Turkeygirl

Re: shed hunters........question for ya I dunno that there is much to do wrong in shed hunting except maybe not look where the trails, feeding, and bedding areas are. Sometimes you find sheds, sometimes you don't. It sure isn't a consistent thing in my area to go out and finda shed every day. I usually don't start finding sheds till March/April when the snow is gone.

Re: Looking for some advice Go to the top...that is what my mom always says,lol. Use the other "witness" also. Good luck

Right now I'm am sitting in the campus center of my college, it is 7am, I have been up since 6am. I can't go to the library because they don't open till 8am. Why all this? Because my sister transferred to another college 45 minutes away to take Vet. Tech. and she has an 8am class so I have to come to college early. We only have 2 cars, Andy has one and me, my mom and my sister share the other but now my sister will have the car leaving my mom stuck at home and me at the college.I don't have a class till 9:35am and there is a girl vacuuming right now and it is getting on my nerves,lol!(I'm not a morning person). Andy actually leaves for a conference in Saratoga,NY on Wednesday which gives us women a girl's party,woohoo! lol I'd appreciate any prayers though as we need to find a cheap car for my sister and so far no luck and if we don't find another car, this will be one really long, tough winter and my sister's drive to her college is by no ways easy in snowy weather.

Re: NY Hunters---> I know, I had to laugh at some of the stuff this guy said! I felt there was some sense to it but also some senseless stuff! lol

Re: BETTER NEWS! ! ! I'm happy for ya Tominator! That is definitely some good news. I'll be sending some thanks to the Lord

Re: Birthday!!! Hapy B-day buddy! Have a great one!

Re: For once and for all..... Ok, I see you all have some good points...I'd be bored to if we all agreed. It just annoys me when some new morons come in here thinking they are hot stuff; thetoolman just got me offended because my family isn't quite poor like no food poor but we have to watch our money and to see him be a jerk to you, too-pointer, made me really mad,lol! Thanks guys.

Re: I cant wait until summer I can't wait till February and Easter break from college,lol! Yeah, I will actually have April 1(opening day of trout season) off here in NY, a first and a plus! I will also have the entire first week of turkey season off because final exams will be the week before! yippee!

Re: For once and for all..... This came from my personal view that to me, more posts become these long,drawn out, posts because of nasty replies, such as in the Walmart again..... posts. I'm just tired of seeing some people get so offended about some post when it isn't really worth it. This is just a forum for the fellowship of hunters.And I do see that fisherguy has a good point; opinions aren't bad and we are entitled to make them heard.

Please, no one get me wrong but in my opinion, the more people that come onto this forum, the more negative feedback(posts and replies) we are getting. I would truly hate to see this become like some boards where family friendly is not the atmosphere. It seems to me that some people are becoming a little too passionate about their opinions and do not need to be so harsh. Young people visit these forums and for all you know, they look up to some of us. We should be building each other up, not break each other down. While we are busy bickering over very small things, people are dying overseas in war. Thousands have died in the tsunami or are homeless. We should be praying more and acting like brothers/sisters in Christ, not jumping down someone's throat just because they are offended by something someone said; it is an opinion and people are entitled to opinions. If we were all exactly like, the world and life would be so stinking boring. To me, Realtree is a Place of FELLOWSHIP, a place where people can belong and find help when needed, not to mention a place to talk HUNTING. I hope I have not offended anyone but this is what was in my heart and I felt that I needed to share it. Now let's all take one big happy pill and be friends,lol

Re: Walmart again.....!! Sweet Deals! Congrats! It is sad to see prejudice on this board...get a life toolman. I am in college, on loans and grants. We get most of our clothes from thrift stores because we can get really decent stuff cheap! We are far from being wealthy, but I can say God is my wealth! My family looks for the best deals at Walmart and sometimes they are there, sometimes not. It is called being smart and I am not going to waste God's money on products that are twice the price somewhere else! So chill out and respect other people's lives and the way they live them. By the way fellow Realtreer's, I got a camo t-shirt(Treebark, not Realtree,sorry,lol) for $3.50 at K-mart tonight; orginally $7.

