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Scouting out your next adventure! We're giving away FREE TRAIL CAMERAS! All you have to do is come see us at the Washington County Fair to fill out a ticket with your guess at our shed antler riddle. The fair is running from TODAY through August 29th. We're located in the log cabin, southeast of the grandstands. We'll be drawing winners for Wildgame Innovations Shadow Micro18 cameras at random throughout the week.

Update: still many tickets available. Message me. Thanks to those who've already bought some. Best of luck.

Years ago we drove a wood lot on the farm to get my cousin his first deer. I had a stand with location on that ridge that's been fine tuned over the years. Walked him through gun safety stuff because I got up in stand and put him below on the ground so I could coach him and tell him when deer were coming. Had something like 22 deer run down the trail right under the stand. He froze and then thought he was going to get run over. He ended up hiding behind the tree! That day a running shot at 5 yards was too hard apparently! Haha Sent from my SM-G781V using Tapatalk

I agree the most influence to grow big antlers is age, nutrition, and genetics in that order. Somewhere towards the top and maybe part of those 3 is stress. Also assuming bucks on a property have equal potential when it comes to age and nutrition, no sense in not letting good genetics walk to so what they can do. Most hunters will power sucks. Sent from my SM-G781V using Tapatalk

this is long and dead topic but Culver had it right months ago. it's just the threaded ring for sunshade. some scopes of same manufacturer share the same scope bodies but one has more features than the next. tighted up by hand like luberhill did and he should've been or should still be good. no change in POI.

what's crazy is MSU deer lab did a study to see if you could buy a bunch of Four Seasons freakishly big whitetails and release them into the wild to grow big bucks in the free range herd. even did a simulation so show (if you if could ever afford it) to replace 50% of the buck herd with these deer. it gave you an average increase of 12 inches in antlers after 10 years but imagine the cost of buying say 1,000 of these farmed deer?! hahaha... it's crazy to think how much negligible stress and optimum year round nutrition and age can allow genetics to express their full potential when inside a fence. in a free range herd they've even said it takes multiple years/generations of quality food for for genetic expression. not something you'd want to do but I wonder what would happen if you fed them mediocre food typical to what a free range deer would see. I bet they'd still be massive but nothing close to what they would be otherwise.

you and your grateful keys. mine should be on my doorstep waiting. i'll break it in tonight.

not a huge fan of wheat beer but allagash white isn't a bad one.

i'd bite on the Sako but don't have any room left in the safe and there's overflow for that matter. my next i've told myself will be a hand cannon to really reach out there. savage doesn't fill any use i don't have a gun for already. they shoot lights out though. nice rifles that'll make someone happy.

damn reveal x was new for 2021. lol i don't think i'd want to send video so there no disappoint there. i don't really use video much at all either.

same as Culver's raffle in WNY, 40% of our net profit from this will stay local. some examples already for this year are as follows: support local Field to Fork program (Culver and I have a conference call to get it plugged in the NY Outdoor News) we're writing a 4 figure check to the local Capital District Sportsman group that has grand plans of getting multiple conservation groups together working as one and heavily involved in youth outdoor education and events. another large check goes every year to NY 4H youth shooting sports program. support to local communities efforts at doing QDM with organized cooperatives providing them educational posters tools, and resources for harvest check stations and data collection like jawbone aging (and CA from a lab) lobbying - we've been working with local, county, and state officials to push for changing hunting hours to allow for 30mins before and after sunset, as well as lowering youth junior hunter age for big game (deer) from 14 to 12 yrs old (reason this area were some of the first counties to adopt the law/pilot program). wasn't even on the radar here do you high demand vs supply, but we ran a food plot seed program again to get food plot seed out to people at an 80% discount. scholarship went out to a graduating HS student pursuing a career related to the outdoors or conservation (we do this every year). ....i'm sure there's more but that some of it.

these are the same model gun but in 22LR and 17HMR https://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-for-sale-online/rifles/steyr-rifles/steyr-arms---zephyr-ii-stm-kk----22-lr.cfm?gun_id=101321158 https://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-for-sale-online/rifles/steyr-rifles/steyr-arms-mannlicher-sm-kk-zephyr-ii-17hmr-bolt-action-repeater-austria.cfm?gun_id=101705778

the Steyr 22mag isn't easy to come by not much comes up for a google search either. supposedly a really nice "don't make them like they used to" kind of gun. the shop owner even personally owns one. you'd be a shoe-in for winning it so maybe grampy or john will now. hahaha

the person who would be capping my heads that's with me is my cousin. that's what he said to use and after him walking me through a couple it makes sense. he changes blades more than I felt was probably necessary but it seemed to work well and he does it. I've only done a few with assistance.

Already planning on packing everything in the truck to take care of caping, skull plates, measurements, and bringing back any meat on ice if need be. likely just get meat processed there. logistics suck to have it mounted there. i can do everything but i have someone else to remove the cape who's done it a lot before. tear ducts and all kinds of stuff I can screw up otherwise.

and many of them are Yeti.... Jesus. nobody tell tacks.

he ain't gonna bite. step it up and at least throw in a couple girth tapes for the garage and truck.

if there's that much of a demand in here i'll pick some more up if i see them. not expecting to though.

i scan this a bit for information then realized i was reading a stray from the political section. oh well. carry on.

problem is letting them have at it and do so while leaving a shit load of guns, planes, and other resources to be snatched up is down right stupidity.

better than me. i've got a pile of clothes that need stitching fixed. sliced my finger open messing around doing a euro mount. taped it up. lol i'm no good for stitching anything up either.

Don't cut them. Most probably aren't good for anything you'd need if they're that big around. Call a Forester that can certify your land and sell it to pulp and paper co. If you have any hardwood seed trees then great otherwise plant some. The mix of conifer and hardwoods only helps spread acorns as long as empty space with light hitting the ground is there. Pull up any buckthorn or multiflora rose early if it starts to claim space. Sent from my SM-G781V using Tapatalk

Most mounts around here are done by August so I'd expect that to be a fair time span. Also I'm thinking it takes 20 hours per mount factoring in phone calls, ordering forms, and other stuff for the mount. Need to at least get $25 per hour. Cost is about $250. That leaves you with $750 for a shoulder mount. Seems fair. It'll suck if my road trip works out well and I tag a wall hanger in KY, Ohio, and then in WNY. Good news is I can drop off all 3 with WNYBowhunter. lol problem is I can't drop off deer. There work involved just to leave with them. Sent from my SM-G781V using Tapatalk

I have scopes from vortex, nikon, and leupold. They all seem great and dependable. Whatever you get I'd highly recommend getting a scope with standard moa hash marks. I have both vortex viper pst and leupold vx freedom scopes that do. No caliber specific Bdc garbage. They're never exact enough to your specific gun and load. Sent from my SM-G781V using Tapatalk

I'll be bringing these out to KY but around here we're pretty good with Verizon. Cell tower on our farm here so there's plenty of signal strength for either. Sent from my SM-G781V using Tapatalk