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We used to do a ton also. But it was driving a small woods ,creek bottoms or thickets and the watchers were just inside the NEXT woods a half mile away or so. Many times i'd set up on guys driving a woods one or two farms over,its knowing where they are running TO, NOT shooting as the run from guys.... I know guys who would walk for a couple hours through woods after woods, with guys on the outsides but no shooters till finally they would get to the last woods where the shooters were ( and all the deer from the other woods were running too ....)

Well when there are the main trees in your yard ,the value is shade ,beauty, and value in making the house more sellable. With millions of ash trees being cut and sold not to many are buying it as the glut is gaint and growing..... That and the fact they won't buy trees form yards, and that the wood should be desposed of in certin ways to stop the spread. You can save trees.Its way expensive , but so is the two college educations I'm paying out of my pocket..... They have been fighting this since 2,001, only an injection of one certin chemical is shown to work, the population increases 5,000% a year as well .

A few years back my daughter was with me pushing ditches. She pushed a nice 8 pt right to me which I dropped in an open field in full view of her. I would not trade that deer or hunt for any other . today BTW after cutting up human bodies in college she say's gutting deer is nothing !

Ha Steve, for one thing I don't have either....... But a man can dream !

want to see big ones like come to my yard some are 24 inches across...... many 15 plus. I wish i did not have them !!! When all is said and done I'm shelling out 9 k to save the ones I am. Getting a GREAT deal on the ones cut down though ! If you have them act fast,my arborer (sp ) is taking 150 calls a day, in a year or so he expects theprice to TRIPLE on removal If you can find anyone who is not booked a couple years out. I've known him for 35 years, I'm not getting the sales pitch.

I got 40 some ash trees all around my house ... Having 25 cut removed,stumps ground.Treating the rest .You can save single trees, its not cheap, some of my bigger tress are $250 -$300 a tree every 2 years for 6 years . Some of our hunting woods are in for a big change......

This is BIG and BAD news. For those that don't know Emerald Ash Borer = EAB . Right now its in two suburbs of Monroe county (Rochester). Millions of ash tres will be dead in a couple years. How many you got in your hunting spot ?? I have 40 + in my 1/2 acre yard..... Our woods will be changed for many many years .

I like Ted,did he screw up yes. Over all I can't stand any of the hunting actors on TV. Its not close to real in any form. The hunt ranches that raise deer insteed of cows....They feed them they put out minerals, let them live in peace to old age,cull the lesser ones just like cattle ranchers. The deer walk round during the day in open woods during gun season because they have next to no pressure and bucks have learned man is not to fear. They don't even take the gun off the hook unless its 5 1/2 and up. Porno's are more real then those shows. Gotta go there's 3 sexy co-eds knocking on my door.......

I have never heard of such a thing . Most safe companies BTW will replace your safe for free (sentry does) if it goes through a fire and insurance co's sometimes give discounts for safes if they meet set standards . As far as FD reponse times. FD.s have an ISO rating which looks at many things, such as times o/s but the equipment that gets on scene ( truck , engines etc.) the amount of ladders, hose and gallons per minute the pump can flow, how many men, hydrants or drafting out of a farm pond ? To name just a few. ISO ratings then effect your insurance rates

Doc. Sentry Safe is local, East Rochester, they were also the first to make fire safes and a leader today. Ok I did work there 10 years before getting on the Rochester FD for the last 20.... Look for a U.L lable. There are many differant ratings that will tell you time /temp. as well as temp. of average house fires etc. The higher ratings not only give protection for higher heat and time, but they then drop it (like falling through into the basement ) and then re-heat it. A companies own "rating" means little look for U.L. lables This should help...http://www.klsecurity.com/fire_rating_ul.htm Oh and ammo does NOT go off in fires. Unless you have a round in a chamber or something like that. You need that equal and opposite reaction and all. In his book "Gunshot Wounds" Vincent Di Maio describes various experiments where ammunition was heated in ovens. He says that .22 long rifle cartridges detonate at an average of 275F, .38 Special at 290F and 12 gauge shotgun shells at 387F. The interesting thing about these furnace experiments was that in all instances the cartridge cases ruptured, but the primers did not detonate. In fact the primers were removed from some of the ruptured cases, reloaded into other brass and fired. When cartridges are placed in a fire he confirms that the most dangerous component of a cartridge is the brass, or fragments thereof that may cause eye injury or penetrate skin, but certainly there is no evidence that a cartridge that is not in a firearm can cause a mortal wound, either by action of the bullet or the brass/primer fragments. It is important to remember however that a chambered cartridge that detonates in a fire is just as dangerous as a cartridge that is fired under normal circumstances in a firearm. To get a better understanding of the behaviour of free-standing ammunition in a fire, he conducted experiments with a propane torch. A total of 202 cartridges (handgun, centerfire rifle and shotgun cartridges) were used. If the heat was applied directly to the base of a shotgun shell the primer would detonate, the powder would ignite and the shell would rupture. Any pellets that emerged were traveling too slowly to be recorded on a chronograph. In rifle and handgun cartridges where the flame was applied to the base of the cartridge the primers always detonated but the powder only ignited in half the cases and in those instances the cases did not rupture but the gas was instead vented through the primer hole. When he heated these same handgun and rifle cartridges at the front, the powder would burn and the cases would usually rupture but with few exceptions the primers did not detonate. The velocity of expelled projectiles ranged from 58 ft/s to 123 ft/s. The only exception was the .270 cartridge where the bullet velocity was 230 ft/s. Primer velocities ranged from 180 ft/s to 830 ft/s. As a side note he says that a revolver in a fire is especially dangerous because all the cartridges can cook off and be discharged such that there is a danger from projectiles. Only the bullet that came out of the barrel will have rifling marks and the ones that came from non-aligned chambers will have shear marks on them. Obviously if there is a question about the firing of a weapon and whether it was cooked off or fired intentionally they will look for a firing-pin impression on the primer of the suspect cartridge case. References: Sciuchetti G.D. Ammunition and fire. American Rifleman 144(3): 36-38, 59-60, March 1996. Cooking-Off Cartridges. NRA Illustrated Reloading Handbook. Washington, D.C.: The National Rifle Association of America.

