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thanks guys, I have all kinds of fish pictures from the boat that I can post as I get time. I fish out of Sodus Point all season, I used to go to the Genny river in Rochester in the fall but our fishing has been good here in the fall so I stay here and don't have to drive 35 miles in the morning to get to the boat. yes the 36 lb king was taken the first day of the fall derby 4 or 5 years ago, and the guys didn't want to get in the derby

some game room pics, my gal was never fond of mounts and had said you aint filling up the house with mounts. the first time she salmon fished with me this is what she caught and then wanted it mounted a 25 lb king salmon...... I said what about the " I don't want a bunch of dead stuff on the walls" statement? well.... now SHE has 9 fish mounted and on the wall!!! I have 1 fish done that I didn't even catch it was one of my customers and I made such a big deal out of it he gave it to me cause he didn't have the $$ to get it mounted and they are such a rare fish he didn't want to just have it filleted. anyway back to the pics. the bigger fish to the left is a 19 lb coho Judy caught ( a week after the 18 lb coho that is to the right of the buck) the other fish is a 7lb brown trout. the buck is an 8pt I shot with the bow a couple years ago. well I thought I had more pics of all our mounts, I will have to take some more pics I have 15 or 16 ducks out at the taxidermists still and 2 deer heads from this year, and still waiting to get my moose rug back.

how about some ducks? drake old squaw (longtailed duck) drake woody drake hoodie one of my favorite ducks to hunt! drake goldeneye(wonder why they call'm whistlers?) a pair of northern pintails a pair of mallards ( the drake has 4 curls)

18 lb coho salmon a rare fantail rainbow that one of my customers caught on my boat and gave me to have mounted one of my spring gobblers the gobblers spurs

here is a 27 lb king salmon I caught 5-7-07 during the spring derby that we landed 10 minutes after 8 pm, fish had to be weighed by 8 pm each day, it would of been in the money if not the winning fish that spring. :'( a 36 lb. king salmon

here are a few pics of the fish we chase all summer a nice 17 lb steelhead a nice king salmon almost a single day lake ontario grand slam, king, coho, atlantic, brown trout, rainbow, steelhead.... only thing we didn't get was a lake trout > and like I said in another post, I have been know to chase perch also

I did ok, only shot 2 bucks with the bow this year, a 12 point in pa and an 8 point here in NY.

I am not sure, i know he had them for a while prior to the 94, 95 season, they are basically brand new guns as he hunts very little with them, and now that he is sick he will probably not be hunting much with them anymore.

kicks high flyer waterfowl choke tubes have been the best performers on my mossy's. I like the extra full on the 835 with 3" #2 kent faststeels. and the kicks modified for the 500's I shoot in the swamps with the same kent ammunition. no matter which chokes you buy pattern the gun to see which is the best.

Is this the real true life PYGMY from the wildside forum??? I got one of those .338 win mags as partial payment on a construction job, along with 3 other guns as well for the same job. I am not in any big hurry to shoot that bad boy after seeing the load data on it... probably just set in the gun cabinet and look perty like the rest of them cause I don't sell any guns I buy or are given to me.

on both of Franks model 700's the safety has to be moved to the fire position to open the bolt. The bolt will not open at all when the safety is on.

I fish out of Sodus point NY, one of the largest ports on the southern shore of lake Ontario. We fish for trout and salmon mostly, but I have been known to chase perch as well my site is reeltimesportfishingcharters I will have to check with the mods/owners..... I don't want to get banned right off the bat for advertising :

