nyantler

I'm a life member since the 90's... been wondering why ever since.

Could accomplish the same thing with a one tom rule... plus I think its not that hard to tell a mature tom from a jake.

Definitely Alaska... where the only thing that keeps you at the top of the food chain is a gun... you don't even bow hunt there without a gun! Dangerous game definitely makes it more interesting and the fact that the elements can kill you as well really adds another hitch to the giddy-up.

What a great video... doesn't get much simpler than that.

That is just plain funny!! lol

Very true Doc... the old smoke and mirror trick by the government... taking away liberty's and hyping up the safety issue to justify it. I contend that the first 100 years of our county's freedom was equal to or more dangerous than today... we fought off a handful of attacks on the country then while never giving up liberty... a time where most men and women were willing to die just to keep that freedom... not so sure the majority feels the same today.

I dare anyone on this forum to have the kind of balls to say the things Ted says in public that need to be said... I applaud any man that doesn't back down in his convictions crazy or not... we all should be so bold. If we were... the 2nd amendment wouldn't be under this kind of assault. Giving a crap what non gun owners think about us is unimportant compared to how the constitution is being trampled on... calling a spade a spade is not crazy.. just true... and needs to be said.

Funny how the older I get the more interesting these little critters are to watch... they fascinate me. Well, they say your mind is the first thing to go with age..lol

I can't wait!!

These song birds seem to show up every year as well

Its an old salemans sample.... it floats but not big enough I don't think to handle an adult... I got it strictly for decorative reasons... I've been looking for quite some time.. I just couldn't justify the cost of them for decorartion until I found this deal.

I have a dark eyed Junco nest near my porch... I found a recording on line of some Junco calls and played them while sitting on the porch last summer... I had junco's landing on my railing a few feet from me in response to the call... it was pretty cool.

All this arguing and Sits in Tree's deer are still starving.

I bought this 5' wooden canoe from ebay for $105... going to hang it from the beams in my cabin... I will post pics of it in the cabin once Redfield gets thawed out enough to get to my camp and hang it..

I'm only interested in the 10% that do read the entire posts... the 90% you are talking about are usually the uninformed anyway because they refuse to take longer than 7 seconds for anything... and it usually shows

So so true!

I still can't believe the resistance by some to accept that deer starving and death is part of the natural order of things in the wild... we go as far as to hate other animals such as coyotes because they sometimes have "Your" deer on their menu as a food source. Its amazing what some will do and say in the name of "their" deer hunting which has little to do with real conservation or deer management.

Good question... deer are unbelievable at adapting for survival... don't know much about the buck so I can't say for sure.

This one is really freaky!!

Good question!! Even though it looks like a common base it is actually still scored as two separate antlers because there are still two pedicles... first base circumference measurement would be taken were the antlers first split. Certainly not an easy rack to score and would most likely have to be panel scored so that you could get a consensus about what is what.

It is... Here is another

That would be fine if we all new in advance which fawns might make it and which might not, whether all might get through or none... I agree to take a fawn if that's your thing... but killing it on the hunch that it isn't going to make it through the winter doesn't make much sense... once you shoot it there is a 100% chance it won't make it through the winter. Killing mature deer reduces the carrying capacity just as much as killing the same amount of young deer.

Like I said... planting natural browse or enhancing what already exists in the habitat is the best thing we can do management wise to help deer during those extreme winters. Felling trees is probably not a bad idea as well. Filling freezers is not really a consideration when coming up with a management plan nor should it be... the best thing that can happen in high snowfall areas is to keep the carrying capacity of the deer to a level that allows them to make it through those winters... nature is just doing its part to take care of that pretty much on its own.