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every Monday at work i hear it. i always tell them i tried but they run 30 mph and jump really high.

season the strap with a little season salt and more so McCormick black pepper with the peppercorn grinder built into the little shaker. then put a partial stick of Land O' Lakes sea salt and olive oil butter in a coffee mug add in some minced fresh garlic. nuke the butter and garlic just to a simmer with periodic 20-30 second intervals in the microwave. grill the strap and brush on the garlic butter while you do. keep it simple.

if i could like this more than once i would. our branch out east has it's own issues and with lots of irons in the fire, almost too many. It's awesome what Culver's group is doing. Problems we've run into in the past with recruiting new hunters is finding them or helping them find a sustainable place to hunt. Inevitably people offering to take them can only accept so many, especially when we have less deer per square mile. it's a real make or break situation when you have a new hunter looking for a place to hunt along with everyone else. it's a hard pill to shallow that easier accessed land whether private or public is over pressured and crowded. On our co-ops there's properties that complain there's no deer and then we show them harvest records for their neighbors that do more habitat work and/or have less hunters and their lost for words.

used to buy thousands of dollars worth of guns and bows from there and sister stores owned by the same guy. i now buy from what smaller shops are left. I bought a Sig P226 Elite Scorpion and Beretta PX4 Storm from Oakwood that's now a Stewart's parking lot. From that store I've bought lots of stuff, including a Savage varmint rifle and Benelli 12ga. Also, from archery shop downstairs that's the same owner i've bought a number of $2k dollar bow setups. i don't shop there now for anything due to reasons that are my own that i won't get into on here. it sucks because i loved going to the different shops because of the people that worked there. still call some friends.

he's built some up north and across the boarder into VT i just hope it won't sink any small mom and pop single location gun shops. seems to be the intent though.

He said something that did get blown out of portion and context that any Trump supporter is encouraged not to shop at his stores. The context of what he said was getting twisted from both sides. the owner Marcus whatever tried to say that he meant if you support Trumps stance and white supremacy then don't shop there, which was also quite a stretch from literal words said. bottom line is he's liberal as all hell and fell on his face a bit by saying i support the lifestyle and constitutional right kinda... or maybe not... we'll see. just like Dick's CEO Stack.

that is kind of BS though. with striper and fishing on the Hudson boating and fishing all the bigger lakes up north. Pulling business across VT boarder. All the folks running up I87 to head up north for camping or hunting during various seasons throughout the year. Not many real strong competition. Eastern Mountain Sports, LL Bean, and other stores are very small tucked into a plaza or mall and lack inventory. Bigger problem is they're crazy expensive with little for deals considered as sales. Bass Pro would absolutely destroy projected numbers with a location somewhere in the capital region. Have to have it outside the city of Albany though. Liberal a**holes there would rape Bass Pro with taxes way more than normal. Cuomo would see to it.

holy hell i loved the automated dude voice for the Cabelas Club Visa card! It was this grizzly but soft spoken old guy straight out of a truck or farm commercial voice over. Now with Bass Pro's Capital One you get Donnell from the city. Still seems like good service just not as comforting to a country farm boy like myself. i'm dumbfounded at how much that affected me.

don't think it's enough realestate. there's options though. lots of warehouse distribution centers around but off the beaten trail for companies like FedEx. They'd pull people from a big area surrounding area, not just right around Albany and the Hudson river.

