Mr VJP

The new Redfield Revolution scopes are great. I'd get the 2x7 power for a shotgun. Making sure the shotgun is firmly planted in your shoulder pocket when you shoot will help more than a longer eye relief. Most scope eye cases happen when shooting off a bench and the butt pad slips down on the shoulder under recoil. This allows the scope to come back at you.

Your license money goes to this dept of the DEC. Division of Fish, Wildlife and Marine Resources: Oversees hunting, fishing and trapping licenses, and monitors the quality of those resources. Manages state wildlife management areas. Oversees freshwater and tidal wetlands programs. It is part of the entire DEC, but the money paid for our licenses and fines is what they budget for this specific department of the DEC. I'm told, often they need more than they get in their budget and have to ask for more funds from the DEC. But most often those requests are denied, especially since the economy has taken a dump in the last few years.

That's true. I find I don't spend anymore for heat if I keep it at 68 all the time. When I feel a little chill, I bump it up to 70 for 2 hours in the evening at dinner and in the morning when I get up. I have forced hot air using gas and I also use some oil filled radiators in the bed rooms, which are away from the thermostat in the living room.

NY's electorate has got it's head so far up it's anal orifice, they will never ever see the light. Time to sell it all and move way out west.

I'd suggest a Kimber 84M Montana in 7mm-08. I have one and feel it is the best Whitetail rifle I've ever owned. But that's just me. ;D

Tell her to use a crossbow! ;D Seriously, take her to an archery shop and let the sales rep know what she wants to do. They'll have something she can pull back for sure.

I never change bows until mine won't shoot well for me anymore and can't be fixed. Familiarity also means confidence and dead deer. My bows last 20 years. If a pay $500 for a bow and it lasts 20 years that's only $25 a year to own it. Trouble is, when the time comes to get a new bow, an upgrade costs me $1000. :

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Ever wonder why we do not get tired of hunting, no matter how long we live or how often we hunt? It's because we have made many special memories in the past while hunting and desire to make many more. And hunting is also a skill. A skill that gives us pleasure when we get better at it. And that desire to excel at it will keep us hunting until the day we can no longer do it.

Never trust any poll numbers. You don't know for sure if the pollsters have an agenda and are not being honest. It's easy to make a poll come out the way you want it to by carefully selecting who you ask. The polls often become a self fulfilling prophecy and people assume their vote won't matter because of the polls. If you let that happen, you've been royally manipulated. If you don't like either candidate, vote for the one you dislike the least! :

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HUNTING AND RIGHTS "Hunting is often justified by claims of necessity, of wildlife population management, of tradition, and of other things, and all the claims can be valid. The simple truth is that hunting needs no justification. The United States of America, while no longer a true republic, is a pluralistic democracy in which the rights of minorities are strictly guarded. The activities of hunters do not harm non-hunters, and thus hunting is, and should be, accommodated by the non-hunting majority. Should the time come when hunting is outlawed merely because it is disliked by the majority, whoever indulges in the next-most unpopular activities had best beware. In recent years, a vocal group of "animal rightists" have claimed that animals, too, have rights and thus should not be hunted. Buffalo chips! Humans most certainly have ethical responsibilities toward animals; among them is the ethical responsibility for a clean kill when hunting. With all rights come responsibilities, to one's self if to no one else. Americans have the right to free expression with the concomitant responsibility not to perjure themselves. Americans have the right to bear arms with the attendant responsibility to use them wisely. Americans have the right to assemble and the simultaneous responsibility to keep their assembly peaceful. The inseparable joining of rights and responsibilities is obvious in all cases. Animals do not have any understanding of responsibilities, therefore they cannot have rights. The fact that "animal rightists" exist and their arguments even occasionally heeded is a reflection of the current lack of realization in the United States and western Europe that rights carry with them certain responsibilities." from: Dr. Warrren Eastland. [undated]. "Hunting: What is it?" (paper for Boone and Crockett Club). Ecology Dept. University of Northern British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada.

