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You are correct, but what in all that makes it safer for you if I am vaccinated? I think that is the point that is trying to be made. Imo .Now that the vaccine is available it should be left to the people to get it or not..

I do carry vacuum packed matches,lighter, and a few of those charcoal starter bricks in my pack.. I've never had to use one ...yet..

I love cattail swamps. It is amazing how many deer they hold and how little of a spot they need to bed.. I say this as I sit on the edge of hundreds of acres of cattails..lol

I see more rubs in staging areas just out of where they are feeding. I'm not sure if that is just my observations or a general rule ?

I know I have become overly reliant on onx for navigation. I have been in some large pieces of public land relatively flat with swamps with very few land marks. With my phone charged I'm not afraid to stay until close to dark and navigate back out by flashlight with the help of my phone occasionally. I suppose at some point I may be playing survivor for a night if my phone dies..lol

I use ONX as well. I use it for navigation(hybrid map with contour lines is really handy) while in the woods, property lines, finding public land, arial scouting, and on my western trip the forest fire layer was handy.

In my experience rub lines will be along travel corridors, staging , and bedding areas. You may find the odd rub around food source.

What are the rules in transporting ammo across the border ?

Leaves are definitely starting to go fall and go downhill as you can see from my porch. Driveway and forest floor is covered in leaves .

Spent a lot time there 30-35 years ago. Friend had a camp on the right not long after crossing the creek. I don't believe I ever deer hunted there. I didn't start deer hunti g until I was 20.. We would go through a brick or 2 of .22 shells every weekend plinking . Repelling down cliffs. Fishing , and just being kids..lol... a lot of good memories there when we were teenagers.. I cut a few 100 cord of firewood there during the ice storm of 98 as well.

I didn't realize you were hunting that far north. Have you made it over to Greenwood Creek state forest by Pitcairn?

Just back into the hedge row, rearrange some stones, clip a few branches. Voila.. I have a few 5 gallon pails hidden in hedgerows that have seen a few deer shot..

Ha. Ha. Ha.! You talking about yourself or did you have company? ;).

Ha.ha.. Heck , that's just a good weekend on the rez up here..lol

Oh come on.. you rarely sight any reliable sources. I just quickly googled and didn't find an article from 2002 that said it was due to government rules that the train stopped and didn't move from the bridge .

Friends and I were practicing this weekend at our "range" we had just finished sighting a few guns in at 100 yds so started playing around with our bows at same distance. After a few shots we were dialed in enough to hit the bag anyways ..lol. I could hit the target if I pulled 20' over the target with my 60 yd pin.. Apparently 25' was too much..;) Not the 1st story I have involving a dead stick..

One of my best hunts was ,I think, my 1st year bow hunting. I spent over an hour belly crawling and sneaking in my socks across a meadow. I finally had closed the distance and had a rock pile between me and a 1/2 year old buck. I waited for him to step out. When he did, I shot 2 feet over his back.. lol..I'm not sure wich one of us was more suprised.. I discovered later that the old painted iron pin on my garage sale bow had loosened up and fallen down to near the bottom of the sight. Not successful , but I was hooked..

Oh that's right, you told the 1st story , so it must be true.. Here. I will back it up with all the facts, much like you do for your posts. Ready? .... here it is......"- - - - -"

Nah. I blast my 2" hyperdomics through the shoulder all the time. I cannot get a complete pass through but it has always traveled all the way through to the otherside.. Not exactly where I was aiming but it worked..;)

Well, I do enjoy a story pointing out the idiocy of our government. Resorting to and continually posting lies is bs..One of societies many problems And this is what really happened. "The crew stopped the train and got out to investigate; but by the time they traversed the approximately half-mile distance from the front of the train to the problem car, the wooden bridge on which the latter was stopped had already caught fire. The crew unhooked the rest of the train from the cars stopped on the bridge, leaving six 280,000-pound coal cars to tumble into the creek as the conflagration engulfed the bridge"

Maybe a NYS health inspection rule? I know one of our larger processor around here wouldn't take dead deer for a time. You could bring in meat or live deer due to regulations. Live deer were difficult to get there. The shop mainly butchers livestock and they have to be taken in alive.. They are taking whole deer again, I'm not sure what they have done differently to allow this..

My favorite weapon is my rifle. At close to 100% kill ratio over 30 years its very effective.. If you measured it by my heart rate it would be my bow.. I do love to hunt with my bow the best... 3/4s of the time I hunt the same way and distances, there just isn't the challenge with a rifle. Put the crosshairs on the kill zone and squeeze the trigger .. Way too many other things that I can screw up with a bow.(slowdraw,hold,anchor,squeeze trigger,form etc.). Unfortunately I've probably done close to all of them over the years..lol

I found 2 pellets and tc Shockwave to be extremely accurate. Not really fond of their performance. They just blast through . I have started to aim at the shoulder to avoid some of the poor blood trails. A little loss of meat but a guaranteed deer in short order.

I have to get out more. My dinner never looks that good while staying at Letchworth..

That is what I use.. The 50gr pellets.