My neighbor has a few apple trees and this bear comes in at night to get his apple fix. Unless the bruin comes to my house, I probably won't get a chance at him.

Pap

Damn,
Pouring rain here and gonna blow tomorrow 20-30 with gusts 40. Not good.

I had an easy 50 yard broadside shot at a nice 6 point (eastern count) and had a missfire on my black powder. I took it apart thinking the nipple might be clogged. When I took off the breech plug, one of the 2 Pyrodex pellets was turned into powder and the other one a as intact. I can only assume the pellets are old and not as apt to fire. I used loose 777 powder on the reload. Those pellets are probably 10 years old. Anyone else had a similar experience?

Pap

Warren,

Was in the ADK Mts. and the winds were blowing minimum 12-13 with gusts 25-35mph. Wanna shut down deer? Winds like that! Food was good and bourbon & wine was flowing! A lot of embellished story telling. Great fun, nothing like deer camp!

Tom Flynn

Agreed Tom. Not much happening here. First Rut is over, 2nd 7-10 days from now in line with the PA opener as we are so close. One of my guys missed a huge buck on opening day near dusk. Warm day today , put up Christmas decos not to freeze my azz off. Heard 1 shot at the house so not much is moving.

Wow, great story, lucky NY hunter gets a 8x9 elk in special PA lottery tag.

http://www.syracuse.com/outdoors/index.s...nnsylvania.html

Wow, that's an amazing bull elk.

Pap

Probably taken in DuBois, PA. I hunted there with a friend in the 80's. Elk are numerous there, tags are not. Lumber, coal strip minining, powder metal manufacturing are local industries. Hunted the PA whitetail opener and literally saw dozens of deer the first day plus a few elk. It was wilderness where we were and rugged terrain.

150 yds, .243 100 grain Winchester. He was on a slow trot. Did not even see him topple. He was down by the time I got the scope back on him.

Where I got him, at a friends place, a coyote took a chicken out the yard, 15 yards from the house few days ago. Coyotes have killed a cow in the same area in the past two weeks. Should be a good winter for the .243.

Rod--

Coyotes are the prevalent predator in rural Ohio. I know people who have given up keeping sheep, goats, and cows because the coyotes kill them (calves in the case of cows).

I also see a direct correlation between the increase in coyotes and the decline of the ruffed grouse since the early 1990's. Although there are also other factors affecting the grouse population, wildlife officials still want to blame land use patterns alone for the decline in grouse.

There is no incentive for people to hunt coyotes--that is, no bounty, no profit from pelts, and apparently few people who want to hunt them just for sport.

Larry