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SuperCore, my buddy who's hunting for the first ti...

2009-11-14T13:59:20.639-05:00

SuperCore, my buddy who's hunting for the first time, dropped down about 1600 LIMA. I took him for a ride around the area and then we went back to camp and glassed for deer-- nothing showed. The drive was fun; I swear this county's population must double the weekend of the Opener. Everyone was coming to camp-- lots of signs, lot's of trucks, lot's of 4-wheelers coming off trailers.

The ribs got eaten-- one of my better batches. The bones got thrown to the dogs, and the table cleared for the 'morrow.

KYHillChick and Angus showed up at sundown and after Angus gave us a bagpipe concert we toasted the hunt, ate dinner and we're hitting the rack now. 0430 comes mighty quick. I had to call back to town and have Angus go down to the reloading bench. I'd left my 308 WIN reloads at the house. I tell you, gentlemen, I am living the best of all possible lives. Who else can call back to town and have your wife and kid bring you your ammo?

Angus is not appreciative of the cold weather, so he'll sleep in. I told him he can go out and watch the show from the back of the house. I'll take him out in the afternoon and see what we can find.

They're saying partly cloudy and 41F for sunrise. I'm going to the killer stand and see what shows.

G'Night from deer camp.

No, KYHillChick said she never dated one. She pr...

2009-11-04T18:52:29.673-05:00

No, KYHillChick said she never dated one. She prefers German sausage for her St Hubert's festivities, but she acknowledges it's all a matter of personal taste.

Is this anything like Festivus? Is there a pole i...

2009-11-04T14:32:19.520-05:00

Is this anything like Festivus? Is there a pole involved?

I propose that next year we all meet back and star...

2009-11-03T08:01:36.692-05:00

I propose that next year we all meet back and start the biggest DST and Deer thread ever on the week before the time change. Everyone play it dead-pan straight, and see how many folks can get gut hooked.

Alternatively, we can wait until Spring and do this over on the turkey hunting section. The wildest discussion of DST and turkey I ever saw was on NWTF's forum I mentioned it on another forum and had a mfg's pro-staffer from Florida really get in my face over how the time change affected turkeys.

Even if you doubled the NR fees, I doubt I'd ever ...

2009-11-03T07:24:54.850-05:00

Even if you doubled the NR fees, I doubt I'd ever see James Beckett, our CO, any more than I currently am. James does a good job, but I don't believe I'd see any more value for the money if the fees went up. The fees went up when Pat Taylor was the CO, and I saw him just about the same. I bet if the fees doubled, I not would even get so much as a free hat, or a calendar or a bumper sticker from the department. That's not a cut at KDWFR. That's just the way it goes.

I think a lot of this TAX-THE-NR sentiment comes from not fully understanding who these NR fellows are. Probably I appear as the poster-child. I'm a northern-sounding Cincy Krauthead that bought in NKY and goes and hunts y'all's deer and turkeys. However, I'm married to a girl whose family came through the Gap with Boone. In fact one side of the family was already waiting for Boone.

Resident hunters outnumber licensed non-residents close to 10-1, and I bet a bigger number of them are more like KYHillChick and my son, Angus, than they are like me, the Great German Carpetbagger. Kentucky had a huge diaspora early in the 20th century. Most of 'HillChick's kin came up to Cincinnati to work. Angie was raised on the TN line, but she's got a fair mess of kin still up here. These 1-in-10 hunters we look at as Non-Residents aren't illegal aliens. They didn't land with the saucer. They didn't sneak over the river in the dead of night and they're not fast-talking sausage eating "ferners" like me. Probably most are just folks who want to come back home on the weekend and hunt and fish.

KY has a huge outreach to those folks. I don't know if you know this but KET has 5 or more channels now of HDTV beaming into the Cincinnati market. A lot of that programming is pro-KY propaganda. You can probably catch shows like Tim Farmer's or Dave Shuffet's every hour of the day and night. It has a huge message: "Come back. We want you to come to KY. Spend money with us! "

If KY dropped its NR license fees and opened its doors they might double the 57K non-resident hunters, and those people would spend more than any proposed rate increase with KY small business. On the other hand, if you jack the fees up and/or add more limitations to NR hunters, the increase in revenue will not be enough to really affect the # of CO's or the amount of WMA acreage all that much. The number of NR hunters isn't all that high. What you need to do is get those 542,000 resident license holders to kick in a little-- $1 extra on any resident license or tag means as much as a $half-million in the KDFWR's coffers.

If y'all put together a NR Sportsman's Package, I'd be first in line. Right now, I'm being picky about what licenses I buy-- I keep my fishing on this side of the Ohio, and I don't buy all the turkey tags and all that. It just isn't worth it to me. On the other hand, if you made the NR Sportsman's Package reasonable, I'd easily plunk down more money than I am and move ALL my sporting activities to KY. I promise to never bother you. The kids and I will stay on our little farm, and when we go fishing, we'll stay on a deserted stretch of the Licking River. You'll never know we're there.

Just some thoughts from a sausage-eating "ferner."

I'm just throwing out an idea here; it's just mean...

2009-11-03T07:23:12.142-05:00

I'm just throwing out an idea here; it's just meant to illustrate what you can do.

Let's take some numbers from that PDF that was made available earlier with 2007 license sales by state listed. Let's look at 2 states.

Kentucky vs. Ohio:

Licensed Hunters: 343456/ 432815
Resident total tags/stamps/ licenses: 542,084/106374
Non- Resident tags/stamps/licenses: 57464/43243

Let me just throw in one extra stat from Wikipedia:

Total size:
KY vs. Ohio
40409/44825 square miles

Calculated hunter density:
8.4 /9.6 -- Kentucky has about 12% fewer hunters/sq.mi. Comparing a Zone 1 Opener to a SE Ohio Shotgun Opener is like comparing your local rifle range on Saturday Afternoon to the Battle of Verdun.

