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  1. phade
    at $8k I'd be a player. $16k...no way.
  2. phade
    On a completely unrelated note, nice job on taking the class with your daughter. Dads should be more like you rather than dropping the kids off for the class. I see that all too often. Sometimes those discussions are great opportunities to instill the long-term values a hunter should have.
  3. phade
    Assuming the gain in fps would be the ability to dial in the ideal point at which the arrow leaves the string for speed. For some reason, I doubt the spot would be the same for speed and sound dampening.
  4. phade
    Better off traveling to someplace like simmons-rockwell which sells vehicles pretty cheap as long as you don't have a trade-in situation.
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    Azek decking

    phade replied to mac's topic in General Chit Chat

    Wow, just like a hardwood floor indeed. Any info on dog durability? Curious to see if it can take their nails/paws.
  6. phade
    It's not so much the mile in my opinion, it's the frequency with which it was started and/or drove around the block. If that thing went months without a key turn and then drove and then went months again with no action...I'd be leery at that price range. Those vehicles seem to fall apart. The weekly 10 or 25 miles? A little bit better to consider in my opinion. I still don't think I'd pay that kind of money for a 12 yo vehicle.
  7. phade
    high pressure birds = no decoys low pressure birds = decoys Not always a hard rule. But generally if a bird is hunted hard, he's probably seen ever foam decoy in the county. I will say that some of the more realistic decoys can pull in an otherwise quesitonable bird - especially when set up with bow/blind.
  8. phade
    Not all that shocking considering the Busbices own it. Wildgame Innovations, Evolved Habitat, and so on and so forth. They own alot and not much of it is quality. But, people buy it.
  9. phade
    Barronnet makes good blinds the 250 is a solid model. THe big Mike is real big. Good for turkey where they don't care about placement. Deer, that's alot of blind to cover up and hide. Rhino makes an OK product, but I've seen some cruddy models from time to time. The people that work there, well, I can't say I've ever had a great interaction with them.
  10. phade
    Many states have WIHA in the midwest. Not as easy here but could be experimented.
  11. phade
    I prioritize going after bucks that make me happy. I'm no longer willing to spend more time than I do on doe harvest currently in exchange for seat time for the ones I seek. The more does I shoot, the less time I spend chasing a buck. I shot two doe. That's good enough for my contribution toward the overall picture. Go ahead and keep saying my model doesn't work. If everyone shot two doe, we'd be in trouble. So go pound sand. You keep lamenting me for my aversion to shooting 6 or 7 doe a season, yet my two doe were higher than the state average. Hmmm.
  12. phade
    ARs would need to be a 4 a side to move the allotted % to the 2.5 yo bucket here. That didn't fare well in PA - many or all of those areas have been moved back to 3, and i think that was a big mistake. Any place that needs 4 a side certainly doesn't need ARs imo. Eastern NY, 3 a side protects the allotted %. I'd cringe at the idea of a 3 a side here. If I ever get time, I'll have to post a pic of a 1.5 I shot when I was younger. 12 points. Of all the 1.5s I shot in my time, only one would not have met the 3 a side rule. When I was plugging them, I was plugging what walked by first, so I wasn't picky.
  13. phade
    We hunt opposite ends of the spectrum. Here, education has been the biggest impact in not needing ARs as a last ditch effort or preventing them from being initiated, despite attempts.
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    What if.....?

