OldNewbie

Back to trying to solve this guys problem.. Seems to me that: If the battery is almost dead you get a click click click sound -- not the case here. The whirring noise is the starter motor spinning but the starter clutch is not engaging, and the engine cylinders are not turning over. This points to the starter solenoid being bad or having a bad connection. I would start there. Don't assume a connection is good just because it looks good. Had a dead battery/no start issue on my boat once. Drove me nuts. Finally discovered it was the brand new replacement battery cable clamp that had come loose from the cable -- it was still attached, just not connecting well. Only discovered via a random accidental jiggle while checking something else.

I have a Nikon that I think was $150 or so, fine for archery distances. I use it to put 10-20-30 yd marks around my stands, marked with small bit of survey tape. I stand in the kill zone, and range back to tree where the tree stand is. Once I have the marks set, I don't use the rangefinder on hunt days.

Yep, here too. Steady increase in gunshots as people start checking sights/scopes (I presume). And today someone was nailing up posted signs all along the far edge of the woods I hunt, while I sat in my blind on the other side. That's OK though, cuz my woods are too small for gunning, and deer traffic picks up there once the gun season opens..

Good lesson there!

Today I went to draw on a 6-point and discovered my release was still in my backpack, not on my wrist. Doh! My very first sit in a ground blind I fell asleep, woke up with three deer staring me in the face. Double Doh! Anyone else have bonehead moves they want to share, in the interest of learning from ones mistakes, and having a good laugh?

I made up several of these a few days ago after seeing them on a YouTube video. In my case I found all the hardware in my garage except for three screw eyes and a couple of wing nuts.. so in total mine cost about $1.00 each. I decided to do these in order to put my cameras higher, after walking by the camera at night and seeing how bright the red night flash was. I had been using straps and jamming sticks in the back for several years, and these are so much easier to install and adjust the angle.

In other words... if all people had common sense, we wouldn't need laws to protect those that do from those that don't...

Only bucks on my cameras are small ones, coming by in the wee hours (1-3 AM). Along with fishers, coyote, fox.. Few deer around in my small patch though plenty in the surrounding fields around dusk. Nothing resembling rutting behavior that I have seen. 8W

8W (Southern Tier): This week with colder weather seeing many deer in the recently cut corn fields around dusk. Including some smaller bucks (4-6 point). Saw one small buck with a broken fork cruising alongside road, nose down. Another on trail camera, cruising by with nose to ground at 3 AM.

Almost had hand to paw combat this morning with a red squirrel that was quite pissed to find someone sitting in its ground blind. Apart from that very quiet. Back to work now.

One seller just raised E-bike prices $200 due to new tariffs on bikes and bike parts made in China. I'm sure most others will follow. 95% of all bikes globally are made in China.

I know some of you are boycotting them, but for the rest of you, Dick's has some low-end Stealth Cam, Primos, and Wildgame Innovations cameras on sale for $39-49 each, till 10 PM tonight (online only). I recently bought the Primos Gen 2.0 and it takes decent videos.

These are cell phone pics, not trail cam... The elk live on a private farm that I occasionally drive by. The turkeys were in my landscaping just now at my house. Three hens and seven poults in all.

I buy trail cams on sale, under $50 each, and have been happy with the results. Currently have two Stealth Cam STC-P12 and two Primos Proof Gen2. Each year the resolution and trigger speed of the cheap cameras gets a little better, too. I use 8 or 16 Gb SD cards which is prob overkill, even with video. I have two cards for each camera, swap out cards when I visit the camera, take the cards home and review on the computer at my desk. Just bought a SD card reader for $12 on Amazon, works great. (Was using a digital camera previously). Some brands do get better reviews than others re reliability especially. StealthCam and Primos were a little better than average in my research. I don't lock them on my land, and wish I had the one time I put them on the neighbor's land (it was stolen).

Then there's this...

Don't be so quick to kill the dandelions, I've seen deer go through my yard eating one after another of the yellow flowers.

Squirrel was dropping acorns from the oak out back today, and a few hours later one of the resident fawns was munching on them. If that keeps up there won't be many left by Oct first.

My scouting consists of driving a loop around my neighborhood at dusk and seeing what deer are around. Tonight just 2 doe and 1 buck, a 6 pt in velvet.

Well we can rule out drought. Rainiest July on record here (near Elmira). Lots of squirrels around for sure.

Noticed new acorns on the ground under the red oak in my back yard just now. The 'bodies' are undersized relative to the 'cap' and are forest green, not brown color. Is it normal to see some dropping in early August?

Worked perfectly fine for me yesterday. And I drew two does tags including one for 8W!

Sorel's are a good brand and were my go to winter boot for many years. The 'originals' at least my originals had thick removable wool felt liners. In the past several years I have switched to Muck boots which have neoprene rubber insulation I believe. They are warm and waterproof. For really cold day sits in the blind I stick a toe warmer (activated charcoal) on each sock before sticking it in the boot.

I'm 62, but only my third year hunting. I would tell my younger self, don't worry about kids and family and job taking time away from fishing and hunting. Everything has a time and a place. When family comes, embrace it, jump in with both feet. Share what you love with them, but don't force them to do more of it than they want. Put your own interests, wants, needs aside, learn to try/do what they are interested in. When your kids are grown up and gone away, you will only wish you had more time to spend with them. Hunting and fishing will always be there to fill your free time (provided you take care of yourself). It is just as much fun learning something new at 62 as 22 or 32 whether its deer hunting, bow shooting, fly fishing, wakeboarding, or whatever.

I wear those nitrile gloves they sell at Lowe's and Home Depot, they are like $10/ten pair. (I wear them for gutting deer also.)

SingleShot - Sorry for the negative post earlier. Sounds like you know what you're doing. Welcome to New York!