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Most likely included in the "safe" smoking kit. lol

The ability to spin things, in ones own mind, the way you want to see it is commendable . It is a pretty rare politician (imho) that One can support and trust fully to do the right thing while no one is watching. All snakes in the grass praying on our stupidity and division .

You mean the spying program started by Bush?

Heck. I might have misused those 2 words my self. I have never used Gestapo in a sentence before. Before this, I didn't know what Gazpacho was. lol AND I'M A GENIUS... ha.ha. ha. Oh and BTW, you are not doing a great job of leading by example.;)

This reminds me of the time my brother , who had a roadside stand, wanted to make his own organic fertilizer. I would bring him back my fish remains . He put them into a 55 gallon drum with lid. We started this in ice fishing season and come mid spring he was done.lol. couldn't stand to get anywhere near that barrel. It still is across the rd at the end of one of the meadows ..nowhere near the house.ha.ha.ha

True, but there was no fixing these. Ha.ha. cordless sawzall comes in handy.

I've been lucky and never had a stand or camera stolen. I have a few of each scattered around public land for all of deer season though. Once, someone thought I was encroaching on "his" territory. They super glued my bike lock on my treestand. In the course of trying to get it off I slipped and stabbed myself in my hand. Mad! I guess so! Lol. And I rarely will lose my cool. He had wooden ladder stands all over the place in that area. Operative word is had..;). This was probably 6-8 years ago , I still don't have feelings in my pointer finger. Stupid mistake.

All you guys that live too close that big city have a warped view...ha.ha.ha.. I'm not sure I'm a fan of this. Not that it matters. To each his own. You could sit in any of mine anytime because you're a good guy. At least according to some of the guys on here;)

Really? Do you sit in other people's stands too?

I'm thinking, Metal buckles on the straps holding the camera to the tree, and a solar cattle fencer set up to look like a charging system

When I look at this, I think of different groups of guys that I know that travel down to the southern tier and spend close to that much on hotel rooms. Seems like this might be a better option, even if they just used it as a temporary camp and hunted local public lands like they do now.

Great ! That aught to be illegal .You know, against the Law....

That is fantastic! CONGRATULATIONS

Meanwhile.. Yesterday, my buddy had one of his trucks slide back down the hill and into one of his doors. Luckily it was a direct hit on the door and missed all the framing. We stomped them flat and got the door sealed up again.. Overhead door company is there this morning replacing his bottom 3 panels... Sorry to hear of your troubles..Some businesses are terrible while others are excellent.

Well at least I'm not alone in looking up this new word to me.lol. I'm no help with the identity either. Lepidopterology ..wtf?

1st week of Oct. Or 11/5-13. Guaranteed a deer, if there is any..lol. Seriously though. It all depends on the property. There are properties where I would test my luck after that much pressure all day long during the rut. Other pieces I wouldn't even bother.

If I didn't have so many trips already planned , I would be interested. Fairly inexpensive trip for a group of guys. Is it your property G-Man?

If my age was judged on skull size I would be 200 years old .

This thread has me wanting to do some reloading again myself.. In the past my fil and i did a fair amount of reloading for our guns. We had worked up a load for my old FN 98 mauser action in .308. While maybe not everybody's cup of tee. . I really liked the .308 with 48gr IMR4064 with 125 gr sierra Spitzer bullets. -1"moa. It anchored an awful lot of deer..;)

During the hunt itself or even setting up a stand I've always preferred going alone. Even with that I don't think it would be the same without friends or family to share it with. If we have a cell signal its fun to text back and forth as things happen..I'm lucky and have a core group of friends. We will do 2-3 weeks of hunting trips every year together and I wouldn't trade that for any deer. When not on vacation we will usually go our own ways. We each have our own properties, occasionally driving together to public land that we may hunt . It doesn't matter if I'm 30 miles away in the ADKs and I shoot a deer miles in across a swamp,a creek, a mountain, and a mile of berry briars they will be there to help. Even if it is 1:30 am when we get out. lol Often this will end up being the story told and the better memory of the hunt many years later. They always say they aren't going to answer my calls during hunting season , but they always do..

Talking about old does. I shot one opening morning of firearms one year. I had posted myself on what I thought might be an overlooked escape route. Sure enough when the shooting started she came barreling over the hill right to me. I never did weight her but she was huge. How many times had she escaped on that same rt?. It was one of the times that I actually wished I could have put her back . You know, like a bass. She had lived a long life for a deer. Its part of makes hunting different, its permanent . I appreciated her as much or more than many of the nice bucks I have gotten over the years.

Nice high fence deer.

Ha.ha.ha. Me too. Even an occasional doe.

I think it depends on which critter you ask.. If the few I shot could answer they might figure I'm pretty good.. the 100s + that got away would say I'm a pretty poor hunter..

Nice. I will have to look them up. I think I've read most of his ADK books but not the others.