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Getting ready for tent camp for deer hunting in September and October! The lil woman wanted to take a drive today and do some shopping. I didn't know she wanted to hit the outlet stores around Lake George when I agreed. But for being a trooper and walking through stores I have no interest in being in, she bought me a new sleeping bag! Rated to 20 degrees, and fits perfect on my cot! Can't wait to test in a couple weeks. Will be to warm to be in that bag this time of year in reality, but, who cares. Testing new gear is always fun!

An expert hunter to me is someone who is in the woods everyday, or almost everyday watching, learning, striving, and always adapting. They know every inch of the land they hunt. They can tell when a flea left poop on a leaf on a tree just over that ridge. They take that knowledge and apply it on other land, and are usually successful. But not every expert tags out every year. You can scout your backside off, put up 300 trail cams, have great stand placement, perfect wind, and see nodda! Hunting is as much a little luck as it is skill. You can't shoot what doesn't show up. As for skill level, to really get great skills to hunt and even try to understand ( always a learning experience ) white tail deer you have to be in the woods. Learn to use and read a topo map and a compass. Head into the ADK or CTSK mountains. The big big bucks are in the big big woods! You have a better chance at a huge buck in the middle of where no one hunts then where everyone hunts! I really don't get why most people don't understand that one. Hunting 300 feet from your garage over looking WalMart might get you a dandy, but if that buck walks in front of another hunter guess what................... Does, those of us who hunt for meat have no issue killing a doe! So, I guess that's a mute discussion........ As for all this hoorah about surveys and results, it will never be right! Even if the DEC could give honest and true factual numbers, they wouldn't be right. Those numbers would not include the people who don't tag or report deer, or the poachers who don't even buy a license. So, please explain to me how all these surveys are really going to help anyway?

I am flattered! That would be me! Now on to a site issue, the "View New Content" seems to be acting wonky for me. I click on it one time and shows like 2 pages of new posts, the next time it will show like 5 posts on 1 page, then a minute later it shows 2 or 3 pages again. I thought it might have been my browser, so I cleared everything in FireFox, IE, and Opera. Same results. Been doing this for about a week.

He posted that pic in another thread........ OK! I expected to see a bunch of drunk hunters in camo watching a hooker riding a recurve! Enough with the bad titles for the damn posts! C'mon dude! LOL Great pics wooly.

You are right WNY. Just looked for the first time. I wonder who uses them. Seen shows about fishing in NY, never one about hunting in NY. We do have some big deer here, but I don't think it's enough to make someone spend a large amount of money to hunt here. I just cant see a man or woman sitting in WY, AK, or CO sitting around planning a trip here to hunt. But, people are strange. If they ever made it so we had to hunt inside a fence in NY, I would move or stop hunting. The day ever comes where I am herded in like at a concert or a fair, or given a ticket that says "You are assigned stand #17" will be all she wrote! Image them stamping your hand like in a bar. Nope, not for me.

Great work! Love that you put the pic on the plaque!

Ever eat the steak at a Friendlys? No, just kidding...................... Remember what Andrew Zimmern says; "If it looks good, eat it!".

So what will your rates be? What are you calling the service? Just out of curiosity ( so sarcasm on this, I am being serious ). Didn't there used to be a guide/outfitter from VT in here too ( I remember making a post about where he was and asking about the moose lottery in VT and never getting a reply back )? It will be interesting to see you guys vie for the top spot as Hunting NY's best local outfitter. I don't know many who consider NY a hunting destination. Or that would pay for a hunt here. But, who thought they would make Pluto a star and not a planet. Best of luck to you on this endeavor.

Be safe and careful grow. Does your kindle have a camera on it? If it does and this happens again try and get a quick pic of the car. The trail cam thing is a good idea too.

Have fun! Enjoy the outdoors and bring back some pics!

Nice mounts.

I drink, no issues with drinking. Just popped the top on a cold one a few minutes ago. Just starting to think some people get beer fingers when typing. At least I hope its beer fingers. If not, I guess it's just some people can't get through a day without starting a font war. LOL

Congrats! Time for some RealTree jammies!

I think they should be placed on all computers, phones, or any other device where the web is involved and people are allowed to type! Spell check only goes so far!

Glad it makes sense to you now. So glad you keep posting on a thread that you say doesn't matter to you. Thanks for actually being informative! Your wisdom will be remembered until the next time I use the toilet. May God bless you in all you do. Someone needs too!

Where in the hell in this post did I state a race issue? I said all ethnicities! You mean this: 6:1? That's a damn fact where I live! Not a racist comment, a fact! Have another drink and go to bed bkln! My point was that sometimes these programs work, and sometimes they don't. If the parents don't have an interest in the outdoors, then how will they teach their kids to have an interest? Or, how will the kids have an interest if the parents have their head shoved up a computers 'hard-drive' or have to text every part of the day to everyone they know on Face Book? Apples don't fall far from the tree! We live what we are taught! Sometimes a kid will see a hunting vid and say 'Man, I want to do that!", but other times they might say that's barbaric! Alcohol and computers don't mix!

