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HI steve, last I knew they were 4G

you folks have good lives it looks like, I have many interests but my lifelong hobbies are building boats and canoes and flintlock rifles and fowlers and distilling.

enjoy your hunt!

I think it is clear the gut pile is a " pre established bait pile" and you would be in violation hunting over it. http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/wildlife_pdf/bbfeedrule.pdf " The department acknowledges that the use of bait to hunt bears is an effective technique and, though presently unnecessary, may be of value to the department for black bear management at some point in the future. However, currently in New York, hunting black bear with the aid of a pre-established bait pile is expressly prohibited by New York State Environmental Conservation Law (ECL) 11-0901. " Best to call the ECO as stated by others.

the spring rains took a high toll on the grouse chicks and first few litters of rabbits, unlike Massachusetts NY doesn't managed much land for rabbits and grouse specifially so a ton of land is simply too open for maximum rabbit and grouse numbers. in 23 years of trapping cottontails as part of the ongoing new england cottontail survey I've never trapped so few rabbits as last year, which was the low of the 10 year cycle, this year we did better but all older rabbits, the young simply didn't live with the high rain and cold, and the August flooding took an even heavier toll on cottontail, remember they have warrens that easily cave in, and they dont pick good drainage like woodchucks and marmots do when they burrow. when evaluating a piece of land for management of hare and rabbits we use a visual board meter 8 feet high painted in alternating one foot blocks of white and black, you set this up at 15 meters, in winter, and to measure suitable habitat (lineal visual obstruction) you simply stand there witht eh naked eye and mark down how much (%) of each block you can see clearly. suitable hare cover is a minimum of 90% coverage, less than 40% coverage the hare will simply not use it and grouse and rabbits will use cover that thin only for small periods of summer, to get an idea of how THICK that cover in WINTER msut be you can easily have your buddy wear hunter orange and stand 15 m away and see how much of him you can clearly see, if you can see only 10% of his entire body, its liekly good cover for establishing rabbit and hare and grouse, if you see half of him, its much too open, Habitat is the key to all population management.

@ Walt parcel 45 is very good, and the private lands on both sides of the road too, I remove squirrels from many sugarbushes under federal permit all year and can show you a few things we do to make it a one day affair, drop me a line if interested. I've never seen all that many on daketown or middle grove, desolation , etc, but there are some. I follow a recipe for reds ( $1 a peice for the fur) that a friend gave me for bat, there is ALOT more meat on a red than a bat., believe that.

yep and squirrel, grouse, pheasant, crow, hare rabbit, coon, etc etc etc. only things closed or closing are deer and bear and turkey, waterfowl winding down. Plenty critters to sling arrows at still, and FISH...in VT and MA

Orvis used to buy the squirrels, hare masks and wood ducks right in the shop, they'd skin them as you brought them in and you collected your cash upstairs in the retail shop. then Vermont made selling rabbits and hare and squirrels, and any parts of them, illegal and that was that. these days squirrel brings about $1 each at the fur market and that's more than the offer from mepps, and you don't waste any salt. lol.

yepper, we all hunted with them, including three 'yard bows that haven't seen action since '72, it was a good time had by all and three older fellas who dont have ny interest in flintlocking with us hunted 4 days each with their old crossbows, only one did not tag out but we dont measure a good day by weight in the truck so he had a ball too. I was very happy two of the fellas went this year with their old crossbows as it will likely be their last season, and they have never hunted in NY since the state allowed the mechanical compounds, this brought them back and it was good to see.

I ahve hunted and guided almost always on public lands and in 40 years of hunting I as I was telling a fella on here today, I think I can say i saw 3 or 4 other hunters ever in the woods. at the road, in a parking lot, sure, seen hunters there, Thanks to misuse of the land by tourist hunters most places are gated and closed except to walk in traffic or horses, once you are off the road I never see anyone else. obviously if you hunt a small spot of land cut by many roads and surrounded by houses and camps you will see people. with the new snow we got friday I still have not seen any human tracks but my own where I'm running steel,so far in ma, vt, ny I ahve seen three other hunters and all were in their cars on the side of the road, not seen anyone in the woods at all except for two women on hourses who were singing so loudly they wouldnt have heard me if i had called to them anyway. LOL

They look so-so. I cant really sign off on any until I taste them a buddy I hunt with in PA makes fantastic sausage but its very time consuming, the whole set up he has to control temp and humidity etc, wow. Too much for me, I'll slap the cash down and eat yours. LOL. I had a deal with a fella here in VT that made FANTASTIC jerky, and I'd drop off a couple whole deer for him each year and he'd give me jerky bags and bags of jerky throughout the year as payment for the meat, I drove in and dropped off a whole moose once and I thought he was going to have a seizure. you're gonna help with this right?!?! was all he said. LOL. I think I enjoy eating other folks well made goods much better than my own!

wow. hats off to you, there is so much involved in falconry even on the training and paperwork level that if hunters had to go through that there would be 10 in NY total...none in VT. the British School of Falconry is right up the road from me and I love to watch them when they are out there, its simply far FAR to big of a commitment for me to get beyond the " Wow, cool, I'd love that" stage. And that from me, who builds flintlocks from scratch, 2,000 hours or more in a finished gun, Falconry is so massively involved, weighing the birds, the housing of them, it makes catching the easy part! LOL> http://www.dec.ny.gov/permits/28632.html

PM sent, we can set you up no problem.

http://www.weichert.com/37834301/ I hunt adjoining land to this, decent bear and deer, small game is not great, close to Albany Air and Amtrak, I-87 and I-90 just passing it along. So you know going in the neighbors are either 1, transplanted citiots and hate hunting or 2. rednecks (takes one to know one) who hunt 365 and their chickens and hogs, cattle etc will be roaming on your lawn too, jest so you know...the real estate dude aint gonna tell you.

