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Very worth the $4.99 I paid for mine about 10 years ago.
Not sure if I could hunt without it.
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Glad to hear your out there hunting Eddie. It looks like just a few more days of this warm weather.
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10 hours ago, Just Lucky said:
His death is difficult for me, but one of his life long friends said it best, " he is a happy camper, he is with the lord"
Knowing that for certain, definitely took out most of the “selfish” hurt from me after loosing one of my best hunting and fishing buddies on opening day of gun season (3) years ago.
I know for certain that he is with The Lord Jesus now, because Luke 23:43 was the passage that I opened my “pack Bible” to at random up in my tree stand, right after I got the text of his passing.
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Too hot for hunting today but good day on the range to check the zero on my last unchecked deer weapon (Remlin 336BL). I brought along my .22 also, because I might try and squeeze in a squirrel hunt next weekend. No more deer hunting for me until NZ ML opens on October 14.
Neither of those guns had any noticeable recoil, so I didn’t need the pin on recoil pad that I use with most of my other guns. The skeeters were not bad back there in the earlier afternoon, but were starting to get worse when I finished up around 5:15pm. I imagine that the bow hunters out till dusk were getting eaten alive.
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5 minutes ago, Just Lucky said:
Went out this afternoon, more so for therapy. Lost my dad, hunting partner, and best friend last Sunday to cancer.
Seen a nice doe broad side about 30 yards when I was approaching one of the spots he use to sit. Also found the makings of a waterfall, pretty cool.
This season will be different for sure.
Sorry to hear of your dad’s passing. Prayers sent.
I lost my sister to cancer this year. The sadness lessons a little every day and I know I will see her again someday. It really feels like she’s still with me sometimes, when things fall into place, as if she’s up there helping somehow.-
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39 minutes ago, airedale said:
I fished a lot when I was a young fellow, I had some great fishing spots back then as I lived a few hundred feet from a large river and the many oxbows that branched off of it. I believe I caught just about every species of gamefish out of those waters. Bank fishing in the oxbows on the bottom with sinkers or bobber fishing produced good catches of Panfish, Bullheads and Carp. In the spring there was a good run of Walleyes and a few weeks later a good run of White Bass. I had a small rubber boat that I would put in upstream two or three miles from where I lived and would drift fish all the way back down to my home. Ultra light gear and Mepps minnow Comet spinners, Mepps advertises that the Comet will catch any fish that swims and it is pretty much true. On those drifts variety was the theme, I would catch the occasional Trout, Walleyes, big Whitefish, both Small and Largemouth Bass, throw in a Northern Pike and Pickerel once in a while.
One Sunday morning I made the drift and got down to my home just in time to get into my house and watch a heavyweight championship fight on Wide World Of Sports. I tied the rubber boat to some brush on shore and left a nice stringer full of fish tied to the oarlock in the water. A couple of hours later I went down to get the boat and fish and found three huge Snapping Turtles tearing up and eating the fish on the stringer, ruined most of them.
Al
I had lots of fun fishing as a kid also, and I have never stopped.
A neighbor (2) doors down had a nice pond, where we would catch largemouth bass and bluegills. There was also a small, slow-moving creek behind our house. That was fed by a limestone mine, that closed down many years ago. It was loaded with bullheads, suckers, and rock bass. Pike came up in the spring. I also caught an occasional carp.
The old guy, that lived across the road, made chowder with snapping turtles. Us neighborhood kids would catch bluegills in the pond, and chop them up for turtle bait on treble hooks, attached to wire. We caught snappers in the creek and pond and took them over to him.
He was pretty well off, and retired as the top union man at the local gypsum plant that made wallboard from the limestone mine. At that time, that plant was the largest employer in our town. He would tell us stories of catching bucket fulls of blue pike at night out on Lake Erie. He bought a brand new Ford 8n, to work his 1/2 acre garden, back in 1951.
I ended up buying that “cherry” from his widow, after he passed away. I still think of him and those snapping turtles, when I’m running that tractor.
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4 hours ago, genesee_mohican said:
Nice fish Wolc. I stream fished for trout a few times, did some early season walleye fishing with no luck and had a lot of fun bass fishing catching over 70 fish and some real beauties. Hopefully in a few short years I'll have more time to fish and stay healthy.
