Elmo

I think it's like the speed limit. They post 65 knowing you're going to go 70. They just didn't want you going 75.

No always true. I'm from the city and I enjoy the trek as much as the hunt. I'll cover several miles sometimes when I'm stalking. If I can still hear cars in the distance, then I'm not at my spot yet.

I've never had a tick my entire life and the last couple of months, I had 3. WTF?!?

You're going to get some different opinions on this but I personally don't think a .22LR can take down a coyote consistently. Sure a well perfectly placed good shot will but I think you'll injure and lose a lot more coyotes than you will put down with a 22.

No disrespect to you, NYBowhunter but your story reminded me of my situation. Last year my brother left full time service and transferred over to the National Guard so he had all the time in the world. We started hunting together pretty much every weekend. This year he started a new security position and started college at the same time so if he's not patrolling hot spots, in class, studying, then he's passed out. I don't see his schedule changing anytime soon. All of a sudden I found myself going out hunting by myself all the time. That's when I decided to become aggressive in finding new people to hunt with. All those hunting buddies people have had for years haad to start out at some point. Sure, I miss hunting with my brother but we sometimes forget that people's lives changes and life doesn't need your permission to change on you so you have to accept it, adjust to the change, and cherish the moments that we do have now.

I thought the minimum caliber for deer was .243 but now the regulation states any centerfire. When did this change?

Sweet! But why stop there? Let's buy a tank!

That's not a deer, that's Bullwinkle.

Sorry to hear. Best of luck.

I think the final rankings will be: 1. 30-06 2. .308 3. .270 4. 30-30

This is what I've been told by someone I believe really knows his stuff. Handle a couple of bows. Find the one that feels good to you. Get measured at the shop and get measured accurately. Don't equate draw length and draw weight to your manhood. I see some people shaking and trembling while trying to draw their bow back. Imagine them doing that while on the tree stand? Deer would spot all that movement right away. Pretty much any modern compound bow nowadays can get the job done so anything else is personal preference and looks. I've only started shooting this summer. I have the Bear Charge. Basic low-end "starter" bow. I'm out shooting some people at the range with their $1K+ setups because they feel that spending extra money compensates for less practice. No bow shoots straight. Not even bullets fly straight. Every thing drop. Just adjust your sight to the drop. The difference between 300fps versus 320 fps is a small amount. I don't think a deer is going to jump an arrow flying at 300 fps that it wouldn't have jump at 320 fps. Essentially, just buy the bow that feels good in your hands, is properly fitted to you, draws back smoothly, comes with a good warranty, looks cool, shoots at least 300 fps or close to it, and then take it to the archery range and practice a ton.

bubba, what I'm reading is that it states you cannot have a centerfire rifle only in areas where the use of centerfire rifles on deer are not allowed. "You may use a rifle chambered in any cartridge, except that you may not possess a centerfire rifle afield, during the day or night, during any open season for deer in areas where rifles are prohibited for deer hunting."

It would also help is they knew their geography because it should technically be called Occupy Liberty Street. Bankers have been walking in and out of the NYSE unobstructed.

Trash irks me more than spent shells. Spent shells fall to the ground. You have to remember to pick them up. Trash doesn't fall on the ground by themselves. You have to deliberately throw them there.

A protest is won by size and numbers, not by duration. The momentum everntually died out.

No wonder they keep running into highways!

+1. Particularly how the top squandered away other peoples money, got paid a ton, and then got bailed out by the very people who's money they squandered.

My next deer will be my biggest deer because it'll be my first deer so like Dave said...if it's legal, it's legal, and I'll be damn proud when it happens, regardless of how small it is.

Go Red!

Ooohhhh...*drool*

Doc, I agree with you completely. My only point was that due to the ease of the rifle for hunting purposes, I believe more new hunters who don't want to put in the time to learn or simply "wants to blow sh#t up", etc. are drawn to a gun more then a bow.

I use the sunrise sunset app on the iPhone for photography purposes because it also shows the civil twilight times (the time the sun actually breaks the horizon) which is more important than actual sunrise and sunset for photography purposes. But I also use it for hunting. I normally set it for GPS location which in NYC, it's about 4 minutes off but you can also set it to use Albany as the location with makes it fairly accurate (+/- 1 minute at most). If a DEC officer busts me for shooting a deer 30 seconds too early than you best believe I'm fighting him in court. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sunrise-sunset/id309409507?mt=8

Agree. In the woods, there's to many variables. This can easily be tested in a lab with a deer. I find it funny none of the companies do so and boast their results. Test: Have several containers covered with the product. Place a treat in one of the containers. Bring deer into room. See if deer finds treat one first try. Keep doing this a bunch of times and see how many times the deer misses. If not deer, then a trained dog.

Again, I tend to tune out of a thread when it starts to move away from the main topic and into a bunch of name calling so feel free to shut me up if I'm bringing something up that has already been hashed out. I wasn't getting that one is harder than the other or one type of hunter is more disciplined than the other. Rather it is the preceived notion that one type is harder or requires more skill than another. I think if you grab any average joe in the street they would "think" they can shoot a gun but will probably admit that they can't handle a bow accurately. Maybe it's because of those shooting video games they've played or a "macho" thing. I had one guy fumble around with one of my rifles , pointing the muzzle in unsafe directions, ranting about how he shot guns while he searved in the Navy but yet he was all over the place at the shooting range. Yet, he admits he doesn't know how to handle a bow. (I didn't allow him to touch my guns again until after he took the hunter's safety ed course) I myself didn't think I can hunt with a bow until I went to the achery range and gave it a try. Now I can hit a 3" target 30 yards out consistently and I would never shoot anything beyond that but prior to the archery range I thought I wouldn't be able to hit the board side of a barn and so I never even considered bowhunting.

Yesterday morning, I went to my spot while it was still dark but since the moon was near full, I had enough light to get to my spot. Plus, it's across a grass field so it's not like I had to stumble around much. To enter this field, you have to go through this tiny clearing along this roll of thorn bushes. At the end of my sit, I went back and saw a gut pile right at the opening of those thorn bushes. I must have stepped within inches of this gut pile on my way in. Imagine if I would have stepped and slipped onto that gut pile while coming in. Would not have been cool.