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Oh Lord , there's a lot of truth there. Had a $400 bill two years ago.

We have three 6.5 / .264s in the house. My 264 mag throws a 140gr slug over 3100 fps while my kids 6.5CM are in the 2700 fps range. The 6 5 CM has proven to be effective on whitetail in the northeast. Same bore diameter but two different killing machines. The 6.5 is a very efficient cartridge...

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Deer have geographical preferences. When food sources are low, they will eat almost anything to stay alive. I kinda chuckle when I see plants labeled deer resistant. Just when you think your plants are safe, they aren't. A few miles away from my place the deer strip a homeowners flower...

I can tell you this. Mother nature has made it so the white acorns start growing in the fall and the red acorns start growing in the spring. The red & white acorn are dormant throughout the winter months ( they are both deer food at this time.). If the acorn rots or doesn't grow, I doubt deer...

I sat out on our plot probably 25 days from Oct 1 to Jan 1st. We too had some dandy bucks right up until gun season. The deer ( both bucks and does ) went nocturnal in early October. I passed up deer in bow season because temps were too warm. Our acorn crop was unprecedented. Our original plan...

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We use the muzzleloaders here in NY to extend our deer season. Son got his first muzzleloader deer this year and he is hooked. He was using my Thompson Encore with a 24" barrel , 90gr of 777 with 250gr xtp and black harvester sabots. It can shoot a 2" group at 100 with just about anything we...

With the gestation period being approximately 200 days I can usually count back and pin point the breeding season / rut. Ours being in mid November. Truthfully, I never gave it much thought for other areas and how it effects your hunting season. I can't imagine seeing that young of a fawn...

I am pretty sure they are. You won't get a definite answer if you ask. 😉 Using the Bradford pear as rootstock is common in the orchard setting where routine maintenance keeps everything growing below a graft in check. It's when the casual orchardist or wildlife planter uses this combination...

I don't want to hijack a thread here but in the name of wild life plantings, we must be diligent against invasive plants. I attended an invasive plant symposium last spring. My petpeeve is the callery pear. This tree is used by some nurseries as rootstock for other pears. As an upstate NYer...

I do have to agree with you on the dolgo crab. I have a wild crab shrub that has a propensity to sucker. I have taken rootstock from this and grafted various apple trees onto the wild crab rootstock. The grafts took but I am not seeing good growth on my saplings. . Only about 4 or 5 trees out...

I am sure it's been done. Any break action gun could be converted quite easily, just pick your parent case and go. Straight walled deer cartridges seem to be the rage in the states that prohibit bottle neck rifle cartridges for deer hunting.

I think you need to step in to the smokeless muzzleloader arena to get what you are asking for. There is s muzzleloader forum somewhere that has a smokeless muzzleloader section in it. Your omega from what I understand can be retrofitted with a smokeless barrel. I am still using 777 with a...

Thanks for posting this. I have lived on our place for 32 years and been doing habitat improvements as long. It was pretty evident from day one what was drawing deer to our plot. It was an old abandoned apple orchard. Currently there are 40 plus wild trees growing and probably 20 of them have...