dbHunterNY

yes that's correct.

more visible and on their feet now. had a doe and fawn in my yard as I was leaving for work this AM.

I use them. I shoot them out of my Nikon Omega scoped TC Prohunter muzzleloader. they seem to be very very accurate. I've grouped shots at 100 yards into a single ragged hole. groups at 200 yards are 5" or better with regularity. Out of my barrel anyway they load easy. TC 250gr shockwaves with the yellow sabot, that I started with, loaded quite a bit harder. only had one bad experience with the SST but it wasn't even that bad really. in 2009 I was whitetail hunting in OK. 104 yard shot, slightly quartering away yielded not a drop of blood. it was a complete pass through with 150gr of powder behind it and blew the heart apart from the center out. we searched and found it quickly as it was maybe 38 yards away, but still I thought that was odd. since then I've had more than adequate blood trails and the long range accuracy can't be beat, so I've stuck with them. some I know have had similar results and moved to a XTP Mag, Barnes expander, or similar bullet. You're then limiting your range though. I hunt mostly farms with wood lots and ag fields. So the accuracy and range is important to me.

I shoot throughout the year. if you can find an outdoor 3D this summer go do it. awesome practice. if you're allowed a rangefinder guess at yardage first. shooting with friends is always fun. you shoot once then get to rest a bit walking to the other target and waiting for others to shoot.

yup I can definitely agree with that.

I've got more stuff going on with priority, so it'll have to be a little later on. won't be next year.

gator is good.... kind of like tasty dark meat chicken.

I prefer a drop point for field dressing. however, I've come to learn to just support the tip with my index finger. then know that a trailing point, straight back, or your "sharpfinger" is better for skinning and processing later on to give me less grief. I know of a guy Ross Tyser that makes great looking knives.

does it work off preference points and putting in year after year? how long would it take to finally draw STA tags you think?

that's a cool picture. never seen that before.

an elk hunt near the rocky mountains for a B&C bull elk with a bow. staying in a five star lodge while bringing along my wife, daughter, and mom to chill out in a spa or something else while we hunt. my dad and brother would accompany me on the hunt. we'd all tag out early and then have a nice family vacation. ....sorry I'm awake now. what was the question? More realistically (in this order): - Midwest or Canadian whitetail hunt for anything 150+". - Elk hunt - Manitoba or Maine Black Bear hunt (if I don't get one in NY before then) - Florida Trophy Gator (10+ feet) ....I'd bring/ship back and eat every one of them too.

I wouldn't be ok with it being read unless it was toward the very end of elementary school. i get homosexuality is a thing. if it must be then so be it, but i don't agree with or truly understand it. kid's are just figuring out things in the world and pushing something like that will just confuse them. later on if it's meant to be they and maybe others will figure it out. regardless of how you look at it religious or physical characteristics a man is meant to be with a woman. some are happy being different but that doesn't mean we have to push it onto others. i know some that were confused and finally ended up straight, because they wanted a traditional family and that's what they finally decided made them happy. unlike what some say as a cowardly excuse, it's not something you're born with or programmed to be. it's a choice that you and only you chose. it just so happens that's the choice that apparently makes you the happiest. let a kid/individual choose when they're ready without confusing things.

actually now that I think about it a Browning BL-22 lever is probably on my bucket list of guns at the very top. I don't a 22LR rifle and it's definitely obtainable.

