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  1. Are these apple trees for you to harvest fruit from or for the animals to eat what they can reach and what drops on the ground ?.                                        I have a few I prune every other year and some I do not prune at all, they are all older trees and the apples from the pruned trees do not get as big as store bought ones.                                                                                                    As far as the deer go they eat the ones from both ,until all of the fruit is gone. My neighbor does not do any pruning at all and the deer are at there trees all of the time.  

     

  2. If you are not shooting off of a good solid bench with a quality front support under the front of the stock ( not the barrel) and a good support under the rear of the stock and squesing the trigger not jerking it . It could be you not the firearm.

    Take one or two shots and let the firearm  cool off for an 1/2 an hour or more, come backand take 2 more shots and see if it hits near the first 2 shots , if it is , then you have a problem with the barrel moving as it heats up , when taking a number of shots all at once. That is why well known benchrest shooters only take 5 shots at a time . And I am willing to bet your barrel is not 1" diameter or more as on there rifles .

    Hope you find out what the problem is .  

  3. After 60 years of hunting  all over the Catskills I bought my own property here . Not quite as large as yours .Now being here almost 20 years, I  have cleared a good portion of my property  and planted a number of small food plots. After that amount of time I have a pretty good idea of where and when the deer travel on my property.So I have no reason to hunt the farms around me that are for the most part for dairy or meat cattle.And there is also plenty of DEP land to hunt also which the farmers plant corn or cut the fields for hay. 

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  4. 35 minutes ago, left field said:

    Not sure I followed that either.

    Talking to my town clerk when I got my licence last week she said that no one gets 4P but almost everyone scores 4F.

    I am in 4P and I got a DMP this year. , A few reason there are not as many hunters as in past years .The old time hunters have gotten to old or health related problems to walk the rough country here, The woods have gotten over grown, without clear cutting, ( which leaves very little or no brose for the deer to eat.A lot of the newer hunters do not  want to put in the time stalking the deer , they want to sit in there tree stands and  wait for a deer of there choice to walk by or ride on there atv untill they see one.

    The DEC did a good thing by cutting back on the DMP's  the amount of does have really declined in the past 10 years, Have started to build back up in the last 2 years.  Antler restrictions are working too , there are some  bucks walking around in the past few years with some nice racks.

    I am talking about he wooded area that I live in on the side of a hill , not about the open farm lands. that I do not go near. 

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  5. go to there site for fish stocking ,www,dcswcd.org  , has all the info there.

    Runoff from the driveway might have something with the fish no longer ther e . also mink love live fish, herons and eagles also. I have lost some 20" fish to them.

    Trout prefere a fast moving and cool water', I would hire an excavater and dig that 20' x 20' pond at least 10 feet deep and put some structure in it for the fish to hide under also . 

  6. 31 minutes ago, Gencountyzeek said:

    According to John Krieger, a premium barrel maker their isnt any reccomend break in procedure. This guy produces some of the most accurate barrels made. Shoot, clean and enjoy.

    THIS.

    In the past 60 years I have had many rifles from stock factory ( mid priced ) to there top of the line, Custom made rifles with custom barrels and related parts, and custom bench rest rifles . I wasted time and ammo with the so called BBL break ins.                                                                                           First what are you shooting the rifle off of, Second it could be you and how you are holding it or pulling the trigger ( let another person shoot it ) and see how they do with it, Next spend the time and money to find out what  ammo the rifle likes.And most important was the rifle and components  assembled and adjusted properly.

    I have had bench rest rifles that shot 1/16" center to center bullet holes in a target at 100 yards And top of the line expensive rifles that shot 3" center to centers at 100 yards which had the screws holding the actions over tightened , putting stress on the action and barrels.  And some other better rifles with composite stocks that just need a good glass bedding of the action and bbl , done by a pro. 

  7. I would never have the property logged again, the last company that did it hired some fellow that just cut the tree top off of what they could sell ,left  the tops where they fell and totaly blocked off every trail I had before they came,I cannot even ride my atv or sled  to get around the property any more, it would cost me more to have the mess cleaned up then what I got for the lumber.  

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