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Anyone else have suggestions? Be honest now :)

2. Take your release out of your pack before you climb 20 feet. Don't forget a spare release.

3. Don't ignore the grumblings of a meatball grinder from Subway.

Aww..... SNAP!

Dont think "I can hold it" then have to drop trow and poop from 20 feet up while trusting your saftey harness not to drop you to the ground as you try to lean out beyond the end of your climber... Then have a nice buck come in, and end up down wind and spooking, almost certainly due to your steamer at the base of the tree.

Just saying.

These have only happened to "friends" ;)

One more - don't jump out of the guides truck to get into position for a nice elk coming down the ridge only to find your release was still on the seat of the truck.

From a friend.

I wouldn't participate in a "control" hunt if they paid me, so don't worry, you're safe.

perfection must be a heavy cross for you to bear, I feel sorry for you. A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Maybe you'll get there some day. Maybe.

Don't wear your face mask in such a way that when you draw the mask is in the way of your peep site.

the POINT of this post was to have some light-hearted fun with the mistakes that all of us have made as hunters since none of us are perfect; and maybe remind everyone to be a bit more careful this season. Seems to me you're on the wrong thread and need to revisit the Staten Island thread. That's the point!

Bradford Mtn in the NW corner compared to Staten Island?????? Hmmmmm, sounds like you're just looking for a fight. You've stretched that one pretty far to make a point.

With that said, it was a mistake that happened 14 years ago and I never made it again. Why? Because I learned from it. Was it still a dangerous situation? Absolutely, no excuses. But if someone else can learn from it than I'm willing to put it out there, just like leaving my bow on the hood of truck and walking a half mile before I realized I was going hunting without a weapon.

Consider me stupid and dumb.

BTW - I think the guy who lives on Staten Island and said hunting there is definitely an options would win the "Most in Favor of Hunting" award there, not me. But you can think that if you want, it's fine.

no fight here, I agreed with you that what I did 14 years ago was dumb and stupid, you are 100% correct. I'm not going to get into the Staten Island thread on this one and the only thing I disagreed with was that I was not the #1 proponent of hunting on the island. I really do think that's subjective, so neither of us can be right or wrong.

And who's notne?? I know who not ME is, but not not NE.

Unfortunately, it is an inescapable reality that hunting sites, like this one are trolled daily by extremists opposed to any type of hunting and they will gladly take innocent remarks out of context and splash them over whatever forum will allow it.

It's for this reason that certain topics are discouraged in general and most often get pulled by editors off of the Big Game forum. I won't name any but it shouldn't require too much head-scratching to figure out a few.

Look, everyone here understood the context and had no issue with it, myself included. Whether some of the comments were a result of some holdover animus over a prior thread or threads is subject to debate and honestly isn't worth the time; we're all adults here.

There were some real classics shared here and I hope everyone enjoyed them. In a few days it gets real and lets all focus on that subject; be safe out there and best of luck to all!

Don't go out hunting without testing all of your equipment!

That includes broadheads. Shoot with your hunting clothing on, and all your junk hanging around your neck. Shoot out of your stand. If you can't shoot well enough, don't go hunting until you can. Respect the animals you hunt by being as prepared as you can be, and making a clean quick kill. Don't be a slob and give us all a bad name.

my friend left his gun at home when we went to Maine. Luckily the guy renting us a cabin let him use his gun. My friend NEVER shot a deer, so not sure why he was so worried about not having a gun :)

From over 25 yrs over huntin'

- no Eye-Talian hoagies on stand - no cigars or pipes the night before - no coffee on the drive to the spot Or until that night - always use the same length/size arrows

Mad Dog

hunting is one the safest past times there is, the facts prove that. Besides, antis rarely use facts, they are more prone to use emotion and distortions of the truth.

Sometimes political views take precedent over our position on hunting. I have no problem with others disagreeing with my statements and invite others to express their opinions since I have no problem expressing mine. Arguing a point is healthy, as long you keep the personal attacks out of it.

Carry on!

No it doesn't stand for that but yes I am a ball breaker, BBB needs a little of it sometimes and he seems like he can take it without crying about it, he seems like he can also dish it out which is good.

I don't worry at all about the antis having ammo against us, I'm right there with you on the PC crap, I don't buy into it in the least. However this isn't about PC or about antis. It's about common sense.

Look, I get the context of this thread. I understand completely the intent. And I think it's funny. we have all done stupid things over the years, hopefully all in the past.

But look if your goal is to persuade those that have the power to call the shots that hunting in an urban environment is a worthwhile activity to endorse and support, then It's necessary to lay to rest some inherent fears and possibly misconceptions about hunting and hunters in general. You can be defiant as you want against being PC, but it's not going to get you anywhere when you have to persuade the powers that be.

Just stop and think of what some of these people may imagine might take place if hunting was allowed in their urban environment?...arrows raining down on school busses? shot through cars? shot through windows?...I don't know but the sky is the limit about what a person ignorant about bow hunting, can really imagine. So now take the most vocal advocate here to support hunting in an urban environment as a safe activity and he admits to launching an arrow into the air into the next town. That just validates their perception of what they could expect from allowing hunting as a means to control the population, it's pretty easy for them to rule it out.

To give it a little more perspective, substitute Bullet for arrow in Bob's description in his first post, You can just imagine the wheels turning and those calling the shots have their fears validated.

Again, this has nothing to do with PC, I'm completely with you in regards to being defiant against PC but if you want to sway people into seeing things your way, you have to do so with the use of common sense and don't feed into their pre conceived ideas on how hunters operate. In general the whole context of this thread is fun, I understand but I do think you're shooing yourself in the foot regarding trying to sway those that could potentially warm up to the idea of hunting as a viable alternative to sterilization or any other means they can dream of. Granted the concept in NY city is a long shot and most likely no shot but like I said before, somethings might serve the cause better if left unsaid on a public forum.

I guess admitting you were right in my previous thread didn't hit home yet. "bb - no fight here, I agreed with you that what I did 14 years ago was dumb and stupid, you are 100% correct"

So let me also admit that I was wrong for posting it. I agree that we need to present a positive image whenever we represent the hunting community.

I've stated in previous threads that this is exactly what I strive to do when stopping to get a coffee in my hunting clothes and someone asks me if I was deer hunting. Respectful replies, consider their viewpoint and don't argue with a hard core anti, just say we have a different view and I respect you for yours, so please respect me for mine.

And yes bb, I can take it and welcome differing points of view. We learn when we discuss topics with passion, and I learned not to post things that present the hunting community in a bad light. Consider me spanked! Never too old to learn.

if bb stands for ball breaker then I'm a triple ball breaker :) .

It's like what they tell you when you take a hunter safety course - "Don't do this and don't do that, it's all dangerous"