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So this all i have been able to think about this morning regardless of what i have tried to do to take my mind off of it. My wife got a call this a.m. from a very good friend may have cheated. He's got a wonderful wife, kids, house, LIFE and i don't want to see him throw it all away. I have been debating all morning about what to do. 1. Pray for him and let it run its course or 2. Take a three hour drive to have a talk with him and try to tell him what a douche bag hes being and talk some sense into him. I really don't think he has a clue how close he is to losing it all but i am not sure he will listen. I have never had to deal with anything like this and I am really up in the air. I also don't feel that in good conscience i can continue the friendship if he continues down the path hes going. I also feel like i have to say something otherwise what kind of friend am I but i have never been one to intervene in something like this. This sucks!!!!!!!

That's a good analogy. Way to many variables for us with a couple tags a year to really be able to effect anything.

Culling is a myth.

You cant. Its not a farm you cant control who breeds with who. Plus bucks are only half the equation the little ladies hold just as much responsibility as the guys your going to shoot. Plus you don't know for sure he wouldn't develop them the next year.

For the most part i don't see any issues with how DMP's are issued. The greatest number of DMPs gets doled out in the lake plains region in western NY and the finger lakes and there are a ton of deer there. A lot get handed out in the southern tier but again its not as much as the lake planes and few to none get handed out in the St. Lawrence seaway and the ADKs respectively. That being said i don't have a whole lot of experience with region 4 aside from spending some time in Otsego and Delaware counties.

I have had a brassica plot for three seasons and i have noticed increase use as time passes.

The only thing i will use against my skin now is Wool. You can spend a lot (i.e. Filson, Smart Wool, Justin Charles) or you can spend not so much and go with Minus 33 which is what i did. Its more expensive than your Walmart - Target options but less then the high end stuff. I love the stuff. Cheapest place i have found is Slibermans Army and Navy.

That is a hell of a drive.

Sorry to hear that but i cant say it surprises me. I visited one of Potters tracks last year to have a look around mid week during gun season. Hiked several miles and found a lot of tree damage due to four wheelers and cutting shooting lanes. Also found beer cans and other garbage scattered about which i stuffed in my pack (luckily i didn't run into a ECO while leaving). Also found a couple gut shot deer and a carcase which had the back straps and hind quarters removed and the rest left to rot. I will PM with a possible location or two.

No? I guess but then again i don't really care. Its a big damn deer.

2 hours 20 minutes

Yup that's big. If it is then i bet its got a shot at the state record. I wonder if it was the Cornell Campus buck?

Nothing wrong with a little cover sent.

LOL That might be the better option.

I have been looking at them for years. It depends on a county by county basis. Most of the time if you go to the county website you will be able to find a link. Look under real property services. And look for Parcel viewer in most cases. There is a centralized site through ORPS but i don't really use it. Allegany Catt Chautauqua The above are the links to the counties i use the most.

You did a good thing. And i bet its a trophy in his eyes. Keep it up.

1 you are a anti.... you have chosen to single out hunters and attack them. It does not matter in the least that you yourself hunt. This does more damage to the hunting community as a whole then any outside influence from antis will ever do. I think you hit it on the head Doc. For the most part i think a one buck rule would help to resolve the issue. Not to mention the approval of X-bows for those who don't want to take the time, don't have the time, or cant use a vertical bow. Now getting back to 308's original post. Its already been stated but i will say it again. Its the type of hunter that takes bad shots and wounds an animal not there choice of weapon. Sure you can see a arrow sticking out of a deer after the fact but if there is just a hole in the neck i guess that must have been from the fighting during the rut, right? I have by far seen many more wounded and or dead deer during gun season than bow. In-fact i cant ever remember seeing a wounded animal or carcase during bow. The only exception i can say to that was the one i found with the rack cut off or is that a reflection on bow-hunters as well? Lets suppose for a minute that this is a bow hunter issue. Whens the last time someone was killed during archery (besides the morons who wont wear a safety harness). What is worse wounding a deer or failing to identify your target and blowing a hole in uncle Bill? Those fatalities must be due to the firearm right? No its the Hunter who will define his or her actions (not the weapon used). At least the guys on here have ID'ed their target before sending there projectile on its way. And for the record i have also been shot at (with a firearm) three separate times. I also find it amusing that you don't really seem to like government (i.e. DEC) but you have no issues with them restricting your freedom when it comes to choose what you harvest (i.e. AR). 308 if you indeed have never lost a deer as you claim i commend you. That being said i hope you have bugs bunnies foot in your back pocket and a horse shoe up your @$$ because your going to need it. I think your time would be better spent doing something constructive like recruiting the next generation of hunters, working on conservation projects or writing your elected official vs. brow beating fellow hunters. Just my 2 cents.

Me like.

So when you have company over do you tell them where the scrape is in-case they have to relieve themselves. I do the same.

So when you have company over do you tell them where the scrape is in-case they have to relieve themselves. I do the same. F#%^@#$% back button wrong thread.

I should have put this up earlier but this is what i usually put on a pumpkin.

My father in-law showed it to my two year old and now she walks around the house saying Angry Birds, Angry Birds.

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20111106/SPORTS0103/111060369/Outdoors-Notebook-Hunter-harvests-feral-pig-Wayne-County Google is a wonderful thing. Dosent have the wild bore / razorback look to it like many i have seen. I would be more skeptical that it was a pen raised animal.

Good Luck.

I hope you cut out the Tarsal glands and threw them in the freezer.