22LR has less stopping power but more range than shotshell. like you also said 100 rounds of 22LR could be in your pocket. 100 rounds of 12ga is heavy and would weight a pack down a bit.

i'd have to say a 22LR repeater but lever or pump versus semi-auto. 22LR repeater would still keep people at bay but give you lots of ammo. you could carry 1,500 rounds with much issue in a pack. won't fend off a bear other than the noise. could definitely kill big game with it if you got within bow range and made a head shot. also good on lots of small game. also the sound won't carry as much.

have an over grow field next to the house that connects a creek bottom and a swamp with 10 acres of beans right there too. I let the weeds grow for fawning cover. figured they're alright by now and wanted to clean it up for my daughters bday party. mowed paths/sections through it for now until I get back to finishing it. had a couple fawns running through the paths so I guess it's worked. Nikon D5100 battery was dead so I couldn't take pictures.

size of a buck and how hard it is to kill is all relative for the first years of it's life. same goes for doe. if people in your area pass a certain age/class/sex deer then those deer are going to wonder with less care because they're not getting shot at. once you start shooting at doe in an area they've lived without bullets flying at them they smarten up real quick. same goes any age class buck. all things being equal the older the buck the more experience and success at eluding hunters it has and the more it's gotten pressure/shot at. that said a 2.5+ year old buck might not be the same elusionist skill in your woods as it is in mine. aside from acknowledging varying degrees of discipline and effort, accessing another hunter's skill from an internet forum posts (not in reference to anyone really) is just stupid.

first week in june. whatever is in Antler King Honey Hole. it was a year with very mild fall and early winter. did well but didn't see much action until 2nd week in Dec. 1/4 acre staging area plots that had the adjacent main food source (corn) harvested off 3rd week in October.

im with you. most bowhunters I know of don't care, as they'd pick up a crossbow or hunt right along side them with a regular vertical bow. it's all relative I mean if I take out my bare recurve versus one of my tricked out compounds I don't get a special season. crossbows should be used as regular archery gear. it'd get more people out in the woods and supporting another piece of hunting.

yup Grampy your plan worked. he just verified the identity. lol

yea my next excuse will be "you always pay so much attention to my guns and stuff I put on them so I thought I'd get more for you to admire and appreciate." ....followed by "you're right accessorizing is fun!! look all the cool stuff this one came with!"

all you guys are lucky.... my wife is about dumb to guns as a gun shop owner. she'd know if i changed the rings and bases out on a rifle.

last year I hunted a 3.5 yr old buck that was coming in almost every day at 4:30pm. i waited until rifle season, because i couldn't hunt him in the creek bottom without the wind letting him bust me. based on camera pictures though i got so i could tell when the neighbors were bowhunting as he'd show up 30-45 mins later to get around 4-5 of them. he was 40 yards from one hunters stand at least a dozen times and the hunter never saw him. a hot doe and one hunters change in schedule finally got him in the wrong place at the wrong time. he died several hundred yards away heading toward me on the same route he always took. he was only 3.5!!

from what I've read he's got multiple locations that were supposed to be under quarantine from finding CWD in deer connected to his place(s). not all the deer at preserve and game farm had been put down and tested i thought I read. all the ones in the preserve were free and clear. the reason as read seemed to be that things went down like they did because he kept screwing around and didn't play by the rules. now I don't know if those rules are truly unreasonable to justify him not cooperating or doing what he was supposed to. regardless if you want a deer farm you've got to play by the rules I guess. it sounds like the ODA didn't jump to killing them off right away. I could understand that being they have to pay out so much. it's screwing around on both sides as far as I'm concerned.

the second part I agree with but the first part... damn. this isn't the big buck meca some places are with 130+" bucks running all over the place. also what you said, hunter density and property size is smaller with less big rack opportunity and less mineral rich dirt. the logical next step is to try and take an older deer with your hunting buddies to add to the experience versus going after a big rack that's not there. even is the main stream media they're leaning toward this. one reason everybody knows is age is the cheapest and most efficient way to get big bone no matter what else is going on. your reasoning in my opinion doesn't work to say age structure and things have worked for 100 years and will continue to do so. mentality was different back then and now the push to shoot more and more doe is readily apparent. to keep up with this harvest pressure a deer herd has to be a baby fawn factory or numbers will go down and less bucks will be born to hunt in the future. to be the most productive a herd has to have a good population of 1.5 yr old bucks to get it done and natural selection to take place. this is separate that people seem to ignore because all they care about is antlers.