wolc123

There is no doubt that you are the cupcake king.

The problem with such a free for all, is that most deer quickly go full nocturnal once guns start going off. It makes more sense to have an archery season first. What I would like to see is open deer season for recurve and longbow on October 1, compounds and crossbows on October 15, and leave gun and ML as current. That gives the true "traditionalists" a well deserved "jump start" but sticks it to the "cupcakes" (compound only users who oppose the crossbow).

I think the main point that you are missing is that somewhere in NY, there is a 93 yr WW2 veteran who bow hunted for many years with a recurve, then a few more with a compound. He would really like to get out again before the weather gets too cold, with his 14 year old great-granddaughter. She has recently taken an interest in deer hunting. Problem is, his old shoulders are just not up to it. Weighing just 87 pounds, she also struggles a bit with a vertical bow. The crossbow could let them spend some quality time in the outdoors. A few, well-organized "selfish elitists" are holding them back. You must be very proud of your achievements. It looks like you got at least one more year when no "inferior" is going to get "your" buck before the cold weather and the peak of the rut. Bravo tough-guy. ps, if you think a guy that survived Iwo Jima is going to ask for a Dr's excuse to use a crossbow early now, you got another thing coming.

Do foxes and coyotes hang out near the wind turbines to scavenge the birds that are killed ? Should the owners of the wind turbines be held liable for protected birds that are killed ?

Lots of interesting stuff has happened with me and 6 pointers. Last opening day of gun season, one strolled by, about 50 yards away, thru some broken cover, at a pretty good clip. I only saw 2 points on the near side (which was below my self-imposed antler restriction at that point), so I didn't attempt a shot. Just for kicks, I blasted out a few loud grunts with my new call, just as he dissapeared. Sure enough, that brought him right back straight towards me, on a wire. When he was about 30 yards out, I clearly saw the 3 points on the opposite side. That was enough to trip my trigger and I slipped a 12 ga sabot into his shirt pocket. My slug hit a little inside of the mark, as I intended to catch the edge of the shoulder blade and anchor him right there. It passed thru the boiler room, but he expired 100 yards away, in the middle of a very thick swamp, making for a drag that I was lucky to survive.

What was the range and what was your weapon, and how high above the 6 pointer were you at the time ? I was in that same position, on an Adirondack 6 pointer in 2016. I fired a 150 gr 30/06 right on the mark (within 1/64"), from the same level, using a good rest, when he stopped, 50 yards away. To this day, that was far and away, the best shot I have made on a deer with any weapon. The guts came out as clean as a whistle. The only meat damage was a slice across the bottom of the heart and a lost neck roast. The buck was DRT. He stopped there on his own with no whistle.

Cupcakes dont care about older folks or anyone less dedicated to the sport or less physically able than themselves. They dont want those folks getting bucks that they dont deserve. A "cupcake" is a compound bow user who opposes the use of a crossbow during any portion of archery season.

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Like to, can't. Not legal for consumption in the US. If it was legal to eat them here, I would want to try a little that was prepared by an experienced chef, before committing to a large quantity purchase. I imagine that, much like beef, a younger animal would taste the best. Also, like with any red meat, proper aging of the carcass prior to freezing, to get past rigor mortis, is likely very important.

Happy Easter everyone.

That looks like a half ton standard cab Chevy, of a slightly older vintage than my 3/4 ton, 2000, with 6 liter V8. I get 14 mpg normally, and about 12 with a camper on and pulling a 17.5 ft aluminum boat. I will guess that rig will get you about 17 mpg.

Welcome to NY, a meat hunters paradise. I have been to most of the lower 48, and there is no state where I would rather live than NY. How long were you able to stick it out in Florida ? Most of my trips down there was in February or March, which was fine, but I am lucky the heat and humidity didn't kill me during the week we spent in Disney world in September. Ruffed grouse are about the only bird that I really like to eat, but it has been a few years since I have been blessed with one. They seem to be making a bit of a comeback up in St Lawrence county. I saw a few more up there while deer hunting last year than the year prior. The whitetail deer are my favorite to eat, and the only wild game I have had that was a smidge better was moose. You will find that they are about twice as big on average in NY, as they are in Florida. You got to look real hard to find any wild hogs in NY, and bugs and snakes also dont do as well up here. I never did so hot fresh water fishing in Forida, but we are blessed with many world class fisheries here in NY. The smallmouth is my favorite and I dont think there is another state that rivals NY, when it comes to those.

Oddly enough, she did check my blood pressure this week, and it was in the normal range. Not sure what she would have measured had she checked it when I got home early that Saturday morning.

I had my first sea oysters in a long time on that recent adventure. The bar-maids, on taco Tuesday and Thursday, were the other "sirens". I could almost swear they were the same ones I remembered from my last trips out there, more than 10 years ago. The odd thing was, they looked like they had not aged a day.

,i I tried to be as helpful as I could to the young lady. She was very friendly, and she was from Boston originally. She had spent most of her life in Alaska, and had only been in southern CA for a short while. She didn't say what she was doing in MO. Other than being very warm to the touch, she was extremely healthy looking. She had at least 3 big rings on her right hand, and I didn't notice the left. Her forearms were tattooed in leaf patterns and cursive writing on her upper back. I usually sleep on the planes, but I did not catch a wink on that flight. That whole trip was like "the Odysey", complete with the sirens.

