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I've mentioned we are right in the approach for the Rochester airport..Yes way out here..lots and lots of plane traffic...A few jets have been way too low for my liking over the years...anyways our Daughters DC flight came in and she had a window seat... snapped a picture of our hill and property from her window...sweet pics she e-mailed us. Now that's timing!

Used those..

Glad I held off...less chance of washing out in a quick thaw after these snow falls....March is roaring in like a lion to go out like a lamb this year...

No kidding! BTW steep is relative to the beholders eye... my road is so steep that I have come out and ask people if they needed a fire extinguisher for their smoking engine..true. Even our engines smell hot when we get out of the vehicles. Yet look at all the "flat" planted areas I show in my plot pictures. Great hunting out that way..Never hurts to look.

The right one v will come along. Now you know the reason for the price...

Lol I read that ad lease not release...trueball buckled wrist strap.

One with deer on it

Bit of wind damage...

Don't forget just a squeeze of lemon wedge.

Tossed salad, baked Cod,garden peas,Brown rice, rainbow sherbert.

3 at 1inch and above..BTW were you the one that asked if I ever proof read? It's I have seen not saw. Turned not Turner. Anyways, you make that statement believing too many others do. To that so what ?Hunting is about the experience each individual hunter gets...not what you think they should . Now this is a yearly tail chasing thread that becomes pointless real quick. I'll step out with this advise, watch that prolonged looking down your noses at others...you my become crossed eyed.

A dang good many of our buck here are 11/2 yo sporting 3 on one side and spike, 2-4 on the other..all short tight basket racks and clearly 11/2 years old in both facial and body features. When I first moved here before I started bow hunting and managing I shot Several. bodies not nearly the size of the 21/2 6-8 points here. Cam pics show the exact same thing. Again though 21/2 yo buck are not mature buck....We actually have a whole bunch of buck here as I've mentioned in the past..they have become easier to hunt than doe. Though, we are in one of those " over run zones" mother nature perhaps taking her natural course..in producing more buck fawn than doe. Could one imagine that!

You know I read a lot,gather from many sources. Certain things repeat one to another. Never said majority. Though if your putting 21/2 as a mid point between younger and older deer. Your saying younger deer do, do a substantial portion of the breeding. A 21/2 yo buck is not a mature buck.

Study after study has said the oldest and youngest fall first in winter..also studies have shown when looking at a 11/2 yo. Spike next to a 4pt the same age, everything equal in a 3-4 yr span. The spike will not come near the same potential as the 4 pt.This being in both mass and time length. BTW your not protecting the majority of 11/2 yo with a 3 (1") per at least one side..your also cutting out many on the 4 (1") to a side.That definitely isn't helping the herd. Basically the same deer will be shot as are getting shot now ,with a glaring exception..the 1 1/2 old spikes or the 21/2 old forks that will be breeding those early doe,that you mentioned. I will gladly post that study later.

That was interesting...and beautiful

I just read an articlel in the NYODN on waiting. He talks about all this waiting then a last minute monster 9 point shows and he kills it. Then goes on to say at the butchers he see' s 15, 2 1/2yr. old dinks waiting to be butchered. See where I'm going with this? First it's save the 11/2 yo. Next the 21/2 becomes the "shameful" buck to take. When is it OK to stop criticizing the personal choices a hunter makes. I'm sorry to tell you this,but no matter what you do,deer hunting will never be a team sport. That use to be the beauty in it, one on one with the game you attempt to shoot. No one elses experience,thus no one else's right to judge. Remember the shoot all the doe craze that happened 10 or so years ago? 1:1 ratios. Drury tapes come to mind. Then out came the same guys a few years later saying..opposes ,we may need to rethink this...it's about shooting the correct amount of doe. I see this as the same thing. Over thinking one aspect of a "plan " and under thinking the rest. Breeding age structure...go back and read the high lighted parts of one of my post....your never going to stop young buck from breeding doe..you are going to increase health problems in older buck by increasing rutting intensity. Chasing doe isn't just because doe aren't ready and run. But by keeping the doe moving they keep other bucks away,until forced to fight them off. Reserve depletion in buck and doe. Fights increasing, big buck can usually run off a younger buck. The brawls are between older buck. Also those 21/2 olds. Injuries infections,mortal woundings.. Where's the health in this? See while that's going on the little guys out there sowing his seed in the doe left untended anyways,according to the experts. Do you really think seeing a doe being chased ,tongue hanging out by 3, 21/2 yo. Buck is healthy? For any of them ? Lastly,yes it is hypocrisy to say "trying" a 5 yr. forced AR is better than staying the course on an education plan that has had just one hunting season in play. If you don't want to allow the alternative plan at least some time to work,yet say it's needed.

They can not use hunter safety as an excuse. The state just came out with last year being the safest on record.

" Just never know until we try" This is a perfect quote. Correct me if I'm wrong. Did they not just officially start the education plan last year? Tell me why isn't it OK to allow that for 5years to see if it actually works? How blind some to the hypocrisy in this?

So what your really saying is education is actually working,social media is also impacting the let them grow mentality. Which would have to prove AR legislation,really isn't needed.

Red clover or a climbing bean.

Chicken Marsala sandwiches on ciabbata bread with melted provolone and vegetable barley soup

I have that seeder..

Thanks...Interesting that they learned over time to eat JUST the fish heads ....

I'm on the kindle so can't link. It is called...... The wolf marine mammal evolution unfolding..... It's about the evolution of wolf behavior in Britsh Columbia. You can find it on Amazon and You Tube. Beautiful to watch and very interesting. Things that one could consider when looking at other species...change....