HectorBuckBuster

Do you have any idea of what prices my be this year. I though about going out doing some trapping this year.

I would get a sign says blind hunter area enter at your own risk, be careful of stray arrows or bullets.LOL Just kidding. Maybe put a stand up close to this one and sneak in and sit in it and watch your other stand.

The Hector National Forest used to be all farmland. But the soil was poor and was over farmed and harvested. Most of the land was bare no trees left. Also these was a huge flood in 1938 I believe that washed alot of the top soil away from this area. So the Federal Government bought the land and moved the farmers to better ground. That is why there is alot of brush lots.

That is some spread on the deere in the third picture.Looks like atleast a 20 foot head on that beast. I had the same thing happen last year, had a camera on the field edge, and the farmer plowed it at 11:00 at night. I had something like 300 pictures of the tractor passing by.

It was never shut down,just the ranger station was. I seen people hunting, lots of people hiking, and then they had some big horse ride through it just last week. Well if it was shut down, someone forgot to tell all the cows in the pastures as they are still there..

Looks like we are getting a Field & Stream Store here in NY http://www.stargazette.com/article/20131016/NEWS01/310160050/Field-Stream-store-coming-Big-Flats

Parker bows has a program called The Grow with Parker Bow. You buy the bow and for $50.00 you can keep upgrading the limbs. http://www.parkerbows.com/growup.html

A few years back a local bar used to have a bow hunting rabbit contest. I think is was done in Feb as I remember there was snow, and no leaves. It was fun hunt. We did take like a few rabbits. Back then we used aluminum arrows and not carbon.It was a 2 hunter team. What we did was a group of use basically did a rabbit drive to some watches, and just kicked and stomped on the brush to move the rabbits.

First-Light that $70 is per acre for just the agricultural rights. I was getting $35 but was approached by 3 different farmers with in a couple of weeks wanting to rent my property, and one made be a written offer of $70. So, I contacted the farmer that was currently farming it and talked with him and gave him the opportunity to make a offer. I have 167 acres of tillable land on connecting parcels so that helps me out in negotiating over someone with say 20 acres. I do know in Cayuga county they are paying $65 per acre just for pasture land. NY land produces the same amount of crops per acre as land in the mid west. I do understand farming is tough, but not as tough as it was 30-40 years ago. These tractors on combines are Air conditioned, controlled by GPS and have 10-12 bottom plows, and combines with 20-30 foot heads, and 20 row planters, it does not long at all to plow,plant and harvest a 50 acre field, verse's 30 years ago.The NY farmers are getting farming land at bargian basement prices, in the mid west the pay between $300-500 per acre.Here is a article of farm rental land auction prices, and these are only for 2 year leases. http://www.agriculture.com/news/business/l-rent-auctions-stunning_5-ar22091 http://www.agriculture.com/uploads/assets/promo/external/siteimages/Lakin%20Sale%20Bill%20with%20prices.pdf

Well I own around 200 acres of land and I rent it out to a farmer.So all I have to worry about is taxes, since land is free and clear. I was going through some old paper work of my grandmothers, and she was getting $5010 for farming lease in 1985. In 2013 the farm rent was only bring in $5600.In my area there has been a huge buying spree by large farms buying land, which has pushed the land prices up some. It also has given land owners with large acreage a big bargaining chip. As I just signed a new lease for $70.00 per acre for farm leasing. If you get large parcels of land and you do not get a agricultural assessment odds are the taxes will end up crushing you. Say you buy some land for $100,000 and you pay taxes of $5000 a year, so after 10 years sure maybe the land went to $150,000 dollars, but you in reality have $150,000 in the land from the purchase price and add taxes. So if you where to sell it you would just break even. Also there are not alot of banks that give loans just for land.

Wow a couple of nice studs there.You need a hunting buddy? LOL

I found some this year on my property.Called the sheriffs department and they waited a few weeks until they took up the helicopter before they pulled the plants.

You can also get the NYScope yard sign at the Interlaken Gun Shop for $10.00

I love the shirt Happy Happy Happy I would guess

Well reading this little piece of crap, page 2 has a pretty bad paragraph. Below is the first part of the paragraph notice the nice wording NOT BEING CONVICTED OF A CRIME ? WTF Disqualifiers will include traditional criteria, such as NOT BEING CONVICTED OF A CRIME or Serious offense, and new criteria established by the Act.

