Rack Attack

I have had one for three years and use it both while archery hunting as well as firearms hunting. My conclusion is that it's not magic, it's not fool proof, but if used in conjunction with good hunting practices it does help. I always play the wind the best possible, however if you have a decent deer population there is a rather good chance that a few deer will end up down wind of you at some point or another. What I have seen with this unit is that the deer are not completely oblivious to anything, but they do not blow and stomp feet and scare off the rest of the deer around you . Typically they are alert, but just move along on their way and the rest of the deer that are not down wind of you remain oblivious. Myself and my father have noticed this the entire time we have used the unit. This exact same thing was noticed by the crews of Midwest Whitetail (which don't seem to push products they don't believe in). Like I said, it's not magic but it does help.

Honestly, for 99% of the deer hunters out there a 308 Winchester will do whatever you need. Ammo can be purchased anywhere, and there is plenty of bullet selection. The rifle will handle well being a short action, and the recoil is very manageable.

You may still need to use a sharkbit type fitting to connect the pex to the copper, otherwise I believe you will need to sweet a fitting with a barb onto the copper to use the crimp connections. Witht he sharkbit fitting you can directly connect the copper to the pex.

PEX all the way, the only down side is you need to buy some tools if you want to use crimp fittings. If you don't plan on doing a lot of plumbing in the near future I would recommend sharkbite fittings (no tools required). If you plan on doing any amount of plumbing then I would go the crimp route. If you do that I would recommend the ratchet type crimp rings instead of the solid type. The solid type require a tool that looks about like a bolt cutter with different dies for each size pipe and they are hard to get into tight places.

From the looks of your pictures you have what they call a two screw super Blackhawk. One word of caution is you really should think about having that converted to a three screw. Ruger had some safety issues with the two screw models where if the hammer was down on a chamber in the cylinder that had a live round in it and the hammer was bumped it could go off. Ruger later changed that so there is a plate that covers the firing pin so that can't happen. Ruger will convert it to a three screw free of charge.

I would guess grey fox

I have several bucks still holding both antlers as of 4/4...

The fines are case by case. Four years ago I caught two guys jacking deer at night on my property. They ended up getting fined $2500 each, lost their firearm, lost their licenses for five years. It would have been nice if they lost their vehicle as well...

That is a LOT of powder for a gun only designed for black powder or black powder substitute. Blackhorn only recommends 84 grains by weight as a max charge, just be careful...

Remington 700 ML smokeless conversion 74 grains H4198 Federal 209A Ballistic extreme 275 grain smooth formed (no sabot) .060" wad Leupold 4.5-14x50 VXL W/ M1 turrets

I'm not disagreeing that the law is the law. As one other person on here said, the sunrise/sunset times change based on where you are in the state. Do each and every one of you (even the bunch on here that I'm sure still have old flip cell phones) look up the true sunrise/sunset times based on your GPS location as I do? You all keep saying how you pull your arrow at the stroke of sunset, are you 100% sure without a doubt you are using the right time? Also for any of you that have gotten out of your area code and hunted other places with the half hour before/after rule pulled your arrow at sunset, you know cause it's the safe thing to do or did you use that extra half hour cause big brother said you can? Again, I know you need to follow the laws for where you hunt (I hear, I can read (and even comprehend), I'm probably as smart or smarter than most of you (and have the paperwork to back that up). I'm not the OP, I'm not sitting here professing (bragging) that I'm breaking the law, I just think it's pretty funny how there is such a large group of people out there that blindly follow like a flock of sheep. I'm now done with this thread and probably with this board, as I can not waste my time with people that refuse to think for themselves but would rather mindlessly quote sections of a manual of what makes you an acceptable hunter without even trying to understand what those statements mean, question why they are there, or how they came to be.

Where did I ever said I don't follow the laws? Have any of you ever hunted other states with different laws and did you feel more or less safe when hunting in those states?

