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hyrostatic seems to have its place with mower and smaller actual tractors. bigger ag tractors typically use a shuttle instead to serve the same purpose. the idea is going forward and backing up a often like going to a pile of something with the bucket it's a PITA to switch gears. you shift from High to reverse, but then reverse gear is a different speed so you have to shift the number gear your in two. with shuttle it stays in the same numbered gear and speed (High Low) you just shift between foward and reverse up by the steering wheel like in a truck. we have it on our 90 HP 00' Kubota M9000.

i'm not a painter, so it definitely does and would be a requirement if i was spraying down a SBE. heck i'd have to put down more than a couple. came out good though assuming it still functions great.

joe gets some nice ones in deep from what i've seen. typical adirondack state of mind right there. shoot and keep shooting until it drops. you don't track that far to let run farther and track some more. second to last gun buck i've taken i double lunged with the first shot as he was chasing a doe below a ridge in full stride. never slowed down until the follow up shot dropped him. it was around 75 yards and the bullet holes were 2" apart when i skinned him out. i was happy but it wouldn't have happened without practice and scanning the timber in his path versus following him hoping a tree doesn't end up in the way.

sun light, seed to soil contact, and pH. water will show up eventually. preferably soon after you plant. looks good. you won't find dirt looking that nice out here. lol

crazy.... seems like artificial attractants are used everywhere these days.

Well some i get for example Albany is a city and 4J that's bow only. The surrounding WMU that wraps around it to west is high for DMPs but that makes sense. Others seem to be a little off for many reasons i'm sure that are compounded into something more significant. i've been told that buck take objective being met or not met has some influence. it doesn't change very often and is largely based on agenda or stake of the Citizen Task Force. Person A wants almost all the deer shot, person B barely wants any, and person C is basically arbitrarily coming up with a number that's a little different than the current one. I've talked to people on them and it needs work. At this webinar it was a topic and DEC said they are working on improving that "system".

So who here mows a certain way to "stripe" the lawn? I do unless it's really dry. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

seems to be the consensus for parts of region 4. aside from albany, not sure how some neighboring WMU can have tag allocations so vastly different. influences buck hunting a lot.

i get it. it was just a lot of change in a hurry. my decades old throwback jersey is still on standby. i remember one night we were out just for dinner and to watch the game. manager said for every buffalo goal they'd give out a dollar pint of whatever draft you were drinking if you wanted it. they scored at least 7 goals while we were there in a relatively short period of time. everyone was making phone calls for rides. whole place was shocked but drunk and happy.

i thought for them it was a better position for her to except random drips of hot Tim Horton's coffee with a nice place to rest a donut for the finish. .....while watching hockey.

my hockey watching seemed to take a dive. i left buffalo and then shortly after they shipped everyone off. lindy left. miller got boxed up with a price tag. ennis is still there but damn Afino-please pump the brakes-genov, Connolly, Gaustad, Grier, Myers, Roy, Stafford, Tallinder, Vanek, Campbell. I get it but they gutted a lot of history they had and in a short period of time. i can't name players much any more but if you asked who's my team it's still it. around here we don't keep any farm team for that to change. RedWings, Thunder, River Rats, Devils.... doesn't matter.

it's definitely catered to take advantage of the tourist crowd that's walking in regardless. not sure for italian food but there's some good places up there. definitely in this area down to the capitol region we've got more franchised food places than anything. unless you're cheap you're probably better off hitting up saratoga instead for italian food.

despite the whole AR restriction disagreement I'm sure it would be cool to meet them. sounds about like the turkey situation i have here. youth season is soon. good luck. hopefully i can get out more than last season.

lots of opportunity between us and them grampy. i'd feel bad taking a cam to come out this far. they're already spending that much in gas and tolls! haha

it's always interesting to here observations compared to the DEC calculated ratio i think are largely based on harvest. based on year round observation and trail cams here in this WMU i'd say ours is definitely higher and maybe somewhere around 3-4 doe per buck before the season. based on harvest data alone it's over 2 doe per buck, plus out this way people seem pretty reluctant to shoot doe. on top of those numbers are preference points odds of getting a DMP and just for resident 1st choice. after that it's nothing. each season it's skewed pretty hard and then naturally corrected with each fawn crop. many out this way claim insanely high during season, many say over 1:10. who knows if they're missing a buck or two in the bushes but starting each season so high the bucks have to be getting creamed off pretty good during the season.

