growalot

23# 10" beard 1" spurs and he was 3ft off the end of my barrel when I shot...thus no head....I called him in using just my voice....Hoping for a bow turkey this fall...

I'm not a member of any organization ...but to that I have no problem contacting the law makers and DEC to let them know I don't want cross bows...and I'm a bow hunter....It has nothing to do with encroachment of my season...but every thing to do with the unlawful sneaky slob "hunters" out there that would take up a cross bow when they were to lazy to put in the time with a compound or traditional bow...it has to do with a DEC that doesn't want to go after the same type of slobs that shoot a box of shells two days before the opener and think they are marksmen...yet come close to shoot ppl every year...The ones that now have a fairly silent "rifle type " weapon to trespass land owners properties with...putting the owners and family at risk...and poachers..well I had guys stop in a truck infront of my house one in the truck bed that used a compound to draw down on our Wht Sannan goats...gee if he'd had A cross bow I may never have had noticed enough to chase them down..could have shot from the window...Say what you will...but there are too many of those types out there

I recieved 4...1 8X...used and 3... 8N....1 used

Talked to the insurance agent about that a month ago...when the dodge received over 9,000 worth of damage from a 3pm deer hit....Ya he said #'s were a tad higher than usual

we average 3-6 deer a year...I gut hang and skin all my own deer and do most of the butchering my self as well..Hey the guys have paying jobs and the home and properties are mine...if a middle aged woman can handle the job alone anyone can ...because I hang head down...I start with the shoulders and work my way up by the time I get to the gamble hook there is just the legs attached to the hams...I cut down the middle and do one ham at a time...it's pretty simple really ...but have a good sharpener and several good knives of differant sizes and a good meat saw

I post ...patrol and arrest...My daughter was nearly shot her first gun season on our land...I've been nearly shot 3x's ...Had a truck stop out front with a guy in the bed drawing a bow down on our wht Sannan goats...The farmer we bought from.... described what Doc says happened to him self and father...He sold us his land over his own 13kids and umpteen grand kids...Saying this to me...NEVER say yes...they are like cockroaches and next thing you know you'll have ppl asking you who the he!! you are on your own land....I had a trespasser say just that to me...before I escorted him to his car and had him arrested...I've had trespassers call me up and swear at me over the phone....Seriously how dare I the mortgage and tax payer keep them off my lands...Are you kidding? As far as restrictions...I say no ..it should be voluntary....I plot and have seen a great increase in body and rack sizes and the hunting is near elbow to elbow here....I know that the rack craze already has guys shooting and walking away...wanting to tag a little bigger...that despicable behavior would increase ..at least here ..IMO

Here at home in the hills of 8N and down at camp in Alfred 8X