I'm not going to say that I agree with the OP, But I do have a question or two. For all the individuals that say the law is the law and that's it, why can't we as tax payers question the laws? Why is it okay to hunt half an hour before and after sunrise/sunset in Ohio, but illegal across an arbitrary line in western NY? Why in NY can you hunt waterfowl a half an hour before and after sunrise/sunset, but not deer? I understand safety, but is it really more or less safe one way or the other? I don't know the statistics, but are there more accidents in states that allow the half an hour before and after sunrise/sunset? I really think that it is our duty to question our officials regularly. I'm not saying to take matters into your own hands and make the rules as you go but what are the steps to change the rules? Do hunters really have input into regulations? I've hunted for 25 years and never once been asked for my input on regulations, have you? Just some thoughts...

I'm not really happy about hearing this. Cabala's products are second to none.

I don't buy that they are 100' off, 10' I can buy. I work in the engineering field and deal with civil engineers and surveyors all the time and we don't run into issues where they are off anything significant. I know I have check all of my properties (multiple properties, in multiple townships) with the surveyed lines and they are within a few feet. But hey, I guess it could happen. I just think it's pretty crazy to pay 8-14K to have a piece of land you already own surveyed to put up signs that half the bozos out there will walk right by anyway, and when they do and are caught they get a $25 trespassing ticket... But hey, that's just me.

We use a Garmin and buy the micro sd card that has all property boundaries and land owners on it. This will get you within a couple of feet, if that's not close enough then you have other issues...

Actually, as long as the person coming onto your land did not pay to use it and you did not create the thing that injured the individual with the intent to injure them you are not liable under the general obligation law in New York state. This is the same law that protects landowners that allow snowmobile trails and such on their land. Look it up.

Yeah, you have to buy another whole one, you can't just get an extension.

I have the 5' version and really like it. It's solid built and works as advertised. The only thing I don't like about the company is they wont sell the 10' extension as an add on, you need to buy another whole kit.

Do you even look at who is posting the messages? You are responding to two totally different people

Let's get something straight, I didn't move anyone else's stuff but my own. Let's work on reading comprehension folks... I'm not the original person you where responding to, I'm just stating my opinion (like you are) as well as personal experiences. And for the record, I have PLENTY of my own land that I own as well as lease.

Anyone that would put a stand within 20 feet of another hunters existing stand whether they have permission or not has got to be a total Ahole. One time I had a guy climb up one of my ladder stands and place a hang on stand 10' above it in the same tree and then not understand why I was angry! The night before opening day I just removed my ladder stand, I hope he planned on going to that stand opening morning. I also had another guy drag one of my semi permanent hunting blinds to a completely different location and set it up as his own. I just don't understand why some people think they can just do whatever they want with other peoples things...

I built two this year and plan on building a couple more this year. I made a 4x8 deck, with the blind being 4x6 outside dimensions. I prefabbed the entire blind in my shop and screwed the sides ad roof to the deck, once completed and painted I disassembled and reassembled in the field. They are 10' to the platform and the height is 6'-8". I made my own windows with 1x2 lath and plexiglass, each window is 1'x2'. I used a product called elevators to attach the legs to the deck. I used all pressure treated wood and plywood. They have carpet on the inside to deaden sound and some leftover tin on the roof on top of the plywood. I think my total cost was about $750 each, less than half of any premade one I found. If you want to move you can disassemble and move as you please.

I have had great results with the Bushnell trophy cams, the longest battery life of any camera I have ever seen and good trigger speed. You might want to check out the website trailcampro.com, they have a ton of testing they have done on most of the different brands on the market.

Wouldn't the simplest solution to building a better buck age structure and get the buck to doe ratio back to a healthy level be to just close buck season for 2 years? You could increase doe permits for these two years so anyone that is looking for venison could get all they want. With this concept all the 1.5 year old bucks would be 3.5, all the 2.5 would be 4.5 and so on. At the same time you would be reducing the doe numbers to help get the buck to doe ratio back closer to 1-2/3 instead of 1-6/7 as it currently is. Once the 2 years is up, the buck season would open as it currently is. I highly doubt that the meat hunters out there would be shooting spikes when a healthy age structure of 1.5, 2.5, 3.5, 4.5, 5.5, 6.5 year old bucks is present. I don't think you have to many hunters traveling to Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Texas, ect. to shoot 1.5 year old bucks... Why is that? Because, there are many 3.5, 4.5 and older buck available. Just my $0.02