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A lot of dog owners are terrible. I live in a subdivision and my immediate neighbor handles their dog so badly that within 1-2 years of them getting it the town had to be called at least twice by two families (and this was after them failing to heed friendly reminders that one of their neighbors' kids has a phobia of dogs--and I have several videos of their dog chasing this kid on my security cam). So what did they go and do? Get another dog. And the town has been called again two more times in the past 8 months. The next time it is called (dogs barking at all hours, breaking into fences, chasing kids, etc.) they'll have to go to court. Some people just won't learn. Until these people I never would have believed it possible that a golden lab could be so aggressive. You walk down the road and it barks like it wants to hurt you. Literally the scariest golden lab ever--in fact, the only scary one ever--I've known. And it's entirely because they are terrible dog owners. I'm sure it could be a nice dog if not for them. Shooting a neighbors dog over hunting is illegal, but I am guessing in the past this guy has gone to his neighbors and said you need to keep your dogs off my property. I would sure be annoyed if I were in a stand and some neighbors' out of control dogs would regularly chase everything out of the area on my property.

How do you guys clean your breech plug? Specifically I'm talking about the tiny hole in it. CVA says to soak it, then shoot a primer a couple of times, but this would be loud if you're finished shooting for the day and want everything cleaned to do it in the basement (plus lead contamination). I assume since these are shotgun primers they are corrosion free, like any modern shotgun shell, but what's the best way to drive solvent through that little hole?

I am planning on that for next year. No idea if I can work it out, but I think i can and it's much safer than joint-owning something with other people you don't know. Gonna try hard anyway to find paid land for next season. Pounding public land like mad this year and it's light as hell on deer (last year it was pretty good). I'd love to own my own land but the finances of it are certainly not amazing. Around here let's say I spend $40k on some land. now I have property taxes each year as well. Contrast that to the long term cost of just leasing year after year; the latter isn't "yours", but you are never attached to land that you can't sell and that may end up sucking. Imagine buying some nice land and the year later somebody opens a dog kennel next door.

I got one this year to extend the season. I have two vacation days left not including Xmas and will possibly save them till then. The woods I am at are insanely pressured. If there is anything left maybe it will be more apt to come out during ML.

Wants the same of me. Link in OP only goes to facebook, so I have no way to read the article.

I don't know much about these people or why they were "banished". If they are bad enough I bet trump could warn that if they are let in they will be sent back on January 21st. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Stand: 20 lbs Backpack (various bits of crap like call, rangefinder, binos, paracord, quart water, then 1+ L of coffee if it's cold, drag harness, jacket): 15 lbs Weapon: 5-10 lbs Sometimes I throw my game cart wheels for the pack so that's another 10 lbs. Less of that now, as it is dang heavy. Even if without my stand my pack is minimum 15 lbs with stool plus gun, so 25 lbs. I always bring coffee

That is a very small climber you have

I carry 45-60 lbs depending as well, and it is indeed ridiculous. It would be much less so if I weighed what I weighed five years ago.

I don't think any movement Trees with leaves they are used to; that's really the point of camo so that if they do see you move it still blends in a bit better with the environment.

I have a picture on my phone from two years back at old forge. In town just off the main strip in a yard. I managed to get close enough for a button buck to lick my forearm, so in the picture all you see is a head. I also have video of my kids chasing a family of deer across some yards and the deer would only run when they got within 20 yards or so, and by run I mean trot away; they don't care. It is like a petting zoo. A petting zoo with ticks. I've seen or heard bear at the campground the three times we've gone. Most recently I had a bear steal a bag of marshmallows from the back of my open van (I was packing up). I could probably have fed it scraps like a dog (dangerous though and illegal). I couldn't begin to give advice on how to get one when actually hunting, though. If you were allowed permission to walk the old forge campground in the evening you'd have no trouble at all. Black bears just walk about the cabins as people are at their fires.

Seems smart. I bet somebody has been shot out of a tree stand by accident before, by somebody thinking it was a deer (I guess one that can climb), but it's not as important, surely. I've heard some laundry detergents will add reflective pigments that we cannot see but deer can (could be more "internet hunting lore", though). You've also just explained why a farmer near my house has always hunt aluminum pans over his crop. I guess the reflections are there to annoy deer.

T/C Shockwave 250 gr, 15 count Field & Stream: $24.99 Walmart: $12.76 ^^^ Yes, seriously, HALF the price Traditions Smackdown 250 gr, 15 pack Walmart: 11.76 I am told the smackdown, which is made by hornady (says on the box) is the exact same as the T/C shockwave, which is exactly the same as the hornady SST.

I've seen guys like that but I have to think the deer can see it easier. Even if they only see a gray or something, it's still a uniform single mass. I think a blaze hat plus blaze gloves is not bad, a vest would be ideal, but it is difficult to imagine a person with a camo/orange only upper body getting shot at. Because that is a lot of orange.

I think your respect for others' competence is higher than it should be. Just because a person doesn't look like a deer to you doesn't mean it doesn't to others (or you like one to them). The fact is over the years thousands across the country have been shot at out of simple negligence by people who saw a large mass moving and although they couldn't really tell it was a deer or a person they were so amped up over killing a deer that they shot. Then, oh crap, that was in fact a deer. These people are not shooting a person standing in a low cut field at 50 yards in bright light. It's a "mass" when it's gloomy or far away or their cataracts are acting up or whatever. Actually just the other night I was in my stand and I saw a large mass move at 100 yards away and I can tell you for a small fraction of a second I thought there is a damn deer! Before the end of that second had finished my mind next reminded me that deer are not covered in 50% blaze orange. You know all the idiotic parents who should be in jail for leaving their kids in hot cars? The truth is a lot of those people are not idiots. Bad things and accidents happen. Orange will definitely diminish the odds of being shot. I can pick out a flicker of the stuff at insane distances.

