WNYBuckHunter

Doesnt that just knock stuff down same as a sickle bar? Not the same as a mower or brush hog, which chop stuff up into smaller pieces. With that, if you use it in a field that has 4 ft tall weeds in it, you are just going to snip each weed off near the ground and the whole length would be laying on the ground, like creating a mat of cut down vegetation.

Ive had it before, years ago. Theres a reason they call them sliders. Little bastards slide in nice and easy, but slide right back out too, usually at a higher rate of speed and with more oomph behind them.

Congrats Biz! Not sure how I missed this last week. Welcome to being a dad! Glad to hear the Mrs, baby Biz and yourself are doing well, I hope youre getting some sleep!

Weather doesnt have much to do with breeding. The timing is set by photo period. The rut doesnt happen all at once, you have the main one in late Oct/Early Nov, but then youll have 1-2 smaller ones after that. IIRC, they are spaced out around 28 days between.

Ive was getting sporadic sequences of fighting and chasing a couple of weeks ago.

If the fur is nice, Ill have them tanned. If theres any mange, they take a free flight into the bushes.

Plus it feeds the critters. I have no idea why some people go through so much trouble to dispose of guts lol.

I do the same as Culver described, and I gut them where they fall. All I use is a knife, no saws required until Im processing them.

When that happened to me, it was because we had a couple of days where it was cold in the morning, went up to 70 degrees in the early afternoon, and back down to 30 degrees and snowing in the late afternoon. An oddball situation, but not out of the realm of possibility.

Thats how NY likes it lol

You are still loading the bullet/sabot from the muzzle, so I would think that it would be legal here.

Not from what Ive read and seen in the videos. One time use as in once you fire it, its done and cant be reloaded. After a hunt you can take it out, put it in your bag and then use it again on your next hunt.

One time use. Also remember, you can only use them in a rifle designed for them.

That looks pretty sweet. I wonder why you cant get them here? I know there are tow behind flail mowers available in the US.

I use BH209, always have. I will say that I only had that happen once in 3 or 4 years of hunting exclusively with my ML, but it can and does happen, sometimes at the critical moment. Would I use one of these new setups? Probably not. Its more important for me to be able to fine tune my load and live with the small chance of having a misfire.

See, I dont agree with that. It does solve the issue of the charge getting moist, which I have run into. When I hunted with my ML all the time, I would have to take care to keep it outside in the same temps overnight, etc when it still had a charge in it (remove primer at the end of the day) so that condensation from temp changes did not happen inside the barrel and cause the load to become moist. Despite my efforts, I had a misfire on my first ML buck due to a couple of days of wildly swinging temps, it would have cost me the deer if I wasnt pretty quick at reloading it. With this new system, at the end of the day, you dont have to discharge the rifle or remove the bullet to keep the charge dry, you just open the breech and pull it out, leaving the bullet/sabot in place.

We use a DR for trail mowing at one of the farms I hunt. Its great for narrow areas or trails that are too wet for the tractor. That being said, it is not a brush hog by any means. It will cut the same size stuff as a comparably powered push mower. The advantage to it, is you dont have to walk, which makes it great for wet areas, and getting things done faster than if you had a walk behind.

Not really. Up until rifle opened up in my area, I was using an Encore ML through all of gun season. I got so good with it, I even shot a deer twice with it before it went down. Ask @Culvercreek hunt club, he was a witness lol.

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They were explaining how the Traditions rifle built for these things is setup. You wont be able to use these in your Encore unless someone makes a barrel to accommodate.

We already have one, well ML/Xbow/Vert bow, after regular gun season ends.

If you listen to the video, they explain that the barrel has a shelf inside that the sabot and bullet sits on when you load it through the barrel. No way to breech load it. This is how I envision it from their explanation