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  1. I know for a fact that my WMU will have the MZ hunt if if is enacted... Not a huge fan of a weeklong mz hunt in October. I'm also a bit mixed on the youth hunt. Don't know why...I just am.
  2. No it was disconnected. Sat there for two weeks before opener. You can get a DUI/DWI/DWAI on a bicycle - no motor on that. Again, when the Econ officer explained it to them, it was the fact it had wheels/axles. Again, I don't know more than that, but I've personally seen the tickets. It was a family friend and the former fiance of my mother.
  3. I can't comment on the formal legality, but in Region 8....I know of two citations that have been issued for this type of deal. small utility trailer with built blind on it overlooking a field. A wheeler was used to move it to new locations throughout the season. Apparently it's the wheels/axle that make the difference from the way it was explained to me. Again, I can't comment more on it, but I've personally seen two citations for it. (Thankfully not my citation). Seems a bit of a stretch.
  4. Last year practiced at 42 and in. Longest I've taken a deer is 31 and 42 yards. The 42 yd shot was prime condition...every other shot has been 20 and in with most being 10-15 yards. I plan on practicing out to 60 this year with a new range in the backyard.
  5. All NY teaching roles require a graduate degree. ALL of them. College kids will not go into debt 30k plus for degrees to make 32-34k a year starting salary. I'm not saying anything about those who make 100k after being there 30 years. Or about the sports costs... I'm saying you get less quality teachers with lower starting pay. Make them accountable every five years for tenure renewal. Make them earn wages. But, offer it. Don't say 32-34k for a 6 yr required degree. I took my undergrad degree in education and rolled it up and smoked it (figuratively)...got in business and made much more money.
  6. How many of those jobs in mind do you have that require a 5-6 year degree for less than what people can make at McDonalds as an assistant manager?
  7. Precisely why tenure needs to go, or be modified to allow for performance based reviews and give the right to the district to fire staff for lack of performance. Now remember guys, a good chunk of our household income comes from my fiance's coaching salary and substitute teaching. She is in grad school finishing up her masters in education. Im not just a disgruntled taxpayer lol. Good luck! Tough field these days.
  8. Librarians are a special breed and they have to do some graduate level work that would make your teeth grind. 70k in Albany is pretty good pay, but also representative of the education and content expertise that comes with it. Remember they're disseminating knowledge in a very structured and organized way. The amount of teachers' time away from work is always brought up, but I have to say that teachers put in some serious time (the honest ones) - it is as equal in my observations in hours spent working year-round minues two-three weeks paid vacation and the 6-10 floating holidays. Remember, they do not get much, if any, paid time off outside of those breaks. Also, remember that many teachers HAVE to work summers to make ends meet. The above mentioned teacher at 14 years was sealing driveways and painting houses during the summer to make ends meet for his family. The pay is so low on the front end that teachers don't get the time off in the summer because they have to work. Also remember that teachers are required to perform a sizeable number of hours each year in professional improvements/training (continuing education). About the only teachers I know that are not working summers are those right at or above year 20. The fact is the slow roll on starting pay....you have a math-minded person...why bother going into education to teach chemistry or calculus for 32-34k when they can get into an engineering or manufacturing lab and make 40-60k out of college? Why go into education to become a foreign language teacher when you can earn ten-fold translating (hello globalization!)? Why teach social studies when you can work in economics/finance or private sector historical positions for more? Why teach english when you can work in communications and fetch more? Sure the benefits and pay may be nice at the back-end, but college kids practically need the $$$ now to pay for student loans and teh cost of life. I'm trying to pee on a fire myself (35k loan). Not all that enjoyable when your take home is less than $3k per month GROSS (teacher). I've seen some lazy SOB teachers, as in any profession. But, I see many in the college ranks take that course...it's a popular field and overcrowded with less-than-stellar talent pools because of the low starting pay. I'm so happy I never stepped foot in a school after graduating college - not just for the wages, but for the peace of mind. I'd have to resort to selling myself on Lyell Ave. to make ends meet (joking, of course) if I were a teacher. Well, I might not need to teach then, either, I guess
  9. This is a can o' worms. So many things wrong...but also so many missed and squandered opportunities. Look at the starting gate...seriously, let's look at it realisitically. As a teacher in NYS, you need the undergraduate and then the graduate within 5 years (or at least it used to be that timeframe). Starting pay in the Rochester area when I was seeking teaching positions...32-34k. Peanuts for 4-6 yr degrees. I remember vividly while student teaching that a very good teacher in his 14th year in one of the better paying districts was at 43k. Peanuts for a graduate level degree and 14 years of experience. And this guy had a Bowling Green education...it's a good school. The problem is the back-end slant of teacher pay. There are several teachers in almost every suburban district making 100k-125k per year and they drain the wage funding of budgets because they are in year 30-35. The pay starts so low and then fails to ramp up until well into a career that you have one HUGE problem....brain drain. Can you attract content experts who can make 1.25-2x salary right out of the gate? Nope...and I was proof of that. I stepped into business and took my skill sets elsewhere making way more than I'd be making as a teacher. And, this is not necessairly a NY issue because NY ranks high in teacher pay, although that's skewed a bit by the high back end wages. You attract lesser quality talent with low starting wages....and you suffer the consquences of that lower talent...ala slipping educationally.
