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not here maybe but they do exist at various levels. a youth hunter shoots the big buck in the area with a little bit of luck. now some guy comes foward with trail cam pictures and says you shot my buck. worst case but ones much less heartless. say there's a new hunter hunting down the road. does everyone in the area hunt and pass deer in hopes they come across those passed deer. maybe a few exceptions but i doubt it's much the case. this legislation could help those new hunters out a bit.

like Phade said education works. it's keeping them in the game and engaged, to give you time to teach them. kids need to be engaged and have a little success to continue to learn.

i don't think it's a head in the sand thing, but more based on implementation and enforcement. I've been meaning to ask the right people if an Econ officer can readily have someone access the harvest database to check based past tags filled or past years holding a license. then you could define what a new hunter is to make everyone feel good and apply an exemption. nothing is a smart move because everything gets resistance. i can only see it as a good thing as it's promoting new hunters to join the ranks and giving them a better shot at success. there's only so many deer out there for harvest and right now a new hunter has to compete with an avid hunter over the same deer. this would level the playing field a little. anyone with the screw them mentality isn't really concerned with ensuring hunting's here for the next generation. they can't be pleased anyway unless it pleases them.

i'm glad they have youth hunters exempt. they should also exempt older hunters too. many don't get around like they used to that'd better their odds at taking something over 1.5 yrs old. honestly it'd increase opportunity for buck harvest though. more bucks will be grown to a point worthy of pulling the trigger by most hunters. a vast majority of hunters would rather not shoot smaller sized bucks within the yearling age class. some do so anyway because they feel if they don't shoot it someone else will and the opportunity to shoot something bigger in their mind might not be there otherwise. something is better than nothing, so they settle.

don't hunt mature bucks unless you're going to go somewhere else to find them. rarely year after year can you hunt mature bucks in the same spot unless it's in an area with little hunting pressure or buck harvest. don't hunt hoping to be in a good spot. hunt with a plan and pay attention to details. whether it's scouting an urban location to find one and sitting on stand when puzzle pieces fall together or cutting a track that you know is a good one up north. you have to hunt what you know or have very good reason to believe is there and you have to go after it with a plan. all the little details from gear prep to being scent conscious are important because just one of them can lead to a botched opportunity at a mature buck and they don't come along often with every mature buck.

a lot of hunters get lucky because they have skills and they're in a good spot where eventually something will show. by far the hunters with a solid plan like yours get it done. nice job, congrats, and keep the memories alive.

she's irrelevant now. don't even give her the attention. just let her fade away. i'll be damned if i'd do anything to let her become the first woman president and be the least liked president in history. if we get a woman to lead this country it should be one that'll rock the hell out of doing so, do great things all can relate to, and be one for the history text books. there's smart and driven women out there. give them the attention.

wow you suck. why wouldn't you hit the old ball fletched arrow? nice targets and shooting! if you were shooting with your safety crocs on that probably had a lot to do with it. sweet lookin bow too!

don't know about you but i hunt with everything else going on in life and often it's close to prevailing winds. i can't drop my schedule and hunt around the weather like some can. not like the deer are only out there during fronts and other opportune times. they move more then, but are still around otherwise. anyway, i assume your access is from the south. ditch is probably a good way to get to the back portion of the property. your wind will swirl and be contained more in the ditch for anything close to prevailing wind conditions. i think your blind would be fine. i'd go straight in from the south and straight back out. easily access. have the intersecting trails north'ish of the blind so you're not cutting across them every time in and out. i wouldn't go walking around as i eluded to earlier. during gun season deer hole up in these areas, so why not leave them be and hunt them both morning and evening. high stem count you mentioned is perfect for bedding as it provides cover that's easy to lose a hunter through trying to get crosshairs on them. i can't imagine you're recovering too many deer to disrupt things by successfully hunting it. especially if your oldest is hunting with maybe extra DMAP tags or something in italy valley. brush the blind in or not, but the deer know it's there. i've had mature doe bed in front of a blind and had others spot it right away and get uneasy, so i try to set them up sooner than later with the windows left open only in the front. stands for whatever reason seem to be different. deer don't mind them nearly as much in my experience. it's always risky trying to be a habitat guru like you know what you're doing, but i'd thin things out a little (not clear cut) in front of the blind to give more room for chasing within the cover. i'd also open up spots along a trail, about 8' in diameter where there's high spots. deer don't like to bed down with trees right on top of them, caging them in. little bit of space with plenty of side cover inside that thick stuff goes a long way. each spot should be really in sight of one another. you might get multiple doe groups and/or bucks bedding in there. those conditions sitting in your blind would be perfect for an any time of day sit when the rut action kicks up. ridiculous number of ways to hunt the place i'm sure but if i was walking in your boots that's what i'd do. good luck and don't fill your tag with any of those invisible small diameter trees.