i'm probably too far being way out past Albany. I also haven't scouted much this year to guarantee there's many birds there or set up any blinds yet. despite there's birds there every year. not reseeding any hay fields either this year that tends to draw them in a bit.

yea i don't use a roller but probably should with how fast i end up mowing. i have to un-bury the zero turn, change oil, filters, sharpen blades, grease the deck, etc. don't plan on mowing that soon. considering some of it being a field but the wife probably wouldn't let that fly.

had a jake this morning in part of the back yard clucking, yelping, and throwing out weak gobbles. he had a mature bird sound off a couple times in the creek bottom out back. i did take video.

i posted about it in the crossbow thread before shortly after the ATA show back in the beginning of the year. it's definitely a cool bow. doesn't meet the minimum axle to axle width for NY though. maybe they think you can conceal it too easy and shoot a place up with it. lol

i'm with Moog. i'm sure they take back a lot but certain refridgerated and frozen goods i'm sure they don't restock. company would have a lawsuit waiting to happen. only way around it would be if they made you sign something to take the fall if you return that. you'd never read all the fine print but just sign and take your return money. i wonder how it goes down. that's a big reason i hunt... seeing a package of steak on the self in the dry goods or cereal isle. you know someone somewhere is an idiot making executive decisions while putting it back in the coolers.

looks nice. i know of a guy, Ross Tyser/RT Custom Knives, that's out of SC that makes lots of damascus knives. very cool and fits the idea of an heirloom that you can actually use.

i did find one piece of data that was hard to accept with any significance. buck to doe ratio was something that was used during the webinar to justify use of the words "no biological need". DEC feels we have a 1:1.7 buck to doe ratio. i have to question where that came from and wonder how much of a factor the huge adirondack's had in that. i'd bet it's very much not the case in many areas of the southern zone, even with natural correction of a preseason ratio, if you understand what i mean by that.

they aren't interesting numbers.... they're the same numbers that have been brought up. cherry picked to push a point one way or the other. it makes no difference. Hurst gave this presentation and said the results as a whole were inconclusive, hence the map showing "no change".

it was from a live webcasted seminar DEC put on throughout NY. multiple locations had a big game unit regional biologist co-hosting with Hurst the head biologist giving the talk i think. not sure how the experience was elsewhere, as i was in attendance at DEC head quarters where he was giving it. i know he took outside questions from other regions. it was basically meant to be a broad overview of what DEC was up to and had done lately. antler restrictions and the surveys weren't the primary focus but one of many topics. there was a lot of support and questions being asked about antler restrictions. Hurst dodged very knowledgeable pro-AR comments masterfully and blatantly said any other antler restriction questions would be ignored. Hurst did say the results of the surveys as a whole were inconclusive. he said he was disappointed so much effort was put into it only to yield no apparent outcome. therefore there'd currently be no change and that they'd leave things voluntary as it pertains to buck harvest. basically it wasn't to the point and you could cherry pick data to paint a perfect picture one way or the other. otherwise any buck harvest was related to overpopulated areas with special seasons. also mentioned the flop and reversing the reg of some WMUs have the first two weeks doe only (that wasn't even public knowledge until then). after that seminar is when they started to develop info to put out there for voluntary idea, with push and help from sources outside the DEC i was at some of those too. there was a lot really good stuff in there that didn't really get discussed much because it's in work in progress. they included looking for improvements with the citizen task force process. AVID software as a citizen science program that's basically allowing your average joe to conduct a browse survey. suburban and urban deer population management. for example, ithaca special season was discussed. most hunters brought in to participate couldn't connect on any doe as intended, yet one hunter managed to take 10. these topics have real meat and could yield huge improvements for DEC deer management. i hope the stuff doesn't disappear and die especially AVID. i did stay after and talked with Hurst off the record. wasn't time or info to get into this stuff, unfortunately. convo we had was more focused around deer stuff i'm involved with and young buck protection, as it relates to DEC.

sound advise and what i do, but i couldn't taste something and pick it apart.