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seen deer mow down entire nests of hatchlings of ground nesting birds, also we had several fawns we raised and all would try to steal steak from your plate.

I put a Twilight model of the hindsight on a compound two years ago to try to help me focus on the sights, I shoot instinctive and usually longbow or recurve. several places I hunt I compound or crossbow would be better suited and I tried the Twilight Hindsight and fell in love with it. I found in a couple places the peep sight, veen the magnum huge one, blacked out before shooting time ended. Its impossible to torque or cant the bow and not see it with this Hindsight. I love it.

i've shot turkeys with 410s 32ga 24 ga and 28s, but mostly hunt the last 20+ years with flintlock fowlers and use a 62 cal for most, sometimes 75. I have a friend bill who has never shot a turkey on the ground and he uses a 20 ga. he flushes them before shooting, he thinks shooting a bird on the ground with a shotgun is the most unsportsmanlike thing he has ever heard of, I've been with him on several hunts and his load of 7,5s in his winchester 101 has dropped cleanly every bird he has flushed so far. I believe he got one one year with a 28 but I am not certain.

best season in 30 years for bowhunting deer in NY state, tons of deer, lots of shot opps, great weather, multiple bucks seen each day, it was the best year in decades.

ruger factory will clean it like crazy then run ruger magazines and hot ammo and it will work fine, you'll get it back and run aftermarket mags and whatever ammo and it wont be right. start where they will, serious cleaning then test fire with ruger mag and hot ammo. then see if it still jams.

what was it that comedian Doug Stanhope said about New yorkers only thinking they were tough? something like they are the biggest pussies, not tough guys, if they were really tough everytime NYC made another law about what they can eat wear or smoke and where, there'd be 60,000 people at city hall throwing batteries at bloomberg but new yorkers dont they sit and take it. LOL.

I doubt he caught that near Saranac, I am fairly positive he caught it near Saranac Lake Village in Harrietstown though. Lake Colby I would wager, that's the only place I commonly see blue perch, about 1 out of 8 or 10 in Colby are blue.

RIck I sent you a message. Bob

not all guides join NYSOGA, all the ones I know that are members of the nysoga club are very much like the old hotel guides of times past. better off finding the area you are hunting in or want to hunt in and then contacting town clerks and chamber of commerces, gunshops and wardens will also be able to tell you what guides are in that area. keep in mind that everyone is suffering from lack of snow and most trails not open to snowmachines yet with this warm weather. Id look farhter north in Vermont, they've gotten snow the last few days almost everyday and again coming through this week. "SnowShoeHareGuide" is Pete Richardson in North Troy, VT, if he doesnt have snow then no one does. lol.

Generally I shave twice a day but it doesnt look it.

if you are talking about the singel shot lever that ithaca made it is the model 49, you remember right. they turn up in the shops time to time when old coon hunters pass away, usually $100-$150 which for a single shot is a little steep in my book. they used to be everywhere for $40-$50 used right after they stopped making them in the late 70s

I have 5 within a 50 mile radius of me, maybe more, i've never been in one that had anything but gear for ODWs (one day wonders) nothing ive looked at was built for the long haul and hard use, nothing made in the usa that I could find really, lotta cheap chinese stuff that wont last heavy hard use. i do like to grab their mepps on sale though, musky killers for $4 last fall...

hmmm . sounds easier to punch them out when you run across them. if you arent willing to knock their teeth out then you dont really care is how i look at it.

I was given a tower shoot as a gift form clients and never used it, finally about 25-30 years ago they insisted I come and shoot with them, it was full of immigrants which made sense since they didnt have hunting licenses or anyway to get one, they simply went to preserves where one wasnt needed, and then for a few hours they emptied their guns at every bird thrown until the owner said he as going to call it quits if one more slug or buckshot came whistling past the tower, then it was over and we took a couple of our dogs and hunted up the strays (which we were alone doing and was fun as said before) then all teh blown apart birds were divided up and I was a hero for giving mine away, I've seen pheasant hit on the northway that looked better, and that was it. It was worse than I had imagined and I had a fear that someone was a PETA type secretly filming the whole thing the entire time I was there.

good for you, always a good idea. with teh new regs and laws its wise to get caught up anyway. traps and longline methods we used back in the 70s arent even legal now, need a refresher jsut to find out what the new kids think they discovered. lol, have fun and good luck.

should you make a trip to southern vermont in late April each year a local shop here Lost Target Shooting Supplies brings in the Hornady factory folks and others, like Lee, rcbs etc and they do a 2 day demonstration, with meals and beverages, and they show all their new stuff, sell it at a good price and any sets or gear bought the factory guys set it up for you and get you reloading right there before you leave for home with your goodies. I didnt make it last year or the year before as it was weekends I ahd guests for bowfishing and turkey hunting but the year before that I went to see the new toys, I hadnt bought a reloading tool in 40 years and wanted to see the new stuff, it was all very impressive and the folks were top notch as was the food and the shooting, Lost Target has a range right there on 90 acres with traps and handgun etc. Jim is the owner and he and his wife Barb (cant recall their last names ) treated the 30 or so men and women that showed up like family, and keep in mind Orvis and the American Museum of Flyfishing as well as Vermont COuntry Stores are right there too. I highly recommend it.