Heres a small but freakish mullie from Montana . Hey i had 4 days to hunt on a DIY hunt !

What WNYbuckhunter said ! I've hunted the same spot for over 20 years. What i learned or think I learned.... the best time to learn what happens in hunting season IS hunting season. I have trees that i can and have killed deer out of every year . I have 2 thick bedding areas a small 15-20 acre hardwoods and more acres of crops then I can count . I have a couple spots bucks are every year, but it took years of hunting to learn that .

I do agree money has really become a factor as of late,i also know I got on a good number of farms by knocking on doors as well . The last one wanted help bringing in the hay no big deal couple days work , still happens but you gotta bang on them doors . That said I do own 116 acres that I mostly don't hunt and have let others hunt it who just gave me a call.... I hunt the land across from mine , that owner rents my farm land . And as far as money goes. Looking at what guys spend on "hunting" trucks,atv's trail cams,scent blocker everything a few hundred bucks each and 4-5 guys gets you a nice lease, and for WAY less then buying land . Or I spent a week in prime Montana river bottoms, for around $ 1,400 bucks for everything,flight,lic. food everything ! best deer hunting around for less then the taxes in one year on my NY land....... No guide, no need the deer are everywhere. The farms are big, and they get paid for letting guys hunt them. You sign in on a book at the gate. Had 2 miles of river bottom all to ourselves !

Hum i put meat way up on the list, not on the very top but #3 or perhaps 2 depending on how one groups things . We eat healthy, my one daughter in college has me bring her ground venison on our visits ! Cooking with ground beef is gross. I take great pride in knowing I can provide my family with a years worth of heathy meat.

Don't know much about them. I do have a Beagle that is a 30 pound nose with as dog attached !! He'll find anything ! I took him to a spot i dragged a deer out to the road and he back tracked it to where the gut pile had been . 5 DAYS LATER and it had rained buckets . I found a couple for guys, bring your running shoes because it won't take long ! The trouble is those guys are real busy during hunting season,I to called once never heard back. Since I got my dog , Ive got calls at night from friends still out looking to see what I was doing the next morning ? Um you mean ' what will I will be doing on the Friday after Thanksgiving ????? Ok for the land owner I will give up my hunting thas about it .

Ha ha ha I can't wait. The farmer is really really good to me. They'er his poles and his land,put in with his equipment ! Mines just going to be 4x8, but thats way bigger then a 18x24 inch hang on and with walls and a roof !! I used to see those hunting shows and think,"thats not hunting, sitting in a small house" ! Now being older,wanting to hunt with my college student daughter who is home to hunt a week end or so. This will be ideal . See's not going to go 20 feet up a tree, she still needs to sit by me etc. So same reasons, bad weather,with kids and taking a break inside something during bow as I hunt farm land and like to stay all day.

I watch them from time to time.you don't ever learn anything , they pass deer most guys would put on the wall as their best deer ever... They hunt large private "farms". They are as real as porn films are to day to day life . Take one of those "hunters" turn them loose on NYS land and see how they do ! FWIW I do like shockey.

Ya... my wife says "if you have time to do this stuff there is a lot of things you could do around here......." Wait tell next year !!!

You bet, 2 ladders in place,one wood stand up year round,3 hang ons when we get a weather break (really hot now). Next week or two will be sinking the phone poles for my shooting shack up in the air. Next time in gun when it windy,wet,cold I'll be cooking soup and watching fields from inside !!

I do and so does some of my trees.... See if i'm leaving for lunch, hunt another spot and so on, an orange coat on a hanger far enough from the road so it can be seen but not tell its not a hunter,keeps folks out . Used to be we'd leave , come back to tracks,trucks and so forth.

Wish I learned about this years ago,makes hunting way easier.

Heres more proof from my yard. Ok maybe just old dirty clothes from the garage....

I sure have up untill last year.... The farm I hunt has been QDM for sometime but the part I hunt was never under those rules. Last year that changed for me, which is ok as i have been passing up small bucks more or less on my own for awhile. Now I have no choice. They treat me very well,i post it have it to myself etc. So yes i do as I'm told !

First bow was a Golden Eagle , shot fingers, one pin, 5 inch feathers .That worked well for close to 20 years, couple years back I got a Reflex Highlander, I shoot it at 40 yards as good as i shot old bow at 20. But all my kills with it have been from 9-20 yards.....

I've used nothing but fixed the last 12 years or so. Mangus 2 blade, now Magnus Stingers 2 blade 100 gr with bleeders . I truly feel the deer don't feel them, or as much as non cut on contacts . Since going to cut on contact fixed blades , I have yet to "track" any bow shot deer, well one and that was more of a 80 yard walk . All but one have been complete pass throughs with arrow buried 5 inches into ground . Several deer did not run at all ! Most die with in site of stand . Best thing i ever did bow wise was switch to fixed cut on contact !