Lawdwaz

Until it doesn’t and they girdle your tree one night........ uggh.

Your statement, "Going all the way to CO and getting tag soup would be a tough one" made me chuckle. I didn't read the start of the thread so that explains my question about your experience, my bad. Tag soup isn't the worst thing in the world as the scenery eases the pain. Take lots of pictures and good luck!

Funny........ Been on many out of state hunts, guided or DIY?

Don’t know and don’t care about the velvet but if you have young-ish trees you’d better think about wrapping them PDQ.

Although I've never camped there I've been in the campground a number of times. A couple friends have camp during the archery season there and hunt the state land for deer a number of times. I've driven buy the lake hundreds of times on Rt 287 and thought what a great spot for a campground.

Excellent!!

Sorry for your loss.......

I’m at family picnic at FIL’s assisted living home. I get a pass for this week. Legit.....

Forum member "Grampy" and his wife came to Western New York today for a visit with Wooly and to pick up one of his bear carvings. Tonight Turkeyfeathers, my wife and myself met Dave and his wife for dinner at the Ebenezer Ale House in West Seneca. We had a great meal and an even better visit. Thanks for coming in Dave!

Happy Birthday guys!!

That's too bad. To loose the love of hunting would be a difficult thing for me. I'm certainly not "driven" like I was 10-20 or thirty years ago but I enjoy my bow and gun hunting quite a bit. The rut for bow is the top of the heap but then when gun opens I love being able to use a centerfire rifle that I've hand loaded all the ammo for. I just enjoy the accuracy and nimbleness of my rifles. I'd happily take a 6pt with a rifle than a 10pt with a slug gun; UGGH. Then the late season rolls around; usually snow and colder temps make things more difficult and that's always a good time, in my opinion of course. All these things equate to deer that need to be processed. Something I enjoy at my pace, I don't want two or three hanging at the same time. Give me one, let me get it taken care of then GTFOMW, I'm back at it.

But of course....... Then Gman would have no meat other than store bought crap. Hence raising beef....

That ain't the same boat. Nothing give Gman a thrill......

Gosh Greg, at this point it seems like a moot point to even be in the woods. Might as well sell the guns & bows and raise some beef.

WTH do you mean, "6 years ago now"? So if that same scenario played out again late in November on a cold over cast snowy morning and you saw a brute boar (assumption of course) out at 175 yards through the thick brush, heading at a quartering angle towards your stand and you could see it was a BIG bear, much bigger than the one you shot six years ago, possibly a state record bear. It would pass in and out of the thickest crap on your 330 acres as it made its way closer to your stand then it stopped, with its shoulder/lung area behind a couple of the chestnut trees YOU planted then slowly turned your way, offering you nothing but a poor head-on shot. You surely had a big enough caliber/bullet combo in you leeeever gun to put this brute in the frozen ground but it just wasn't the shot you could take, ethically. It stood there for what seemed like hours but must have only been a minute or so before finally turning broadside at about 60 yards. Now what, shoot or no shoot? How's the adrenaline doing????

I saw that smile too.......LOL. Good luck to your boy Zeek. Looking forward to the pics!

How about when you killed the bear a few years ago, seems like there had to be some adrenaline coursing through your veins?

Nice gesture....... I've never been to an airshow and always wanted to. I just don't like to fight crowds and traffic I guess. Maybe someday?

OK Val, like others said, A SATURDAY BIRTHDAY!! WOOT..............what's on the agenda for the day? Happy Birthday, kid!

Change your Name on here to "Noah"..........

Looks great. Let us know how it shoots!

Easy on the fat jokes.....

Damn......if only we had a senior instructor at the Academy who had the skills to fabricate something like that with a nice sharp long taper screw. Let me check the directory..........

Here's a goose from the web.....