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As long as NY has NYC, it will keep going dem for governor, IMO. Don't get your hopes up. The ants packing the hill of NYC love their dems.

I use 15 year old gray anti-seize on the threads. Just a little, never makes a mess. They spin right out. While at range I unthread after every shot, put some water down bore and a couple of patches, thread it back on without more anti-seize and after each shooting session a thorough cleaning and that is when it gets fresh anti-seize.

Haha mine is about that. Summit climber, boots, some arrows, pack, tarp, various other bits of clothing

Mine is just the unfinished part of our basement with shelves and a bunch of stuff. It's got little spare space so it spends about 6 weeks of every year very clean and the rest fairly untidy. We need more space but the house just doesn't afford it.

Wool socks and chemical foot warmers make up a massive difference, they really have saved some hunts . Keep extras in the pack.

Doubtful. Gonna let the private land I'm on sit (plus the owner may be out tomorrow morning). Friday is off because I developed a habit with my wife of going xmas shopping mid-morning (after the main crowds all dissipate).

Decent article until he said this, which is wrong: and then this part, in which he lied: Still not sure why some people argue so vehemently for crossbow because they want it badly and then in the next breathe pretend it isn't in some ways superior to a vertical bow. If that were true, why do they care? We've already gone all around on this. I bow hunt and I bought a crossbow this year. I will continue to bowhunt and I will crossbow hunt. I still don't want full inclusion. IMO anybody who has actually hunted with a vertical bow and a crossbow and pretends the vertical is equally lethal for the average hunter is lying. I've sent thousands of arrows down range with my vertical and when I pulled the trigger on a deer this year at 30 yards with the crossbow, having shot less than 200 arrows total, I had much higher confidence in that shot than I would have with a vertical. Optical zoom, better accuracy, cocked until ready, twice the downrange energy. People who pretend the crossbow isn't a better tool are speaking nonsense.

Looks like a nice spot next to the cover, too. Move those tires, though

I believe it. If I ever own land I will have trip wires and punji traps around the perimeter.

$20/acre is pretty fair. Your land may be worth more than that to you, but not on the market. State shouldn't subsidize. Merely act as a relationship maker in some capacity. Maybe a private entity could as well, there may be a market for it bigger than the current lease sites, which seem to never have land available at least not in my neck of the woods.

I wouldn't mind if some local town-owned land allowed hunting. Fairport NY does, but I never see people parked at the spots and as they only allow town residents to get the permit, the rest of us just drive through unable to touch.

It was good. After busting my ass hard and often in 2015 and 2016 seasons for one deer each, in this case I had two deer on the same morning back in October, then took a couple weeks off, took my crossbow out when crossbow season started, first day a bust due to wrong tree, second day got another deer. This has let me very comfortably (although still a little guilt to be honest) sit this past weekend indoors waiting for a break in the weather. i want another deer. I don't know how long I can use this property for so I'm making the best of it while I can. For all I know next year it will be back to the heavily pressured public land.

I like the thought, though. I wish something could be done about land. I live in the eastern rochester suburbs and the closest hunting land is about 40 min away and hunted pretty hard. I've gone to it many times and, on the way, I'm positive I drove past acre after acre of land privately owned that is not hunted and not because the private owners don't want it hunted but maybe because people haven't asked, or the owner wants a few bucks lease and can't find the people. I'm surprised at how hard it is to find land to lease. When it's come up in the past private owners rightfully don't want more of their tax money going to subsidize people like me with the state giving money to private owners maybe to entice them to allow hunters. I do feel like there has to be a program the state could enact that helps encourage private owners to allow hunting. The current thing I see in the DEC guide about "ask before you hunt" is useless. I've never in my life seen such a sign on private land. I'm also willing to pay for land--up to $20/acre to hunt it, which seems a standard price. And I'm surrounded but farms and land here but I see no leases come up. I've not done the "knock on all the doors" thing yet but in the age of the internet there has to be a better way to hook hunters up with land. We have tons of land in NY and tons of deer (too many according to DEC). It should be easier than this.

Again, some spots of land are low on bucks because the hunters there are fighting over scraps as it is. Many will be happy as a clam to even take a single doe, so more restrictions mean lowering their odds of a harvest even further. Now that this year I've been on private land and I have seen what it can be (see deer every time I hunt) it is shocking to me how hard the land I hunted prior two years was to pull deer out of.

It may work like that on private land, but not on the public land I have hunted. I have hunted public land and if I have a tag for it I will go for it. Only exception is for tiny deer; but 4 points is as good as 10 on the public land I've been on. When the land is so devoid of deer you're getting one shot opportunity every dozen hunts (yeah really!), you can't afford to be picky!

They way I see it is deer don't talk to one another so you maybe burned it for the deer that saw you. I took a deer from a stand this year and it didn't burn it for the deer that walked by shortly thereafter, nor the deer I took from it a couple weeks later, nor the other multitude of deer that I have seen walk by the same stand (including a couple that made me in it).

It's better than 243 which some people use for deer. I used 223 on one deer and in no hurry to repeat that experience.

Too bad, it's yours. Set up a camera for when they destroy it.

Sunday round these parts looks like a gale with probably snow as well. I can take that, though.

A tiny, and I mean a tiny, part of me wants to hunt public land in the rain tomorrow just as a sort of self flagellation. Almost out of spite. Something to be said about it. I know a spot on public land that I don't believe is highly pressured and it gets a decent bit of deer. It's not pressured cause it sucks to get to. Pulling a deer out would be a treat but it would make for a hearty bit of exercise.

You can use a condom but you'll need a magnum size one if you're shooting magnum loads.

Last year was brutal snow, really crazy. I did hunt a few days in it and it was kind of fun. I never saw a deer but I bet a drag would have been awful anyway without a sled.

Call someone or try to shoot the deer close to your car and hope its final dash is in the correct direction.

Agree, it just plain sucks. Cold rain is without equal when it comes to miserable weather. I will just have no part of it.

Probably interstate firearm law. As far as I know it totally trumps all state laws. As long as you are driving to your destination and not loitering you can even use it to carry guns through states like NJ that require permits and federal trumps any state laws to the contrary, although I understand you can still possibly be arrested and have to actively refer to it in your defense (weird, but anyway)... Keep your gun cased and locked and unloaded. Keep ammo cased separately and locked. Do both of those you're good. Locked, separate cases and you're good federally for sure. There is no law on what qualifies as a case or how robust the lock needs to be as far as I know. NY is not terribly insane, though. When going to the range I have my guns unloaded and put them in a case in the trunk.