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    Got one with my Cherokee tonight

    closer look http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=10&Z=18&X=2362&Y=23822&W=3&qs=Grange+Hill+Road%7cSauquoit%7cNY%7c&Addr=Grange+Hill+Rd%2c+Sauquoit%2c+NY+134++56&ALon=-75.3163594&ALat=43.0165519 That's a ten-year-old photo. Not a lot of changes other than a few more houses...
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    Got one with my Cherokee tonight

    oooops... ignore that little red marker down in the southeast corner of the map. It has nothing to do with any of this... just a little leftover from when I was giving someone else an idea for taking some breathtaking photographs last summer... dang it... sorry for that.
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    Got one with my Cherokee tonight

    Hey, RC, as for the 8/12/20 stuff, that's where you'll find the State Forest lands, most commonly called "Tassle Hill Wilderness Area," some call it "Wildlife" insteadm of wilderness... whatever, it's there. Some road name that might help narrow it down are White Street (in Waterville area)...
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    Got one with my Cherokee tonight

    Oh well, update time, and those interested please note the following... Somehow, someone that is either a neighbor, relative of a neighbor, or friend of a neighbor reads this forum. Whichever way, said anonymous "neighbor" person has contacted the town in which I live, and also my...
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    Got one with my Cherokee tonight

    haha! LOL! Yeah, RC, I was wondering if you'd see that. And I got your PM. Sorry about not responding before now. Yes, the insurance company gave me a quote, believe it or not it was for only $56.10 less than the absolute maximum that they could give. MUCH higher than I was expecting. I guess...
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    Got one with my Cherokee tonight

    Thanks to all. I'm working from my home office today. Around 9AM or so, I went to the kitchen for a cup of coffee and looked out the window which happens to look out over the entire orchard, and beyond, to the north. We didn't get nearly as much snow as was forecast, but we did get about 8 or 9...
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    How do I fix this hole?

    I'm not the best at describing the method, but here goes. Instead of a patch, fold the leather so the long(er) axis of the hole is along the fold. If the curvature is too severe, trim a little bit at the fold, you want it to look like a flat canoe shape; the "ends" of the "canoe" are what you'd...
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    Long barrels

    Nice long sight radius! Wow...
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    Length of Pull, Drop, etc.

    Looking for ideas on designs for some stocks I want to make for some of my BP guns. I am not too concerned about PC. What I would like to hear from you builders are ideas about length of pull, drop at comb and heel, anything else you would care to share. I just don't like the way the more...
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    Got one with my Cherokee tonight

    p.s. - I'm not too far from other excellent hunting areas in both Northern and Southern Zones. The one bowhunter that took me up on my offer was from around Scranton, he had a good time elsewhere as well. Now he prefers closer to home (two kids since then) along the NY/PA border. So if you're...
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    Got one with my Cherokee tonight

    Thanks, Bramble and Snake Eyes. Hunting is open to all here, we just have to be careful and courteous because of the pickers here in the fall (apples pears and plums need to be picked!), and trespassers year-round. The pickers are mostly Mexicans on work visas (YES, they're all legal, and the...
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    Got one with my Cherokee tonight

    yeah, smack in the heart of CWD containment. I'm in the Town of Kirkland, in WMU 6-S. As for the city, it's like another world away. If you know Paris Hill (I SAID HILL, NOT HILTON!!! LOL!), that's the place. Anyhow, I think that may be another significant factor in the deer population explosion...
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    Got one with my Cherokee tonight

    Hey, RC, we're not too far apart, I live just a couple miles east of the Village of Clinton, maybe 8 miles southwest of Utica. We have deer in excess here, what with perfect habitat, high carrying capacity of the land, and elitist-type anti-hunters outnumbering us around here by probably 50-1...
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    Got one with my Cherokee tonight

    p.s. - I suppose that in order to calculate how many foot pounds of energy hit that deer, I'd have to know the exact weight of the vehicle, with me in it... but, would I have to convert that into grains? hmmm, I wonder, would it be considered a conical, or not? And then there's the ballistic...
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    Got one with my Cherokee tonight

    Thanks, Davy and White Buffalo. Actually, I had no idea the ice was there or anywhere. This has been a record-breaking warm winter here. It rained hard a large part of the day - in fact, we've had too much rain almost every day it seems for over a year - and then after sunset the temps got to...
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    Got one with my Cherokee tonight

    Jeep Cherokee, that is... And this is hunting related, read down -- One big doe jumped the ditch from right to left right in front of me, not even a second to react, hit the brakes, patch of ice, downhill on a curve... deer piled up under the front driver's wheel and I had zero control. Shot...
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    big game rifle

    Shooting them with a .50 prb is like stabbing them through with a #4 rebar. Shooting them with a .54 is like stabbing them through with a cement-coated #4 rebar. To get all the way up to a #5 rebar, you'd have to go to a .62. Okay, so we're not stabbing them with anything. But given relative...
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    Cleaning Products

    Ballistol was made for guns. Cleaning, lubing, preserving metal, wood, leather -- it has a very interesting history. Use as little as 1:10 Ballistol:Water for cleaning. Straight Ballistol for protection/lubing. For patches, mix anywhere from 1:7 up to 1:4 or so Ballistol:Water, soak patches in...
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    Where do you buy shot

    Gander Mtn here has 25# bags for $33.00. The small local guys have it anywhere from $23/bag up to $28/bag. The manager at Gander told me he'd let the shot go for $25.00 just to avoid losing a sale. Lead prices have gone crazy... I knida like that idea about just buying the shotshells... gotta...
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    Oak dowel for ram rod.

    Yes sir, I agree. In fact, most Saturday mornings around here on the local PBS channel, his old show is on, and some of the episodes are actually less than a year or two old. He has aged gracefully. I learned woodworking that same way from my mother's grandfather, he died back in the mid 1970's...
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