I have some personal experience with this issue. back in the late 90's early 2000's while deer hunting in Pa. a fella I worked with used to go to camp with me to deer hunt. he had m700 .243 , we were done with a little 1 man deer push we were standing at the truck and when he released the safety the gun discharged! scared the crap outa him and me! I turned around and he was white as a ghost! He said all I did was push the safety off to unload the gun and it went off. I took the gun, cycled another round into the chamber, put the safety back on and obviously with the muzzle pointed in a safe direction I pushed the safety off and the gun discharged again! I told him that gun goes back to camp and you get your backup gun! I told him that night that that .243 does not ever come back to camp until I see a repair receipt for it! 2 months later I see in one of my outdoor magazines a recall by Remington for model 700's from serial # XXXXXXX to # XXXXXXXXX for firing when the safety is pushed off to unload it. I took the magazine to work and he called them, he came down to my office and said "they told me my gun isn't in their serial number range and that they wouldn't cover it!" I could not believe my ears! I then called them and talked to the customer services person, got the same story, so I asked to speak to his manager. He said he was a manager but who really knows? I gave him the serial # on the gun and he told me the same thing, I am sorry but your serial # falls outside our recall scope so if you feel there is a problem you will have to take it to your local gunsmith and have the firearm looked at and repaired... I couldn't believe it! I said this makes no sense and is very troublesome to be talking to the manufacturer of a firearm WITH an open recall on a specific model of firearm with a specific problem, one of which I have and is doing EXACTLY what the recall is for and its "outside YOUR serial # range" and you WON'T cover this extremely dangerous issue???? Did you ever think that MAYBE you should expand your serial # range because obviously this issue goes back further or ahead further than what you think! No matter WHAT your serial # range is this gun is doing exactly what YOUR recall says they can potentially do!! I get the "I'm sorry sir its not in the range so you will have to take it to a gunsmith and have it checked" My closing remark was I personally will NEVER buy another Remington product, nor can I in good conscience ever recommend to anyone a Remington product IF you will not stand behind such a dangerous safety issue! and to this day I have not purchased or recommended a Remington product including their ammunition! Frank did take the gun to a gunsmith and even though the gun was basically new they replaced the trigger assembly ( BTW the gunsmith tested the gun and it discharged for him also) Just food for thought, I have seen many articles written on this issue and read the news reports, the troubling thing is remingtons response of basically we have no knowledge of this issue, if it wasn't an issue why did you have a recall on it a number of years ago?????

I would say the .243 would be a fine choice for now, later on in life you can always buy a larger caliber rifle if you feel the .243 is insufficient. I have shot a few deer with a .243 and never had one take a step. I have also shot a few with a 30-06 and other than the one I shot that was running all of them were drt (dead right there) The one that was running only went a little over 100 yards. My stepdad has shot more deer with a .220 swift and .243 than I can even remember, I don't ever remember him shooting at a deer with either of those calibers and having him loose a deer. I will say I am not keen on the .220 swift but I will say from what I saw on lung shots that thing is devastating to the lungs of a deer! first and foremost you have got to get a gun that FITS you! if it doesn't fit you it will not be accurate (for you) or comfortable to shoot. This means you have to go to a gun shop and shoulder some different guns but more importantly with both a lighter coat on and a heavy winter coat. All those extra layers of clothes CAN make a difference on how a gun feels and how well you can sight down the barrel. Most states deer seasons fall in the colder weather climates. It would be a tough pill to swallow to practice all summer and be a good shot only to bundle up like a snowman and then wonder why you missed what should of been a chip shot on a deer. Once you find one that you like its just personal choice of caliber and action. All my rifles are bolt actions, a big majority of them are model 70 winchesters, I love that 3 position safety and the smoothness of the winchester bolt actions.

Just joined up here last week, didn't know this site existed or I woulda been on a long time ago. I have been hunting `35 years, grew up in PA. in the hayday of whitetail hunting, for the most part my immediate family (mom,dad) didn't hunt but there was a big family camp just below our house and they all hunted and since there were 5 or 6 kids my age that I hung out with I started because of them. When I killed my first deer with the bow at age 11 I was all done! a hunter was born and I have never missed a season! lived in the woods 365 days a year! my whole life revolved around hunting if the season was open on something I was hunting it!! as I got older I found myself going elsewhere to hunt, NH, ME, NY, back to Pa. etc. for quite a few years I was a real terror to the whitetail deer population ;D now I find that a few deer a year are good enough for our food supply. I still do a good amount of hunting, bowhunting and spring gobbler being my 2 favorite seasons, but I do my fair share of waterfowl gunning as well. I can make time to hunt even though I have 2 businesses of my own that keep me as busy as I need to be. I still go to Pa. to hunt and help take care of our farm work. I have a very good friend here that has a farm, he is 74 and certainly can not do what he used to do. So I help take care of his farm as well, we do anywhere between 5000- 7000 bales of hay a year, all square bales and all stored in the barn. We do not use a kicker on the baler, so I get to stack all the wagons, then haul the wagons to the barn, off load the hay then stack the hay in the mowe. He is scheduled for back surgery on monday I will have a full plate taking care of the farm and his house, our house, and my construction work......oh yeah and getting ready for duck season the day after Christmas! I don't know how active I can be on this site but as time allows I will be checking in and adding my .02 worth not that anyone listens or cares Summer time I will probably not be on much, between 2 farms, construction, and my fishing charter business I am extremely busy.....oh yeah I cant forget my scouting also. ;D thanks, Lee

