Are we still getting new members?

[landtracdeerhunter]

 No bitterness, no hard feelings for me; just a great bunch of people to communicate with on this site about the same subject matter related to my interest. This is why I stay. It's really, that simple.

I hear there's some great hunting in Siberia.

[NYBowhunter]

12 minutes ago, fasteddie said:

I am almost 84 Years old . I don't know how many more years i have abut I am not bailing out on this site . Maybe I will be the lone survivor . 

God bless Eddie, I envy your desire to get out there at your young age. Thats awesome. BTW great buck you took this year, your boys must be proud!!!!

[fasteddie]

3 minutes ago, NYBowhunter said:

God bless Eddie, I envy your desire to get out there at your young age. Thats awesome. BTW great buck you took this year, your boys must be proud!!!!

If I can keep it up , my boys may have to get me out there in a wheelchair ! 

[fasteddie]

I noticed that there has been an increase in the number of members on the site today . Some have joined in 2018 and other dates and haven't posted . I wonder what they are afraid of ?????????????

[grampy]

4 minutes ago, fasteddie said:

I am almost 84 Years old . I don't know how many more years i have abut I am not bailing out on this site . Maybe I will be the lone survivor . 

I hope you have many years ahead of you Eddie! You are one of the great guy's I miss the most! We all have our own reasons for staying here, or sharing another site. We can do both!!! That's the way it should be!! No argument from me there! I never saw anything as a competition!! There isn't any hard feelings either!! Except for burmjohn, but that has no bearing on all but 'one blowhard', who have decided to ride it out here. I also have learned so much from airdale over the years, and will always value his opinion! I still read his posts here! Again, I never have bashed this site! I don't come here trying to "steal" members either! Both places will be what they are!! And we can all make our own choices. We don't have to discredit anyone for choosing where they want to spend their time!! It's ALL good!

 

[NYBowhunter]

23 minutes ago, fasteddie said:

If I can keep it up , my boys may have to get me out there in a wheelchair ! 

Any means necessary,  your boys are lucky to have you. 

[grampy]

22 minutes ago, NYBowhunter said:

Any means necessary,  your boys are lucky to have you. 

Times two!!!

[Four Seasons]

56 minutes ago, grampy said:

I hope you have many years ahead of you Eddie! You are one of the great guy's I miss the most! We all have our own reasons for staying here, or sharing another site. We can do both!!! That's the way it should be!! No argument from me there! I never saw anything as a competition!! There isn't any hard feelings either!! Except for burmjohn, but that has no bearing on all but 'one blowhard', who have decided to ride it out here. I also have learned so much from airdale over the years, and will always value his opinion! I still read his posts here! Again, I never have bashed this site! I don't come here trying to "steal" members either! Both places will be what they are!! And we can all make our own choices. We don't have to discredit anyone for choosing where they want to spend their time!! It's ALL good!

 

Nah. No bashing with words like… I don’t think I missed anything here. Or. Saying come some place that you can get answers to your posts again! Nah no bashing on the site with those words. Typical Hypocritical Bash. 

Edited Thursday at 04:14 PM by Four Seasons

[grampy]

41 minutes ago, Four Seasons said:

Nah. No bashing with words like… I don’t think I missed anything here. Or. Saying come some place that you can get answers to your posts again! Nah no bashing on the site with those words. Typical Hypocritical Bash. 

Sometimes........even with change. Some things stay the same. 

[Four Seasons]

1 minute ago, grampy said:

Sometimes........even with change. Some things stay the same. 

Exactly. Same hypocrites continue to spew useless banter. Congrats on that !!

[boo711]

1 hour ago, Four Seasons said:

Exactly. Same hypocrites continue to spew useless banter. Congrats on that !!

You must be a real joy at home. Are you always this miserable??

[Four Seasons]

6 minutes ago, boo711 said:

You must be a real joy at home. Are you always this miserable??

Have no reason to be miserable in my world. Absolutely nothing missing in it and most definitely don’t have hypocrites in it that’s for sure. And miserable for calling someone out?   A repeat offender at that. I think not. 