O......K.....Let me explain this a bit more slowly! My girlfriend bought one of the $50 packs of fireworks from BJ's. Are you with me so far? She wants to have a cookout and use the rest of the pack later this month, or in August. Still with me? I can't find anything stating she/we can't do that. Still with me? So I have to call the local cops and ask if we can set them off or not. Still there? She wants to have me use them and set them off for the kids at said cookout. Am I getting through? Can you read? On a side note, I used to like using a magnifying glass to burn ants, it was fun.

We are! Saving money to buy our own house with some land for hunting! But thanks for the advice! My point was, from what I read and heard, the restrictions were for sales, not usage.

I forgot I had saved this video to post here. Youtube is a curse for real or serious hunters at times! I guess being high, drunk, and stupid is in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA6wMYnp0Ls

I really wanted to leave this alone but..Here goes...I put a book in my pants to help ease the pain from the boots about to hit my a$$. "Inner city youths" and minorities is an odd way to still keep putting it these days. in my area, which is considered low income or "slum" if you like, white people of any age are out numbered about 6:1 by all other ethnicities. But, I don't think that matters anymore. It comes down to prying kids away from the cell phone, Face Book, game consoles, and flat out having no interest in anything not associated with technology. Sleeping in a tent and waking up to a great view of a lake isn't something many kids want to take part in. I am not saying all, but most kids brought up in a city or even rural environment have no interest being in the woods any more. I also hate to say this as well, but most parents are either too busy or just don't care about the outdoors them selves. We live in a time where even adults can't be anywhere without a cell phone connected to the web. So you expect kids to be any different? Some of these programs work to a small extent. But most don't. NOTE! This is just my personal point of view! Not intended to troll, font war, disrespect, or otherwise create chaos.

We have had people setting of mortar type in our neighborhood as long as we have lived here. I think they use them to try and cover the gun shots. Living in the hood is a lot of fun! I thought the dates were for sales only. My g/f picked up a $50 pack from BJ's. We only used a few, just to see what they did. Were in Schoharie Co. for the weekend of the 4th which was a banned Co., so we didn't take any camping. I was under the impression you could use them if they were the legal ones when ever. I read the data on this link: http://www.dhses.ny.gov/ofpc/news/sparklingdevices.cfm I may have missed something but I could not find anything on using them. I most likely missed that section. She wants to have a cook out later in the month or next month and have me set them off, mainly for the kids to watch. Guess I will just call the local police and ask tomorrow to be sure. Not everyone is an idiot who like to use fireworks. Young punks. drunks, and flat out stupid people using them will be bad. I looked around the web for news about fire work accidents when we got back from our camping trip and found very few to my amazement. I found less this year then I heard about last year.

I have watched videos on this one. I always wondered how they handled the meat after the kill. Most of what I have seen were tent camp trips. I would have to speculate they get the meat back to the main lodge pretty fast to keep it from spoiling.

OH, I love my Heineken and Stella Artois! Even Becks on occasion. Guinness is mud with foam on top. But when we camp we usually have other people. I am not taking really good beer for the cooler raider clan to chug down on me! So it's usually Bud, Bud Light, or Coors Light. I have been thinking a lot about the past lately. How when I was a kid we didn't have a tent at times, but my mom had a big old station wagon that was our camper. I was remembering a hunting trip when I was 15 where again my mom, my sister and I spent a very cold night sleeping in the back of a station wagon. Remembering family camping trips, and camping trips with the guys. How for some odd reason, I always knew the sound of my sisters b/f's ( the man that got me into hunting ) guns when he shot, and always knew there was a dead deer to be dragged out. About the first deer I shot at with a bow, Used the wrong pin, the arrow landed a few feet in front of her and she took off. I remember thinking "Damnit!" and cussing myself out. Then deciding to head out so I hung the bow, lit a cig and poured a cup of coffee. That doe circled came back and sniffed the arrow! Bow hung on a branch, coffee in one hand, cig in the other.... The time I went camping with a new backpacking tent to try it out. It wasn't a backpacking trip, me and a buddy just went for a night to get out of the city. It was raining and I hadn't water proofed my tent yet. We set up our tents, hung a tarp over the picnic table ate raw hot dogs because we couldn't get a fire going , drank beer and talked about women. I now know exactly why they call bottoms of tents tub bottom! I woke up and my pup tent was a bath tub! I had 3 inches of water in the bottom! I remember my mom trying to be the best dad she could be. Just been thinking a lot lately. About how though life hasn't been the easiest road, but there have been some great sights along the way worth remembering.

Great pic. That deer is thinking "Oh C'mon! It's not enough I have to dodge arrows and bullets! Now what are they throwing at me?".