Caveman

I love how the biggest bucks always seem to be in residential areas. Don't know if you're familiar with Losson park and the Reinstein woods down in S. Cheektowaga but I grew up in that area and used to walk the trails with my grandparents when I was in grade school. Saw some monsters out there and the number of deer hit by cars was and still is ridiculous. A few years back they had Cheektowaga PD do a bait and shoot to trim the numbers a little. I can't help but think that opening the park up to permitted bow hunters for a few seasons would've been more benificial.

I read a similar story on MSNBC this morning. There's a silver lining to every scenario though. If they spread, while it would no doubt be negative for the ecosystem, we've got something bigger than woodchucks to hunt in the offseasons

No unfortunately I had the map with the rough WMU boundaries open in one browser and a Google map open in another browser and I was flipping between them really fast trying to see where everything lines up lol. I had no idea that map on the DEC site existed.

I have never seen that feature on the DEC's website but now I know for sure that it's 9M. Thanks for all the help both of you

Thanks WNY after looking at that page I'm almost positive it's in 9M. I'll break out a big map and double check tomorrow.

I just got permission to hunt a new property in Catt county and luckily I haven't bought my license for this year yet so I'm trying to figure out what WMU this property is in for my DMPs. I've got two maps open and I can't get it for sure so I'm hoping one of you know. It's near the intersection of Co Hwy 75 and US 219 near Ellicottville . Any help is great guys

I read that title after waking up from a nap at work and I thought it was a grinder for horse meat...brain fart

I've been looking for a used traditional but it's a little out of my price range. I know you obviously want to get as much as you can so if you're having trouble selling it after a while and you're willing to drop price at all send me a pm.

Burmjohn, I think that's the first time I've heard a man say he lucked out followed by his in-laws moved closer. Lol

I'm studying for the LSATs on october 1st but i can't seem to go more than a minute our two without thinking about the upcoming season. This is really getting in the way of me getting the score I want. Anyone else have their obsession with hunting negatively affecting their daily lives?

That's awesome. I was thinking about trying the Rage's this year (coming from fixed blades) but I'm having a hard time dealing with the price tag.

The funny thing is the next week I ran into a Forest Ranger on the way in (checked tagged and licenses etc) and after I told him about the headstone I found, but not the rider. I asked if he knew anything about the person buried there, and he said the Byrne town historian was actually doing some research at the request of a group of hunters from the year prior. The funny part is he said the hunters were acting strange, like something had happened but they were afraid to talk about it.

I've never been charged by a bear but the weirdest thing I've experienced was on some state land outside of Albany last year. Before I start I want to say I'm not the type of person who jumps to irrational conclusions or is crazy about the paranormal. I was sitting with my back against a tree watching a stand of trees. To my left was a stand of pines so thick you couldn't see more than 10 feet into them and in front of them a muddy path carved out for snowmobiles in the winter. I was just starting to get bored and thinking about doing a little still hunting when I heard a faint clip-clop sound almost like hooves to pull me back to reality. It started to get louder so I turned my head to look and about 40 yards away on that trail there was a horseback rider. Ordinarily that wouldn't have been strange, it was a rural area after all. But something seemed off. He was dressed in all navy blue and I remember thinking it looked like the uniforms the civil war actors were wearing when I went to ghettysburg in 5th grade and he had what looked like a mil-surp rifle slung over his shoulder. But his face really creeped me out, his expression was blank, emotionless, ironically he looked like he had seen a ghost. At this point I'm kind of ticked off that this guy rode through and ruined my hunt so I whistled to let him know I was there, he didn't react at all. Now I figured I'd get up and follow him, give him a piece of my mind. He turned and went around that stand of pines following the trail while the clip-clop of his horse faded. I turned the corner he had turned and there was nothing. I could still hear the hooves and like I said, I don't jump to illogical conclusions so I figured he was just out of sight somewhere. So I looked down to find a track to follow him by. That's the first my mind drifted to anything but rational explanations. There were no tracks. I weight 180 pounds and I was leaving clear impressions in the mud, you can't tell me an 800 pound horse didn't. I looked everywhere and could not cut one track. Nothing in the mud, nothing in the dirt, no wet prints on the large rocks that dotted the trail. I searched a 30 yard diameter circle and nothing. At this point I was getting a little freaked out so I decided to head to another spot and put it out of my mind. The problem is when I crossed the next ridge I came across a headstone less than 100 yards of where i had been sitting. (Partridge Run is known to have at least 2 cemeteries and multiple lone headstones scattered about dating back as far as the revolutionary war) The only thing I could make out in the faded stone was Capt. (illegible name) and underneath it birth and death dates, the death date being smack in the middle of the American Civil War. Needless to say I was out of the woods well before dark that day. To this day I won't say I saw a ghost, but I honestly can't explain what I experienced. I consider myself a very skeptical person but this episode pushed me to the verge of belief. I think I'd rather be charged by a bear.

I took my girlfriend's little brother out squirrel hunting this year. He's only eight so he couldn't really participate but I let him field dress a few critters and we saw some deer too. When he got home he asked his mom for a gun for his birthday lol. He keeps telling people that he can hunt too in 4 years. Nothing like exposing a new hunter to the sport and the great outdoors that may not have had the chance otherwise.

I guess there were no callers. The story is false. The bear is real but only 9' 9". I posted it a little too soon. Never trust the internet.

Perhaps you can give us a short synopsis?

I volunteer in EMS and we had a similar call not too long ago. Kid had some nasty lacerations and we thought some broken ribs too. Here's the best part, police had "no choice" but to euthanize the deer. Dumb city folk...

I've found when you have questions like this it's easier to call your regional office and request to speak with an officer. I've done it a few times and they've been more than cooperative. When I emailed them a question it took three weeks to get a response.

If you and I are thinking of the same special that one's been out for a few months now.

Eddie you hit the nail on the head with part of that, "The lesser of two evils." It's unfortunate that politics has become a matter of who's gonna screw things up the least. There aren't many politicians left that I think would actually do a GOOD job lol.

Thanks for the correction. I got it as a chain letter and just copied and pasted for the sake of time. Either way, that's a huge animal.

One more I didn't have room for

I'd probably piss myself if this thing came through the woods toward me. Big Bear shot Saddle Hills Alberta, Sept 20/2010 These two gents were calling elk in the Saddle Hills south of Woking when this big guy slipped in on the caller the Shooter spotted the bear 8 yards from the caller and dropped him with 5 shots out of his 338 Rem Mag.. Farmers in The area knew about the Bear but weren’t able to track after it had killed 3 horses, 5 cows, 13 sheep and a pen full of chickens on several Different homesteads in the area. Fish and wildlife had bear traps set up in the area but notice on surveillance video that when ever a he would enter his hump would hit The top of the culvert trap slowing him enough that the trap door would wack him on the head before he was all the way in check out the Scar tissue on his face….. Bear weighed in just under 1300 pounds and would have stood 11 ¾ feet tall on its hind legs…..

I've been a registered Democrat and I've been a registered republican and it wasn't until I took a step back and asked myself "Do I actually believe this stuff?" that I renounced both. The way I see it neither one wants you to think for yourself and formulate your own opinions. Both just want you to think and act in accordance with their beliefs. They fight and demonize one another but the funny thing is, they're not that different in this regard.

I on the other hand have never really heard anything worth listening to from younger people... although I have listened.. It usually was a waste of my time.. sorry No apologies, everyone's entitled to be wrong