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You got any idea what I do for a living lol? Of course you do. I was at one time pretty active on this board, and I've never hidden my profession. But then and now, your yapping is enough to set the most stable of nerves jingling. If I thought there was ANY chance of you admitting for one second that you'd made a mistake, I'd go ahead and list the various reasons that you need to THINK BETTER. But I'd be wasting time and space. Tell you what. You promise to quit posting on this thread...you don't even have to admit I'm right, just back off for once...and I will provide you with six salient points, details, and resources that counter your claims VERY EFFECTIVELY. From perspectives that incorporate scientific, epidemiologic, molecular, agricultural, and economic arguments. Otherwise, continue to reside in your fantasy world where you safely ignore any opinions that don't conform to your preconceived beliefs and obviously agenda-driven stances. I don't think you're up to the challenge. I'm all for throwing down, that's literally what scientists do for a living as they try to defend and/or counter their models, and as an Alzheimer's researcher in an age where the landscape is rapidly shifting as we make real advances in our understanding of the disease, I'm literally engaged in contesting ideas about neuroscience on a daily basis. But I've been down this road before with you. You'd argue with a poster on a wall if it said something you don't like.

Man, you sure do know how to type lots of words on a keyboard. Good luck getting your work published.

Don't feed the trolls. Twenty seconds on Google and your questions are answered. I can explain things to you, but I can't understand them for you.

You don't hear about scrapie because you're not in the sheep business; you hear about CWD because you're in the deer business. Please don't assume the scrapie is simply tolerated; the regulatory burden is fairly strict. Both flock and individual standards exist. But we've had this conversation over the years, and I'm not going to change your mind about a single thing. We can chat again in another ten years, maybe. Cheers.

Just to interject a thread of common sense among all the bombast. The concern was because we don't currently understand prion diseases nor their mechanism of transmission. EHD is much better understood, hence there's less risk for unanticipated consequences, even if it's "deadlier". With all of the possible avenues of research available, there's a reason we study prion diseases, and it isn't simply because there's funding to be had. As the landscape and our understanding evolves, priorities will shift, but it's not stupid to be cautious. I'm the last one in the world who would be upset at a disease being less of a concern that was originally anticipated. And I'm the first one who would applaud paying attention to what we don't understand rather than gaslighting concern over potential dangers. That having been said, I certainly hope that the impact of CWD turns out to be benign or at least negligible.

Me thinks that you are referring to last year's vote, from June 9th, 2023, when the Senate passed the bill 59-3 but it never made it to the Assembly floor. The same thing is happening this year, with the most recent floor vote 60-1 on June 4th, 2024. It's been passed in Senate, sent to the Assembly, and returned at least once already this year. Just goes to show...same $hit, different day.

When I look at new members who've joined in the past two weeks with zero posts, I see a bunch of names that appear to be recognizably foreign. Something smells fishy. And not in the good way.

Sold!

I have four cameras: (1) Edge Pro *unopened; (2) Edge *used one year; (3) Delta (x2) *used three years. All are in perfect working order, The Edge and Edge Pro have internal memory and do not require SD cards. The Edge Pro has some unique features such as being able to block out areas in the field of view that may cause false triggers, such as a branch waving around or weeds low to the ground. For the cost of the Edge Pro alone, you'd be getting the other three.

And introducing for the third or fourth time here...zombie fox chicken!!

It looks useful for balancing weight on those Beavers we fly into the back country lol. I can think of a ton of applications, but I'm sure there's probably something specific.

I know lots of guys who hunt hard on public land but don't take a deer. Those of us who are privileged enough to have multiple opportunities per season need to appreciate our bounty. Not everyone has that! That having been said, I lean toward FSW's approach. I tend to survey the herd on our properties, rank the top three target bucks, and pass on anything else - at least early in the season. I'm not fanatical about it, so as the fall progresses, I'm more likely to take a sub-dominant buck if the perfect opportunity presents. I'm in it for the experience...and tagging out always leaves me with an awkward bitter taste in my mouth, particularly if it's before the peak of the rut. I've shot some nice bucks early and while I don't regret taking those shots, the remainder of those seasons was a letdown. Overall, I really enjoy the seasons where the hunt lasts right up until the fat lady sings. And yes, that means I eat tag soup sometimes. On the other hand, I don't tell my friends who hunt with me what to shoot. Their hunt, their choice. The only rule is if they tag their buck, then they're out of the game during the rut. We shoot lots of doe, but not during peak breeding. Recovering a doe can bust up a property for days, and there may only be days out of the year when that big buck is killable. This does not apply to kids, however, and there are areas where folks can hunt doe without trashing the main rutting arena, so it's a soft rule. In other words, I respect everyone's choices, but adhere to my own standards. In terms of doe, I have a group of students who love venison, and so late season is management hunting for doe - managing to fill my trainees' freezers!

The Reveal have been our most consistent cameras to date. I was a big fan of the Moultrie XA-7000i; I have three of these still running without a hitch until this year (there has been an SD card error message recently that caused me to remotely reformat the card and lose data, but it turned out that if I ignored the message, it would go away within a day lol). I've run at least one of every model Moultrie has come out with since then, and they are all duds. Some of them eat batteries, some of them have images that palette color incorrectly, some of them have less than 50' detection range, others are just a hot mess of random errors that pile up into a great big glob of frustration. Anyway, we started running a few Reveal three years ago, we are up to nine now, and we are now poised to switch over entirely. I did have an issue with one that took half-a-dozen emails and two trips to the "factory" to get reconciled, but at least they were responsive. In a delay, divert, distract sort of way, but still. I won't say they're bulletproof, but they seem to be better than the competition.

Yes. I always get pictures of our best bucks within a couple days of putting out cameras in September. If I put another camera facing the established camera, I get pictures of the same bucks a few weeks later walking behind the original camera. These are "low glow" variety Moultrie and Tactacam - the issue is exacerbated with cell cams, likely due to something related to transmitting data...I don't know if they make some sort of noise? Regardless, I've done a whole series of experiments swapping cell cameras for non-cell cameras in two distinct, close by locations on the same trail, and consistently the larger bucks will avoid the cell cameras by a 2:1 margin. I think cameras are fun and can be good scouting tools, with the caveat that the absence of pictures of bucks doesn't mean that there are no bucks...

Only in areas south and west of Rochester, including parts of Livingston and Genesee counties: https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/news-8-wroc-removed-from-spectrum-cable-in-portions-of-wny-finger-lakes/