Culvercreek hunt club

Species is important. Could make the difference between rotting out in 4 years or 20 years. Locust is TOP NOTCH if they are big enough. There is a reason they were used so much for fence posts. Oak is another very good one, but like Gman said. peel the bark. Makes a big difference. I put a bridge in at camp and I put a log in the ground on either side of the creek for the log bridge to sit on and not be in direct contact with the ground. (if that makes sense). Might be a good use of a pressure treated 6x6.

The most important information about this build isn't supplied. What diameter tree are you using at the smallest end? Also. When you say "pine" do you know the exact species?

Always hear late May and into June.

Don't wait if you want to enjoy this night. The early bird for the General raffle ticket discount is still in effect as well and the ticket toward the online purchase gun raffle. I just met with the Double Tree yesterday and rearranged some seating to be able to fit as many people as we can comfortably. Ticket sales are ahead of any other year so don't wait. This is shaping up to sell out quicker than before.

Entry for single is $70. That is Dinner and a one year membership. That ticket price is actually below our cost price. The General raffle packages are the best deal in the early bird becasue it is basically 2 for 1. The smallest early bird is a $100 package. While a General raffle package isn't required to attend, the general raffle is one of the highlights of the night. Depending on final attendance numbers we typically have 45-50 general raffle packages (i have heard them called bucket raffle or Chinese Raffle too). The minimum value on each package we try to keep at $100 minimum. I know there is a bow and 4 guns in the General as well. We do sell General raffle tickets the night of the event but they are not 2 for 1.

I've got one special stand that I can't see over 20 yards becasue it is so thick. That's the one for me and I will avoid regrets...lol

We are gonna have one...come on out...lol

yeah, he suckered me in as well. I skated a bit last year becasue it was so close to the season when I got it set up. This year there are no excuses...lol. Except that since I own a crossbow I just can't control myself and since it is in the closet IT JUST HAVE TO TAKE IT OUT

A buddy shot a bear this past season and it wasn't until I started to skin it that I noticed one front foot was a flap of skin. basically walking on bone and the entire bone foot structure was gone and no pads or nails. fully healed and not an injury from this year. It was what I would imagine damage from a trap would look like. I can't imagine a deer walking or running on that much bone. I wish there was a video

I would use whatever weapon they deemed legal. currently there are two general seasons in NY. Archery and firearms. No? Sure seems it to me. however they dice it up I'll participate and enjoy it. I refuse to let how someone else decides to enjoy or participate in the seasons determine my involvement or the pleasure I get from hunting. My reference to the other weapons was simple. if legal I would try them. why not? If they made the whole deer season only primitive, I would hunt it, if they made it all compound, I would hunt it. if they made it all firearms, I would hunt it. My enjoyment is not defined by the implement I hold in my hands. Life's to short.

Great point. Doc was one of the ones doing cartwheels becasue his area when rifle and he didn't need to get beat up shootign a 12 gauge anymore.

I don't see it as hypocritical. Archery implements in archery season and firearms in firearms season. At this point with modern inlines and optics I don't see much of a difference in those muzzleloaders and modern firearms. I bought my inline ML becasue is was honestly more accurate at greater distance than my shotgun and I hunt in some shotgun only areas for about half my firearms season. So I carry that when in shotgun only areas but it is a far cry from a primitive muzzleloader. I'd like to pick up a flintlock when I get a chance. Probably be my next purchase. I think it would be neat to use.

See how that can work for crossbows too?

Oh I understood exactly what you are saying and I added that as people mature in their skills and want more of a challenge they will also migrate from the crossbow, compound to the traditional. Crossbows wont be the end of traditional archery. Just like they won't be the end of hunting with compounds. I have all 3 now and depending on the day, my mood and my set up it will be a game day decision what i pick up to carry.

apples and oranges. When is the last time you saw a guy go from a compound to traditional archery?

I don't see that. as hunters progress in their hunting careers and ability the draw for a more traditional and challenging implement becomes even more attractive.

Compounds, especially today’s compounds are anything BUT traditional archery equipment.

Where did I imply that?

I've got about every style of legal implement and enjoy using them all. If they came out with an atlatl or a spear season I would probably try that too. You could look at the people that are for inclusion as feeling "entitled" but you could look at those opposed as well and see them like the crotchety old geezer that is more interested in what the neighbors are doing than anything else. Or being a person that lets how others are doing something define their happiness. I just picked up a crossbow this past season because the deal presented itself and work out well for me. I carried it during that season. But the previous years I hunted with two friends that hung up their compounds for crossbows. So there I was, sharing the same woods with two of the evil minions. Guess what happened? Not a thing was different than the years previous. We still enjoyed breakfast, had some laughs and they even took a couple deer that we butchered and made sausage. We enjoyed that great food over beers at hunting camp. The sky didn't fall. The God of Traditional archery didn't shoot lightening bolts from the sky. The seasons came and went and according to the NYDEC and their harvest numbers there really wasn't an impact on the overall archery take.

Yeah Larry, What Doc said. Go sit in the corner and keep wishing you could take part int he sport you love. Quit your whining, what were you thinking beating your body up in the service of the public. You should have been an Engineer and sat behind a desk, then you could have bow hunted late in life.

We’ve been through it. I’ve seen a range from “nothing” all the way over to medical reasons. It’s a wide range of answers.

the perception is that "their deer" is safer now because of less people in the woods. But when those gun hunters over run the woods and shoot everything they see "their deer" will get shot by someone else.

Is that the end of the world if a kid hunted but didn't bow hunt? Maybe as they progressed as a hunter they might decide to take up compound hunting, then maybe traditional? but if they didn't and all they ever did was crossbow hunt and used a gun, would that be a bad thing?

I am not even talking about this poll. I am basing what I am seeing and the harvest numbers.

No but it does show that the assertion that its gun hunters picking up crossbows is not valid either. I see it more are deer hunters grabbing another weapon to use