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Hey gang: 1C_ lengthened its season. Looking to buy a slug gun, scoped if possible. Would prefer a 20 to a 12 but open to either. Alternatively thought I'd luck out if someone has a rifled barrel for an 870 Remington in 20 gauge (new ones are almost the price of a slug gun, cheaper in 12).

Guys like you make this forum incredible: thank you, just sent a PM

Do you guys have any experience or suggestions. Alternatively- If there are any experienced hunters that could take on an apprentice, I'll take you or your kids fishing/lobstering and cover expenses etc. Help set up shooting lanes for next year etc. There's a lot I can learn, willing to pay or work for the privilege. Thank you in advance.

Great news but doesn't make much sense regarding Southampton For example says noyac firearms are permitted but doesn't permit hunting after December 3. You can't hunt deer out there w/ a shotgun until January

Yes and I hear you regarding ethical kills.

Hoping to get out to eastern Long Island this afternoon: Guys could we start a convention where we list NYS DEC WMU's with an underscore? For example I'm heading to 1C_ Can't search forums by two digit codes to figure out if there is any news in my neck of the woods.

His marksmanship is great; But there is one thing i hate. That is shooting over Bait!

Thanks guys, don't know how another edge adjacent to 2-4 sharpened blades poses significantly more danger. I hope I never have to admit that "you told me so"

I won't flatter myself and claim the idea to be mine. Noticed Native American broadheads were sharpened "front and back" as were roman arrowheads But people speak about wound channels and passthroughs. Hoping if the arrow doesn't exit it may continue to slice internally, if sharpened on both sides it would certainly slice w/ greater ease if not through and through. Put an edge on my practice broadheads and will see if it makes pulling them out easier. Have any of you tried this in the field?

That's great, how old is your boy?

Congrats, can I ask which wmu? 3h_?

Gander mountain sells buckshot and tried to convince me it is legal for deer here in NYS.

are you 150' from a neighbor and able to shoot from an elevated platform?

1st off, thanks for your support, I hope you and fellow hunters will sign the petition.You can hunt for deer in Long Island (Suffolk County) until the end of January. Is your argument about "enough time" that we should have shorter seasons for a place increasingly over populated w/ deer? Or is "enough time" referring to having a long enough opportunity to take a deer w/ a bow? I think we all hate injured or lost game. As much of an archer I think I am, firing 100's (not 1000's) in the pre season 80% of time I can hit a grapefruit if I judge distance correctly. The other 1 in 5 could be patterned in a volleyball. W/ a scoped crossbow, much more efficient means of harvesting. Less lost game, more humane kills. All it takes is one limping "Bambi" in this heavily populated area to fuel the anti hunter fires. W/ a heavy broadhead inside of 40 yards crossbows seem to have a super flat trajectory. I took it out of the box and was shooting patterns the size of a lemon 100% of the time. Literally out of the box. If you have access to one, try it. For what it is worth I don't view it so much as a bow but a silent gun. IMHO Efficient and quiet is probably the best way to curb deer populations in heavily populated regions of 1C_. Deer population in easthampton is so large, they contemplate silenced rifles at night over bait. Would probably be a better way for economy to let people use crossbows in a sporting way/fair chase vs hired guns and limit the minimal amount of land necessary to host a hunter down from 10 acres (very few opportunities and my friends aren't that rich) or let Suffolk county residents hunt town lands/parks.

It still rings true, "no one ever saved any buffalo for me"

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Good morning guys, taptalk forums don't let us search y only two characters. Could we start the convention of typing the DEC regions WMU's as numberletterubderscore for example "1C_"

Good Point, but w/ out researching and learning from the experience of others (like this forum) I'm afraid we are all apes.That and the stakes of not getting it right or "learning by doing" can be too large or lethal. I got shot by an "experienced hunter" and guest of my host on a pheasant drive. Beyond the obvious my one regrets is not shooting back. I think I will equip standards and shooters w/ camera's and practice in the off season. If anyone comes back w/ a blurry shot of a running deer they are out of the pack.

What's the best book you have ever read on drives? Old or new?

which dec region are you that bucks are still chasing does?

Pure Genius!

That takes way too much effort......"working out"? I'm collecting my sweat socks all week for the weekend.

I remember social studies classes when the eskimo's would make fake people (stacked rocks) to channel migrating caribou into bow range. Desperate times (the cold weekend and late in the season) called for desperate measures. Short on drivers and shooters my dad was kind enough to walk/drive a patch of pines on top of a field for me. Took off a layer and made this scArecrow in less than 3 minutes. Thought id prevent the deer from walking off in a channel I couldn't get to. Dad didn't know I did that and worked as a decoy, thought it was me and from 40yrds realized it wasn't. If decoys attract deer (but fear of shooting them by others, expense and transport issues), why not set up a line of scare crows to funnel deer your way? Didn't work, the bedded deer I drove out of there the day prior didn't bed there on Sunday. Thought this might be a good place to post our odd antics. Happy hunting!

It's the magic hour... ...just saw my first 9 or 10 point buck this season. Just north of Livingston Manor on route 17, in the bed of a truck.