New York Hillbilly

This is pretty exciting! Just doing the math, at these prices my 180 acres of deer and turkey infested land is worth about 20 million. That does not even take into account the house, 3 1/2 stall garage and 14 x 32 foot deer camp, I built here. Any takers!!!!! Oh, and nobody gives a darned where you shoot around here. Also, surrounded by many thousand acres of state game lands and horse trails. I have not been following much of this post so I'm not sure what the beef is with the retired cop, but if he has a buddy let me know.

Holly jumped up Nelly.....100K for 3 acres? I'm now dying to find out what my place is worth.

Happy birthday...hope its a good one.

At the risk of whizzing off those who like this idea, I hope I can express my view as well without coming under attack. I think this youth special youth stuff is BS. Having grown up without a father in the home, it was my uncles who introduced me to hunting and fishing. The time we sent together was some of the most meaningful of my life and I looked forward to each opening day "trout season", "pike season", "bass season", wood chuck hunting, "squirrel season", "bow season for deer", "gun season for deer" and then beagles for "rabbit season". It was not only the "hunting" aspect but also the time with caring adults, their support and encouragement, the stories and laughing, the entire experience that came with the preparation for and buildup to the experience of the coming "season". Fishing since about seven years old and hunting since about age 13, I am as active and excited each year at 53 for the coming of each "season". With my own kids grown and gone, now days I have nephews to keep pumped up, and we hunt on the land I now own. I have come a long way from the little kid growing up in the middle of the city, who likely without the influence of my grandfather and uncles, would have had an entirely different life than I do. I have been an active game club member over the years, a county level sportsmen representative and introduced both kids and adults to the joy of hunting. After all this chatter, I guess I don't understand the need to carve out a few days to put young kids along with their adult "companion" in the woods for additional opportunity to take deer or turkeys. I guess I'm a bit jaded in my older years, because I see this driven as much by adults wanting to get an upper hand to take game early under the guise of doing something for "kids" than actually doing anything for young hunters. I just don't see the need for special seasons, when for me every season has always been "special", and with almost three month long deer season's in New York, there seems plenty of time and opportunity to help shape and mentor new hunters both young and old to experience hunting season as something "special" and not just a chance to shoot an animal. Peace, NYH

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1. Being proficient with your choice of weapon, which means practice, practice, practice in the off season. 2. Knowing your (and equipment) limitations and not pushing beyond them no matter how excited or tempting. 3. Lots of time afield studying your game, their ways and patterns so you can create opportunities. 4. An incredible amount of patience. 5. Enough respect for the animal you pull the trigger on or release an arrow at, to put in as much time, and your best efforts, to recover the game you shoot.

I have always used the same strategy. When I first started bow hunting almost forty years ago, I hunted from the ground. I always sat under the same apple tree next to a funnel between to hay lots. I used to pick up the apples under the tree and crush and rub them all over me, my clothes and my hat. The only down side was my hands would get all sticky which would drive me whacky and on warm days would have the flies crawling all over me. LOL! And while I never shot a deer from that stand because I was to afraid to actually shoot at one for fear I would wound it and not recover it (was shooting cedar arrows/two blade broad heads/recurve bow), I did have deer almost step on me in that stand. Exciting stuff! Today I have about 70 Acres of scrub apple and tangled up ravines that never have a hunter step foot in unless to recover a deer that has been shot, that is the central part of my land. It is the safety zone/sanctuary for the deer and I (and who ever I have with me) hunt around it. Apple trees rule!

Thanks for the heads up 7J, I'll look it up.

Welcome to the site. And after reading all the rules I've determined those VT officials sure are a funny lot! Do they really think........... "It is illegal to import or possess legally taken deer or elk, or parts of deer or elk, from states and Canadian provinces that have had Chronic Wasting Disease, or from captive hunt or farm facilities with the following exceptions: "Upper canine teeth with no tissue attached" LOL if deer start growing these I give up and hunt ducks!

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Welcome................and where in Wyoming........and why?

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Thank you for serving........be safe.........and welcome to NY in December.

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Well then there you go. Deer are not afraid of horses. But, they should be if they are Amish! LOL!

Got a 7M landowner permit, and a 7J. I need to find someplace to hunt in 7J now.

Never mind I got rid of my thoughts because ..........the whole topic makes me sad!

Now I know I'm blind.............I never saw the coyote in the last picture. No wonder I saw so few deer this year. LOL!

I must need better glasses.....lol.........looks like a red fox to me.

Whooooo hoooooo!

steve863.....i'm home sick with pneumonia (i think) and your response bout made me damn near choke to death laughing. This is cold and flu season and the first time in a year I had to miss a day due to sickness, so I got to thinking, "why is this kid home and not in school?" Maybe he has a bad fever and a little foggy on the details of his story. In any event it was an interesting read and I could picture it in my mind. Gotta like the story telling ability, true or not. LOL! Who knew Gilbertsville would be home to the next Steven King and maybe the 91 pound coyote was really Cujo. Keep the stories coming Robinson446...I like to read them and the responses to them as well. Oh and if you are home from school sick, I hope you feel better soon so you can get back to school.

Deer to me from what I can see from here.

Yeeeeeee Haaaaaaaaaa!

Congrats! Nice paint job!