G-Man

friend used them on his mission 400 x-bow and they worked well on a doe and a buck he got.100 grain heads on luminbolts 22"long

ouch...but where is the duct or electrical tape waterproofing

its been called still hunting and can be done without snow (oh how i hate hunting in snow) damp leaves, rain or wind can all be used with the wind to walk up on a game.

not to cold but too crunchy to walk, all the guys from camp are house bound in buffalo area so no one to hunt with so why waste the effort or put pressure on the herd, let them relax ...

cold is not as much a factor as snow depth, deer hair is remarkable insulation, but lack of ability to get to food is a much bigger factor. a turkey will sit in a tree for days and live off its breast sponge, deer can do the same with body fat. but if they cant get to food in 10 days or so then starvation becomes a factor.

but then what would we chat on here about....????

lots of deer made it thru last year in great shape even with cold(remember so much food around , and not much snow for extended period )deer didnt have to move. takes were down in a lot of areas, so a lot more buck made it through. so many more 2 year old and older buck around. leading to broken racks, less scrapes, and few rubs as older deer surpress the younger from breeding activity.

they are just into some other food that is available right now..they will hit it again.

facts dont matter, their "leaders told them is racist so it must be" hope citizens shoot every looter dead... solve a lot of problems

skin immediatly, if your going to hang get a cheap sheet from a dollar store and wrap it after its skinned

tough to say for sure with out same angle pics, but its a possibility.

thats too bad, i now have a few women in camp, some of the guys dont care for it as they want to walk around in their underwear and feel they are a distraction and i give them the better stands to use. as owner i tell them i invite who i want and if they are uncomfortable they can go elsewhere.. that seemed to put a stop to the problem.

you would be surprised the number of bucks that let pushers walk by.. the deer are still there ....

i have had very good luck using a tarsil off a buck to bring in others, but works best if tarsil is from a buck more than 2 miles from where i am hunting. (intruder) rather than a local (already smelled that ) buck.

faced the same problem. over 150 acres in 4 fields... makes tough hunting... every thing we've seen has been in the thick stuff bordering the corn.. Perhaps a jeff gordon buck call, similar to the duck call tv commercial would work........

9 pt, 19 inch inside spread, dressed at 162. shot while still hunting, catt county.

nothing, just prepare it like normal, and are you sure its a tick and not a ked?

yes its an escaped ground cover from some ones garden or old foundation site

yes that is silverskin in both.. use a filet knive goes fast silverskin face down on cutting board like your doing a fish ... remove as much as you can from steaks/roast. not nessary to get too picky, you'll learn the more you do.

steady in my corner of 9w, we manage our own herd thru the dmps allotted, taking 10 doe a year. (approximatle 450 acres) i dont believe the dec can manage a dmu properly as it is just to big and pockets can have to many or too few depending on local pressure (hunters per acre) so we do the best we can. even had to get dmap permits one year due to lack of doe tags. we are the best managers of our resources as we see what the local population is like. all hunters need to step up and control their local herd, just because you have a doe tag doesnt mean you need to fill it...if your not seeing deer dont shoot. and the opposite is true if your over run with doe with no tags call the dec..they can help. same hold true for the size buck you want..dont shoot a sm one if you want a big one.

a trail camera survey is best way and on public ground (non fenced hunting) the best you can strive for is about 3-1 . habitat is key as well as removing suffient number of does every year. 1-1 is perfect 2-1 is what most high fence try for. when ratios are closer you will lose bucks to fighting and broken antlers will become much more common.

Screen your fields with trees shrubs abd tall grasses.or log brush piles giving trees time to grow(spruce do well and grow fast. You say patroled but is the driveway chained? that is a sure sign no one is there.your better off getting someone to drive in and out leaving tracks, timers on lights in windows. tv is good as it causes flickering, i winter junk car in driveway, motion lights set to go off if some one is spotting or a good flood light right back at them. i love to pull up in a car behind them and have highbeams on and write plate numbers down. And i agree spot lighting should be illegal there is no need or benifit from it. (and there are distance its not allowed by buildings already.)

i'd forget the scrape and find a spot closer to bedding.95% scraping done at night...you can hunt the sign or hunt the deer..i prefer to hunt the deer

just dont use it before first light , a screen is so bright a deer will catch it lighting up like a spotlight, other than that, texting and taking pics works well.

what about the possibility that the animals purchased initally had the disease (carriers) and the wild rehab deer were added (never having been exposed to this in the wild were more suseptible to it and then tested positive) fact is it wasnt here untill farms came in and sperm, and livestock were brought in. this same theory is now used to go back thru history of when europeans came into contact with native peoples, as well as further back into history when animals crossed the land bridge and disease was spread to an unresistant herd. How about chestnut blight , brought in and spread to native trees that had no restance to it. We will never know how it got here taxidermist, animals, animal parts, feed that was infected... the fact is it is being spread to other states via game farms.. this needs to stop.! if the aniamls are use within the state feed grown local, sperm and anything else that is need raised or purchased local, it stands a better chance of being contained. let me add taxidermy brought in from other states needs to be regulated as well.