Elmo

I've always had a fascination with the animals and the outdoors. My mother said as early as when I first started crawling, I use to go to the neighbor's yard and hug their chickens and they would get mad because I would literally hug them to death. After high school, I got a job at the Bronx Zoo feeding animals and cleaning cages. Hunting never was an idea until I went to college in Michigan where outdoor sports was huge there. For me, it was never really about purely hunting but rather a part of being a survivalist. Staying up late at night at the local coffee shop studying and watching hunters come in for their early morning breakfast before heading out got me interested. I tried talking a couple of my friends into doing it but we realize how difficult it would be to talk our parents into funding our hunting interest while they're grinding flesh off their hands trying to pay for our out-of-state tuition so I buried that interest but never really killed it. Came back home to NYC and the interest laid dormant the whole time. Then my younger brother came back from being stationed down in North Carolina and he also has a huge interest in being a survivalist and naturally, hunting went with that as well. Our conversation lasted 2 seconds. Me: "I want to give hunting a try". Bro: "Yeah, that'll be cool." Me: "let's freakin' do it". Now that I have the resources to get all the gear, and the resolve to go through with it, I just went straight in...no mentor. Nothing to get me started at all but I have not looked back since. Did all my own research which lead me to stumble on to this forum. My only regret was not doing it sooner.

Sorry to hear. =(

Money doesn't grow on trees but apparently bears do.

Feel better.

Honestly, if I had tens of millions of dollars on the line and a steroid needle sitting in front of me, I don't know what I would do. So many people get on these players for using this stuff but I bet more than half the critics would have done the same thing if they were in that situation.

I think what they mean by hunting guardian is an experienced adult hunter to take your son into the woods. If I had children, I wouldn't allow them to only sit through an couple of days of hunter's safety course, take a few shots in the range, hand them a deadly weapon, and send them into the woods on their own. Not trying to tell you how your should raise yours but it definitely is something to think about.

It's the other way around. These players have to take these Perfromance Enhancing Drugs in order to earn millions of dollars.

Isn't that a waste of $20 and it prevents someone else from getting them?

Got 3M but denied 3P.

If you're talking about Davis Shooting Sports over at Goshen, I don't know if they offer training other than pistol safety training. They have a great friendly staff so if you call them, maybe they'll know of something. Davis Shooting Sports: (845) 651-7000

Price AND pictures.

Nice idea.

That's so cool.

I started yelling at the girl at the counter. Telling her how worthless she was which is why she'll never amount to anything more than a Gander Mountain cashier. I then grab the rack of Jack Link's beef jerkys and threw it out out the front window. I then proceeded to urinate all over the stacks of 2012 Hunter's Regulation Manuals. Just kidding. I said "Arrr..schucks!" and "Oh wellz", thanked the girl, took my tags, and left.

Thanks, Hunt. I hope it happens as well.

Didn't know you could. Once I got denied, I just took the lost and left.

Thanks. I'll just call in. For some reason I thought you have to at least bring something in to prove the sex of the deer. Antlerless, etc.

Is there a map or list of deer check stations? Maybe I'll get my first deer this year. Should probably know where I should take my tag to get it validated.

It just means I'll do most of my deer hunting in 3M this year. If I see a doe in 3P, I'll have to pass up on it unless I can get a 3P tag from a buddy or something. What I won't do is take a doe in 3P, drive it to 3M, and report that I took it at 3M. I'm not that desperate.

Harsher prisons in general is also a must. Harden criminals brag about spending time in jail like it's a badge of honor. They don't fear going to jail because compare to life outside of jail, jail isn't so bad. Too much right is given to a criminal who I believe once you've committed a violent crime, you lost your rights as a human being. Jail should be so tough that they should not want to come back so badly that they would be willing to change their way of life just to make sure they don't.

I play the skin flute.

Denied 3P. Got one for 3M.

Understood. That makes sense.

It certainly isn't about playing their game but it also wouldn't hurt to win them over.