as a young fresh team there's always the notion they'll learn each other better to play better, versus a team that's been together forever has no more room for improvement there. look at a lot of physically taxing sports though and youth has a endurance that only gets trumped by stupid actions causing injuries. it could go either way, really bad or really well. i'm sure they're high off the win streak though and that kind of mental momentum is only going to help. when i played in youth hockey i remember i had little ambition to race to the boards for a loose puck.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/dicks-sporting-goods-mulls-dropping-hunting-gear/ar-BBQdrUy?fbclid=IwAR1o91d9E7xyzlyCyI1KSpzAaYu63ko5mzj3k-tL_5h9EXwpG66NHOVqnx8 "Sales continue to be negatively impacted by double-digit declines in hunt and electronics," CFO Lee Belitsky said. "Specific to hunt, in addition to the strategic decisions we made regarding firearms earlier this year, the broader industry has decelerated and remains weak, as evidenced by most recent background-check data" for firearms purchases. The Pennsylvania-based retailer earlier reported a third-quarter net sales decline to $1.86 billion from $1.94 billion in the year-earlier period, with adjusted same-store sales down 3.9 percent. If they axe Field &Stream in Latham Bass Pro/Cabelas is just primed to move in. Have to be. We have the population and there's nothing else here, except a very very limited amount of mom and pop places that are basically getting stiff competition by someone who owns all the gun stores around here. Interesting to see what happens. The store is brand new so I'm thinking it's probably not on the list. Another one is Gander Outdoors or whatever the heck it is but that's in the same political pickle. If this should be in another section by all means move it. More wondering the future of the store location than making a proclamation from a soap box.

no joke if i still lived that way i could show you three spots that are driving or opening weekend perfection. also my little brother was hunting alone one day. he got into some thick stuff on the south end. he pushed an 8 pointer while trying to get through it on his hands and knees. guy shot it. shooter, buck, and brother were all within bow range and never knew it until the guy fired. brother had on an orange hat too. i saw one guy standing on the pipe line while his buddies where driving deer to him. he pointed to crossing that had to be all of 300 yards out or more saying he was watching it and another on the other side of him. didn't have the heart to tell him his skills with a 20ga probably couldn't reach that far, especially at a running deer. i could hunt that place like a pro. i often got too picky though when trying to hunt really big bucks that would only get taken across the road off the park.

another note that's awesome. i'd love to do it someday.

holy sh*t i can't go i get 15 days vacation at most! maybe i should retire early or change career. lol

this. most properties have been hacked up. people still do them. preferred method for people later in the season around here that are basically trespassing thus poaching deer. we don't really encourage it because it inevitably drives deer off our property. if a hunter has been tagless for a while or a newer hunter we've done them on the farm and other places we've had permission. the social aspect is the best part probably.

hall breech loading rifle because it sucked but planted the seed. last i checked nobody's favorite needs the projectile shoved down the muzzle.

now i'm hungry and fast food ain't going to do it for lunch.

right now i have multiple generations on both sides of my family and my wife's family different parts of NY but mostly here. state taxes and politics suck but everything else is good.

same with hills versus flat terrain. hills they're more focus on the trail and not looking around. i've had good results with cameras in day time field scan or time lapse mode during logical times of the day or during the week. you can put it farther away beyond the sensor range so they don't notice it.

don't have a lot of time to hunt so i have to do homework more so than not. i live out in the country and when i see lots of deer out on the way home from work i use the history tab to see what conditions were like. i admit i don't write them down though. not sure what the purpose of the weekly or monthly portion if for. just daily seems to load.

DEC and other resources have info on tree species preference for deer if you don't already have an idea. they can be perfect candidate for dropping or hinging depending on species to give just cover and not food, which would be better suited to give you access cover. 50 acres isn't a ton and while mature woods are wide open and don't have deer loitering for too long to bust your access, it also allows them to see you from a long ways off.

it depends on your situation. if it's all hard mast trees it'll be tough to draw them in any particular spot without natural pinch points or terrain features they'll wonder in there in no predictable manner other than where they find acorns on the ground or say white oaks over more bitter red oaks. if it's fairly mature woods though you won't have much browse which is mostly what deer eat. when you do TSI there intentionally sand bag the effort in some spots. you can open up the canopy or release trees to almost create a path of browse and heavy hard mast drops from releasing trees so that deer will prefer spots in there more than others. leave tree tops for horizontal cover to add to the browse whether for bedding or more protected travel route for the deer. then after it breaks down and you get a higher density of young saplings hinge over some that make sense to keep horizontal cover. pick spots that fall in line with winds for your fronts you've mentioned. enhance deer patterns don't try so much to change them. my opinion anyway.

numbers at 10 now for those that don't follow hockey.

i miss it. Albany has nothing for sports to route for. it makes it fun to be a sports fan being in Buffalo.

i expect John to post in this thread.