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I don't and cannot do that anymore. The three places I hunt most near me are less then 30 minutes away. One is 10 minutes. I have very clear recollections of making those 3 hour drives when I was young ( they were not regular, a few times a season ). I never had an issue getting there, never had an issue hunting, but the drive home was always pure madness. Dozing off and getting groggy from being tired. Even opening the window and blasting the radio didn't always help. The last time I did that on my own I dozed off for a second, jerked myself awake and pulled off the side of the read much faster the one should. Dust flying from my sudden stop, heart racing hoping I didn't die or hurt anyone else, and then puking out the window when when I got my senses back. I never did that again.

Happy Birthday Larry. I hope you get to enjoy the day with family and friends

Many years ago I would make a three hour drive up to the Benson area, still hunt most of the day and drive back. It takes a lot out of a person to drive long hours, hunt the ADK's then drive back home. You cannot hunt the ADK's like most of the SZ. No going in 100 yards and flopping on a stump and hoping for the best. It's work. These days, for a day hunt, I will only go an hour at most. Most times I cannot drive that far, so those trips are to private land my wife and I hunt in the ADK's and she drives. I did have one day a couple years ago where I hunted 3 different WMA's and total driving time was just under 4 hours, yet none of those areas are more then 40 minutes from me if I only hunted one. I hit one area for the morning sit, then drove to another for some still hunting before lunch, ate lunch on the way to another spot to still hunt a bit more, then back to my original spot for the evening sit. It took a toll on my back and I was out for about a week.

Nice yard. You even managed to get a little bit of toes in there just to tease Bizzy.

Wouldn't!

I use field points to make sure things are solid. Then I use my braodheads to get conformation that both are hitting the same. Then, I will shoot a broad head once or twice a day as the first arrow. If I am just sending arrows downrange I use the FT's. I like to see tight groups, and shooting a tight group with BH's has lead to having arrows re-fletched and worse.

I haven't even picked up my bow yet this year. Life got in the way. I have to soon. Maybe tonight I will feel like shooting a few in the hall. Or, if the rain holds off maybe I can get out in the yard for a few.

I am not great at aging deer, but I would guess 3 years old. He would be getting a pass from me that's for sure.

I'm not currently a boater but.......... I have no problem with a safety course. I thinks it's a good idea, just don't see how this will keep the DB's off the water. Downing a case of beer while hauling a$$ in your speed boat will always be an issue.

Congratulations to the Bizzar one and his wife!

We took the drive out to Cole Hill so I could get a look around for a primitive camping outing I want to do. Parking areas are tiny and it's a bit hard to locate the trails so I didn't take any pics, but I did find the spot I want for the camp. Then we headed back towards home and hit Holt for a couple mile jaunt. Holt was new dirt to me, hadn't even known about it until 8/4 when a neighbor and I hiked Keir and after that he showed me Holt. Nice area with well marked trails, some pretty scenic views of both the Helderberg Escarpment and the Catskill Mountains.

Usually either liability or just they don't allow hunting. As to would I allow other hunters on my land? Yes and no. Good friends, absolutely. Strangers, only if I had a few hundred acres that would allow for more people and not a lot of pressure. Les then a 100 acres would be a no.

A neighbor and I were sitting outside talking hunting the other night around my fire pit. We got on the topic of gaining access to private land around this area. We got to talking, and has been out knocking on the same doors this Summer I knocked on for two years getting the same shine on. He was raised and grew up out here and knows many of the people that told him no. For some areas it seems like they will let everyone who asks hunt a tiny little 50 acres, while other areas it's a firm no and the door is rather rudely shot. My wife and I have less then two left on out mortgage. Then we still have some improvements we want to make but it looks like we might have enough in the budget at that time to able to afford buying small plot of land around 25 acres. I hope we can make this happen because I am tired of the BS. I just want my place where I can do w/e the hell I want and be done with knocking on doors.

I want to root for Bionic, and if I thought it would be fair he would take it hand down. But, seeing Bill and Stormyhawk00 are avid WWE fans, I would guess the latter would show up with a steel chair and blind side Bionic to help Bill out resulting in Bionic winning by DQ and we will never know how it would play out without interference.

Read somewhere a while back it had to do with the onion fields near by that the locals worked. I've heard rumors about that place for years and I don't live anywhere near it. Kind of like the "Allen Towns" here and in PA.

Used too? I still do! Then I rub my *** on the tree to wipe. This is my new method for marking how to get to my sits.

Yes they do. Most of the news stories are about just that.

Joking Bizzy. Man...............

I say you hop in that new truck of yours and take a drive. Nothing like boots on the ground first hand knowledge. Just tell them you are a city boy who got lost scouting for deer. Just a tip, you may want to bring an actual country boy with a tooth or three missing, might put you in better standing.

I usually get my tags in the first week of August. A couple years ago I waited until the first part of September and had no issues getting both areas I went for. But, where I hunt in the SZ it's rare to get turned down. When I hunted 4J I'm pretty sure they hand those out like lint at a laundry mat. NZ, no DMP's for any of the areas I will be hunting this season. I think the areas it matters most would be the areas you need a PP for the tag. I may be wrong on that though, just seems to me those areas the DEC "thinks" the doe population is low would not issue many tags.

The toxic twins at their lowest again. Puddle ( that's that guy stormy, pigeon or w/e), my ride takes me into the woods. My donkey will hunt! Billy, oh Billy.......... All about you. As always. I gave you an invitation to step outside your little area and a chance to see what other areas of NYS have to offer. There was no malice, just me actually being civil, like I have done so many times to you. I taught you how to post links, I tried to be nice to you, but you only care about posting links to music videos and other crap no one really cares about. Your loss. When you live in a shoe box and always win, you really don't win. When you have the balls to really step outside that box, you challenge yourself. Then, if you succeed you win for you. "Keep On 'Keepin' On Willy"

Stupidity and posting crap that no one cares about will get you, let me put this to you in your words ( also Bills Words if you read back enough ), get you "attacked". You just don't stop playing the victim! You are a victim of your own creation! PM me your addy so I can send you a block of smoked gouda to go with your whine.

A great beer I enjoy. I knife I am starting to really like, and my EDC ferro rod.

Been a while since I posted in this thread.... Maybe I will hit the store and buy a beer noone likes and offer a toast! LOL.