grampy

Absolutely beautiful pictures Larry!! Are you doing any gold panning?? Keep us up to date on this awesome adventure! Mrs grampy and I are thinking of doing something similar to this. Will PM ya when you get back for some info if ya don't mind?

Strange year here too. We are getting a couple decent bucks on camera. But in spots where we have never gotten them before at this time of year. Will get the other cams out on the farm this weekend. That will tell us more.

DEC over the last few years, has made some good common sense changes to game and fish laws. These changes included.

Another happy Trigger Stick user here. Good luck with yours. I think you'll like it.

Trophy walleye! Congrats to her!! That beats my PB of 28" caught from the Mohawk River, by alot!

We did get a little bit of rain yesterday Paul. But not what we needed. Saw today,that the seeds did germinate! All the hay fields are brown. Even the big swamp is dry as a bone! Not sure how all this will effect the deer movement? But we are still seeing deer. Even some decent bucks. But not where we usually do this time of year. Guess time will tell?

Keep doing what you're doing!!! It's working well for ya!!!

I'll pass on the Thousand Island and the Russian, to take Italian every time.

Kinda difficult to put barnboard siding on a ladder stand! The topic here is ladderstand skirts. All ya really need to do is just break up your outline a bit.

Sweet looking set up's there my friend!!!

Never seen it so dry. But put in a mixed bag last week.

Don't have skirts on any of our ladder stands. But wherever possible, we put the stands in hemlock or pine trees to keep lots of cover around them. Cover is the key!!! Always try to have branches or some kind of cover around the stands to break up your outline, and cover some of the movement. On trees where it is more exposed, just tie a big bundle of branches and or brush to the tree behind you. This really helps!!! And you can enter and exit the stand no problem!

I got a Scorpyd 65 from a member here, (thanks Billdogg) but find it hard to draw. I need to order the cocking sled with a longer pull rope. That said, I may just use the old tried and true Sniper 370. Or resight in the Barnett Raptor with new scope I had laying around. Got a bunch of Victory bolts with lighted nocks. Tipped with 100g, 10 Point, two blade mechanical heads. This combo seems to work well for me.

I know there have been many times in the woods, where I froze my tail off???

Hope you and Dixie will be back out in the field together soon! Good looking pup!

Happy Birthday to ya sir!!!

We have been using the Big Game 1.5 ladderstands. Very roomy and comfortable! Got one in the barn I bought last year still in the box. I think we figured out a spot, to put it up in the next couple weeks? But we do like those stands. I'm 6'1'' and over 200lbs.

Happy Birthday Sir!!

Having Dad back out in the deer woods will be great!! Wishing him good luck!! Ground hunting?? IMO, that's the best hunting!

Congratulations!!! Wishing you two a lifetime of laughter and happiness! You are very blessed to have found each other. God's light shines brightly around you both! Rocky is beautiful!! Can't wait to meet her!!

I may hit you up for a smaller profile bino than what I currently have in my Nikon. Something easier to pack and carry?

This is what I was going to suggest. Reloading, you can get very consistent, accurate, low recoil rounds for his rifle. If he has the once shot brass from that rifle, all the better!

Never thought to do a pizza on the grill??? That looks delicious!!!

I've seen those articles before. Even tried some of the methods myself years ago. Never quite worked out like I planned. What I've found is that it's usually much better to just have the deer go on THEIR preferred travel route. Then make your set up based off of that. Somewhere along that line of travel, there will usually be a great spot to intercept the deer within your shooting range. Good scouting makes good set ups. The less intrusion the better I think. And no way would I ever introduce "smelly shirts" in an area I want to hunt! Why alert the animals you plant to hunt of your presence? Instead of moving to a trail you want them on, they may just avoid the area all together? At times it is easy to over think our hunting. Over many decades of hunting, I've found that keeping it simple, using some woodsmanship, and a little common sense, go much farther than most magazine articles I read.

To have fun! Be happy I still get to participate! Perhaps shoot a mature buck?