First-light

It traveled from South Dakota, go figure. Had to pass through NYS so they do exist in the wild. http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/27/officials-mountain-lion-traveled-from-south-dakota-to-connecticut/?&hpt=hp_c2

Talk about clowns, it had to be 20 years ago I was on private property and along came two local guys. My BIL tells me they have permission and won't bother us, they entered the woods with no orange visible wearing brown Carhartts!!

Basically what you think happened in that accident is true. I won't comment on the other things, enough hurt.

I have heard a whole different story from people from that neighborhood then what this guy is saying.

You have to remember to always put safety first. This is hard sometimes "in the moment" quick and clear thinking must prevail. I know of one person who shot himself in the foot. I think age and maturity makes you slow down and think about what type of situation you will be in. I'm with you on the paranoid side. You want to believe your in a safe situation but the fact is anything can happen at any time, be prepared.

Glad she is fine.

We have had them for the last two years. That little sucker is getting around.

Alpha doe, real nice looking.

Don't miss that commute, did it for 38 years by train and car. To Manhattan, Bronx, Queens, and Westchester.Dave I can't wait till the day I'm siting on the porch of my cabin thinking I don't have to do it any more.

So it looks like most of us will continue as we were in bow season. I just want to put out a scenario and you guys tell me what you think. Your a member of a hunting club and for the most part only 50% of the hunters hunt during bow season. DEC lets the use of the crossbow in bow season and now you have another 15% of the guys getting out. We know how a seasoned bowhunter acts in the woods, well now you have these guys in the woods at the same time you bow hunt. A couple of guys shoot decent bucks with the crossbow. How are you going to react? ??? ?

I think it was 150 in NYC today. OMG it was the worst ever. My train only managed to be 30 minutes late, not bad!!!! lol

Funny! They go in the barn! Thanks guys, I'll post more picts when done.

Well I pulled the trigger on the addition I wanted to put on the cabin. Adding a 14x18 room with a full basement. It will also have a back porch. Staircase to the basement will be inside the room. Using the same guys who built the cabin 4 years ago, they did a great job! They tell me the foundation will be done next week and they will come back and finish the structure in Sept. When they built the cabin a Mennonite crew did all the construction, don't know if they will be using them again.

My first place I ever owned was in the Catskills. Before buying the place we used to hunt state land in Roscoe on Morton Hill road. It's a huge track of 15,000 acres we camped near Campell brook trail.. Camping is great and we always had a wonderful time. The deer hunting isn't the best but I haven't been there in a long time so maybe it got better? This is camping only, maybe your looking for a cabin to rent? Good luck.

When I bought my property there were 3 nice shooting boxes on it. Each piece of lumber was marked so they knew where it went during assembly out in the field. Each box also had a big funnel with a lid that drained to a buried 5 gal bucket.

That thing is a monster!

I been running 3 miles a day for years now. Its a good distance for me and keeps me in good shape. Since that episode with the cholesterol medicine I'm trying to lower my Triglycerides naturally. Doc has me on a low carb diet. lost 18lbs so far in about month and a half. Don't mind the diet and I still get to drink lite beer on the weekends! It works. keep it up Eddie!

So let's just say the DEC will let you use the crossbow during the traditional bow season. There is a wide range of bowhunters out there. Those that shoot very often to guys who just pick up the bow 3 weeks before season and shoot a hundred arrows and off we go. For those hunters that are not so serious about using a compound bow my question is, will you be switching to a crossbow when DEC makes it legal in NY? This isn't a put-down, I think anyone who goes out with a bow (who practices) is serious but some may want to switch over. Thoughts??? I am a serious bow hunter but limited to the time I get to camp it's usually two 4 day weekends for me, right now my feeling is to stick with the compound bow, I also don't have the bucks to blow on a crossbow. :'(

Van full of Mennonites crashed head-on into the tractor. A car tried to pass the tractor on a curve and the van avoided the car but hit the tractor. Prayers go out to them.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/07/19/new.york.tractor.accident/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

So are you telling us that you don't wear Scentlok garments like T-Bone on the other thread?? Too expensive for me. BTW never said I was against shooting does, just pointed out a scenario where you might want to think twice. That probably went right over your head. ;D We're just playing with you, Burt! We've never known you to take things as seriously as some others here. I know Steve. Doe, I do tend to screw up the shot more often with the bow. Odds are in your favor!!

So are you telling us that you don't wear Scentlok garments like T-Bone on the other thread?? Too expensive for me. BTW never said I was against shooting does, just pointed out a scenario where you might want to think twice. That probably went right over your head. ;D

So go hunt the coyotes and bears, dont just sit around and piss and moan they are there. If you dont understand what your area's carrying apacity is, and you dont shoot does, you are hurting your herd. BTW, by "your area's carrying capacity", I dont mean your property, I mean the whole area that the herd covers. Exactly what I meant. The whole area. You can look at some threads here about yotes and people really complain about the destruction on the deer herd. One way to solve it is not to shoot too many does. Not true for the whole state just your area. I don't piss and moan about the yotes, my area has a lot of them but we also have a lot of deer. Steve and Doe better not be down wind of me after a night of beans and franks, that will kill'em without even shooting. ;D

We all piss and moan about the number of yotes everyone is seeing these days and don't forget the bears. Best way to keep the herd strong when there is a lot of predation is more fawns. Shoot less does. I also don't like shooting does at bow season, never know who might be following her to your stand.

Yea nothing like tenderloin steaks, they are the best. We are getting down to the last third of three deer from last year. BTW what the hell is that round thing above the steaks? lol