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Thank you. I was surprised all three bullets were hitting the same place when I got the scope issue sorted and re-sighted the rifle, seeing the difference in caliber and grain weight I really thought there would be a difference. Once it was dialed in I shot two of the Power Belts and two of the XTP's. All 4 were inside a 3" circle and I sighted for 1" high at 75 yards. The 4th and final shot was a PB and it was an inch left and an inch low. That was all on me! I knew as soon as I pulled the trigger I had pulled the shot. For hunting I'll be using the XTP's with 2 50gr pellets.

Bottom line- stop paying people an extra $300 a week in unemployment to sit home. I don't get why so many people are overlooking this one.

Sorry, I'll put the calculator away and go back to counting on my fingers and toes.

Actually, a football field is 120 yards from post to post. That's why you can have a 100+ yard return touchdown on a punt, kick off, or interception. So three football fields would be 360 yards.

I'm trying to figure out the skeletal connection. Drawing the heavy weigh of those bows would build up muscle mass, but I don't see how it would cause bones to grow or contort leaving evidence on the skeleton. Maybe I'm over thinking it.

I've been known to leave a mark like that in the high grass when I eat a Stewart's breakfast sandwich with sausage on it. Which is why I try to stick with just bacon. I would say deer but, I'm not leaving a crop sign out of the possibilities.

I said a while back this site was like TV, we have music videos, kung fu movies, cartoons, politics, news, fake news, sports, the stock market, and even a car channel. Maybe a Roku channel should be considered?

I had to capture this still from a video I shot. This doe was playing peek-a-boo from behind a tree 25 yards from my brush blind up north. She knew something was there but she wasn't sure what. She wandered up a small ridge, stopped and looked at me again then slowly trotted off. I had just poured a cup of coffee when I heard her snort, dropped the coffee and got the rifle ready, then noticed no horns so I shot some video of her instead.

That sucks. I hope you and yours get well soon.

I don't need to know about election results to know we have a ton of idiots in the US. All one needs to do is watch TV for a hour.

So Popeye was a bow hunter. I always knew it was more then just eating that canned spinach.

No fever to speak of, 99.5 on Friday, an hour later it was back to normal. No headache, no loss of taste or smell. So I doubt it's covid, my wife wanted to be sure so I got the test.

I tried to call my general Doc., apparently the phones aren't working right now. Nose is starting to dry up, I can take a drink without it dripping into the glass so I guess that's a good start.

So did you get your ML and accessories? If so what did you end up buying?

I've gone through about three gallons of OJ. It's starting to screw up the stomach issues I have. Damned if I do damned if I don't thing. I just hope it it passes fast enough I can get out with the bow a couple days before heading north.

We're taking fishing gear, how much fishing we do depends on how much the wife wants to hike and where. I get the mornings to hunt and she gets the afternoons to do her thing. I haven't seen a bear in that area yet, or even any sign. I hear Indian Lake is the Moose Capitol of NY and haven't seen one of those either. I think I'd be happier seeing the moose even though I can't hunt it, then killing a bear being out there solo. The private land we hunt in the lower ADK's has had a bear roaming on it the past few years. I was given the green light this year to take it if I see it, that I'll do as I'll have help getting it out of the woods.

I have a few areas that I have always seen fresh tracks. The past two years up there it rained almost every night so it was muddy and tracks were easy to know if they were fresh or not. I would set up somewhere in those areas and sit the first hour or so of daylight then I was up and slowly moving around. They aren't close to any main roads though. It's take this road to that road, then that road to the dirt road, then park. Last year the one deer I saw while actually on the hunt was about 20 minutes after I heard a car/truck come down the dirt road, that sound travels far. It strolled through about 60 yards in front of me and never came into the open enough for me to even see if it was a buck or a doe. I just made out the shape as it went through the brush. I'm almost positive the noise from the vehicle on the road spooked that deer and got it up and moving. I plan to hunt the same way this year. After we get unpacked and the cabin in order I'll drive out and have a peek around. Then I'll devise a game plan of sorts and go from there. There's a few hiking trails just outside of Indian Lake Village going towards Blue Mountain Lake. Man, there was all sorts of sign in those areas, but you can't hunt any of them. I don't stress it up there, I don't go to give myself anxiety. I know the odds aren't in my favor and I fully accept that, and is part of the reason I enjoy being up there.

Cough is subsiding, but my nose is running like Niagara Falls if it was hit with a week long monsoon. Hope you get better soon.

Mason is about 5 minutes south of Lewey on the same side of 30. It's the West Canada Lake Wilderness area, same as Lewey. The other side of 30, the east side is the Siamese Ponds Wilderness Area, which you have to know where you are because some of that area isn't open to hunting though it's state land. The area where the trail to Watch Hill is there's no hunting in that area, which is about 10 minutes north of Lewey. Snowy Peak doesn't allow hunting that area either. I'm not sure I know where the barn you speak of is, but if it's private land I doubt I'd get access. A few of the locals up there have told me OK Slip Falls is a good place to hunt, but as soon as day breaks it gets hammered with hikers.

Last Friday morning I started getting a super dry cough. It was persistent and started to get painful. The wife was taking no chances and made me go for a Covid test. That was negative, but I have a nasty sinus and upper respiratory infection. Yay! Pounding orange juice, taking Mucinex, and getting rest. This sucks, I can tolerate being sick just about any time of the year but when there's a hunting season going on.

Are you talking about the area across from Mason Lake? Or in that general area? I gave turkey hunting a shot for a morning up there last May while camping at Mason. I didn't go across the road to the east though. That sides Siamese Ponds and the west side is West Canada Lake.

I sighted in with some cast lead bullets. The charge, 2 50gr pellets. Then I shot a threw up a new target and shot 2 Powerbelt Aero Tip Hollow points and two Hornady XTP's. I really thought there would be a difference due to bullet weight and some of it being 45cal and PB's are 50cal. Not at 75 yards there wasn't. I may have to check the local Dollar stores for some black balloons. I bought non lubed jimmy hats for the muzzle.

I went with the pellets to cut my teeth with. I like how easy they are to deal with so I probably won't go actual powder now. Pipe cleaner to grab them and drop them in the quick loaders with a bullet and go.

I paid a bit more for a couple boxes of .25-06 last Spring locally, they had two and I grabbed both because it's not a caliber that's stocked a lot even when there's no shortage. The most I paid for a box of ammo was $50 for Fed. Fusions for the same rifle, and that was long before this new crap storm hit. For online it's that Hazmat fee on shipping that's a killer. My ML shipped free, but the shipping for the Triple Seven powder pellets was more then the pellets.

I forget you're CNY. Thank you, I'll keep the offer in mind. I'm still hoping to not have cell reception up there, I know when myself and a few buddies camped at Mason Lake 15 minutes south of Indian Lake last May there was no service. Smoke signals maybe?