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That's funny, but you are aging yourself and it'll probably fly under the radar w/o notice. Maryanne fan myself! To the OP, good luck in the morning!

Interesting news article on CNN, "What's happened since Cubs won a WS". Just to put this into perspective -Teddy Roosevelt was president, there were a mere 46 US states, Lincoln was assassinated only 43 years prior and Shoe-less Joe Jackson was a rookie. The Indians have a more recent MLB WS title, 1948. About the time us 1st wave of WWII baby-boomers were brought into this world. History will be made, so it's not hard to root for either team! Seems like an expanded version (~6hr car-pool) for the mid-west of the famed 2000 "Subway Series".

Isn't there a P&Y or B&C category for found or non-harvested BB rack scoring?

I'm with Larry302 and Grampy, rain takes the element of fun out of the hunt, esp with a bow or ML in hand. More power to those of you who can endure the rain. Just an opinion, but if there were a Top-10 list of no-nos for deer hunting, hunting in the rain would be at the bottom of the list.

Not a call I'd add to my arsenal of hunting tactics, it is an alarm sound. I have responded back to them in the dark and then seen what I think were same deer after sun came up. They are wild animals, somewhat curious and all will respond differently to varied situations. Okay, have to admit I have played with deer that have done the alarm blow. Never had one approach, but they are real curious, blowing back & foot stomping at what it was blowing back at them, esp if they can't see another deer.

I shot a doe last Saturday and a buck a few years ago that only had the 5-6 lower jaw, front teeth. Doe was super fat and w/o a fawn. Not sure what it could have been eating with the lack of chompers to get so fat & old, since there's no grain crops around the area??? Not overly concerned with aging her, but guessing 7-8yo or more!

Just guessing here, couldn't you blanch them like most veggies and then can or freeze them in some kind of liquid (clear broth, tons of butter..)? Sure they can be dried & rehydrated for use, esp in soups. Should have told the wife you guys were going to be rich & famous, you'd found a bigfoot egg.

The very best and ultimate cool hunting story I've heard in a long time. Way to go! Oh yeah, and Wooly's usual great photos to add to the experience! Almost ready for primetime...?

Don't laugh, it was best camo available ions ago. Not sure my I still have it, nostalgia!??!

Another example of why not to listen to any advice from the sales people behind the counter at big-box sporting goods stores, if this is the case here. Wasn't this 3 pellet/150gr hysteria created years ago by those TV hunting shows sponsored by T/C featuring one of the company's spokesmen/hunter? Solely for T/C product endorsement & advertising hype! Who shoots big game over 250+yrds with a ML, esp in NYS? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I see the only advantage of using 150gr of BP pellets in a modern in-line ML would be for improved ballistics beyond 100yrds with those cannonball sabots/conicals in the 325-400gr weight range. FYI - 777 magnum loads are listed as 60gr equivalent/pellet. Whether it is added chemicals or more BP, I'm not sure. They're designed to act as propellants to enhance burn rate, blah, blah... so if it is strictly an additive, I'm assuming it might be a sort of a synthetic BP substitute, aka Pyrodex.

Be interested in knowing more about this Cornell study. Hard for me to understand what useful info they could get from transplanting & tracking a deer? Other than dramatic changes to habitat and how the deer adjust. FYI - Most of these Cornell studies/projects are funded by the DEC through revenue from license fees. We're paying, so hoping it has some useful & realistic goal. Those collars might be a great flavor enhancer for tag soup. lol

Once you've determined a specific rifle model and caliber per all your research &/or recommendations from users - Do yourself a favor before handing over your credit card, look at ammo availability at your most convenient gun shop or big-box store. I did this recently and was amazed at the super limited availability of the ammo in the caliber I'd chosen. Just me, but I hesitate driving 50-60 miles to BP just to get ammo.

