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Also the Nikon BDC for a bit more was great on my .22 Henry lever action. But I just went the other way with my Henry after a long time with the Nikon mounted I recently took it off and fine tuned the iron sights. I now feel a bit more challenged, my daughters do too and it's way lighter and less of a worry in the wild.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/latest-ethanol-tankers-derailed-cars-ny-37334672 Be careful!

For Those Who Missed It On Jimmy Kimmel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OemqVWi_R0k#t=305

As a side note let me explain a bit about the lens' used in these cameras. Up until the late 70 cameras of all kinds were limited in clarity due to poor commercial lens making technology. Sure we could hand polish a lens for a telescope or spy plane camera but to make small lens for portable cameras by the thousands was still a pipe dream for many in the industry. What really made the single use "recyclable" cameras of old possible was the mass produced plastic lens that was developed for it by Kodak (in cooperation with others). These lens continue to evolve and get better but will never measure up to glass. So guess what's in most of the trail cameras we buy?

I have heard Republican candidates in the past and recently and from all parts of the country say they would abolish the EPA. A agency created by Republican President Nixon, spurred on by a public made aware of environmental pollution by a book called Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (about DDT's effects on song bird populations). So would you really want to abolish the EPA?

Lotta time on that persons hands!

Cool reading if you're even a little curious why thing are the way they are in the wild. http://conservationmagazine.org/2016/02/corvids-hold-the-key-to-saving-the-worlds-forests// "Imagine you’re a tree. Like every other organism on this planet, you’ve got two life goals. The first is to survive long enough to reproduce, and the second is to actually reproduce. Your aim is to cast out your seeds as far as possible so that your descendants will have room to grow. After all, if you just drop your seeds straight to the ground, your children’s nascent root systems will compete with your own mature one and will have trouble surviving. The solution? Strike a bargain with an animal. You provide the food, and the animal provides the baby carriage to transport your precious cargo a safe distance away. According to a new study, some of the best animal couriers around are corvids, the family of birds that includes crows, ravens, rooks, jays, and magpies."

Many magazines and website will usually take this stuff and re-iterate it for the layman hunter but I prefer going to the edu's for hard core studies and blending that with what i see and other hunters experiences. http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/wild_turkey.htm https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/wild_turkey/lifehistory http://www.clemson.edu/extension/natural_resources/wildlife/publications/fs35_eastern_wild_turkey.html a deeper search will reveal study white papers that are really technical but very interesting.

rock·et1 ˈräkət/ noun 1. a cylindrical projectile that can be propelled to a great height or distance by the combustion of its contents, used typically as a firework or signal. Cause they called it a rocket dragster didn't mean it was really a rocket, I have a "heat seeking moisture missile" but I'd never call "it" a rocket! But I can imagine a future with the kind of weapon you speak of.

Didn't Wile E. Coyote try using rockets?

Oh... I was out that day.

Really, hunters don't use camo and cover scents? as advantages? Turkey hunters don't maximize the shot load/gauge? or pattern their shotgun for maximum effect? Deer hunters who are lucky enough to own land don't plant food crops and fruit trees to maximize their advantage? Is it not an advantage to all bow hunters and muzzle loaders that they get first crack at deer season when the number of deer is at it's highest and their advantage greatest? Airbow is just another tool that when examined will fit in someplaces and sometimes and not others, personally I think Long Island is perfect for it.

when did they rescue Gilligan???

Hey! you guys realize it's a TV show not a documentary RIGHT????

It was a summer only gig at or above tree line. Other than foraging for mushrooms and native plants I did little hunting as it wouldn't have been allowed anyway. Tell you what i did do! i panned for gold almost every day and froze my hands off doing it came away with almost 3 oz of gold after 3 months.

In the early 80's I took a summer leave and spent 3 months in the Colorado San Juan mountains as a volunteer caretaker keeping an eye on a ghost town. Many days would go by without seeing a soul. Barely any AM/FM radio, shortwave and my weekly pick up of gas, grub and reading material my only connection to the outside world. I have two daughters and think fondly of the deep absolute quiet there.

War and hunting both require skill, LUCK, every advantage you can get, LUCK, and a clean kill. When NY opened up small game hunting to air rifles/pistols it changed the make up of people who hunt on LI I saw more dads and sons with air rifles than I ever did with shotguns.

I'm sure native Americans and other peoples who used the bow & arrow would have traded up if they could and did in the American west much to the horror of soldiers at Little Big Horn et al.

Sweet!

Please don't lose sight of the fact that the dentist either of his own will or by being misled by his guides killed a protected lion on a protected reserve. Regardless of the culls that take place before or after, His ILLEGAL action brought an unwelcome light to hunting and trophy hunting in particular. I'm a hunter and conservationist and I don't feel vindicated or smug about the fact that there may be a cull at that reserve now. We need to be one when it comes to condemning those that don't follow the laws even if we don't always agree with the laws. In other threads people want to hang poachers themselves, why is this different?

Just came back from an early morning 4 mile walk with the 410 near the Otis Pike spot 41/39 area and WOW was there a tremendous amount of blow down. The East Port bike trail is effectively closed until someone with a chainsaw clears it.

It's harder if like me you don't have dogs, but I just like walking with my 410, I have seen many a hunter with dogs nab 2 or 3 buunies, and of course some years are better than others. But I go, rabbit, squirrel, fox and crow hunting there and always have fun. Front door to woods in less than 20 mins!

I've been out rabbit hunting almost every week for a few hours in and around spot 41 in otis pike going to try a bit of crow hunting while scouting turkey next month if it continues warm in and around Otis Pike.

Funny you bring up Germany. What if they never listened to the Hitlers hate speak, when he told them the Jews were the cause of all their misery and poverty. It starts with hate speak, it always starts with hate speak nothing else gets any traction without it. Make America Great Again!