New York Hillbilly

lol..............good one Bubba....lol

never mind i'm moving on from this one......

I feel ill!

Yup........big difference with the hardwood. Usually 3 1/2 tons a year for me as well, to heat just under 2400 SQ FT. Pretty cheap compared to oil, but still a lot of work for the pleasure of flipping off the oil companies.

I have not purchased a gallon of oil in 5 years now. It was not only about the freaking money but about making the criminal oil companies richer. Yup how often do we hear "drill baby drill" but then see our oil being sold to the highest bidder over seas. Just like the insurance companies, the oil companies have lots of money to buy lots of time on the TV to portray themselves as our "friends", "neighbors" and about doing good. Yeh.....right! Keep puking down everyone's throats and winning them over. In the meantime we can talk to each other from our deer stands, send pictures to our computers from the darkest most remote places on earth (and off earth), yet we still need to scour the woods or carry forty pound bags of wood pellets on our backs to heat our homes. When it comes to heating our homes how is this any different than a third world country? On one hand I love my pellet stoves because it shoves it up the A$$ of the oil companies (even if only in a very small way) and on the other it infuriates me because of the grip they have over us on keeping us dependent on them. I worked on boilers and furnaces for years and can tell you getting them to burn alternative fuel is easy and is the way to go rather than making fuel for highly computerized cars. Make a cheap bio based fuel for heating and you would glut the market with oil and force them to take the next couple steps to refine it to gas to get rid of it. In effect you could knock the bottom right out from under them. Stop worrying about making bio gas for cars, just make it for heating and running industrial boilers and watch what would happen. Anyway, in the meantime I guess I'll stick with my pellet stove to stay warm and grumble about my sore back while lugging the bags into the house. Sorry about the venting!

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Tell him you plan to post your story in the editorial section of the local news paper to serve as a warning for anyone else thinking of making the same mistake.

Wicked shot! Thanks for sharing the video. Now come whack the big ones off my place. I'm thick with them.

With a boomerang!

Nice!!!!

Me and the beagles gonna do some bunny running.

Merry Christmas fellow board members!

Southern Oneida County in 7M. Bow season was seeing some pretty good movement and I passed on a couple little bucks and does. Firearm season, deer sign everywhere, too warm during the day and only moving a night. Muzzle loader season got colder with lots more movement and deer seen, but only had one weekend and two evenings to hunt. I passed several does with ML, and saw one BIG buck when he busted out of the hedgerow behind my house after the first shot my brother in law made at a target trying to site in his new ML. It was the big boy I tried to find all season up on my hill, and here he was sleeping behind my house, no doubt all season long. It figures I put about 150 hours in on stand, give or take, and this big fella watched me pass by him the entire season as I headed up the hill. LOL! Like I said before, they don't get that big being stupid. LOL! Not my best season but sure glad I made it to and through another.

My nick name for years up here has been Baldy. My neighbors from the city (great people by the way) used to crack me up when they would ask me when they came up at deer season..........."Hey Bwaldy wehz da (and a bad word said real funny but I wont write for fear of getting yelled at...LOL!) deeaz?" LOL! What accent? LOL!

Congrats on the good news of a new baby. Enjoy!

Typically I get on stand about a 1/2 hour before light till 10AM then head back to the house. I go back out for the last 2 1/2 hours. I have to so much to do around the house this time of year because of the long hours I work all year, the "honey do" list is long.

The whole story on the land owner being "protected" is not as it seems. The law protects landowners from having to pay damages by those who might sue them, but it does not stop them from being sued. I have a friend who is a landowner (as am I), and he and his elderly (now deceased) dad had to pay out tens of thousands of dollars to lawyers to represent them once, when they were sued by a hunter. It was a heart breaking situation all the way around and I will not going to details, but suffice it to say that nobody won. Did they pay out damages....."no".........did they get sued........"yes"..........is that land now posted....."yes"........and since that time being chunked off and sold as building lots never to be hunted again. For the record, I don't post my land because of "insurance". I post my land because it is my property, my backyard, and I invite those I wish to into my yard. It is a simple matter of respect that I would not cross your yard, sneak into your home, so why would you do it to me or anyone else just because our yard might be bigger than you think is appropriate. If you have some common sense, decency, and respect for others, the "law" would be irrelevant.

