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Kinda reminds me of wild horse radish? I remember picking something similar when I was a kid off the edge of the hose pasture.

That is just weird !

Lmao.... I was cleaning some of my shoreline and transfering the brush to another spot.. That does give me an idea though..;)

I lease a "permanent" camp on a small campground. This year we didn't open up until the 15th instead of the 1st. I was worried that I missed the crappie bite. Looks like I'm good.

I was headed out crappie fishing. I was thinking a little camouflage would help me sneak up on them.. Worked too..!

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Grouse, I have to say.. I am pleased and thankfully for the job you have done and do! Let's me view you a little differently . For the most part you have all always rubbed me the wrong way with, all your over the top posts . I honestly pictured you as the odd right wing professor type.

I'm in on table 2. 2 more to go

Nice! Those blocks are heavy. Must be over 100#s. 25 years or so ago I would help a local guy out on and off. He would tear down silos and rebuild them all over the northeast. I was a pretty tough 220# young man cutting firewood for living.. Not near as tough as him though. He would carry a block in each hand all day long and swing them up onto the trailer bed. I could keep up for 3-4 hrs , then I was 2 handing them ..lol.. he had shoulders and forearms like a gorrilla. One of the few times I had to admit someone was tougher than me...ha.ha. I watched him take quite a few down the same way you did , with a sledgehammer.

That's a big old red oak. Roughly 25 years ago I cut down a monster white oak. After taking a 10' log from the base, I ended up with 35 face cord(close to 12 full cord) of firewood.

Me too. I have a few thousand coins. Timing the top is going to be the trick.

I'm of the opinion that most people who advocate against the 243 do not have much experience with one, or are solidly on the "heavier bullet is better " mindset . About the only real disadvantage ,I think, for a beginner with a 243 is the lack of a good blood trail. Often it's skimpy at best. Other than that if you hit them in the body from the front legs to the back legs, they are dead. (Finding them on a poor shot could be difficult). Limit them to 150 yds or less. Stress the fact that you must know exactly where the deer was standing and where it ran too and all should be good. I don’t think enough can be said about not overgunning a beginner and making it fun to shoot.

Wow, quite a difference. I think I was in the building 20, maybe 25 minutes max including the 15 minute observation time.

That may be true for much of the ADKs . The far northern parts have many more clearcuts, and selectively logged woods than mature barren woods. I wish the state would implement a better forest management plan for our fully owned(not easement) lands to better support deer and small game . Mature forests are pretty, but useless.lol

You want a common cartidge or something a little different? I would think a 257 Roberts or 250-3000 would be great . Or any of short action cartridges like 260, 6.5 creedmore, or 7-08 shooting a 90-120 grain bullet would work great as well and not have excessive recoil.

Great pics. Likes like you guys are having fun. Ha.ha.ha. Jeff doesn't look cute enough for you guys to be taking care of his fish..;).

What part of South Colton? We hunted the heck out of the area from the end of the Morgan rd to the old Picketville rd. We havn't been down there much since we started hunting Letchworth regularly.

Congratulations!

Well said, I concur.

Right you are..lol. Especially when they gave us the 4 slices because they had been there a bit. I was hungry though and not very discerning.

I've hunted a few pieces of state land in the area over the years and I never happened across anything special either. I asked the girls behind the counter, but nobody knew anything about the deer.

St Regis Falls. Northern edge of ADKs.

That's what I was thinking. Pics don't do them justice. There is some serious mass on some of them. I didn't get a good picture of the one with the 6" drop tine.

I stopped in for gas and a couple slices of pizza. I want to know where these came from .;) One local said , that's the way they are around here". Yikes!

Friend has some property on a seasonal road. I buried at least 50 (more than a single pickup load) coyotes 2 weekends ago that someone had dumped on his property. Strange, that they skinned a few but most were not. It was one time that I was thankfully that I do not have a sense of smell.