Recent content by nygunguy

Don't Use The Sabots They're Too Expensive Don't Use the sabots in a smoothbore. In fact - I did a whole bunch of testing this Summer and I'm now wondering why I spent so much money on a fully rifled barrel and sabot slugs. Box of 5 Federal Premium Sabots = $11.00 ""...

You Bet ! In archery and Spring Turkey we don't. In deer firearms season no one leaves our camp without it.

White Box ?? I just shot a box of White Box through my SRH. Maybe I got a bad box but that was the filthiest, wimpiest ammo I've ever shot (except some .44 special). I really like the American Eagle 240gr Hollow points for deer. I've since put a new scope on my gun and am pretty close to...

Hi Fordman I live in a Western suburb of Rochester. We got the very edge of the snow and had no problems with it. Batavia, fifteen miles to the west, and points west of there got buried and are still somewhat "offline". Here's a somewhat bad pic of a Western NY Whitetail from 2004. I was...

Starting 2006 - Thanks RCL There's a lot of mast in our woods this year. I haven't seen too much deer sign as of late but they were hitting the food plots earlier in the Summer. I'm predicting that 9P will be a bit slow this year. Lot's of turkeys this Spring ! More updates to come -

Some More Research Here's what Alexander Hamilton wrote to the people of New York in Federalist Paper #29.

1911JMB: NY's economy, at least here in Upstate NY, is generally bad as well. We can't seem to hold on to good businesses or good people. One of the biggest contributors are the outrageous taxes that we have to pay. About 60% of the taxes we pay go toward the entitlement programs that the...

I can't believe the Bush bashing in this thread. Here's what I see from the "worst president in history". - Unemployment at less than 5%, most likely due to tax cuts demanded by the Bush administration as well as a more business friendly climate. - The economy is absolutely smoking at least...

Better late than never - I guess All my action was in archery (see previous post). In firearms season I spent most of my time bird dogging for the kids. My future son-in-law got a small, but nice, 8-point on opening day of regular gun (his first deer) and then a button buck later on (he...

I like a scope I hunt with an SRH with a cheap Tasco 1x scope. The main reason is that my near vision is over 50 years old and I can't get good focus on the open sights. Next year I hope to upgrade the scope to a Busnell or Aimpoint 2x or 4x with the dot (instead of crosshairs). Most folks...

I messed up on Sunday I hit a nice buck (decided that the rack would look good on my wall) on Sunday about 9:45 AM but my arrow must've hit a branch first. He walked right out in front of me at about 30 yards, broadside. It was a bit gray and gloomy so I must not have seen the branch. I heard...

Think twice about the semi-auto... One good shot is better than two bad ones. Here in Western NY we've been limited to shoutguns for years and most guys (that I know) use semi autos. Problem is that the ones who want the quick second shot are thinking more about the second shot than the...

Love My .30-.30 I have two Model 94's one in .30-.30 and the other in .32 Win Special. The .32 was made in the 1920's and was my Dad's gun as a kid in Potter County, PA. He never wanted to hunt with anything else. Dad bought me the .30-30 when I turned 14. I've taken several whitetail with...

Our whitetail season started this past Saturday, October 15th. Last year someone started a thread that turned into a report of what was going on during the deer season in Western NY. I really enjoyed the thread so I thought that I'd start one this year. I was out for about 3 hours and saw...

I spent part of today sighting in my my new Encore. In the spirit of keeping the gun shooting consistantly I throughly cleaned the gun every 3 or 4 shots. I know that I can get an aftermarket ejector part that swivels out of the way so you can remove the breach plug with out disassembling...