Recent content by Natty Bumppo

I've tried to forget him...but he was just such a blowhard. Constantly raining on everybody's parade....he'd throw gas on the fire of every thread and then stand back and cry "whoa...what happened???".....and how can you forget his prodigious use of the Blood Glow! Seemed like every one of his...

Hmmn? Never heard of this myth. I've always understood that smaller bullets travelling very fast are much more prone to fragment and/or deform if they hit brush. Whereas larger, slower bullets are more stable and will keep their form until they strike the target. This is not the case? My...

Logical side...yes...you nailed it. The .30-06 in the Northeast big woods does everything I need it to. Don't think I've killed a deer beyond 70 yards. The 35 Whelen guys report that it will just drop anything they hit in its tracks. And that it's very good for busting brush, which I can...

Thanks Telemark. Appreciate your input. Thanks for that link bigboreblr. And thanks for responding. Thanks Jerry-B.

My IQ about calibers, ballistics, reloading, wildcats is pretty low. I've been very curious about the 35 Whelen lately as it's a very popular caliber in the Northeast tracking community. Always looking for an excuse to buy a new Remington 760 or 7600. But I really know nothing about this...

I'm a high school teacher...I'm hard wired to try like hell to find the good in all of my students. Even the tough ones. Probably carries over from that. Some guys...like Bill Loser and Matt Duffy from the old forum...make it tough. I remain optimistic. 😜 👍

Yeah agree to both. Trying to wrap my head around baiting just as a purely philosophical argument. In Massachusetts.... 1) I can bait coyotes, but not deer. So it's not "the act" of baiting that presents a moral, ethical, legal challenge..its the target species. 2) I can use a fake water...

How about dropping red maples in the late season? I've struggled with this one. I could easily kill a buck every year in December if I sat over my recently fellled maples. It's not how I want to kill a deer. But I know I could. I've often wondered where this practice would fall...

You haven't hunted in 3 years because other people choose to use trail cameras? Looking forward to your new thread, As you may be aware...I'm a tracker. I carry a rifle with a peep sight, a compass, a length of rope, and a sandwich into the big woods and I will track all day until I either...

Now do battery heated socks...

Yes, exactly. I do the same. And once September rolls around I do curtail all activities on the land where my treestands are mostly located.

Agree. I go with the exact opposite logic as far as land use. I use my land constantly for all kind of activities...mtn. biking, trail running, nordic skiing and snowshoeing, trail grooming, walks with the dogs, maple syrup production, etc...and then all of the usual logging and TSI. And...

Are these things easy to fly for total beginners? Thinking about one for some sports filming I do as a hobby. I would worry about seeing my $1000 drone fly off over the treeline and never see it again.

Not sure if he's fibbing. I've researched the owner and his company and had a chat with him last year. He's on a well-known 4th or 5th generation farm if I recall. He's also a well-known breeder of working dogs or something like that. The guy knows his stuff...I think. He will routinely...

I agree. He is the ONLY guy I watch. Interesting take-away from that video...Dr. Woods transformed his crappy cattle farm with nothing larger than 80" bucks into a big buck paradise holding 150" bucks in 20 years through changes in nutrition and age structure. "The genetics didn't change" he...