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Congrats on your deer . Here is what I have been using for several years ......easier than dragging http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3997937

Most of my rifles don't fit into my shoulder very well . I don't think I have average length arms . I bought a set of Choate Composite Black youth forend and stock . I will put the set on either my 223 or 25-06 first and try one of those out . Has anyone else ever done this ? I probably won't install them until after Christmas . It was a lot less expensive than cutting the stock down to size .

I recalled seeing this site a couple years ago . Some folks must stay up all night dreaming up this stuff !

Here's how you hunt over corn http://www.cornouflage.com/purchase.php

I know a farmer who shot a buck from a corn combine . He got a huge fine and lost his hunting privileges for 5 years . When I was a kid , I recall many farmers carrying shotguns on their tractors . Don't know if they even had licenses .........

They saved the deer pee ..... the real stuff , not bottled !

It comes in various colors

I have been doing the sightings logs for several years and was sent a couple patches that I didn't expect .

I have enough guns , bows , hunting clothes and hunting accessories . I can't think of anything I need . No doubt I will get Gift Certificates . I should clean out my closet and dresser and re-gift presents that I have never used .

The deer aren't scared

I don't look at it for just the "cost factor" . Guns are tempermental and you can tweak the loads to satisfy each gun . I do more reloading for one of my sons than I do for myself .

I don't expect to get out until Wednesday . Not sure how many gun hunters were out the last day . Heard a few shots . We had breakfast at Shea's Restaurant on Knickerbocker yesterday after church . I took the family and friends to the Jade Palace at 4 pm yesterday to celebrate my wife's birthday . After driving back to Ontario and getting gas , I drove up Knickerbocker Road and 2 big doe crossed the road . They were walking along the train tracks and would have been about 25 yards from where I parked at Shea's in the am . Damn deer ! The train tracks are less than 1/4 mile from route 104 .

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Welcome to Hunting NY !

Welcome to Hunting NY

I am only about 1 mile from the club range . I don't use it enough . I have access to discarded real estate panels and make up target holders for the club . I get a bit frustrated when I drop a bunch off and go back in a couple days only to see where the AR guys have shot up the wooden supports . If only they could hit the panels ! I plan to use it much more this upcoming season .

I have a set of the insoles that you take out a piece of padding in each one and slide a hand warmer in there . That helps quite a bit . I also have not learned to walk slow to a stand so as not to perspire and then cool down and be cold . I guess thin blood is better than none and better than having a stroke . Getting old sucks but it sure beats the alternative !

Do those fenced in large antlered deer glow in the dark ?

It was a bit nippy yesterday . I was sitting in the stand thinking how I used to be able to withstand the cold much better and then the light went on . I have been taking Coumadin ( blood thinner ) for the past few years and it has been since then that the cold has affected me more . But ......... i'm not about to give up the Coumadin to gain warmth .

Another exciting hunting day . Met my oldest son at 6:30 this am at the Geneseo site . He headed for the woods and I went to the tent blind overlooking the lower pasture lot and lane way . Neither of us saw anything . Went to our vehicles , got something to eat and both of us headed for the woods . I sat in a treestand until 4 and headed back up toward the pasture . My son saw a weasel or something swimming with a mouse in its mouth in the am . Neither of us saw any deer . As we were leaving , I got out closed the gate and was calling my sister in law to know that we were safe and sound . Her next door neighbor stopped me to see how we did . He got a buck with his ML and missed a doe during the season . All he has to do is walk out to his condo , sit in comfort ., shoot and pick the deer up with his tractor . I told him that we hadn't seen anything and he said there were 7 doe in his pasture lot right then . I said thanks but I don't hunt with a spotlight . It was dark .

Right on with that . Lucky you didn't crash into one and get hurt . Glad the other guy is okay . It's a shame about the truck though .

Soooo what you're saying is ...... you drove the deer right into the path of thew Takoma ! Nice guy !

Still struggling ! Sat in the cold this am from 7 -11 am . Thought I would do some walking . Got out of the blind and instantly froze . The wind made the cold air brutal . Said nuts to the walking bit . Trimmed a few limbs , etc and headed for the car . Drove over to my sister in laws house . Got out the shotgun and chambered a round . Walked behind her house and looked where she said a buck had been laying a couple days ago . As I eased over , a doe jumped up from the Sumac about 20 feet from me and I was startled . She ran into the pasture lot and I drew a bead on her but didn't shoot . I didn't know where the 2 horses were and didn't want to do something stupid . The property behind the house is low and then it drops down much more about 30 feet from the house and down into the pasture . It was the only deer I saw all day and I didn't hear any shots all day .

Heading back to Geneseo in a bit for a morning sit ........

If someone did this , they would land in jail !