8 to 11 years is the normal cyclic rate for rabbits and hare in north america, combined with a year of poor brood survival in ground nesters like this year from the rains and you end up with a peak year for predator hunting; high pred numbers and low prey numbers makes for fantastic calling and trapping years like this one is.

we have so many dozens of knives in the kitchen alone with different degrees on the edges that a fixed angle sharpener is really limited, my wife has two wusthof sharpeners from culinary school and I use several steels to keep all the knives honed. a whetstone is best for putting edges back on butchering knives that hit bone, and a coarse and fine steel will straighten fillet edges best. the draw through type steel sticks that we use on broadheads like the lansky sharpener is great for taking off a lot of metal and fixing an edge when damaged quickly.

that's the thing to do Courtguy, I have never knocked on a door that I was not allowed to hunt, trap or fish. almost all of my deer hunting is on state land the rest of my hunting, which is 99.99% of my hunting time, is on private lands. one major thing that has changed on streams and in the woods is when I was a little kid everyone left a note on their windshield stating what direction they were headed, you pulled in and there would be a note on a truck ahead of you saying " fishing with nymphs from truck to Iron Bridge, left 9 am" and you would walk the road to the Iron Bridge and then cut in to the river., tipping your hat as you saw the fella down stream coming up. same hunting, pheasant stocking would draw lots of people and when I went ot Clarkson there were always cars parked in the state land pull offs, the notes would say " hunting the rdige from here to the pole line, hutning grouse" or " kicking brushpiles no dog, between here and boundary" and you knew where to go to either catch up to the fellas or avoid them. last week or whenever ny south ml closed there was a MA truck parked a mile from where I have a stand, I walked intot he stand and put a fella in it and as I turned to leave saw 80 yards away mvoement of orange, the MA guy hunted the field edge right up to the stand and had settled in opposite the stand for the rest of the day. If he had left a note saying that was what he was doing we could have walked up the river opposite sides and likely bumped deer to each other, and if I knew he was going to end up there I would ahve hunted another stand on the other ridge. odd how the more people there are the less communication takes place....

i wish everyone including those that baited, from a bag or a field, took the time to improve the habitat on public land, *create a brushpile, cut out invasive plants, selective cut or freed up heritage apple trees. The land would be incredibly productive with no need of plots or food piles.

good for you that was a great gift! congrats. and welcome to the sickness. lol. there are always alot of fellas around that are happy to show you the basics, sometimes a fly tying club is nearby in larger metro areas, a fly shop can help you with locating them. the one thing to keep in mind is avoid casting on your lawn if you can help it, parking lots and grass lawns tear the hell out of fly line, its much better to practice on the water if you can, or spool up a practice spool with cheap line

yep, simply stretch and dry cased as you would a mink or weasel, and many red squirrels will fit nicely on weasel boards. NAFA and FHA all have good trapper resources on how to handle pelts for higghest prices.

yep, I am not even sure where my modern guns are..lol...NY has three weeks of ML if you are willing to move around, plus regular season, that's plenty to fill 3 or 4 tags! if we had unlimited tags I'd ask for more time, but hell how many days can you stand hunting deer and be missing all the other stuff. I'm pulling for VT to pass the October ML this next year, it failed to pass this year. I would LOVE to be done with deer tags in Oct.

loss of habitat, maturing habitat and what do the states do?? increase the predators oh yippie we released lynx, oh yippie we have more marten, fisher, maybe lions coming back, hopefully wolves back soon, and we fully protect hawks owls etc, so increase the preds and allow habitat to go past ideal stages , hineysuckle filling in everywhere, combine that with loss of land and huh...not seeing the game we used to..hmmm. they do nothing for habitat, drop everything to increase preds, do nothing for land use expansion, and they are amazed hunter numbers drop. go figure. its a shame.

running cats and bunnies takes most time up, have a 62 cal smoothbore to finish, crows crows crows, then squirrel and ofcourse grouse and pheasant, bowfishing, and I have to get the reloading caught up...and somehow find time to tear up lots of slate and put in some wood floors..and fishing has to fit in there somewhere...too little time.