Elmo

Five score years ago hunting was unified by its simple purity. But 100 years later, we are not unified. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the rest on their bow but rather the accuracy of their shot. I have a dream today...I have a dream that one day crossbow hunters and traditional bow hunters can hunt together in every valley, hill, and mountain. This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning. "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. AR or brown is down? Who gives a damn? Because we are all hunters. United under one art, one sport, one tradition." Free at last, free at last, Great God a-mighty, We are free at last.

Less worried about firearm ban and more worried about his leadership. He's making a lot of promises but doesn't seem to have a concrete plan on how he's going to execute it. It's going to be David Dinkins all over again. Start up all these programs, give out tons of freebies, then all of a sudden realizes the city if broke afterwards. People are happy to vote him in because they'll get a lot of free stuff but then doesn't put two and two together when they get mugged 6 years later. But I'll stop commenting on politics on this thread. Don't want to sabotage the OP's thread. As far as targets go, again, I live in the Bronx so I don't know much as far as LI and BK but the Dick's in White Plains (Westchester) sells hunting equipment including targets.

Things might get worst under De Blasio. I'm afraid of this guy.

Wait...your's fit through the whiskers?

Around 20 years ago, my old brother worked down in Virginia for a summer and came back with a Bear bow. We took it out to this empty lot near our house (it's since been developed) and shot it there at a target. Cops came by while we were setting up and asked us what we were doing. When we told them they said as long as we kept it pointed at the hill it was okay. Looking back on it, we were less than 100 feet of one of the neighbors houses. Granted he was 19 at the time and I was 16. A couple of weeks later, he took the target and bow to a park and a different set of cops stopped him. They told him he can't shoot in the park or they'll give him a ticket. He never took the bow out again. Only would shoot it in my grandfathers back yard which is less than 10 yards. He missed the target once and the arrow ricocheted back and almost hit him. My mom found out and took the bow away. I finally dug it out of the basement a few years ago. I guess the story goes is it all depends on which cop you run into. Not all of them know every single law and if they suspect something is not right, they'll find some ticket to give you.

The Hudson River just turn red with blood and I think a frog just land on my head.

"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."

I've never been to FBF but people tell me the targets are pretty beat up. Blue Mountain is a bit the same. Before the season it's great. By season's end, the center of the target is so beat up that my arrows go right through. I end up purposely targeting the corners. Blue Mountain also has a 3D course as well.

Fully cooked. Target date is 3 weeks away but it could be any minute now.

Good point. 32bit systems can only read up to 4GBs of RAM so buy more than 4GBs of RAM while running on a 32bit system is just a waste of money.

The jokes on him since I'm agnostic. All his "I'm going to be locked out of heaven" mumble jumble won't effect me since according to Dante's Inferno, I'm already destined for limbo.

Checking out Wikipedia. It was actually Lenovo would bought IBM's personal computing line. To separate themselves from IBM's main company, after a few years they removed the IBM logo from their products.

Thanks for correction. Didn't realize they sold them.

Every company makes 2 lines. A consumer line and a business line. Obviously the business line is a little more expensive but much more robust and durable. i.e. aluminum/metal versus plastic, etc. For example, Dells makes the Inspiron line. It's meant for home use. Their business line is called Latitudes. We use a lot of Latitudes at my job. They work fine. It's when departments try to skimp and buy the Inspirons is when we start to have stuff break down. Not of fan of HP/Compaq. Dell has also seen a downgrade in their quality even though the Latitude line has held up decently. I prefer the Lenovo line which is owned by IBM. Particularly the ThinkPads. Edit: [Addition] - All the better models I just listed cost a lot more than $350 of course. But you do get what you pay for. As far as finding a $350 that works just as well as a $1000+ laptop? I don't know. Maybe there is one out there. I just never looked.

3500 calories roughly equals to a pound of fat. If you work out a lot, your body will naturally crave energy and you'll start to eat a lot more. Where people go wrong is when the increase in calories being burned is equal to the increase in calories being consumed. If you simply diet, your body will start to conserve and slow everything down; including your metabolism. The ideal is to work out to keep your body from slowing down your metabolism but change your diet where your feeding your increased appetite with high energy, low calorie foods so that your total intake is less than what you burn. Calories consumed minus BMI minus calories burned through working out = net gained or net loss.

Me, personally, I avoid purchasing products from companies that went out of business simply because you will no longer receive support for your product.

Not sure about LI but here in the Bronx it is suspected that they followed the MetroNorth train tracks. Not the tracks themselves mind you but the wooded area next to the tracks to block the unsightly views from house near the train.

I've been getting them here where I live and I live in the Bronx. Use to see two every other night at the park where I walk my dog blocks from my apartment 2 years ago. I caught one of them on my iPhone video but it came out dark and grainy They were eventually removed because and I stopped seeing them. I heard from a guy around the neighborhood that he recently spotted a new one twice in the pass couple of months. I haven't seen it though so I'll believe it when I see it.

Some major contradictions we have as hunters is that we go after the buck with the biggest antlers or the fattest doe. As a result, we're actually removing the most desirable genetics from the herd. In nature, the weakest and smallest are removed from the gene pool. Hunters do the opposite. Sure, you can say a 4-5 year old buck has sowed his seeds already but why not let him keep spread his genes around? If a doe made it to it's 5th year she must be doing something right. Nature probably would want her teaching young does more than the dumb ones. Second contradiction is to feed coyotes and then justify killing them because they've over-populated and are a nuisance. Baiting them makes sense but feeding them doesn't. Just some things that I noticed. Not enough for me to pass on a huge buck in favor of sick looking spike. I'll still take the bigger one. I also leave badly damaged squirrels sometimes for the scavengers. It's just something I noticed.

My dog gets everything I don't want or any recipes I mess up. That little rascal can eat!

Ditto.

I like to take a nice wet dump on my seat. This keeps most people from sitting on my tree stand.

I go camo except during the youth season. Then I'll cover up with orange.

I'm a "meat hunter". If all other things are equal, I'll go buck, big doe, fawn in that order. But I'm not as fortunate to have 6 or 7 deer come within range where I can pick and choose. I'll go after which ever one gives me the easiest and most ethical shot. While it will not change my hunting philosophy, I have heard that bucks taste the worst while fawns are the most tender. I haven't had enough to say if this is true or not. Is it?

Depends on which park. Each park seems to have their own rules. If I'm visiting a new park for the first time, I always drive to the main entrance and read the rules on the board.