Re: Weather question???? You still have deer hunting going on in PA? I think we got near 60 here in the the southern tier of western NY, 70 must have been NICE!

I found this article on a local newspaper website. Thought you all might want to see it. "The column that has everyone talking: Why we're not seeing the deer out there" A column by Oak Duke "Some deer hunters evidently felt this past deer season, a bit like the mythological character Sisyphus. This guy had it pretty bad to say the least. He was condemned to push a large stone uphill until he reached the crest of the mountain. Just as he reached the top, the rock would roll all the way back down, and he'd begin again to roll, push and pry it up to the top, time-after-time, again and again throughout eternity. And it's pretty bleak when you go deer hunting day after day, climb (or now ride up) the hill again and again and never see a deer. Many hunters are saying with almost one voice, "The deer aren't there like they used to be. And it's the DEC's fault for giving out so many doe permits!" And while that may be the case in some DMUs (Deer Management Units), there are some other significant reasons, besides this perceived low population of whitetails as to why so many deer hunters in 2004 were disappointed. Overall, some of the following musings undoubtedly are more significant than others, depending on the specific localized deer herd, hunter patterns, land-use patterns, terrain and antlerless permit allocations. Some of them are: The ever-increasing use of the portable tree stand has changed hunters' patterns. The significance of this is vastly understated. More and more hunters are literally strapping themselves into a tree and hunting in one place. They worry about pushing deer out of their hunting territory, and into someone else's sight or scope. Hunters are moving less and pushing deer less than ever before. It may seem ironic but the portable tree stand, while giving the individual hunter a tactical advantage has just the opposite effect overall. When hunters move deer by kicking them out of their natural behavior patterns and into a flight response, the hunter who "kicked them out" doesn't get the direct benefit. But he hopes, sooner or later, someone else will do the same thing on an adjacent property and the wheel of good luck clicks his way and he's all of a sudden holding the lucky number. Secondly, the exponential increase in food plots, land, and brush lot management specifically for the whitetail deer keeps deer from moving. Food plots hold deer all right and hunters who intensely manage their property for deer, know that they do not want to kill off or push out the younger bucks (unless culls.) Younger hunters may find it difficult to comprehend, especially with the current rage and science of food plots and land management stewardship, but not too long ago nobody invested time and money in food plots for whitetails. Deer were hunted by reading sign; where they ate wild food such as wild apples, beech nuts, and acorns, where they ran and where they rutted. Thirdly, deer will move miles en masse at times, and not just to winter cover. This fact has been proven by comprehensive radio-tracking studies. Therefore we find whitetails dense in one section of a valley and almost impossible to find just a mile away. But the population is determined and managed on a broad scale, not at the individual property level. Usually, when someone is feasting someone else is having a famine. Also, hunting properties are being broken up into smaller and smaller units. Hunters can't or are not allowed to go where the deer are bedding or "holed up" because their hideouts are posted and closed off, both by landowners who allow hunting and those that don't. Add on top of that, everyone has their own management philosophy, regardless of what the government allows. One property is "does only." Another may be "if it's brown it's down." And next door, No Hunting at all! And deer hunters are getting older. The age of the average deer hunter in Pennsylvania and New York is almost 50. Older hunters do not run up and down the ridges, moving deer like they may have when they were younger because their legs and lungs are not as strong. One could probably say that as a hunter ages, the miles he travels through thorn-brush, swamps and steep sidehills, decreases in direct proportion to the number of years he or she has hunted. The summer of 2004 was one of the wettest on record and the fall of 2004 was very mild. Those two climatological facts conspired to create a unique scenario in the deer woods of Northern Tier counties of Pa. and the Southern Tier counties of NY. Deer browse in the woods was lush right through bow season and into gun season. Deer did not have to move to eat. Most years, especially with snow cover, whitetails move to preferred feed, up one ridge and down another, but not in the fall of 2004. There was little to no beech nut or acorn crops to draw them. And with little to no snow cover and heavier than usual foliage, courtesy of the optimal meteorological setup (Mother Nature) before and through the season, whitetail hunters found it difficult to see deer, and track them too. It may seem ironic but the popularity of the ATV as the preferred mode of transportation to and from the deer stand may be working against the deer hunters for a couple of peculiar and heretofore unexplored reasons. Whitetails become accustomed to ATVs. But that does not mean that they become unaware. Deer in woodlots with continual ATV use become sneaky and in a short time learn how to hide. Secondly, hunters on ATVs stay on trails instead of filtering through the woods and fields, kicking out deer in those unexpected places. Both these points tend to make the deer hunters' ultimate goal more difficult to attain even though they got to the stand with no more effort than turning the throttle. And of course there are simply fewer whitetail hunters in the woods and those hunters spend fewer days and hours in the woods, hunting and moving deer. No doubt that through many stretches of the upland woods that there are fewer deer than there were a couple years ago. Remember when it was almost unanimously declared, "There are too many deer?" Well most whitetail hunters agree that that problem has been solved for the most part. There are probably other reasons not considered here, as to why deer hunters didn't see the whitetails they expected. But it can not all be chalked up to a low whitetail population." P.S. I put quotation marks around the stuff so you all knew it was by the author,lol

