Adjam5

Good food yup...triple priced hotels...yup...Too many people..yup. But you are wrong about the amount of rude people...its more like 95% Have a great time.

Sounds like natural selection at work.

Yes, it was a house sparrow that met its fate. That is interesting... Corvidae huh? I knew I came to the right place. Thanks Teach!

Thanks Joe. But my son deserves all the credit. He is on a tear with groundhog #4 in less than 10 days. There is one left but it is REAL skittish... I wonder why:rolleyes:

Becoming one of my favs. Brad Paisley has a few songs geared towards the outdoors man. Check 'em out on Youtube.com

Swampy...glad the Mrs is feeling better . Grand Central station is quite a sight when you get off the Amtrak. Bring the camera. A few places to visit close to Ground Zero. Walking distance. The Irish Hunger memorial, in Battery Park City. The Holocaust museum, in Battery Park City. Fort Clinton in Battery Park. The Ferry is right there also for a trip to the Statue of Liberty. The Staten Island Ferry is there too...I think its free. Check. Its a cool boat ride across the harbor. The US Customs house, across from Battery Park at the end of Broadway...awesome architecture. Its where they did the movie Ghostbusters. Wall street. Trinity Church on Broadway & Wall and if you go to Rockerfeller center in midtown, see St. Patrick's Cathederal...Incredible. Enjoy yourselves in the best city on earth. If I can be of ANY assistance Ken let me know. I'm in the concrete jungle 5 days a week and live about 40 mins north.

Cool clip:) and...no I have never spanked one. Seen one deer hunting, that it . Boy...someones getting good use out of that camera huh?

I think outside of raptors and crows, bluejays are the most aggressive birds I see here in the yard. They seem to always leave the feeder when the woodpeckers show up. Beak respect I guess:D

If I did not see it with my own 2 eyes...I would have never believed it. Sunday evening... Again...outside my son Joe's bedroom window. He calls me...Dad! Look at this! A baby sparrow fell out of one of the birdhouses in the back yard and right into the garden. A large Blue Jay was pecking at the little flapping bird until it was flapping no more. It found the right way to pick it up and off it went with the hatchling in its beak. " Death by fang or claw, is a much more violent one, than the one the hunters arrow bestows" Fred Bear So true...I actually felt bad for the sparrow. Natural selection at work. Does anyone else know of Blue Jays being carnivorous? I anticipate Tominator shedding some light here:D.

We have great pay and pretty good bennys thats one thing, but the crew makes the job. I work with a lot of great guys who break each others chops ALL day long...Lots of laughing. I do heavy electrical construction.

Thats good news for sure. Glad she is getting better.

It has been a busy spring on BOTH sides of the creek for Bear I see. Glad there were no incidents.

That would be interesting...AR-10's..Hmmm. They all know how to maintain, assemble/disassemble the M16 now, so it wouldn't even be like they are changing rifles...just calibers. As WTNhunt mentioned, the 7.62 in the AR platform is most likely more controllable than the M14's were. I don't think ergonomics were big back than when the M14 was developed. Firearms today fit the shooter better than ever before. Cost is most likely what is in the way a upgrade.

Would ya believe it??? Thats right... Joe stuck another groundhog 3:35pm EST, right before I took him to work:D He is a machine. That makes 3 in less than a weeks time! Thats my boy! I'll let him post pics and the story.

Good Luck with the .50 I'd love to shoot one someday.

The last 2 years it has been B Mobile with a real turkey fan. But my Flambeau hard plastic old hen deke is always old faithful, the toms usually come running...Just not this year:rolleyes:

I learn something everyday....Fiddleheads huh?

See if your local DNR has any trees that are native to your area that they distribute. The DEC in NY sells trees in wildlife packets that are very inexpensive. I bought 90 trees for $35. Elderberry, Red Osier Dogwood and Toringo Crabapple. These were recommended by our wildlife body here in NY for promoting wildilfe. http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/9391.html Good Luck.

Thanks... I'll try to get a few pics of the stream and reservoir out back, show you what we enjoy 40 miles from NYC. See the cart in the background?...That is the "meat wagon" that we use to take deer out of the woods with. Nice and quiet... for a suburban setting. Stealth. One neighbor knows we are the ones to go to if you have critter problems and want to save money:D. His wife made him spend over $400 on a animal nuisance company and all they caught was a 5 lb coon and they still had problems. They came to me, I gave them the coon cuff and stinky coon lure. Showed them how to do it and they got a big fat one with my trap. No more trash pail tipping;). Now with Joe on a groundhog tear...the garden is getting REAL safe:D

Another one down! Joe called me on the way home from the cabin that he smoked another ground hog:D. One of the seasons young. The garden is getting safer by the day. Joe is my Garden Guardian:p. Kathleen...We live in a suburban setting. Most everyone is on a 80'X160' lot, so the houses are a little close. Our side of the road backs up to a reservoir and we have no one behind us...So out the window arrows fly time to time... at varmints ONLY! I need to make that point. Varmints; Groundhogs, Chipmonks and English Starlings ONLY! Chipmonks and Starlings get the pellet gun but the larger varmints get the bow. Getting the window open and the screen up with a animal in sight is a skill we have developed here

Just wait until one of them gets mauled.

The groundhog was in the garden this morning and my son put a G5 Striker through it... It ran into its den leaving a pretty big blood trail for a groundhog. We said a few words...then filled in the den:D It finally ran out of lives. Atta boy Joe;)

OK ...Heres another hat in the ring.... I ordered 2 pints of that Tasty delicious Wisconsin Maple syrup from Matt a few weeks ago and it is all gone. My boys devoured almost one pint in one breakfast! I make the B E S T chocolate chip pancakes .The rest found its way to work in my cooler and for coffee break at work, we send out the apprentice. About 7 of us on my job had pancakes for breakfast with tasty Wisconsin maple syrup. The votes are piling up fast for Wisconsin:D Thanks again Matt! I'll be ordering more soon.

I can't walk past my sons bedroom window without taking a peek in the woods. Joe has the best view. So I do that and whats in the yard? A fat goundhog with a cut over its back (Joe's miss last week:D). I usually call Joe and have him get his bow as I try to film it. I was home alone...I got my bow...Boy was I breathing hard as I slid the screen up. Check for neighbors...Check...I knocked a arrow tipped with a G5 SGH Small game head... conscious of the window sill...it has pieces missing from past shots:rolleyes: A 15 yard chip shot, out Joe's bedroom window into the garden...No problem...I blew the shot. Shot right in front of it... and it jumped up as the arrow slid under the earth below it. Took off under the fence and was gone. This is one lucky ground hog. This is my 1st miss this season and Joe has missed 2X. We usually take at least one a year with the bow in the garden. Gotta get him...! Either that or no cucumbers this year:D One more thing... Joe has been using broadheads for his shots and the blades are trash after the shot digging in the dirt. That small Game head from G5 is incredibly durable for the amount of times it was buried in a animal or the earth. http://www.g5outdoors.com/#sec_sgh I have to brush up with my Outback..its been a while. The recurve has had my attention for quite some time and I did not anchor and aim. I drew and released like I was shooting my recurve:rolleyes:. I think I'm going to have to choose ...one or the other . It messes my form up too much shooting both. Anyway...I think I'll trap him if I can't shoot it.

Chris...She is like a Movie star 'round these parts:D