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Actually electronic calls are legal for deer now. Look at the third from last question under Equipment. http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/8310.html "Q: Is it legal to use decoys and electronic calls to hunt deer? A: Both decoys and electronic calls are legal to use for deer hunting in NY. You should exercise caution when transporting a deer decoy to and from the locations in the field. Some hunters wrap a strip of blaze orange material around the decoy when carrying it."

I wasn't going to let this out because I don't want to deal with all of the reporters, but I have proof that they are in NY and were released here by/at the urging of the insurance companies to cut down car/deer accidents. I got a picture on my trail camera last summer in the Adirondacks.

TH41, that is a cool pic! Couldn't decide on a favorite, but here are a few I really liked. Older Moultrie. Don't remember the model, Just know it's a POS. Uses 6V lantern batteries if that helps. Old Stealth 35 mm.

I thought I remembered reading about some old "granny-type" that was in big trouble with the DEC for feeding deer somewhere up in the Adirondacks way back in the mid or late 80's. Her feeding was basically causing a yarding situation. She was told repeatedly to stop, and didn't. How it ever turned out I never did hear. However, if I was asked to prove it, I doubt that I could ever find any reference to that article now. http://www.northcountrygazette.org/articles/120305DeerLady.html When I searched I kept finding references to her "plight" on some anti's site to ban hunting.

12 point.....24" spread.....25 pounds, all backstrap!!!!! ;D

I've been putting in for VT moose tags for about 4 years now. I'm planning on taking my Dad if I ever get drawn and a friend of his was giving him moose hunting advice. He told him "If you see one and he looks like he's going to take one more step towards the truck, let him take it because that's one less step you have to drag the @*#()$*@!!" My biggest buck was 175 lbs and he took 3 1/2 hours of dragging to get back to the tent and then another hour the next day to get to the truck. No motor vehicles allowed where we go. Now whenever I go out I always tell the other guys "Remember, try to get one with a huge rack of horns but a body that'll fit in your backpack."

They do have "nasty, pointy, TEETH!" ;D

I am sorry but i think i would find this helarious if i saw it while driving down the road.LOL.Whats the differance of being tied on a trunk or on a quad or just laying on the trailer next to the quad. The difference is that it doesn't show any respect for your quarry!! It would irritate me very much to see this because as letinmfly said, it is disrespectful to the animal whose life you just took. I get tweaked when we have company and they suggest that I should "dress up" my mounts for holidays and such.

Some nice deer! I went to college with a Grabowski at Morrisville in '97-'98. Think his name was Steve too. Wonder if it's any relation. It's amazing how tight a spot a buck can fit through too. I was on one one time below Woodhull Mtn and he was going through holes in spruce thickets where I ahd to get on my hands and knees to get through. Can't imagine how they can manage it with horns! Seems like they'd snag on everything.

I'm sure, but the old "You don't need to practice/they're so easy to use" seems to be one of the more common arguments against them. If that were truly the case then it wouldn't matter, right? (Wasn't until I read your quote that I noticed I typed practiVe.) :-[

One of the reasons I am (even though not interested in using one myself) pro-crossbow is not because of any perceived shortcomings of vertical bows, it the shortcomings of some of the people using them. Let's face it, whether we like it or not there are A LOT of people out there who 1) Don't practice nearly as much as they should and 2) Take shots at distances they have no business shooting. I know of people dust off their bow the week before season and shoot it a half dozen times and think that's good enough. Then come winter you see deer running around with arrows sticking out of various parts of their anatomy. If allowing crossbows means that some of these people who are too lazy to practice with a compound can shoot more accurately with the same amount of practice and kill deer instead of wounding them, then so be it.

I like real trees. Then after Christmas I cruise around and pick up the ones on the side of the road that don't have too much tinsel and junk on them and take them home to make brush piles and cover for the small game.

Easton Gamegetter 400 arrows with G5 Montec 125 grain broadheads.

