Curmudgeon

This is true. We must have a license to possess carcasses for research baiting. I dump all butchering remains - sans tags - way back on my property then put a camera on them. I have heard many complaints from people who find butchering remains dumped on their property on the roadside.

This is an average size shagbark.

Curious. Is that a woody stem?

It isn't a shagbark. That's the only hickory here. I am not familiar with the others.

I like the real upstate comment. As they say around here "everything the other side of the Catskills is NYC." Oops, I probably offended someone. Welcome.

I have a steamer/juicer and make 20-25 gallons of organic apple juice each winter on top of a wood cook stove.

A friend in an antler restricted area says he gets lots of big racks on his cameras - at night. They never see those deer during the day,

They have really lush grass right now. As it has been cut for second cutting hay the past couple of weeks, they move to different patches. They are eating the drops here too but more are in the grass.

It would seem reasonable to allow some noise suppression on firearms. What are the rules? I know silencers are illegal but we don't need that. We need to lower the db level to something less damaging.

That's a variation on the "you don't really know someone until you've shared an inheritance with them". You don't really know your hunting buddy until you've tried to share a 160 class buck with him.

Opening day there are a lot of people around us so 6 of us sit tight with 200-250 yards between us. I use a hand held GPS and Google Earth - which is also a very useful tool for planning hunts before we go out. The stands have been chosen for safety and deer potential. With the combination of tree stands and hilly terrain, we can't shoot each other as long as everyone sits tight. We turn on the 2-way radios if someone shoots so we know what is going on. After opening day, the surrounding properties are hunted lightly. We spread out on the neighbors and do small, circular still hunting drives. There has never been an issue here with another hunter finishing off a deer someone else shot first. The person who shot first gets to tag the deer.

I'm famous for confusing people. The squirrels ate my nuts and then the squirrels got eaten. Payback.

Yeah. Find a hickory tree. I can no longer shoot them because the sheep are behind the hickory tree for a couple of days.

I keep plastic ear plugs on a string around my neck. As soon as a I see a deer, before even identifying it and deciding if I want to shoot it, I put the plugs in. Once in a great while one will come up on me quick and I don't use. 90% of the time I do. I don't want it to get worse.

24/7 365 sounds like a lot of wasted energy. Thanks for agreeing about something.

So, you guys believe they are killing deer then post photos of coyotes you killed attempting to scavenge gut piles. Scavenging and killing are totally different things. You aren't supporting your own argument. DEC doesn't want to end coyote hunting to reduce deer populations because they know coyote hunting has virtually no impact on deer populations. Except in a few areas where >40% of the population annually it is a waste of time. There are always more moving in. A ME state biologist told me he considered it the "hopeless war on coyotes". On a macro level, coyotes impacting deer in New York is a myth.

The squirrels from hell.They are eating my nuts! Ate 2 last night for dinner. I'm hunting them from the patio.

Seems late to still be in velvet. This is the best rack I've photographed in Burlington so far.

I had a similar problem with a stand. I knew who owned the stand, mailed him a note with a deadline to remove it if it was his. It was gone by the deadline. Damaging the wall and cutting a road for his ATV is beyond the pale.

Thanks. My technical deficiencies are now officially on record.

I just signed up. The misses will do so today also. It may not be perfect but it is something. I have to admit to some mixed feelings on the credit card companies caution. They have shut my card down because I did something unusual -while I was away from home. Since the cell doesn't work at home, I don't give them that number. They have also caught some fraud so it is a mixed bag. My sister went to Europe without telling her card company. They stopped hers as soon as it was used in France.

There has always been a significant difference between 4F and 4O. The winters seem to be harder on the deer in 4O even though weather and ground conditions aren't much different most of the time. Occasionally a noreaster will drop heavy snow in eastern Delaware that doesn't reach Otsego but that is infrequent. 4F is much more agricultural so deer may go into the winter in better shape. I wonder how food availability varies between units in the winter.

You gotta love these people. The unit boundaries are there but they units aren't labeled.

From DEC, a kmz file of WMU boundaries. It could be useful. To help hunters and trappers identify their WMU, we recently created a Google Earth map (kmz file) with WMU boundaries. See www.dec.ny.gov/pubs/42978.html; the WMU map is last in the list of Recreational Maps. With this tool, hunters and trappers can zoom in to their preferred location and with the click of a button, identify the WMU.

Deer eat pines readily during the winter. Here - and I am not far from you - they never seem to touch them in the summer. There is really good forage around my place in the summer. If you are in a heavily wooded area, they might eat pines. Or, if the deer have eaten everything else of value. Time to set up a camera.