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The bock is very good. It usually sells out pretty fast. Anyone I know who has tried it, likes it better than Shiner. I don't think I could drink it year round like cream ale, red eye's or light, but I always look forward to it at this time of year. It sure tasted good with the venison stroganoff my wife made for dinner on Friday. It is dark colored and I like to pour it out of the green "goat" can, into a glass mug so I can enjoy the color and the different flavor. Soon it will be time to pour one for kickoff.

Whats up with the reb flag on your avitar?. Are you upset that the southern confederacy lost the Civil war? Do you think slavery was good? Do you think race relations in America will get better under Trump than they were under Obama? How about the violence in black neighborhoods in our inner cities, especially Chicago?

The tag is easier to spot than the antlers on this little 6-point that I killed at the tail end (in more ways than one) of rifle season up in the Adirondacks last year. I always attach the tag to the rear tendon (on bucks and does) and I wrap it with duct tape if transporting on the outside of a vehicle. I leave it there until I finish processing the meat, then move it to the antlers if it is a larger buck that I take to the taxidermist. I usually stick the tag on the back of a board with smaller racks that I saw off with the scull plate or do a Euro-mount on medium-sized ones. That makes it easy to remember what year and where the buck was killed many years later. I never consider a hunting season completely successful unless I fill both of my buck tags. An unfilled tag does not provide any food so my patience and self-control always evaporate around Thanksgiving.

You may be able to do the whole job in that time with that machine, in dry conditions, if your bushes are under an inch in diameter. Dry (or frozen) ground conditions are especially important while mowing. You won't be able to push yourself out when you get stuck with the rented mower, like you could with your bucket up front, even when it has the ratchet rake strapped to it.

A legal immigrant is one that applies for and is granted permission by the Federal government. An illegal immigrant is one that enters the country while skipping those two steps. The election showed that in at least 2 of the 50 states (NY and CA) there are more clueless folks than not. Fortunately they have lost power now, at the Federal level, and it looks like they will be out of it for a long time. Trump's first Supreme Court pick was awesome, and I can't wait for the next couple he will get to pick.

In that situation, I would just stick to your original plan of keeping a small yard that you can manage with your push mower. You and the wife and kids might get lazy and fat with a rider. The push mower will give you a decent workout over the summer and keep you in shape for hunting season. Letting the rest go wild won't cost you anything and will provide good cover for deer starting this fall. They love bedding in goldenrod, which usually takes over on old fields if left abandoned. By next fall, some brush will start to take hold. In less than 5 years, you will have some prime fawning cover. As long as you have permission from the owners of other buildings within 500 ft, you could use your house as a big, climate controlled ground blind during gun season. I would keep about 30 feet mowed on each side of the driveway, about 1/4 acre around the house and let nature take it's course everywhere else.

With a skid steer, the size of the NH 170 in the video, you are probably looking at 30 to 40 hours in dry conditions like they had in the video. Wheeled skid steers are just about useless in wet conditions, so you may have to wait until summer to start. It would help if you could get the brush mowed when the ground is froze, but this winter don't look too good for that. It is barely froze now and they are calling for another thaw next week. Good luck with it.

As a pure meat hunter, I am extremely well satisfied with the deer hunting we have here in NY state. I do appreciate you and all the other trophy hunters that stick around and who have that self control. That makes it easier for me to feed my family with tasty bucks that are 2-1/2 years old and younger. 2-1/2 year old bucks are my favorites to use my buck tag on but only because they offer the best combination of quality and quantity meat. I now pass the occasional 1-1/2 year old early in the seasons, only for that reason - to get a chance at more meat later. It must take some sacrifices for you to remain NY residents, rather than moving off to another state that is more friendly to trophy hunters and has A/R's, no guns in rut, etc.. If no one else appreciates those sacrifices, my family and I certainly do. Besides making our food cheaper, without you hanging around to carry some of the tax burden, we would have to pay more of those also. Thanks again and good luck on getting an old one with big antlers this fall.

