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I bought some lightweight mucks--trailblazer II. Love them because they are usable in fall and into cold temps as long as I double up socks and put chem warmers in for the toes. I got out to the 3D range today and was killing it. I'm just confirming accuracy of broadheads now, but then need to get my xbow ready on account of where I'm going next week being xbow season. Also heading out to the land tomorrow (first time since last year) to check on where I'll be next week if i can steal an evening (hopefully monday).

People aren't into hunting for various reasons but lack of money is not one of them. It's not expensive to start and unlike everything else in this state permits are cheap.

Damage aside from a fall or dry fire, I assume that as these things age they'll just start to only marginally slow down, right? Has anybody really worn out a compound bow--assuming cams/strings are good, the limbs just got so loose the thing become useless?

Read a lot about this, tried a few methods. Personally I center housing in the peep and I use a peep tube. My latex (not silicone--it sucks) peep tubing lasts approximately a season, so if it's been a while, I'll replace it shortly before hunting. I really feel housing is the best approach. If the peep is sized just right it's much easier to ensure a perfect center, and also it allows full visibility on the level. If having no peripheral vision (e.g. target shooting) is fine, I would think that a minuscule peep centered on the dot might be a little more accurate, but for hunting you need to see a bit more of what's going on. Here was a couple days ago using my sub $350 bow with Dicks/Field stream decimator arrows @ 30 yards. Bottom left I was aiming for the B. My sight was maladjusted, but this is what I get with a housing-centered approach

Two more questions--and I did try and call their number but they are so busy it just hangs up: 1) Bringing 100-150 rounds ammo is reasonable? I see nothing about a particular allowed number amount 2) Anybody know if I can do this at a nexus lane? oops, answered 2)--nexus is a no no for firearms.

Oh God. I'm trying to do a 16 hour drive in one day. I really cannot afford more time at the border than needed. Will be absurd if they have to run a background check for me to take a shotgun across, what a lot of nonsense. Speaking of meat, it is legal to bring back deer meat (if I'm lucky) into the US, right? As for truth at the border, I'm pretty sure that if I lied to a guard they would catch me instantly. I'd really make an awful smuggler.

Safer to keep kids indoors on the screen. The big bad world out there is a terrible place full of risk and danger. You can't be hit by a car or fall out of a tree if you're developing low back pain on the couch and getting fatter. I do wonder where the future will go for hunting. My dad never hunted, I picked it up by myself. Finally, three years after doing it, I've convinced my brother to do the same (he's in Canada).

What do they hassle about?

Going to Canada shortly for a tiny hunting trip and bringing a gun or two, via the 60 day non-resident permit. I see reference on a couple of sites to stop at US customs on the way out of the country to help document the gun (beyond the documentation on the non resident permit that Canada wants), but that this is optional. This seems like a pointless hassle to me. Has anybody here bothered with that part?

First in range. I'm still reeling from my first two years in which I got a shot opportunity every dozen hunts or so. A bird in the hand for me.

I use sawyers. it seems expensive for what it is, but ultimately a $15 bottle from amazon covers me at least a season even with heavy saturation on my clothes. Though, i read now that even a heavy frost and freezing temps may not kill ticks, but surely slow them down (previously mainly worried only in october). Weird thing is the only tick I've found (and I admit I don't look that aggressively) was earlier this year during a walk on a trail in penfield. I've never had one on me from hunting.

Yikes, sorry to hear about this. Glad you made it to the hospital. Best of luck during your recovery.

Almost ready. Got my license, just need to confirm broadheads are hitting on point. Was out today and bow and shooting are pretty tight.

No Who's idea was it to have Oct 1 fall on a frickin monday. I am leaving the country on Thursday, so I blow that first weekend, too. I could get a few hours on Monday evening but my daughter wants to come out and watch me field dress a deer, so I need to try the following weekend.

I've been out day one for bow last three years and had shot opportunities each one.

Freaks me out. Very good.

I shot my bow a bit in July, and not since. I don't have my license yet I only ordered Sawyers 20 minutes ago I haven't gone through my arrows or bag or cleaned my gear to let it sit outside So, absolutely not ready. However, I did get confirm from the land owner I used last year (just last night) that I can hunt again there this year, so will be doing a quick lane clearing on Saturday. Nothing like the last minute. I've been absurdly busy at work, just brutally so. The good news is when I shot my bow a bit in July I was basically on the money. Each year I need less time than the former to ramp up to former accuracy, though I won't have time to run the 3D course at work by the look of it, unless the weather is nice this weekend. I am travelling next week so probably won't get out until middle of the month.

I'm torn between congratulating them on nailing this guy and questioning whether this amount of effort was worth it. I'm leaning toward the latter.

I think it's like this in so many sports. I used to get a kick out of beating people on my "cheap" bike in races when they were on much better ones, but the difference in the equipment is so small once you graduate past entry level that it comes down to training and time devoted. I'm still on the first bow I bought for the 2015 season and have no intentions at all of getting rid of it. I'm accurate, it's reliable. I use arrows that are a few dollars a piece and I group great with them, time and again.

I've heard the same. Their way or the highway and they demand almost no margin from their "partners", but manufacturers/producers put up with it because volume is insane if they get in there.

Took this pic a day or two ago at Walmart. A bunch of these are $40. Some rages are $50, Deadmeat is $50. This is too much for a few bits of sharp metal. Please withhold the "Is it worth losing a buck of a life time over a $8 broad head instead of a $15". Seems like prices are up $10 since last year on all of these...?

Interesting. Wish I had a couple million bucks, I would buy some land, retire, and dick around on my land for the next few decades.

That's a good return. I'm contemplating several acres now but they are in the teens/per, for a house. Price is astronomical because location is unreal. If it doesn't go through I will look again at cheaper stuff further out, only for hunting. is there anything I could realistically do on 3-4 acres to supplement income without it being more time than it's worth? Tilled currently, nice fertile land.

Warming my wife up to letting me get some land. Land can be had around $1500-2000/acre not that far from me (within 20 minutes). I don't readily have the money sitting around for such a project but willing to stretch to make it happen. Leasing land in the rochester area is mostly impossible. I've been trying for a couple years, there's just really nothing here, nobody wants to do it. Is there really anything to know when buying some land for hunting, other than check with the town that all the taxes are paid up?

Guys here still hunt without straps, you see them in threads. I use a climber, but I've had the bottom slip out a couple times on me and been able to catch myself only just with upper body, but both times have been very glad I had a harness on. Certain trees can be very slick and the bottom part of the climber just doesn't hook up perfectly.