dbHunterNY

in learning more about deer and management i figured i'd give this a go. what i've learned is just what you said. don't know how anyone can tell the difference. i've looked at lots of known jaw bones and sometimes you guess well and other days are just bad. much harder than looking at swapped out premolars with numbers of cusps.

it's easy enough but your d-loop will be better and better with practice. tie it like the suggestions say. your knots so be opposite each other. if you shoot a hand held release then have the top d-loop come out in the inside of the bow string. if you shoot an index finger release with a wrist strap set it up the opposite of that. BCY and Gibbs make good D-loop material. top knot is done first. flare it and melt it before it goes on the string. then tie the bottom knot and make sure not to leave much if any slack. the loop will look flattened and too tight. give a pull on it and then cut, flare, and melt it as close to the knot as you can. be careful not to melt anything else. wait a minute or two and then use d-loop pliers to pull the loop out and tighten the knots. you can use needle-nose opposite their normal use to stretch the loop and set the knots as well. i like to use a d-loop with soft nocks (tied string). if done right you'll be able to twist up or down the string with both to adjust your nock height without doing everything over again.

Word has already gotten out quite a bit all over NY. It's important that we keep fighting for our freedoms.... Something we can do as gun owners for a reasonable amount of money, to sway our state representatives into changing this new gun law in New York State. That is, if everyone who owns a gun, or who believes in the right to own guns, would take the effort to write a simple note to their state assembly person, senator and this governor, expressing their opposition to this new gun law. Most people will not write because they don’t know what to say, this is where the club leader ship should be willing to write a form type of letter so others would have an idea about what to say in their own letter. The amazing thing is the cost of a piece of paper, envelope, stamp and one hour of their time, verses not being able to attend a rally or send in a couple of hundred dollars to NYSRPA which is what some of us are going to do. If every person that owns a gun or like I said believes in the write to own a gun would do this simple task, we would flood their mail boxes with letters that they cannot ignore. It will get their attention when it is expressed to them that you will not vote for them if they voted for this new gun law. If we can get this to all clubs and gun owners from Long Island to the Canadian border and from Buffalo to the Vermont/ Massachusetts border the effect would stagger their offices and bury them in letters. Thousands of letters get their attention and make them think a little harder that they will be out of a job after the next election, verses one letter with a thousand signatures which they throw in the garbage can. If your elected official voted against this law they deserve a letter telling them how please you are with their decision to do so. The crazy part of all this is, we have not had an incident in New York State with an AR 15 type rifle or a legally owned glock high capacity magazine handgun, but they want us to pay the price for others actions. It will take the effort of a lot of leaders from a lot of gun organized clubs to accomplish this, however it can be done with the help of the internet this is very doable. If our club leaders take the time to get them the names, addresses and how to do it, this will get a lot of attention. LET THIS MOVEMENT START HERE WITH US, LET THEM HERE WHAT WE HAVE TO SAY IN OUR OWN WORDS, DON’T BE RUDE, JUST DIRECT AND TO THE POINT THAT WE ARE OPPOSED TO THIS NEW LAW AND DISPLEASED WITH THOSE THAT VOTED FOR IT. Remember the movie Miracle on 42nd St and what that court room looked like with all those letters, we as gun owners can do the same thing with our foolish representatives. Gun owners should all send letters between March 1st and March 7th of 2013, let them see the power of gun owners when our backs are to the wall.

so why does the old law make it felony counts? they must not have been pre-ban mags and that's why?

the manager could easily make it store policy and have a reasonable limit. it's partly their fault for letting him. that had to be thousands of rounds.

thought you couldn't buy ammo online anymore?

if the story is true the sheriff's office is in deep!

i'm guilty of not reading through all the pages and have just skipped to the end..... i think whatever gets more people out and enjoying the outdoors. do i think crossbows have a slight advantage over regular bows, yup. then again i don't really care, my last bow wasn't a $2k compound setup but a recurve. i'm for it and have passed it on to others. if someone, acting a certain way, shoots a big buck with a xbow and then rubs it in my face I'll hold out my recurve and say "have at it! good luck" lol

although i understand where the small vendors are coming from, i seem to agree with what Phade has said. they have to realize business is a risk in general, and sometimes things fall through. i know of vendors who were in tougher shape than they were from what it sounds like. some dumped lots of money into kicking off their business at the show. they've got other options but it's now a huge up hill battle. one has to understand the great cause of it all too. the 2nd amendment doesn't have to do with hunting, but it does facilitate the means to do so. without hunting there wouldn't be much of a market for them to even have their business.

