Jaeger

Guess I should cut the guy a break and see what he does, after all he went to the same law school I did. From the DEC site: Basil Seggos is the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Previously, Basil served as both Deputy Secretary for the Environment and Assistant Secretary for the Environment to Governor Cuomo, advising the Governor on environmental policy and overseeing the operations of the state's environmental agencies, including the DEC, the Office of Parks Recreation & Historic Preservation, the Environmental Facilities Corporation, and the Adirondack Park Agency. Prior to working in the Governor's office, Basil served as Vice President of Business Development at the clean-tech private equity company Hugo Neu Corporation, Chief Investigator and Attorney at Riverkeeper, Associate at the Natural Resources Defense Council, and as a legal clerk at the White House. Basil graduated from Pace Law School in 2001, where he received the environmental law award and alumni achievement award, and from Trinity College in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts. Basil is a Captain in the U.S. Army Reserve, Judge Advocate General's Corps." I had thought he was one of those NYC environmental justice lawyers. Guess I should get my facts straight before sounding off.

Happy birthday!! Get all the good in before Hermine hits!!

Pretty much limits you to the Catskills or hudson valley. 100's of thousands of public acres in the eastern catskills about 3-4 hours away. Depending if your from Suffolk or Peconic counties, Hehe!

I normally do not post in this section, but the following are hunting/fishing related ovservations. Our governor just got ticketed for fishing a thresher shark (I think that's the species) that is on the downcline and listed as in danger else where (not in ny). Forgot what the ticket was actually for but the bottom line was our anti-hunting governor has no problem abusing wild life, when pursuing his own passion fishing. Guess the privileged are truly privileged!! The second is a DEC announcement that came today encouraging people to buy their hunting and fishing licenses at the fair. Guess what? Our NEW commissioner of the DEC is getting his FIRST HUNTING LICENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How the "h" did our governor appoint a DEC commissioner who has never hunted or held a hunting license before? Guess social and environmental justice (whatever that's supposed to mean) are more important than the states wildlife. WE pay, and the money goes to inner cities. Welfare at its finest!!!!

Sooo cute!! Contrats Paula, awsome pup! Do you know someone with a side by side utv? I know shatz preferred riding in mine (with proper restraint) before she got comfortable in a truck. I think it felt less shut in for her.

Thanks all, I think for stand hunting, the compound will really increase my range. But for stalking, I've got to believe our stick bows will still rule. I can shoot my longbow from any position, even sideways, I can shoot it quickly without worrying about arrow rests, release aid string twist, or any other of the myriad of things the compound seems to require. Most of us can even shoot our stickbows accurately even if we don't or can't reach full draw, so I'm not convinced it will be a better hunting tool, just better for longer ranges and more accurate at them. Oh, by the way, I often practice my longbow at night with only a light on the target, try that with my compound's sights! (try it, it makes you super accurate, got my first robin hood that way) Still and all, I like this compound. Makes me feel like a bad boy being on the dark side!! Thanks for the good wishes!!

Well I bit the bullet and got a new PSE Stinger X compound bow. It's the 70# model desert tan and had them set it up at 55 lbs at 27", I could pull that easily. Only shot 6 arrows so far but could put all 3 in 3-4" at 20 yards! Had to have a "kisser button" added as I kept droping my grip to heel down position (long bow habit). That helped even out the sights issue. Very confidence building, as some of you may recall I tried to rehab my 1980's Hoyt ram hunter last year and it kept throwing arrows into the dirt at 20 yds no matter what we did with sights and rests. Convinced the limbs were recovering at differing rates, it is old. But my stick bows! Gosh, I feel like such a heathen liking this compound bow thing!!

Illegal is illegal, if you wan't to cheat (read violate) one rule or regulation because you don't like it or find it more fun and convenient to ignore it, why not throw them all out?? Cheat, violate, poach, whatever you want to call it. We may not like some of the rules, but they are the rule we are given. It's black and white, poacher or responsible hunter. You decide what you want to be and how you are viewed here.

I agree. (above quote didn't copy over, edit) I wrote a Regional Report section for another magazine for a few years and I've got to tell you guys that NY's hunting regulations and methods of dividing up our wildlife management units and season dates are some of, if not completely the, simplest in the north east. I had to review the seasons, dates, locations and changes for every state in the north east. If you think our DEC does thing randomly or is too complex, get on line and look at Maine or NH. Granted, we see things on the ground that we do not think the DEC sees. But we only see our little areas. I struggle constantly with how wmu 4zero is laid out but it it what it is. Our season dates are split between 2 basic areas, norther zone and southern zone, with some specifics for city areas and LI. Compare that to the other north east states. It couldn't get simpler. Even this years big explaination that both the bow/muzzleloader tags, either sex and antlerless, could be used in either season or both in the same season wowed me. That has been the rule for over a decade, if you read the main and exceptions columns in the regs booklet its pretty clearly spelled out. Why they had to explain it again is beyond me. To sum up, as a former regulations/seasons reporter for the entire north east, we have the simplest system, the easiest to understand dates and some of the longest seasons (deer Oct1- almost Christmas) of any state up here. Look at the rest of the country as well, NY is great for hunting and fishing.

