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Appriciate the info guys. Interesting, I had thought a food saver - vacume would be a pain to deal with but sounds like it could pay off.

I'm impressed. I don't buy it but nice soft back peddel there.

Those strings look cool. In the picks it looks like the peep is tubeless. Were you going for that or would you consider that a plus?

Sounds good with bacon. What does the stand for 1/2 hour - shake up - release air & seal do?

:What's the point? Your obiously looking for any angle to keep speading the hate.

Something a little fishy about this photo. The buck's nec looks a little thin after the body, and I don't see any blood, ripped or torn flesh. Would a bear chomp over the loins like that or first go for the rump.

Something I'm not understanding about this. Aside from someone making loads of money in chemicals or logging there is no known natural EAB deterrent? How about like a nitrogen spike or attrating another insect that eats their larva?

Wow, I'm sure Ted would agree with you. Small wonder.

I'm sure you'd enjoy that steve863, as long as your jealous streak stays humorus.

Depends on what this years annual sacrifice is. Goats are getting hard to find.

Some kind of God huh. Dude, what the frack is wrong with you? He's just a man using what fame or fortune that's come his way to benifit the sport in some way. I can apriciate any celebrity that's not a ***** anti. You got a problem with that?

I think some of you guys are sounding nuttier then he is. Never said I wanted him to represent me, I said he has done alot for hunters and gun rights. Typical of haters to twist words around and dig up all the dirt they can to pit hunter against hunter. Same thing the anti's do. Look how you guys are trumping this hate up, pathetic.

steve863; Who are you to group the rest of us into this "we" category? You don't like Ted, ok fine. I happen to think he's off the wall but a good guy who's done more for hunting and gun rights in general then most ever will. Seems to me if he broke the law and steped up to the plate instead of draggin it out one way or another then the anti's or Ted haters are the ones making more of a big deal out of this then it is.

I have the same rangefinder I believe. Got mainly for Archery & Turkey for stand & spot checking. And so I don't usually take it with me if I know the stand - lanes. But it is handy at times when I'm in a fresh spot.

Just had another look at the chart. I think to be shifting to an SZ spot for my doe tags.

I would tend to agree.

Just a funny thing about the screw in steps; I bought a few extra to replace the 2 - 3 folding steps used at the bottom of a ladder stand. Now you might be thinking - wait a minute, ladder stand & screw in steps - huh? Well it's a homemade job with 4x4's two 8 footers giving me 16' on a concrete block leading up to the platform. So the steps are the ladder. The other ones I got for at camp I can get up a tree to get 1 bar on the cell.

Just a side note: Getting these hefty wooden stands into place is easier said then done. If you can use a climber or ladder to position a pully off a branch to help hoist it into position. Of course if you have willing manpower it makes for a better day.

source: http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=1123236 How Obama is locking up our land Michelle Malkin - Syndicated Columnist Have you heard of the "Great Outdoors Initiative"? Chances are, you haven't. But across the country, White House officials have been meeting quietly with environmental groups to map out government plans for acquiring untold millions of acres of both public and private land. It's another stealthy power grab through executive order that promises to radically transform the American way of life. In April, President Obama issued a memorandum outlining his "21st century strategy for America's great outdoors." It was addressed to the Interior Secretary, the Agriculture Secretary, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the chair of the Council on Environmental Quality. The memo calls on the officials to conduct "listening and learning sessions" with the public to "identify the places that mean the most to Americans, and leverage the support of the Federal Government" to "protect" outdoor spaces. Eighteen of 25 planned sessions have already been held. But there's much more to the agenda than simply "reconnecting Americans to nature." The federal government, as the memo boasted, is the nation's "largest land manager." It already owns roughly one of every three acres in the United States. This is apparently not enough. At a "listening session" in New Hampshire last week, government bureaucrats trained their sights on millions of private forest land throughout the New England region. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack crusaded for "the need for additional attention to the Land and Water Conservation Fund -- and the need to promptly support full funding of that fund." Property owners have every reason to be worried. The Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) is a pet project of green radicals, who want the decades-old government slush fund for buying up private lands to be freed from congressional appropriations oversight. It's paid for primarily with receipts from the government's offshore oil and gas leases. Both Senate and House Democrats have included $900 million in full LWCF funding, not subject to congressional approval, in their energy/BP oil spill legislative packages. The Democrats have also included a provision in these packages that would require the federal government to take over energy permitting in state waters, which provoked an outcry from Texas state officials, who sent a letter of protest to Capitol Hill last month: "In light of federal failures, it is incomprehensible that the United States Congress is entertaining proposals that expand federal authority over oil and gas drilling in state water and lands long regulated by states... Given the track record, putting the federal government in charge of energy production on state land and waters not only breaks years of successful precedent and threatens the 10th Amendment to the United Sates Constitution, but it also undermines common sense and threatens the environmental and economy security of our state's citizens." This power grab, masquerading as a feel-good, all-American recreation program, comes on top of a separate, property-usurping initiative exposed by GOP Rep. Robert Bishop and Sen. Jim DeMint earlier this spring. According to an internal, 21-page Obama administration memo, 17 energy-rich areas in 11 states have been targeted as potential federal "monuments." The lives of coyotes, deer and prairie dogs would be elevated above states' needs to generate jobs, tourism business, and energy solutions. Take my home state of Colorado. The Obama administration is considering locking up some 380,000 acres of Bureau of Land Management land and private land in Colorado under the 1906 Antiquities Act. The Vermillion Basin and the Alpine Triangle would be shut off to mining, hunting, grazing, oil and gas development and recreational activities. Alan Foutz, president of the Colorado Farm Bureau, blasted the administration's meddling: "Deer and elk populations are thriving, and we in Colorado don't need help from the federal government in order to manage them effectively." Indeed, the feds have enough trouble as it is managing the vast amount of land they already control. As the Washington, DC-based Americans for Limited Government group, which defends private property rights, points out: "The [National Park Service] claims it would need about $9.5 billion just to clear its backlog of the necessary improvements and repairs. At a time when our existing national parks are suffering, it doesn't make sense for the federal government to grab new lands." The bureaucrats behind Obama's "Great Outdoors Initiative" plan on wrapping up their public comment solicitation by November 15. The initiative's taxpayer-funded website has been dominated by left-wing environmental activists proposing human population reduction, private property confiscation, and gun bans, hunting bans, and vehicle bans in national parks. It's time for private property owners to send their own loud, clear message to the land-hungry feds: Take a hike.

Back yard 20-30 yard range. A 3-D & a block for broadheads. Sometimes I'll take the Bow up to the club because there's a nice range there but I like taking 2-3 shots in the am before work.

Just thought I'd mention; alot of guys dont bend into the shot properly and so their shot might be a little high from 15+'. I try to go for a heart area shot but that isn't a constant because of cover, angle etc.

-bump- Stands done, lanes done. 6 weeks to go

I mean no offence to our NJ neigbors, but I sure am glad I don't live there.

I have heard there are some pear trees that can produce within 3-4 years from planting given a good start of course. Been reading up on starting trees from trimmings or shoots. Sure wouldn't mind an acre or so worth of pear & crab-apple. We probably all dream of hunting an area loaded with mature bumper crop white oaks. But that takes a decade to plan.

Very cool pics! I liked the bear on his butt taking it's time. How old are those trees? Ever spike them?