  10. I like to go every 2-3 years, but I may go again next year despite going this past Feb. since my FIL likes it. You can burn through the show in a full day, but you will miss some stuff or have to have a narrow focus of what you are looking for (if anything). We usually spend a day and a half at it and then visit the BPS and that local discount retailer (which has some good deals). For me, it's just a great way to break up the winter and get away for a day or two. Make sure to go to Arugalas (sp?) for some good wings. Nice place for the guys to sit down after walking all day. Bring comfy shoes.
  11. Get that blind and sit... Don't be too afraid of putting it out in the open. I shot a bird last year with a doghouse blind in the wide open. It really doesn't bother them much, unless they've ran into a blind before and saw something inside they didn't like ;D Birds really do like field in the rain. I usually spend more time in the woods than on field edges when hunting turkey...but when it rains...gimme a blind and I'll sit a field edge all day (Noon) and not move, as long as I think there are birds in the area.
  12. Cummins as noted above is a good option. I researched a bit before buying a few trees and Cummins is pretty much an authority on apple trees. There is a significant tie between them and Cornell. I think the elder Dr. Cummins created several varieties and root stock for Cornell. He is considered to be a Michael Jordan of the apple world.
  13. Grab your blind, set it up on a field edge where you think those birds will be, a book/ipod/etc. if you need it, some chow/drinks, and a good blind chair. Maybe add a decoy. It's gonna be a wait...but it's supposed to rain this weekend. I'd sit out therain in the blind and be patient. Birds generally like the fields during a rain...and esp. right after a soaker to dry off and pick up any bugs in the area. I'd push my self to hunt until Noon that way. Tough, but it can be done...you have to act like it's deer season if you are more driven by deer hunting.
  14. I've heard the new Irish boots are harder to get off. That's about all I know of them other than some people do like them. I have had alphas for 2.5 years. My only complaint is that I wore down the inner felt around the right heel. It must be just large enough that my foot rubbed to the point of removing the felt. Outside of that...bone dry...great boot all around. I'd have no qualms about buying another Lacrosse rubber boot. Rockies...I've soured on them as I've had two pairs in a row underperform (water leaks mostly).
