Bionic

Yes during crossbow, and rifle. Bow, I do not. Usually just an orange hat. 99% of time its my private land. If on public during gun, I wear an orange vest.

Ummm, not that I can recall. Just moose, bear, coyotes, tons of fox. I've only seen like 5 deer here in 17 yrs. No deer seen this trip yet. We are headed out in about an hour to go look for moose! Hopefully you bring me good luck in seeing a cat! set your alarm for 2 for updated pics haha

I would do it.

Taco nachos.

lol, yes we are! yes sir! This is my 17th time here I believe, and it never gets old in the slightest bit. We plan to buy a small piece of land up here in the near future. Plan to retire up at the northern end of the lake, if it doesn’t change too much by then. At 55 I will have 37 yrs in with a NY state pension, everything gets a for sale sign then except the vehicle driven up here!

No, sir. I did like it a lot though. Plan is to build a new kitchen table from small logs at the house, and then use old weathered barn boards for the top. The boards are all from our family barn where my grandpa, and great grandparents lived, and ran the farm. Will buy chairs similar to what’s pictured though.

Niiiiice

Happy Birthday Sir

Its nice to mark waypoints. I have my home treestands, my spots at work, and my spots at camp in the Dak’s. I like using the boot tracker when I scout, I can mark where I see rubs, scrapes, etc.

I have OnX for hunting, works well...I just never heard it referred to as OnX GPS

Is that the Offroad maps?

NY Strip ordered medium, got a pinch below well, but very good. Ordered Chicken Tequila Pasta....PATHETIC dish is an understatement. Won’t even show it....I almost had to add salt to it....disappointing, but then again we ain’t in NY anymore toh-doh

Went on a 3 hr boat cruise, and the boat literally played the Gilligan’s Island theme song, when we were out in the widest point of the lake, which is 18 miles wide, lol. I did learn an interesting fact, a home we see year after year, that is indescribably amazing, as far as the view from that home, etc...was a widow in which survived the Titanic.

Happy Birthday!!

Shrrrraamp and Losssssster wolls! Lol

So we just got back from driving in the SUV, searching for moose, in our spots we know have good success in past years. At 11pm we started to see moose, we got back to the hoise at 1:30am. We saw 5, and 3 were bulls. One we didn’t see horns, but a big pouch between his legs...one was a small like fork horn i guess you would call it, and one was big enough to have blades. The largest with blades was skittish, could get turned around quick enough. On this one particular road we were on, it is extremely desolate. 10-20 miles at a time where there is nothing at all. It is a great area to drive in, but my point to this is, we were driving slow at 25mph in a 55mph zone....see headlights a long ways behind us, probably a quarter mile back, hard to estimate since this is very flat of an area with long straight-a-ways. Well we see a moose on the opposite shoulder, trotting in our direction of travel. As we were seeing this, the headlights behind us are rapidly closing in. I say to Jenn that this guy is flying. So i was looking for a pull off to let him pass, so I decided to just put my blinker on, and pull over...Well he must have been doing 65-70mph, he caught up so fast. Then I see his driver side headlight flash, then the passenger side headlight flash right after! At that point he was not moving....That moose must have ran across in front of him. That moose, and driver were both lucky...then as the truck was passing us, you could tell he was at a good 3/4 throttle, or more...just flying. It’s scary to be honest. I remember one time years back, I was just getting here, on this same road, but miles further out. I was traveling at 35 in a the 55, because I know it is heavily populated moose country. We I had a moose run out diagonally from my passenger side heading in the direction I was traveling. I had a 2000 Civic at the time, years ago, no antilock brakes, so I was dragging the tires, the moose fell in the road, his hooves were caked in mud, and it made him fall. Thank god I missed him completely! I will never forget that. When I see people doing 65-70, or whatever they are going, I cringe. I don’t know if they just feel in a pickup truck, that they are high enough that the moose wont cone into the cab, of what...but still.

Today we did 44 miles on the quad. We saw some great scenery on some trails we had never been on. We got to go over a bridge built for snowmobiles, and in the warm months you can ATV over it, it was pretty cool. At some points you were sharing the big dirt haul roads for the logging semi’s. That is always cool to see them ripping up the dirt roads, with a blinding dust cloud behind them. We did see a moose in the daylight today, which is getting more, and more difficult as the years go on. I believe this is my 18th year visiting this area, and moose were much more frequent. Concluded the daylight hours by picking up lobster rolls with the quad, and sat at the shoreline as the sun set, zoomed back to the house, making a cup of coffee, and are going to go look for moose on the road side.

Lobsta Rolls at sunset

Glad you were able to get it taken care of. I just didn’t see it as a good idea for you to go out and buy a saw, with being unfamiliar with them on a tree like that. Its not the size of that tree, its how it is laying there, with pressure built up in different directions. All you need is to get the saw “pinched” At that point you are back to square one without knowing the tricks to get the saw out, or have a limb come back and smack you, or something roll/kick on you. Looks like the gentleman was using a brand new saw though, lol.

Congrats, again. We were just in The Forks yesterday on the ITS trails, in Greenville now. Good luck to your son.