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Like Jennifer, having modded forums in the past I applaud the job done by the admin here. Very well done!

Jerky is not supposed to be cooked, it's supposed to be dried. Ideally it's done in a cold smoker that wouldn't get higher than 90dF or so. 2 pounds (about 1 kg) venison or beef sliced 1/8-inch (3 mm) thick 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce 2 tablespoons soy sauce 1 tablespoon kosher salt 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper 2 cloves garlic, crushed 1 cup (240 ml) bourbon or 2 cups (480 ml) red wine 1 cup (240 ml) water Marinate overnight in the refrigerator in a non-metal pan, covered. (I use a zip-lock bag) Coat with a mixture of 1/2 honey and 1/2 water and hang on a rack for 8 hours to dry. Place in a cold smoker for 12 hours.

Yep, it's your job to know where you can go and where you can't. If you don't explicitly have permission from the owner or if it's not state/fed land that allows access - they you aren't welcome. Pretty straight forward. One other common misconception by landowners is that if someone gets hurt on their property that they can be sued. wrong, Wrong, WRONG. (unless they get $ for access) (( but try and get them to believe that even with a link)) Q. Is posting required to protect landowners from liability? A. No. Whether the property is posted or not, the General Obligations Law protects landowners from liability for non-paying recreationalists on their property. Because of this protection, recreational liability lawsuits against rural landowners are uncommon. Recreational activities covered include: hunting; fishing; organized gleaning (picking); canoeing; boating; trapping; hiking; cross-country skiing; tobogganing; sledding; speleological (caving) activities; horseback riding; bicycle riding; hang gliding; motorized vehicle operation for recreation; snowmobiling; non-commercial wood cutting or gathering; and dog training. This protection does not apply in cases of willful or malicious failure to guard or warn against dangers. Q. May the owner or lessee charge for hunting, fishing, or trapping on the posted property? A. Yes, but charging for access removes the liability protection granted to the landowner by the General Obligations Law. To learn more about landowner liability see the link for Cornell University's publication "Recreational Access and Owner Liability" under Links Leaving DEC's Website in the right hand column at the top of this page."

Sacrilege! Your meat, your call, but down and out fights have started over less.

My feet freeze. Always have. There are two boots that have kept them warm. 1) Mickey Mouse Boots 2) Sorel Glaciers Are they heavy? - Yep Are they bulky? - Yep BUT, they've both kept my feet totally warm. If you don't have that issue then you're boot world is much more open. If you have trouble feet like I do, go with the Glaciers and get a spare set of liners and inserts. Edit: And I LOVE to still hunt any time I can and conditions permit.

Oh they read very well. The problem is that supporting gun ownership and self defense isn't popular with the rich liberal donation culture. I could really get on a roll with this one but I should probably refrain.

I'm not about to enter into this no-win discussion again but I did write the DEC Commish. with my thoughts on the subject. If they won't include me in their little poll I'll include him in mine. ;-)

Ouch... how bad did it bite ya?

AAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! There are flurries in the air, freekin' dirtbags are driving like there is 3' of freekin' snow on the ground and the plows went to Florida for the winter!

In theory a 12 gauge should blow through pretty much anything. I mean at 100 yards, the lead is still packing around 1700 foot pounds of energy. I think what you're seeing is two-fold, You're shooting a soft lead projectile out of a smoothbore. If you switch to a rifled barrel and a modern sabot shell I think you'll see a drastic difference. The harder (typically) projectile of most sabots will decrease the expansion and increase penetration. The rifled barrel will add stability, accuracy and distance. Both should have no trouble with a white tail but the more modern combo will be more effective at greater distances. Edit: I see you're thinking of brennekes. They are made of a harder material and will cut back on expansion but if your setup is sighted in and working then I'd say "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Just shoot within your, and the setups distance limits and you'll be fine as long as you put the shot where it needs to be.

