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Sat one hardside blind. Nothing. Glad I wasn’t in a stand in this mess. Got down about 10 min early and made a loop back to truck. Saw one deer moving away about 100 yards. Too dark to tell more. Christmas shopping in the morning with kiddo and then back at it tomorrow afternoon. You can let yourself get down or not. Grind it out and stay focused. Good things will happen.

Well the weatherman got me this morning. was hoping to get out but the forecast called for snow and an unrelated of ice. Woke up to bare ground. Now it’s snowing and supposed to get icy. Could have been able to be out for the first few hours without issue. As long as things don’t get bad driving wise I’ll head out for the PM. Have a pair of hard side blinds both of which have had only one sit in them this season. We may see what shakes out there.

170 shipped. Open Box. Comes with ATT SIM. If you want Verizon all you have to do is request one from Reveal and they will get you a Verizon SIM. Cam never used, never powered on. I intended to use it in Ohio and Missouri on our November Rutcation but I lost the dang Verizon SIM somewhere at the campground in Ohio when I opened the box. Thus never used. Because of open box I cannot imply a return; however should you have an issue to work with Reveal on I can assist as you work with them on warranty. Pretty rare but I always include such standard language.

Someone is getting old and can't find their post BUMP

More than welcome to borrow one. You're only 30 min away.

I enjoy venison from time to time - but it is not on the level with beef, for me personally. Everyone is different.

I've heard and seen the same with fish. I watched some documentary on sustainable fishing practices and I guess some of it is driven by foreign shipments of fish. When species get depleted the foreign boats and operations move to another species and then try to pass it off after processing, fooling even distributors. Seems like one of those rackets where the people who cause it are almost never going to be held accountable. Forcing US companies into heavier QA and internal costs, driving up the retail prices.

My grandfather was an exec at Kodak back in the day. We had unlimited film (which cam in handy for the old 35MM game cams) and also a good supply of Kodak branded batteries. That probably jumpstarted my hobby because my costs were much less than others due to having access to free film, free processing, and batteries. Those older Kodak batteries were awesome...newer ones. Run away. They did recycle the one-use cams. The internals could be used many times over, and that was a very profitable revenue stream. I remember my grandpa telling me they could use them 3-4x So much so, they didn't care about the batteries as you saw.

Been through four scenarios I can remember. Watched a guy at my club in VA get gored by a basket rack. Wasn't dead. Grabbed it, got him in the thigh - 3-4". That particular guy was in his own right a very animated, funny, social guy. It was like something out of Super Troopers. Heard that story every year the night before opener at the club. I can still see his face when that thing got him. I was maybe four feet away. Two finishing jobs with a knife. One car-struck. One after shells fell out of a pocket on a still hunt/one man slow push unknowingly. The car struck one was right by the road during our walk in. While at the truck getting ready, a van hit a small spike but never stopped - probably 3-400 yards from us and in between our truck and the entry point. Bow season and it looked like it had very little life left, but a house was across the street and we deemed that the best choice was to finish it since it was still on pavement. We did what we had to do - twice. Third motion and that thing lifted my partner off the ground about four feet. Ran across street into an uncut corn field we did not have and could not get access to and we never saw it again. We were sure it was on a death run. Thankfully our farmer farms it so we let them know ahead of time. Never came across it. The last one, my partner spined one on his last load (MZ). I also was out after dropping two doe at the end of a one-man push. Other utensils back in truck. Trying to do the best possible thing we could having been caught unprepared poorly, was to use a strap we did have on us. It worked, probably the fastest option we could choose at that moment ease suffering. None of these taken lightly. We always tried to be prepared but as Murphy's Law has it, when we make a mistake in planning/prep, we need to use what we don't have and must make a tough decision.

I use Tenergy AAs, Rayovac, or AC Delco. Rayovacs are good, Tenergy and AC Delco will last almost as long, but the cost advantage is worth the trade. I don't suggest using alkaline except for specific situations in winter. They just don't perform as well. The available power in alkaline in colder temps just isn't where it needs to be for best performance. I go through about 1-1.5K AAs per year.

I believe most of the half and fulls are typical angus - I think they retail their wagyu - I actually can't recall ever hearing them do that for their wagyu. Steaks are typically one by one or two for strips, from their processor.

Til they kill you. Wait, that's no different than married men, either. Bazinga.

The cows that my frien's farm have, have the lineages for fullblood and American. They spent a large amount of money to get into it and have been able to document the lineage. My buddy let me know that their American is called F2-4, which I guess is/are the highest ranking of American.

