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I really don't get you. Maybe I am misunderstanding you. People have given you PLENTY of info, including quality public land options, and you still harp at getting private landowner info from another hunter on a forum. Do a little work. People have provided links. How many doors have you knocked on, or called? Access here in this part of the state is very hard to come by and people have been nothing short of pleasant thus far with your repeated requests. Take some of their advice...go scout Letchworth, go check out the links...stop repeatedly asking for people's private land connections on a hunting forum. I haven't once seen you thank them for that help, either.

CCI209M primers are a few bucks at best. Why add an electrical system to a process? Just one more thing to go wrong imo that may not be able to be fixed in the field.

That's silly talk right there...access in the golden triangle area and you haven't pounced. You are killing me Smalls. Nobody brought up outfitters. Whether its public land, leasing, or knocking on doors, it all takes work. Problem is, your idea of workload is much higher than what most people are willing to deal with. For me, money is less of an issue as long as it is reasonable. The bigger issue is time. If I take a week off, that time needs to be logistically spent the best way possible. Not at an outfitter, but having done the leg work ahead of time. When I go to Ohio...I usually go 2x. I scout the heck out of it for a weekend in March...so when I go down there in November, I don't need to spend as much time glassing, speed scouting, etc. Going to the midwest makes this much more difficult to do, because I don't need to burn a vacation day to go to Ohio for a weekend. Nebraska...I'd need two days if I hurried. You should just go to Ohio...good caliber of bucks and LOTS of public land for a state east of the Mississippi. Tags are cheaper and you can be on public Ohio ground in 4 hours from your house in Monroe County.

Nebraska was hit so hard by EHD that I'd seriously avoid it for another 2-3 years. I know a handful of people that hunt across that state, and all have said they are not going back this year because of the % of bucks that died. It's not THAT cheap to go half way across the country. I have knock on door permission on farms in Ohio and even a week a hunting there costs $6-750 bucks between gas, tags, motel (not fancy by any stretch), food, last second equipment. Tags: $150 Motel:$210-250 per week Gas: $225ish Food: $150ish if you avoid eating out at all. I do want to hunt Nebraska someday...it ranks behind Iowa/Kansas/Illinois, but it's right there. I'd also rather go there the week before their gun season rather than Oct. lol. Get it done here first and then spread your wings. Make the most of your time. Time management on out of state trips (logistics) is almost as important as the actual hunting is.

Contact Vince Crawford at vector game calls...one of the best grunt tubes ever made...custom, but worth it. I can directly attribute several bucks being killed as a by product of the calling from that tube.

True. I've missed more "gimmes" than I care to admit in my short time hunting.

I don't know how remington keeps pumping those 770s out...they are junk. I'm in the same boat, and looking at the American by Ruger and the Axis line by savage.

Rochester will get one...mark my words. Positioned between Cabelas in B-lo and BPS in Auburn.

Looks like they dove into BPS and Cabela's turf for a fight. They are opening Field & Stream stores now. One opens near their HQ in PA and later in Erie, PA. Won't be long before NY gets one with the historical context of Dick's Sporting Goods here. The one location in Erie was supposed to be a Cabela's and apparently Dick's came in and overtook it somehow...Cabela's is suing from what I read.

Oh, those pics show more than 1 P & Y. I see three at a minimum, assuming they aren't duplicates, which I don't think they are.

I was going to say something about that, too, but didn't want to bring up bad memories...lol. It happens eventually to everyone. I've had three taken over the years.

Being in Livingston County...I stil use my H&R Ultra Slug. Once dialed in, it's pretty solid. Sighting in slug guns are a pain, but having the single shot bomber makes it pretty simply...easy to clean, maintain, etc. Looking forward to using it more than the ML this season. BTW, you have something en route to you later today!

You do realize Tru Glo and Apex are the same company? I used to be a huge Spot Hogg fan, but honestly for hunting purposes, their adjustments were just too complicated and a pain in the rear. The set screws were tempermental...I'd go to make a very minor adjustment and it'd not even be close because the sight moved too much. A couple years ago I adapted to a KISS rule with sights. I usually buy pretty high end bow equipment, but I rock a $40 Tru Glo sight on my hunting rig now and it works well. The vertical Trophy Ridge pins are interesting. Seem to shoot very accurately with that first pin but I have issues with the middle pin The vertical seems to block more of the sight picture for me (probably mentally). I also bent them pretty quickly on...the vertical seem to catch on things moving through brush.

Is that second buck missing most of his right side? Looks like main beam and brow tine only. It is a feast or famine year...some people have some studs documented. Others nada.

Invisible bucks Matt? LOL. Hard to kill a ghost!

Thermacellw are one item I think that is underpriced. They could easily add 5-10 bucks to the unit cost and people would still buy them without question. One of the top accessories for hunting imo.

If you have a second cam...set it on the pond. If it's too hot, they'll be using the pond for a drink. Chances are if that pond is protected view-wise, you may get daytime images.

State of confusion that is.

As culver noted, bean processing can sometimes be sloppy, leaving scraps to be had. It can be a prime late season food source. Really, you shouldn't be asking this question because all it does is encourage you to guess more and know less. Glassing the soy bean field in the evening will give you that answer pretty quick, so you KNOW what to hunt.

My immediate concern is why you got him in daylight and the cam is picking them up later? Something change or are they consuming a different part of the field or entering it differently?

It's been my poorest year thus far for capturing bucks on cam. Have several, but none of them have sported the bone on top similar to other years. I've noticed its feast or famine this year for hunters doing pre-season scouting, more so than the usual "do you have the bachelor groups on your ground" situation.

My honey do list is off the charts. It'd be fine if it weren't for the house flood earlier this summer. I have no hope of getting it completed and I have resigned myself to ask for foregiveness rather than permission.

I have a 7mm Rem Mag...I'm not so sure I want to break it out for Wayne Co. I enjoyed shooting that at 18-21 years when ammo was cheaper and I was less risk averse...not so much now, lol. Give me a .243 any day for Wayne.

Good luck, that's quite the collection at the moment.

You stick your face directly into Ozone for several hours a day for several months a year. Tell me it doesn't hurt. And, I'm not talking the owweee kind of hurt. I'm talking life-threatening kind of hurt, dude. There's a reason there are regs on its use. I'm no Chicken Little fan, but sucking up ozone for a deer doesn't appear to be worth the tradeoff.