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Ruff looks like a great pup! He will do fine for you. If I can help in any way, with tips training for blood tracking, just shoot me a PM or ask here. I will always be happy to help.

Al, are you referring to FS's??? As you described him perfectly! And I agree with you 100%

I'm not jealous of I'm not in the least jealous of you Mayor. I've worked my entire life to be your polar opposite. Quite successfully may I add, too. But I do encourage going to www.fourseasonswhitetails.com

So.....it's ok for deer farms to ship out deer that may, or may not have CWD, to areas where it has not been established?

No, I don't either Paula. So nice to see you around!! I hope you and your pups are doing well. Best of luck to you this season young lady!!

Doc, this all goes back to when burmjohn took members money for merch that was never delivered. After that, burmjohn went MIA. This was some of the reason members went to NYWAW. This is all very regrettable, as I enjoyed being a member here for many years. There are still some really good people here. But most have went elsewhere. I still continue to visit here, though the content has been reduced greatly over the last few months. I was even made to feel unwelcome by a couple die hard members here, because I chose to visit the other forum too. So I've been posting less myself. I'm no tech expert. But I do know, any site left unattended, will eventually pick up bad things like spyware and other not so pleasant things. Hence the "new members" are likely, really not new members at all. burmjohn is the only administrator who can approve new members......period. And where is he the last couple years?? And without new growth, even a mighty oak tree withers and dies eventually. We've all seen that out in the woods.

Eddie, I hope you keep going like that Ever Ready Bunny!!! I have always had the utmost respect for you! You might be looking at the NJ, WaW site?? There is a NY site too. And though the owner is a NJ native, he hunts and fishes NY, as well as his home state. The vast majority of members are from NY, discussing NY topics. Not to take anything from this site. As there are members who visit both, with no issues.

Happy Birthday Eddie!! All the best to you sir!!

Thank you everyone!!

Prayers sent.

That is spooky for sure!!! What the heck!!

Really cool picture!!!

I'm still getting pop up adds here. The only one who can make changes here is burmjohn. And he hasn't been around in quite some time unfortunately. Who knows why?

I have an MQ32 down in my hunting room I bought in 2000. Still shoots just fine! Though I haven't taken it out hunting in a couple years. The bow I have been toting is an Obsession Phoenix that I bought from Moog.

Looks to be very healthy and eating good!

This will be your year!!!

I would say he's likely a four year old. Would score in the mid 120's and dress out around 185 lbs. A beautiful buck by all accounts! Hope you het a crack at him this fall! That would be epic!

Any pic's with you and the deer??

Happy Birthday Sir!!!

I'm tongue tied over this topic.........

Is there a website we can go to to view the deer breeding and upkeep of these freaks?

I honestly don't understand the venom being thrown at members here who just choose to be on multiple forums?? When YOU are the biggest detriment to this, or any other forum with your bragging about nothing posts. Because YOU are just a poser, who needs to come here for an audience to boost your fragile ego. I figured you out long ago. I've mentored kids who in "real life" are twice the hunter you CLAIM to be. Anytime you want to go head to head with me in the woods, in any capacity, you give me a call! I will wait for your lame response for a good laugh Mayor Poser. How many others here watch only one TV channel? Listen to only one radio station? Never use FB, Google, or any other online medium?? This is 2024! Everyone goes from place to place! What's the big deal about me or anyone else, being a member of multiple forums?? I have been a member here for a long freakin time!! I don't come here to disparage this place!! And I NEVER have! I add content in a thoughtful manner. Unlike a certain AH member here does!! So now, other longtime members who I've respected for years, are calling me out because I am on another forum??? Look back at my content over the years I've been here!! I have been nothing but supportive and added positive posts to this place! I am not the absentee owner who ripped off members of this site! And who refuses to help out his own moderators in any way. With even a simple E-Mail! Or could give two craps about this place!!! I actually care! You couple who want to see me leave for making a free choice, can go pound salt! I am every bit as much a member here as you are! I will stay a member here to the end! I have done nothing to be banned! I will continue to post in a positive way! Just like I always have! If I am to be banned for speaking my mind here, then there are a couple others who should be as well for speaking theirs! This is all so childish and needless. Get over it!

There are still some good people here that I'd hate to lose contact with, should this site suddenly disappear. I have no idea why Burmjohn will not contact his loyal moderators?? They are the one's keeping the flame alive for now. I have been a member here for years. And will stay and contribute to the end. Not to be disparaging to this site. But there is another NY site. And ALL are welcome should you choose to check it out.

That's about right. But no set pace. Depends some on how far ahead you can see. Wind? Rain? Snow? Open hardwoods? Hemlocks? Swamp edges? You take in the conditions. Remember.....if you think you're moving too slow. Move slower!!! That was the best advice I ever got. This is different from big woods tracking. Where you are on a track, and can move much faster at times. Still hunting is moving slowly through the woods, trying to see deer that may or may not be there. And before they see you. You definitely get better with practice. The amount of tail flags you see, will be a gauge in how well you are doing. Sorry to the OP. I didn't mean to get off topic.

Yes, because being it was usually too cold to sit for very long, they were mostly still hunters. I was told many times, "if you think you're going too slow. Go slower!! Keep your head up, and your eyes open! Look for movement, like an ear or tail twitch. You won't usually see a whole deer. Pick the woods apart before you move again!" They wore no camo. Just the clothes they worked in. Mostly overalls with Long John's. Layers of flannel. And always those thin green rubber boots!! There were always folks dropping by to gab and admire the deer hung in an oak or maple tree in their front yards. To this day I prefer a still hunt over sitting in a stand. But do both now depending on conditions. This was mostly done on large farm properties. Corn and hay fields, with many woodlots, sized from a few acres, to perhaps a couple hundred acres. With ridges and creek bottoms and some swamps for topography. Usually the last weekend of the season they would do still-drives. Which was when you walk very slowly, with the wind at your back, to poster's on the other end. The drivers would be staggered. Many times the drivers got deer that were circling back from a forward driver. This all was done with usually only 4 or 5 hunters. Of course there were favorite sitting spots as well. Always in some form of funnel or pinch point. To this day we still hunt some of those spots. And still see deer more often than not from them. One of the farmers had a son about my age. We rode the same school bus together. We have been lifelong friends. And together, own and hunt his family farm. We have around 750 acres available to us. And love to roam some of the same ground those old farmers did. Most of the farms are now gone. But we still have a few beef cattle and assorted other critters to take care of. All the original farmers have long since passed on. We are now the old guy's. And we're proud to have kept, and passed along many of the old traditions and ways. We both have kids, and grandkids who hopefully will carry on from us.