Doc

Once I got tired of chasing links all over the entire DEC web-site, I finally did the right thing and went down to the Town Clerk and she fixed the whole thing up in a couple minutes.

The reason that I heard was regarding DEC cost. But what really happens to any cost savings that they may get out of all this? Is it reflected in a reduction in license fees or given back to the hunters in any way? I never see where they try to make that case.

Here's another thought: Are there any archery clubs in your area. If so, they may have ideas on how to appropriately hook up a needy young potential bowhunter with the equipment.

Once the deer is dead and on the ground in front of you, do you really care about how much noise a sandwich bag is going to make as you slip the tag into it and attach the bag/tag to the deer? No......Probably not. But in reality, plastic sandwich bags do not make much noise anyway. I use them for my sandwiches on stand all the time, and I don't remember a whole lot of noise when I pull them out of my pack and start munching on the sandwiches.

It sounds like you have developed a form of instinctive shooting that works for you without all the clap-trap of sights and such. All I can say is "Don't mess with success". Stay with what is working for you.

I will guarantee that both of those bows will shoot very good groups and are capable of taking a good many deer for any hunter that is interested in getting into bowhunting or archery in general. Rather than just hanging them in the barn where they will be gathering dust, you might want to find a young person who wants to get into archery but cannot afford the investment and at least have them being used. Is that perhaps a more fitting and useful way to dispose of them?

Damn! That looks like a fun thing to use off road for fishing and hunting excursions. Now what you need is some kind of light-duty set of wheels that clamp onto a canoe, and an arrangement for a rear hitch, and imagine the fun motoring into some of those stocked Adirondack ponds.

Now where is this guy going to hand that head-mount. You almost have to put on an addition to find enough wall space to display that magnificent set of antlers. What a great species of deer for the DEC to stock here in the U.S. Imagine having those to hunt in your back yard.

I watch a lot of the Game Warden shows on TV, and have to wonder how hunters out west keep themselves from breaking the encyclopedia of game laws that they must have out there. I am sure that a good GPS system must be a piece of equipment that you would not dare go without. I see these guys getting ticketed with some wild-ass fines for hunting on private land that has no indication that it is any different than the public land that it borders. And then too they have special restrictions on some parcels of land some times marked and sometimes not. I thought NYS was bad enough with all the maze of legal traps, but watching these TV programs makes some of the western hunts look like hunting's version of a speed-trap.

I just can't get myself to get out there in this kind of weather. Bugs, sweat, leaves. It just doesn't seem like hunting with the sweat running down the middle of my back.....lol.

One of those old-guys with a crap memory...... But, I don't remember what the carcass tags were made of before that fancy plastic-style paper, but weren't they just a "card-stock" kind of paper?

Yeah, it might be a good idea to have some zip-lock sandwich bags with you to put the tags in for attachment to the carcass.

Do you think it would have ran away if it had been a sow with cubs? I always wonder about that when I am walking to or from my stand in the dark.......Ha-ha-ha-ha.

So with deer season opening so early in some areas, are there any tricks that some of you have for combatting the heat and the flies on a kill in the 80+ degree heat to avoid spoilage or maggots and such? Or isn't that a problem?

I just like to see participation in the forum, and hate to see anything that stifles that.

Which is exactly what I just got done doing. As it turned out, The DEC sent me only the cover letter and left out all the other stuff. So I was beat before I even got started. She did her magic on the computer and now I've got carcass tags and DMPs. I'm happy again.

Yes, and that is definitely belittling posts that have been put up here on this site. Look, forums are not required to have only topics that you are interested in. What you consider to have been useless banter may be of some interest to others. It's not your place to critique activity here. I would suggest that you simply pass by those topics that you consider to be "useless banter" or You-Tube vids or whatever you think is beneath your attention and try not to suppress participation with criticism and ridicule.

That is an amazing fish!

Is there anyone else here that is having problems with endless chasing of links around the DEC website trying to find Carcass tags and DMPs to print. I'm about ready to call it quits. I was expecting a straight forward, step by step, process that tells a Lifetime License holder how to get the carcass tags and the DMPs to print. Well apparently I am too stupid to chase down all the links to links to links to even find the process. I hope this is only my denseness and that everyone else is not having this problem.

Are you seriously criticizing the content of the few messages that are being posted here? I think I now understand why so many people left.

It has been quite a few years since I resigned as Moderator. We had a lot of moderators at the time and I was quite sporadic in my participation at the time and decided that I really couldn't do a very good job. So I left the job to the great guys that were doing the job at the time. Now we are down to only fasteddie as the last active moderator and fortunately he is doing a great job. The site is running just fine with one notable exception. Without the ability for new members to join, the site will eventually whither. Why Burmjohn did not do the proper thing and explain that he would no longer be engaged in this site, I haven't a clue. Apparently the structure of the site still relies on him for certain critical activities that should have been changed before his disappearance. So without those changes, things are what they are. I imagine that one day we will try to access this site and find out that it is gone. I am not sure what is keeping the bills paid as it is. But I suppose we must just enjoy it for as long as it is here.

Airedale- That was an excellent assessment of the Democrat party. I've been around for a pile of years and have observed the way this country changed. Yes there are a lot of things that have been changes for the good. But the most troubling thing that has changed is the way people think these days. The attitudes of individualism and self reliance has faded into an attitude of seeking out the nanny-state as being the answer to all of our needs. It is an evolution that perhaps can never be turned back, but it is the evolution that people like Harris and Biden feed on. It is an evolution that deserves push-back. I have watched 3-1/2 years of true Democrat influence and what the cost is to our country. This Biden-Harris team has shown just how quickly this can all come tumbling down. They have done a great service to us by showing us how quickly the progressive policies can wreck a country. Now it is time to take this great lesson and do the right thing at election time. The country cannot withstand more of the same.

By the way, this topic was brought to you one of our past members, good ol' growalot. She was a good gal that fed this site a whole lot of interesting topics on a regular basis. She was fun. She knew how to get under some people's skin a bit, but that kept the site lively. I wish she was here now.

I have always had kind of an aggressively active life. I have always lived at the base of a very steep hill that some would call a mountain, and found that I enjoyed hiking that hill and all over the top of it, in almost all kinds of weather. However, here I am now at 80, and I find that the old body has some limits. I find myself hunting much closer to home, and a lot of the long-distance scouting has become a thing of the past. There does come a time when things just have to slow down, and in my case that slow-down has begun. I know there are a lot of guys that can keep going to a much older age, and I truly envy those people with those genes, but as Clint Eastwood used to say, "A man's gotta know his limitations".

Happy 59th birthday. Are you doing anything special for this special day?