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in reply to: Where Would You Live? #25513

SteveMcD wrote: Anywhere this side of the grass is fine with me! 😀 I’m just sayin’! 😆

I’m a native New Yorker. 8) And we have it all. Three mountain ranges, flatland plains, superb trout and salmon rivers, beautiful mountain lakes, the great lakes and the Ocean. I have no plans to leave. 🙂

I agree but it would be nice to trade in our .gov with someone else’s.:)

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in reply to: Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Chart for N. America #53963

eidsvolling wrote: The Michigan Department of Natural Resources published last month a comprehensive survey of CWD regulations (and some information on the occurrence of CWD) in U.S. states and Canadian provinces. The chart can be downloaded as a PDF file at Chronic Wasting Disease and Cervidae Regulations in North America. If you’re traveling out of state for a hunt, it’s probably worth checking the chart to avoid problems with transportation of game parts, etc.

The chart was created for the Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance.

Needs to be updated because the 2008/09 deer season was the last year of the CWD “Containment Zone”/mandatory check. We (NY) aren’t doing it anymore because no cases were found other than the initial positives back in ’05.

http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/33220.html

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in reply to: Some Family Hunting and Scouting Pics #50594

Some pretty country you have there. 🙂

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in reply to: muck boots #48484

I have a pair of the Muck boots with the attached gaiters on the top (Woody Bayou) and I don’t particularly care for them. Most of my deer hunting is in the Adirondacks where you’re either going straight up, straight down or across a steep face 🙂 and they don’t seem to give me the ankle support that the Lacrosse Burlys do (loose/sloppy).

As far as durability goes they seem on par with any other rubber boot I’ve worn, I just don’t like the fit. They do work ok trapping around central NY where it is more flat. The pull up gaiter on top is nice for crossing knee deep streams without the extra bulk of hip waders.

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in reply to: Non-chinese Wool Shirts? #48478

I like Johnson Woolen Mills.
http://www.johnsonwoolenmills.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=SFNT&Store_Code=JWM

I have a couple of the shirt-jacs and a couple pairs of pants. I’ve used them for, gosh, probably 15 years or so now.

I also have a vest and a pair of pants that are Codet that I’ve had good luck with. Pretty sure they are made in Canada but I’d have to check before I could swear to it.

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in reply to: Bow Season vs. Crossbows #20098

WIcanner wrote: If a “bow” can go off accidentally, it ain’t a BOW!

Really though this can cover any compound used with a release too. I know guys who’ve had their release fail at full or mid-draw letting it fire the arrow prematurely/accidentally.

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in reply to: black widow bows #59562

LimbLover wrote:
There ARE a lot of bows that are easily comparable for less money but Widows are the Harley Davidson of bows.

They leak oil? 😉 😈 😆 😆

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in reply to: carbon vs aluminum #36839

I guess I’ll try to give them a call then and see what they say. Thanks.

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in reply to: carbon vs aluminum #36791

Patrick wrote: 😯 If that truly is how they broke, you need to call ABS and tell them.

Are they actually tougher than that normally? I don’t really know because it’s the first carbons I ever used so I just figured I was overestimating them. And I only shoot a 45 lb bow so I doubt they were going too fast.:wink:

I did miss and stick them into the ground (I believe the local Soil Service calls it “sandy loam”). I didn’t shoot them into a big rock or tree and then try to impugn their character on the Interweb if that’s what you mean. 😆 😆 To be perfectly honest I had never even considered calling them to ask if there may be a fault in the arrows, I just tossed them in the corner and chalked it up to experience.

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in reply to: carbon vs aluminum #35579

I always shot Easton aluminums but last year I bought a half-dozen GrizzlyStik Sitkas and while they shoot very well I don’t know if I’d agree with the nearly indestructible statement. I’m down to four because I missed and stuck two of them in the ground and about 4 inches broke off the end almost as clean as if they’d been cut. I think I’m going back to the aluminum because I can lose and/or break a lot more of them before I get up to the same cost. 😆

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in reply to: Bow Season vs. Crossbows #12932

SteveMcD wrote: [quote=covert]The State is always hurting for money so I’d bet they could get away with making and selling a new crossbow license.

Hi, Covert… I understand what you are saying. However, being a county secretary of federated sportsman’s club. I see what goes on in Council and in Albany, and you hit the proverbial nail on the head!. New York is like other states, a crosbow license is just a quick fix for badly needed funds. How about forcing government to fix the gross mis-management and waste instead!

Oh yes that would be ideal, but I think we both know what the chances of that happening are! 🙄

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in reply to: Bow Season vs. Crossbows #12023

I actually think that here in NY they should allow them. I have no interest in hunting with anything but my ’73 Grizzly but if someone wants to use a crossbow it’s no skin off my nose.

The State is always hurting for money so I’d bet they could get away with making and selling a new crossbow license. If nothing else, allow them in the late muzzleloader season. If archers need to share the late woods with the smokepoles anyway what’s the difference if someone is using a crossbow?

I know several people who hunt with compounds and like you said, they go out and fling a few arrows the week before season opens and call it good. Then we end up with deer like the buck by my house this March that was still walking around with an arrow sticking out of his haunch. I’d rather the guy who’s not going to practice anyway go out and set the sights on the deer, squeeze the trigger and kill it rather than fling arrows randomly towards the deer.

I always hear compound guys complaining about the “mechanical advantage”. Look at all of the clear “mechanical advantages” they have over the traditional archers without us complaining. I don’t care how many advantages they have any more than I care about the advantages the crossbows have. As long as they stay on the right side of the Posted signs I’m happy.

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in reply to: Tell Us About Your Username #55191

I use it on a couple of other sites and it’s too hard to try and remember a bunch of different names.:)

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in reply to: Your first whitetail? #55178

Hubertus wrote: OK, 3 seasons later & I still have no meat to show for my efforts :x. This year I even had 4 straight days to pursue the ghost of the forest. Conclusion, I think you guys are all part of a conspiracy designed to make me pursue a mythical beast :lol:.
So to the meat of the matter: how long did you have to pursue the whitetail with stick & string before your first harvest? And don’t try to make me feel better; if you got one your first morning out, good on ya’! If you’re in my boat, lament with me & then let’s go at it all the harder next year!

Long time lurker first time poster here.

I started deer hunting (gun and bow) at 16 in 1993 and took my first deer (8 pt buck) with a rifle in 2001. I went all the way to 2005 before I managed to connect on a 5 pt with my Martin Rebel. Used to drive my father and my friends nuts because I’d always start the season letting the smaller bucks go waiting for “that big one I saw during summer” and they rarely saw anything. 🙂

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