Fantail

Taking a stab into the NZ this season so I realy don't know what the deer will be up to. Play it by ear so to say, I'm sure to get a mid day run or two in. maybe because of the weather, or just get a good feeling about it and go.

Not any one specific, 6+ would be nice.

Deer notice blinds, I think more so when the windows look like eyes or blotches out of place - off the ground. Having said that I took a doe out of one two years ago within smoothbore range. Turkeys could care less. I have used it durring gun season if it's a drizzle day and I don't feel like staying soaked. Also if it's freezing out you'd be suprised how much warmer you keep inside on of those things, with at least the mesh windows up.

I like the 1st pic! demond buck

just the other day I saw a doe that looked worse then that, like it lost a fight with a velcro machine. but I'm sure it's a natural coat process & a healthy animal. funny how it doesn't happen to them all at once.

Heck yeah!you found the right spot for that cam!

Just under an hour befor sunup seems to work. All day? Probably not, unless I know it'll get cut short by a storm. Sometimes I like to do a lunchtime run, you never know. Maybe sneek out just as the rain is stopping. On occasion I get back to camp and take a nap, coffee up - hit it again.

Set of 3 for mine was about 30$. They were what I wanted.

Not a Jet's fan, but did you guys see the Ines Sainz interview on Fox news? Very curvey Wouldn't put it past it being a publicity stunt, you can watch it with no sound, doesn't matter.

Muzzy Phanton MX

Stands are up. Lanes cleared. Firewood at camp, pit it ready. ( so is the dutch oven ) Camo washed in cold water with a little baking soda. Also ordering some new camo to try. A few more camping supplies to pick up after payday. I am functional at work but can't go 10 minutes without thinking about being up in a stand, or getting up before sunrise for perkulated fresh orgasmic coffee, going through & packing gear, gathering thoughts by the fire.. Man, frack yeah I got vacation time comming up and I'll be ready. Oh yeah and NZ here too, 12 days to go.

She's using decoys ..

I'm thinking some outfit can make a pill you take with coffee before sunrise, that turns your wizz into synthetic doe or buck wizz. What, it's not like I'm worried about making any more kids.

Hold up just a sec to double check. I use some Sierra to reload, blitzking & gameking. They both have a v-tapered end. If I remember they offer a pro-hunter or spitzer round that is a more traditional flat end.

Some of their sales are worth a drive, except for the express core-lokt imo. My 700 didn't like it at all.

Looks solid alright! maybe it's the view from the ground but I think the railings especially the center are high. Might make it difficult to pull a shot unless your standing. If it's only around 10' are you going to staple some camo jazz on the sides? I might find some flat grey - bark color and spot the suppports / ladder.

Sights are fiber on the Wolf and they do cover a bit of the target. But so would a dot. Got one each on the 12 & my sons 20, they have some settings as most do, and my 1300 has the hi-viz sights (which work great btw). I'm going for what I call smoothbore range. Or they walk. When I can dedicate more time at the range, funds to try different bullets, scope, etc., I can fine tune it to a 100+ yard gun. Using 2 x P 5050 pelets & Powerbelt 245 hp's. With CCI 209m primers. Perhaps not the optimum load for this gun but I know I can generaly find those supplies.

Speaking of costs, how about in gas finding just the supplies you need? One shop is out of 777 unless your after magnum loads, but has powerbelts & 5050 P. Dick's attached to any mall can't sell any powder at all. Gander, can make a fortune selling excuses. Well at least I got the cleaning & treatment supplies I need. What are you guys using to help keep the pin hole in the breech plug clear?

So I got to sight in the Wolf last Sunday. Happy with a decent 5" group about 1" high @ 50 yards shooting open sights while my eyes arn't to tired - works. I could scope it but less can go wrong without one for this season. Had more trouble getting all the supplies I wanted then I did sighting in.

Geezze some of you guys must look like your packing for a week walking through the woods. To each his own I guess. I like to bring along 2-3 folder paper towels. Never know when you might need to loaf one.

I often ponder getting my permit. But I live in Onondoga Co. ???

Well, those are some nice PA bucks. But it just proves that that guys camera works. I would agree with a couple of points made here; good size bucks are here, i've seen them, even around state land. And yes you need a good food source(s), food plots are perfectly legal. Yet some retailers like CT refuse to sell plot seed. I think the DEC should make something official about it, instead of just outlining an exception. And then I agree voluntary AR fails. And I don't think NY will do mandatory AR either.

Well since I'm into Archery I wouldn't mind if Muzzleloader opening was a little later, but having picked up a new CVA I'm starting to wonder about that. If I wasn't into Archery and picked up a smokepole just so I could hunt my land in NZ when the season opens as it is, then yeah I'm sure I wouldn't want that to change either. Nothings says you can't use your bow after the 16th, but on the other hand SZ bow opens the same day. And those guys (in alot of zones) have to deal with fall Turkey hunters. I'm not going to try and disect the NZ season to understand why they are set up the way they are. Better yet I'll try and take advantage of them if I can before I can't get up to camp anymore and the snow flies becoming a problem even for the Jeep.

Greetings Jim W; Yes anything can happen in the woods, I guess I kinda like that degree of uncertainty. When I hit any state land - WMA I have some orange with me, usually a reversable hat. I don't like the solid blaze, so something with a black camo print mixed in just seems better to me.

Several years ago I split a lease in Wayne Co. Coyote song was a common thing. Shot about 1/2 dozen of them, by chance. Maybe another 3-4 actually trying to hunt them. Going out in the snow there yote tracks outnumbered anything else by a long shot. That is untill I paid more attention to varmint-critters and took the 22mag or the .243 out for several walks. Withing a time span of 3 years I saw a healthy increase in the local Turkey population. That whole process, takes dedication, and time away from your regular hunting and the payoff is by no means instant. But if you got the land and you want good game hunting it isn't just food plots and apple trees that'll do it. I can remember camping out there and being woken up in the middle of the night by the sound of some critter screatching for it's life while a pack of yotes have it cornered, and taking a walk the next day spooking off two yotes off what remainded of the carcass. They had it virtually pined down and cleaned off, it looked like it was perfectly skinned by them. Another time I remember hunting squirrels and I was parked against a hedgerow near sundown in a corner where I had seen greys jumping branches before. Well it was getting dark and time to pack it up. Just then I heard a yawning sound, like a dog would make - less then 10 yards to my right in the hedgerow. I did a quick look and now I'm in a stare down with a yote, somehow he snuck right up there and both of us were clueless to each other being there up untill that point. After about 15 seconds it bolted ouuta there. That was a cool close encounter and one of the only times I've seen a yote stand still that long. Good times.