[steve863]

1 hour ago, boo711 said:

You must be a real joy at home. Are you always this miserable??

Yeah, and you got to love his comment on an earlier email that "he would throw anyone out on his ass" for promoting another site.  I've got some news for him.  Obviously the powers to be here seem to tolerate his condescending tone and other general nonsense but if it were up to a real vote of many others here he'd be the first one who'd get thrown out on his ass.  I can assure him of that.

[Four Seasons]

26 minutes ago, steve863 said:

Yeah, and you got to love his comment on an earlier email that "he would throw anyone out on his ass" for promoting another site.  I've got some news for him.  Obviously the powers to be here seem to tolerate his condescending tone and other general nonsense but if it were up to a real vote of many others here he'd be the first one who'd get thrown out on his ass.  I can assure him of that.

And look where we are today. Just like the last 10 years. Me adding actual hunting and outdoor related material to a hunting site and you once again adding nothing like normal and crying about others. Guess that shows ya something huh?  We can only hope that John does pop back in one day and clean house of those few left that continue to degrade him and the site while pushing the wares of other sites. Eddie threw others off for saying the name of the other site so it’s beyond me why he does not toss the few that offer nothing to this site, downgrade the site and promote other sites. But I guess that’s on him to decide at this time. 

[boo711]

1 hour ago, Four Seasons said:

And look where we are today. Just like the last 10 years. Me adding actual hunting and outdoor related material to a hunting site and you once again adding nothing like normal and crying about others. Guess that shows ya something huh?  We can only hope that John does pop back in one day and clean house of those few left that continue to degrade him and the site while pushing the wares of other sites. Eddie threw others off for saying the name of the other site so it’s beyond me why he does not toss the few that offer nothing to this site, downgrade the site and promote other sites. But I guess that’s on him to decide at this time. 

I don’t think people are downgrading the site. They are speaking the truth. Owner is absent, took money for merch and never shipped it or returned money. Plenty of hunting sites. Not sure why someone gets banned for mentioning another site especially when this one isn’t thriving. I give Eddie credit. With an absent owner I wouldn’t care what anyone posted on here. Not sure why you get so butt hurt over it

Edited Thursday at 10:11 PM by boo711

[wolc123]

Speaking of hunting related content, this photogenic 3.6 yr old 8-point, that I harvested on a food plot on our place on 12/17/24, made one heck of a tasty neck roast.  Maybe the best I’ve ever had.
 

I hung the buck in our insulated garage at 40 degrees for 9 days, prior to processing and freezing.  The neck roast wouldn’t fit in a quart sized vacuum bag so I froze it in a one gallon ziplock bag.  I placed the frozen roast, taters, onions, a packet of Amish powdered beef gravy mix, 12 oz of Genesee black cherry vanilla kellerbier, and 6 oz of tap water, in the slow cooker for 12 hours on low.   

(30)

It was spectacular for dinner last night and so were leftovers for lunch at work today.  Now I’m kind of wishing that  I hadn’t ground the rest of that buck, except for his back straps and tenderloins.  I’ve also got (3) quart packs of his liver and his heart left out in the freezer.  
 

I’d try cooking his heart that way, but then my wife wouldn’t know what to do for me for Valentine’s Day tomorrow (she always pickles my previuos year’s deer hearts for me then, along with a beef tongue or two).  

As far as the site arguing goes, I enjoy both and each has plenty to offer.  Fast Eddie is awesome and deserves an all time best moderator award if anyone ever does.  
 

I never had any trouble from the absentee owner and even the antler deer rancher is good for an encouraging word, when I really needed it (like the year that I got stranded out west and I missed my only opening day of gun season ).  

 

Edited Thursday at 10:36 PM by wolc123

[First-light]

Wow this post blew up! That was some read... lol

[landtracdeerhunter]

13 minutes ago, First-light said:

Wow this post blew up! That was some read... lol

Yeah, seems like old times, doesn't it, LOL.

[New York Hillbilly]

On 2/13/2025 at 9:50 AM, fasteddie said:

I am almost 84 Years old . I don't know how many more years i have abut I am not bailing out on this site . Maybe I will be the lone survivor . 