Nothing can sour a day like that sort of thing. Good luck and hopefully it is a relatively easy fix.

Agreed. This particular animal is a house cat, but I am fully open to the notion somebody will capture a mountain lion on a cam in new york. Even the DEC page for NY opens up the possibility; says they get a few sightings each year and most (probably being kind--it could be all) are mistaken identity, but it could happen.

This could still end up being a catastrophe but I see no signs of it yet. Trump seems to be making appointments without worrying about the talking heads' opinions and that is good. We wanted a shakeup and we are getting one. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Can anybody think of why I shouldn't use 4 of these 30 gr if I want 120 total? The CVA is rated up to 150 and CVA recommends pellets if doing that. Hodgdon says no more than 100 gr with their 50 gr or their 30 gr BUT they also have 60 gr magnums--two of which equal 120! So CVA seems to think it's fine, hodgdon for some reason doesn't. I have to imagine that these hodgdon magnums are absolutely nothing but two of the 30 gr; surely the formula and all that is the same, so 4 X 30 would be the same as 2 X 60? I am sure 90 gr will be fine, but I'd like to know for sure Also want to play with loads to maximize accuracy. I really do want this thing to have acceptable accuracy out to 200 yards. Glad to hear a single 50 gr took a deer. I bet that's fairly comfortable to shoot like that, too. Going to get shockwaves like i said but also some xtp at walmart, they have a case of 30 for about $14 or so, which seems a good price for a saboted bullet to me.

Yeah. Apparently that's a ridiculous price. I didn't buy any yesterday because I wasn't sure if that was a good or average price, but field & stream today wanted $42.99 for 100 count of 50 gr!!!! That would make it $1 in powder per shot. I went back to the other place and indeed they want $5 a box of 30 gr. I bought four boxes. Guy said they are winding down muzzleloader stuff. Although his label says you could use five pellets, Hodgdon says only use up to 3 pellets and 100 gr maximum charge. I wonder why...I also had hoped to go with 100 gr minimum, not 90. The wolf is rated to 150 gr magnum loads. But anyway, 100 pellets and 3 per shot is $.15 per shot in powder. Field & Stream had normal prices on Powerbelt pellets but $24.99 for 15 count of 250 gr shockwave, $20 for 20 count hornady SST (same thing), and Walmart has the very exact same shockwaves for $13/box, so I'll go to walmart and pair 250 gr shockwaves with the 90 gr charge. Finally, gander mountain had the best stock on primers so I got some Remington 209 STS shotgun primers that also say they are suitable for inline muzzleloaders. $12/box (seems expensive relatively speaking). This should give me a total cost per shot of about $1.20 including whatever I use to clean it.

I wish that worked for me. I have developed an extremely bad habit of swinging by mcdonalds on the way back from where I go. And there is just enough time between there and my house for me to take down a bigmac meal and throw its wrappers in the trash before anybody at home is the wiser

The liquid nitrogen test is a bit of a gimmick but aerogel is very nifty chemistry--best insulating solid in existence according to wiki. Shiver shield is not the only company making outwear from it: http://www.digitaltrends.com/outdoors/oros-orion-solarcore-aerogel-jacket/ The reviews on the jackets are good (the couple on their site), but expensive. Gloves out of this would be great. Cheapish and very thin.

Well if we're being accurate, my first post even states that the thing in the video weighs about 30 lbs not 70. It's also not the only stand on the market pretending to be a "portable ladder stand". I just think all these designs could be done more effectively. I suspect that if money was no issue a carbon fiber one could be a lot lighter. Somebody online made a decent carbon fiber ladder that weigh 2.5 lbs. Add platform, hinges, etc. we could be really light (the price on that one online was stratospheric, though). It's also true carbon cannot be easily repaired, and also that it won't bend--it's brittle, so it's very strong until all of a sudden it's not. But some may not know that there have been carbon fiber climbers made in the past.

You might just be the first person ever to cry over a thread about tree stands; nobody else has felt the need to get rude over it. Relax.

F&S in rochester. Also the dicks in victor NY has them, as does Walmart. Normal price is $249, but it was a BF deal down to $219 and I used a $25 off $100+ that I keep getting in the mail to get it for $195 plus tax (except I think my $25 also gave 6% bonus points). Walmart normally has it for $247. F&S sucks me in bad at BF. I also got some Muck fieldblazer boots for $70. $89 was sale price, through a pack of targets on to bring me up to $103 and then another $25 off $100 card The only blackhorn 209 powder supplier in this area is Beikirch and when I went in today the guy said he hasn't had any in this year. Clearly disinterested in the entire topic. Bass pro in auburn has some but I am not driving there, so I'll probably use the pellets. Beikirch did have 100 count 30 grain pellets for $5 so that seems like s solid price. $.20 shot even if I use 120 gr in pellets. I assume I can use normal shotgun 209 primers even with pellets (even though pellets are fine with lower end ML primers...?).