UpStateRedNeck

If I was a lady I would have just swooned. But Im in IT so you're speaking my language.

289 days should be just about enough time for my new ACL to become mostly functional. Here's hoping!

My aunt and uncle just leased theirs through Basecamp, they take care of alot of the paperwork.

Fellas. Threads like this are exactly why trolls come back. Negative attention is still attention. Just block him, or ignore him altogether. Once you stop feeding them they find another bridge to hide under.

Love Browns. Food is damn good too.

Agreed. Right at the dinner table he usually did it. My only point is they've vast improvements on a lot of things in the past 30 years.

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Boo yah! Late season is hard, nice work!

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This SoB..... day is off 1 day, it was actually opening morning, and I was there at 5am so an hour off too. This is the 10 that got popped a half mile away and 1000 feet lower in elevation, at the bottom of my property.

Took a little hike, didn't see a thing. Everything seems be off the top of the hill. Pulled the cams, not much moving the last 2 weeks.

Never type a post while your kid is pestering you. No, chestnuts. We have tons of beech too. It's just taking up space in my timber woods that could be growing sweet, sweet maple logs. I do like the scrubby beech stuff around the field edges. It also burns pretty good too, but the window is narrow on it rotting out. I like to girdle about a dozen of them, then get them down and split about 2 years later. Rot sets in quick if you drop them.

From what I read, they added a some wheat genes to the original trees genetic makeup. This makes them better able to heal and regenerate where the blight attacks them. Interesting stuff! Also I know we have some young chestnuts up on the farm somewhere, I think I've always written off the leaves as beech. I'll be paying closer attention from now on. Sounds like I need to get a game plan together for 2 years from now to plant a Chestnut Grove. They prefer Sandy and acidic soil, I have just the spot for them!

Here's an email I got from the original person I emailed : Thanks for reaching out! Right now, the transgenic American chestnut tree can only be planted on United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) permitted sites until a full review is completed by the USDA, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Food and Drug Administration (FDA). We expect this review to take an additional one to two years. Upon approval by the USDA, EPA and FDA, the transgenic American chestnut should be ready for individuals such as you. In the meantime, our team anticipates the open comment period for the USDA during Jan/Feb 2020. The comment period is important to our project as it allows the general public to participate in the regulatory process, and aids these agencies in their decision making. We would appreciate your support by submitting a comment when the time comes. I will add your name to our list of people to be notified about the open comment period, and of federal approval to distribute blight resistant American chestnut trees to the public. If you haven’t done so already, I encourage you to join The American Chestnut Foundation at http://www.acf.org. This will inform you of the happenings in both our biotech and breeding programs for the American chestnut. For more information about the American chestnut project, please visit http://www.esf.edu/chestnut/. You can follow our progress on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/groups/esfchestnut/. I look forward to your potential grove of American chestnuts in future years!

If it still is in the spring when I'm back on my feet I seriously might take you up on it. Would look delightful on a Bergara or Browning 300 win mag.....

Sorry to rerail the thread, but this makes me wish I hadn't blown my hunting budget on gear this year. You know that feeling when you look at a beautiful woman that is just your type? That's the feeling I get when I look at that scope.

From Allen: emails with information on our restoration program, but it sounds like you have a great place to start some restoration. Where in NY are you located? Basically at this time SUNY-ESF has developed a blight resistant tree, but for restoration we want everyone involved to cross that tree, when available, with wild type trees. That will then give everyone blight resistant nuts with good genetic diversity. To start we need everyone to plant some wild type trees from nuts, which we supply free of charge, for mother trees. Then when the blight resistant tree is approved for distribution, they cross the blight resistant tree with the wild type mother trees. We are hoping to have our blight resistant tree approved for distribution in just a year or two, and SUNY-ESF hopes to have over 10,000 by that time. But, many of them will be clones and will have to be crossed with wild type trees to produce fertile nuts, The American chestnut is not self pollinating so none of the clonal trees would pollinate each other, and that is one of the reasons we want, and need, each one to be planted with wild type mother trees. The American chestnut flowers very quickly when planted in full sun, but may take 30 years to get to the canopy in the forest and flower. See pictures of 3 year old trees.

I'm hoping they can move my ACL replacement up a couple weeks, scheduled for the 21st of January right now. Going. To. Suck.

200 ain't too bad with a modern rifle, just need to practice a bit. Little late for that though. Get in an hour before first light, bundle up and sit absolutely still with your gun already on the shooting stick.

Badass little mammal.

Well it turns out I was hunting without an ACL this year. Maybe that hike I took up and around the side of the hill in slippery 2 inches of snow wasn't the brightest thing I've ever done. Surgery in January, should be mobile by Turkey season.

Yeah I like that design. I havent seen mine yet either, but John did refund the $. Be happy to order this shirt through whomever!

Pretty sure you can bring 2 spoke poles if you want, my buddies do it for doemageddon every year.

Full agreement. They aren't "there" yet on offense. Enjoying this Chiefs game though.