steve863

I've tried a lot of the "premium" ammo over the years, but I've come full circle and now in the last 10 seasons or so have gone back to the cheap $17.99 per box Federal Power-Shok for my favorite deer rifle. The accuracy I get with them is NO worse than what I can detect with the "premium" stuff and the deer are just as dead when I whiz a bullet thru them. Maybe if I was going on a once in a lifetime hunt somewhere I'd shoot the more expensive stuff, but for hunting NYS woods I don't see any difference in lethality.

I think some of the big buck slayers here from western NY need to hunt where the rest of us hunt. We'd find out how good a hunters they really are. The one thing I can guarantee is that it would be a humbling experience for you fellas!

And the final answer might be, What is "I got skunked this season!".

There are plenty of other issues with NYC gun laws that should have been taken to the supreme court before this one. I highly doubt the court will overturn any of those other more relevant issues while addressing this one. As has been said, NYC has already changed this law knowing that it would be overturned, so end result will be that nothing else will change. It takes years before the supreme court even wants to hear a case, so unfortunately it will be a LONG wait before NYC gun owners see any significant changes in their gun laws. Hell, NYC residents have needed a gun permit ($180 every 3 year renewal) to even possess a rifle or shotgun since the late 1960's, so how long has that law stood without it being taken to the higher courts?

Come on now, it's your first deer what's wrong with a button buck?? Any deer you kill should be considered a trophy. Don't get wrapped up with what you see on the TV hunting shows or any hunter telling you that hunting should be all about antlers.

I'm with Mowin on this one. If state land was all I had access to, I would not hunt at all. I just don't like the feeling knowing that someone might be setting up 50 yards from me. And it's not only someone else messing my hunt up, I can just as easily unknowingly screw someone else's hunt up, too. I simply don't want to hunt in situations like that.

You may still be able to get a few bucks for them. Storm, are you reading this?? The boots will match your gun! LOL

Along with your pistols, rifles, shotguns, bows, knives, pencils, paperclips, nail clippers, etc!!

There you go! No way that bear was a truly wild bear. They just don't get that big in a natural setting. I'll probably get flack for this, but the same can be said about the bruiser bucks that get killed in suburban settings or even around food plots that have become so popular. I'd like to have some of those hunters hunt away from such settings and see if they could kill bucks of equal size. I'd put my money on it that they won't.

That must have been a suburban trash eating bear because they don't grow that big In a more natural habitat.

If you are a white, middle aged straight male in this country, there is NO assuming anything. You are pretty much considered the lowest form of life and that's about it. You WILL get screwed before any other category would.

I tell you what guys, if you keep up some of your attitudes you will get screwed big time! I don't like this stuff either, but in today's world there is no such thing as "innocent until proven guilty" in many of these type of situations for a guy, so you better tread cautiously. If you want to touch a women's tattoo, you'd better be prepared for what might be coming!

You're a riot, Storm! You claim to have Weatherby's and then you hunt with an $89 shotgun! LOL

It's a break open action, and the locking mechanism doesn't work so he uses tape to keep the action locked. LOL

Nope, not seeing that.

Where in this picture do you see an impact? I looked at the video slowly a few times and I cannot see any impact other than white hair flying off the bottom side of her. I really don't think his shot did much damage at all.

If your bullet penetrated anywhere in the shoulder or behind it you would have found blood. Next question, I see you were carrying an AR style rifle. What caliber was it?

Was that deer limping when it came in? Sure looked that way to me. I think you hit it low and just grazed the hair and drew no blood. I see lots of white belly hair flying off of her.

You will most definitely get an occasional dud with .22 ammo.

And well you should! The rest of us are sissies compared to Buckmaster!

That would make sense actually. That's where all the village idiots would go to hunt. LOL

Lets say this land was sold to a new owner, or the current owner now decided to not allow hunting or hiking anymore. You think those people who have hunted and hiked it since the 60's could continue to do so just because they were allowed to in the past?

I'm assuming this land is private, correct?

Maybe in bye gone days people took the liberty to hunt any land they didn't see a posted sign on. The world was different then, but in this day and age I just can't understand how anyone would think it's OK to hunt a piece of property like that. Simply not the right thing to do to trample on land that you know is private without the permission of the owner. I don't care what the technicalities in the law are.

Westchester, Putnam, Rockland and a good portion of Orange and Dutchess counties are most definitely not upstate and never have been in my book. If you are within an hour too an hour and a half of NYC limits you are in suburbia and not rural America. Guys can think they are in the boonies up there, but I can assure them they are not. And this is coming from someone who grew up in NYC.