dbHunterNY

Better off asking the ECO for the area you hunt that'd give you the ticket.

due to opportunity, ailment, or injury?

anticipation has got to be unreal. awesome hunting deer that old. best of luck!

I shoot Rage broadheads. I'm also an engineer at my day job. There's significant overhead costs of putting a warm American body in a seat to design, distribute, or do job XYZ to sell a product. let's say a person makes $25 per hour. That'd mean if FeraDyne made $15 off each head which they don't, they'd still have to sell 3,500 heads just support that one average but decent American job. Manufacturing facility like that has trucker, warehouse workers, janitors, office clerks, executives steering the ship, to marketing folks. if you did the math i'm sure it's half a million heads just to support their labor costs. none of which overhead whomever is making the china knockoffs has. Not to mention they're making money off of someone else's intellectual property. This is from the horses mouth "Rage broadheads are assembled in the United States (Wisconsin) comprised of parts made in the USA and other countries. We do make most blades and ferrules here." By all means buy the knockoffs if you want to save money, but enough with the BS assumptions. There's an entire facility of Americans making these that support our time honored tradition of whacking and stacking deer while making memories. In turn, your indirect thoughts are, "they should make as much as 12 year old Ping-Pong and his mom sweating away in China assembling knockoffs at something that's probably half the cost of wage they currently make." Marketing still actually means American jobs and sponsorships aren't a big slice of overhead. Most of the time a company says here's free swag and product for you to promote our stuff you believe works.

i know what you meant and we're on the same page. Some will argue loss due to pushing vanes through the bristles. every see slow mo cam footage of one. i was just saying there's a little more loss if it's not going through straight and being naturally corrected a little. still not that much loss though.

Bill Winke does shooting 80lbs or so out of a 330ish IBO bow and fairly long draw. he's been shooting rocket steelheads mechanicals for years. he doesn't often though and has implied it's really important to get passed the lower shoulder and leg bones without hitting it. my thoughts are why chance it.

a couple bows i've had you simply couldn't get rid of nock travel but you tuned it with bare shafts and everything the same. arrows on the weak end, low FOC, not tuned for good flight will all lose KE. i've also seen where the bow was tuned to shoot well enough but top or bottom cam hit draw stop before the other. imagine there's some energy loss there as both cams aren't fully rotated. whisker biscuits kill a little energy but not that much out of a well tuned bow, more so with traditional profile vanes.

thought about it before putting mower away. haven't in a while.

i don't practice with Rage heads anymore because i've realized i don't need and they don't shoot any different than the practice head either. I have used Montecs, NAP Hellrazors, and Magnus strings over again and for practice. I touch up all broadheads i get out of the package. I've reused the Rage Original Titaniums for a while now. just touch up or replace the blades. depends if blades are bent or chipped. so far i haven't had a ferrule or the screws damaged to prevent re-use, just the blades. i'd think most of time it's from hitting rock in the dirt after pass through out of a stand. i used to shoot Muzzy and that was the same as Rage replace blades if need be. couple of those i bent the ferrule just enough that they wouldn't spin right.

Definitely use paracord. When we used bikes to get into public land it wasn't too bulky to keep deer on bike either. Makes quick work when you coast out down hill in some spots. Had trail system though. One drag miles out through a big swamp we used paracord and then tied multiple loops with one at the end. Multiple guys like sled dogs got my buck out in a hurry. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Cool this morning. Climbing to 80 later. If anythi ngs around should passing through this hole here to stay cool and travel between couple close areas of hard mast trees. Also there's a licking branch right u see me with a cam I'll check on way out. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Me in my earlier days. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Uneventful evening tonight but here was my view. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

now there's home for me. no flat spots here in the foothills of the adirondacks unless you're river bottom.

hunting the family farm land actually prevents me from being a mature trophy buck hunter. being a mature trophy buck hunter to me means you put yourself in a position to have a chance at something that's 6.5+. also it can't that they're always "scrub antlered" bucks that make it that far. family farm isn't at that stage and probably won't ever really be on a year to year basis. not enough people hunting there have that kind of will power. i do know other property in the Northeast that do but i don't hunt there much at all. it's feasible but by no means easy to make work. if i didn't have the family farm to hunt and the nostalgia, memories, and family ties to go with it i would be at those other places though. i think hunting the top 10% where ever i am in practicality makes me a trophy hunter. more often you'd probably think i'm a meat hunter though. i do everything my priorities outside of hunting allow to make the deer the healthiest and herd most productive. more years than not i'm filling the freezer with doe from where ever they need to be taken and not putting a buck on the wall. I could easily focus on mature trophy bucks more but it'd lead me else where, often alone, with antlers on the wall and fewer people to share it with. not worth it in my mind.

i'm an independent. our last primary here was a real cluster to keep things nice in a public forum. i'm just glad the county executive portion of it was always between two Republican candidates who are strongly on the side of sportsmen.

i live across the river but work in Albany. once i cross the bridge i feel safe. lol

i really have no agenda in this fight. if you were to buy a crossbow, where would you go? a gun shop or an archery shop? in a big box store would you go into the gun department or the archery department? I've posted that there's significant differences between vertical drawn bows and crossbows. i don't even own a crossbow. we should be real with each other though and call it what it is: archery equipment.

@outdoorstom this right? surely your the man to verify. great point LET EM GROW!

i've heard of it for a while. i've never tried it. i figured it might bubble up with things other than blood. also i figured the trace of blood would be gone after it bubbled up. i get right down on my hands and knees if i have to. we've tracked some difficult ones. good light is everything. someone else mentioned the multi colored filter lights. i had the primos blood tracker one. didn't work worth a damn. if light from both filters weren't on it right then it made the blood a different dark color and you couldn't see it. i've got a Coleman LED flashlight with a nice white kelvin temp LEDs that throws lots of lumens. blood pops into view and looks bright red. the LEDs aren't too orange like an incandescent bulb and aren't more blue like many LED flashlights on the market.

Mario Cuomo lost because it was a low voter turn out year but some more people upstate got to the polls. They have the the numbers to out vote us but the precedent for a long long time now has been that few actually vote. Cuomo as the standing governor only beat Astorino 54 - 40% in the general election. Astorino was unknown before that election. 2018 Cuomo should be getting the boot which would pave the way for a more hunting friendly NY. i'm registered to vote under a minor party and part of local committees for that party. minor party nominations to either major party candidate can make or break the election for them.

what's that 7 or 8 hours? don't think i've slept that long. we usually do cheaper shorter connecting flights too. my wife would buy a ticket for where the plane was headed and let me sleep! haha

naaa... he changed his mind. everyone can now sit back and breathe. call off the dogs. hahaha

Seems only having to do with permanent disability. That's unfortunate. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

i have field & stream rain gear i got years ago that wasn't too expensive. not very noisy at all. i wear it if i think it'll rain at all. baseball style hat underneath the hood. i've taken more than a few deer standing less than 20 yards away with my bows and that rain gear on.