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That's what I heard but i'm hoping for the best.

As long as it wasn't on private property I wouldn't see why you couldn't. They probably only stock for the youth weekend as it says. I have never hunted one of these places but would sure like to know and try one out. BUT I bet the further away you get from the release date the less likely you will see a pheasant.

Was thinking of getting a cam like that myself but when I leave it on 3 shot burst over my food plots I can get upwards of 900 pics a month with does, raccoon, woodchuck, turkeys, etc. How do you have your camera set up f you don't mind me asking. And is it one pic per text type of deal???

I am heading up to 7P next weekend for some bow and to run my GSP on grouse and woodcock. First time hunting with a pointer of my own and was wondering if anyone has seen or flushed any woodcock in around that area. Has the fall migration started? I will be up October 17, 18, 19. Grouse around me has never been an issue always see them, flush them but its the woodcock that I want to try my hand at.

I am interested in any responses to this also.

Thanks

Where generally did you get him?

I buy a fresh bottle every year. Coon urine in a tree stand. Fox urine on the ground. Also after I wash my clothes I throw 2 dirt wafers from hs strut in my duffle bag and then put some ever calm on bottom of my boots in deer woods walking to stand. Last year had a spike follow my trail.

Yeah I had a man cave with a TV, my weights and 3 nice 8 pointers I shot all lined up on the wall. Then the man cave turned more into a family room and had to take two f the 8's upstate to the cabin because when we put in a treadmill you would have had a deer mount on your face. Kids in there now with x-box video games but it is good enough as they always want to ask questions about my last 8 pointer in there and want to pet him from time to time.

Sucks. But at 40 think of how many seasons you would miss and how any more to go. At 40 you are only half way through your hunting career.

Labor day weekend I saw one, already bloated and beheaded, on the side of 17 up by Hancock next to the Town Depot on the road. He looked big and had a nice big white patch on his chest. Just wonder if they took his head before he bloated from the heat.

Had a question and wondered if anyone had any experience. I am looking to see if it is worth my while trekking around Sundown Forest state land area (used to hunt deer there years ago) for day trips for grouse. I love on Long Island and want a place that is good for a day trip. I have a place in Chenango which has plenty of State Land and grouse (which is my primary spot). I will be hunting with my GSP and want to get him as much time in the woods as possible. Thanks for any help.

I shoot a bear super grizzly recurve in 55#s. Love the sport and shooting. Purely instinctual so my mind has to be right, complete concentration, when I look at the target. Pick my spot draw and release. Have gotten some small game but no deer yet. I am going 100% recurve this year, no compound during the rut (my crutch the past 2 years). Also, I am going to give it a try gun season as well. My property is set up for it as it is thick with beech saplings and you are hard pressed to get a 40 yard shot except for don a logging road.

Great. That guy on the right in the photo looks like Nick Mundt (sp?) from bone collector.

Its amazing the various types of plant matter deer eat. Looked like browsing on briars or ferns. I had a doe in my back field last month eating leaves off of an Autumn Olive bush or maybe even the berries could see to clear as she was 50 yards away.

What's worst of all is if you scroll all the down to the bottom of the article and read the crazy posts from people. There are multiple whackos saying the guy deserved it and they should have left the bear alone. Crazy people out there

Have done the exact same thing when I started. Our property was logged 10 years ago and in the areas where a couple of logging roads came together we just started to make wider. Even if you cannot cut tress get a soil sample, I am positive the PH will be very low and then start liming. The easiest thing to get to grow is Rye, oats and or wheat, and probably planted around labor day so they plants are still young and not too stalky. If you don't have access to any tractor even a quad doing some donuts on the trail will dig up enough soil to get stuff started. Each year after that, adding lime and fertilizer and with the dead plant matter from the year before your plot will get better and better.

AM and PM until November rut then dark to dark.. Same with rifle dark to dark. I am fortunate to hunt private land with a couple ladder stands on it in locations I picked so during either the cold days of November or rifle season I can get out of one stand and slowly stalk to another stand to warm up and not get bored and then makes sitting in the woods all day that much easier. I don't get as much time as I would like in the woods so have to maximize every minute.

Great pic. That area looks great for the plot watcher type of camera. How far is it to the sunlit wood line in the background??

Hunted many coons with hounds and cur dogs. Only time that I saw them during the day was an occasional one during deer season on his way back to his den. If you want some excitement, find a coon hunting club or hound club, try a google search, and go alone for hunt and watch. Can be hot and very buggy in the summer but it is fun. I think a lot of guys don't run hounds much anymore is because of loss of land. Some of those hounds can go a mile or more before they strike a coon if there aren't many around. On Long Island, out by the vineyards coons are a dime a dozen so getting one treed can be done without your dog going too the next county.

Those last two black and white type pics are great. Can really see his rack and he is a stud.

Haven't checked it out BUT I was on the site mytopo.com looking at overhead maps and they have an option for New York (I would assume elsewhere as well) that give you the aerial view of the property as well as the private land boundaries and names of the owners. Pretty cool. I know it was accurate for my area because it was pretty spot on with the property lines for my property and the neighbors around me.

Just saw this product mentioned on TV show Drury's "Thirteen". Lets us know how it turns out this year.

That sucks. As a trad guy myself I just realized my recurve is really out of whack, with the bottom tiller larger than the top. I don't need that blowing up in my face. Had to buy a new recurve and now its practice practice practice to get comfortable with it before opening day.

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