New York Hillbilly

lol..................The grapes of wrath!

Sad thought!

In 1979 when I was just barely into my 20's I got blasted by the older guys I worked with for saying I thought NY should legalize gambling. As we watched factory after factory move out turning upstate into a rust belt, my thought was we should legalize gambling and build a casino on the shores of Oneida Lake. Using the Erie Canal system would literally connect the casino to the world as traffic in by boat through the Great Lakes and Hudson River. Either Syracuse or Oneida airports could bring people in by air. Rather than recycle the same money from store to store here locally we would bring in money from outside. Bad idea right? Fast forward a bunch of years and look at "Turning Stone", and where it is built. I guess somebody was listening or had the same thinking I did. But, it wasn't our leaders. In the late 1980's when I was working in a solder factory that supplied the emerging computer boom, I was vocal about how we should focus on luring silicon chip manufacturers to the area. Here again all I hear was the long list of reasons why it was a dumb idea, and would not work. Now 25 years later it is all the rage. Gambling aside, the message here is, the reason NY is in the sad shape it is in is the lack of vision from it's leaders and people. As always we are a quarter of a century behind the times! I voted yes to legalized gambling in 1979, before anyone else was even thinking about it!

I'll tell you what's going on. The guy is an a-hole for not letting the dog drive once in a while. LOL

Thumbs up!!

LOL! If you get a moment go back and read what I posted on October 10th when you asked board members for advice about hunting swamps. See if what you just posted about where you are finding the "rubs", "safe" area, buck activity, isn't almost word for word what I said. The little bushy transition areas or "intersection" you call it, is what I was describing to you. I have always found them to be hot spots. I guess you can't bow hunt the same area for 38 years, many of them almost every day of the season, without learning things even on accident. LOL! Good luck closing the deal now.

Cool bears!!! I bet that was exciting.

It would be nice if you were having a better season. But with the deer report you are giving from our area, maybe my getting screwed out of bow hunting time this year was not such a big deal after all. This was the least time I ever had to bow hunt in all my 38 seasons. Between non stop work schedule, my wife's little dog needing surgery and in no shape to make the long ride home on the weekends, my season tanked! Thank goodness I have the entire firearm season off in just a couple of weeks or I would certainly not be easy to live with for the next year. Hang in there you still have plenty of time.

"My buddy shot a nice buck in the p1$$ pouring rain last year at night." Really at night? "It aint 5-0 and you sure as h*ll aint the po-po" What the heck language is that and what is the English translation? lol

Shot, recovered and soon to be on the table........it's a trophy to be proud of. Nice job!

If it's pouring rain it does not matter how much you practiced, you let em walk. No doubt that deer chasing each other around your tree will get your heart pumping, but in the excitement mistakes get made. Too much can go wrong under the best of circumstances. Shooting deer in down pour rain is inviting disaster, heart aches, excuses and dead deer that have little hope of being recovered. If you can get ahold of the deer search people with their dogs it may be your best chance to find your deer. Good luck finding your buck.

Must be people like to keep quiet about hunting in Webster. LOL....I asked about this a little ways back. Ultimately my wife and I may end up there to be near my daughter. Sooner than later if we ever hear grandkids being on the horizon!

Way to go Geno! Nice deer!

Fifteen yards........ Now that's my idea of the Perfect hike. Lol!!! Way to go!!!

Being away from home is tough for sure. Especially this time of year for those of us with the hunting tradition. I'm only about 4 hours from my real home but it is hard at times. Had to be quite a job offer to drag you from a lovely swamp to a concrete jungle. Lol! I sure hope it was worth it. Anyway, welcome aboard and hopefully visiting this site will help fill the void. Peace

So did you "get it done" or not? Where are the pictures? Please tell me it's not yet another "stuck" and unrecovered deer.

Rome may be considered Northern Zone but it's really pretty much on the most southern portion and as such pretty much like what you would find in the southern zone. In and around Rome is some dairy farming, crop farms, Erie Canal flats, Fish Creek, Delta Lake, and small towns like Marcy, Stittville, Oriskany. North of Rome you start getting into some pretty hilly areas like Westernville, and there are big chunks of State land. That direction you will be getting closer to the Tug Hill plateau where it snows like nobody's business. Lots of deer in and around Rome. I'm not sure of the hunting pressure there anymore since the airbase closed up and all the factories moved out, but if you have access to 100 acres of private land, with a little effort you should do pretty good. Good luck! Hope this helps. Peace

Is this post for real, or are we being baited?

Welcome aboard bnola! Gotta be rough being so far away from home and all that hunting. I like the gator pic. Now hunting them has got to be a blast!

Perhaps it was a news chopper trying to get some coverage for a story on the youth hunt. Or, if it's anything like down our way small planes and choppers are frequently on the search this this time of year it seems for pot plantations.

Hey Bubba I'm with you on this one. There is some land that bordered my property that we had permission to cross but not hunt, and there was this Barney Fife type guy who was all ticked off because he was not allowed to hunt on either that or my property. Well the fool decided to intercept my cousin who was crossing a field and about to enter my land. The guy came running at my cousin screaming at the top of his lungs "hey..hey...stop...stop...I'm putting you under citizens arrest!" LOL He actually got within feet of my cousin and told him he was to "go with me", about a half mile back to the road to wait for the police. Well let's just say it's a good thing he caught my cousin on a good day or it would have ended pretty bad. Swinging from tree tops for twenty years with a chain saw strapped to your side, and able to run up a tree as fast as a squirrel, my cousin is nothing but lean muscle, sinew, and short temper. lol! My cousin just kept walking towards my land and laughed at the guy, who then tucked tail and stormed off in the other direction, whining and crying. To add insult to injury, my neighbor called me and said the guy went to his barn complaining after he tried to have the run in with my cousin, and that he told the guy he didn't want problems with me as a neighboring landowner so he told the guy go someplace else to hunt. We never saw the guy again.

Wife did a ton of research and decided on Acer. They get excellent reviews and we just bought one each for both of us for less than my MacBook Pro cost me. I'm using it right now and so far like it a lot. Even has a touch screen.

Happy Birthday!

Geez the poor guy just asked a question. LOL Why all the tough stuff at him. But while we have our thinking caps on: Hey how about soaking them cotton balls in doe urine and use your grunt call like a blow gun to shoot them out of. LOL Just don't try a snort wheeze or you might suck one into your lungs. lololol

Looks like a guy with his buck knife tried to make a mock rub that would impress who ever found it. And, hey thanks a lot Biz......you just cured me from ever eating chicken again. LOL!