Culvercreek hunt club

Really have to watch the ice here...but Canadice hase some very nice pan fish and the Pickerel action can be very good. I have tried but never did very good on Trout there but we always throw out a couple deepeer rigs to try. The water fluctuations have to be watched on this and Hemlock but both have produced well for me over the years

And probably eating the exact same things, Doc. Sounds like a productive area....maybe you should hit it in September and reduce the draw for the squirrel hunters yourself

what are you looking for Dave?. Outdoor Furnace....indoor furnace....supplemental furnace....airtight stove...small heating stove....visible flame...lol. This is going to be like asking which caliber of rifle do you suggest...lol. You don have to narrow down your use before any can recommend though

You are SOOOOOO WRONG!!!! DOn't you read the other threads....Indians can't shoot and aren't true hunters...lol ;)

You guys a killing me....I have a tear off and re-roof and residing the house coming in the spring. Luckily I can walk the entire rook and the siding would be too bad. This winter will be painting and redoing the family room.

Now that is funny!!! IF Ted's career in anouncing goes in teh toilet again he could aways get a job with the Secret Service as a decoy/stand-in

DOes anyone have an Encore ML AND a heavy barreled varmit barrel for it. I am curious if someone could check the fit of the varmit baarrel with the ML fore end. I have been told they fit but want to make sure. The Encore I have uses a special run laminate stock and the parts are no longer made.

I am going no where near a deer until it is dead. Buddy got kicked in the stones and really wrecked him for a couple months.

I think a lot of folks that prefer the "Texas heart shot do for other reasons than putting it down well. It is much easier to make the draw with a bow when the bird is not looking at you. I hae been busted enough with a gun to know drawing a bow is tough...lol. If you are blind hunting it is a plus for covering your movement. I am not sure what type of broadhead a spitfire is but if you plan on leaving the shooting screens in the windows, a mechanical will NOT work. I typically remove the shooting screens for deer hunting....I tried to practice through them and didn't like the results. If you are going to hunt with them...try a practice session for it.

One of the things you are going to have to put up with are the duck hunters. I have duck hunted them and done very well. During that I have seen quite a few deer but I would be tough hunting. There are drier areas and a topo will probably help.

Well....if you read all the posts it was you and Pat Rockets that did that. Him with the bang on the Christians and when you got called on teh carpet for your support of these clowns...you resorted to ...deer search and lost deer stabs. You are so fond of looking up words for there real meaning like respect....look up opinion...you are hurt because your opinion was looked on poorly. Generally an opinion does not need any past experience to be formed. If it is to hold any water and be considered relavant it should be based and formed with that past experience. You have said that you have never taken a deer, yet bash on the guys who have lost them. You lack the past experience to be considered credible. Here is some advice.....if you stay in this sport...it will happen to you...you will lose a deer. No matter how careful and how much practice...It will happen. I did everything right and it took 30 years...but I lost my first deer this year.