Smallmouth bass are definitely my favorite. Pound for pound, I have yet to tangle with a harder fighting species of fish. They also eat pretty good, if the fillets are still twitching, when you put them in the vacuum bags.
I like largemouth bass a lot also. Just a smidge better tasting than smallmouth bass and easier to fillet. Only about half the pull of a smallmouth though, landing them firmly in the second slot, well behind the smallmouth for my overall species ranking.
I like walleyes, from smaller lakes ok, but not those from Lake Erie or the St Lawrence river. I only like those when eaten fresh. They just don’t keep well in the freezer, even if vacuum sealed (unless you like fish that has the flavor of algae).
Another thing I really appreciate about the smallmouth bass, is that they always go nuts over bucktail jigs. That makes my tackle cost minimal, since those are almost free to me.
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9 minutes ago, Four Seasons said:
9mm on the right hip always takes care of any issues.
I started the pistol permit paperwork a long time a go when the T/C contenders were popular as a “loophole” gun that allowed the use of the .35 Rem in shotgun only zones.
Midway thru that process, rifled shotgun barrels were legalized, negating the need for the pistol. I took the course and started the paperwork, but that’s as far as I got. I’m glad I didn’t now, that they are cranking up the pressure on permit holders.
If I do get into trouble, I’ll have to trust in God and my cutlery skills to keep me safe.
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2 hours ago, Four Seasons said:
Exactly. And it’s not hard to see where it comes from. The pack mentality!! You see they live their life on the computer and it reflects. When one has to put a thread up on a computer and live out their lives on it there is a problem. This place now has everything needed without all the drama. Enjoyable to come to again.
There’s definitely something to that pack mentality thing. I’m thinking I might run into some of the real thing, up your way, on early ML week. An older couple, up the road from where I hunt on the other side of Ft Drum, recently got a pair of young, supposedly “feral” dogs.
The dogs seem ok alone, but they cause lots of trouble when they get loose together. Seems they are on the “outs” with everyone else in the area now.
I’m hoping I don’t run into them loose on any of my early morning or later afternoon hunts up that way. I’ll only have one shot available quick, for the first (7) days, anyhow. I’ll need to rely on my Buck 110, for the second one, if it comes to that. I guess I will have to practice a quick draw and open with that.
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43 minutes ago, airedale said:
I have a big time problem being around a bunch of adults acting and bickering like two year olds and old gossiping biddies, I will never go on the other site, I like it just fine right here.
Al
I think you would be welcome over there, and have much to add, should you change your mind some day. There are definitely some bickering pro-trolls over there, but even they, can and do serve a useful purpose, as I just explained.
There are also some real class acts over there, who definitely know what it’s all about. There’s plenty of room left in this state for two hunting forums. I hope to see them both grow and prosper.
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1 hour ago, Four Seasons said:
Point being… same people that lived on this site now live on that one. You don’t see new members jumping all over that site even though they can.
I have long struggled with the virtue of patience. Those “special” characters over there really do help me to get over that problem, even though they know not what they do.
Take, for example, the one over there, who chimes in against full inclusion of the crossbow, every single time that it comes up. Thanks to his opposition of that, and that of a very small group of like-minded others, we now have an early antlerless gun season in my home wmu. Never has it been easier for me to secure our family’s food supply, than it is now (as the current harvest threads here clearly illustrate).
Had the DEC been allowed to implement full inclusion of the crossbow, like they wanted to, then we never would have had that special early season. So you see, even a dedicated troll like that fella, can and will serve a higher purpose.
No matter how hard you shake the milk, the cream always rises to the top, and evil never prevails.
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The only thing I struggle with is my boat. My other tractors and equipment have the fill location in spots where the new spouts cause no trouble. If the pump is less than $40, it would be worth getting just for my boat.
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9 minutes ago, Four Seasons said:
Ya know what’s really funny. They complain about this site not letting new members in… Not good, I get it… but that other site is just all made up of the same exact people that always lived on this site. Minus the couple friends of the guy that started that site it’s just made up of kickbacks from this site. More or less that site is like this one, new can come in but few do and those that do rarely post. Some should get a real life and not have to live their lives through a computer. Same people, same posts, different site.
I don’t think there’s anyone over there, who doesn’t have something good to offer, but there are a few who make it very difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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I can definitely attest to that. I only got my bigger boat in the water (3) times this year, which is definitely an all time low. I’m really looking forward to at least (9) more days out on the water with a little one though. The size of the boat don’t matter nor is one even necessary, but the size of the fish does.