The grape crop this year are just huge, and with this nice weather they are able to leave the grapes on the vine to get even sweeter, I went and picked some from our vineyard today and they where like eating candy !!!!!!!!!

We should be very worried, look at this NYS Police Document that was leaked to the Tresmond Law firm. Read page 12 at the bottom, if you lose the right to have a NYS Pistol Permit you also lose the right to own any firearms Shotguns or Rifles included. This really looks like a way to start confiscating peoples guns. So get in a argument with your wife/girlfriend cops called, next thing you know your pistol permit is gone and then the rest of your guns. http://imgsrv.wben.com/image/wben2/UserFiles/File/Safe_Act_Field_Guide.pdf

I have seen a shot a couple nice buck in Taughanock State Park in Tbrug. That is bow hunting only. I was hunting right off RT 89 one time noisy has hell because of traffic but seen lots of deer. Also alot of the National Forest borders crop fields. The Old Boy Scott camp (Now National Forest Land) borders vineyards to the north and south and Seneca Lake to the West. Lots of good hunting there too.

Wow 30 hunters Sq mile, you are crazy. I live right in the Hector National Forest. Yes we do get some very nice deer. Coming up and trying to get a 120 class deer in 10 days it is possible but highly unlikely. The National Forest is 15,000 acres broken up in 2 counties. You can find lots of nice little hunting spots you just have to look and do alittle walking, get away from the road and hike back. The best thing to do is stop at the Ranger Station on Rt 414 in Hector, and get a map. You also have some State Parks the are bow hunting only. If you hunt the National Forest make sure you are 100 percent legal, as on the the rangers is a retired DEC Officer. The biggest thing with the National Forest is one side of the road may be National Forest but the other side is private land.

I bet a loaded gun on a 4 wheeler/Vehicle or shooting within 500 foot of a dwelling.

If they do the 1 buck rule, how am i supposed to get the NY Buck Slam Bow,Shotgun, and Muzzleloader ?

One thing I think people are over looking is when you take money to let someone hunt on your land, you are no longer covered by NY Dec laws and are liable for anyone that is injured or killed on your property. If you do not take a payment then you are protect by the Dec Law

Ok, I own almost 200 acres and never had anyone try and lease my hunting rights. Well most people in the area know how much I love to hunt so that might be why. One thing I can understand from a land owners is wanting to lease out the hunting rights. My land is woods,hedgerows and farm fields. This year the school taxes went up almost 10 percent because the cap on agriculture assessments expired. For years the agriculture assessment was capped at 2 percent but not now. I just did some quick math, my taxes increased on this land $420 this year alone (between school and property), and just a touch lower last year.So my taxes have increased on farm land with not doing any improvements of almost $1000 dollars. I think leasing the hunting rights now is just a little extra help for the land owner.

I have hunted for over 20 years plus, and it appears that the deer populations or siighting have fallen. Then I started to change from my old spots to different area's and moved alot of my stands to natural funnels and my sightings have skyrocketed. I also have noticed alot of my stands are closer to people/house's then they where 15 years ago. I used to be able to sit in the middle of a nice wood lot and see lots of deer, now I sit in alot of funnels or smaller area's near people and see more deer. There is also more house's now that have a few acres attached to them that has small little brush lots on them, that people can't hunt. Also back 15-20 years ago, we would do a whole mile square deer drive from one road to the next as everyone knew everyone and was ok with it, now you are lucky to find a couple acres to do a deer drive. So there is less area that people can hunt to move them around. The deer find a small little safe area and tend to stay.

I bought a 1998 Sportmans 500 HO off my neighbor because he bought a new one and the old one backfired and did not run. He sold it to me for $400 bucks and about $400 dollar more in parts for the cam and rocker and oil, and $100 bucks to a friend of mine that machine was running like a champ. One other issue the Sportsman seem to have is the front steering seems hard to turn or locked up. There is fluid in the front hubs for the 4 wheel drive and the hubs need to be cleaned inside and fluid changed.