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Could be because the computer say .45 ACP is handgun ammo.

This is a letter to the editor I wrote in January 2010. It goes to show you that the current problem we have is not Obama caused. I'm not trying to say that Obama nor another president is going fix this economy and if so, it's not gonna happen in 4 years. This economy will never rebound until we have Republicans and Democrats putting their heads together for common good of our country. Until that happens things will not get better. Below is the editorial. Give it a read. The state of our economy can be directly linked to a warning that someone told us about nearly 20 years ago. Do the words “giant sucking sound” ring a bell. The "giant sucking sound" was United States Presidential candidate Ross Perot's colorful phrase for what he believed would be the negative effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which he opposed. The phrase was coined during the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign, referring to the sound of U.S. jobs heading south for Mexico should the proposed free-trade agreement go into effect. Perot ultimately lost the election, and the winner, Bill Clinton, supported NAFTA, which went into effect on January 1, 1994. I don’t think Ross Perot himself could have predicted just how much this would impact our economy. Not only did our jobs go to Mexico but to China, Bangladesh, Taiwan, Indonesia and many others in Central Asia. Companies thought why not, we can have overseas worker could do the same work for $3 a day. They could have their product manufactured for much less, yet more often than not, they got an inferior product and with poorer quality control. These countries have grown richer due to our manufacturers electing to build their products for less money overseas thus ultimately killing our own working man and woman. Prior to this, the Unites States was known around the world as a manufacturers of great products. Now we are known for our great customer service. Which jobs do you think pay more? Most customer service people make less than $10 with many making minimum wage. Workers on the floor of assembly plants could expect 2 or 3 times that much and many earning more than $30 an hour. The US sold it’s soul. The manufacturing jobs are gone and now everyone is forced to go to college, inheriting huge debts through student loans to make that same $25 or $30 an hour. Many took Ross seriously, almost 19% cast their vote for him, including myself twice. Unfortunately, not enough of us thought this short, odd looking man with big ears and a funny voice could win the election, therefore dismissed him as a serious presidential candidate. Perot was not only a businessman and self made billionaire but a he was a modern day prophet. He knew what would happen and it did. The US needed someone who knew how to run a large business. Not another politician. Perot understood large business and after all isn’t the government just a large business. We live in a looks obsessed world, where people today are judged by how good looking or attractive they are rather than by what they say or do. I have often wondered… what if Ross Perot had looked like John Edwards, Harrison Ford, Bill Clinton or just an average looking man with a normal voice, would he have been our president? What would our country be like today if the NAFTA agreement had never been signed? Think about it!

Agree with Eddie here. Heavier arrow... a little slower... more KE and better penetration. I have never been so pleased since I properly forward weighted my arrows as I am now. You can hear them whack the target and they just sink deeper than lighter arrows. I was shooting a 400 total arrow weight including a 100 gr Montec G5. I now am shooting an arrow at 465gr total arrow weight pulling 58 lbs. My 18 yo son has a total arrow weight of 450gr and pulling 60lbs. Not boasting here just illustrating a point. When I killed my buck last year from the ground it was about a 40-42 yds shot, basically flat but slightly uphill. The arrow penetrated the left side of the chest breaking the rib... pierced the heart.... and broke the right leg below the shoulder and exited the right side. It did not pass through and exit but the fletching was sticking out of the left chest about 4 inches. Thats with a 58 lb bow. I'm certain that with a 350 grain arrow it would not have done this much damage.

Blackradio May I suggest you read my tutorial at this link. http://huntingny.com/forums/topic/5030-how-i-built-my-arrows/ I'm not saying it's gospel but it has worked well for me. If you are going to set your arrows up for hunting, do it right the first time. Then you will know a formula for all your future arrows as well. Just a suggestion.

Apples are looking real good here in southern oneida county

In central new york predominately, west wind but I have seen often times it will change in the late Fall and come from the south or SE.

I would think those that do won't say they do.

Thanks for the thoughts on this. The laser on the Ruger works real nice... niot sure if this is an update or not. Didn't know the Ruger din't stay open after the last shot... actually never shot the LCP so thanks.

Just a thought. Where do you fine hunters think is the best place to set up trail cams right now... in the woods or along the edge of corn fields, etc. I was thinking that big bucks might like to hang where they are less likely to hit there developing tines on tree limbs but maybe I'm wrong about this.

Agree here

I too would agree the SW Bodygaurd .380 or it's competitor the Ruger LCP .380 for everyday carry. Same gun really but I do like the way the laser activates a bit better on the Ruger than the SW. I have the SW.

yep a real nice buck

good link http://utica.craigslist.org/grd/3128799618.html

I agree with this

Until I hunted out west in 2000 I always thought they were deer trails but what I learned was they really are game trails... hence turkey, deer, fox, coyotes, etc. tend use many of the same trails. Reason you see all kinds of animals on the game cams.

I don't disagree with this quote Muzzy. I'd like to see a 1 doe and 1 buck rule myself

12 g 16 g .243 270 mag

My avatar is the 150 8pt from Illinois

Yes... southern Oneida County

These are the 3 best bucks I've taken over the years. L-R: Left: 9pt, 131 gross score taken opening day 1999 with a 12 gauge. It was the first time I sat on this spot and the first time I have hunted this land. Saw this same buck 2 weeks prior to season crossing the dirt road across from my house. Doe brought him to me and made the shot from atop a bluff about 35 yards away. Middle: 8pt, 150 gross score taken Oct 31, 2009 in Illinois. I took this buck with my bow at 17 yards from a sitting position in a tiny hang-on. I had to make a very difficult shot to my left (R handed) and practically turned my body inside-out to get this shot off. If he had taken 1 more step I never would have got him. R: 11pt, 141 gross score taken in Mexico in December 2005. Shot at about 85 yards with a model 70, 270 mag. Easy shot came in following a doe on the last day of my hunt at the last hour of daylight.

What you don't realize is the ethanol we burn in the states is not corn ethanol but sugar cane ethanol which is worse. We sell the corn to others and buy the sugar cane for our use but it's sugar so it gums the carbs and injectors even worse.

Put it away until Oct 1st...

It sounds like a hub. A hub where spokes come into an area and go back out. Many spokes so it's hard to see trails but they cross it. I can remember as young hunter my Dad had this watch (as he called it) at Arnold's Lake near Oneonta. He called it the PIE. He shot his best buck ever on the pie and kept coming back year after year. He saw 21 doe in a row one day but no buck. We looked it over one day and determined why it worked. The piece of land was a triangular shape and the crust was where my Dad would sit. The edge of the pie dropped off on a decline. We always felt the deer crossed the PIE to get their bearings. Whether from the sides and come over the top or from the top and then drop off one of the sides.

And you listened which most people don't.

This is a 4 part question. After you draw back... Do you draw down on the target? Do you rise up on the target? Do you float the pin on the target and then release? Do you hold right on target and release? OR do you something entirely different? I draw back and then rise up on the target and float the pin on to the target and release.