Re: Adirondack Deer Hunters? I've never hunted there but I backpacked there. Went up Mt. Marcy and into Avalanche Pass/Lake. Cool lake and I wonder if there are any fish in there by chance...hmmm

Re: My newly finished home theatre(pics) Whoa! I did not know such a thing existed!? LOL have fun

Re: Happy Birthday HuntinginMaine!! Happy Birthday! I hope it is a wonderful one. Have a great day!

Re: Look what my 8 yr old got... Way to go, congrats! Tell your son good job! That is awesome!

Re: What is this?.......pic...... Yup, a lymph node I believe. I always come across them when we butcher our deer.

Ok, some I'm stressed and it is only the first week of classes. Rec and Eval of Athletic Injuries will be tough with learning muscles and special tests; Exercise Physiology will be tough with all the material to cover and having to devise and actually do an exercise routine(anyone know how to make one,lol); Outdoor Leadership Training has a bunch of small papers. I hate keeping track of everything. The good news is: I have the first intramural basketball game tomorrow; Exercise Physiology has a field trip in March up to a Physiology lab at a big university in Buffalo; Outdoor Leadership Training will take us on an all day rock climbing trip (in Canada I think) but the bad part is I may have to miss Rec and Eval that day due to having to leave for the climbing trip. Anyway thought I'd let you all know what is going on so far. going to be an interesting semester...

Re: Innocent Bystander. (what luck!) You might want to get your knee checked out; sounds like a good incident for a sprained or torn ligament (ACL/PCL). Take ibuprofen and put ice on for 20 minutes then an hour off and repeat. Hope you're feeling better.

Everytime I click on a thread, a box pops up saying something like "Error, do you wish to debug?" blah blah blah. I haven't had this problem before and am wondering if it is Realtree as it happened one other time. I just upgraded AIM but I wouldn't think that has anything to do with this.

Re: Ready for the next semester... Wow, that is a ton of credits not to mention some tough courses! Good luck to you! I have 15 credits this semester and the hardest classes so far look to be Physiology of Exercise and Intro. to Psychology.

Re: Newbie Ready for Razzing Welcome AK! Glad to have ya here!

Re: What Is Your Occupation?? I'm a junior in college majoring in Outdoor Recreation but I'd like to, if it is God's will, to get a degree in Athletic Training at another college.

Re: It\'s almost here.... AK, I'm a junior Recreation major but I'm hoping to go back to another college for an Athletic Training major. I did get out today, saw nothing to shoot but did see alot of fox/coyote/deer/rabbit/squirrel tracks. I also found a fox dead in the field behind our woods. It looks like other foxes have been eating on it so I'm not sure how it died but I didn't touch it or even kick it with my boot since it could have had rabies or something.