I'm hoping you have many more healthy, happy deer seasons ahead of you. And, I don’t think you will be alone here. 

[landtracdeerhunter]

On 2/12/2025 at 7:29 AM, Doc said:

So this forum is indeed doomed to a slow death. With no new members coming in to replace those who die or leave, the numbers will continue to dwindle, with the only new members being hackers. That would explain the lack of participation here. I remember all those newbies that used to post and respond to posts back in the days when this was a growing forum. Now it is just a handful of us old-timers that do any posting, and any responding to the few posts that we have. That is sad.

I've been here 15 years, but I wonder how much longer my membership continues to make any sense. Without Owner participation, this forum is doomed. Why it hasn't been turned over to someone else, I can't imagine. For the Owner to just simply abandon the site and all the people in it, seems like a most irresponsible act that is a slap in the face to all the hunters that have counted on this form of communication between outdoorsmen and women.

Look at the guest visits. Thirteen pages (30 guest per page) on a Sunday morning listed. Checking back on old threads and posts.  Yes some are spammers and hackers, but I bet you their are a lot of old members visiting the site without logging in.  That's nothing to shake a stick at. 

Yes a few old members came back to make a comment on this thread. What I read was bitterness, anger and reality. Carries a long ways sometimes. We've done excellent here for years; with an owner that just may be one of those visitors, from time to time.

[airedale]

23 minutes ago, landtracdeerhunter said:

Look at the guest visits. Thirteen pages (30 guest per page) on a Sunday morning listed. Checking back on old threads and posts.  Yes some are spammers and hackers, but I bet you their are a lot of old members visiting the site without logging in.  That's nothing to shake a stick at. 

Exactly!! This board gets a ton of readers and views.

Edited Sunday at 03:04 PM by airedale

[Four Seasons]

3 hours ago, landtracdeerhunter said:

Look at the guest visits. Thirteen pages (30 guest per page) on a Sunday morning listed. Checking back on old threads and posts.  Yes some are spammers and hackers, but I bet you their are a lot of old members visiting the site without logging in.  That's nothing to shake a stick at. 

Yes a few old members came back to make a comment on this thread. What I read was bitterness, anger and reality. Carries a long ways sometimes. We've done excellent here for years; with an owner that just may be one of those visitors, from time to time.

No truer words have been spoken. 100% the ones that left look at these pages along with the ones tossed off. And without a doubt John watches and hopefully one day cleans house and starts letting new members in  I although far from being a saint was always the bad guy because I had no problem calling them out. Even the ones that still come here to only comment on posts like these still to this day offer nothing else hunting or outdoor related to this site. They definitely are not missed just because they had a few words to say about someone else’s outdoor adventures. 

[wolc123]

5 minutes ago, Four Seasons said:

No truer words have been spoken. 100% the ones that left look at these pages along with the ones tossed off. And without a doubt John watches and hopefully one day cleans house and starts letting new members in  I although far from being a saint was always the bad guy because I had no problem calling them out. Even the ones that still come here to only comment on posts like these still to this day offer nothing else hunting or outdoor related to this site. They definitely are not missed just because they had a few words to say about someone else’s outdoor adventures. 

Even though we seldom seen eye to eye, I’ve always appreciated your insights.  One of these days, we’ll have to meet up at the Brewer Union Cafe or someplace else in the neighborhood.  Too bad it looks like the Longway diner shut down.  I always wanted to check that out.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Four Seasons]

18 minutes ago, wolc123 said:

Even though we seldom seen eye to eye, I’ve always appreciated your insights.  One of these days, we’ll have to meet up at the Brewer Union Cafe or someplace else in the neighborhood.  Too bad it looks like the Longway diner shut down.  I always wanted to check that out.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

And sadly it looks like the greasy spoon will not rise from

 the ashes. Always was a great place for a quick in and out decent meal. 

[wolc123]

5 hours ago, Four Seasons said:

And sadly it looks like the greasy spoon will not rise from

 the ashes. Always was a great place for a quick in and out decent meal. 

Have they ruled out reopening ?  I heard that the fire damage wasn’t all that bad.