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i don't have photo editing software so any shots would be unedited. not sure if any of these are but they look good! been thinking about bringing Nikon D5100 with me for general day-to-day as I don't have much time to go out specifically to photograph things. I'm very hesitant to have it in a hot summer vehicle though even in the soft gear case or pack. always hear of outdoor photographers taking their best shots from unplanned events where their gear was just in a back seat at the ready once pulling over on a road side or something. What do you think about that and/or best way to have your camera with you?

been to a few but not that one. - east Hartford, CT - scarborough, ME - Hamburg, PA ...definitely a difference between those. haven't been to a really big ones I hear about out west but the hamburg one is pretty big. we don't really have anything hear in the capital region. just Dick's Sporting Goods. A field and Stream is going in this year though. don't know if it's just more of the same stuff as Dick's. been to a couple of basspro's, including the one in Atlanta, GA just recently. that was big.

Happy birthday to RangerClay! Maybe even some sass action for a couple months? Hope it's still a good one, from the bodega to the back deck sippin' on suds. regardless I'm sure you'll enjoy it!

a couple of you that have fruit or veggies growing, when did you plant or did you start way early in a greenhouse?

I started some pepper plants and tomato plants inside earlier but I planted everything the last week in May. We got a couple frosty nights just before that so I held off. I've got 50+ onions up several inches. few sweet pepper plants flowered out. 8 more (mixture of sweet and hot peppers) up but only about 5" tall don't think the root systems established as well. few tomato plants are couple feet tall and starting to get blossoms. couple seed packets worth of garden beans leafed out and up around 5". don't know how many plants but a lot. zucchini plants are leafed out and up a few inches. throughout the garden were I don't have raised beds. there's 16 of those with possibly a few more popping up. I'd be harvesting already if I had a greenhouse but I don't so I end up waiting later to plant than some. haven't put down plastic but now that stuff is out of the ground I might to control weeds. haven't fertilized yet but there big enough now I will start with liquid fertilizer. trying some different things this year hopefully it doesn't flop like last year when I changed a lot up.

once I get setup for reloading i'll look into non-lead ammo. using what I got for now though.

must be different areas then with me being around Albany up here and then Hudson being a "snowbird" area. sorry for confusion. I've vacationed the most probably in florida.

hope the move goes well. florida is definitely cheaper to live in. my parent's have a vacation home in Hudson. I don't think there's too much hunting around there though.

atv trail doesn't take much space. you aren't that deep so just make it go around the outside of the whole property as you're not very deep idea is to go to one end or the other. depending on wind and clean access without getting busted. similar to what GMan said put cover to bed on the outside of your property at the boarder. if you design it so the deer have a free view of what's coming people will hardly ever be able to get any shot on a deer boardering your property. deer will flee to within your property. put smaller patches of cover a little farther in as a point B escape location. in the center put a variety of food sources in small plots with Egyptian wheat or something similar between the two. mow openings between them so deer have to zig zag or go to one side or the other to cross where you've got a easily accessible stand with back cover. locate the plots in a row to form an '~' in a row from one end to the other. deer can't see what's in each field without going into it is the idea and multiple doe family groups can come to food at the same time. plant your atv trails too. topography and any exposed ledge will come into play more than anything it seems, as you're all hardwoods with no real edges. 52 acres can be a deer haven if it's the right ground and improved right. that's how I'd initially go about it.

...if we weren't in NY. just sayin'.

going along with this method is walk back tuning for broadheads and to get your center shot perfect. then if you really have time slight tweaks to your vertical rest adjustment might tighten or open up groups. none of that will show up by just paper tuning your bow setup to shoot a "bullet hole" through paper. the premise with using a leveled line versus a dot is you only have to care about and focus on 1 thing versus 2. sighting in a usually dial in elevation first but for tuning I do centershot first.

yea right now I've got varget and 53gr Vmax bullets that were on sale. might still pick up 60gr though. I've got enough to load probably 600 rounds. big fall back though is that I'm still working on getting all the equipment. just other priorities to spend money on are slowing things down. I figured I'd match the same OAL but for powder I'm not sure I can do anything different than work up a load the normal way. If I get the same bullets I could maybe match the velocity printed but they probably aren't using the same powder. they might even have a blend I can't get. pretty much inevitable that I'm going to have to reload for it.

happy bday! my daughter and I share the same bday. always surprised how many parents actually do. easy solution and something that might leveling the playing field. you just play sitting in a cooler on wheels that's full of ice. clever right?! haha ...or play HORSE or PIG, shooting from anywhere in the shade.