Set back and grab your favorite cold beverage as this is long A walk back in history of the season. I had this buck and 3 of his companions under my tree on oct. 15, what used to be the original first day of archery season. This year archery started on the 16th, I had a decent 10 point at 10 yards the first morning and due to brush I had no shot and actually I wasn’t real upset that I didn’t have a shot because I knew this big 8 was there also. The weather, actually the wind the first week and a half was playing havok with me because we were having an abnormal amount of SW winds and that made most of my good stand sites unhuntable. I learned the hard way NOT to push your luck and the motto of forget the wind just hunt is NOT a motto to live by! While you can cut down greatly your scent you will NEVER be 100% scent free and some bucks only need 1 wiff and your all done! I didn’t hunt my good sets the last week of Oct. so they would be good and fresh for the first week in Nov. when they should really be getting cranked up, I am a firm believer in don’t push it till the times right! I saw some good bucks week 1 November and was doing all day sets the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and all but an hour or so the 4th. On the 4th about 4:45 it was really raining and I had taken my arrow off the string when a doe and 2 little ones blew by me. I thought someone had gotten out of a stand and they spooked them but 5 minutes later that big 8 point walked right under me and all around me and I wouldn’t tempt fate in the rain. I knew then and after that NOT taking the shot in the rain was the right choice but man it was eating me up inside!! I know that most times you may only ever get 1 good chance at 1 particular mature buck and I was trying to convince myself that he had no clue you were there and you will get to see him again! I was to leave for camp in Pa. the next day and the next morning it was pouring rain again so I didn’t hunt I just packed the truck and headed for Pa. at noontime. That whole trip I just kept replaying the previous nights hunt and wondered would he chase a doe off onto another property and get shot or worse yet get hit by a car like so many other bucks have met their demise……. I was supposed to be in Pa most of a week, but Saturday morning I was on a very familiar ridge and as usual there were bucks there and I shot a nice 12 point after being in the tree 4 hours. Now it was decision time, I had some work at the farm to do but I just couldn’t get that NY buck out of my mind. Monday morning I caped out the 12 and did the butchering and closed up camp and came back to NY. Tuesday morning I was out and the first buck I saw was the big 8! I knew Wed & Thu were gone as I had work to do and the break wouldn’t do any harm. Saturday evening I had him again at less than 10 yards but being burried in a hemlock and last light I just couldn’t see my pin and I certainly wasn’t going to just “center punch” him! Sunday am it was hard s/se winds and that would be the worst wind for my hot stand! So I took the morning “off” the evening hunt might be ok, after showering and starting to get ready the wind picked up, not going, wind died, weather channel said less than 5mph wind, I am going! Got all my stuff together and it starts sprinkling, that’s it take off the gear and don’t push it! 11/15/10 I go outside at 4:30 am and its dead calm! Showered got my gear together and off to the woods, slipped in nice as the leaves were nice and wet from the heavy showers Sunday night, all settled in the stand and at 7:30 I hear a grey squirrel scolding a deer, I am intently pinpointed on the squirrel and movement! Antlers! NICE antlers! There he is! He walks north of me about 30 yards out then turns south and here he comes! I am fully thinking this is it! He is walking head drooped, eyes about shut, just plain whooped from chasing all night!! He gets to 10 yards and no shot turns west stops in 1 opening…..BUT his entire chest is behind a beech tree and all I can see is from the last rib to the tail! He trashes a small beech tree! Takes 2 steps and is covered with beech brush on the vitals and he proceeds to make a scrape and licking branch and then does his urine deal. Walks 10 feet and literally plopped down, I mean standing on all 4 one second and crash on the ground! 