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Thanks for bringing this up, Doc. Here's an editorial from the NYT, of all places, recommending a NO vote: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/31/opinion/constitutional-convention.html?_r=0 As Rattler pointed out, the problem is that nothing ever comes from it, either good or bad, and it ends up being a giant waste of taxpayer money. It's about political higher-ups having lots of formal dinners and cocktail parties at taxpayer expense. These people are largely ineffective at producing, proposing, or passing even basic legislative changes. Who knows what might happen if they start tinkering with the NYS constitution.

A friend of mine showed me a face-on pic from a game cam of a three-antlered deer just last week. It was a big buck with pretty big antlers, and a third one growing from just above its eye.

If you love what you're doing it's not work. I would think that sacrificing a small bit of your own happiness for the sake of your family is not a sacrifice. There is always a balance.

I went from home-builder to Architect to furniture and boat-builder and back to general builder. I've only spent four of the last forty years working for someone else, so I've always had time to hunt when I wanted. The downside is that I took a lot of time off to hunt, and now I'm mostly broke. I wouldn't trade a minute of it though.

Be proud, my friend. Venison in the freezer and and a little one on the way!!! Do a Euro mount with the skull so you can show the kid what you were doing shortly before he/she came along.

The Gillibrand and Schumer 'marriage' is no different than the Hillary and Jeb 'marriage'. In the end it's about them and their donors. The people have seen through that, and they've elected President Trump.

I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.

Democrats lie. To anyone and everyone. I thought that was common knowledge.

250 grain!! I know you're a big guy Moog but what kinda bow are you drawing to propel those heads?

Beautiful job Wildcat!

All the best to you on this day!!

It's kinda like being a 'self molester', but when you come in after a day in the woods ya gotta check yourself thoroughly.

Sauce is made from tomatoes, and gravy is made from meat drippings in the roasting pan. They're both good and tasty, but don't confuse them. To Grow's OP, I don't remember carrots ever being used. But if there was too much salt in a batch of sauce a potato would be added to the pot to cut that back.

Congratulations GreeneHunter!!! Be forewarned though, the silence and invisibility of bowhunting is addicting.

My memories go back to when television was free, if you had an antenna. If the weather was good you could get early morning tv reception to tell you that the weather was good. If the weather was bad there was no tv reception to tell you the weather was bad. A trip to the outhouse would tell you that the weather was bad and you would then report that to your buddies and say that it looks like it might get better. It was an obligation. Meant to lighten everyone's spirits, before they went out to become soaking wet, cold, and miserable. After the hearty camp breakfast we would trudge out to be wet and cold on our own, divorced from the camp with the wood stove we called momma, and the pantry full of food, and the tv that held the possibility of a later football game if the weather cleared so the antenna could get reception. This was the fine line: if the weather is better so that the tv works, is the weather also not better for hunting? Never mind. Most of us were hunters and were prepared for whatever nature threw at us. Some were there for the ambiance: a dozen guys drinking beer and eating venison chili in a 600 square foot cabin? None of them were named Harvey BTW.

My Grandmother would serve something similar on the farm on Friday nights. Either a casserole or a pot-pie setup. Everything leftover from the week went into it so you knew it would be good one way or the other. I worked really hard with my brothers and cousins on that farm, but we were like a horde of locusts at mealtime. I don't know how they made any money after feeding us, but being Italian, feeding us was what mattered.

First bow-kill ever, or first for the year? It's a small difference, but you never forget your first ever. Looks very tasty either way.

It's been a while, but several bowls of venison stew and some good bourbon was always the tradition. And lots of stories, of course.

Congratulations Dave Jr., and welcome to the site!

I've never seen a deer eat a black walnut so I can't say for sure if deer like them or not, but the squirrels definitely like to bury them. Whether or not they actually come back to retrieve them is open for debate. They're bitter as heck compared to English walnuts, which are what people generally cook with. My brother collects mountains of them from his yard and spreads them in areas around his property where he doesn't want weeds to grow.

Don't leave out the books by hunting humorists like Pat McMahon and Ed Zern. It's not funny if you haven't BTDT, but if you've been there it's damned funny.

Lots of good titles here. I think there might be an older thread as well.

There was a thread here about this very subject a few years ago. Lots of great suggestions. I'll look for it. Peter Capstick's "Death in the Long Grass" is one of my favorites, but any of the old-time shooters or hunters could spin a good yarn. It's nice to see that people still read.

Best of luck to you, and Happy Birthday!

Actually Biz, 9/15 would probably work better because the bucks wouldn't quite be in transition mode yet, and they would still be working summer patterns, which are way easier to decipher than early rut patterns. Then again, they'd have velvety racks and relatively skinny necks which don't mount well.