I have always spent a lot of time trimming away the fat and silver skin, even on the grind meat, and the neck is the region that always takes me the most effort. The first doe I butchered myself last fall during archery season was a particularly large and fatty one. Being a little pressed for time, I decided to keep a neck-roast and skip most of that trimming because I had heard what you are saying from others. Normally, we cook our roasts in the crock pot. We put them in while still frozen in the morning, along with a few potatoes and onions, two cups of water, and a packet gravy mix and cook on low for 6-7 hours. Rump roasts always turn out excellent when done that way. Would that be a good way to do the neck roast or would you recommend some other technique? Back on topic, my wife made stroganoff using chopped up backstrap from a younger doe for dinner last night and it very good. Even our kids, who can sometimes be fussy eaters, gobbled it up quick and went back for "seconds". I am a little upset that there are no leftovers for lunch today.

150 gr 30/06, Federal classic factory loads have always dropped them in their tracks for me. The one this year, fired from 50 yards on a 6-point, traveled end for end from the back without an entry wound. It creased the top of the heart and blew a roughly 2" diameter hole out of the meat on the front of the neck, leaving a 3/4" diameter exit hole thru the hide up front. The previous one, on a heavier, quartering away 8-point, fired from 300 yards, struck centered on the second last rib, traveled thru the chest, and lodged inside the opposite diagonal shoulder. That deer showed no entry or exit hole and not a drop of blood on the fresh snow when I walked up on him. I only saw where the bullet hit by looking inside the ribcage after I gutted him. Fortunately he fell dead right where he was standing when I shot him.

It's goat season, so I just picked up a 12 pack of Genny Bock's.

That does sound like a sweet spot you have there, especially considering the downhill drag to your camp. The heaviest one I killed in the Adirondacks dropped dead in the middle of a swamp and I had to drag him on level ground and up hill over a mile before it thinned out enough to get my father in laws ATV up to him. I am guessing he weighed a bit over 200 field dressed because that is what I weigh, and I could lift myself off the ground while his rear end remained partly on the ground, tied to the opposite end of a rope and pulley in my father in laws barn. We struggled a bit to get him up on the rear rack of the ATV, but not as much as you did there.

You hit the nail on the head there. A narrow 6 point from the Adirondacks is worth more to me than a big 12 point at home in the flatlands. How do they taste from around your camp? I am thinking that the oaks and the clear cuts might give them good food compared with the mostly bark diet those in the "forever wild" areas further into the park are stuck with. Those that I have killed around the scattered Ag fields and oaks in zone 6C (on the NW edge of the park) taste just as good as those I have killed in and around the corn fields at home. It is looking like a second consecutive extremely mild winter this year, which should make the deer hunting real good up there this fall. What is the story on the 235 pounder? I killed a heavy 8-pointer in 2014, that seemed to weigh more than me (200 lbs), but I need to get me a scale to be sure next time. There does seem to be some bruisers up there,

It sounds like your camp is on the south-east corner of the Adirondack park. The closest I have hunted to there was a bit north of Speculator, around Lewey lake, where I had my first run-in with and Adirondack buck. These days, I hunt the opposite diagonal corner, up in zone 6C. What is the area like down there? Are there any logged areas, or agriculture fields around? How about oak trees? Like grampy, I would like to hear some of your hunting stories. Up on the NW corner, there is some ag fields and oaks, and the hunting is pretty good compared to what I experienced closer to the center of the park. The best part is the scenery and almost total absence of hunting pressure. I have got to think that the same might be true down on the SE corner, in Fulton county. Maybe a little more pressure though, because of your closer proximity to New York city. There is no place I would rather hunt than the Adirondacks. The only problem with hunting there is that it makes hunting at home loose some of it's appeal.