Nice job...........enjoyed the video. Also, that place you are hunting looks awful familiar to me but I won't say where in case I was right. I would not want to give up your honey hole. LOL! Thanks for sharing the video.

And Pygmy............if you still need a nurse.......for the record......I am a nurse practitioner..if that helps at all. Oh....and if you take Skillet up on his offer make sure you practice safe snuggling. LOL!

Other than the buck in Ithaca story I have not seen anything other than congratulations to all the successful hunters. I must have missed something along the way but that is OK by me. I like to think this site has been for the most part supportive and entertaining with lots of pats on the backs and sometimes good natured ribbing. But thats all part of the scene. The one thing that does gall me though is the deliberate name calling and mean spirit of some who seem quick to anger when others either disagree or don't subscribe to their mentality. I said before that I have killed more than my fair share of little bucks but have some nice big ones as well. I pull the trigger and fill a tag when it feels right and I know I will be happy and satisfied with the results, and as long as it is legal and fair chase who's business is it but mine? I put in a ton of time this season and passed some little guys and a lot of does but as time drew near for me to return to work I had patterned (as best you can) a group of does on my property over a few days. I also knew there was a buck hanging in the area that kept giving me the slip. After much thought and repositioning myself I was finally able to catch him slipping through a tangle of thicket making his way to a bedding area and connect with him. Big bodied buck to be sure but "just a four point rack". And guess what? I am damned proud of the effort and time I put in to get him, and he is just as much a trophy to me as some of my big ones that came much easier. I love the guys who bumble along and stumble into a big buck and immediately become big buck experts and climb on some high horse when the truth is they were just S A Lucky. Truth be told most of the big deer are shot by pure luck by some lucky schmuck! My self included.....LOL! There are a few out there bent on only shooting big racked deer and that is cool by me and I don't down them for that but they should not be shoving their philosophy down others throats or belittling others who choose to legally take a different stand. It would be interesting to meet each other at some get together sometime in the off season and get a first hand glimpse at just who is who on this board. In my beagle trial days I had a bumper sticker that sums it up.........the BS stops when the tailgate drops. Maybe sometime during the summer there can be a chance to get together, drop some of the tailgates, and find out who are the BS er's and who are the real deal. Peace! NYH

People who throw slugs shouldn't hunt in glass houses! Or something like that! LOL!

Well after not taking time all year, I saved two weeks for deer season, and boy did I put it to use. With the exception of one day to attend to business I hunted 15 of the past 16 days and man do I feel it. At 52 it is not as easy as it was so many years ago to drag myself out of bed to go sit and play in the woods day after day. Sadly! But my love for deer hunting pushes me on. It gives me down time to just think, ponder and reflect and thank God that I was able to find myself hunting one more season. I take nothing for granted anymore as life has taught me some very important lessons about what really matters to me. Anyway, I was watching a couple does today cross my fields and had a thought. It was like a light clicking on in my head! One of the reasons I saw so few deer for the hours I put in had to do with the warm weather effecting their movement during the day (past couple of days been seeing deer everyday......does), the other reason I just thought of was also weather related. I have had a light covering of snow on the ground here only two days out of my 15 in the field and I think it just makes seeing them near impossible. The does would move and as soon as they stopped would seem to disappear. My over grown fields of golden rod, multiflora rose and scrub apple hide deer as good as the darkness of night. My swamp and scrub apple orchards are brown, wet, muddy and all seem to blend together and again unless the deer are moving (and even when they are) you can't see them. I don't know where you guys are hunting but in my world of everything is brown, shades of brown, gray or black, the reason I don't see deer this year is because they just blend in without the contrast of snow on the ground. Not even the crunch...crunch...crunch...to make my heart pound and make me turn head. Just a thought! Back to work tomorrow for me. By the time next Saturday gets here I will be itching to get back out in the woods. Maybe there will be a little snow by then. Safe hunting, NYH

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Keep them WARM! LOL!

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