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I don't know I assumed the manual one would be more accurate. more of a question. I'm an electrical engineer so I tend to think electrical stuff is broke until proven otherwise. lol like I said I haven't gotten into it yet. I got RCBS shell holders for only .223 so far more so have gotten components. was told they fit into many presses belonging to people I know. also I was thinking about an RCBS single stage or turret. was told they are universal but some fit better in some presses and not as well in others. figured I was covered enough to buy them.

I do believe that just simply washing the car will be more cost prohibitive to make it last a little longer than a year or two. those things cost around $50,000 for a car. forget the SUV they'll probably get many of. don't want them driving around trying to do their job in a clunker or something with crazy amounts of mileage on them but still a year or two?? I've just recently here around Albany started to see very few of the old Crown Vic's. that's going to be a hike in budget.

I've been slowly getting stuff to start reloading. started with components and then dies and shell holders. I was thinking a manual beam balance was the way to go. I plan to do fewer rounds with more focus on quality and accuracy for my varmint rifle and eventually big game rifles.

it will in a sense be that way. it really is only an explanation with reasoning of why some will be what they are and why some are treated the same as others. until they put plans into action and on the books and get less than desired results they have little reason to need more flexibility and don't really have the man power to do so. not all WMU's are staffed with deer knowledge equally same as other tasks DEC have. right now it shouldn't smell at all because there's not much to talk about. all this is conceptual until it's put into action.

I think the idea is that a stray bullet can travel further than a stray arrow. not all kids of a given age instill confidence for me to give them a gun or a bow. sounds like he could be better around one or the other than some teens.

right now it's a little messed up with DEC not controlling crossbow season. it is what it is though. you obviously didn't buy the crossbow as a necessity to allow you to take deer because you're worried about tagging out with a vertical bow. if you want to take a deer with a crossbow then don't tag out early and wait a week. enjoy things a little longer. you have to wait to fill your regular tag anyway. same as those who want to use a rifle or muzzleloader have to wait. someone using a crossbow shouldn't be any different.

if you go in the wrong direction you'll hope you have water, a little food, and some way to start a fire. if a couple wrong turns will get you screwed then you shouldn't really be out there! lol my definition of big woods is feeling obligated to be very prepared, assuming there's a good chance you will get turned around.

sounds like it may have crapped out.... I just replaced my main fridge this year. bought a scratch and dent big double door Samsung with lower freezer drawer. slid into the space and all the scratches and dents went away from being covered up! lol it's huge and pretty nice. our previous smaller top freezer fridge crapped out at night so we had to go right then. hauled it in the back of the pickup for a 20min drive faster than you went. it was fine. just can't tip them over. I've got to imagine you can shop around if you still want one. you're looking for scratch and dent bare bones. warranty is still the same from the store.

high sides to saddles, hillside benches, converging ridges, etc. are all good things to pay attention to. in this case how far I get in there onto that saddle would depend what they did to the thermals coming down off the hillside in the evening and what trails fell where that the deer were using. might even have a double stand set if it was worth it. one in the prime spot and then another just downwind of it in case the deer figured that stand out and started circling it downwind. I'd probably never make more than a 1/3 down the side of the south corn field. only way I'd hunt Moogs middle dot on the west end of the south corn field is if it was a wind from the north and I used the creek to the east to get down around the corn field undetected.

I use a fridge every year. I bone out the deer right away and then age it in meat pans in the fridge for a few days to a week. soak pads in the bottom or just drain it every couple days. I trim and cut things up into steaks, roasts, or whatever. then it keeps the meat to be ground cold for easier grinding.

there's another thing to consider. when they come out with whatever buck restrictions for each unit they decided on, you will less borders with opposing standards. less people would be crying to blues because a buck jumped into the next WMU and got popped. that'd add to a hunters discontent that was against the restrictions to begin with.

some would hunt a trail coming into the west edge of the corn fields in the evening, but that side will be littered with bedding. also doe will come in first, pass by you get downwind out in the corn and freak out. a buck usually being the last to the party might not even show then until dark if he hears all that. I've tried to hunt this way even with marginal wind. it's tough and you usually get busted. heck I've had doe run right back past me and to where they came from back in the cover. I wouldn't do it.

because I'm lazy and late to the party i'll steal moogs map. I can see the deer mostly staying high above the creek along the corn edges and going down below much. walk the creek and see if there's an obvious low spot or two with deer track crossing it. put up a camera to see when they're using it. probably only at night crossing the road from adjacent properties. I'd access using the creek for evening hunts. I'd come in from the creek and hunt the dot between two corn fields and the creek. earlier in the season. later once chasing starts I'd hunt the other side between the two corn fields and the pasture which is at the fringes of bedding in the mornings early, with a wind from anything south. come in along the woods and pasture though from the north. I wouldn't access and hunt this side in the evening as bedding is probably all along that western wood hillside. they'll watch you walk and climb into your stand. I'd put up a cam at the south end of the one corn field it'll be dead or hot, especially after some of that corn field is cut.

for my Evo (345 fps IBO, 70lbs) compound .... Easton 340 Lightspeed 3D with blazers and 100gr head... total 420gr. for my 60lb Bowmaddness (330fps IBO, 60lbs) compound (3D bow and backup hunting bow).... Easton 400 Hexx (7.2 gpi) with blazers and 100gr head... total about 340gr. Bear Super Kodiak recurve.... Goldtip Traditional Hunter 5575(400) with a brass insert, 20gr insert weight, and 100gr Hell Razor head.... total about 560gr. ...what I have has worked and it's what I've got. been thinking about going heavier once I need more arrows for one of them.

