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  1. I will stick to food plots and using my chainsaw for feed!! I never understood people who go bear hunting and sit over a pile of crap waiting for a hungry bear.

    if you ever hunted for bear with any chance of taking one you might understand..........especially if you plant food plots with more or less the same intention.

  2. I agree that dumping a pile of bait right before the season really won't increase your odds of harvesting a deer, however, before the feeding ban, we had an electronic feeder set up by the house year round and you could pretty much be guaranteed deer would show up every day like clockwork, so it can be effective if done properly.....and I add this to the discussion, if baiting were to become legal and you had a neighbor who had the time, property and means to grow an effective food plot and you did not, and you saw that having a negative impact on your deer hunting, would you have more of an inclination to bait?

  3. I'll be totally honest, although I hunt public land and think it would be a total waste to spend time and money baiting, if it was legal and I had the time and property to effectively do it, I would not be against it and would probably participate. I know many say it's not the same as food plots, and I do agree, if I only had a small amount of acreage and food plots weren't an option, why not? does it suck some of the thrill out of the hunt? maybe, but right now I feel the same about a lot of the gadgets and tactics many use.......and I'm willing to bet that many folks who are against it now, myself included, feel that way because we follow the law and know that there are way too many who are getting an unfair advantage by breaking the law.

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  4. JJB4900, I believe NY changed the law in the last couple years, as I know now it includes black powder guns as a firearm, as before a felon could legally by a muzzle loader

     

    http://www.dec.ny.gov/regs/3934.html#13355

    that's the latest from the NYS Penal law, and you need to keep in mind that the ECL and PL aren't exactly on the same page.........either way, school's may very well have their own tighter restrictions on what they allow on their grounds....the link from DEC specifically states for the "purposes of fish and wildlife law".

  5. That's the end goal Curmudgen.  But how do we do that in the field, considering all of the lead that is used by sportsman for hunting and fishing, and the increased cost to bear for the alternatives, without mandating it?  

     

    I wonder what percentage of outdoor people believe in it, much less would voluntarily pay the price to use non-lead alternatives 100% of the time in the field.  How do we implement it without addressing the concerns about it first?

    It seems that they already addressed the concerns of lead shot when it comes to waterfowl hunting, and I think the majority of waterfowl hunters are paying the higher price for effective alternatives. That being said, I also think the amount of animals that are hunted with single projectile types of ammo that are left unrecovered and become food for scavengers is a very small number...I would think if it's that big of a problem you would see a pretty high rate of lead poisoning in people who shoot and consume animals killed by that means, I would think that many of us have consumed hundreds of pounds of lead shot animals over many years with no ill effects from it....the main issue with birds is that they have crops, where there food is stored and mixed with sand or tiny gravel particles and it gets broken down before digestion, allowing the lead to be more easily absorbed, not so with mammals.

  6. seeing that silly stuff on the store shelves really doesn't grab my attention, I really don't give it much thought........I was just flipping through a hunting catalog the other day and the names they put on these products is embarrassing, sadly enough there's more than enough people willing to fork over money for it.

  7. they'll rust and fall out at some point. Not really a big deal considering all the trash that's bees left in the woods over the past few centuries,

    besides you can plan your hunt by knowing that persons entry route!!!

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    I like to add them to someones trail just for kicks...couple thrown here and there deviating from their path is always good fun.

  8. they'll rust and fall out at some point. Not really a big deal considering all the trash that's bees left in the woods over the past few centuries,

    besides you can plan your hunt by knowing that persons entry route!!!

    Sent from my SCH-S720C using Tapatalk 2

    I like to add them to someones trail just for kicks...couple thrown here and there deviating from their path is always good fun.

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  9. I don't know, sounds like a LOT of work and calling in a favor just to get $10 back. I'd give her $10 just for the effort and theatrical performance. I think it costs more than $10 to cross the GW bridge these days.

     

    Who knows if it's real or not. If someone looks like they're really in need (and not a professional beggar), I'll give them a couple bucks. If I get a bad feeling about them, I move along. I've had strangers help me out in the past when I was in a jam, I feel insincere/hypocritical not paying it forward once in a while.

    professional beggars are all over the place, they get driven out to L.I. from the city and dropped off at various shopping centers....the usual setup is the family with little kids holding up the sign asking for money.

  10. 410 and 270 would be my choice both are good for all game

    do you have any trouble finding decent steel waterfowl loads or good turkey loads for the 410?....I've always found the choices to be fairly limited.

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  11. I have done this why not If I am offending some one to bad this is fod for my table not their's,depending on temp if warm cut and put in cooler if it is below 40 I have no prob putting on car and going home.

    I guess there's a fine line between food for your family, and a dead animal strapped on top of a blood splattered car driving down a main road to be seen by all...........

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