My NJ best deer with an big 8 point rack and 19" inside spread was estimated to be 2.5 years old by NJ Fish & Wildlife at the check in station. There was no way I was going to let that buck pass.

I know in NJ it's legal to shoot squirrels with the bow and field points while deer hunting once the squirrel season opens. If you don't harvest a deer, you can still take home a couple of squirrel for dinner. Using the wrist rocket is just less expensive than using up good arrows.

One of my favorite statements regarding this is as follows: "One does not hunt in order to kill, one kills in order to have hunted." We hunt for the thrill of the chase, and the ecstatic peace that comes with being out there trying to beat a wild animal at his own game. It's a personal test of own own ability to do what is in us instinctively. Hunters were always valued in primitive cultures. They were needed for the survival of all the people. They were respected and honored. Why do we kill rather than buy meat? For the same reason many folks grow vegetables in their back yards... for the same reason amateur musicians play music rather than buying it... for the same reason folks paint or draw pictures, rather than buying someone else's art... for the same reason many enjoy photography rather than just buying a picture book of photos... because of the pride that lies in doing it ourselves. "The desire to hunt is the modern vestige of an evolutionary trait of utmost adaptive significance to early man. Hunting is man's dominant occupation, having supported and literally shaped us for over ninety-nine percent of our existence, only very recently having been supplanted by agriculture." "Though the urge to kill has in the past been reinforced by instinct, it is tempered in modern man by reason. This gives rise to the big conflict characteristic of sport hunting: the mixture of elation and remorse, of thrill and regret. It is instinct versus intellect. Here's an analogy to illustrate the relationship in hunting between need and desire: 'If scientists come up with test-tube babies tomorrow morning there will be just as much fornicating tomorrow night as there has always been.' The need may well be gone, but the desire, in many of us, remains strong." "We have now reached the heart of the issue of the morality of hunting." "Is it morally wrong to wish to hunt for sport and to take pleasure in the occasional kill?" "The answer, it seems to me, is no. It is not morally wrong to take pleasure in killing game; nor is it morally right. It is simply not a moral issue at all, because the urge itself is an instinct, and instincts do not qualify for moral valuation, positive or negative. Thus, the urge to kill for sport is *amoral*, lying as it does outside the jurisdiction of morality." Ann Causey "On the Morality of Hunting". Environmental Ethics Vol.11 Winter 1989. pp.327-343.

I feel for guy and can understand his anger at NY and the DEC, but I think his anger is misplaced. Why hurt all hunters because NY won't let him use the crossbow? The man could get a lot done if he were to start fighting back. He should call the local news media and tell them about his plight. Maybe they would do a story on him. Start a letter writing and e-mailing campaign to his elected officials and the DEC and garner support for his case, and the case of the hundreds of other hunters like him. Work to get the law changed and he'll be doing something positive. What he is doing now is negative and won't accomplish anything. I think he'll feel a whole lot better working to correct the issue this way, than just sitting and sulking.

I'm not familiar with your situation here in NY. I don't know how they handle military stationed here. Call a local gun shop or your local PD and ask them how it's done. I hope they let you buy a rifle at least. That should be OK for you. But I know you are not even allowed to possess a handgun in NY unless you are a resident. I doubt that rule is waived for military, even though it should be,

I like it! Make sure the IR cam is looking over the scene, so you get his face real good when he sees it!

Great deal! You could always sell it, the ammo and the scope for a lot more and keep the sling and case too. The extra cash would buy some things you could use for hunting.

Welcome aboard! I share the same interests as you and have been hunting for 40 years now. I can still drag my own deer out though. But then on my land it's all down hill back to the house. ;D Where do you hunt? I'm in 4P.

Welcome aboard from 4P.

Looks like you'll have to take a drive to Virginia to get one. You can have a rifle in NY, but you can't buy one in NY.