tommyc50

hey welcome in queens .First look on the dec website for regs ,now you'll be hunting on state land so know what the rules are and where you can hunt w/ a crossbow. Now long island would be your best bet [DURING THE WEEK] never on the weekend and you could go to stewart on 207 in orange but never ever on the weekend its like the tet offensive w/ all the pheasant hunters [its funny I was there and they chased all the pheasants to me [I was trying to bow hunt].and a LOT in Putnam and dutchess cty and if you want to travel bear spring mountain in Delaware cty. stormy gave you a # that's a good place to start. Don't bother calling long island they all have an attitude just look on line and any questions me and other guys on here will guide you.

I just see the post I got his site on my computer and I got him on netflicks I seen that episode I do that too w/ a saws all you are braising so the silver skin softens up and it will help hold the pieces together when cooking. oh and I forgot to mention clean .cold and Clorox table spoon to a gal of water that being said do you really know how clean the so called butchers are and even if you are getting your meat from your deer

I'm always amazed to see my friends pay $100 to get their deer butchered and they get a little box w/ little packages marked roast, and I tell them that's a cutlet. I do my own and like the pic I get a lot of meat even off one leg and I trim all the silver skin off and all my trimmings go in a grind bucket minus the fat some silver skin is ok cause its being ground up and not tough. Even the bones I got a thing like a turkey frier that I make stock with , I roast the bones and vegetables[ onions, carrots ,celery ,ect..] then put them in the pot w/ water and let er' go oh yeah I crack bones like the femur shown in the pic and the neck bones if they got meat on them and a little fat its ok I skim that off. I tell my friends I do it cause I make what I want stew, steaks ,roast. grind even cutlets from the leg and bambi burgers. See I live in the city and do it in my neighbor's garage I've even done it in my back yard[ I know its tough in the city when they see a deer their on the phone in a heart beat so im very descreet] and I have everything a vacuum sealer ,grinder but I have used ziplock bags w/ no problems

happy birthday !!!

I get in the stand 2 hrs before first light always bump deer on the way in .But when I get settled in I see more deer moving around after legal shooting time up to about 10 am ,thats why I get there early to let things settle down a bit .Cause no matter what you do they know your coming in but soon forget if you are quiet. I cant count how many times I heard guys @ 6am [light already] talking ,slamming car doors and even hear the leaves rustling as they walk and they just blew their hunt. See too deer are use to people in the woods but later on cutting wood, and on tractors,im telling you sit there and listen after 8 am to all the noise w/ people going to work and school ect. and the deer are oblivious to it but man if they see or hear something out of the ordinary their off in a heart beat.

my chubby hes a big boy ,we tried everything we got him big that's why we named him chubby. Hes 10 and not in good health his hips are going but i'll keep him going as best we can. I told my wife I don't want him to suffer so when its time i'll do what I have to do .My family gets very attached to our dogs.

welcome to the room

wow thank you guys I feel much better. I been running around so I really couldn't respond, but im going back up tomorrow and I hope I get a shot @ him again. tf I know we all been there,nothing hurts that bad and you know its going to hurt even more when you pull that zipper back down.

wow amazing I know how tough they are. Years ago my friend shot a small 3 pt and when we were skinning it I hit something hard on the breastplate ,a thick smelly gray mass so I cut around it . After we got him skinned I cut the mass out and man it stunk to holy hell and in the middle I found a small bullet maybe a .380 or 9mm . that poor thing was running around with that lodged in his chest since the summer.

oh yeah I knew it was a good day when I had a hawk land on a limb 2 ' from me good omen for sure

my condolences I pray you get a real nice deer w/ it in memory of your dad

Monday morning I get in the stand I picked out 4:45 am and after settling in[ coughing ,farting, sneezing opening closing zippers oh and felcro I HATE THAT stuff!!] I sit ready for sunrise , first its the owls then coyotes and then the turkeys start to cackle and fly down .So @ 6:55 I look behind me and see a buck come in the field @ 92 yds[ I ranged him looking around and went back in the woods .Then I see a buck in my neighbors field WOW a really nice 8 pt.. Then @ 7:30 I got a cramp in my leg and stood up[ I was sitting there for over 2 hrs] I look down and there's the buck a small racked 6 pt but a nice deer I seen earlier snuck up on me from behind and im looking @ him and hes looking @ me @ about 24 yds I grab the bow and he moves off back into the woods on the other side of the field . now im looking in the woods w/ bow in hand ready to see if he comes back .Then @ 8 :30 he comes down the other side of the field and I draw and I had the 40 yd pin on him and I really felt uncomfortable with the shot cause when I could see ,I took my ranges and it was 41 yds then 49,51 53 yds so it was conflicting and I let him walk . what really bothers me I KNEW @ 6 : 45 to be ready the first time I seen him and I wasn't. . MY thing about fishing and hunting is to be in the right place @ the right time and BE READY. Well I did two of the three . the second time I seen him I have no bad feeling about, I know I could have hit him but to kill him is another story . really don't want to not find him and leave him for coyote food. please guys comment I really need your opinions