I hope to get one, just a tad bigger than this one, from back in 2014. I let her go then. She should have put on a few inches anyhow, over the 22 that she measured then.
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I’m doing much better so far, with posting harvest threads on this site, than on that other one. (Sorry about the bb on the first one FSW, I honestly thought that one was a doe). I made damn sure that the second one was.
The harvest threads are less than a day old over on the other site though, so hopefully they will make it work.
Thank you WNYBH and FEddie for keeping those harvest threads going here. I hope you are able to get the other issues resolved with the site owner, welcoming new members, etc.
May you all have an enjoyable deer season this year.
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The Good Lord blessed me again on the second Sunday of the early antlerless gun season. I “doubled down” on the “Jesus first” thing in the late morning, after a short uneventful early morning hunt with no deer sighting, church and adult Sunday school.
After that, my wife had a heck of a honey-do list for me. I knocked off everything she asked for and then some. Then I drove about 20 miles to my parents place, on the opposite corner of wmu 9F. They had lots of work for me to do also, before I could go hunting. Once again, I knocked all of that and then some. This is where the “Others second” came in.
I was much later than I wanted to be, back in the double ladder stand that goosifer sold me for $20 a couple years ago. That’s where the “Yourself last” thing came in.
I thought I blew it again over there, by picking the wrong stand, as I had the previous Saturday afternoon. My dad had mowed the clover plot out back, during the week, to a short stubble. Between that and hearing the old boss doe blowing downwind, 1/2 hour before sunset, I thought for sure I was in for nothing.
Once again, I decided to give up before sunset, and started to pack up my stuff. Just after I pulled off my camo face mask, I heard the unmistakable sound of hoof steps, in the tall goldenrod upwind.
She stepped out, 45 yards away, 2 minutes after sunset. I cranked the old Redfield scope up to 7x and verified the lack of headgear or buttons, then settled the crosshairs on the back lower corner of her inboard shoulder blade. When the smoke cleared, there she laid:
The J.O.Y. doe, 28 minutes before the closing buzzer of the early antlerless gun season. T/C Omega 50 cal, 240 gr XTP, (2) T7 50 gr pellets, Redfield wide field 2-7x.
Ive only eaten her fillet mignonettes so far (made tacos with them) and once again, they were “to die for”. She was about as close to perfect of a “grinder doe” that a guy could ask for.
With both of my first draw dmp tags punched now, and our meat supply in decent shape, I’m going to be a bit more selective than usual with my (5) remaining deer tags.-
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The good Lord blessed me with this wmu 9F button buck on the first Sunday afternoon of the early antlerless gun season. Marlin 512, 2-3/4” Hornady SST, Redfield/Leupold Revolution. 2-7x.
I got into my favorite two-story truck cap blind about 5:00 that afternoon. At 5:45, a smaller antlerless deer appeared in the clover plot behind me, 40 yards away. I saw it when I turned and made eye contact. My gun was laying on the opposite side rest.
I attempted to make a super slow motion turn and reach for the gun, but if detected the motion and high-tailed it into the thick cover.
As sunset approached, the mosquitos got very intense. I had a camo face mask on, but they were even getting in under that. I decided to give up under their repeated attacks, about 15 minutes before sunset.
I removed the camo mask and packed up my other gear. When I looked up, I saw the little buck feeding on foot high Timothy hay, about 90 yards away. I mistook it for a mature doe, because the head looked long and it looked significantly larger than the deer that I saw earlier.
It was very good size for this years deer. Must have veen born early and definitely has been eating good. The liver alone made two “to die for meals”.
The rest of the meat will be saved for “special occasions”.
I’m thinking of bringing one of the butt roasts (made (6) of those from that little guy) up to my in-laws for early antlerless week, so that she can stuff a Thanksgiving Turkey with it. My wife did that a couple years ago, and that was the best tasting meat I ever had on Thanksgiving in my 58 years.
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One of the things I like best, about my 300 fps Barnett Recruit, is that the draw weight is so light that I can easily pull it without any type of “mechanical advantage” device. That makes getting off a second shot a definite possibility (not that it was ever needed). I usually have two-four dmp tags, so someday an opportunity for a “double” is likely.