20 yards down wind and lights out! Asleep!! I couldn’t believe it, this buck is bedded 20 yards from me and no shot! Downwind and stone cold asleep! He slept for an hour till a young doe walked through and then he snapped awake and jumped up and chased her out of there and then slowly walked up the hill till he heard another buck grunting and chasing that young doe in the brush to my east and he was off to the races and all kinds of chasing as he was trying to run off that other buck. I could only hunt till 10 because of a noontime appointment, with that done I was back in the shower and getting stuff ready, tonight it was my good luck 1983 Penn State shirt night! I took a very slow walk to the stand as it had warmed up and the leaves had dried quite a bit so it was noisy. I got to my hemlock with no deer spooked, sprayed everything down again and I just “had” that feeling that this was going to be the night! I even sprayed the climbing stick as I was going up the 30 feet! I had that feeling all day and I paid extra care on my scent control. It was WARM! I thought man I just cant catch a break! 2:00 nothing, 3:00 nothing, 4:00 nothing! Finally the sun got behind a western hill and you could feel the temp dropping! 4:30 I hear a deer to the northeast coming my way, 1 deer, he steps out and it’s a decent 8 point…..but its not him! He walks by @ 10 yards in the open I think to myself buddy if this was Friday you’d be in trouble! He mills around me for 5 minutes and then heads north into the grapevine thicket and finds a doe to chase around. I hear a deer coming behind me and to the south of me, I watch the edge of the hemlocks and I see that little doe from this morning walking with her tail out and fluffed up…..good sign!!! She walks right under me and due west now! Uuuurrrrrrrppp directly behind me! I knew right then it was him, he had a very deep grunt and it was always very short and sharply ending! Then I see a wall of tines! Yes its him! He stopped looked around because of all the chase noise and then walked behind a big beech tree and I eased to full draw as the kisser button found the spot and he stepped right into one of the few openings I have on that side of the stand and STOPPED broadside at 6 yards! I aint kidding my mind said “thanks for the memories sir” as the green pin was burning a hole through his lungs and the wasp tipped Easton was gone as I watched the orange and green fletching disappear right behind the shoulder. He jumped ahead 10 feet and then just walked southwest, my first thought was I KNOW I saw that arrow go through his shoulder! Well he walked about 50 yards stopped looked around and fell over. It was finally done, so much work, so much time, all the practicing, all the stand work in placements, a 2 year game of chess was finally over. I sat down and thought about all the encounters with him, what he means to me, and how much I truly will miss seeing his footprints and hoping every time I check a camera will he be on it this time, I now know HE wont be. He will provide good table fare and will provide me with a great mount and a memory that will last my lifetime. It was probably one of the most somber times I have ever walked up on a buck I had shot with the bow, so many close encounters, so many pictures, so many hours looking at him with the field glasses, I kinda knew what he had but didn’t “know” for certain….I said a quiet thank you as I finally picked up his head for the first time and realized he was all I had expected and then some, and he was HEAVY and minga he stunk! This buck means more to me than any other deer I have shot and lord knows I have shot a pile of them. The start of the season last year I vowed that IF I were to get him it would be with my bow, all last archery season, gun season, muzzleloader season I hunted with the bow. 13 encounters with him last year and it was never “right” so I let him walk, man did I catch grief from some of my buddies! “you gotta kill him with a gun before someone else” “I would never think of carrying a bow in gun season“…. I told them I made a promise to myself that I would only take him with my bow and that’s what it would be or tag soup! I was fully prepared to eat the tag this year if need be but willpower, determination, preparation, and attention to detail all came together 4:45pm 11/15/10 in my favorite hemlock stand.