Are there any oaks in your woods? Apples are good, but white oak acorns are best when it comes to attracting deer. If you can cut ash, maple, poplar, etc, and make more room for the oaks, that would be good. As Grow has explained, spring planting of clover, without knowing your soil PH, would be risky (it does not do well in acidic soil, which is to be expected in cleared hardwoods). Dig up some soil now and get a soil test, then add lime as needed as soon as you can. While it is working, you can plant something like buckwheat in the late spring. Deer and turkeys like buckwheat, it is cheap, does well in acidic soils, and will control weeds over the summer. It is not frost tolerant and should not be planted before mid-June in that area. By late summer, the lime will have taken effect. Then you can till up the buckwheat and plant a mix of winter wheat and white clover. Deer like wheat better that cerial rye and it is cheaper and easier to find. People only plant cerial rye because they don't know no better. I also add some soybeans to that mix, which are like candy to deer when they first sprout. That will draw deer to the plots from miles around. The first frost will kill the soybeans, but odds are that the deer will get them first. After they are gone, the wheat will hang on to give you good attraction thru spring. Mow it off before it goes to seed. The wheat will also control weeds, acting as a nurse crop for the clover. The white clover should then give you 3-5 more years of good attraction with nothing more than a mowing or two per season for maintenance.

There are quite a few deer farms in NY state. They would probably sell you as much blood as you wanted at $5/ounce.

The air strikes will weaken them but it will take boots on the ground to eliminate them. Hopefully Trump and Putin can work together like Eisenhower and Zukov did in WW2, squeezing them from the West and East.

I doubt he would go for that. He is a meat hunter and unless the deer happens to be perfectly aligned with the gun barrel, they say that a lot of meat gets wasted. I only ever saw (or heard of) that shot being perfectly executed one time. That takes more than good marksmanship. Hitting a broadside deer in the heart is relatively easy.

I hunted deer out of Galusha's camp on Lewey lake quite a few years ago. I think they still rent cabins. There was a small pasture directly across rt 30 from the camp. On the South end of Lewey there was a big grassy swamp area. Most of the rest of the area was pretty thick. Turkeys were few and far between back then, but I did have my first run-in with an Adirondack buck a stones throw from that little pasture. All of my Adirondack hunting lately has been on the NW edge of the park where the turkey population has been very good. Now, with a second consecutive "non-winter", it should be spectacular this spring.

You can not shoot within 500 feet of a building unless you own it or have permission from the owner. That might give the folks who don't get along with their neighbors some issues. I have shot one deer, a red fox, several coyotes, a rabbit, a raccoon, and too many woodchucks and crows to count, out of my bedroom window. It is really no different, from a legal standpoint, than a big, climate-controlled ground blind. I have no superstitions, but have never wanted for venison as long as I made an honest effort to keep things right with my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. That basically comes down to 4 things: 1) Read the Bible every day 2) Pray every day 2) Take the family to Church on Sunday's 4) Do good stuff for others, expecting nothing in return. The more I do that, the "luckier" I get. There is no surprise there since it say's right in the Bible that He knows where every sparrow falls. What chance does a deer have?