not to derail the thread but most people don't think it's easier to drag a buck by the hind legs. nobody ever does it and always drags by the antlers. i think you're lifting the heaviest part of the buck and trying to drag it on top of that. hind legs are long enough most don't even need to bend over while dragging. you can do it however you want and I'm not saying it's wrong. just think about it.

age or I have to pick it within a particular age group, if one doesn't stand out as older. picking an older deer for the area and successfully doing what you must to legally take it is an accomplishment worth it all. my two most prized trophies are my 2nd largest buck and a doe I shot in that order probably. the doe was just older than any deer I know of ever taken in the area. the buck i hunted the whole season along with everyone else. patterned it. missed it with a bow because of a twig. it went into ghost mode. i figured out where it was and then patterned a hot doe to get a chance at it. most work I've ever put into taking a deer. sure big antlers factor in a bit but age is the driving factor. hell they don't even really get that big around here to get excited about. honestly I think it's kind of silly we expect free range monsters yet we as a whole do the exact opposite you do to grow bigger bucks. we are constantly weeding out the biggest bucks for a given age, the ones with the best antler genetics. one group of hunters won't do anything to change it though I get it. just think it's a pretty laughable concept.

I will but don't have time right now. based on everything I know what I said holds true. without age you can't have big deer relative to where you are, anywhere. the only things we can try to control or influence to see great gains from in a free range population are age and nutrition. however, consider too things a hunter that travels and a hunter that doesn't. most hunters don't travel all that much to hunt in a different region of even the same state where soil quality and nutrition (or drought) are better. now consider that most don't do much of anything to change to nutrition a great deal in your area. if you put in food plots you will still and if you don't chances are you won't put in a enough to drastically effect nutrition. although it does help, especially if a deer uses it exclusively, a couple small plots is some what of a drop in the bucket compared to the habits and constant of everyone else around you and the rest of your land. usually a big deer that shows up on your property is due to genetics. compared to all the other deer that have been to your property that are 2.5 or 3.5 it's the biggest for that age and that's their "top hit list buck". it's still eating the same and the same age but it's got better genetics. my buddy last year shot a free range buck that grossed over 200" in ohio, estimated at 5.5 years old. most of the deer in ohio won't get that big, even in an area where age and nutrition was drastically changing for the better. it had better genetics. realistically with nutrition and age (6.5+ years old) being there you still won't commonly see a even booner. I agree with other knowledgable people that 160" class deer is realistic average max potential across the country, despite many don't even see it.

#1 thing to hunt, yes a deer is it. I get more food from it compared to other game in the area, and my family likes it. they're here locally or within a drive to hunt. I'm successful every year, but compared to other critters I wouldn't say their easy to hunt at all. much of my extended family hunts deer to share memories with. growing up, my dad took me along and only really hunted deer. Deer I choose to shoot still get me excited with "buck fever". fortunately I've figured out how to let it take hold after the shot. my biggest buck I was deciding on whether to take it or not due to where I was. my right knee started to shake from "buck fever" and that sealed its fate down in the canyon. not sure what causes the buck fever though.... maybe all the working up to success but it not being a sure thing until the very end.

oh not just your opinion but fact. age trumps all, then genetics, and then nutrition. I don't know how it is with your penned bucks, compared wild deer when it comes to progress in antler development. I know wild deer can top out early and blow up late in life (big jumps at 5.5+). the generalized percentages are 75% at 3.5 and 90+% at 4.5 yrs old. That the same with your deer too? with a deer growing body wise I'd think so. I'd imagine you'd keep track of antler progress at different ages.

isn't round up just glyphosate with slight amounts of other stuff depending on what you're using? glyphosate is ridiculously common. ban that and we'll be spraying with 55 gal barrels of vinegar. lol then trying to balance the dirt pH after.

http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/wildlife_pdf/wmutownmap09.pdf the WMU map was actually old when I got looking more closely use the link above that's updated.

remember the disconnect I talked about... SHE's failing to enlighten you that she's not a guy. in most cases I'm with you in that it's best to work with your eye dominance. Olympic shotgun instructors press those they teach to do so for a vast degree of reasons. same concepts apply to other shooting sports, including archery. don't know growalot's situation but chances are she's learned for so long to do similar things right handed that the time to take and correct that would be long and stressful. at this point in time it's not worth it for her to try... if the original poster is just getting into archery I completely agree that it's worth their while to really try left handed. (useless info for my situation if it interests you) my case is unique having a "corrected" lazy eye in that I don't really have much of any bino vision. I don't close an eye to shoot. My eyes can never focus together and instead focus independently on an object. either one is forced to be dominant while the other is peripheral vision that's just in focus but not on the same spot of focus. involuntarily I do favor my left eye though which means I'm left eye dominant. my vision is better in my right non-dominant eye (not sure why I wouldn't favor the one with slightly better vision). It's not uncommon for me to shoot well above 300 out of 330 on a 30 target IBO 3D outdoor course. I do know that if my eyes focused together I'd be able to judge distance better especially out around 50 yards. also my anchor could be different and more solid not worrying about my glasses frames getting in the way.

I did mow them earlier in the summer but I feel like when I get down there I won't find much clover. it'll probably be all grass and some weeds. I'll probably let them go at this point. keep it mowed, frost seed it in the spring, and hopefully I can spray it with cleth or something like it. maybe it'd be better to wait, spray to kill everything off first and then seed. in the past before I turned them into plots they'd grow 7 foot tall weeds... something maybe like iron weed. not sure but some of it is probably there again. years past it was late standing corn as a destination so the deer didn't stage too long. this year it's all beans so it'll be even better... guess I've dropped the ball this year a little.

not sure how it is out there but here it's getting HOT.... with a shower here and there it should make for a good start with anything you put down. separate note, I saw a guy post a similar picture with a similar hat laying in a food plot the other day on facebook.

doing it right is subjective but if I could like this post more than once I would.