i don't have the knowledge you do of how they work and operate. i will say out in western NY, WMU 8 & 9 i saw more and better shows and events where QDMA branches can get out there easier. the menality is different out in western NY opposed to here at least in the capital region. just saying QDM practices aren't prevalent out here. that's one of QDMA's goals i'd imagine is to have their practices of QDM be accepted and acted on. not sure why hunters don't do more of it. everyone doesn't have to dump money and lots of time into food plots, habitat management, and studying their herd. there's a lot of simple and easy things one can do that doesn't require much effort.

i'm thinking i might have to.... seems if you tell someone about these practices it doesn't sink in. they just think you're making it up or read it online. if you show them a video clip, data from a study, etc all the sudden they start asking more questions with an interested look.

very good post here. being the son of a farmer and hunting chucks myself when i've got time, i agree with what's been said. last year the count was at 82 for me in the end. another guy i know of, that's a teacher with more time during the summer, on a good year gets around 250. some cousins and an uncle also shoot them. despite all this shooting they still seem to be in numbers the following year. can't imagine what things would be like if we didn't thin them out.

No I meant QDMA. I'm aware QDM stands for quality deer management, QDMA stands for ..... association. You shouldn't need to be in Bogart, GA to work for the QDMA. If the QDMA or even some other organization were to be more pronounced here, there'd be better structure and knowledge at hand. I'm aware there's a handful of branches here in NY. You just don't hear of enough about QDMA stuff going on around here. Not their fault. It's just not whole heartedly accepted around here. If it had more exposure around here people willing to learn would hear it straight from the horses mouth so to speak, and others who didn't go out of there way would be still exposed to it. Too many people around here practice their own version of "QDM" that really has little merit and factual evidence behind what's practiced.

only thing that works for deer is electric staggered fence. first one has a single electric strand at 2.5 feet and the next fence is about 3 feet in and about 3.5 feet tall not necessarily electric. works mostly due to the deers vision, giving them to illusion it's something they can't jump.

saw that. i commend them for taking action when it's easy to sit around and simply complain.

there's enough genetics and high quality food here to produce big bucks. QDMA just hasn't kicked in here yet. many still shoot at 1.5 and 2.5 years old. heck the deer are only a third of a the way through their life to reach maximum potential. Age structure is NY's number one killer of hunting quality deer.

i'm looking at the Glock 19 or 17 in 9mm for my first. Also want my wife to be abe to shoot it so I'm leaning toward the 19. saw a nice G34 custom in a shop here but it was just a physically big gun.

shorno argument here.... i agree that AR would be nice to have in that situation. of course my ideal home defense gun would be an "assault weapon" style shotgun; holds more than five rounds, collaspable stock, short open choked barrel, with a laser grip and light on it. load it with birdshot that won't pass through your entire home and your good. i suppose that'd make me a bad person now though. lol

a pump shotgun is at times the best home defense gun... you can make a lot of noise that doesn't sound good to another person breaking into your home. good to hear it ended well.

so i'm wondering how many out there are looking to get 10 round AR-15 mags before April 15th. Unlike the high cap mags you'd still be able to keep them. Seems like you can't find them anywhere even though i haven't heard of many going out to get them last minute.

....regardless i wouldn't hack the grip off.

i guess what i said might not be true. it looks like it was rewritten once going through the assembly and other stuff. that part is now crossed out.

that was a real AR-15 outfitted with a Dewalt sticker and a battery pack housing that was on sale and then epoxied to a mag. Dewalt didn't make it. Cool as heck though! lol

your AR is a banned item and must be registered within a year simply because of it's reciever design with the new bill. the characteristic attachments are to pick up other tactical guns that aren't an AR platform.

DO NOT STOP spreading the word and signing!!!!!! ....not all the signatures are from NY residents.... we need more NY signatures as well as those from other states to show support and make things happen. this isn't to do away with Cuomo's bill completely either... there are good points in it. there are issues with it that neither side likes. security and law enforcement is said to be limited by this as well. this bill was rushed through and shouldn't have been. with modifications both sides can be happy and more importantly safe.