Don_C

Thank you all! I don’t really visit here (or the other site) much anymore but do check in from time to time. Thanks for the well-wishes! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I was finally able to pick one from the litter, he will be delivered to WNY on the 12th. Getting excited to say the least!

I had a Visla, absolute lunatic dog. Good hunter, but totally out of control as a house dog. He went back to the breeder after a year and a half. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Amazing! I hope I didn’t come across as if I know anything about these dogs or the breeders, I’m learning a lot, really fast and have met a bunch of folks that are breeding these guys in the last two weeks. From what I have learned, I’ve got a great pup coming my way, I may be reaching out to those of you with much more experience than I, in the coming months. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Awesome! Did you get her from JC?! Great guy, he’s the one who set me up with the folks in Missouri. Classic Setters in Hartsburg. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I just purchased an English setter, Ryman line. He’ll be here January 4th from a well respected breeder in Missouri. Looking forward to many years of bird hunting with him. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I was always under the impression that's what they do when the catch something they don't like. They don't move until they figure it out (or don't) and decide to bolt.

NYS produces tons of big bucks, we just have to stop shooting them before they get there. It seems more and more people realize that taking young bucks has consequences down the road. I'm not criticizing anyone for shooting anything, I have shot many young bucks, but once the mindset of "let it grow" sets in, the reward is much more satisfying. It was for me anyway. I follow a local taxidermy shop in WNY on FB and some of the bucks they are taking in this year are incredible.

IDK… unless you’re hunting in Hamburg or Lancaster I think it will be fine. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’m sitting out this year after 46 consecutive starts. This is the one and only OD/season I’ve missed since I was 12 years old. As Saturday approaches I’m starting to second guess that decision, but I’m sure when I wake up at 9:00 Saturday morning to the forecasted Snovember, I’ll happily crawl back in bed and think about all the fun you guys are having out there. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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I switched to video three years ago and instantly realized how many deer I was missing. It can be a long process reviewing them, but I have caught so many great bucks (and a bear) in the last second or two of a 15 second video triggered by a doe or small buck. Here is a great example of what you can miss with still shots (00:19), I killed that buck three weeks later in that exact spot.

Full disclosure…. We trailered to Ocean City. We’re not that that hard core! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yep. We rode through here a couple of weeks ago on our way back from Ocean City Bike week. Such a great ride we just had to do it during the peak colors. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The plan is to ride to Lock Haven then up through Susquahannock forest tomorrow, down to Williamsport, up to Mansfield, then to Coudersport. Back home to Hamburg on Wednesday. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Tonight we are in St Mary’s Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

St Mary’s, Pa. Not many options on a Monday night but The Pour House delivered! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Live from the road! I am not hunting at all this year, but living it through you guys. Too much going on in our family and I decided to spend the fall with the wife, kids and grandkids. Riding through PA this week enjoying the fall colors. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Posting this rifle for sale, it is new, in box, unfired. Burnt bronze Cerakote finish with camo composite stock. $950 local in Buffalo area. Will ship to your FFL on your dime. https://www.browning.com/products/firearms/rifles/x-bolt/discontinued/x-bolt-hells-canyon-speed-ndt.html

I will second that! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I was pulling some ammo from the shelves today, packing up my bag to head to the club tomorrow and realized I had a box of 357 Sig that I must have bought thinking it was 357 mag. If anyone in the Buffalo area can use this, it’s yours. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

9 days??? I walked into the Sheriff office in Erie and walked out with mine. 10 minutes maybe. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Arron Salter's son is a coworker of mine. I can only imagine what this young man and the family is going through. https://gofund.me/6205cea2

So, I started reading this and stopped when the conversation turned to the usual banter on the subject because it always goes south from there. I just went to the last page. In my opinion there is an advantage with the crossbow if on a rest, but of course it will be on a rest of some sort most of the time, just as when gun hunting from a stand. The compound is not that difficult to master to the point of killing a deer under 25 yards, as long as you have the stealth to draw and shoot. For me, there is also the adrenaline rush with a bow that I do not get with a gun or crossbow, it’s simply not there. The engagement and the “closeness”, I feel to the animal is amplified when the bow is in my hand, unlike the interaction between hunter and prey as seen through a scope…for me. I believe it has to do with the amount of movement needed to get the shot off with a bow. I did buy a crossbow 5 or so years ago and sighted it in rather easily, not as easily as I have with my compounds I will say, but not too difficult of exercise to accomplish. I went hunting with relatively little practice and shot a buck at 20 yards – without one hint of excitement or satisfaction. It just didn’t do it for me, and I also felt as if I were carrying a toy around the woods, a nerf gun with sharper projectiles if you will. My curiosity was satisfied, I sold it almost immediately and will stay with the compound for as long as I can, then I will gladly move to a crossbow. I hunt private land, so what others do doesn’t concern or bother me in the least. In fact, I would much prefer my neighbors participating in such hunts as described in many of these types of threads, “hiking” “walking around” “still hunting”… the same way they gun hunt, have at it. I’ll be perched silently, bow in hand, on the escape routes from their hillside. If I hunted public land my opinion would possibly be different or I would have to modify my strategy to take advantage of such hunters. As far as the implement itself goes, I have no pre-determined opinions one way or the other as to its classification as bow or gun. It is certainly not a gun, and in fact shoots arrows. The definition of archery is shooting with bow and arrow. The definition of crossbow is a medieval bow fixed across a wooded support… kind of self-explanatory to me. All in all, I think the crossbow can be easier to use for many people. After sighting-in mine, my wife took a shot with it, never having shot a bow or crossbow before, and nailed the target 30 yards away with exceptional accuracy. Quite an accomplishment relative to handing her a 70lb compound. To think that a scoped crossbow on a rest is not an advantage over a vertical bow with pins seems silly to me, freehand, the compound is more accurate for me, but neither are very difficult to master. So what am I trying to say? Who knows? there are a lot of acres out there and unless someone is engaging in a hunting practice, legal or otherwise, that is directly effecting me in a negative way, why even think about what they are doing? I just hope something like this passes before I NEED to use a crossbow to hunt the warmth and colors of October of some distant year.