  15. phade

    deer calls

    Long...cliff note readers do not attempt. Some of the newer calls are nice...seems like there's a bit of a trend to have a tube call that makes multiple sounds. There is much misinformation about whitetail vocalizations and there is still a good amount of discovery going on. Whitetails are actually pretty vocal, even in high pressure areas - it's just that many hunters do not hear a sort-wheeze or a loud grunt - and then tell themselves a story that bucks are quiet there. Deer hear about equal to humans, believe it or not, with a slightly larger frequency spectrum. The big difference is actually their ear shape. Their ear shape allows them to pinpoint sounds with a high degree of accuracy - that's why you see deer move their ears constantly, even one in contrast to the other ear...like a satelite dish or a radar. I hunt light because I'm never far from the truck in farmland and I prefer to hunt simple without a bunch of gear, although the lack of TP came back to bite me in the a@@ this past weekend in the turkey woods! Still, I always bring my grunt tube and a can call. I never call blind until the end of October here in wNY. Before the pre-rut kicks in, if I see a distant buck or one on course that will not present a shot, I MAY call. I've called a few does in with the can early on. Most hunts, I do not call. I have snort-wheezed a few times. I usually just use my mouth to do it...no call. I'm 1 for 2 with it - you only use it as a last measure in my book and only on a mature buck. The one that didn't like it jumped out of his hide. The other started in my direction but was pulled off by a doe. I did witness my first live snort-wheeze this past season and I couldn't believe it...that buck was dealing with a hot doe and another buck of similar size/stature. Needless to say, the other buck mosey'd away. Now, grunting...I rarely pitch a specific product, but I am faithful to a specific small-time custom callmaker...Vector. He's down south, but his grunt tubes do what they are supposed to do. I compare it to a sports car...it's a work of art that performs. I've killed four bucks since the 2008 season, and of them, three of them involved the use of my Vector grunt tube - and two were blind calls during the start of the pre-rut and chase phases. In his first year, Vector made 14 or so calls and had 9 mature bucks harvested with it - as in people sent in photos to him and stories so much so that he made a collage. The second year was similar. I don't know why, but his calls work and work well. I use the can call and it'll call in both does and bucks. I'm more inclined to use it early season because I've had a few old nannies come in to them...playing on their maternal instinct. If you buy the regular can, cut the call short, about half way, in the early season. It's a young-of-year call that way. The super big can is a waste of $$$. If you misuse it, it actually emulates an alert cry. I like to small one because it's short, loud enough, and because it is shorter, doesn't allow a deer to truly pinpoint the source of the sound outside of a general direction. If I call blind during the late pre-rut, chase or breeding phases..on a half day hunt....I only do it twice max. Once series about 30 minutes after sunrise and then maybe again about one hour before I head out (usually a call around 10 a.m.) and vice versa in the afternoon. If I do that and hunt the same area again the next day, I do not call the next day unless I need to (deer in sight/moving away). So - please do not overcall. This is purely observational, but I hear more vocalizations during the morning throughout the whole season. I draw from it that this is a factor of deer being active throughout the night and having dropped their guard. When they pop up out of their beds in the evening, they're on red alert.
  16. A developer owns that land that you are all talking about. It's close to the parks. Those birds have been there for years and years. The developer has plans to turn the area into two retirement homes, as of last week. He does not let anoyone hunt on it, except his employees. Quite a few deer in that area as there are the parks and some chunks of developer owned lands. I once saw a 140 main frame 8 bedded in the small patch of hilly ground (probably owned by DOT) that is surrounded by the interchange between 590/390. It was around 8:00 a.m. and during hunting season (I was on way to work). I almost ran into another car rubber necking. He was bedded and content.
  17. I've had really good luck with Peaches and Cream. I forget...but I think it is around 72-4 days. I plant in blocks because I don't plant much of it and I get better results than in rows. Stagger planting gave me about 4 weeks of great corn.
  18. Love the color changing in that one tom...pretty cool.
  19. More daytime activity = more shot opportunities.
  20. You might not think it, but for run and gun use...I use the cheapo dicks/ameristep blinds with the coils that roll/fold over one another. Doghouse type. Hub blinds are good for archery, but they weigh more and are more difficult to carry - and longer to set up. I've never seen turkey get bothered by black holes. Super fast to set up...literally seconds.
  21. Got permits yesterday. We drew Silver Lake state park. Pretty small ground and only 10 hunters on it (legally) and we're three of them. Should be fun.
  22. At least it sounds like there are turkey there. Anyone experience a ton of pressure. They limit draw to 100 per side...but can't tell if that's a lot or not based on the size of the place.
  23. Title says it all. Never been before but put in for the draw and awaiting the selection. Trying to do it more for the fact I want to hunt with a few friends. Most of the land with turkey that I have access to is small acreage and only big enough for a pair of hunters.
  24. Great deal. I paid about the same price for my old lady last year...I can't say enough about the bow and kit for that matter. My old lady will never hunt deer and she may get talked into turkey hunting. But, for target shooting and in the backyard, it's a really nice bow. I have ZERO complaints about it. Although the accessories are not top-level, it's more than adequate.
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