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    Hunting Dogs

    in Small Game and Predator Hunting

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    It's been many years since I've been able to keep a gun dog.  My first was a Visla and then I had Labs.  Living alone and being on the move all the time where a dog cannot follow, keeps me from getting one again.  These days my friends have the dogs I hunt over.  Retirement is coming soon though, and that is when I plan to get a gun dog.  I just hope this old man will be able to keep up with a young pup.

    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.


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    Hunting Dogs

    in Small Game and Predator Hunting

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    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.


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    Hunting Dogs

    in Small Game and Predator Hunting

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    I have a female Setter myself named Matty, she is bird crazy for sure, Grouse Ridge bred. A snapshot of her below on point on a mourning dove in the front yard. 
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    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.


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    Live From The Woods 2022 - 2023 Edition!

    in Deer Hunting

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    3 hours ago, wolc123 said:

    He actually froze perfectly still, when he encountered the trail that I had walked in on.  He stood there long enough for me to clear the snow from my scope, and make the shot.

    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.

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    Huge 12 pt hit by car near Roscoe NY

    in General Chit Chat

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    On 12/3/2022 at 7:50 AM, Grouse said:

    Maybe NY State will start producing more big bucks like this one during hunting seasons.  It's proving to be capable of it.

    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. 

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    Are yu ready for Saturday?

    in Deer Hunting

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    Early weather models are not promising for WNY....the crap is supposed to start tomorrow night and we shall see where the ole lake effect takes us. This projection absolutely sucks if it's true. A few inches each day is fine....but some models are calling 3 foot which will lock everything down.

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    IDK… unless you’re hunting in Hamburg or Lancaster I think it will be fine.


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    Seems quiet?

    in General Hunting

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    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.


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    trail cam video

    in Trail Camera Pictures

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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.

     

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    357 SIG ammo FREE to good home

    in General Chit Chat

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    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.

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    Proposed crossbow legislation for 2022

    in CrossBow Hunting

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    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.

     

     

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