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Last time I was at Tollgate he had a whole box full sitting there. www.tollgatearchery.com

125s because I'm in the heavier is better camp. I use a .450 Marlin in rifle for the same reason.

I try to set up where the likelihood of having to shoot to my right is low.

I'm thinking I don't want to walk around with a doe-in-heat tag hanging on my back!!! I'll doze off under a tree and wake up with a big ol' buck right there with lust in his eyes!

Backtag? What's a backtag? That's one of the beautiful things about the NZ is we don't need to wear them.

They're not mailing any with the Lifetimes. You can still get them at places that sell licenses. Our Town Clerk said they told her they might be a few weeks late, but she ended up getting them on time.

We were fixing fence along the swamp one time, guess I was about 12, and I watched Dad drive a fencepost right into a ground hive of bumblebees. They didn't appreciate that too much, but I got a kick out of it!

The same reason they release cougars for the insurance companies. Seriously though, I hear some version of the "DEC made them pull it off the shelves" story every year. Notice you never hear it from someone who worked at the store, it's always someone who heard it from someone else who was there. I'll bet if you went back 2000 years you'd hear a couple of centurions standing around yacking about how Terseus lopped off the heads of some Carthaginian prisoners... Sorry, just watched Band of Brothers again. I emailed the DEC last year about a C-list ad that was selling feed and specifically advertising it for use in baiting deer. The response I got was basically that it was not illegal to sell or possess, just to actually use.

Good idea, can't wait to hear the response. Just look in the Q&A section in the back of this years syllabus. The third question from the bottom. http://www.eregulations.com/newyork/hunting/q-a-with-the-environmental-conservation-police/

One through the neck, one broadside behind the shoulder, one quartering towards behind the shoulder and one quartering away behind the near shoulder and through the far shoulder. Also I agree with moosemike about the whole "brushbucking" thing. You hit sticks there's no predicting where the bullet will go.

The "Sportsman" should count as a license type on it's own so that should be $5. The way I read it (which ain't necessarily so) sounds like the "Big Game Carcass set" would be whatever big game tags come with your license for $10, plus the "Turkey carcass set" for $10, plus $10 for the doe tags. I agree with fasteddie though about asking the Town Clerk.

My experience with 180s is the exact opposite. I've shot four deer with 180s from my '06, two with Federal classic SPs and two with Federal HE Nosler Partitions and every one dropped in it's tracks. On the other hand, both of the bucks I shot with my .450 Marlin just kept walking like nothing happened. One I put three (350 gr Interlocks) through and the other took two (325 gr nerf bullets) before dropping. All were good hits in the boiler room but there was a .458 hole going in and a .458 hole coming out. The weird part was they didn't react at all, never broke stride or acted like they had been hit in any way. This year I have some 250 grain Barnes TSX FP loaded for the .450 so we'll see how they work. ;D

Got a 6S today. 6P was listed as needing a PP for the 2nd tag. Apparently I had a point left over from the last time I applied (like 3 years ago), but still got denied for that one.

Was sitting at the kitchen table doing a crossword with a glass of water in front of me. Never felt a thing and never noticed my water moving. I wouldn't have even known about it except when I was on my way to work Mark Belling was talking about it on WIBX.

X2.

We hunt State land too but we go deep in the woods where no one else has the gumption to go. We don't see many deer, but I don't think I've seen more than two people outside our group in the 17 years I've been going.

I bought a Wildgame Innovations IR4C and wasn't having much luck getting pictures. It was out for a week and I only got four pics so for the heck of it I switched it to video before I gave up on it. After another week I had 22 videos!!! I guess this particular camera works better on "video" than on "still". No big ones but I did get four different bucks with two in one video! 8/16/11 camera-hog 8/16/11 camera-hog II 8/11/11 two bucks I guess I will keep this camera after all. ;D

I've seen as many deer wandering around in early winter with an arrow sticking out of their haunch or broken off in their leg as I have missing a leg so you can roll up your "more ethical" and smoke it! I am a deer hunter. Sometimes I use a bow, sometime a ML or revolver or rifle (but not a shotgun anymore) and I know my limitations with each tool and stay within them. I'm sure that most people do, BUT I KNOW that there are people around who practice very infrequently, and stick an arrow in one and lose it, or shoot legs off and lose them. The worst one for that I know personally once wounded and lost three bucks in three years, all with a BOW. Does that reflect on archery as a sport? Archery tackle as an efficient weapon? Archers as people? No, it reflects on THAT particular PERSON. The person is (un)ethical, not the tool used.

At first I was leaning towards coyote, but given recent events and the direction it appears to be travelling, now I'm thinking it's that mountain lion heading to Connecticut.

Nice one! Pretty neat how his forehead is so dark. Most of the ones we see around here are reddish.

Woodcock are about the size of a softball and any I have ever flushed seemed to bounce about 4-5' straight up from the ground and then shoot straight away.

When the price of licenses went up the last time they said that anyone who bought a Lifetime Sportsman before that date would get free entrance to the DMP lottery going forward. Anyone who bought a Lifetime Sportsman after that date would have to pay the $10 like everyone else wo wanted to enter. Funny, mine came in a regular, white, business-size envelope last year.

Not in NY there isn't. I'm up to eight this summer and I've shot every one from the house!! http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/27801.html The few unprotected species include porcupine, red squirrel, woodchuck, English sparrow, starling, rock pigeon, and monk parakeet. Unprotected species may be taken at any time without limit. A hunting license is required to hunt unprotected wildlife with a bow or firearm. [/td][/tr][/table]

I e-mailed the DEC a couple years ago (before they made airguns legal implements for small game and got this response. So judging from that it sounds like as far as [glow=red,2,300]the DEC[/glow] is concerned an air rifle is a firearm. [glow=red,2,300] HOWEVER...[/glow]YMMV, always take Interweb advice with a grain of salt because opinions are like touchholes. With something as ticklish as this your best bet would be to contact someone with the Attorney General's office since they will be the ones putting you in the slam for violating the law.

Yeah, doesn't seem to me like it'd be much fun standing around wringing Mourning Dove necks all day. Plus I grew up shooting pigeons off the silo and they just seem like classier pigeons to me. Wouldn't eat one of those rats-with-wings so I don't see me sitting down to a big platter of dove any time soon.