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They have sales every week . Many are repeats and should be a standard price . Love the DICK's store . I expect to receive some Gift Cards for DICK s for Christmas . I also have a certificate for $30 for previous purchases made .

Are you absolutely sure about that ?

Well ..... another failed weekend . I hunted Groveland Friday am and didn't see a thing . It was cccccccold and windy . Walked the small woods . Never heard any shooting . Went up to the house and took an hour nap and headed gor Geneseo to get something to eat . Went to my SILs for the afternoon . At about 4:20 I decided to call it quits as I only had 18 more minutes of legal shooting time . Got out and saw a fawn in the lower pasture lot . Scanned the area and saw a doe . She was alert and was looking my way . Probably heard the zipper on the tent blind or maybe my teeth chattering . I had nothing to rest on but took a shot and missed . Paced it off at 160 paces or about 120 yards (short legs) . I checked all over , back and forth and there was no sign of blood and it didn't appear to be hit when I shot . I attributed the miss to cold and shakey . Stayed overnight in Groveland . Got up at 5 and it felt good to get the extra hour sleep . There was a bit of snow on the ground . Was in the blind in Geneseo by 6:15 and stayed there until 10 . Walked down through the pond field about 400 yards and nuttin' . I heard 2 shot all morning . Went up to my SIL's and rewired a couple outlets in her barn and repaired the toilet tank in the bathroom in the Tack Room . Went back to the blind while checking the gulley again . I was frozen and at 4:15 decided to call it a day . Walked down to the laneway 1st to check it out before leaving . You'd think with all the time I have put in that I would have been more productive ! I used to be able to handle the cold better in my younger years !

Congrats . Nice shooting !

How is it that these Celebrities think they are "above the law" ?

I'll be heading for Groveland in a few minutes . I really hate this getting up early !

You might want to offer the cop who hunts an opportunity to hunt your property . Nothing like having your place patrolled !

If I had the DEC's phone # I would have called it in so I am glad it turned out the way it did . It's easy to jump to conclusions when you don't know all the facts .

That is a real neat story . Thanks for posting !

I arrived at the field just before 2 pm and headed for the stand . Saw a gut pile about 50 yards north of the stand . As I got closer to the stand I noticed a dead deer laying about 30 yards from it . I walked over and saw that it was 3 dead deer and was pissed . I thought how could anyone kill 3 deer and leave them laying like that . I got into the stand and sat until 4:30 and was fuming all the time . As I walked back to my vehicle , a SUV pulled into the field and a couple guys got out . The young guy asked me if I was angry . I asked him if he meant about the dead deer . He said yes and I told him I was real pissed . To shorten the story , the dead deer were road kill that he gathered up to use as coyote bait . The father said they had been hunting that property for about 15 years and the yotes moved in a few years ago and were affecting the deer hunting . The son is a member of the NYS Predator's Association . They showed me pics of yotes that they had killed on the property . The son was very apologetic about messing up the hunting but didn't know anyone else was still hunting there . I told him that I felt much better knowing it was road kill and not just some wanton waste !

It was posted on here before .

I have a NEF 25-06 single shot and like it . The 25.05 is a flat shooting cartridge but rather pricy . I am going to have to do reloads because of that . You might want to consider a 270 bolt action . Two of my sons have the Browning 270 cal and love them . The ammo price is the only thing I don't like about the 25-06 .

The deer have only had a couple days to settle down since regular gun season but I am going to give Mendon another try this afternoon . Looks like we are having a heat wave as it is almost 40 degrees outside .

Congrats on your deer !

I have walked a lot of woods, fields and gullies in 46 years of deer hunting and have only come across 4 dead deer .................

Is the guy in the pic with the "hands free" phone the one being discussed ?

I know a guy who left his lights up all year . His wife kept asking him to take them down with no luck . She turned them on one evening in June . He took them down the next day . ......... Don't mess with women !

I had a doe cross the road ahead of me about 1/2 mile before I made my turn into the lane to park .The thermometer read 24 degrees when I got into my blind at 6:10 am . I sat there until 10:30 after seeing nothing and walked to the woods . There are all kinds of trails through the high grass and thick stuff and a few new tracks . Walking the pond field was crunchy as the water just lays there and it's the same in the woods . Nuttin ! I walked to my vehicle , changed clothes and drove to the village to get something to eat and use the john . Got back to the property , changed into hunting clothes and walked along the gulley to see if any deer were in there for shelter . Walked back to the blind and sat until 4:30 . My SIL said that when she goes out at night to bring the horses in , she sees deer . There were plenty romping around during bow season but out of range . I heard over 30 shots in the am . The 1st was a 5 shot group at 7:19 and later there was an 8 shot barage ( must have been 2 shooters) . Shots here and there afterwards . Most of the shooting was north of my SIL's woods . It took me a while to thaw out on the way home .

Get yer butt off my property boy ! You find out who owns the property and get permission or stay off ..........

Nice !!!!

It takes that many chipmunk hides just to make a vest !

It's right under your name by the Login / Logout

And .................. I thought this thread had died off . Too early in the morning for popcorn .

Thanks .........that's a handy link

The summer they built the tract Homes behind us , I set out rat traps and caught 23 chipmonks . I snipped off their tails and pinned them up in the garage . One of my sons said he was glad I didn't do that with the woodchucks .