Just got this email...it is funny...and no doubt made up ...but fits...lol Why we shoot deer in the wild (A letter from someone who wants to remain anonymous, who farms, writes well and actually tried this) [tt] [/tt] [tt] I had this idea that I could rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it. The first [/tt] [tt]step in this adventure was getting a deer I figured that, since they congregate at my cattle feeder and do not seem to have much fear of me when we [/tt] [tt]are there (a bold one will sometimes come right up and sniff at the bags of feed while I am in the back of the truck not 4 feet away), it should not [/tt] [tt]be difficult to rope one, get up to it and toss a bag over its head (to calm it down) then hog tie it and transport it home. [/tt] [tt] [/tt] [tt] I filled the cattle feeder then hid down at the end with my rope. The cattle, having seen the roping thing before, stayed well back. They [/tt] [tt]were not having any of it. After about 20 minutes, my deer showed up-- 3 of them. I picked out a likely looking one, stepped out from the end of the [/tt] [tt]feeder, and threw my rope. The deer just stood there and stared at me. I wrapped the rope around my waist and twisted the end so I would have a good [/tt] [tt]hold.. [/tt] [tt] [/tt] [tt] The deer still just stood and stared at me, but you could tell it was mildly concerned about the whole rope situation. I took a step towards [/tt] [tt]it, it took a step away. I put a little tension on the rope .., and then received an education. The first thing that I learned is that, while a deer [/tt] [tt]may just stand there looking at you funny while you rope it, they are spurred to action when you start pulling on that rope. [/tt] [tt] [/tt] [tt] That deer EXPLODED. The second thing I learned is that pound for pound, a deer is a LOT stronger than a cow or a colt. A cow or a colt in [/tt] [tt]that weight range I could fight down with a rope and with some dignity. A deer-- no Chance. That thing ran and bucked and twisted and pulled. There [/tt] [tt]was no controlling it and certainly no getting close to it. As it jerked me off my feet and started dragging me across the ground, it occurred to me [/tt] [tt]that having a deer on a rope was not nearly as good an idea as I had originally imagined.. The only upside is that they do not have as much stamina [/tt] [tt]as many other animals. [/tt] [tt] [/tt] [tt] A brief 10 minutes later, it was tired and not nearly as quick to jerk me off my feet and drag me when I managed to get up. It took me a few [/tt] [tt]minutes to realize this, since I was mostly blinded by the blood flowing out of the big gash in my head. At that point, I had lost my taste for [/tt] [tt]corn-fed venison. I just wanted to get that devil creature off the end of that rope. [/tt] [tt] [/tt] [tt] I figured if I just let it go with the rope hanging around its neck, it would likely die slow and painfully somewhere. At the time, there was [/tt] [tt]no love at all between me and that deer. At that moment, I hated the thing, and I would venture a guess that the feeling was mutual. Despite the [/tt] [tt]gash in my head and the several large knots where I had cleverly arrested the deer's momentum by bracing my head against various large rocks as it [/tt] [tt]dragged me across the ground, I could still think clearly enough to recognize that there was a small chance that I shared some tiny amount of [/tt] [tt]responsibility for the situation we were in. I didn't want the deer to have to suffer a slow death, so I managed to get it lined back up in between [/tt] [tt]my truck and the feeder - a little trap I had set before hand...kind of like a squeeze chute. I got it to back in there and I started moving up so I [/tt] [tt]could get my rope back. [/tt] [tt] [/tt] [tt] Did you know that deer bite? [/tt] [tt] [/tt] [tt] They do! I never in a million years would have thought that a deer would bite somebody, so I was very surprised when ..... I reached up there [/tt] [tt]to grab that rope and the deer grabbed hold of my wrist. Now, when a deer bites you, it is not like being bit by a horse where they just bite you [/tt] [tt]and slide off to then let go. A deer bites you and shakes its head--almost like a pit bull. They bite HARD and it hurts. [/tt] [tt] [/tt] [tt] The proper thing to do when a deer bites you is probably to freeze and draw back slowly. I tried screaming and shaking instead. My method was [/tt] [tt]ineffective. [/tt] [tt] [/tt] [tt] It seems like the deer was biting and shaking for several minutes, but it was likely only several seconds. I, being smarter than a deer [/tt] [tt](though you may be questioning that claim by now), tricked it. While I kept it busy tearing the tendons out of my right arm, I reached up with my [/tt] [tt]left hand and pulled that rope loose. [/tt] [tt] [/tt] [tt] That was when I got my final lesson in deer behavior for the day. [/tt] [tt] [/tt] [tt] Deer will strike at you with their front feet. They rear right up on their back feet and strike right about head and shoulder level, and [/tt] [tt]their hooves are surprisingly sharp... I learned a long time ago that, when an animal -like a horse --strikes at you with their hooves and you can't [/tt] [tt]get away easily, the best thing to do is try to make a loud noise and make an aggressive move towards the animal. This will usually cause them to [/tt] [tt]back down a bit so you can escape. [/tt] [tt] [/tt] [tt] This was not a horse. This was a deer, so obviously, such trickery would not work. In the course of a millisecond, I devised a different [/tt] [tt]strategy. I screamed like a woman and tried to turn and run. The reason I had always been told NOT to try to turn and run from a horse that paws at [/tt] [tt]you is that there is a good chance that it will hit you in the back of the head. Deer may not be so different from horses after all, besides being [/tt] [tt]twice as strong and 3 times as evil, because the second I turned to run, it hit me right in the back of the head and knocked me down. [/tt] [tt] [/tt] [tt] Now, when a deer paws at you and knocks you down, it does not immediately leave. I suspect it does not recognize that the danger has passed. [/tt] [tt]What they do instead is paw your back and jump up and down on you while you are laying there crying like a little girl and covering your head. [/tt] [tt] [/tt] [tt] I finally managed to crawl under the truck and the deer went away. So now I know why when people go deer hunting they bring a rifle with a [/tt] [tt]scope......to sort of even the odds!! [/tt] [tt] [/tt] [tt] All these events are true so help me God... An Educated Farmer [/tt] [tt] [/tt]

I went back and read all his posts again. It leaves me with two possible conclusions....He either IS PETA or he is one of the ones in the video

If you get one on the ground I will gladly take the meat...and FYI...you could probably make about 200-400 bucks on a rug if you didn't want it...FYI

I think we hae a similiar problem on the property we lease. A new guy moved in at the head of our entrance road.....8 coon hounds and I think he is running them on the hill. Step one for me is having a chat with him. When I get u there this weekend I will be doing a run around checking for tracks.

I think March is the bigger one, Eddie...they use both halls for that one...no great bargains that I saw

Amen...Joe. Perfectly said.

If I said I wouldn't ....I lied...lol

I really don't have a problem with the blodd on the leaves....It is part of tracking and not done in a bad way....the spurting blood I think is not in good taste. They are selling a product and it's all about money so it doesn't surprise me. I would choose not to buy a product that advertised like this if I knew about it before my purchase. The blood seems to be the problem I have here. They don't seem to be as irreverant to the game as the hillbillies in this video, though.

That is why I asked....looked almost the same but with a little more growth and curling. I had heard they didn't shed them....I don't think there is much known about these....you would have had to do a full body mount if you had bagged that one...lol...just to prove your story

since they lack th hormones to causevelvet shedding and hardening....do they keep growing...24/7/365? Awesome story WNY...

I am expecting to see..."Fletch for President" buttons any day...lol

I would have to be truthful here.....I would lower the standards I have set for myself for an oddity like that. Wouldn't be a "give'em another year to grow" if it was white...but it would get the honor of a mount with my other deer.

Where did you use those? I am wondering if each DEC region handles thing a little different because the nursery I used them on had a start date of June 1st to the start of Bow season...they were either sex but only for bucks once rubbing damage started. No requirement to turn heads in

I have to go on Saturday---who else is going that day?