Legally, believe any LE agency can give you a document/ticket to allow you to remove the carcass, once their investigation paperwork is done on-site. Don't quote me, but don't really think the DEC is involved with car/deer accidents or the carcass removal??! In the real world - everyone involved wants to see those deer laying along the side of the road disappear. Up in my redneck area, LE and the town crews that are responsible for reporting &/or removing the carcass will turn a blind eye if a local resident removes it themself. I know a guy that loves to hunt coyotes and has an arrangement with the Town Hwy Dept to p/u them as soon as the town &/or LE relays their dispatch call to him. Pretty sure others will also verify, what's salvageable from each road-kill will be different. I don't do this, just seems to be a lot of inconvenience, at inappropriate hours & a lot of work involved for the small amount of questionable venison you'd get. Not to say I wouldn't consider doing it if I hit the deer or saw one killed in front of me during my travels on a day I didn't have anything scheduled, was dressed appropriately and it wasn't a high speed "pulverizing" of the deer.

Got a Savage 111TH in 270 a few weeks ago. Comes with a decent Nikon scope & ~$420 after $75 rebate. Only issue I've encountered is the magazine is a POS. Which also requires a certain technique for working the bolt action & ensuring subsequent ammo is chambered. Couldn't even remove the mag from the display model, so needless to say after opening the box on one I wanted - that was 1st thing I checked. Basic SOP & sure you know this - do NOT trust the bore-sighting claims made by the big-box store clerks, go to the range! Mine was bragged to be dead-on & 1/2" high at 100yrds out of the box. At the range the 1st shots were 6" high & 12" to right! Good thing I had a XL cardboard backer, 1st shots weren't even on the paper target like you'd expect if a gunsmith had bore-sighted it.

Never heard of that from TWC. Isn't that a satellite TV channel line-up option??? Like Geno, I also have the standard TWC channels and they're included where he mentioned. Possibly the super, stripped-down basic TWC channel option might not have these shows available w/o some upgrade pkgs!?!

All mechanical BHs have inherent performance or design quirks. Definitely a love-hate relationship. I've read horror story about almost all of them! Best overall single mechanical BH, probably a couple of the front runners mentioned above. It only takes one bad experience before you suddenly hate the one you've been using and it inevitably is on the BB of a life-time.

Sorry, but there's no "one size fits all" answer for the OP's question! Fixed blade BHs are no different for compound bows than when used on Xbows. Just might take a little more tweaking when going from field tip to BH. Obviously, that's not a huge time consuming endeavor since Xbows use a scope and can be shot from a rest. Most of the same principles apply to Xbows that are used in selecting arrow/BH combinations for vertical bow, although to a smaller degree. Mechanical BHs are a completely different story with Xbows exerting ~3X the initial inertia (physic's term??) upon the arrow/bolt than do compound bows. Possibly making some mechanical BHs prematurely deploy and causing erratic bolt flight or trajectory. Not to mention penetration issues if the target is actually hit. Clearly there's a lot of variation in Xbows, type, design, draw wgt, fps, blah, blah. All the little quirks of using mechanical BHs can be expected for ALL bows! This makes suggesting a single mechanical BH impossible for every Xbow. I'm not one to try and reinvent the wheel, so I use what my Xbow mfger suggests, NAP Spitfire. They've done all the testing in the lab and out in the field, so why should I? Some have had issues with these BHs, I haven't as of yet. May get crucified for this suggestion, but there are other great, strictly Xbow forums where the members have many more years of hunting experience with Xbows than we do here in NYS. All their equipment reviews &/or discussions reflect this!!! If you venture there, you'll see reviews &/or discussions than are more specific to Xbow models and BHs combos the members have experienced using. Sorry Burmjohn - I love huntingny.com, but...! LOL.

Ahh, the old adrenaline vs the brain, which will win out? I always seem to set "rules for engagement" for what I want or expect out of the new bow season, a nice older, fat doe and a mature BB. After you've done many hours/days of pre-season foreplay getting ready for opening day, sometimes the adrenaline just overcomes your better judgement. I'm the worst person to give advice on self-restraint, but here goes anyways: In the moment, if it feels good, then do it , but never look back & regret it afterwards! Also, if you do it on opening day, you may be sitting the next 40 days or so with only doe tags. Is that what you want???