Several orders of magnitude more than that combined total are snuffed out in the US each year by abortion, before they get out of the womb. That rate is more than double for blacks than it is for whites. Thankfully, Trump was able to do something about that by seating 3 pro life Supreme Court Justices during his 4 years. Obama only got 2 pro abortion justices in during his 8 years, and let's hope Joe don't get any in any while he is up.

That was one flight that I definitely will not soon forget.

I was going to use new pt 8 ft 4 x 4's for front legs on my two new deer platforms, but they were almost $ 20 each at home depot. I went with the $ 5.00 pt 8 ft landscape timbers instead. I had an hour to kill while my daughter was at field hockey practice, so I sorted thru 2 skids and found 4 nice thick, straight, knot-free ones. The tags say "for landscaping use only". We will have to see about that. I will use the $60 I saved on a few boxes of Hornady 2-3/4" 12 ga slugs, or 3 tank fills of gas for my suv.

I would go with early September wheat/soybean/white clover planting in that scenerio. Keep the areas mowed until mid summer. Some folks have reported success without tillage, by just spraying gly in late summer and broadcasting seed into the browned out weeds before a rain. I prefer to keep my venison as "organic" as possible, so I skip the spray and roll the sod over with a plow in mid summer. After it dries up a bit, I work it a few times with a disk. A rototiller will accomplish the same thing if rocks are not an issue. When its time to plant, broadcast the wheat and soybeans. over the tilled soil, then cultipack. After that, broadcast the clover and then go over it again with a cultipacker. A lawn roller makes an ok substitute for a cultipacker. Larger seed (wheat and soybeans) do better a little deeper in the soil and with this method, they are pushed further down, while the clover likes it shallow. Since "climate change", we have been getting later and later fall frosts, so those emerging soybeans will usually provide maximum attraction for deer well into October. Later, the first fall thru winter, the wheat will keep up the attraction. Mow that wheat off in the late spring of the following year, and you should find a nice plots of clover (if your soil ph is ok). Wheat will do ok in acidic soil. The white clover can usually be maintained for several seasons, with just a few mowings a year for maintenence. With spring clover plantings, you are asking for a loosing battle with weeds.

I would be happy if the northern zone got 2 weeks to match the southern zone. That would open up another weekend up there. NYB must have more influence in that region.

I picked up a 34 mpg 4 cyl, Chevy equinox last year as my daily driver, so high gas prices dont hurt me that bad. It is the fwd version, cost $1400 less than the awd version and gets 2 more mpg. My old 14 mpg Chevy Silverado 3/4 ton pickup will likely spend most of its time in the barn until the Republicans take over again in 4 years.

I always wanted to try horse, but you got to go to Canada for that, and the border is still closed.

The lack of crowds is the best part. There is some good in the pandemic after all. Taco Tuesdays and Thursdays at South Beach bar and grill, and farmers market Wednesdays at Hodad's in Ocean Beach is usually jammed shoulder to shoulder.

My wife flew to Cancun for a week, and our 2 girls to Miami for a week this winter, all for "pleasure". They had to do the 2 week quarantine when they got back, and had to be tested before their return fight and after they got back. I was feeling a little left out, not getting any time in the sun myself. I was thankful for the chance to squeeze in about a half a day of "pleasure" in the sun on my recent 5 day "essential" trip. I finished the job a day early. The boss wanted me to try and catch an earlier flight home. Wouldn't you know it, there was not any seats left for that Thursday flight. What was a guy to do ? I was even more thankful to evade all the test / quarantine bs.

I hadn't flown since Feb 2020, but I had (4) flights 2 weeks ago, cross-country, and they were mostly pretty good. The last leg, from Denver to Buffalo was a bit uncomfortable on the decent, probably because it was an older plane without good pressure control. There was plenty of room however, with just 50 passengers on the 737. Parking and getting thru security was a breeze, and service at all the airport eateries was great, thanks to lack of crowds. Of the four flights, only the first leg home, from SanDiego to Denver, was remotely crowded with about 30 open seats. I had A2 boarding position on both return legs. I thought there would be an open middle seat next to me in the 3rd row, but as they were getting ready to pull away from the gate, there was a commotion up front. They opened the door, and a young woman boarded. She looked to be about 20 years old, and took the middle seat. She asked me if it "felt hot in here", and she adjusted the overhead airflow. I aimed my air nozzle at her also, and she said thanks. She was very scared on takeoff, covering her eyes with a bright pink neck pillow. She relaxed once we got to altitude and fell asleep, leaning against me. It was a short flight and she woke up about half way thru. She complained about being hot again. She removed her white half-shirt (she had a tan sports bra on under that). That cooled her down, and she fell asleep leaning against me again. Her skin felt very warm against mine. She slept soundly until we touched down in Denver. She was a bit disoriented and had some trouble locating her shirt. When we got into the airport, I helped her find her gate for her St Louis flight. There were about a dozen individuals at a table, all wearing desert camouflage, near the exit at the Buffalo airport. They handed all the arriving passengers a clipboard with a NY state travellers form. I filed out the "essential" section on the back, and wrote down my home phone number. No one has contacted me or left a message on my machine and it has been 2 weeks today. I returned to work in WNY, the Monday after my Friday return. Hopefully, our nation is just a little safer, as a result of my "essential" trip to the west coast.