SteveB

Every study ever dowe shows it would have no real effect on the coyote population.

I heard you can set a loaded one on the back porch in the morning, go to work, and have a 140 buck hanging there when you get home.

While I don't see the reason for a closed coyote season, it would make little difference in the population to change it. Few hunters do it now - a few more months open will not make a significant difference. I understand you have to take like 2/3 of the population yearly to have any long term effect - hunting alone just won't do it.

Of course you are talking about a recurve.

I have family living for 30 years dead center in the middle of it there. They report the same as you - no changes. The only people they know of with water issues had those same issues prior to drilling.

You may have gotten some poor pine pellets, but overall pine makes a superior heating pellet then hardwoods. More btu's and less ash when made properly. Curran's in Massena do it right. It's counter intuitive because of our generational experience with burning wood and knowing a pine board is softer and lighter than an oak one. But when processed, a pine pellet becomes denser and therefore contains more btu's. And pine is far easier on the mills to make than hardwood. But the difference is not huge - once the pine plantations are used, the waste from managed hardwood logging is still significant and could remain a good source of raw material. I am not suggesting pellets become the source of heat/energy in NY/NE. Just a better utilization of our state lands in an environmentally sound manner providing realistic consumptive use and being a source of income as well for the state. Long term programs with benefits to the land, the wildlife and to the residents of the state.

Jacy - too bad you don't feel you have anything to offer. Your welcome back anytime.

Your welcome - anytime. If not wanting to see the use of of illegal salts and minerals in NYS means you consider me an elite hunter, then I guess I am guilty. By the way, welcome to the forum. Get past this and take part. Every is welcome to their opinions and to contribute.

Welcome Reed Or is it Jacy?

Sorry - sounded like Reed was one of you. Others sell them here. That post was promoting their use in NY.

And we would like to invite you to participate in the forum here without it sounding like you are trying to sell products. Checked your facebook page and there is a post from Reed Doody promoting using his/yours deer "minerals for camera use, antler growth and body development. Use of it is illegal in NY. Are the deer above results of your product use?

I'm fine - heard it before, used it before, but there is a time and place for it. Open, public family areas are not it. Most are smart enough not to do so like in a restaurant store or any other public place, but obviously a few are not. Shame you don't understand and probably never will. You are the one needing the basket - let us know where to send it.

Internet rumors and real life happenings are 2 different things. Can't remember ever hearing of an actual violent or even any confrontation in NY. I have more issues about the language some think is OK on a public family site.

Civilian Conservation Core or something similar. Pine makes a great pellet - all they use in the Northwest where pellet stove where born. There are heating systems available capable of handling all kinds of commercial, residential, office, municipal, etc needs - all extremely clean burning. The gleaned wood from these pine forests and what could be taken from a sound management program of all state forests could fuel huge numbers of these systems providing local NYS energy.

I believe it was done Depression or post Depression by the CCC work teams. Sure it seemed like the best solution at the time and was good for probably 20 to 30 years. Time for a change where long term effects are a major factor in what is done. Even continued clear cutting ramped up would be far better than what they are now.

Most likely a combination of all of these. There are several of these desert like pine forests near me. At a few, they have clear cut and removed (probably for pulp) several sections of 10+ acres leaving all tops and and the tress of no value. Allowed it to regenerate naturally. After 3 years, they have become tangled up, nearly impassable (to humans) areas that are great havens for all types of wildlife. They will most likely continue to evolve into diverse habitats and a more natural area. Most of these pine state lands where planted on abandoned marginal farmlands that could support far more than pine trees.

If NYS wanted a huge boost to it's income and benefit our ecosystems and wildlife, they would allow sustainable selective logging to our state lands and parks. Done correctly, it would be a great benefit to much of the forest and to wild life. Allow more diversity and be a major source of income which could be used to add more land when it becomes available. Walk a section of woods owned by companies such as Cotton Hanlon or Gutchiss Lumber. Then walk one of the dying, devoid of diversity pine forest state lands. See the difference.

Thanks for the permission. Words can't express what that means to me.

Trespassing bowhunters is some hilarious stuff. Don't know when I'll stop laughing.

I'm sure that's the case Eddie. My point is that they chose to depict bowhunters as scheming willing trespassers.

Heard on another site episode 4 depicted them trespassing to recover a deer. Checked it out and sure enough they did. Great job! Of course this doesn't reflect on hunters at all and would be a great video to show the people in a town where hunters are trying to get approval to hunt.

Problem a lot of times with this type of testing is that teaching to test becomes more important than teaching and understanding the subject. There is a difference.

Too tired to play. Hope you guys can get 10 pages without me.

I dvr'd the 2 shows. Watched the 1st, erased the 2nd and cancelled recording. Nothing entertaining I saw - shots of an unflushed toilet are not things I seek out. I'm not alone - 99% of the Ct/NE hunters on the Bowsite CT state forum consider it trash and are less than excited about being portrayed the way these clowns and producers decided to go. For the little TV I do watch, I choose from some of the shows that are actually good - in my opinion. Where are the Lawrence Welk reruns? I'd watch.

Check the bowsite Ct forum and AT. Overwhelming considered a total fail.