Can it be done to a stainless gun? I have a puma/rossi LSI in stainless that is a fantastic gun but shines like the sun.

Gorgeous bows, from the construction it's obvious he really understood instinctive shooting and shooting off the shelf. As far as shooting, if the draw weight is not too much for you to practice your form, your off to a great start! Get some matched arrows and G. Fred Asbell's book and/or video "Instinctive Shooting", a wealth of instinctive shooting info there. If you can throw a football, shoot a basketball or just plain throw a rock and hit what your aiming for, you can succeed at instinctive shooting, it's the same thing. Forget gap shooting, sight shooting,etc. concentrate on your target and exclude everything else. Don't let anyone talk you into an accessory overloaded compound if you want to shoot your recurve. It's a great way to start bowhunting and don't let any one tell you different. I'm going from stick bows, long and recurves (temporarily), to try a compound for the extra gadget fun if it, but believe a stick bow is a better hunting tool. Get a good glove or tab, an arm guard and most importantly matched arrows and your off. Stay away from wood arrows at first, they warp too easily. With aluminum or carbon, you can fine tune the spine by changing tip weight. As far as hunting, the other guys/gals her are going to get you off to a great start! Welcome to a whole new life of fun and adventure.

I may not be that young, but just bought my first new compound in 35 years from Sportsmans Adventures, been shooting stickbows. So, I know how he feels. It's all so new. But really fun! So great you can get a newbie started out right!!

Chiming in late but can you tell me if the 2 brownings Phade recommends are easy to program and will hold that program after shutting off to move to site? I have a cuddyback black IR that I'm finding hard to program, work through the menus and switch or move along with all the buttons. Don't cuss me out, but sometimes I long for the old days where everything was programmed with sliding switches, you could see ALL the program settings at once. Just pulled the cuddy and got no, zero, night pic off a well used trail that usually gives me plenty of night pics, fox, coyote, early squirrels, etc. and cant find what I had it set to because when I scroll through the menus I might also inadvertently be changing the settings, frustrating! I'd like to be able to just set a camera out in the woods without having to worry what the last settings were for.

Leupolds all the way. And with a standard size 3-9 and reticle, there is no problem selling or trading them if you need to change or move up. They seem easier to sell used.

I never said it look goooood!!!!!!! Ugly as sin! And I have the Towsley Benoit books (one signed by Larry and the other by some of the family, Shane I think, he was the brains behind their marketing) to prove it. Real funny story (on me!) I was the one who ran up the prices on ebay and amazon from about $70 to well over $300 buying old first edition copies of Larrys book "How to Bag the Biggest Buck of Your Life" right before they came out with the reprint!! Then the prices dropped like a rock! Bye the bye, can anyone remember which rifle or rifle actually came with a cartridge head inlaid into the stock. I remember on company did it to some models for a while way back in the '70's or '80's?

I use the cheap plastic sleds all the time over rocks, blowdowns and through swampy wet areas, they work great but not really packable in, have to come out of the woods to get it. The stiffness of a sled seems to work better for me than a tarp or cloth bag that snags on everything, the sled just glides over it all if you can keep it upright. Better ones have handholds that can be used as tie down points. Now if they only made them in a non-reflective black or camo instead of neon yellow!!

Sorry, I need a 4 oh!

If I remember from my Benoit Bucks book by towsley and later articles, towsleys gun was a 7600 in 35 Whelen and he had a leupold 1.5-6 on it when Larry Benoit, with ageing eyes, said he'd think about it. I think the benoit sons, at least Shane, went with trujicon scopes. They are big and I agree, just because it's an '06 dosent mean it needs a big scope,esp. in the woods. Mine had the 1-4 on it and was great but I did not like the way it carried. got to find the pic with the caption he pounded that case head in. They also carved their stock with deer heads and even painted them. Some had lucky feathers tied to the stocks as well.

40 needed. I have a 4F and a 1C and would gladly consign (swap) both for a 40.

