Caveman

I keep the beard all year. When I'm clean shaven I look like I'm 14 years old and can't get anyone to take me seriously at work.

You need legal advice, and the last place I would go for legal advice is an internet forum for hunters.

Forget all that synthetic stuff. Get a Woolrich coat and layer up. Wool is waterproof (practically), warm, breathable, quiet, and even if it gets wet it's still warm. No one has managed to make a synthetic material that can do all of that and can do it as well.

If you mean rattlesnake Hill WMA, it's 9P. Go to the State Lands Interactive Mapper and select the option to show WMU boundaries. Also, 9P requires preference points to draw a DMP, so if you don't them, don't count on getting one.

You should offer financing, Moog. Then I could tell my wife I didn't pay $2000 for a rifle. I just paid $100 twenty times.

Oh man, I use it to deodorize my truck. After everything I do for my health, using ozone to get the fart smell out of my truck is going to be what does me in...

If I'm not mistaken, doesn't ozone have a fairly short half-life? Ozone is simply trioxygen, which, when used as a deodorizer, rapidly oxidizes the molecules that cause odor, breaks down into ordinary dioxygen, and is no longer harmful. This all happens within a few hours. As I understood it, if you close the door to the room you're using it in, keep your animals and family out, and wait a few hours, it shouldn't be harmful. That being said, it's awful to breathe directly and especially harmful to those with preexisting respiratory issues. I'm not a chemist by any means, but that was my impression.

I use a small ozone generator to kill the smell of pipe tobacco in my house. I can't say it would fool a deer, but it works well enough that I can't smell it anymore.

Split the difference. I lived in Webster last year, but my wife took a job in Buffalo and I still have a year of working in Rochester, so we're currently in Batavia. Hoping to be back in Buffalo next summer depending on the job situation.

Oddly, Law, those pictures make me happy. I'm sick of summer. Fishing is fun and all, but I'll take the snow to the heat any day of the week. Plus its an excuse to let me beard get unruly without my wife getting on my case.

Spend some time on the archived pages of Trapperman.com. There is a lot of really good free info there.

Nice fish, Law. When you say hard shell crabs, are you referring to crayfish?

I avoided Canada for 10 years or so because I refused to get the enhanced license and don't have a passport. I had to get one for work a few years ago, and now I no longer have an excuse to avoid visiting my mother-in-law up there. I did have my bachelor party in Niagara Falls, ON, but that's not a thread we can discuss on a family-friendly forum.

I don't know your financial situation, nor is it my business, but it might be worth it to look into buying a small house in Naples yourself and renting it to your son. Then when he's ready to move on you have an income property. It also depends on the real estate and rental markets whether or not it could be profitable. Just an option to consider.

For a long time Catt County was the top turkey producer in the state. I've hunted deer in East Otto for years. I've seen lots of birds there in the past during deer season. Even got to see a big Tom get ripped to shreds by two yotes a few years back. It was tough to watch, but pretty cool to see. I'd give it a shot. Just know that East Otto draws a lot of hunters from the Buffalo area in deer season. I'd imagine it's pretty crowded. Don't forget that 20 minutes down the road in Ellicottville you can go to McCarty Hill State forest. I've never hunted there, but it's a lot bigger than East Otto.

There was a time when I liked that show. Recently they've been choosing personalities that I don't necessarily like. Charlie was a moron, and that guy in New Mexico (Kyle I think) was equally inept. Don't get me started on Eustace and his sovereign citizen-esque "I don't understand why they're trying to steal my land" crusade. It's not stealing when you owe $40k in back taxes. On top of that, when I started watching closely I started noticing where things were obviously staged. There was an episode where Charlie's beaver were being taken by coyotes, so he set a urine post set. He came back the next day and the coyote was frozen solid in a very unnatural position. If you looked closely you could tell that it was staged. All in all, I can't watch anymore. I liked--and still like--Tom, Marty, and to a lesser extent Rich, but the positives don't outweigh the negatives for me. EDIT: If you're into this kind of subject matter, you should check out the documentary "Happy People: A year in the Taiga" on Netflix. Imagine a Russian version of Mountain Men without the fabricated production.

Perhaps it's true in the US. I still firmly believe that legal hunting in impoverished countries like those in Africa cuts down on poaching though. When hunting is allowed in an impoverished country, you increase demand for other services. You need guides, trackers, cooks, entertainment, laborers, etc. The employment opportunities surrounding these operations gives the animals an economic value they would not otherwise have and incentivizes protection by locals where they ordinarily couldn't be bothered.

As a Bills fan, I don't like this. We're now in a no-win situation week 4. Either we win and get to hear "good job, you beat our backup," or we lose and "couldn't even beat [their] backup."

Western New York: Never more than 2 degrees of separation

I second matrix metering like Wooly said. Another option is if you use any post-production software like photoshop, lightroom, etc. You can also strategically expose for the bright areas when you shoot, effectively leaving the rest of your shot very dark, and "bring up" the under-exposed areas in the software after the fact. You can also do the opposite to an extent, though it's easier to get detail from underexposed shadow than from blown highlights. A last option, and admittedly very advanced and not great for wildlife photography where your subject is on the move is a technique called high dynamic range, or HDR, though I highly doubt it would be suitable to the type of shooting you're describing. It's really better for landscapes.

Thanks, Elmo. There's also the challenge of overcast days, dawn and dusk opportunities, heavy pines, etc. Luckily, my camera does pretty well at higher ISOs. I still won't shoot much higher than 3200 at the very high end though. Just too much noise. Especially if you plan on cropping. I always enjoy your pictures, Wooly. Thanks for sharing. It's awesome that you shoot a D3200. On the photography forums everyone is always after the latest and greatest gear. All of the beginning shooters come around saying "If only I could afford a D500 or a D810, I could take pictures like that!" Here, you're getting awesome shots with what you term an "entry-level" camera. Like Larry said, it's often the indian, not the arrow.

Care to share your settings and setup for any other photographers on the forum, Wooly? My wildlife shots suffer from not having fast enough telephoto glass.

SOLD. Can a mod please lock this thread?

Never fished Lake Alice, but I try to get out on Oak Orchard river a few times a year. We've always done well on northern and largemouth there.

Larry, if you ever ran for the mayor of HuntingNY.com you'd have my vote.