active spots pretty soon....lol.
  14. Hey good one. you get to use another of your lame filler phrases again. Good for you. I know you wouldn't have a whole lot to say without them, so I am happy for you.....lol. But really, when you get to the point where you are throwing out insults and don't even recognize them as such,I guess there's not a whole lot that I've got to say to you. You absolutely cannot reply to a comment about crossbows, and many other topics, without throwing some irrelevant, pointless, negative comment along with it. It's become your standard way of conducting yourself. It's just your sunny personality shining through ..... again. And I suppose there's not a lot that you can do about that.
  15. Well first of all, you're a bit late with your promise not to throw insults around since that is exactly what my last post was in response to. You seem to have a real problem answering posts on crossbows and many other subject without your snide little insults accompanying them. I guess it's just a personality thing. Next, as to your confusion about my comment, you might want to look back and actually try to review what the conversation was really all about before you make your comments. The reply wasn't "all of a sudden", or didn't come out-of-blue as you would like to indicate. Let me save you the trouble and lay out a couple quotes from this thread for you that you must have missed or ignored: "And yet not of them can hold their own with the compounds on a 45 yd and under 3D competition." "When shooting the same courses as the compounds, they don't come close to keeping up on the average." So I made a comment showing that perhaps the remarks regarding the ineffectiveness of crossbows might be a bit exagerated and apparently are not shared by the bowseason hunters in Ohio. You might note that neither were relative to anything you were talking about, but for some reason you always seem to think that you are always the target of my replies. It really isn't always about you .... lol. But anyway, if you want to keep up this crap everytime I post a reply, knock your socks off. Whatever gets you through the day. On the other hand if you would like to discuss things in a more civil fashion for a change that would be a pleasant change.
  16. I have seen a lot of places with their chickens running wild ..... usually right along the road. I often wondered how they survive the foxes, coyotes, mink and other chicken loving critters. The other thing I never figured out is just how you ever get any eggs fromany of these "free-range" chickens that have the run of the place. Seems like every morning would have to start off with an Easter egg hunt. And then if you found an egg, how would you know how old it was. I guess that's why we always kept ours in a chicken coop with a small, totally enclosed, chicken-wire fence.
  17. So how many of those critters would it take for a meal? I had one last year that took over my driveway ..... I actually had to get out of my car and chase him off the driveway so I could get up to the house ..... lol. But I remember thinking that I would have to have a pile of them to make much of a meal for the two of us.
  18. What would really be nice is if all parcels of state land had a small area reserved that was cleared and back-stopped and made for target practice. Also a standing rule that target practice anywhere else on the parcel was forbidden. That would give everyone a safe place to shoot, and keep someone from randomly walking through the woods shooting up the trees and perhaps hunters, hikers, and others trying to use the land.
  19. So have you gotten a response back yet? it'll be interesting to see what the official DEC position is.
  20. Yeah, if the air temp stays below 40 degrees, there is no problem. But in the early part of the season, it is not all that uncommon to get into some really gross high temperatures. When that has happened in the past, we have an old refrigerator (Salvation Army special ....lol) in the basement that will fit around a quartered up deer. There have been other times when I simply butcher it up immediately and forego all the hanging and aging stuff. I have never had that cause a problem or any noticeable change in the meat taste or texture.
  21. Is there any kind of repellent or something like a thermocell that can control the mosquitos? I can't imagine hunting in a situation where the bugs were driving me nuts. To me, that is going to be a concern down here in the Southern Zone if the push the season back to October 1st. It's kind of hard to stay hidden from the deer when you are swinging and swatting at bugs .... lol.
  22. Doc

    Hanging big game

    I have gotten in the habit of hanging them by the hind legs only to make the butchering process easier. I have eaten venison hung both ways, and cannot detect any difference in flavor. My feeling is that whatever way you do it, it probably really doesn't make any noticeable difference. For what it is worth, when I have taken deer to a processor, they have a conveyor system that has the deer hanging with the head down. However, here again that is most likely for purposes of butchering convenience since the carcasses are not there long enough to achieve any kind of "aging" or anything.
  23. More than half of the participants in Ohio's bow season are young or elderly???? I'm not sure I buy that. At any rate, the bowseason harvest numbers show a clear edge for crossbow harvests and have for quite a few years now. So whoever it is that's choosing to use them, they sure are doing a hell of a job with them. But anyway, thanks for the decent, well thought out response. I appreciate that rather than the combative responses that we usually get on this subject.
  24. Here's another thought. It may just be my imagination, but it seems to me that "hunter dedication" (for lack of a better term), has taken some rather huge steps backward in recent years. So what do I mean by that? .... Well judging from activity during the season (or lack of it), it seems to me that a lot of the fewer number of hunters that we still have are really "part time hunters". It seems that after opening day (and actually half way through opening day), the activity dies right down to near silence. In fact, I think a significant number of the people out there hunt only a half-day and then head off to the gin-mills never to be seen for the rest of the season. After opening day, there are just enough guys out to keep the deer aware that there is a deer season going on, but the numbers of cars in state parking lots begin to make them look deserted. I remember when these same parking areas would be filled and have cars parked down both the shoulders of the road. Not any more. I think that almost all of the hunters go out for a half day or maybe a couple of days for the whole season. With that kind of decrease in enthusiasm, how long do you think it will be before these guys are missing from the hunting ranks completely. In other words, I am suspecting that we may have a huge loss of hunters in the near future. It may not just be about those that don't buy a license anymore but perhaps about an even bigger number that don't use the licenses that they buy. What happens when all these part-timers decide to save the time and money and just simply quit completely. This is all just guesswork on my part, and is based on some very un-scientific observations made over the years. But the change has been pretty obvious in recent years and it really is looking a bit troubling to me. What do you all think?
  25. So what are the odds that they would decide to fight right in front of your trail-cam. That is some amazing luck!
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