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went to the range today with two rifles with newly mounted and bore sighted scopes........first one was perfect left to right but about 6 inches high........second was about 18 inches to the right and 6 inches low. There is no way I would ever go hunting with a gun that has only been bore sighted.

what's the point in decking yourself out in full camo if you're gonna wear a blaze orange hat, do the deer notice?

http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/10002.html

pen raised, hand fed...........same thing.

oh, you'll get some drainage, but they certainly will not "bleed out" once dead....I think what I said was dead things don't bleed.

the only real benefit in hanging one way or the other, is that if you hang from the back legs, the heat won't get trapped in the body cavity for as long...it will rise out and cool quicker, everything else is just opinion and personal preference.

dead things don't swell, nor do they bruise or bleed.......

you couldn't give me tickets to see that guy.

my point is, the only thing you could be charged with is hunting outside of legal hours and many people do it in some form or another, there is no charge for possessing a loaded firearm outside of legal hours....once you start pursuing game you fall into that category.

well, here comes my point........any serious turkey hunter is in the woods WELL before legal hunting hours, and has probably called to and located a Tom before as well...........technically the second you start calling and have that Tom respond to you, you've started "hunting" him, have you not? does DEC see it that way? at this point in time I think not, much like they are well aware that people set up to deer hunt before hours and leave after hours.....and you think they would make blaze orange optional in turkey season? hahaha, doubt it.

hahaha, that's right..........

do you turkey hunt?

if you're talking bore sighting and then just going hunting, bad, bad idea.........the best you can usually hope for is it getting you on paper. what does Dick's charge? if it's the cost of a box of ammo, get it done....I've burned through a lot of ammo just trying to get on paper.

so, I assume if sunset is say 5:30, YOU are certainly not sitting in your stand until that time, are you? I hope you're back at your vehicle or home with your unloaded gun safely tucked away, if you're popping out of the woods at 6:00 with a gun,which you could have unloaded at 5:55 (you prove otherwise), you were breaking the law...........do I have that right? oh, and if you're referring to that little booklet you get with your license, that is just a hunting guide, certainly not a "hunting laws handbook".......the ECL is a little thicker than that.

didn't I say watch and that 15 minutes is pushing it and that you should already be heading out by that time? you think all watches are synchronized to be exact? I'm talking 2-3 minutes of a variance......I've got 10 different clocks, watches and time pieces around my house and they probably have a variation of 5 minutes.......let me know when the law says you have to have a time piece that is perfectly synchronized with the giant clock up in DEC Headquarters.

there's probably more accidental, non hunting related shooting death's in NY every year then there is hunting related (probably more then in the last 5 years).......hunting is a pretty safe sport, I don't think we need anymore mandatory regulations.

looks like they gotta make drugs illegal too.......

that's why the lights are set in a specific sequence from the top down.......red, yellow, green. They can see the lights and when they change, the color really doesn't matter.....kinda like a person who can't read, but they know what the pictures on street signs mean.

can color blind people see blaze orange? and if not, and the law was passed, would they be exempt or unable to get a license?.......any thoughts?

ok, I'll bite....I'd give myself a little leeway with shooting times, if we took 20 watches and checked times there would probably be quite a variance in times, and I don't have a smart phone or GPS and the last time I checked they aren't required......15 minutes? that's pushing it...you should already be walking out of the woods by then......and the problem is, not the shooting times, but the fact that "Trophy Buck" has to be "bait" that's thrown out there to catch everyone.

I would honestly love to experience deer hunting with Hounds........

the tools alone are worth $30........scrap the doors and you make some money back, just a thought.

what he said.......

a famous man once said this about hunting, "Ninety percent of this game is half-mental."......... or was that baseball?

hmmm, can 10% of the hunters legally have enough tags to kill 90% of the deer?