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no but the Maxima BLU RZ i shooting with my 3D hunter class bow that I've also used to take deer with. they seem to work well (accurate and consistent) and are durable.

don't know how they work with the Glock barrels i've been told are different but i just ordered some seismic 185gr rounds. probably slow as a turd but hit hard. going to test them out on deer at close range this fall. 147gr self defense stuff is pretty solid though.

thought about a 365 but haven't put my hands on an xl. are they still easily concealable? i feel like the longer grip would print easier? longer slide doesn't matter.

had to do an advanced search to find this thread again. results came back from cementum annuli analysis. my 9 point buck was 4.5 yrs old.

Nowhere does Kip mention culture and hunter mindset toward taking more mature deer. Maybe rightfully so because it's not as easily quantifiable. You can pull those numbers right from our state harvest summary though. compare say WMU 4C here to some WMU's in region 8 and 9. You'll see we have the same sustained buck harvest per square mile but doe harvest out in those western NY WMU's is 4 times higher. WNY has more deer per square mile than here but shooting the same number of bucks as us. More bucks are living to older age classes and growing bigger antlers. Even "scrub" racked older bucks lead to more perceived opportunity at bigger than average deer. without QDM co-ops and voluntary antler restrictions I don't think I'd see a 3.5 year old buck, let alone every year. that's how it used to be anyway. i catch so much BS from some hunters that are part of the co-op it bothered me at first. Then they'd have a great season and you're suddenly their long lost friend that's a billionaire. Their neighbors have a great following season and theirs not so much.... back to hearing you're destroying the deer hunting again. Regs or hunter density is a drop in the bucket compared to you awesome neighbors you might not even know you have.

my cousin has land two counties over in Cumberlain county. i hunted Estill just last year NNE of there. All these counties aren't even the ones that produce bigger deer. Mindset/culture is way different there and it shows. I hunted a rugged area vs ag land but both have an age structure that pretty much blows most of this state out of the water.

awesome deer for sure. typical classic rack like you'd see on the front of a gun cabinet.

Notice it's not full. Rookie mistake if you were to fill it. They get heavy fast. Sent from my SM-G781V using Tapatalk

The federal government hasa tall stack of papers from my day job. NCIS, DHS, etc..... they all know much of my history for the past 20 yrs. I suppose I'm screwed. Haha good news is the last NICS check I did was about a few minutes. Took longer to fill out paperwork than it did to approve me. Sent from my SM-G781V using Tapatalk

Congrats on a great mature buck. Sent from my SM-G781V using Tapatalk

I'm not meaning to stall out the pissing match, but it's pretty safe to say nobody here is going to knowingly lay waste to the deer to negatively effect hunting in future seasons. Different strokes for different folks in how to go about hunting. lol Sent from my SM-G781V using Tapatalk

like dinsdale said always use a bore guide or carefully use a pull through system like Otis. good single piece coated rod is warranted too. it's hard to not get it all, when not using a brush and enough time to soak. I do use bronze brushes for some stuff but for all my rifles I use synthetic brushes and coated one piece rod from Boretech. i always use a copper solvent with synthetic brushes to see if patches are dissolving any copper fouling.

just saw this post. I've found dead fawn remains sure but can't say i've ever found just a jawbone alone. something definitely got it pretty early. @BizCT fawn by size and lack of all 6 teeth. those are the teeth you're seeing though. P3 with 3 cusps being in the front.

I'm glad Dan Ladd posted about it. Assembly committee meetings aren't published and in the open like the Senate. Now we know Englebright was a dink and intentionally axed them. For senate, Mannion sponsored crossbow bill, that's in a committee he's a part of that never made it through. i think we're past the 2-minute warning. Next year I guess. until then youth and elderly bowhunters be damned.

I'll give you the draw weight restriction. 200lb draw weight covers a lot of them but the limb tip to tip width restriction of no less than 17" is obsolete and BS. 75% or so of the available market is under that. even many of the "normal" crossbows that aren't Ravin knockoff designs have an axle to axle of 16-3/4" and that's a shorter measurement than limb tip to tip even. you can say many are available but you're restriction most of an entire industry that's only moving more in that slim width direction.

Updated supply count: corn is gone and as of right now we're down to 4 bags of roundup ready soybeans left.

IMO that's the dumbest part of the crossbow laws. makes a very large percentage of them illegal to own. the trend is moving more in that heavy poundage and slim width design too.

they won't unless you look them up on nys legislative websites and each time they're in a committee you and friends call those in the committee to keep it moving.

fawn drop is a trickle right now. best bi-product of a fast and heavy rut/breeding season is tons of fawns dropping close to the same time to where predators can only get to so many fast enough.

a lot of stuff has been a great investment. when you're really into hunting, over the years you weed through a lot of BS gear/products and keep or buy only the stuff that works. i will say that over the last 10 years my greatest leap of faith was alpaca socks and hats. holy hell do they perform like soft premium wool on steroids.

i'm practically a beer snob now with fancy beers but never turn down a busch or busch light, especially the orange hunting season cans and definitely one of those if i find a case.

208 days or so prior would put her bred in 2nd or 3rd week in October. not uncommon, just earlier estrous doe is all. by mid november your at or past peak every season give or take a week. that's why you typically notice them mid june.

the irony... they have a JD can now that has a portion of profits go back to the farming community.

Sent you a text message. If some are available we can reserve them when either of you can make it down again.

PM me your all your contact info. I think I'm going to start a list and i'll contact people for sooner for next year if this program keeps going and supply doesn't dry up.