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OK, since you have such negative vibes towards him maybe you can go picket out in front of the HOF if and when Eli gets inducted! LOL All I know is that Eli seems like a really nice, humble type guy. I always see him doing charitable work and such. Seems to have a nice family that he cares for and has stuck it out with one woman. In comparison to the scores of loser thugs in professional sports these days, he is notch or two above the rest in my book.

Ken Stabler, Steve Young and Kurt Warner to name 3. None of them had as long a career as Eli. I could honestly care less if Eli ever makes it to the HOF or not, I really don't pay much attention to any sport these days. I am only judging him against others who he could be compared to. Longevity and durability has always meant a LOT in any sport and it seems that Eli had a good deal of it.

Don't most decent quarterbacks who won a super bowl end up in the hall of fame, so why shouldn't Eli? If Joe Namath is in the hall, Eli should be a shoe in.

A lot less work and mess leaving the gut pile in the woods in my opinion.

I think it would be a bigger problem disposing intestines nearer to a dwelling than leaving them in the woods for the scavengers to take care of.

Congratulations. Beautiful little girl! Us forum members have chipped in and will be sending her this little gift. Should arrive in a day or two!

I don't understand how a judges ruling in one county can supersede a statewide conservation law. I did some googling on this and it looks like Judge Frank LaBuda made this decision in 2012 and the decision had little to do with conservation law. His decision was that prohibiting the feeding of deer was a violation of the first amendment right to freedom of expression. Maybe someone can enlighten us what that has to do with deer biology but I don't think I am even going to try to figure that one out for myself! https://law.justia.com/cases/new-york/other-courts/2012/2012-ny-slip-op-22243.html An additional interesting fact was that this judges wife Kathleen LaBuda http://www.scdemocratonline.com/archives/2003/news/10October/21/district2.html was in attendance at a banquet of the Sullivan County Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs as early as 2007 http://sc-democrat.com/sports/10October/05/sports.htm Judge LaBuda himself has appeared at their banquets, too, be it that the appearances were after his 2012 court ruling from what I can find online(see below). You can make judgements for yourselves here, but to me this all looks a bit fishy. I also vividly recall that several so called "sportsman" clubs in the Catskill region had way too much influence in the decision to have the Catskill region go to antler restrictions, so it just makes me even more suspicious about these type of rulings in one specific part of the state.

I'll try to be more brief next time. LOL

I also think that humanity just can't read or comprehend anything that's longer than a short paragraph anymore. Reading a tweet or a short text message on their cell phones is about all they can handle. The (mostly negative in my opinion) impact that smart phones have had on the human species is mind boggling.

I bought one from him on behalf of my uncle who isn't a forum member and everything you say about the purchase and sro is absolutely true.

I wish I knew you back then, Biz. I would have sent you a teddy bear to soothe your grief.

I looked it up and he was traded in 1989. Gotta love Mut fans, too. They've been making excuses for them for decades now.

Yeah, if it wasn't for the Mets trading away Lenny Dykstra he'd still be rooting for the Muts. LOL

You gotta love the Mets. They are masters at losing and choosing losers as players, managers, general managers, etc. LOL

I thought I read someone say in a thread somewhere on this forum that feeding was LEGAL in Sullivan county when deer season is closed? I don't see any exceptions made for Sullivan county in this DEC regulation and sort of doubt there ever really was an exception.

King Andy would suffer the same fate as Gillibrand, DeBlasio, Guiliani and Pataki if he tried to run for president, maybe worse. Trump Jr. also doesn't have a chance in the world to become governor of this state. How well did his father do in NYS in the electoral vote??

Well, he's got the whole world as his stage now, so it's not something someone like him wants to walk away from.

He's not dumb, but he isn't nearly as smart as many make him out to be. If you'd put his brains up against presidents like T. Roosevelt, Lincoln or Jefferson, his is nowhere close. I don't think he ever even wanted to become president. He just entered the primaries to make a circus out of things and damned if he didn't go all the way. I've said it before, he is the modern day PT Barnum, the great circus master. If there was one thing I was giving him credit for it was for pulling us out of those endless wars in cesspool countries like Iraq and Afghanistan, and now it looks like he might be getting us into an even bigger mess. His mind, opinions and policies can change from day to day, so this, at least to me is a sign that he is far from a genius.

Also, knowing how these things work, leasing privately will in many cases end up in a bidding war with someone else. Even if the landowner didn't get an offer to lease from someone else they will tell you they did, just so they can increase the price on you. Lucky is the guy who can lease long term from a private landowner without these various issues rearing their ugly head!

You won't get a muzzleloader cleaner with any other method. Boiling water and dish soap will get it spic and span clean. You are wasting your money on cleaning solvents for muzzleloaders.

Me too.

That video right there proves you don't need a lot of brains to be a successful deer hunter!! LOL

I took that picture when I was setting it up again before gun season for deer, but YES, I do keep all the windows open. Game could approach from any side at that spot, so I want to make sure I have a good 360 degree view of things. Doesn't seem to bother game having the windows open. Like I said, we had a few turkey come very close with our heads bobbing around on the inside and the windows fully open. Oh, and even had a few chipmunks try to join us inside by trying to crawl in underneath it! LOL

I bought a blind for the first time this season since it was my 12 year old son's first season hunting and figured it would be better hunting with him from one. I bought a Cabela's Zonz that was on sale for $99 and cost me all of $2 after I used my Cabelas points. So far I have been very satisfied with it. Probably not the greatest blind to come down the pike but for the money seems pretty durable and definitely more roomy than I expected. You can easily fit 3 people inside it. Easy to pop open, but like Pygmy said in his post above, folding it back down will involve a bit of profanity. Otherwise, it's not too bad. Has been lucky, too. We killed a bunch of squirrels, a turkey and a buck from it this Fall, and had several other turkeys come within stone throws distance from the blind without them paying us any mind!

My comment was not directed at you, Moog, or anyone in particular. From what I read here on this forum it seems that some hunters are in constant view of deer and may see scores of them each and every time out. That's great for them, and I don't think there's a hunter out there who wouldn't love a spot like that. The only point I am trying to make is that many hunters, maybe the vast majority, don't have it so good and probably never will. I think it would be a humbling experience for some of the folks who have these great spots to see what the rest of us have. My apologies if my remarks offend anyone. Things have a way of going wild on this forum, thus one of my new years resolution will probably be to post less often.