Deerthug

Heading up tomorrow afternoon to clear the garden and double check the stands and cameras. Can't wait for opening weekend!

This is really good news! Congrats brother!

Just finished putting it all together with clothes etc. and tested it out. Going to be using it in my basement. Need to practice early morning and nights until bow season.

I built this 4'x4' DIY lifetime archery target following the instructions from Thirdhandman on Archery Talk. I finally got enough old clothes to fill it and put it to use. Thank you Thirdhandman!

Welcome!

This may help ...lol.

Ha! I even got her to dance with me to a George Strait song playing on the radio while I was BBQing earlier!

Hahaha! Here ya go Elmo... I got it from here: http://mychilirecipe...ison_Chili.html I tripled the recipe since we made it for 21 people for Christmas last year. http://huntingny.com/forums/topic/13886-christmas-day-venison-chili/ Adirondack Venison Chili Ingredients: 1 pound ground venison 1 tablespoon butter 1 small onion, minced 1 green pepper, chopped 1 large can chili beans or kidney beans 1 can (16 ounces) can stewed tomatoes Salt and pepper to taste 2 teaspoons chili powder 1 (4 ounce) can mushrooms Hot sauce to taste In a large skillet with a lid, brown venison in butter, breaking the ground meat into small pieces as you brown it. Add onion and green pepper and cook until onion begins to brown, about 5 minutes. Stir often. Add beans, tomatoes, salt, pepper, chili powder, mushrooms, and enough hot sauce to suit your taste, stirring occasionally. Cook about 1 hour over medium heat. Make ahead of time. Reheated it is even better!

when my wife says to me "I want venison chilli. Do we have any more?" I say: "Sorry babe it's all gone." Next thing I hear her rustling in the garage where we have our spare freezer yelling: "Are you sure?" and she walks into the kitchen holding more venison. What a nice surprise! Guess what's for dinner tomorrow night? Lol!

Welcome! Enjoy the ride!

Welcome to the site! Great group of people to learn from. You will also learn to take some opinions with a little bit of salt. I hunt on private land in Germantown on 100+ acres. The Skills are beautiful as you can see ...

Yup. Going for three and a bear! Lol.

Nice work!

It's a beautiful cool crisp morning. Just came back from a nice long walk with my pooch! Fall is in the air which means only one thing..... HUNTING SEASON IS COMING! Woot!!!

Just came in from a walk with my wife and our pupp and after enjoying a glass (or two) of Pindar Reisling 2009 on our patio. ...until the bugs started biting. Damn! Can't wait until the cooler weather sets in! Next weekend I will be enjoying a glass of the Dalmore and my new Meershaum pipe which I should be getting on Tuesday. But now I have to settle for watching the Yankees losing to the Red Sox.

Thanks. The wife picked it out 12 years ago when we redid the kitchen.

Yup. Finished up early and lets just say this was well deserved!

Hey Eddie. Hope you have a great birthday. Enjoy your day!

Thanks jjb

I thought so just making sure. But as far as a "group" what if there are two mature bears strolling along together, can you or cannot shoot shoot one? How many is considered to be a group? (Sorry for the questions - never thought I'd be hunting for bear in my area)

Awesome! This is going to be my project this weekend. Incidentally, just to make sure, you can take a male or a female as long as the bears are mature and there are no cubs tagging along, right?

Makes you want to say hmmmm...... Sometimes you just need someone to believe. Our words carry life. Our words carry death. I choose life. . .In a hunting camp several years ago I watched grown men struggle trying to zero their guns in the day before the hunt. It was late November in Canada and wind chills were nippy to say the least. With spirits low I told one of the guides to run across the street and get some paper plates. We took the targets down and replaced them with paper plates. The most dejected guy I took it upon myself to set the plate at 100 yards and said, "Shoot three times." The groups were lousy, but all three hit the plate. I jumped up, kicked my leg and yelled, "You got him. All three shots. Next." The downtrodden sportsman smiled, quickly gathered his stuff to let the next guy set down. Everybody hit the plate. Everybody left feeling good as I told them, "You guys can make that shot at 100 yards. You can do it." Not everyone got a chance that week to shoot a deer, but the fellow who fretted the most, the first shooter, shot the biggest buck of his life. He made a perfect shot. We can either uplift people and give them a shot of confidence or we can tear them down with a negative comment or action - sometimes not really meaning to. At the end of my junior year I got the notion to go to grad school. I really never even planned on that. My grades were not great. But I applied and didn't meet a single requirement of the 6 items necessary for acceptance. I went ahead and applied feeling like it was what I was supposed to do. I never received a single positive comment from anybody accept my folks; no friends, no relatives no teachers, nobody. In fact my academic advisor actually laughed in front of me and said, "You'll never get in. I know your grades, remember." Then during the summer I was in the grocery store there in Wagoner, OK and I ran into my former high school music teacher, Mrs. Tommy Lou Abner. "What have you been doing?" she ask. I told her and then said, "I have applied for grad school." I think she could tell I wasn't really sure about that. She actually interrupted me and with a big smile on her face quickly said ,"Oh, that's a done deal there. They're going to want an outstanding young man like you. You're going to get in." I left that store walking on clouds. I went straight home and told my mother, "I'm going to get accepted. In fact I'm going to take summer school classes so I can graduate early and begin grad school in January." I'll never forget the look on my mother's face when I said that. She just nodded and said, "Well, whatever you think." One week later I received my acceptance papers from the school. I was in. I took 16 hours summer school. Raised my grades. Graduated in Dec. and went to grad school on a full tuition scholarship that next January. Our words carry life. Our words carry death. I choose life. Be an encouragement this week to someone. You just really make a difference in that person's life. Have a great day. (source - Roger Raglin FB page)