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I agree with grampy, that your advice was spot on. If in a rifle area, where longer shots are the norm, flip a coin between a bolt action 7mm-08 or a .308. If in a wooded/hilly area, where shorter shots are the norm, flip a coin between a 30/30 or .35 Rem in a lever. Lots of good choices today in bolt actions but my pick for the lever would be the new Ruger/Marlin 336 in .30/30. I suspect that will be the easiest, of the options you mentioned, to find ammo for in the long run. If in a shotgun area, then the 12 or 20 ga pump with two barrels as you described, is ideal.

Sadly, he does not appear to know what he is working on.

I thought it was Ireland this year ? Congrats Eddie.

That early ML week is definitely my favorite time up in the NZ. There is usually plenty of color left on the trees, the fishing is always fantastic, and the deer hunting can be good. That said, I have not seen many bucks up there then, but have done pretty well on does. It was good to see them open up much more of the Adirondack park for does last year. An Adirondack doe is the equivalent of a SZ 8-point buck, as far as the satisfaction I get from the harvest. I have sat out the early SZ bow season since 2014, when they legalized crossbows for the best two weeks to hunt bucks down there. Prior to that, I did take a few bucks early, including my personal best vertical bow kill on the opener(a 2.5 yr old 7-point). I am definitely looking forward to the mid-September antlerless gun season this year. The warm weather didn’t bother me much, for the little bit of that I got to hunt, last year. Dress appropriately, bring the mosquito repellent, and get the carcass skinned and into the deer fridge ASAP. I am itching to use my new grinder knife and screen on a fresh mature doe, and my brother in law could really use the grind. I only used my grinder on one old buck last year.

My guess is that your upper deck is bent causing one shaft and blade to be misaligned relative to the other one.

I have been burning pretty much nothing but ash, for the last 10 years or so. Basically, ever since the EAB appeared in our region. Most of the ash trees that I have cut were unaffected, or at least still had some signs of life in them. That one next to the gas well hookup might be the first that was totally dead. It still had a few green leaves on it last year. I wanted to cut it then, but the folks didn’t want me to. They don’t have nearly as high of a percentage of ash in their woods, on the se corner of wmu 9F, as I have on the nw corner. A couple years ago, the town highway crew cleaned out the ditch on my west property line, and they left me quite a few dump truck loads of ash logs, most of which I gave away. I am hoping they will do that on the east side next year. I have way too much on my plate now to deal with it this year. They have a big excavator that can safely nock down the dead ones.

Interesting, I wonder what took out that one over at my parents place. It was moved there when it was maybe 2” caliper and did ok for about 30 years, and started showing signs of trouble last year, when it was about 11” diameter at the stump. Maybe it passed from natural causes brought on by old age. It is now stacked in front of another, slightly larger (regular ash), that died right next to a gas well roadside hookup over there, which I cut and stacked on the same day this spring. I had to aim carefully dropping that one, so I didn’t take out their chicken coop or gas supply.

I am set for firewood for quite a few years as there are maybe a thousand here dead and ready to be cut up.

I just cut a dying mountain ash over at my parents house this spring. Apparently the emerald ash borers kill them just like they do the regular ash.

Chunked button-buck crock pot chile:

I did one in my 30’s, that I don’t regret. I certainly wouldn’t pay for another, now that I am pushing 60. The best thing about it, was the appreciation that it gave me for the scenery of NY’s Adirondacks, and for the taste of whitetails, compared to mule deer. I will admit that those Western elk are pretty tasty, and right up there about equal to corn-fed NY whitetails, in that department. If someone sprung for my airfare (one cross country drive was more than enough for me), elk tag, food, and lodging, I could probably be convinced to spend another week out there.

There was too much sun and not enough shade at that event for any beer drinking.

This is my favorite piece. I am very thankful that my in-laws, who had it in their collection for many years, let us have it when they relocated.

Congrats, great speech and great school she is headed to. We just got back from our youngest daughter’s graduation at her high school football field. She’s headed off to St John Fisher this fall. The student speeches at her school were pretty good also . The former grad, who gave the keynote, now runs the Greenbay Packers.

I know there is at least one 3.1 yr old buck (1st pic) around because he walked back there earlier this week while I was putting our pool up in the back yard. I won’t be able to target him till crossbow opens up in November. I am after the mature doe (2nd pic), that I have seen back there multiple times, in September.

We used to go up there at this time of year and always did best on smallmouth. That’s definitely my favorite fish, so I didn’t mind, but it is nice to get into some largemouth and northern every so often, for a change of pace. Largemouth are a little easier to clean, and pike have a much more aggressive strike. The last few years, we have been going up the end of July and done a lot better on largemouth. It does seem like the northern pike action has been best very early in the morning, or on overcast and rainy days.

I was a little pressed for time this morning, but managed to get my 2 acre RR corn plot cultivated and sprayed. I always mix the gly at 2 oz per gallon with this 15 gallon sprayer. That 2 acres took almost the whole tank full. My (2) sprayer nozzles are in line with the corn rows and up on the tractor’s loader arms, so that I can adjust them to the height of the corn. It was about 1.5 ft tall today, except for about 10% of it, which the deer had chewed down. I definitely need to take out a couple does during the September early antlerless gun season. We are still pretty well stocked with grind from last season, but my brother in law said he could really use some. He raises beef cattle and likes to make jerky using a 50/50 mix of beef and venison. He says that less venison is too greasy and more is too dry.

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I have been rowing a lot more the last few years, but I still like having a gas outboard on back, for when the wind picks up. Rowing against the wind (or the current) sucks, as does using an electric motor. I haven’t done much wading , for reasons you described.

Generally, a Roe and drift technique works better on deeper streams and rivers while it is better to Wade small, shallow waters.

Yes, I agree that a sickle bar would be best, but now we are talking (3) tools. If you had to pick just one, and only had time to cut most of your acreage once per year, and that consists of weeds, thick hay, light brush, and a few clover plots, then I still think a light duty or a medium duty bush-hog is the best pick. One issue (positive this year), with taking off the hay, is that you don’t get something for nothing. That means that you need to add fertilizer to bring back equal or greater forage the following year. If you chop up and leave the hay, if usually gets thicker the following year That said, current fuel prices have got me leaning towards giving away a few fields of hay this year. My neighbor would probably like to have it. Maybe fuel will be cheaper next year. Even is it’s not, it will be thinner and take less fuel for me to bush-hog, than it would be if he doesn’t take the hay off this year.

Medium-rare blackstrap hoagies: Way better than the PB&J sandwich I had for lunch.