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Thing is it has a huge opening; it's not really intended to be used to drink hot fluids directly from.

I have very specific requirements for a vacuum insulated coffee mug. Has anybody seen one that matches these criteria: Non-negotiable: 1) Vacuum insulated 2) 20 ounce maximum capacity, prefer less 3) Fully leak-proof and can safely be stowed in a pack 4) Can be drunk from thermos; doesn't have a separate cup Desirable: 1) One-handed function 2) Has a hook or loop of some sort so that it can be hung from something I take the big Stanley canteen hunting, but it requires me to pour into a cup and there's no way to quickly stow the entire thing if I need. There are TONS of one-handed vacuum insulated drink-from-cup containers on amazon, but none that I see as reliably leak proof. The best way to prevent leaking is with a screwing mechanism. There are others that are screwable and you drink from the thermos, but they are really intended for cool liquids with a huge opening.

Bowhunting I don't bother with binoculars in a tree stand. I always bring coffee of some sort, always. I don't care if deer can smell it.

If this happened nobody would buy hunting land anymore and nobody would lease.

Honestly walk back tuning doesn't make much sense to me and I've yet to see an explanation that makes sense. e.g. this vid below. If you are hitting at 20 dead center, walking back 10 yards is exactly the same as the target being taken away 10 yards. Walk back tuning works on the seemingly magical principle that for the first 20 yards the arrow flies in one direction and now for the final 10 it has decided to start moving off tangent from the first 20. I simply can't understand how walk back tuning works, and I've read multiple threads on archerytalk. It seems a bit more like tea leaf reading. Now what I can absolutely see it doing is identifying if your pins are mounted properly, but only if you are using different pins for different distances. By this I mean if you are hitting properly on 20 and 30 is consistently off to the side, even though you are using your bow's level, it would hint that your pins are not properly perpendicular to the level (a rare condition). I can truly say that of all the adjustments with my bow I've made, the two pin housings, trying different pins, being a beginner to slightly less of one, etc. I've never found that my vertical point of impact changes as distance changes. Lots more in this thread about it: http://www.archerytalk.com/vb/showthread.php?t=3467802 As the guy points out: if your arrow hits dead center at 20 yards, it will hit dead center at 40; if it is one inch to the right at 20 it will be 2" at 40. This guy describes a slightly different process. Shoot a group at 3 and a group at 55 or so: http://www.avonvalleyfieldarchers.com/page4/files/page4_1.pdf This could potentially work because as the arrow fish tails, the point may not actually be hitting in line of the arrow's momentum, but by 55 yards it is, so then you can see what's going on.

I'm guessing that european countries that operate like that (you can hunt wherever) have something else going on. For example, somebody mentioned germany hunting laws recently. They look atrocious! Like super, duper bad. You get your license which takes longer than getting a medical degree, then you lease land at huge cost and as part of the lease agreement if you do not cull a certain quota of animals and/or there is crop damage, you are on the hook for it. So imagine if you paid a lease for land and then while you're at work one week a herd of deer trample/eat somebody's crop and they come back to you looking for restitution because you were not keeping their property clean. Unless you're actively trying to breed deer in huge amounts to troll your neighbors' property, the state should stay off and no mandate for private access. Basically everyone here agrees with that. But, I would like to see some state incentive like with fishing to encourage property owners to open to hunting. Now, as for that opinion if I owned 50 acres of beautiful land I am sure my opinion would be different; I wouldn't care for it because I don't need it.

Dang, that must have really sucked. I've read some articles here and there on how to find hunting property and I have to admit this particular advice has never come up.

Those look good to me (?). You could try different distances to see if it changes.

Heh, I posted about my paper tunes in another thread yesterday--the diagram above this post should do it. And yes, it is counter-intuitive, but it looks to me like your tip is hitting to the LEFT of the nock (but it is hard to tell in that picture) in which case the rest indeed moves to the left in your case (I know it seems like it would make it worse). You're a right-handed shooter; you are holding the bow with left, with your right on the string.

Okay that has me beat!

