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just had a scam not a telemarketer.... basically answered went with him for 15 seconds. he started his very long pitch but i'd set the phone down. if was muffled but then he got pretty angry when i didn't answer the questions at the end must be. he was screaming "hello" and "answer me" then hung up. a lot i just say i'm not interested and hang up if they persist. this cruise ship one i always hang up right away. it starts with a loud boat fog horn. lol seems like a poor way to start a call but their choice.

definitely greened up a lot here but falls off quick the further you go north into the adirondacks.

http://www.lymeactionnetwork.org/learnthefacts.pdf this group is a pretty good one for tick born illness info. they say stuff like the oil and others work well as repellent. highly recommend permethrin. anything 20% or higher in DEET works well too and better than natural remedies i think they say.

the problem with oil or vasilene on a cotton ball for removal is i've heard and been told not to smother a tick. it makes them eject the stomach contents which helps transmission of tick born illnesses). also told not to squeeze the body at all for the same reasons. i've got O'Tom tick twisters that work well. otherwise needle pointed tweezers.

must like livin on the edge deciding to carve feathers into those nose bones. lol looks awesome Matt!

looks like you've got room for about 10 more. keep up the good work. looking nice!

you really don't get much for spread credit when scoring anyway. lol

i remember the buck but don't remember ...why'd you remount it? don't remember what it looked like before but looks great now. very clean job as usual.

hunters don't really target them around here either. our co-op actually takes very few considering our antlerless harvest numbers that are 19% of the DEC's expected total antlerless take for the WMU we're in. many hunters out this way even on the co-op don't always get a DMAP or DMP tag still. that means 3 over the counter tags that everybody gets and no more. that is if you can fill them given limitations on what season each can be used. each year i actually pass doe to allow other hunters on the property to fill part of the quota too. some only gun hunt. so if a few of us didn't have the restraint the quota would be met before they even stepped foot in the woods. no doubt button bucks taste good. maybe it'd be different if antlerless tags were more plentiful here.

the hitch is that if you over do it and that chain stops just for a fraction of a second your actually cutting slower. i've seen people with a doctored up chain right from a saw shop fight like heck to get it through the wood. you hear the rpm's drop, only to look over and see them pulling like a powerlifter on the rear handle with the bumper spikes planted right into the wood. work it gently if you must but just let the saw eat and do its thing.

gotta love the crock pot button buck discussion. lol i will say if i was paying attention to dollar per pound of meat, yes venison can be cheaper. however, knowing i only get so many tags to fill or have "quotas" for certain properties, i'm hard pressed fill a tag with a button buck that yields half the meat. i'm no executive chef but still cook well enough the tenderness of a fawn with milk on its whiskers still doesn't justify not filling any tag with an adult deer. button buck or doe fawn, makes no difference. if that's the only opportunity that presents itself as the season draws near then so be it, i get it. last time i processed a button buck though i said i'd never do it again. my freezer has been full ever since.

some will lose interest with all the numbers unfortunately. it's good stuff you're posting though. so what are some of your thoughts about that link? i got chuckles from some of it. a lot of it was good. shows a one size fits all approach won't work. i get cost has to be factored in but i shake my head when things are weighted such that costs of public education is a bad thing, especially when your management is largely driven where ever public will takes it. also i have a decent handle on the dilemma but think it's ridiculous to pad points for no change because you have a current system that isn't flexible to handle proposed changes you're considering. i think what people really want to know is from the list of changes moving forward that DEC considers feasible which one has DEC determined best for their area? regardless, i think nothing is a substitute for public education/outreach, which should go along with any decision moving forward. it worries me DEC doesn't really have any set budget or anything for this type of education and outreach. with state entities the first thing that gets axed from resources and funding is something that doesn't have a budget and/or doesn't have a plan.

i was just at an auction and they had a country food truck there selling dead fried balls of creamed corn called "corn nuggets". no doubts they'd work wonders for fishing too. you should've seen all the pot bellied lunkers they were reeling in. heck i myself came in hook line and batter.

The gentleman in the video clearly overshot the landing. I'd definitely think you harness your archery inner zen and stick it. Even better light the carpet in the bed on fire for effect. call it "Moog's Masters of Mayhem". we would all pay to see it.

got it done all the same. congrats to you both!

congrats to Addison! congrats to colton too!

congrats to you both! awesome job. no outings for me but probably going out in May with younger hunters. bunch of youth hunters here though did fill tags and one I know of had a swing and a miss for now.

i don't have any stats or anything but discussions with others and experience. i'd say more people get in trouble doing little stuff, brush, limbing, tree tops, piles of smaller logs, and similar work. bucking up a simple log for fire wood is pretty straight forward and easier for even the less experienced. there's truth to what Growalot said with a sharp chain but more so I think the wrong combo to match the experience level is more a worry. if someone pretty green used a smaller cc saw with a low kick back big box store chain on a smaller 14" bar, cutting a softer wood, I wouldn't be nearly as worried. there'd be more reason for worry if that same person was using an 18+" bar with a full chisel chain, rakes filed down for softer wood, cutting a harder wood, and with a faster saw spinning over 13k rpms. add tight spaces and little stuff like I said and they're probably worse off yet.

have had much more luck swimming weedless stick bait that big, but mostly on the smaller end of that size. i still have some soft plastic swim baits that big like the Banjo minnows that you'd see on TV. never use them though.

if at all i usually wear an open top HS mech face mask that i can pull down or up at will to cover everything. their pretty new and standard though.

no takers tomorrow so i'll be at an auction. maybe sunday.

i have a cousin that had a saw kick back from a wood pile end up giving him a saw scares right down his forehead and nose. i don't know if he got tired or had a lapse of diligence. hat helmet and face shield would've helped. i know of a few occasions that have had someone get bopped on the head with small branches or brush enough to hurt like an SOB and leave some blood, or just get brush slapping you in the face. that's pretty much the reason that had me get the all in one helmet setup. by far it seems i know of many more people cutting open their legs from a mishap, hence why i've thought chaps are a good idea for quite a while. for $70 it's worth it and the newer designs are pretty comfortable and light. i wear glasses so big goofy safety glasses work well. shatter-proof lens or not i've still had brush fencing wire and other things scratch the lenses. glasses are expensive so saying that makes me rather bothered is an understatement. haha

i'd think a resident landowner with higher probability or someone that's got lifetime tags, that isn't spending the $10 each year make up most of that group. for places here in region 4 you'd otherwise end up spending $30 over the course of a few years just to protect one deer. seems silly when you factor in DEC hands out more tags with the assumption that % filled stays pretty constant year to year. if you were to look into it you'd find DMP success rate (reported or recorded) is only 15%. for DMAPs given to applicants of co-ops or larger landowners you're at around 50%. it's hard to think someone is going to pay the fee, fill out the application every 3 years, and then fill out a harvest report every year just to burn those tags. i could be wrong though. you are right that it does happen and that's really too bad. ....it is miss informed greed, even if on a smaller scale. i'd bet more people get DMPs so they can take a doe during gun season and not be bound by seasons and implement to use. they may be getting one regardless of any opportunity they think they might have. another reason why i think its fine to pay for privileges to hunt each season but you should be able to fill any tag you hold as soon as you're able.

I hear ya. Sometimes it seems impossible to keep up with. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Had Funky Bow beers a bit in the area of York. G-string Pale Ale was good.