...i guess it was two years ago now.

i went there last year. saw the same thing. also i was blown away at the idea people are starving there but there's no big game to hunt. i kind of took it for granted that they'd have at least something to feed people well off the beaten path. i miss authentic jerk chicken too.

i've thought about getting one. right now i use a large pad i got for free and sand bags i also use for the range.

dad had that model at one time. 488 fuji built twin is a good motor. had a 1990 indy classic with it too. i have the means so i'm thinking it's a new axys or nothing. appreciated though.

if nobody goes in there i would almost guarantee you'll see activity, despite being surrounded by stands. sanctuaries do help reduce hunting pressure on otherwise heavily pressured property. if hunted around them with the wind right and if they're in the right spot they can make a small property hunt bigger. they only work as intended if you stay out of them though. how big and whether it needs to be there it's hard to say without boots on the ground. aerial maps even with topo don't always paint the right picture.

dad had a proto type "wildcat" back when they first came out. he got it through a dealer that happened to be a dealer that got one and was willing to let it go as a used sled. i think he blew it up 3 times and then let it go. it was faster than the production ones that were out there but couldn't stay together. since it's always been Polaris. So i've been raised to bleed Polaris blue injector oil.

ski-doo R-motion has always been nice. new Axys chassis is supposed to be real nice. haven't ridden one but it's top of the list. a guy was peddling his awesome toasty tot handlebar invention he had on his polaris pro-s (axys) sled. said it was his saving grace as he had a bolt in his back from a motorcycle wreck that ruined his day on other sleds. all new ones are pretty nice though.

that's the truth. i've had some dingers growing up. despite dirtbikes, quads, and anything else i never broke a bone. had some stiff days though. seems stiff days definitely last longer. haha

those brush fence lines look like a lot of work. seems they'd break down as fast as you can stack it.

poor thing... rolled over one 5' high bank good to set it and then hit it good. cleared the driveway and landed out into the field perfectly flat. of all things the ski tow loop on the one ski broke. he laughed and said if you're going to break something that's the thing to break. it set in that it was a Cat and i parked it.

you can't make this stuff up. i did the same thing to my primary hunting bow setup but heading out hunting. told story before on here. drove back and forth 20 minutes each way until after daylight. put up signs in the area saying bow was lost and if found call number on sign. young mail man called the next morning. i lost it apparently going down the highway at 55+ mph. i met up with him and there it all was with just some very minor road rash, titanium heads still in the quiver and all. i gave him a finders fee before he barely said a word. we then had a chat and i found out he was trying to save up some money to move his family out of NY. just needed around $2,000. my bow setup was practically new and all together it was that much. he could've sold it and got darn close to his goal. still good people in the world despite it seems hard to believe at times.

So at 3.5 yrs old i had and raced an Artic Cat Kitty Kat. Got trophies and ridden sleds since. For around a decade now due to college and now having my own life bills and family I've just ridden what my dad had as he doesn't seem to like the cold much anymore. Well my younger brother got to them and has since wore them out and they've been gone for years now. Haven't had a sled of my own in a while. Since my butt has been on plenty of dirtbikes and atv's. Brother invited me over after we watched a local snowcross race though. he coaxed me into riding an early 2000's ZR800 he recently bought. he encouraged me to jump it off some bigger snow banks he had from plowing. Despite being a Cat it did alright, but man did i scratch an itch i shouldn't have. Snow is almost gone and all i can think about is getting back on a sled! haha hopefully my will power holds out. always been a Polaris person and a new RUSH or Switchback is looking good. i'm turning 34 and can think of more logically important things to spend money on.

i've really lost nothing of little to no value over the years. i don't give myself any breaks if i misplace something until i find it. some stray dog got into the garage when i was a kid and snagged the antlers from my first deer i harvested. was sitting there i thought out of harms way from processing the deer with dad. i'd trade any set of antlers i've got for that set. by far the worst was my wedding ring. this past November i took a doe on the farm. dropped where it stood 208 yards out in the middle of a hay field. by the time i got the truck and got to it i was taking care of it in the dark. after cleaning my hands with wipes and getting back home i discovered i lost my first and only wedding band. went back that whole week with a metal detector multiple times for hours each time. searched what was left of the gut pile and acres of field around it. found old parts and hitch pins for every tractor dad owned but no ring. came to terms it was gone. maybe in bear or yote crap within 10 miles of the location. fast foward to late this past month.... back at the farm to load up another customer's truck and large trailer with hay. go into my truck right where i keep the current pair of gloves i use only when doing bigger loads of hay (cheap rubber dipped cotton gloves so they wear out quick and then get tossed BTW). slide my fingers in and one bumps into my ring deep inside the glove! turns out i had loaded hay prior to the hunt and lost it before heading out to the woods. for months every day it was within feet of me and i never knew it, despite the mental torment. i definitely felt the loss those months. $$ for a replacement didn't matter. it was the emotional attachment to the ring that was then gone.

got me beat then. all mine were with guns, 50 cal ml or a 30-06. i've stalked to within bow range of a few with a bow but all yearling to 2.5 yr old bucks so all i did was came to full draw at most. seems i run into some bigger footed and heavy young deer, may be that i'm not the best tracker. no sense in changing standards once i get there though. successful track and stalk is just that.

Tried a new place with the wife. Cheesy grits, andoule sausage, peppers, onions, and shrimp. It was good. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

hunting with instinctively shot recurve is the most fun I've ever had with a bow. haven't given longbows a whirl yet. unfortunately picking up a compound is like going from shotgun to rifle. often times the "need" to be successful gets the better of me and I end up with a compound in my hands.