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  1. Beautiful photos.   I've only seen one in the wild once, sitting on a clear cut at sunrise on opening day. I saw this "bird" fly past me, land in a tree, then RUN up the tree!   I thought I was losing it! :D  

    About a half hour later he came back the other way doing the same thing and I realized what it was. 

     

    The only other one I ever saw was dead in a conibear trap I'd placed inside a family members attic. I never would have imagined we had any around here before that. 

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  2. Decades ago I lamented that there wasn't an early muzzle loading season in the southern zone, every year wishing for a change. That was back when it was round ball shooters only, no optics and "modern" guns where close to unheard of.  If it were still like that I'd say...  have one every few years like the olympics. :) 

    So I voted no. Especially now days with our current laws and guns. 

    Wanna make it a primitive flintlock only season once every 4-5 years if deer numbers allow, Mmmmaybe.... ;) 

  3. Poor quality and highly cropped...  

    The Holiday Inn parking lot this morning in South Setauket.

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    SUNY Stony Brook campus Sept/Oct.

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    It's depressing to see things like this all the time, to actually see deer almost daily, then go north to hunt and see so little. Of course these deer are accustomed to seeing people and not really wild. 

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  4. I'm curious about the "obviously spooked by them" comment and how you know this? One still photo and one running away? ;) 

    I usually put mine about 9-10 feet up in a tree, more to help prevent theft than anything. I havee an older, crappier, "brighter", noisier one that I put at the base of trees because I don't care if it gets stolen. Even in photos where it's pretty obvious they know the camera is there (day or night), I've never seen anything to lead me to believe the were spooked by it. 

     

  5. I used to love muzzle loading season, I got to hunt how I wanted, where I wanted with no worries, no fears. 

    I still love my muzzleloaders and every few years I hunt with them in the gun season, my caplocks and flintlocks. But I gave up on the muzzle loading season. :(   It's kind of pointless now. 

    The last year I hunted it, between bow season and gun season, I spent 19 days in the woods.  I saw 3 other hunters in the woods.

    Then in the muzzleloading season I hunted 1.5 days....  and ran into 7 other hunters. Good lord. 

    Phooey on that mess. 

  6. Way back when...  friends were going to school at UAA... there was a cow moose that would stick it's head through their kitchen window and they would fead it bread and what not. I would tell them, one of these days that moose is going to decide she wants to come in and it's going to walk right through that wall and bring the window frame with it. :) 

  7. On 11/23/2018 at 5:22 PM, Daveboone said:

     On a cold snap like Thursdays, I would certainly be keeping a close watch on the sunny hillsides.

    On real cold days I know exactly where to find deer. Problem is I can no longer hunt there. Then the only thing worse than not knowing where the deer are, is knowing where the deer are. :( 

  8. Not what you'd call "live" from the woods, but I haven't had internet till tonight. 

    Took this young doe Wednesday afternoon, young and dumb... double dumb really, she did two stupid things which allowed me to give her the bad news. 

    Actually it wasn't hard at all. :no:  I just walked out, pointed my evil killing machine towards the woods, set it on full semi auto and it just went crazy killing everything in sight. Amazingly, no children were harmed. 

     

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  9. My biggest bone head move was staying out too long.  Back when we were still shotgun only, I used to like to lay out in the middle of a corn field mornings and evening. One evening I was fighting the cold something awful, really shivering, but just trying to stay out a little longer. "Just 15 more minutes." "Just 10 more minutes."  After a bit the shivering stopped and I started to warm up.  Time went by, darkness came with no deer showing. When I tried to roll over and sit up, I learned that the reason I'd started to warm up was my body had stopped sending blood to my legs.  There I am in the dark, 1/4 mile from camp, in the middle of a field with totally numb legs. Oh.. a bit of panic set in. lol   I started to rub and punch my legs trying to get the blood flowing. It worked. Lots of pain and my core temperature crashed. Violent shaking with the start of hypothermia. Wonderful.  I managed to eventually get to my feet and stumble down the hill and down the road. Not fun. I was truly scared. I never pushed it after that.

  10. 6 hours ago, NYBowhunter said:

    Not too long ago, think 2 years ago we got dumped with almost 2 feet of snow over the course of opening day and couple days after.

    I kind of got stranded. Running low on fuel for heat, I spent about 16 hours trying to get down from the "house" to the road. 

    That's my fear now. My blind  that I waste opening weekend in will be flattened under the snow. And will I be able to get anywhere near the house. If I can, will I be able to get back?   Not happy at all about the snow. I like a no snow for a while, then a dusting of snow towards the second weekend. 

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