    phade replied to Witty's topic in General Hunting

    Unless that person is an actual ECO, and not a specialist or other non-ECO role, yes. If it was an ECO role, then yes, as well. Sometimes you get more with honey.
  15. phade
    Again, the internet doesn't show emotion or any of the important tangents of conversation. You think I am name dropping and I'm simply giving you context when you tell me I don't know a thing about rudimentary deer biology from a state POV. The fact is, if you blindly follow agency dictations, you set yourself up for failure on a macro level. NY was there 10 years ago and it was horrible. Saying people need to go fill all of their tags or face snipers is silly talk. They issue more tags knowing that they won't be filled. They don't want 100% of their tags that they issued filled. If they did, we'd have a herd disaster. The emphasis needs to be on accurate management practices with a balanced approach to population control. Just because a tag exists doesn't mean it must be filled. Legally you have every right, but that's completely different.
  16. phade
    Ha. You apparently haven't read the part where I year after year filled every tag possible in bow season. I've killed more does than most people have in NY. I've done my part. I killed two does this season. That's more than the average hunter - yet, despite my personal beliefs, you lament me. When in fact I'm OVER the average rate of DMP issuance. Roll that one around for a second. I've received paychecks from the QDMA. Paychecks. I'm not exactly dealing with osmosis here. And, I'm not tooting my own horn. It's for context.
  17. phade
    I know Jeremy fairly well. I know his personal and his professional views for the most part. He chokes down alot of stuff that he doesn't want to swallow. He was one of my main sources for the AR article I wrote for NY Game and Fish when the initial WMUs went into the pilot study back in the mid-2000s. Along with Mickey and a couple others. They do get bucks to 2.5 when done correctly, but it's not as clear cut as what some people make it out to be. Education and other tools are better options in my book and don't carry limitations on personal choice and risks to the herd in other ways. Ask him whether he'd say AR or OBR/moved gun season, etc. and so on and so forth would be a better option. It won't be the former.
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    I dont pretend to know everything. But ive got more experience than the average joe. My own personal view based on cost and time efficiency is mine. My personal decision bears nothing as to what should be done by state agencies. Ive been very lucky in life to have met and worked with some of the most influential deer managers in the modern age. Mickey, the dougherty, kip, and grant woods. Ive also interviewed and spoken to jeremy hurst, our states head big game biologist, on AR and the states deer herd dynamics. Theres a difference in state agencies. Theres a difference in understanding the balance between dec capabilities and objectives. Thats been the issue for decades here.
  19. phade
    NY ranks 3rd in hunter density, and Ohio ranks 5th. That's right, 5th. 2 spots behind NY. Fact. PA RI NY WI OH I'm not overlooking anything. Note that two of the top five pressure states are also two of the highest ranking for big buck states - with WI being the #1 state for book bucks for a long time. So again, how is our pressure different from theirs that makes our ability to produce high quality hunting similar or even ballpark on their level? Ding Ding Ding....
  20. phade
    I believe that is false. If any state can do, NY should be able to. While our DEC isn't the best, there's no reason not to raise our standards.
  21. phade
    That's a big pile of dookie. The DEC is a good resource. But, they also aren't going to rank in the top 10 or 15, or top 20 of comparative agencies across the land. Just because you get 6 tags doesn't mean you should shoot 6 does. I'm sorry, but it doesn't. That's the #1 way states, even those with GREAT hunting and deer quality, get in trouble. I'm sorry, but it just is. Case in point the past few years have been Ohio, Iowa, and Kansas. Ohio fared the best out of these three states because their system allowed for quicker changes in the deer seasons. You must not remember the big decline in deer numbers about 10 years ago. Where did that originate from? The DEC and hunter complicity. It took them a year or two, but they finally admitted they missed the mark in the population decline. A similar issue is going on in a majority of whitetail states right now - harvest numbers are going down. Iowa is hurting - despite it being the mecca of whitetails. The right answer is using the DEC info as a guideline and your tangible, physical knowledge of your immediate (within a deer's home range) hunting area to make the right decision. That's hunter responsibility, not complying with state management plans outright and taken for scripture. Sometimes not filling a tag is the right call.
  22. phade
    EAB is contested in WI so much so, legislators had to get involved to get it removed in part. Before you say legislators getting involved in our affairs here is no different, this came about at the fact that constituents complained enough that the legislators felt obligated to move on it to respond to their people or face repercussions. EAB is full of holes - especially when you state that check-in was voluntary. That's ridiculous. EAB and mandatory AR are about as bad as it gets from a management perspective when coming from an agency level. OBR, 9 day gun season Monday after T-day, long bow/xbow season, and specific regional or county based doe management tools, with a responsive agency is the way to go. While Ohio is not perfect, it does all of these things and no shock that it's heads and tails above what we offer. Our soil quality in wNY is akin to the better counties in Ohio. Our soil quality in eastern NY is akin to the poorer counties in Ohio, such as western and NW counties there. People try to say this isn't Ohio as a reason why such success can't be built/managed, and it's a bunch of crapola.
  23. phade
    Same thing with gunfire. Sounds like damn freedom to me. And, I have a 16 month old and two dogs that are noise sensitive. We just sighted in our turkey guns last weekend at my place and not a complaint to be heard. Might want to talk to the wife about those pants she's been wearing, Belo. JK, I can relate.
  24. phade
    I do - but I have about a "high to me" break rate. I went 3 seasons without a break, but then broke every arrow (either breaks or stress fractures) 2 seasons in a row. I went through several hundred dollars in arrow/bhs to kill does I donated. At that point it became fiscally irresponsible for me to do that. I don't like to change arrows often - it's actually why I buy several dozen of one I like so I can have them to use for years to come since manufacturers now seem to switch models every other year on the regular. I don't shoot ultra premium arrows, but I'm usually shooting some form of mid/high-end Easton or Beman.
  25. phade
    This addresses perhaps the worst statement in this entire thread. What a crock.
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