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Oneida, QAD, and Rage were all manufactured in USA. Closest thing to foreign is Rage as not all components made here in USA. Also they've got knock off Hoyt target bows. Hoyt is USA. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

our camera or someone else's?

good to go. don't bump the scope and shooting a nice one.

seems like a 2.5 yr old to me. not sure what that means to you.

ECO relations are different throughout the state. you have written permission and sole hunting rights already from what you've said. you can on behalf of the landowner Post the property first. contact an ECO tell him of the written permission and situation. He can briefly meet with you and current owner. Then "in interest of diffusing any seemingly inevitable problems in the future." bring an estimate for surface damage done to your truck. plus the signed note with address. tell the ECO he can go with you or you will go without him to go talk to the individual. an ECO expressing the message that legal actions will be taken and tickets will be written if someone continues what's taken place is often all that's needed to snuff any further crap from brazen individuals. keep an open mind and don't assume someone's guilty until innocent. property deals are some of the most vested assets we make in our lives. i wouldn't let some dipstick no matter how crazy screw with me. a quarter of an acre or thousands, someone's property is their property.

from what i can see no. i mostly see the stuff on ebay.

the 2016 pictures aren't of the same deer top is different deer from bottom picture. i believe the buck in the original post pic isn't the same as at least the top 2016 picture. assuming the current picture is within the last couple weeks and not from pre-season hard antler like September it's a middle aged buck at 3.5 or 4.5 yrs old but no older. the top 2016 picture is of a 4.5 yrs old when the picture was taken.

they knock off anything without or without a patent. buy it. reverse engineer it by taking it apart. there's knock broadheads, bows, no so QAD rests, etc. you name it they've got a knock off version.

"you don't need 7 guns to kill a deer!" wait.... "you don't need multiple bullets to kill a deer!" nope hangon..... "you don't need a gun to kill a deer!".... i can never remember is that what Cuomo said?? it all sounds so similar to me. i get can never make sense of it.

i fully expect that little guy to show up in the "what's for dinner" thread! you'll plan somethin real nice i'm sure. lol congrats on the buck and doe too BTW.

last season or the one before a young hunter on the farm belly crawled up to what he thought was a huge doe the last weekend in muzzleloader season. shot it at 20 yards. walked up to it and it was a buck that shed it's antlers. from the jawbone, pedicle bases, and weight it was a smaller bodied 2.5 yr old buck. things like that can happen. no worries. he was all bothered at first and i just said it was fine and actually a story and hunt he'll always remember. we even use it as another example to the other hunters now why you should take doe earlier vs later in the season. late season for multiple reasons that button buck would be even harder to tell the difference from a doe.

i know they're not going to see it but.... i'm one for strongly advising against shooting button bucks. that said i respect him more for posting it and admitting he made an error. points or not points matters nothing it's dead and won't be for nothing. the world won't end. life moves on. congrats @chefhunter86! nice job John.

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fair enough. better consult the committee to make it official though.

i thought you were a good lawyer? that's a captive deer. says it right there in print it doesn't count. still jay is definitely the winner though. he's got a captive whitetail with spots and big antlers. totally sell that to FSW with such great genetics. yup. his days of turning tricks in a pink bunny suit are over.

dick's sporting goods has been pretty easy to avoid. i still go there to check out stuff in person and use their restroom. walmart sucks though. can't seem to break free of that one. i'm sure there are others.

look above. others have had it on tap. it's good. i might be getting some crowlers of it after work for the weekend.

moving and closing on a new home and issues had come up. work has been busy. plus i've got other life stuff going on. fortunately no deaths in the family like John so things could be worse. haven't been out yet. only one cam out. don't have anything patterned obviously. we'll see if things turn around and i can get out there.

no thing i never got into.... waterfowl hunting. eaten duck and goose. even have duck ponds and habitat enhancements on the farm. idk just more hunting gear to spend money on i guess.

i agree if you're pushing AR's it should be because you understand the need to pass yearlings in areas with little to no age structure. in that case you probably shouldn't necessarily be shooting that yearling. you have to practice what you preach. in reality most are for protecting some bucks, we all just have various preferred methods to do so within the confines of our situation. very few shoot the absolute first legal buck that presents an opportunity, whether they lower standards or not throughout the season. it's a very real situation though that many hunters feel compelled to default to the legal minimum. i fully believe that despite the the statewide plan was bastardized, it's a great start that had data and science behind it. the restrictions based on area largely came from DEC. versus making it disappear because we don't like it, maybe it should be embraced along with education to better run with the whole voluntary restriction idea. you have to give people tools and knowledge to make an educated choice. QDM co-ops work and are the future in my opinion. an important tool many rely on though is some form of antler restriction to lessen the learning curve. ARs instead of being taken for what they are as something imperfect you can at least work with are trashed. so now indirectly when someone brings up the idea of a QDM co-op it's trashed. IMO the only idea statewide ARs were pushed so hard at different times was to offset the push from the other way.

that's means there's other hunters around you that by luck, better property, or some other reason have gotten to them first. no debating the fact it does make for less opportunity than anything legal (meaning practically any buck).

while i agree high grading is a real thing and restriction based on age is a much better form of management, the later isn't practical with the general hunting public. we as a group largely can't age a buck on the hoof even with trail cam photos prior to seeing it out hunting. the concept of high grading is blown into something way worse than it would really be. i've seen results of antler restrictions being tinkered with on a very large scale for almost 2 decades now and it's not as your implying. in all honesty where ever the whitetail roams high grading is done to a degree. rarely is the case a deer makes it past 3.5 yrs old. even then the best bucks get the most pursued in each age class. only on the most strictly trophy managed property does it not happen.

i totally agree which is why we do what we do. AR's aren't a means to an end. The whole reason AR's get a bad rap is because the education is left behind. General hunting public doesn't understand why you'd do it. They just "know" it's a restriction and others "know" it'll magically produces a fully mature buck you see shot on TV. counter point to your post though biologically it doesn't mean a thing if 6 or 8 point yearling dies. the AR whether with points or spread would be tailored to the area to protect most yearling bucks which is still biologically sound. a buck with better antlers for it's age class getting whacked before it reaches it's potential is a trophy management thing not a quality deer management thing.