Doc

Now, that really does look like fun. But I suspect that with my not-so-great eye/hand coordination, I would go broke with repairs and replacements. Are those videos "real-time" or are they sped up. The speed looks tremendously fast. I think I would be all smashed up in a tree inside of a 1/2 minute or so. I never could play video games that required flying. It requires abilities that I just don't have.....lol.

I cannot count the times that I have seen the blaze orange long before I could see the form of the hunter. Many times that has been the queue that it is time to move or put some distance between us to avoid hunting too close. On the other hand I have had a few occasions where I didn't see hunters in full camo, and got way too close for safe hunting until thankfully they said something. So blaze orange is not just something to avoid target misidentification. It can also be a clue to unsafe conditions setting up around you. Another part to that is that it sometimes can tip you off that you are wasting your time when you see that little piece of orange up where you are expecting deer to be coming from.

I guess it all depends on whether he is running at me with a giant club.

Ha-ha-ha......The only March madness that I have ever experienced is the madness that comes from the cabin fever that is taking it's toll on me right now.

Anybody sell a "Grafting for Dummies" book. I don't even understand the lingo

Ok, I am looking through the scope, following the deer and just as my trigger squeeze fires, a little bit of blaze orange shows up in the scope. I'm not talking about muzzle flash either. There's more than one reason for not taking running shots. I am also trying to figure out how you are looking through the scope for brown to appear and at the same time following the deer and at the same time determining that he is at the high point of the lope. That's a whole lot of stuff going on all at the same time. No, I think I will stay with my usual thought of letting deer that are running pass without a shot. If I've done my hunting right, he won't even know that I'm there.

But that does not really stop Harry Highschool from taking the gun that his dad bought for him to school, does it? So it make me suspicious that there is more to these age change proposals than meets the eye. Perhaps some wording that involves "possession and use", and not merely purchases. It certainly is something to keep an eye on when Cuomo and his merry band of gun-raiders propose this change here in NYS (and you know they will).

What I meant is that I see so many people at the range shoot off arrow after arrow trying to develop that perfect shot routine that is the same cadence for every shot and they never get to practice shots that get delayed at full draw. It does affect the shot sequence, and it doesn't hurt to simulate what happens when draw hold starts to push the limits. Trying to settle the pin back down when you have been holding longer than you practiced can have surprising effects if you have not practiced that scenario very much.

Perfect shot timing and procedure is a luxury usually afforded only on the practice range. Since a deer seldom is a wide open stationary target, it's pretty important to be able to incorporate some variability into your shooting procedure. They don't often pose for the shot. It is amazing how often they will move their vitals behind a tree or some brush while you are trying to tick off all that perfect timing of the shot. You may have to hold at full draw a lot longer than is comfortable. Occasionally you will have to let-down and wait to start all over again. Every practice session should include some variability so that you know what will happen when the unexpected happens.

I don't manage the deer. They have been doing that themselves for centuries, and the DEC takes care of making sure we don't hunt them out of existence. So all I need is enough land to hunt on (about 40 acres). And the state adds a bunch onto that too.

I have noted the exorbitant prices of lake front property, the ridiculous taxes, the lack of privacy, and the crazy overcrowding of lakes in our area, and opted for forested land and lots of it. Things are very quiet where I am with the occasional exception of a chainsaw off in the distance, or the birds. And then there is the deer grazing in the front yard or once in a while a fox or coyote will sprint across the yard. I like the idea of simply walking around our hill when it comes time to hunt. I have nobody bobbing around in a boat staring in our front window, or some noisy party going on that isn't ours. Also, there is far less maintenance or occasional disasters from Mother Nature.

It is no wonder that you have problems figuring out the lead on a running deer. Consider that no deer runs in a straight line, and there is no such thing as a standard speed for all deer. So not only must you compensate for the fore & aft lead, but the deer is also moving in a significant up and down motion as well. I suspect that most successful running shots are more the result of luck than skill

How about some sensible application of adequate caliber and shooter competency? It needn't be just one or the other.

Quote from article: "Public perception of Walmart (WMT) and Dick’s Sporting Goods (DKS) improved after both retailers imposed new restrictions on gun sales". Well, that is all very nice, so now the public thinks they are all nice people....But what about paying customers? What do they think? These people fail to understand that their income does not come from " the good will of the public", but rather from cash carrying sportsmen and women. They have forgotten that their purpose is to make money, not good public images. We need to get through this cycle of corporations committing suicide in the name of political correctness. I suppose this nonsense will cure itself once enough of then wind up in the trash-heap because of their stupidity. That can't happen soon enough to suit me.