Depends on the load. One load I've used for my .45 Colt I had to put a pretty heavy crimp on it because I was using a fairly light load of slow burning powder and without a good heavy crimp I was having problems with not building enough pressure. I have Lee "Factory Crimp" dies that I use with a couple cartridges I reload.

If I got to my stand (on State land) and found a busted up guy laying on the ground, it ain't my stand. Never saw it before in my life.

If you want to see a lot of deer, then no. If you want to see some nice deer and some beautiful country, then yes. What I like is I can walk all day every day for a week and never see a person who's not with my group, and never see a road or a building. Kinda ruins ST hunting for me though because I just get started walking and run into civilization.

Personally I always looked at internet forums as mainly a place to get a load of opinions and "feelings" posts. When I want facts I usually try reference type sites. Anyway, I found the laws you're looking for here. http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/LAWSSEAF.cgi?+&QUERYDATA=alcohol%20AND%20hunting+&SEARCH=SEA+&BROWSER=EXPLORER+&TOKEN=20163133&TARGET=VIEW "§ 11-1201. Definitions. For the purposes of this title:... 2. "Intoxicated condition" shall mean the presence of .10 of one per centum or more by weight of alcohol in a person's blood as shown by chemical analyses of his blood, breath, urine, or saliva made pursuant to section 11-1205 of this title. An "impaired condition" shall mean a state of impairment of a person's capacity to think or act correctly, or of a loss, even in part of a person's control of his physical or mental faculties due to his consumption of alcohol or use of a drug." "§ 11-1203. Hunting while intoxicated prohibited. 1. No person shall engage in hunting while he is in an intoxicated condition. 2. No person shall engage in hunting while his ability to engage in such hunting without creating unreasonable risk of injury or death to himself or other human life is impaired by his consumption of alcohol or use of a drug." "§ 11-1205. Enforcement.... 2. Any person engaged in hunting in this state shall be deemed to have given his consent to a chemical test of his breath, blood, urine, or saliva for the purpose of determining the alcoholic or drug content of his blood, provided that such test is administered at the direction of a police officer or officer of the department of environmental conservation: (a) having reasonable grounds to believe such person to have been engaged in hunting in violation of any subdivision of section 11-1203 of this title, and within two hours after such person has been placed under arrest for any such violation, or ( within two hours after a breath test, administered pursuant to the provisions of subdivision one of this section, indicates that alchohol has been consumed by such person, and in accordance with the rules and regulations established by the law enforcement unit of which the administering officer is a member." Obviously there is more information at the link but I didn't want to copy it all and end up with a three page post, so you'll have to go there if you want to read the whole thing. I didn't notice anything specifically prohibiting possession, but it does concern consumption; which you also mentioned.

We hunt 5H, Mckeever area out of a tent camp. Nice country but thick and either steep or swampy, not much in between. A guy who used to hunt with us told me one time it was the only place in the world where you walk uphill both going to and leaving camp. A lot of beech whips and little spruce makes it hard to see very far. Most places where we are shots are under 50 yds; when you actually can see something to shoot at. Pickings have been pretty slim this year. From opening day of NT this year we have had guys in camp every day and we have seen two complete deer. We have seen a few flashes of tail or hide here and there. Last year at this time we had seen around 20 deer including a couple bucks. Lots of grouse this year though and we've been seeing moose tracks, but no moose yet.

I, Hatchet Jack, being of sound mind and broke legs... ;D

I'm not surprised you could miss it, they don't really make it easy to find that they don't want people selling them. Out of all the places the DEC talks about DMPs that's the only spot I saw where it specifically said it.

Not doubting you, just surprised. I just bought mine last year so they could very well have started including it.

I haven't ever had any trouble with them feeding but I have heard of some people having trouble with them in older models. Something about the follower in the magazine.

Bottom of page 28 of the syllabus at the bottom of the inset titled "HOW TO TRANSFER A DMP DEER CARCASS TAG" It says http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/wildlife_pdf/2010guidebggm.pdf Call it what you want, but I'd hate to see someone get jammed up over a doe tag just because they missed the passage that specifically prohibits selling them.