^^^ All true! So...If an uninformed, new hunter goes into one of those big box outdoors stores and seeks advice from an equally uninformed ~$12/hr sales associate, whose to blame? This is unfortunately most prevalent to encounter an idiot sales associate while shopping for bows &/or accessories since it's more specialized or personalized than shotgun &/or rifle hunting supplies. Fasteddie, if you're talking about the Dick's in Webster, just had a couple of.....cringe-worthy experiences there. Just bought a rifle there after doing my due diligence research and handling numerous models. Picked out one I wanted, sales associate put bore scope in it & told me it was ~1/2" high @ 100yrds and dead-on Lft-Rgt. Good thing I did NOT take his word for it, first shots at ranged were 12" to left & 6" high. WTH was he talking about. Okay, so while waiting for all the paperwork BS for new rifle, I'm watching another associate sell a shotgun to an uninformed father whose 14yo son was just getting into hunting. Anyways, talked the father into a Mossberg 500 12ga, 3" mag. Had to bite my tongue with that one! Poor kid will hate his dad after shooting that ...!!

New blind for me this year, so I'm in market for similar hanger. NO, not all blinds have the built-in bow hanger! Somewhere I came across a gizmo that attaches to the roof struts of a blind for hanging a bow. Look around the web... Also have seen tripod or freestanding bow holders, you simply rest a bow/xbow against. IDK, but looked sort of unstable,!?! Haven't actually purchased anything yet, but inclined to buy one that pushes into the ground.

10pt probably uses Omni nocks for performance &/or consistency for advertising claims. Curse 10pt all you want, but they are deer hunters that have been developing Xbows for years. NOT some Asian engineer designing bolt/nock combinations for cost effectiveness! Can't really compare true hunting bolts to the simple discharge ones. Who cares how they fly in the 3' you shoot one into the ground? Little off topic, but this is what I went with instead of disposable or large tipped discharge bolts. Cost about the same and it's fairly compact. Easy to tote around in the vehicle or even stash somewhere in the woods inside a trash bag. http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/product/index.jsp?productId=11970408&page=1&cp=4406646.70516396.4414427.4414430&categoryId=13128706

Pondered this exact same question a few weeks ago after getting a new blind. Lots of conflicting reports on the web about how the netting may or may not effect the arrow's flight. My scenario is I use mechanicals and would have no way to tell if BH deployed prematurely, whether its' trajectory was influenced by the netting or not. The determining statement that made my decision to go w/o netting was about the size of the hole put into the netting with the BH compared to the diameter of a hole needed to allow the vanes to pass through undisturbed. Lot of this probably varies among blind mfgers and type of netting they use. Even if you tested your specific blind with your hunting arrows, so maybe you shoot 8-9X out of 10 shots into the bullseye..... Be just my luck that one flier arrow would happen at the most inopportune time, a BB. If you've done it and it works, continue doing it! If there's even the slightest question or any doubt in your mind ..........Don't! Wouldn't you rather be detected in the blind with no netting up than to have a complete miss caused by shooting thru it? Or worst yet, a bad, non-lethal shot caused by an erratic arrow's path? My 2¢ worth, take it or leave it!

I was informed there are a lot more details about this encounter on FaceBook. Basically was trying to get into the house, clawing to get in, head slammed with door, shot and tested positive for rabies.

Link didn't mention any others still in the running to become the next generation US combat handgun, but S&W was definitely eliminated. Possibly the next gen of Beretta's M9, the M9A3. Was in the market for a home defense handgun and all the reviews, being combat tested pointed to one of the versions of Beretta's M9 platform. Really tried like it & to put its' cost aside, but it was super beefy for having around the home. Can see its' allure in combat situations! IMHO, not something I'd want to pack around all day either. Slick handgun all the same! Any of you vets have any input on the M9 or it being the front runner for next gen combat handgun? http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/26/investing/smith-wesson-army-gun/index.html?iid=ob_article_organicsidebar_expansion

Little cruel or insensitive, but it wouldn't have hurt my feeling if the thieves kidnapped her and she was never heard from again. In fact, take the entire clan - Please!