I see all this talk about the age to BUY guns, but nothing about people under those ages from USING them. As I understand it, I can hand a kid a gun at any age and let them use it.......Is that correct or not? I hope so or Florida has just dealt hunting a lethal blow in that state.

No, in my opinion, a .223 is a bit under-gunned for reliable deer killing. That's not to say that it can't be done, but there are so many other calibers that do a so much better job in a far more reliable fashion.

Pretty much, unless something breaks, bends or gets lost, nothing new gets added anymore for archery equipment.

Recorded the first episode the other night and watched it last night. Great show so far. I always enjoy shows about the frontiersmen. Probably my earliest interest and involvement with hunting, trapping, and nature and such was because of books that I read as a kid about these people. These guys were my childhood action-heroes.

Look, we can argue all day long about whether we agree with the science used, but there is no doubt that science and statistics and studies and procedures are the backbone of management principles. I guess I really don't understand this article. Are they implying that seasons and bag limits and such are simply drawn out of a hat or established with a dart board and a handful of darts? Come-on, I have as many complaints about goof-ups and mis-calculations and items that I think seem a bit off the wall and off target as anyone, but I do believe in the studies and text books and the general principles behind the management practices that the DEC uses. Any scientific system can always use improvement but that does not mean that they are not scientific systems. There is damn little examples or proof of the claims provided in this article and I guess we are just supposed to take this guys word for all of his claims. But it is a lot easier to take exception with this poorly written article than it would be to believe that wildlife management is just a series of arbitrary guesses.

We can consume one or two deer per year. When I reach that number I quit hunting. We used to eat a lot more venison but eventually I got to the point where I could regularly afford black angus.

Amphibians: deep fried, breaded frog legs Wild caught fish: Deep fried breaded smelt ...... Tartar sauce or horsey sauce, or cocktail sauce. Big problem knowing when to stop. Game Birds: pheasant or duck Big game animals: Moose

Yes, that is where the ATV did the job that the truck couldn't. Most of my driveway is a bit bigger than one lane wide and it's elevated with deep ditches on both sides. All he could do was push straight ahead depending entirely on the rake of the plow to shove that Heavy snow off the driveway. With summer tires, he quickly reached a point where he couldn't do it. With the ATV, I was able to take those little bites off in a sideways direction into the ditch where he could not. Yeah, I think he learned a lesson that if you are going to plow snow commercially, you really do need the tires for the job. He wound up with his tires sliding sideways out over the edge of the ditch and then he was really stuck. As far as the chains, he could have saved himself a lot of grief if he had a set of those strap-on chains. He was stuck and had to call a buddy from 12 miles away to come and help pull him out. I mean here is the guy stuck 1000' off the road, not going anywhere without help. You figure it out if chains would have made sense.

I couldn't find any index of participants. How many vendors, etc. Might be something I would be interested in attending, but it sure would be nice to know what all was going to be displayed there.

Come-on guys....... Aren't you really rushing this old age thing a bit ..... lol. At 74, I am properly impressed with what I can still do. Digging out from this latest snow storm showed me that I may have a few more good years left in me yet. Yeah, I've slowed up a few steps, and I might be a little bent, but I ain't broke yet. Still bow hunting with real bows and wandering all over the killer-hill out back. Not too much grunting and groaning when I get in and out of my tiny Honda Civic. I'm not sure what it will be like when I really get old, but right now everything is still working adequately......and that is without ever visiting a gym since high school. I have to agree that getting old does suck, but I'm reserving the complaints until I really am old.

I know that this forum is frequented by some of the best noted experts on international economic policies, and I won't even pretend to be qualified to speak on that subject as to whether tariffs are good or bad for our country. But there is one thing that I think is fairly logical. And that would be that our national security is not a service industry, and that we no longer have the metals industry within our borders to build our own weapons of self-preservation. Our ability to arm ourselves is really in the hands of our adversaries. If a president wants to reverse that situation, he has my total support. Over many decades and through administrations from both sides of the aisle, we have worked diligently to hand over our technology and the control of our raw materials and the means of beating us at our own game of production of finished products to whatever third world country that wanted them. And we find ourselves in the position of being beholding to all kinds of other countries for our basic self protection materials (steel and aluminum). Trump wants control of those materials back primarily within our borders. I'm with him no matter what it takes. I know he publicly sees it as a fairness problem, and that is important too, but I see it as a self defense problem, which to me is a much more pressing reason for concern.