The direct draw is a little tough on the finger tendons though, so I made some handles using a couple of hinge pins, carabiner hooks, and a few links of chain. Only trouble is, I misplaced them this year, so I’m back with the rope pulley device that came with my “backup” crossbow (CP sniper 370).
I lost the rope pulley that came with my Recruit, in the excitement after killing what might be my largest bodied ever buck with it, back in 2O16 (43” chest girth). Those direct draw handles were a big improvement, over that factory rope pulley, because they cut the reload time in half or more. -
The Good Lord blessed me with a fat mature doe at 2 minutes past sunset this evening. Beat the buzzer by 28 minutes. I’m lovin this early antlerless gun season. Takes most of the “meat” pressure off for the remainder of the seasons this year.
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I butcher most of them in our insulated stage. I like to use a cheap little 4:1 block and tackle for most deer or a small come a long for those much over 150 lbs field dressed:
I kind of like butchering but only if I can take my time and just do one at a time. I really like this antlerless gun season. I spent about (3) hours trimming every last tender morsel off of that little “fatted calf” yesterday evening. Had to get that deer fridge cleared for hopefully a nice grinder doe this weekend.
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I’ve got one but never used it. I like a cheap telescoping rod a lot better for travel. Fits in my suitcase just as well when retracted, yet still gives you a long rod for easy casting and to wear down fish.
Had I not had it with me on a work trip when a blizzard stranded me in SanDiego on opening day of deer season last year, I’d have missed out on this consolation prize:
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1 hour ago, WWJD_Hunter said:
New Hunter score on this doe. It was perfect doe without fawns . He was supper excited. Doe was taking in 8N . Giving God at the glory.
I’m definitely thanking Him for this “fatted calf” that He blessed my wife and I with last night:
I can’t wait for a fillet mignonette sub for dinner tonight, and I’m really looking forward to the liver.
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6 hours ago, landtracdeerhunter said:
Have made brush blinds in the past. They work great with scent control and play the wind. Have a large number of ash to come down which will support more. Just itching to saw down as they are covered in poison ivy.
That’s the main reason I’m not going to sit in mine this afternoon. Id rather avoid that poison ivy. Also, my food plots are a little better in other areas this year. Last year, that natural blind was definitely the hotspot for foodplot action.
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I have had a “natural” blind on our place for about 15 years. I made it by propping an old boat dock up against an ash tree. There are vines (wild grape and poison ivy) growing in front and back.
I hadn’t got any deer of until last year, when it produced a mature doe and a young buck (2-3/4” spiker that I thought was a doe and had to use a dmp’s tag on). The ash had succumbed to the emerald ash borer several years prior, but still had live vines all over it.
I cut the top off the dead ash this summer, and I hope the rotting stump will support it for a few more seasons. I also added a short barnwood sided wall, for a little better concealment, and a better gun rest.
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Weather cooling down nicely for northern tier ml opener
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I’m looking forward to getting up there next week big time. Early ML week is my favorite time up there. I always use 5-1/2 vacation days, heading up around noon the Friday before (4 hour drive from home in WNY).
It would be nice to see some snow once during that week, but it hasnt happened yet, when I’ve been up there then. I have seen plenty of days that the temperature got close to 80 though.
On warm days, I usually hunt the first couple and the last couple of hours of daylight and fish in between. That is about the easiest time of year to catch my favorite fish, the smallmouth bass, up there.
They stack up along the shoreline, and readily take 1/8 oz bucktail jigs. They are much harder to catch in the summer, when they suspend randomly, out over deep water.
I always stay until about noon on Sunday, the second day of gun season. Last year, I passed up a little spike buck on that last day with my 30/30. Had he been a fork, I’d have let him have it because any buck I’d worth at least double to be up there, compared to one at home, because of the beautiful scenery and the lack of other hunters.
I also look forward to the food. My mother in law is a phenomenal cook. I have managed to fill my antlerless deer tag about every other year up there, so I’m due for one this year.
Even though they are worth double to me up there, it would probably take a 6 pointer to trip my trigger on a buck tag this year, because I have a couple of dandies at home, that I’d like a shot at.
Thanks to a couple of punched tags during our early antlerless gun season, our freezer is also in very good shape now. The spot I go up there needs the does thinned out a bit though, so I won’t hold off of any mature doe, that I can get a shot at.