I dont get too excited over it, I carry a handgun in almsot every state we hunt in or run our hounds in, almost every state allows Open Carry, and in some states like Utah (which I would hardly call the easiest to get a CCW in, NH wins that vote) you can carry under a jacket or in a truck as long as you are two mechanical actions away from firing, ie, a semi with loaded clip and safety on with chamber empty is fine, I think the concealed thing is a pain, you can carry a handgun carry it however you want, like we do in VT, make it like UT with the 2 actions to fire a round and then drop the ccw bs all together, you cant get a decent shot hunting unless you ahve time to chamber one msot times anyway. the self defense angle to me is moot, in those cases the only thing a pistol is for is to fight your way to your rifle, feel threatened? carry a double barrel shotgun I bet you dont get bothered. I cant believe we are paying politicians to work on whether or not you get to make use of a Constitutional Right....I guess no one cares enough to hang them when they restrict the Rights to begin with.

fantastic year for deer, in vermont, mass and ny, never saw so many deer esp mature bucks, it was a thrill fest, so-so year for woodcock and ducks, and terrible year for grouse and gobblers and geese. moose was great once we were able to get into the NF, elk muleys and pronghorns were all too easy, those years when you fill tags faster than you can tear them off and wonder if you shoulda waited, but there is so much to hunt and fish this time of year its best to fill the tag when you can. excellent year for coyotes and fisher and bobcats too so far, not a great year for hare the numbers are way down, woods are too thin, predators are high, etc etc.. overall across the boards from snipe to moose and crows to elk it was a banner year, few low points but pretty hard not to call it fantastic.

yep, that's fine, I normally only shoot a 70 grain 2F load on even elk and moose with my 50 cals. you woouldn't hesitate to shoot a deer with a 45-70 why hold back with a 50-70 or a 50-50.. I often load one pellet in a TC hawken caplock for kids and they load powerbelts, a bullet I really dislike alhtough we've never lsot a deer with them, but is very easy for newbies to load easily, one pellet, one bullet, one cap, very easy to remember and fast and easy for anyone of any experience to load. as long as he is sighted in at 50 yards with it or whatever range his shooting will be at, and is hitting well with it have at it. and have fun!

That depends on what their training is and their background as well as how well they were versed in the safety procedures of the camp. I have never been in a military camp or hunting camp that had the same routine for clearing weapons, not one. I well remember a fella hunted with my family as a client for better than 40 years and he always cleared his winchester lever action off by himself and with the muzzle in a safe position, one day he cleared his "last round" and hit the trigger and fired it in the target backing of the sight in target. Safe place, safe muzzle control, but he was so upset at himself for hitting the trigger he packed up and went home. I remember two incidents hunting as a boy that were close calls, one was a winchester incident where I had shot a deer and ran forward to keep it in sight and looking down my hammer was back on a fresh round, that took my breath away and I never made that error again, to date anyway. another I was even younger and had dropped my first grouse and was so proud of my wingshooting I ran forward and beat the dog to the bird, laying my shotgun down, a double 20 ga. I was admiring my prize when an older brother pointed to my shotgun on the ground with a dog on it and the safety that was not on, and reminded me , " ...this is why Dad won't let you load both barrels yet.." I've never seen nor heard of any other safety issues ever come up in a camp of mine. If no safety discussion was made by the camp chief then he is to blame for all that goes wrong in camp. Period. The buck stops with the camp ramrod. If an excuse is needed to run a fella out of camp dont look for one, be a man and simply tell him he is not a good fit for your camp, or 'the camp', whatever, and thanks for coming.

winchester 165 grain power points for factory in my pre 64 model 70, tremendous power in the '06, you wnat to hold right on the shoulder with it and keep all that energy in the body, dont be holding on lungs and punching smoking fast holes through ribcages, which kills but the 30-ought-standby will anchor anything in its tracks right there if you hammer the shoulder and all that energy crashes thorugh the heart and lungs. You ever see anyone shot with a 308 they fall down but you hit them with a 30-06 and they literally are picked up and SLAMMED on the ground. One. the critters say, one, thank you, is enough.

bingo. I know three guides who offer set ups with night vision for coyotes over bait, when the snow is on you can see runs the yotes make coming from miles and MILES around to that bait. like a big food plot for deer, it pulls them from far away esp in winter months. what you would want to do is put a bait station or three up as far away from your place as you can. all three make a compost type set up off Tbar stakes and about a 4 foot diameter circle of page wire, then they pile skinned game inside the wire, carcasses from trapping, household meat scraps, roadkills, etc. all skinned first. I pre-bait my traplines and most longliners do too, that's pretty much what a bair station is, a source for them to always check on, like a squirrel feeder draws squirrels to your yard so will a never ending pile of meat draw coyotes to your place.

super photo. ncie job dog looks good

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works fine and you can carry some and dust yourself with it as needed too. people been killing game for tens of thousands of years before every hearing of all this stuff they have today to do it.

nice! I'd double your money if you want to get rid of it. LOL. scrub the bore out and butter it, and shoot away, unless you can see the inside pits from the outside they wont play much part in it.

Not sure where in NH you are but the last time I was in Cabelas in maine, a couple weeks ago, they had a couple savage 24s, be worth a call. I looked on kitterys used gun list which is hardly ever up to date, but dont see any, be worth a call as well...maybe..theyre pretty useless to deal with in my experience.