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Yeah, I'm late as well. I finished the basement and that's where I used to warm up. Funny thing is I never missed the target at such close range but don't want to risk it now. Thanks for the wake up call Geno.

Thanks bubba, believe me we're grateful for what we have and every day in the woods. I'll have to keep my eye on those tax sales too.

OK a little embarassing but my brother and I have a 20 acre plot with one small food plot and an 8x8 ground blind looking out on plot. Good for bow season and alot of turkey. Not much action during gun and hard to access if snow or ice due to steep logging road. We also have 5 acres with permission for adjoining 10. Usually keep as sanctuary till end of gun but this year we might hunt earlier. I use a pop-up on this land but I'll build a box once I figure out where I want it. Maybe a food plot with it. Also have two clubs with 300 acres and 150 acres believe it or not with very little pressure because most guys have their own spots and are very generous with invites which has gotten us on 2,000 acre,115 acre and 50 acre properties. Funny thing is we had more action on the 50 acre parcel. We just picked up a camp with almost two acres adjoining woods that should be good due to apple trees and trails and tracks I have seen.

Good luck and safe trip.

7 As an alternate if you build a ground blind whether pop up or just brush in a spot to hide the deer will get used to it. Just be careful with scent which I assume you are already. Even a small box blind will blend in after a few weeks to the deer. I would not trust that tree. Good luck.

I could def vote for Bachman. The only good thing is that the Repubs didn't let Obama cause a gov't shut down so this downgrade could be blamed on us. Obama got what he wanted and it hurt our country. You could almost say we are being fundamentally transformed.

I thought the old saying was "You can't eat the horns".lol

OK I booked two afternoon hunts with the option for a third if I need it. I will post feedback regarding the outfitter after the hunt.

He is in a wheelchair now, must have been an old show. I saw one similar where he hunted a beach in Canada and eventually shot a griz that he snuck up on. I mean he shot it with his bow.

I hate to be "that guy", but why are the guns facing downrange while someone is down range? We usualy rack em before going down range. BTW glad I got the 870 in 20 ga. I use the 2 3/4 buckhammers and love em. I used to have a 12ga single shot that was light and kicked like a mule, hence the move to 20 ga

Dave, I know it sucks but try to look at it's $40.00 per year. There are so many people trying to take this right away from us I wouldn't volunteer to give it up. BTW that's where mine is too and I had to pony up last December myself.

What doesn't make sense is having early seasons only for those who didn't fill last year's tag like early bear and NZ archery before Oct. 1. Plus you have to carry last year's lic to small game up to Oct 1.

Now I know why the DEC changed thier policy; all the bucks are at skyhunter's.lol

PS Most guys use a tree stand or ground blind.

Newbee, just a few basics; you need camo and more important is scent control. Wash clothing and self in hunter non scent soaps and use a cover scent. I like earth scent but there are many to pick from. Some claim to just eliminate our smell while others conceal it with a natural smell like apple, pine, earth. Some guys use a cover scent on their boots, most just wear rubber scent eliminator or blocker boots except during the rut when some use doe in heat pee to try to lure bucks to follow their trail. Then you have calls. Doe bleats, buck grunts and rattling antlers. The last two are also for the rut usually. Most of bow season takes place before the rut so you will want to make sure you don't jump the gun. Most important is find where the deer are by locating feeding areas. this will probably be your best shot. Even during the rut if does come in to feed they will draw in bucks. When you find a feeding area which alot of us try to create with food plots. You can't bait deer in NY but you can grow stuff they might want to eat. I guess you'll be hunting public land to start with but if you find places near farms or apple orchards you will probably see more deer. Find the trails they are using which will be obvious from trampled grass and droppings and tracks. Droppings should be fresh or they may have moved on. Last my best advice is to join a club with their own land to hunt on. Sometimes it's better to travel away from your location so close to the city where you'll find larger tracts of land and lower dues. Other clubs are local but own land further up where they hunt. If you hurry on this last suggestion you can be in for this season. Good luck.

congrats. good luck

Sounds like a good deal. If I wasn't going broke fixing my foreclosure camp I might even be interested. Insert pic of me holding out my empty pockets. lol Would be even cheaper if it was shared with bowhunters and gun hunters.

I saw Steve Wynn on TV and couldn't agree more but it is so much worse than this. As Bernie Marcus alluded to in his remark that 2,000 pages of law turn into 150,000 pages of regulations, this is the real danger. Laws are not honest and straightfoward as they should be. Instead the law creates a bureaucracy that makes law up as it goes along by unelected people with no vote by congress. So the only control is the now dictator president who can replace his minions if they don't function as he desires. Also, look at the waivers to his healthcare law that was such a great accomplishment. If it's so great why does anyone need a waiver. When we used to have different laws for blacks or women it was an abomination of a free country yet here we go again. If you have friends in high places you get a waiver but if not you have to follow the dictator's rules.

Looks great.

Good luck.

I can accept it if we are not going to be a super power but I would still like to live by our constitution as a second or third rate power. If you can't see the collaboration of most of the media with this administration starting with the primary process and right through to present, you're either not looking or not being informed by the lame stream media. Laws that couldn't be passed turning into executive orders. The extent to which radicals were in this administration;Van Jones and Anita Dunn plus the ones who are still in it. I honestly don't want to start a peeing contest with you but there are two many incidents to be a coincidence; stop drilling here but go to Brazil and give two billion of our money to the new socialist president there and allow them to drill in our gulf.??? Telling us that we are recovering when clearly we are not. Whether we are a second rate power or not, I would still like us to be able to work and eat. Obama is too arrogant to admit his policies are not working and change them. I would give him more credit if he was honest instead of stone walling us. Jobs numbers and unemployment numbers reveal trouble and he blames the debt cieling crisis? Come on whether he inhiereted this from Bush or not we have been declining since he took office and he won't rec ognize that and deal with it. Obama sent his minions out to tell us we were in the summer of recovery last summer. Really? And he tried it last month until the numbers were just too horrible to even attempt this big enough lie theory, so now he blames the repubs? Almost three years of tanking during which Obama said we were recovering then numbers so bad it must be our fault but the soloution is more spending and borrowing. Seriously?

Yeah, Fox News is the problem. Other than that we're doing fine. If we would just watch the networks the president told us to and stop believing our lying eyes.

The sad truth is T. Boone Pickens had a plan to replace gasoline with natural gas which is not only plentiful and an easy conversion but we in NYS are lousy with it. So not only would it create jobs here and nationwide but would lower the cost of driving. He supported Obama because he thought he was behind his plans to do this and build windmills but apparently Obama wants us to get our comeuppance rather than help our country succeed. These two issues plus increasing coal fired electric generating would help us out in our time of need. Embracing nnew technology is fine but letting 300 million twist in the wind at the mercy of the Saudis while we wait for something that hasn't been discovered is more than crazy. It's vindictive and intentionally hurting us.

Anyone have any info on this outfitter in Monck Corner SC. He offers hog and deer hunting. He offers half day hunts for $75 per hunt.

If those are the ranges maybe I'll take my Savage 300 win mag. When I spoke to the outfitter I thought it was 100 yds or less over a food plot but if I might have 200 yd potential I'll def take the bigger gun. Thanks for the info, I'll still be talking with the guide so I'll know what to expect. See if you can find your pics I'm sure we'd all love to see them. BTW how hard was bringing back the meat? Did you have them butcher and ship or just drive it home in a cooler or coolers?