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  1. Posted on the UHRV NDA facebook page but had a couple groups of poults other day riding around checking cams on the farm. pic is of a hen touting 18 poults and a little over a mile away toward the other side of the farm was a hen with half a dozen. then a there was a bachelor group with a couple adult hens not far from that. 

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  2. 13 minutes ago, Belo said:

    I am surrounded by corn and soy as well as apples. My whole goal with plots is some winter stuff and mostly to draw them in to range aka the kill plot. So failure for me is more personal than anything haha.

    if it means anything the last couple plots i did got hammered to dirt before the season even started. used some antler king honey hole years back and grew great. deer never touched it until after the season. shoulder and standing room only in my small staging plots. helped with inventory that made it through the season i guess. everyone fails in food plotting at some point. lol

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  3. On 8/13/2022 at 2:46 PM, Daveboone said:

    I had the same problem with my t/c inline, with triple seven. Funny, as I never have a problem with my sidelocks with black powder. After cleaning, I would wipe my inline with a good moist rag with Remoil. That took care of the problem.

    i've used 777 for forever and truly believe it's garbage when it comes to a corrosion free barrel. clean it soon and you're fine. i've got blackhorn 209 in my safe i haven't fully dived into yet.

  4. anything i bring is important or i don't bring it. lol

    rarely ever do i go into the woods without a rangefinder. if hunting with a gun then it's also shooting sticks. I could hunt in plain clothes with no calls, scent reduction, or lure scents. i can even get a most deer out without field dressing if i needed to. got to make the shot count though.

    if it's cold or wet it's got to be something to block wind and keep me from getting wet.

  5. if you're doing it for insight into QDM or just related content in general. I have the trail cam book too. it's okay. a lot of evolution and history of the trail camera. i'd pass and instead look more into the other books about young successional growth and evaluating harvest data in that order.  what you shot is what you shot. good to collect it though to keep a good gauge on expectations. few more books on both topics in NDA online store.

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  6. 18 hours ago, Jeremy K said:

    It only makes sense if you allow all them old doe to walk around unchecked they're gonna get sick and spread it.

    to me old is close to fully mature or older. not anything less than 5.5 years old. i'm an advocate for stacking up old nanny doe left and right to lower the population if needed. that doesn't have anything to do with EHD though. just a guess on my part but seeing how they're done growing and typically nursing one or less fawns, they require less water. that's where you'll find a concentration of biting midges that transmit EHD. EHD otherwise doesn't care about age.

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  7. i've used straight, offset, etc and now full helical. many factory fletched arrows are straight. you have okay accuracy especially within reasonable ranges that aren't 40+ yards out. not sure how much my helical is but it's way more than a degree. Broadheads have more influence on noise and your bow going off/being shot alerts the deer more IMO. getting that arrow spinning will help accuracy in terms of stability especially with fix blades. adds a little more drag but not something you notice until you get out there pretty far.

  8. it's hard to assess without walking the property or talking to nearby farmers. timber or rentable/tillable acreage offsets any upfront cost by a lot usually. keeping land just for recreation isn't easy to justify. also you have to consider proximity to a substation or overhead lines. powerlines promoting trespass suck but as ignorantly move to "green" energy solar and other stuff can give you a property with net profit each year.

  9. it works but not how some recommend like using twine or dropping trees. also if you pinch things in too much and make them feel uncomfortable like they can't escape how they want, they'll just skirt the whole area all together. you give them a reason to desire to go where you are. in open hardwoods thin a few spots to create patches of browse. do that around your stand too as long as you keep back cover to hide you in the tree. for food plots you can plant screening to section a food plot open a spot to walk through close to your stand or blind. streams you can knock down banks with equipment in a certain spot close to where your stand is easier to hunt and not get busted. i've used mock scrapes and curiosity scents that turned into spots the deer left scent and kept maintained themselves. fallow fields i've mowed a strip this time of year so there's some young lush green stuff to browse as they walk by vs matured weeds. you're enticing them not forcing them.

    i would never do the t shirt idea. you're adding your presence which is bad depending on any specific deer how it handles presence. also even if they deer stayed the shirt will develop its own odor that the deer get used to and eventually ignore anyway. it won't help you either because they smell a presence from you X days old and you on stand will smell more and different. my thoughts anyway.

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  10. It would warm my heart if the judge deems which portions are unconstitutional and then in the opinion warns that if unconstitutional laws within this same frame work are passes and brought to the Supreme Court for a third time within such vague time frame that it would be his recommendation for SCOTUS to hold sponsors of the bills and the governor in contempt of court. I mean all other states with similar laws that were affected respected the SCOTUS ruling but NYS is intentionally being spiteful. Governor even said so.

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  11. 2 is all I shoot
    But I have personal rules l follow. I go by weight on bucks not rack size. If I kill a buck in bow season then I use rack size to decide if I will shoot the second buck it has to be bigger. 
    I like to hunt. As I've gotten older l've learned we have only a set amount of hunting seasons in us and I'm going to enjoy the one's I have left.
    If everyone only hunted to fill tags then we'd retain way less than half the hunting population every year. If you can't enjoy just being out there idk why you'd even do it. Thinking about older generations of family members that used to be serious hunters i totally get the limited seasons left.

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  12. yield from most deer is about 45-50% of its dressed weight.  So figure about 45-50 pounds of meat per deer unless its a big one.   An average 110 pound doe is only gonna yield about 40#s of meat.   
    I trim fat and silver skin pretty meticulously and get around 40% at most. I feel like 45-50% seems high even for a buck.

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  13. Here in NE part of the state your average mature doe weighs about 120lbs. Some bigger and others smaller that are young. Bucks yield a little higher percentage and very old or very young deer yield less. You get about 35% of field dressed weight in well trimmed meat. So for .5 lb or so per day you're about 2 deer. If you shoot a big mature buck that weighs more and gets more that might enough by itself.

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  14. had a Fidens super heavy cut triple ipa in a share yesterday
    I've had that fresh. Not sure how old it was but that one is a favorite. Juice and not boozy at all for a triple. One of my favorites.

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  15. Couple of local fidens brews. A 10% "triple farmer" and a 9% "do you know allen?". He's the guy that does the art work that's hard to see in this light. The triple was better.20220806_211353.jpg20220806_211926.jpg

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