see im reeeallly cheap I got a flip phone free from work so I cant scroll nothing[good thing i'll explain in a second].I got an I pad and I got games on there and I get so involved I forget to look for deer, even going back years a go with tetrus and game boy I couldn't play them and I get lost in the games and yelling oh @##$ or oh&%$^ and got busted all the time .so I go old school books, magazines cause I can read alittle look up then read alittle

yeah the final frontiersman I was going though my hunting gear and found it in my back pack I started reading it the end of last season. heimos cousin wrote it in the late 90's or early 2000's about his experiences living with the family .

well Mondays almost here and I'm taking suggestions on what to read . I sit all day so I need something to keep me occupied. sometimes its a llllooonnggg sit 4:30-5 am to 6 . the past few seasons I read under the Tuscan sun[ well you know what I was called reading that one but I love Italy and it brought me back there] and last yeah I manned up and read American sniper excellent!!! Oh yeah I found a book in the house on the tv show the last Alaskans but it was a few years ago before the show. I also save some magazines too , so any suggestions I all ears.

I never heard of deer hunting in Ontario but the guys I hunt with go to alberta but 5 grand plus is a little rich for my blood and of course you see the celebrity hunters to the other provinces . I was in the Harrisburg show in feb and there was this guy from Ontario michel funny as hell he said[in a French accent] you want a big bear you come see michel ,well going for bear that's on my bucket list. Back in the day [70's & 80's] nova scotia and Anticosti is. was deer hunters dream hunts but I never heard anything about Illinois or Ohio then ,Iowa yes and Wisconsin [cause my bro-in-law lives there in the southwest corner on the border of iowa/ill. and minn.]. so research ,research you never know like you said a sleeper province

oh sorry that was the Delaware river

back in the mid 60's to the early 70's we would drive rt 97 up to my grand mothers house in narrowsberg and @ all the rapids you would see pots or weirs or what ev er they call them .It was a big thing smoked eels in the restaurants and road side stands . We use catch a lot of them in Jamaica bay[saltwater] but we were kids and would give them to the striped bass fishermen

same here , I went to dicks in queens when they first opened to get some sawyers spray for the ticks. Well I ask the girl @ the front of the store where the hunting stuff[ I just wanted to look around cause I didn't see any] and she said no hunting no camo clothes, no archery stuff nothing, she said we don't sell anything related to hunting in the city but you can go to long island and get hunting stuff there. Well I walked out and didn't buy anything and I never been back to dicks anywhere since. Walmart or online cabelas or sportsman guide

sorry doc is correct

not oak elm maybe

wow I just seen her tooo

alright kick me if im wrong but a shag bark oak

I'm so glad you made it though. Real wake call eddie I had mine 2 yrs ago. @ 58 I never leave anything to chance ,my body tells me something is wrong I run to the doctor even in this age of co-pays, deductibles, and out of network , I don't care my health comes before anything. Well 2 yrs ago my eyes were all blurry and I was always thirsty and pissing like a race horse. I finally relented and went to the doctor and my blood sugar was over 400 he said you are so lucky you didn't go into a diabetic coma and put me on meds I take religiously ,well almost I went to Rochester salmon fishing this weekend and I was rushing to get on the road I forgot my meds I took my last fri nite but im 350 miles from home so I made the best of it and ran home as soon I as I could and got right back on them my sugar was 206 [its suppose to be 95]. In my thoughts and prayers as well speedy recovery

Wow I went to Rochester for salmon and I HAD A BLAST ,we left them biting .Capt sam of dreamcatcher charters is amazing [really no plug here] I mean when we started to troll hes like flipping out saying we got to find them and after an hour we did and the two kids we brought with us never fished before and dropped ALOT of fish .Me and my friend wanted them get use to catching them so it took some time it was mostly sit and wait then BAM!!! three four fish on [we hit a school] and no lying we dropped a lot of fish but we limited out but if drop some fish [like 18] we would have by 10 am but we got 12 our limit on steelhead and salmon. We are deffently going back next year this was the second trip w/ capt sam . Its amazing going down 81 and 17 how beautiful this state really is and how really clean lake Ontario and rochester is [im sure they have their problems too] .Here are some pics