It's a PSE Stinger. Maybe I'll see if I can get somebody to film the cams as I draw back, see if they do anything funny. It fell out of a tree last year but that was at least a thousand arrows ago. I think next time I see somebody who's really wrecking it at the range (and this is rare at my range unfortunately!) I may ask them to shoot a group and see how they do.

I stayed in a house off the strip there last year. I have a picture of a button buck licking my forearm. I've not been to Banff in a dog's age, but I remember a moose walking through the middle of town many years back. You won't see that often in new york!

I will try and get one if I see one. Not likely where I hunt. If anything, maybe my comment will result in better odds for those who like bear, though!

From what I can tell there is basically no negative stereotype about archery. It's a "clean" sport and even the special snowflakes among us don't take offense to it.

Ha! I didn't want to ask but couldn't help myself. Vertical tip problems are intuitive, but horizontal ones are not. I figured that out last night by seeing the same thing and trying to fix it by moving the rest to the left, which merely made the problem way worse. Really weird, but yep in this case it needs to move right just a hair. If field stream still has the $20 decimator arrows on sale tomorrow (I think/hope it still does), I will buy a box of stiffer ones just for the heck of it to see what they do, though I am definitely spined correctly according to boxes right now.

I bought some of that last year. Seems like awesome stuff. Will be cleaning my clothes very soon with scent free then letting them sit outside and definitely hosing that stuff down on them.

I'm east of Rochester. Your driving time is an immaterial part of your hunting trip if you're spending weeks hunting at a time, you must admit. For people who don't have that time, driving time becomes a meaningful variable. Family commitments mean I'm hunting for short periods of time. Still finding it very difficult to believe the claims that private land, on the whole, is not better than public. If it weren't, people wouldn't buy it, people wouldn't lease it. It is that simple. Comment above about public land and bow hunting. I've said many times the particular public land I hunt doesn't have a lot of pressure, and it has deer. I like it. But, I still have to drive a bit, I still can't safely put cams out, still can't leave my stand there, etc. So one day I'd like private.

I thought I read that there is basically no predictability in deer behavior based on the moon.

I already was boycotting them. Too expensive, no drive through

Haha, I've heard the meat is pretty awful on them. The only bear I've ever seen in NY are in the adirondacks, mainly at the old forge campgrounds. Actually by mainly I mean every time and only there. I had one steal a bag of marshmallows out of the back of my van while I was loading it up (he walked up as I was walking between the van and the cabin). I got vid of the entire thing. It was one of the huge bags and that bear had quite the treat. Wow, well that explains why I never see them.

Been thinking about it, too. Walmart has them for $167, the entry wolf one (not that I'd necessarily buy it, though I am sure it's fine enough). It had their stainless steel one on sale after hunting season last year, maybe I should have bought it. I would buy one without a scope and get decent optics after the fact. I'm totally through on bothering with cheap optics like a lot of package rifles have.

Thanks for the pointers in the last few posts. I think inconsistency in how I old the bow is massive right now. I have been changing how I draw it and the last few weeks I've found if I raise the bow a bit I can use my back far more to draw it, so I've really been trying to fell it in the back as I pull--I can get a nice lat stretch out of it. My shooting at hunting ranges is fine as I'm always in vitals at 30 or below, but I still really want to get much better at range. Wondering if anybody can explain this! Here are results from paper tuning last night. I think they are pretty solid, with the arrow looking awesome at 10,7 yards, just a little off at 3, but given that ever arrow flexes as its fired I can't imagine a "perfect" paper tune is even possible. But the weird thing is my pins are way, way, way to the left. And I just was shooting at 50 yard and the pins really are properly set, but when I look down the string and the arrow and the pins, whether at rest or drawn, they look like this in the pic. So, even though the arrows appear to be flying straight, and frankly even if it wasn't tuned well at all, the line between the peep and the pins, which represents the actual path of flight, seems to veer off hugely from where the actual arrow is pointing, either at rest or full draw. In fact, to get my pins now to match the vertical impact plane, as they now do, I had to shift it absolutely as far over as it would go.

Haha, of all the things said in this thread I think this may be the least controversial

Neither. Both are an hour and a half from me. I didn't say state land was bad, I said it's typically inferior to private and also that around rochester/buffalo it's less accessible than in the rest of the state.

Totes adorbs!