to actually help you dial-in bow sight pins better it's easier to take a level and draw vertical lines for sighting in left to right and horizontal line for sighting in elevation. you'll have better follow through and an idea of how much to "chase" your arrow group versus aiming and trying to hit a spot. center of the blurry blob that is the pin should be centered on the spot I'm sharply focused on and aiming at upon release. that's what I do.

seems all the chucks you've been posting are good size. that last one is definitely a big one. i keep after them pretty good so i get a lot of smaller younger chucks that have moved in from the surrounding area. one older field is pretty bad that just got mowed. problem is it's got some houses closer to it. some close enough were i'd get their blessing first. kind of wish I had a quieter rimfire for taking them out of that field.

So this Father's Day evening the wind was practically nothing. So I decided to try some other ammo I picked up, hornady super performance 53gr. Seemed to shoot MOA at least with POI down and to left from my regular Black Hills stuff. Spun the turrets to get it centered on the bigger dot. As a control to make sure the barrel wasn't getting warm/walking or anything else, I returned turrets to zero and sent some of my regular Black Hills 60gr ammo into the top left dot. US Quarter there for size reference. Target was at 200.1 yards. Really need to just find more of the Black Hills ammo some where. Tough to find though. Down to 20 rounds of it left.

So yesterday I was at the farm. Nice weather. 1st cutting off several fields now. After unloading some hay wagons I went around checking for holes in the truck. Spotted a chuck in one. Stalked along field edge to 226 yards and decided that was close enough. Count should climb fast if I can get out more and now that some fields are mowed off.

DEC will practically tell you your hand with a gun will have to be already down a bears throat to pull the trigger and be ok. I'm sure other stuff is no different.

only once. I checked the trail camera at night behind the house as a last minute effort to figure out a game plan to hunt the next day. in the creek bottom I had a pack there with me less than a 100 yards away. kept hearing them and saw one in the bushes close enough. I didn't have anything but a larger metal flashlight. i talked and wasn't all covert, but they just didn't seem to want to leave. I just figured there was a deer or critter carcass nearby. maybe i bumped them off it coming in. before i made it out a couple more packets sounded off not far but in the distance and on either side of me. that made them fire up right there with me. no stand off. wasn't needed and i wasn't feeling all warm and fuzzy. I've been broken in pretty good with things that make noise in the night too. first deer hunt on my own at a young age i had what i now know was a fox screaming, well within bow range. problem was it was a new/no moon, good hour or more before any first light, and i was on the ground.

latest I've been told is the last session before recess is today. they were in session starting at 10AM. unless they return during recess, calling the office at this point won't do much, unless it's a follow up.

it's a state entity here in NY ...they spend money and want more. i get where you're coming from but also there's a supply vs demand concept that applies to everything in the world. here's my thoughts. by far not all WMU's are severely over populated to the extent DEC is alluding to with certain ones. in ones where tags where limited people with preference would get them despite not having absolute intentions of filling them. they were free so why not. meanwhile even some of the hunters the most legit drive to fill them get screwed out of the tag. only so many to go around. now with the $10 fee you're not going to pay for one unless the intent is truly there to fill it. now think if I have access (maybe locked up to others) in an overpopulated/limited access WMU and another reasonably close that say I live in. DMPs for both are free. chances are I'm going prefer a tag for the more convenient WMU not the over populated one. now make the overpopulated WMU tag free. well people are more likely to get it. it's free. why not. you now have more reason for others to hunt there. if they do hunt there there's a chance they fill more than just the DMP tag. the general hunting public isn't going to go out of their way to help the situation. you've got to give incentives to guide the hunting public as a management tool.

they might easily enough deduct the amount for the DMP if it's for any of the WMUs in question. you pay $10 less but otherwise you pay and don't get it back. that'd probably encourage more to get one. even if they half heartedly intend to fill it in during purchase, the tag being in their pocket in some cases might encourage taking advantage of a possible opportunity in the field. it think that'd be a smart move for DEC. little things like that will add up to more doe taken in the end. cost and easy of implementation just has to be justified given the results they expect from it.

seemed fine to me when I skimmed through it. I think it'd be good to allow regulated moose hunting in NY.

know they're used a lot on deer and similar sized game. a guy I know has one that he claims is really accurate sub-MOA gun. I don't have any experience with one first hand.

worked fine for Mateen... twice. Maybe they're being more thorough now. one can one wonder. weird crap happens with NICS checks.