Remember boys and girls, most of those big buck were done in with williams peeps on the receivers! The Benoits only went to scopes when Larry was getting older and saw the scope on Bryce Towsleys 7600! It's a recent development, one I've tried and yes it is easier to shoot accurately, but when it snows the peep just works better. And in any weather the gun handles/carries better. Do you think the stock was drilled just under cartridge diameter and glued in? I though I read he cut the case and hammered it into the stock.

Where or whom did you try to buy bullets from? I have been getting bullets and brass from gun broker regularly as well as from Midway, Graf, etc. They have not problem shipping components to NY. (I cannot use Midsouth as they will not ship to an address different than the billing address) Bought some Grizzle Cartriged 45LC +p loads form them and had the loaded ammo shipped to my FFL. But buying components on line should not be a problem at all. Sorry you had some seller who thought otherwise.

Rem 7600 30-06 with 180 core lockets. Set up with williams peep. Simple, light, easy to one hand carry and unaffected by snow and rain. Can handle any bear or deer. If bear were not a real possibility, then the 'ole 30-30 winny set up similar with 170's. Same deal.

Hey guys, Well tomorrow I am going down to the local shop to buy a PSE Stinger Ready to Shoot bow. I need to know what to pay attention to as the shop guy sets it up for me. Now please do not tell me to go to other shops, buy used, buy on line, or otherwise try to change and complicate my decision. I am buying this bow and at this shop because I am a, for all intents and purposes, a newbie to compounds not having shot one since the 80's and I am very loyal to this shop. They do all my transfers, order what ever I want and are basically very good to me. (I tried rehabbing the 'ole ram hunter, but I'm convinced the limbs are shot, recovering at different rates). The other shop in town is awful, bad attitude, etc. and even had a third shop shut down by calling the ATF for things they themselves do in secret (but that's another whopper of a story). So, what do I pay attention to and in what order? Draw length and weight? I have a very short draw, 25" on longbow, 26" on recurves and probably similar on this compound. But will using a release effectively shorten the LOP? Should I have the draw weight set at a lower or higher end? I shoot 42 and 45 lb longbows with ease and a 60 lb recurve with some difficulty. Thinking 50-55 lbs but this thing can go up to over 70lbs. Sights and rest (comes with a wisker biscuit). What to look at here ? As for arrows, I have some carbons that were purchased and cut to match my draw length and 50 lb ram hunter and I figure I can tweak it with head weight changes (works with carbons on stick bows). So, if you were me going in to purchase a specific bow, what would you look for and how would you assist the shop guy in getting it set up for you correctly? Thanks guys and gals, Jaeger

Had them and used them with my property. There is also an accompanying Blue cardboard permission card that can be filled out by both the landowner and the permitted hunter. I used them and anyone with permission to hunt on my land carried it. If you didn't have it, you were trespassing. As an aside, I know there are really wealthy people who have large chunks of land and farm owners who most likely inherited their large land holdings. Many of the "good hunting properties" you are trying to get permission to hunt on are thus off limits at any price. But guys, consider this. It was mentioned above about leasing land and sometimes that all someone can afford. But most of the large 50-200 acre private land holdings in the area I owned were owned by normal people like you and me who spent their every last dime to get and hold onto their land. They didn't drive fancy $50K new trucks or anything like that. The had regular jobs and for them and me, hunting and land ownership was our main priority. Not bowling, golfing, having the fanciest car or biggest house. I for one put hunting and land ownership above everything else and spent every last dime of my savings to have it. For me it was not a part time hobby and it is a lot of those who just want to come up and hunt hundreds of someone else's acres for free that just don't get it. If you want a place of your own to hunt, you have to be willing to sacrifice to have it. Plenty of us do (or in my case, did). If its not your main priority, fine but don't cry about not being able to use that of those who sacrifice for free or dirt cheap. Sorry guys, but I had too many "serious" hunters show up at my door step and get really mad when they got out of their brand new $65k pickups and wouldn't take no for an answer. Put it first, buy your own. Otherwise, hunt the 100,000+++ acres of public land you drive through to get to the private land. That's free.

That is not exactly correct. A landowner is still liable to non-paying recreational user for hazzards he is aware of but hasn't fixed or warned them about. This means any uncovered old wells, possibly old fencing, etc. It is not yet an absolute elimination of landowner liability. And from a practical point of view, even if the landowner is found not liable, he or she has gone through the expense of having to hire a lawyer and fight it in or out of court. That's a hassle that most landowners are aware of and do not even want to start down that road. As a former large landowner, I and others, was always aprehensive about trespassing knuclkeheads hurting them selves and trying to sue, and yes there will always be someone to take their case and leave the landowner in the position of having to fight it. No landowner wants that hassle or expense. So, when he does say yes, provide him with a liability waiver (in his favor not yours).