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Looks truly comfy, I would like it.

Reminds me a lot of the insanity over drones a few years ago and how we were just one careless person away from downing an airliner. Tons of misinformation. Most 3D printers use plastic, which sucks for making gun parts. It can make a lower, yes, but you can make a better one from an 80% polymer lower. Any truly usable gun still has metal parts. All this really has done is change a very tiny amount of milling skill work (and you can use a drill press anyway) into making a person setup a 3D printer. I'd say both are about equal difficulty and similar setup costs. I know the news wants to portray us now as capable of buying a printer on amazon and a few hours later we have an untraceable home made 911 but that's all hogwash.

I've tried a couple ways to draw back. This guy draws high, with his elbow above the holding point, like he's moving around a clock (vid below). I have experimented with it a little and either use that or else just pull straight back with bow about level the entire time. Personally I think far too much is made about releasing the trigger. My view is that you should be on target and when it's time to fire use a minimal amount of muscle to move the trigger, so as not to go off target. For me that means simply moving my index finger. I tried all the talk about pulling back with your whole body and all that and it never made sense for me and didn't work anyway. I've only been hunting a few years, but my shooting is very consistent. For all intents and purposes I do not have fliers anymore. Trigger control is crucial, and with a bow if you are not pulling the trigger straight back you will wander to the left or right. The concept here is applies. I've seen another video with Jerry (can't find it) in which he shows how good his trigger control is and despite pulling back fast, multiple times in a row, his gun barely moves at all.

Good shooting. I had the same target for a while and like you eventually had to shoot from the side because of blowing out the foam. Last year I bought a $40 Crossbow target and it's a ton better than the black hole. Bigger surface area and impossible to come close to fletching on a vertical bow. Xbow target instead of vertical because it has a bunch of bits of plastic in it, so should last years.

Definitely silly that the state mandates it but relies on unpaid instructors who need to volunteer everything. Other states have online-only and it's a reasonable solution for those short on time. But NY tends to add more, not remove, regulation and rules when it comes to anything.

Well done. 85/15 right now. I've only turkey hunted twice. I saw nothing (had a guy with me showing me ropes first time). I very rarely see turkeys anywhere, though, whether at fields, while out in woods. Extremely rare and I see deer far more often.

Absolutely true. Easy with a lease, not so much if you bought the land and now need to sell it because the neighbor insists on letting the pit bulls that he breeds run around his and everybody else's property.

Thanks for the valuable comment. You made a claim about the financial benefit to purchasing, I countered it, then you deflected by saying you don't care about the finances anyway. A few weeks ago there was a discount at build a bear. You could buy a build a bear for your age. e.g. a 3 year old only pays $3. Some people took their kids to the local mall and stood in line for the entire day. Like 6-7 hours, to save perhaps $20.

Run the numbers you'll see leasing is probably a great deal cheaper than owning property as an investment. I had a guy offer me a $1k lease on a 45 acre property last year. The property taxes on that alone cost more than $1k (also gone forever!). Even if the property had been gifted to me I would have had to pay more to cover the taxes, and land in NY does not appreciate very quickly...certainly much, much slower than the same money invested into equities. Case in point I know a guy who just closed on some land in Penfield, where there is not a great deal of land. This land was purchased at $3200/acre in 1994. This guy paid $15, 500/acre. Great investment, right? Nope. Awful, awful investment. That same amount of money put into the S&P 500 would now be worth $28k/acre. Except it was much worse than that, because that money in the S&P 500 cost nothing to hold. Meanwhile, the property owner paid over 20 years of property taxes. He purchased it as an investment and had he just purchased stocks would be up multi six figures on his investment now above holding the land.

Never tried them, but I won't use front opening broad heads ever again. IMO there is just not enough blood trail on the entry wound, which matters if you don't double lung it. I know lots of people disagree with that, though.

That sucks, I had thought about having my daughter do it

I buy sawyers on amazon. First tick I've had on me, period, this year I was walking on a well worn trail. i stepped a few feet off it to pee at a tree and later that night felt something on my leg. They are dastardly.

I took mine online, through PA I believe. They have (or at least had three years ago) a totally online course, and then that lets you get a NY license. By the time I started looking for a course that year it was almost impossible to find one, hence this approach. Once I got that, I took the bowhunter course in person.

Internet and scaring lots of deer in the woods has gotten me to where I am (wherever that may be).

I'd cover my clothes in fresh gasoline if it guaranteed no ticks. I would not hunt NY without this stuff. Lyme disease sucks. As others have mentioned any faint odor is going to have a finite life, so once dried it's not going to last long. Spray your clothes and leave them outdoors for a few days

40 min is not terrible if it's a short walk and a good area with lots of deer. Ideally I'd be 10-20 min away I've been going to that site a couple years. I've honestly never seen anything available in monroe or wayne. This is another lease site, they always look like the attached.

I tried it once in the field during my first season and clean missed the deer (I think I caught part of the string on my stand and didn't realize it until afterward), and opening day of the following season I had a perfect hit on one while seated! I do not practice seated, though.

A few brief sessions in the basement starting a few weeks ago. Got out to the range for the first time on Sunday and was immediately getting within several inches of bullseye out to 50. Good to see the bow had not adjusted itself over winter somehow. Each seasons the ramp up time is definitely shorter than the last

I dunno, i guess my time is valuable to me? 2016 hunting season I went out 24 times, driving 45 min each way, with a 15 minute walk, then up in a climber, and had deer in front of me only one out of every 12 trips (not a typo), so I know about dragging my ass out of bed for a drive. Last year my spot was one hour five minutes away, each way, but at least I saw deer. Every time you go hunting an hour away you're out $30 in gas and depreciation on your vehicle ($15 in gas another $15 in depreciation/wear even for an older vehicle), plus you've blown two hours every time you want to hunt. The better question is why are people willing to waste all that time? To me I'd happily pay a thousand bucks for good land close by, then I can sleep in longer, and back to entertain the kids earlier as well, plus no sense that I need to hang out there well into late morning on account of having driven so far.

I'd go in on a lease with somebody if it were east of the city (ideally in western wayne county or east monroe). It's amazing there are no leases. I've been trying to find one for a couple of years and none in this area that are availble. They're all further out from the city centers (like as in much further out!) or already taken.

Still looking I'm also getting warmed up to the idea of buying some land. Ideally would lease for a year first to check it out.

Goodluck!

If you double lung it, not much muzzle energy is needed to put that round through both lungs. The problem with 223 and I speak from some experience, is that if you do not double lung it you will not wound it as heavily, which results in a poorer blood trail, and greater odds of not recovering it. A lot of people are bad shots. I am a good shot at the range (better than average. Not bragging, but holy crap some people are just incapable of good groups even off a bench at 100 yards. I don't understand it) , but in the woods substantially less so. There are some medium game 223 cartridges. Just be sure you have a good shot and that you ARE a good shot. It's still not as good as a big ass round, and last year I took my muzzleloader out during regular gun and left the scoped 223 at home.

My first screw up this season had my literally questioning if I should keep hunting. But three deer later I was no longer questioning. I find hunting a roller coaster, frankly.

Went out Friday afternoon and yesterday morning (including with another guy) to the same land that was teeming with deer all bow/crossbow season. According to the land owner, after a few days of gun the deer sightings dropped down from constant to virtually non-existent. With the snow fall I could confirm his land is still seeing a ton of deer traffic, but it's obviously all at night. Saw nothing either day. We then walked through cover trying to push and they were not there, either. No idea where they went. I've yet to harvest a deer with gun! Still got a bunch of meat in the freezer from bow and that's another season over