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My most exciting moment was my 1st Archery buck in 1996 . I had been bow hunting for a couple of years at the time and was about 55 years old . It was worth more to me than any of my gun kills . What an adrenaline rush !

They started a QDM in Italy Valley about 3 years ago and have started seeing bigger bucks ...........

Great photos !!!

The biggest problems I have doing my own butchering is pulling off the hide and hoisting the deer . I have arthritis in my fingers and it's hard to grip some things . Pulling the hide off is difficult . I hang a Gambrel in the garage and when you hoist and release , a lever is supposed to catch the rope . It doesn't alway catch sooooooooo , I bought a 2 ton 12 volt winch at Harbor Freight mounted it on the garage wall , hooked up a couple of pullys and hung my Gambrel on the hook . I can clamp the terminals to a 12 volt battery and hoist away using the hand control . Works pretty slick ..............

My Parker Phoenix EZ-Draw is 70# and my Ben Pearson TX-4 is set at 61# . The 70# compound is easier to draw than a 50# recurve .......

For me , it has always been the idiot that uses his scope instead of Binos . Nothing scarier than having some jerk looking at you with his shotgun / rifle scope ! I have gotten pretty verbal with a few of these people !

For the past few years I have been buying the 15' ladder stands . They work fine .......

I started bowhung later in life and enjoy it more than gun hunting . Less folks in the woods during archery season . I like that . I figure as long as this 68 year old body can still draw 70# , i'll stick with bowhunting .

I switched from Muzzy 100 gr 3 blade to Tekan II's until I found out they are illegal . Switched to the Rage II's and have shot several deer with them . No problem . They leave some awesome holes !

I just joined and there seems to be enough variety .

The 3 blade Rage's are illegal because they are considered a "barbed" broadhead . I havn't found any DEC officer that would consider them legal . About the only time we see any DEC officers is at the Sportsmen's Dinners .

Here is a treestand on my son's property . It's 6' X 7' with plenty of height to stand up . It's around 18 feet high between 2 oaks and has 3 drop down windows .

I hate the shows wher the guy is hunting in the afternoon . He shoots , high fives the camera man and they talk about what a great hit that was put on the deer . When they recover the deer , it's dark . Great hit ? What happened . p.s. --- I cannot stand Jackie Bushwacker !

I have been lucky .......... so far . My son had a tent blind stolen that was on privete property .

Most of the online hunting stuff has been from the Sportsman's Guide store but I have shopped EBAY , Keystone and a few others . I also GOOGLE what I am looking for to get the best price .

I wear the blaze orange during gun season . I have shot plenty of deer while weraing it . The main reason I wear the blaze orange is that I don't want to be a ststistic ! ???

I bought the Lifetime license last year . It still costs me for the Archery and ML add-ons but i'll be 70 Sept of 2011 and then I get some breaks .

I prefer the single shots . I have a 223 NEF Handi-rifle as well as a NEF in 25-06 . I also have a 12 ga NEF Turkey gun and a NEF 50 cal Huntsman inline .

I have had good luck putting Simmons Scopes on some rifles and Bushnell scopes on pistol barrels . I have one Leopold scope . It's on a Ruger super Redhawk 44 mag . I don't see anything great about that scope .