steve863

You would be WRONG on that.

Would you prefer to sit behind a Browning, Sako, Ruger, TC, Savage, etc., etc. with a double load or obstructed barrel??

Color that in Realtree camo and you can make millions!! LOL

LOL!! This is especially good for the trophy hunters. They won't soil their pants when that big buck comes into range. LOL

Mora knives. There are better knives out there for sure, but for $10-$15 you can get a very decent knife. You can't beat the price on these, I don't know how they can make and sell them for such a low price. One doesn't expect much for $10-$15, but these surpassed my expectations. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004TNWD40/ref=asc_df_B004TNWD405285658/?tag=hyprod-20&creative=395033&creativeASIN=B004TNWD40&linkCode=df0&hvadid=167125219398&hvpos=1o2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13695458885436598036&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9004064&hvtargid=pla-313102807340

My best day was well before the season ever started. It was when forum member Culvercreek Hunt Club invited me up to his cabin and property for opening weekend of the gun season. Not really having private property to hunt in NYS anymore I was more than grateful for such an offer from someone I had never even met before. The icing on the cake was when I actually bagged a buck early on opening morning. Had a great time up at his cabin and Culvercreek is one hell of a nice and generous guy who'd go out of his way for you. I can't thank him enough. I have not had a bad day yet this season and hopefully I won't with one more hunting trip coming up to another state. For me if I come back in one piece from a hunt and don't wound or cripple any game, I can't consider it a bad day or hunt.

You should be! I'm an equal opportunity deerslayer. I don't discriminate on size, gender, sexual orientation, etc. If I have a tag for it, it will get shot at!! But I will stick to my gun and pass on the crossbow.

I will almost guarantee you that the number of gun only hunters who will now go out and buy a crossbow will be insignificant. Absolutely NO way will they have an impact on anyone's hunting during archery season. This is all paranoia in my opinion. I can use myself as an example. I don't bowhunt anymore (never was much into it) and I have absolutely ZERO interest in buying and hunting with a crossbow. I'll stick to my gun thank you, and I hope it makes some of you elitists happy that there is one less hunter killing YOUR deer with that dasterdly crossbow!!

I'm hoping those photos were taken in PA where I think a 10 and 11 year old can hunt deer with a rifle. They surely can't in NYS.

I've observed over the years that those hunters who smoke or drink a bit too much are much more likely to complain about cold feet. It can have effects on circulation, so this is something to keep in mind.

We love you, Grow!!!

The only folks to ever see more excitement and drama on their property other than Grow were the Cartwright boys on the Ponderosa!! LOL

I've got to say your point makes absolutely NO sense. That extra second may save you from shooting a buck that doesn't qualify under AR's but has ZERO effect on the overall safety of the sport. This is just some more BS that was fed to the politicians and the DEC by certain "sportsman clubs" in the region to get AR's implemented. All a crock of self-serving $#!+ in my opinion.

How do ZERO DMP's sound to you? You should try hunting some of these areas in the Catskills and tell us how many bucks you could see? Typically you don't get to see many bucks at all, let alone ones with 3 points to a side. You guys in western NY may have scores of deer marching by you most every time out, but I could assure you that isn't what it's like in the Catskills. If you are not allowed to shoot smaller bucks, and have few doe permits issued, the hunter might as well stay home and not waste his time.

All I will say is to HELL with AR's and this past weekend proved it to me more than ever! Instead of wasting my time in the Catskills where I wouldn't be allowed to shoot anything I was invited up to forum member Culver Creek Hunt's Club cabin (non AR region) this past weekend and I shot myself a buck that wouldn't qualify under AR's. I for one could care less how many points a deer wears on his head. Thanks to Culver's gracious invitation I got myself a freezer full of venison and had a super great and memorable weekend up at his place. I tell you all, it would be hard to find a more generous, hospitable and friendly guy than him! So the moral here is that AR's may make some trophy obsessed people happy thinking that they will sooner than later kill that monster buck, but the honest truth is that many of those people will NEVER know what hunting should really be all about!!

Since he last took those pics he added satellite dishes on top of each box. I think he said he's got the porno channels, so the rain and wind won't bother anyone occupying them. LOL

I guess that wouldn't technically fall under the "lying" category. It's more like just not telling the whole truth. LOL

Oh man is this accurate! Guys have a deer or two under their belts and then they start passing everything up waiting for that monster buck. There is absolutely NOTHING that beats shooting at and putting deer down to build up your experience. Shooting at targets, seeing kills on TV or playing the scenario in your head how you will nail that deer simply doesn't cut it. Until you've got at LEAST 20 deer under your belt (probably more), you really don't have a lot of experience in my opinion.

Well, I guess what I would agree with you on is that talk is cheap. It always has been. Plenty of people claim that they will only shoot deer of a certain size, etc. and then when the season is winding down and they haven't connected on anything they end up taking something way smaller just so they don't end the season deerless. What one says they will do, and what one ends up doing are two different animals. Also, never discount the LIES a hunter can tell. Just because you didn't welcome people in your hunting club that had the reputation of wounding deer doesn't mean you didn't have people wounding deer. Someone claiming to have shot and missed a deer could have very well wounded a deer. If you looked down on the guy who did wound deer, he was probably more apt to lie and not tell you that he did actually wound a deer. He may have said. "yeah I shot, but shot way over him, or a limb deflected my shot". Go prove it one way or the other.

Absolutely agree. I don't go back as far as Pygmy, but I do go back a ways and I sure don't remember hunters back then needing to go to therapy like some seem to need today if they wounded a deer. No one liked losing one, but if it happened it happened. You moved on. Today hunters talk about waiting for deer with big enough antlers, not shooting young ones, waiting for the deer to give a perfect angle before the shot, etc., etc. Back then if you saw ANY deer that you had a tag for you shot at it. Not much thought or debate about it as you have today. So maybe someone could tell me how exactly were the ethics better back then??

I bet some of the heavy set fellas on here with their man boobs could carry concealed like that. LOL

Biz, let me be the first to make you an offer on the one you currently have. My bid is $75. I would have given you $100 if you actually killed something with it this season. LOL

I've been on this forum for a number of years now. A given here every Fall is Lawdwaz putting a nice buck down. Sometimes two. He does it every year. Very impressive to say the least!

Did you test his blood for diabetes?? Wow, that is one hog of a big bodied deer!!

Yeah, but I've never heard them bitching about anything. They disappear into the woods and mind their own business.