Daveboone

I dont have a chance to chase them much anymore, but they are some of the first critters scampering around in first light. Once the sun is hitting the tree tops they like to soak up what they can. Then the last couple hrs before dark.

We had a very busy last year, selling our old house and moving in/getting established in our new (to us) home. Time is opening up now, so I am working on completing a flintlock rifle I have been building, catching up on some reloading needs, similar projects. I have to make time to get up to our camp buried in the Tug Hill to check on things...I have to hike in, so it will be at least an overnight. I want to heat the place up well to melt the snow off the roof.

When we are up to camp, any deer seen in the yard/neighbors yard are off limits. They are visitors. When I was hunting in Georgia a bunch of years ago, some of the guys there talked about using dogs (legally). They hunted huge tracks of swamp land, which was pretty much inaccessible, so dogs were allowed to move them out. Ok, I get it. But they had one hell of a lot of deer down there, with amazing bag limits. Not my game, but it is thier neighborhood so ok by me. High fence/pay hunts. Nope. Not a hunt. Its a shoot. I have no need to have an engineered freak on my wall. I will be happy with what nature intended them to be. It may take more time given the size of the area, but if you are paying, you are shooting

You be asking, so you know it is time to get it checked out. May very well be just overdid something, but if it is unusual for her, worth getting it checked.

Good luck finding it. It is cool enough if it dies overnight it should be fine. Even if gut shot...and it dies, it would likely be bloated, but that doesnt mean the quarters/etc. were ruined.

? New York has an overabundance of deer with declining hunter numbers, so the length of the season is moot. I start hunting the first week of NT muzzleloading, but dont get serious until snow is on the ground. the past few years it has been so warm early on I didnt hunt much at all...then, right before my last week of NT that I always take off, we got 3 feet of snow which effectively put an end to my hunting. I was delighted at the chance to get out with the late season in the southern tier. My problem is, I am new to the ST and am still working on access sites that are worthwhile. I dont know how any one would critique an increase in hunting opportunity.

I used to enjoy "The Last Alaskans". The first few seasons they were real sourdoughs who knew what they were doing, Really though, even they didnt live year round off the land. They had summer jobs and homes. The show only showed the fall/winter lifestyle on their trapline. they brought staples, but depended on caribou/moose for meat, and several seasons some of them didnt get a moose and ended up needing to go out for the winter. Very tough to even come close to living off the land. Granted, living above the arctic circle is the harshest environment imaginable in my line of thought. Probably the most limiting factor in the lower 48 is living within game laws. I love reading of early pioneer/ settlers in Alaska, or most anywhere. I have read quite a few times that a lot more wanna be sourdoughs and just plain old sourdoughs just disappeared over the winter, starving in thier cabin or freezing to a stump. illness, injuries, etc. with little doubt that contrary to Disney line of though, more than a few burials were inside a wolfs scat pile.

Unfortunately, zillions. All it takes is a dollar and a dream. And in the same sense, many a business man boasts of his trophys on the wall, which are only resin replicas of another buck.

It looks very active and family oriented...I particularly took notice of the monthly winter steak bakes and sportsmans flea markets!

Looking on line, actually they look to be one of the more varied clubs, with a decent rifle range. Many in this area are almost exclusively geared to shotgun sports with the rifle ranges (if there is one) minimal. I actually spend most of my time with traditional ML, and spend a lot of time with the bench with them. I am going to check them out my next w/e off.

We moved to Cortland last May. I have been trying to find a shooting club in the area without much success. I have found a few, but most seem to be very skeet and trap centered, and both of those also have a lot of shooting time restrictions due to an agreement with the Cortland Police Department for training. I can appreciate it, but at the same time, the times they have reserved are the times I would be wanting to shoot...mainly weekdays. i bench rest /sight in centerfires, but do a lot of black powder/muzzleloading (traditional cap and ball/flintlock) too...more than anything else, with some handgunning (target) work also. Can anyone make any recommendations? Oxford is a nice club I have shot black powder at, but they are an hour away...

Great season! I was able to get a big bodied 2 1/2 year old up in the NT ML opener. It was very warm with not much moving, but I hunted the oncoming cold front and caught him at about 30 yards, dropped him clean. I held off going out most of the rest of the season, having the last week of NT off...but wouldnt ya know...3 feet of snow in the week before! I got to the camp, but it really wasnt practical to get out...I would have had to drag anything back through 3 foot of light snow! Well, that is hunting, glad I put venison away early.

I didnt see one big enough...I only shoot 14 points or better.

how long do they work for? Sound like a good idea, but when they go dead...how long to charge back up?

Sure isnt any two year old. One heck of a lot of venison walking around there.