I'm not as fully educated on the lingo and process. The farm is owned by a pair of old high school friends. The American Wagyu steaks have been as good as the Fullblood - mostly because their designation or % of lineage I guess is abnormally high (in the cross, I think they use a Fullblood and then an American vs a Fullblood and an Angus (I think). As a result, they've only brought up one Fullblood in the past year and they have one more coming up this late winter or early Spring. They do more of the American now too because it sells easier direct to consumer. Retail on the Fullblood stuff is CRAZY HIGH - and that is from them to consumer with no restaurant or middle man in the way. I have avoided ordering that stuff anywhere else more or less as a loyalty factor. Those two steaks I think I paid $40 all in for the "family" discount we'll say. Retail those two steaks go for $100-120. I don't think I'd want to pay the premium for that stuff at a restaurant - last high end steak place I ate at in Myrtle Beach in the summer had the typical quality tomahawk for $70. Even though a pro is cooking it, I can't get over the Wagyu price gap at the table for what I get at home. These two strips were fullblood and melted in your mouth. I normally am a ribeye person, but with both the fullblood and american...I have enjoyed the strips a little more than the ribeyes.

I am lucky to have a source for Wagyu. Fullblood and American. Ruins regular beef for you. Even in ground.

243 and 30-30 seem to be the rarest ammo stockpiles of the common calibers. Do some searching, might be tough. When I found some Federal Blue Box 243 on shelf, I bought 10 boxes. It'll allow me to do some paper shooting and stay fresh for the season, plus have enough to hunt with. I bought them last November in Indiana on way home. Since then, I've probably seen 5-10 boxes of any type 243 on shelf total of all stores I've visited since then. NY, OH, MO...probably 20-25 stores.

Got lucky through a mutual connection with the owner of a Toyota dealer a few hours drive from here. I happened to help the owner's best friend out with a replacement rifle for a kid that lost it in a family house fire two weeks. I mentioned it to him that I was looking for a Rav4 Prime and within five minutes the owner of the dealership called and I had a deal done for MSRP and the rebate. Owner had one loaded XSE coming in this week from the port of NY and hooked me up - he could have easily sold it for $5K markup over MSRP seeing as how you can't even find them on lots right now and waiting lists are months out. Wife test drove a few Lexus but she wants the Prime. I am not good at hold secrets against her, lol.

GL to those out. I haven't been able to get out during the week. Was planning to go to Ohio this weekend, but weather conditions look bad for the drive and I have a Friday 4-5PM meeting with our VP of IT - talk about sucking the wind out of your sails lol. May end up sticking with the ML here. Saturday's call is for five inches of snow but with freezing rain and ice build up. Should be fun. I may sit in one of our platform blinds and go for a doe since I haven't taken one this year. Hoping the weather forces them to feed. This nearly 60 degree crap can go away....

Powerbelts for sure. It's one heck of a marketing sell for how popular they are vs performance. Corelokts haven't been the best in my experience either - although Remington's transition in ownership may change that. The base line ammo that has always done well for me has been Federal Blue Box. My hunting partner likes Hornady alot more than I do. I think if I were to try to pick the ONE regardless of prices, it's be the Barnes line. They are expensive but you can usually count of them to be high end performing. I use them out of my .243 but when I bought another .243 this year, I lucked into some Federal Blue Box 100 gr SP. Bought 10 boxes to plink. When sighting in they grouped absolutely fantastic. Didn't run the Barnes through as a result. Looks like the Weatherby will be slinging base line ammo. I'm OK with that. Worked fine this year in MO.

Be mindful of the weather as that drives food availability and tolerance to get to it in daylight. No snowpack and frigid temps has deer spread out still in our area. We have plots that typically have destination type drawing power this time of year and that is not happening right now. Deer appear to be more spread out still eating and foraging on browse, nuts, etc. They're still readily available as compared to a hard snowpack and high calorie burning cold weather.

Sounds like a tough year. I always try to focus on what I can control to make things better or have better results. Being able to shake off the other stuff you can't control, allows you to focus on how you react to it or better yet, take proactive steps for the future. There is ample late season for those in the SZ. Still time.

The problem with cheap cams is sometimes you don't know you have a problem until after, and sometimes you NEVER realize you have a problem because of the "you don't know what you don't know." I sell alot of cams and the general consensus is that the get what you pay for piece does have sound science. My least returned and warranted cam is also the most expensive, so is the second, and third, etc. Only two outlier cell models, one going up, one going down in a stack rank, but by in large, the more a cam costs the more reliable it is. Performance in cams is also more consistent with how much a cam costs. Lower cost cams have more likelihood for performance variation and reliability of that performance. Sensing and recording the image properly seems to be the one that most people really don't grasp. Do I use cheap cams - rarely, because I've learned through experience. Do I use good cams bought on a discount or clearance - heck yes. There is a difference. Cams do something that we cannot - be out there 24 hours a day, collecting info. Having trust in the data you do get from them is important. Cheaping out on that, short of necessary situations, may give you incomplete info to use or not take advantage of.

That's like out of the Purge series or something.

I’m in for my second evening of NY gun season. Been a week since I have been in any woods due to work. That said I’m looking forward to the next few weeks of late season. Maybe something will happen.

They will undoubtedly help you post sale