Recent content by Natty Bumppo

100% agree. No question. I was just trying to wrap my head around the argument you sometimes hear that crossbows offer no significant advantage over a compound. Never shot one. But it seems to me like they offer some pretty obvious advantages.

Yeah, that's what I was trying to understand. Take a crossbow or a rifle out of the box and you're on paper and hunting in less than half a day. Very easy to kill deer out of the box with a crossbow even for a beginner. And yes agree...probably for most experienced archers they could also do...

I have absolutely no problem with a hunter using a crossbow where legal if that's what they choose to use. I'm sure there will come a day when I have to use one...but I've never used one. Illegal in MA unless you have a doctor's note. Can somebody answer this for me? I am under the...

Two opening days for me. Opening day for VT rifle I'm carrying the venerable Remington 7600 Carbine in .30-06 with a Skinner peep....the stick shift of rifles. MA shotgun opener I'm carrying my Savage 220 topped with a 1x6 Skinner.

Agree. When seen face on I think it does resemble a fox. Profile view not so much. It might also be a Silver Fox....which is a melanistic red fox. But that chest patch throws me off. Definitely could be a hybrid of some kind. Silver fox for reference...

Throwing this out there. The animal that "screams" just before that canid runs away is 100% a fox. I'm going with grey fox. Doesn't look like a coyote much to me at all. The way it's moving, looking around, and the way it scurries away suggests fox. And using some of the other animals to...

Ah, I see. Makes sense. Yeah, I couldn't stand that either. I spent a summer at Ft. Benning once and the next summer at Lackland AFB in TX once....that was enough for me. Brutal.

Are you guys down south? Summer in New England is just about as gorgeous as it gets. Can't imagine wishing it away.

Yes agree Bows. I had a 3 acre conifer stand clear cut two winters ago. My logger said EVERY single mature balsam fir he cut had some kind of base rot. I am now working with MASS DCR to get some of that area replanted with through a grant program and the forester recommended swamp white oaks...

Same here in NW Mass. I have extensive spruce/fir/tamarack swamps and the balsam fir is not healthy. I don't think they are particularly long lived species to begin with...and a warming climate and the fact that I am already on the southern limit of its range I think are stressing them.

No sarcasm intended. I am not an antler hunter. In the Northeast tracking tradition a 200+ lb. buck is typical what is considered to be a trophy, regardless of what it has for antlers. And you don't need land or food plots to grow them. You just need hundreds of square miles of vast, Northern...

Since my definition of a trophy deer is a 200+ lb. buck tracked and killed on snow I gotta go with a cozy little place on a 1 acre lot in Jackman, Maine.

LOL. That's funny Turkish. 100% agree. The diagonal zipper on the Fanatic jacket was designed BY HUNTERS for hunters. Brilliant. Plus the built in hand warmer, magnetic neck collar snap back, and the integrated grunt tube pocket on the right chest that you can blow hands free is just an...

I'll send you one via DM. That sale ends today.

All my gear from them is for stand hunting. But I have tried on some of their performance gear for stalking and I did like their Mountain Pant. It's a synthetic stretchy performance pant providing decent warmth for stalking, but not real bulky. Loved it. When I track and stalk I wear all old...