Buckskin Dave

This place is nuts.

Good question. Maybe he should. You never know when some one may be shooting long distance with a .223.

Have I been lost? In a word, yes. Hunting in the White Mountains back in 1988. Finally found a road and hitched a ride with some hunters back to my truck. It was 9 miles away in the opposite direction I would have walked if they had not picked me up. For me that weird "lost" feeling lasted for days afterword. Ive been turned around a few times since then hunting new areas but not badly.

I doubt it gets that bad. Maybe if I could have worked big foot into it. Well see.

I'm from Pa and we have to wear a blaze orange hat and 250 square inches of orange visible on your chest and back for most of our hunting seasons. The main exception to this law is flintlock muzzle loader season, no orange required. . Which is my favorite season to hunt. I've always hated walking around glowing like a pumpkin but its a fact of life if you want to hunt. Ive always heard it saves lives and maybe it does. But if it really makes that big a difference why doesn't NY require it be worn? It may be that PA at one time had a great many hunters in the woods at once but this isn't the case in most areas any more. I hunt the ANF and often don't see another hunter for days. I'm looking forward to hunting the NZ this year and I'm glad I don't have to wear orange. If I find there is more hunters than I expect maybe Ill wear a blaze orange hat. How many of you hunting the NZ wear orange and whats you opinion on it?

At home I have 80 wooded acres and rarely hunt it. At camp I have 4 wooded acres surrounded by 513,175 acres of Allegheny National Forest and 100,000 acres of Game lands. I hunt there A LOT. Rattler reacted to this Quote Quote this

Okay, now I see what you mean. Ive heard others describe it as being close to beef.

I stick with what works for me. Same pocket knife, same rod and real, same canoe, same hunting rifle and shotgun. I only buy new stuff when I really have to.

Yeah, me to. So I married one., So I guess for me its that redhead, flintlocks, and big woods Ive not hunted yet.

Huh, I would not have thought moose would be like that. I'd still like to try it.

Hunt your squirrels with a .22 and that problem is gone. And its a lot of fun that way.

I guess I like whitetail tenderloin the best. And back strap. Any venison really if its been handled and prepared well. Perch or walleye is always welcome. Another favorite is goose breast marinaded over night in Italian dressing, then cut into small cubes about the size of your thumb from the knuckle up. Take a pound of bacon and slice it into 3 pieces so each is about 3 inchs or so long. Wrap the bacon around the goose meat and put a toothpick through it to hold it in place. Put them on the grill or over the fire. Crack a beer. When the bacon is done so is the goose. Best goose you will ever have.

I heat my home and my camp completely with wood stoves. A normal year I use maybe 6 to 7 cords. This year I have used about 6 already so Ill hit 7 for sure. My home stove is an efficient Hitzer and puts out a lot of BTU's and easy on wood. My camp stove is an ancient monstrosity some fiend made with his own 3 hands. Burns lots of wood for the heat you get, is smokey, sulky and a pain to light. Every year I say I'm going to replace it but I never do. Just about the time Im fed up enough to get a new stove its spring and I forget all about it and hunt turkeys.

Alison Krauss cant sing? How about George Straight? G man, these people can sing.

Home in Venango County, Camp in Warren County.

I was at camp a few days and I have neither cell service or a computer there and truth be told that's the way I like it. I would like to say thanks to all that said hello. I never expected such a welcome being Im not even a New York hunter. {Yet}

No buckskin projects. I do some trapping, skin, flesh and dry my firs but never have done anything with buckskin. The name just comes from the way I look. I could be an extra in a mountain man movie.

Good. Shot a doe in muzzle loader season. Was with my son in law when he took a nice 9 buck in rifle season. Saw a few bucks in rifle season but none legal. Took my share of squirrels. Spent a lot of time at camp. No complaints at all.

Thanks for the reply.

If its a warm fall will It still be bad enough to need a head net in the early muzzleloader season in the Moose River Plains? Oct. 14 through the 20th?

I'm on the HuntingPa forum and I thought there would be a Hunting NY. forum. So because I'm interested in hunting in NY I went looking and found this place.