Like grampy, my Ithaca, 16 ga model 37 is my favorite gun. It had been my grandpa's gun, and he willed it to me, along with a few others. I killed a lot of deer with it, including my first dozen or so and the two with the largest racks. I did not do so good on birds with it, using the modified barrel. I remember a grouse hunt with my great-uncle and cousin, when I shot about 15 times without even nocking a feather off from one. I do a lot better on those with the old Stevens springfield side by side 16 gauge that he also left me. That modified barrel has not been on the Ithaca 37 in about 35 years, since I mounted a 1-1/2 Weaver on the receiver, to go with the long cylinder-choke deerslayer barrel. Looking back, I would have rather had a model 870 Rem for my first buck. I did not have a slug in the gun yet (it was a couple seconds before sunrise) when the buck stepped out of the brush, right under my tree stand. Fortunately, he stuck his nose into the Hawken tobacco stain that I was making in the snow below my tree, giving me time to jam a "legal" slug up from the bottom. I hoped that it found the chamber when I slammed the action back. With a side-ejecting 870, I could have fed the slug directly into the chamber. A few years after that, I pushed the range limits a bit with it, allowing me to take my largest antlered buck. Had someone else not shot off a rear hoof a week or so prior, my own first shot, which took out the opposite diagonal front leg, would have never slowed him down enough so that I could run him down and kill him with my last slug. I also killed my second largest antlered buck with it, from about 10 yards away, 5 years ago. These days, I only hunt with it when I know that all shots will be less than 75 yards. That is not too often. It would be hard for me to part with it, since my grandpa left it to me and I killed my two largest antlered deer with it. I did not hunt with it at all last season, but I hope to this year. I am going to put up a stand, on my grandpa's old farm, in some thick cover where deer always seem to head later in gun season when the pressure is on. Shots would be close in there. It can't hurt to use grandpa's old gun on his farm where I know he used it to kill a fair number of deer. I have only killed a few over there, and none of them with that gun.

I would go back about 150 years and hunt whales from an open boat. Getting a harpoon into a big hump-back, tossing a couple loops of rope around the loggerhead, and hanging on for the Nantucket sleigh-ride would be cool.

I like what I see so far from Trump. Making his first official order of business a signature to begin the replacement of Obamacare was cool. That shows that he is a man of action, not just talk (like the last guy) and will follow thru on his promises. His recognition that having God on our side was "the most important" thing, during his inauguration speech, was very encouraging. The national prayer service was very good with diversity and representation of many religions, but with the largest focus on Christianity. That makes a lot of sense in this country where 75% still identify themselves as Christians but all are welcome. This should mark the start of the end of the almost free ride that the radical Muslim extremists enjoyed under the previous administration. Morale, under a new Commander and Chief with a clear focus on who the enemy is, already seems greatly improved in our armed forces.

I got my girls a BB guns a few years ago and that is what I have been using for most of my own target shooting these days. I don't reload, and the high cost of "real" ammo has forced me to minimize it's usage. I verify the zero of all my hunting weapons each season prior to usage, but that's about it. I think 5000 BB's cost less than $5, and they only go thru one side of a can, so they can be shot multiple times prior to loss. I let my girl's try out my Ruger 10/22 for the for time over the long Thanksgiving weekend up at their grandparent place in the Adirondacks. They loved not having to pump the Crossman 760 or cock the Daisy Red-ryder. I could not believe how fast they shot up the (3) 50 packs or 22 LR ammo that I brought up there. I just picked up a 333 pack of Winchester 22LR for our trip during their winter break. I guess we are all lazy. I like the self-reset "spinning plate" target a lot better on the range than running back and forth setting up the cans. Also, .22 is ammo is getting a lot easier to find, and dropping back down in cost.

That would have been an ideal situation to use "bloodglow" to locate the carcass. That stuff is supposed to make tiny drops of blood, that are invisible to the naked eye in broad daylight, glow bright green under the star and moonlight at night. It contains the active ingredient luminol and was developed for crime scene investigations. Rain is supposed to make it work even better. I bought a kit, containing enough for 3 uses, 3 years ago (cost about $20, ordered thru the internet) because not much bothers me more than not being able to quickly recover a wounded deer (most of our family's protein comes from venison). If nothing else, having it in my pack gives me the confidence to hunt right up until the last minute of legal daylight. Before I had it, I would usually pack it in about a half hour early, especially during archery season. "Backing out until morning" is nuts if you place any value on the meat (I don't care much about the antlers). I have not yet got to try it, because the seven deer I have killed since getting it have dropped dead in their tracks, within sight, or close enough that I could hear the crash. I guess that is good, but I am itching for a chance to try this stuff out, but not so much that I will not always aim for the most lethal hit possible on a deer.