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I head for heavy cover. They are pretty spooky by now and tend to the tight hemlocks where I hunt in 3A. That's where I'll be next weekend

77 was a doll. I lived in Brooklyn during that blizzard and walked from 25th avenue down 86th street to 4th avenue to get a working subway line.

I heard about Canada too & was told that our's are desendants of migrants that moved down. In Kew Gardens in Queens there were gray, black and blonde all in the same group. Watched the every day waiting for the bus.

I was talking about that this week. In the 60's we hung our deer to age for like a week, there was snow opening day and deep snow by the last weekend. In the 70's the snow let up but the carpet of leaves were 6 inches deep and like corn flakes to walk in. You hear deer 150 yards out. Now I get no snow, frost on the leaves at most and had to pack my deer with ice last year until the butcher could get to him.

"He said nipple" : Beavis & Butthead

That sux. I see on my other pieces they have hiking trails and snow mobile trails. Hope they aren't gentrifying my hunting land

I missed a 50 yard chip shot at a standing doe with a fairly good rest. No, flinch, no flagging, no back scrunch. Me & my brother walked her trail for over 100 yards, nothing went back and did it again, no hair, no blood nothing. Went back and checked the trees to see if I hit a branch or something, nothing. I have been running the shot though my head daily. I keep asking myself if I closed my eyes when I pulled the trigger. Never did it before but its the only thing I can lay it to. Last miss was in 1994 and I know I undershot that deer because I was using a borrowed post & crosshair scope & it was not sighted for the top of the post where i aimed. This one just baffles me.

Dom check Fur, Fin & Feather on the Debruce Road just outside of Livingston Manor past the Rte 17 underpass, they would know. There's a piece at Lake Waneta on Beaverkill Road that i used to hunt and then at Camp Bethlehem just down a little farther and driving to Beaverkill Campsite, make a left at the Craigie Clair Road and about half a mile down there's a church, you park there and walk in the back. Haven't hunted them in years but they were state land. I checked on the state interactive map but you have to contact regional DEC to find out if hunting is still allowed. I was interested in them for small game, used to be good gray squirrel on those pieces. But, Fur Fin & Feather will have the latest and greatest news. Or ask Pete at the Robinhood Diner, he'll know places too.

good for you, next time miss the heart, it tastes too good

you remember to take the liver?

It's fair chase, pay your money and take your chances. Frustrating at times but, I don't have a problem with the rules. Never skirted the rules and have passed on plenty of shots at does some years just waiting for a cleaner shot. Its not about the killing its all enjoying the experience. And I'm thankful in this country we are allowed to hunt.

Got 'er dun! Good job

Steve, pics are on my friend's IPod or whatever that thing is called. I'll email him at work tomorrow and see if he still has them.

Brussel Sprouts?

Stick your ramrod down the barrel and mark it for empty. Load it with a round ball and mark it again. Load it with a conical and mark it again. You never want to double-load or guess whether its got a charge in it. I read the Fedela book too, great idea. To handle the caps get a capper, brass tool yoou load with caps.

No, my brother is only 64, may have worded it confusing. Hooch was made in the late 20's for my father. He was born in 1912.

as paranoid as it sounds, to me its some anti sh*t. someone really hates hunters to do that. Thank God you got off okay.

How much can you make for personal use and still be legal. My grandmother used to make cherry brandy and in teh depression my family had a stove-top still and my grandmother would brew some hooch for my father when he went out partying. The parts and clay jugs were still around up until a few years ago.

I have hunted both ways for over 40 years. I prefer the trees, I prefer my wooden triple tree platforms over ladders. Safety, you think the trees are safer until you hear the bumble bees going by over your head. Being in the tree in a good platform allows you to see deer way out, and get set with a good rest on the railings. I just got too cocky and had a fall two years ago so the wife says no more trees. She doesn't know I took my two ladders and set them up low, about 6' up instead of 16'. Not the optimal but better visibility. Triple tree platforms also let me have a propane heater and space for a lot of comfort gear to keep me warm and fed.

I like Tickle, I think he does more sampling than distilling. The whole show is staged, last season there was a big fight with the local gov't becuase they thought it was going to be a documntary on the history of shine not a reality show.

That ain't right, their stupidity could have cost you your life. There is no reason that can justify that. I'll ask a stupid question to clear something before this goes sideways..you were on your own land?

My gun club has owned 167 acres in 3A since 1950. As I grew up there we could easily hunt 1,000 acres without question. We would wonder on their's they would wander on ours, we would do drives with other clubs and neighbors, I had one guy that would walk under my stand every season. We called him baldy, hunted without a hat and was bald as an egg. Got to where I'd see him coming and have a cup of chicken soup waiting for him. It has only been in the past call it 20 years that the new owners around us have said no trespassing. Some don't even hunt, just don't want people there. I do dilike road hunters and we chased them off but, the neighbors, never. All someone had to say is I'm a friend of so-and-so or I'm a member of and it was good to go. Times change And a funny aside to the one-off. When my brother was like 16 they did a drive with another club way in the back that was barely accessable with 4-wheelers. As they posted the drivers, each was told you are here to hunt deer, whatever else you see, you remeber you didn't see it. My brother thinks what the hell is he talking about. As he's walking he comes up on a still, Okay now I get it. Found another still hunting in East Nassau in Rennsalear Cty.

Friend had a dead one floating in his pond two years ago when the ice melted. This was in Schoharie Cty, it wasn't an adult. Called DEC, they blew it off that it was an escaped pet someone had. It was real, I saw the pics, whether it was wild or pet is debatable.

Step of the porch at 6:00 where I hunt now. I want to be in and set and quiet in my stand before 6:30 wherever I hunt. Got a frind who's in his at 4:30 a.m.

Ha! just a fluke Matt. I saw more deer opening day than I saw the last 11 years I've hunted there combined. And I didn't make meat! From what I gather, I saw all the deer in East Aurora guys in town were all complaining. I can do without the deep ravines every 100 yards though