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Diane Feinstein's life long dream of banning guns (especially semi's) just went to hell in a hand basket. Great day for gun owners and America!

Finding bears would be a little easier if this slob hadn't killed at least 4 bears!

Update: Fellow that shot the woman walking her dog in the dark last deer season has plead GUILTY to criminally negligent homicide in satisfaction of the original charge of second degree manslaughter. Under the terms of the plea deal he will be sentenced to 1-4 years next January 14. Meanwhile, he's in jail.

I used to hunt a property that had two mature apple trees. Both produced unbelievable amounts of fruit. The deer swarmed to one of the trees and eventually ate every one. The apples from the other tree sat on the ground and rotted....the deer wouldn't eat them. Rabbits and squirrels wouldn't touch them either. Most years there were still apples on the ground into April. Can't tell you much about the bad apples, but they were yellow.

Not only is this a good time to transplant fruit trees but many stores have close outs on their nursery stock now. I often see trees at less than half price this time of year compared to Spring prices. Last year the close out prices at Lowe's and Tractor Supply were the same, but the TS trees were much larger in stem diameter. I try to pick up a few more every year.

You sold out to the enemy for $29.99?

My best friend in high school had an Ithaca Super Single (I don't remember the gauge) that consistently shot about 18 inches low and 18 inches to the right- no matter who fired it. He never used it for deer hunting. Later I had an in-law that used a single shot 20 ga. He carried slugs between his fingers on his left hand (as described by rob-c)and he often killed deer with one shot. But, when he needed to he could accurately fire that single shot so that you would think it was a pump!

I fished a couple of times in Quebec during the early 80's and learned that many of Quebec natives were unfriendly to both Americans and non French speaking Canadiens. I few folks I met from Ontario didn't have much of anything good to say about them....I haven't returned in years and things could be different now.

Depends on my mood and what's around. Back in the day when the "doe tag" was an either sex tag I would shoot the first buck I saw for the freezer and then hold out for a bigger one. Now I'm more selective, since it's one and done. I've taken more than 50 bucks in my hunting career, when the kids were small it was all about the freezer. I have never taken a 150 inch buck- I doubt I've ever seen more than 2 or 3 in almost 50 years afield. And those were out of range (shotgun country). One year I passed on a six point twice in the same morning. When he came by a third time in the afternoon it was strike three you're out!

Thanks! Even a blind squirrel finds an occasional acorn.

Ok, not really trail cam pics. Shot through my kitchen (screen) window with a hand held camera (Canon Power Shot). Anyway, we seem to have a lot of red fox and few if any coyotes this year. In areas where the coyote population is high, do they drive the fox out? Our coyote population was real high several years ago, now they are scarce.

I have does and fawns under my backyard apple tree eating drops 24/7. Squirrels are stripping apples from the tree big time. I have never seen them raid the tree like this year..... I don't think we have much of an acorn crop this year. I'm in 7R.

Big enough!

Mother grizzly bear and her cub were tracked down and shot by the authorities...…………..

Mark Uptain is survived by a wife and 5 children.

I'm wondering about the wisdom of live trapping raccoons and letting them go just a few miles away. I have read about bears that were live trapped and released 30 to 50 miles away- only to have them return in a few days. A friend was live trapping a seemingly endless supply of squirrels at his house (they love his bird feeder) and releasing them in a patch of woods near his work. A distance of about 3 miles. He thought some of the released critters were returning so he sprayed orange paint on their tails prior to release. Sure enough, it only took the squirrels a couple days to make the return trip to his house. I admittedly don't know much about live trapping racoons, but I suspect that catching them and only driving them a few miles to release them is a waste of time and money.

I don't believe that 200 yards is "close" to a public highway. Most soccer moms are focused on their cell phones and wouldn't notice a pink elephant in an open field...………….

Worst decision was posting this on line. If you're playing by your own rules, keep it to yourself! Don't give the Anti's ammo. I'm sure Jeffrey Dahmer killed several of his victims because he was tired of seeing them suffer.

I don't think there is much enthusiasm among Democrats for Cuomo. He failed to win the county I live in (Tompkins). I not sure how many of the folks that voted for Nixon will vote for Cuomo in the general election, but some will undoubtedly vote for one of the other choices or choose to not vote. The upstate candidate for Lt. Governor beat the NYC candidate. It can be done. Cuomo will be sure to win if we do nothing. It looks like the dems are going to control both houses of the legislature, so if Cuomo is re-elected, we should expect all manor of oppressive gun control. We need to turn out the vote as if our gun ownership depends on it, because it does.

During the summer I believe that coyotes focus on fawns. Adult deer are pretty safe. Mama deer are nothing to mess with, there was a case locally where a doe stomped on the head of a large dog who got too close to her fawn, killing the dog. This was witnessed by the dog's owners. That being said, most of our adult does start out the summer with twin fawns. By autumn, most are down to one fawn. It's my belief that the coyotes separate the deer and the doe has to choose to defend one fawn leaving the other to die. By late winter the coyotes are hungry, small game is sparse, and coyotes will try to kill any deer they can. They can and do kill perfectly healthy deer. I have seen this first hand. One was killed just off the edge of our lawn a couple years ago. I had always thought that they ran the deer down to the point of exhaustion and sometimes they probably do. But, the tracks in the snow showed told the story. The deer was ambushed and didn't make it 50 feet before it was taken down and eaten. Coyotes start at the rear and rip out guts, at some point the hapless victim dies. Three days later there was nothing left of the deer at the kill site except a few tuffs of fur. Did I mention that I have zero respect for coyotes and shoot every one on sight?

Liability issues? Page 16 of the Hunting and Trapping Guide states that: "Whether or not the land is posted, New York State General Obligations Law protects landowners from liability for non-paying recreationists engaged in hunting, trapping and fishing on their property. Because of this protection, recreational liability lawsuits against rural landowners are uncommon. This protection does not apply in cases of willful or malicious failure to guard or warn against dangers." Most landowners (in my opinion) deny access because they don't want armed strangers wandering around on their property.

Gave up on waiting on the DEC to mail me my Lifetime license tags on 9/4 and went to visit my Town Clerk. She tried to figure out how to replace the tags on her computer. That went fine until the computer decided that I was supposed to pay $15 for the tags. Clerk knew I didn't have to pay, but didn't know how to reflect that in the computer. Fortunately she found a memo on her assistants desk (from DEC) that basically told her to give me the tags and ignore collecting the fees. After printing out the tags she had to call Albany to report the transaction and non collection of fees. Because DEC doesn't have their act together, I had to make a special trip and a good 20 minutes of the clerk's time was spent doing DEC's job for them. Thank you Albany!

Hunter was camping nearby. I believe the dogs and some gear were retrieved by the family from the camp. I don't think he was using the dogs to hunt.

Thanks RED!