Congrats! Yep, between the trigger pull and the plate it's all work, worth it... but work

Just get the url from photo bucket, click the "Image" icon on the tools bar and insert the url in the popup box. The image icon is the 11th from the left

Yep, farm raised. Guaranteed, special or not. Our cousin serves it this time of year. Carl Ehmer (sp?) used to have herds of Fallow and Sika (I think) at his place out by the Taconic Parkway. Dang near drove into the ditch the first time I saw them. He raised them for his restaurants and meat business.

You used the wrong kind. You've gotta make sure the packages says it's good for up to 20 pounds.

Study shows correlation between gun ownership and homicides. Since 1998, John Lott's seminal work More Guns, Less Crime has been used to show that areas with the highest gun ownership in America experience the least crime on a per capita basis.It now appears that what Lott discovered as true for the U.S.A. is true for the world as well as. Maps made by the U.N. office on Drugs and Crime (circa 2007) clearly show that where gun ownership is highest in the world, crime is lowest on a per capita basis. For example, here is the map for gun ownership: Notice the high levels of private gun ownership per 100 people in the United States versus the rest of the world. Now, here is the map for homicides: Notice the correlation between high gun ownership and lower homicide rates. This fact will be extremely important to keep in mind in March when the U.N. revisits the Arms Trade Treaty, which the Obama administration and other 2nd Amendment opponents will want us to embrace as a solution to the supposed heightened violence in America versus other countries. As these maps show, "more guns, less crime" is true internationally as well as domestically.

I saw this potential WR and just couldn't bring myself to pull the trigger......

That's a big mutha!

Well, Happy Birthday in spite of your inspection sorrows. I suspect the 2nd ticket will go away when you prove to the judge that you'd already got nailed for it earlier. Hope your hunting luck gets better too! As far as I'm concerned, no day is a good day to be in a tree but esPECIALLY not today!

I grow my own garlic too. Grown it for probably the last 20 years. Can't be anything easier to grow. This fall was screwy enough though that mine's up about 2-5" already. It's gotta be seriously confused! lol As for skinning it, I've done the microwave method too but find it easier to just smack the garlic with a bench scraper, not too hard, just a whack and the peels are off.

I meant directions to your house... Thanks for the recipe though. Ghost Pepper for a little heat?!? <just kiddin'>

lol - sounds like the same kind of stove. And those cylinders can turn cherry red and still be ok... lol - yeah we were about a mile off the road as well. The guy who owned the place previously had to plow the driveway with a bulldozer or we'd of never made it up the mountain. Orville was his name, had been the Mayor of Margretville for ever, but that's no nevermind. Sure some scary chit when they blow though. lol

Your smoking rule reminded me of something I hadn't thought of for a long time. We had a camp on the top of a mountain by Margretville that was off-grid. We had a kerosine stove for heat that worked by the oil simply dripping into two steel cylinders and burning inside the stove. They both had steel tops pressed on. The way you lit it was to open a door on the cylinders, turn on the valve, light a piece of newspaper, insert paper, close glass door and make sure the fuel caught fire and was burning. Well, we're sitting at the table (about 3 feet from the stove) playing cards and a guy lit the stove, only he didn't make sure it lit and then put another piece of lit paper in. Well, the cylinders had been accumulating fuel and suddenly caught. The smoke and stink were pretty bad. I said to an older guy sitting beside the stove in a chair: "Pop, you ever seen one of these things blow up?" He said "naw, they don't blow, but if it's going to, I'll whistle." He no sooner got the words out of his mouth and Ka-F-ING-BOOM. Well, 7 guys all tried to fit through one door at the same time. Why no one went for the other door is still a mystery. It went up with so much pressure that the press fit lids were actually blown off of the cylinders. Other than that, all was well thank heaven. Well, there were probably some pairs of underware that bit the dust but I can't say for sure. I would of loved to have seen the flame that shot into the air from the stove pipe!

As I eluded to in another thread; If you can figure out how to consistently predict either deer or women, you'll die a VERY rich man.

Not sure who you're talking to but if it's me, I don't understand your point. There are idiots everywhere. Idiots take their pets everywhere they go, idiots in the woods shoot at things they haven't clearly identified. Both sets of idiots need to be warned. The educated and intelligent members of the species already are aware of it and take the appropriate cautions and act responsibly.