Okay. Let's say KY lowers its NR instead of raising it. Let's say they go head to head with Ohio and try to siphon off some of those Shotgun Hunters. They offer a $75 5 day Zone 1 only deer license/tag to NR's for week 2 of the rifle season.

1) The Buckeyes come over in droves.
2) The NR's clean out Zone 1 excess deer population
3) NR's from Ohio get to hunt in a relative peace and quiet, with a rifle.
4) KY Zone 1 gets its second Opening Day. Residents get to go out first. Come week 2, they're out in the soup lines passing out soup to the Buckeyes -- proceeds going to the church, the school, the Kiwanas-- who cares.

Now you got me riled! I challenge every one on th...

2009-11-03T07:22:31.040-05:00

Now you got me riled!

I challenge every one on this forum, if you think likewise, to go and nag your local chamber, your church, your school-- everyone you can think of. Get them thinking:

* What can we do to attract, serve and SOAK the non-resident hunters that come into Kentucky to hunt? How can we fill their trunks with our junk, and their bellies with our food?
* How can we make them happy so they go back across their state line and tell all their buddies?
* How can we create a market for our dormant real-estate, and make it appealing to these out-of staters? How can we add them to our local tax rolls and pay for our schools, our roads, and our emergency services. The farmers are leaving. Industry isn't stepping up. Now what?
* How can we promote KY as the hunter- friendliest commonwealth in the region?
* They say when it rains lemons, make lemonade. We got an over-abundance of 4-legged lemons running around Zone 1 getting hit on the roads, and eating people's gardens. How do we squeeze them?

. . . and while I'm on this rant. . . I'm not aga...

2009-11-03T07:21:34.547-05:00

. . . and while I'm on this rant. . .

I'm not against soaking the non-residents. I just think y'all are a little nuts if you think you're going to directly benefit from higher non-resident fees. The trick here is to be doing everything you can to personally soak them, have your church soak them, have your school soak them, have the whole town turn out to soak them!

Years ago, back when I was a kid, the ice cream store across from the town's only movie theatre came under new management. My Grandpa decided to go down and have an ice-cream cone on a hot August night. Just before the movie let out, the owner and her assistant were dashing around.

"Hurry" cried the owner. "We have to close up before the movie's over. Otherwise we'll never get home!"

Gramps came home and told that story and said, "They'll be outta business in no time. He was right. They were."

Moral: This is not the time to be inhospitable.

Here's something I wrote back in 2008 over here in regards to Telecheck. After I wrote it, I decided to send a letter saying basically the same thing with a little extra polish to the local Chamber of Commerce-- never got a reply.

I remember burning a tank of gas in Ohio trying to get from the hunting grounds to the check station, then having to go to Walmart to get a copy of the rules to find another check station that was over in the next county.

No thanks. I love tele-check.

However, the deer processor has replaced the check station for the place to hang out and watch deer come in. The spectacle at Meyer's in Lennoxburg is every bit the way it used to be-- crowds of people, lot's of deer. Ditto for the Farm Store in Willow.

If'n y'all are missing the check station, you ought to figure out some sort of event. Have a big buck contest at the old check station. Have the church bake sale, or the fireman's chili cookoff or something. Y'all have car shows in the summer, right? How 'bout a truck-with-a-dead-deer-in-it-show. All it would take would be:

1) The local paper donating an ad announcing it
2) A local park, a local store, or the old check station itself.
3) A few interested groups that would dovetail their fund raisers to coincide
4) Lots of trucks with dead deer in 'em
5) A few prizes to throw at the deer hunters, donated by local businesses.

I know places where the entire town turns out for Opening Day activities.
In one place, the town square gets filled. Women spend all morning cooking soup and baking pies for hungry hunters coming in. Rain or shine, warm or cold they do this-- the bad weather sort of adds to the occasion.

As Saint Meatoaf said, "And if the thrill is gone, then it's time to take it back! "

This isn't exactly deer related, but it just so happens that one of the big old Catholic churches in Cincinnati had their big Italian dinner on the weekend of the KY Rifle Opener. For years, I used to come back from deer hunting, go down with wife #1, and bring home a big sack of Italian food-- best I ever ate. Italian food and deer hunting got to be a ritual in our house. I can assure you, that one church, doing its big fund raiser dinner on Opening Weekend WILL draw a tired, cold, wet, deer hunter out of the woods.

The other big event I can draw your attention to is the annual Turkey Festival in MacArthur, Ohio that coincides with the Ohio Spring Gobbler Season. All the years I hunted turkey in Ohio, it was a not-to-be-missed event. Events included a turkey calling contest and a turkey leg contest. In the latter, all the local politicians and businessmen stood behind a blind, and hiked up their pants so the judges could vote on the best set of turkey legs. There was even a Turkey Queen.

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What....no scent-loc version??? And that...

2009-11-03T07:13:43.005-05:00

What....no scent-loc version???

And that green camo.....now THAT'S a joke! By the time the clock change occurs, most of the green is out of the woods in most areas. You need to have one in Realbush "Last Week Of October" pattern, so that it "blends" with the woods.

The shaman was sitting by the fire sipping coffee....

2009-11-02T06:33:49.560-05:00

The shaman was sitting by the fire sipping coffee. He looked pensive. He also looked bruised. His clothes were torn.

"What's the matter old man?" asked Nosmo, sitting down next to him.

"It was a failure." said the shaman.

"What?"

"My experiment with UV-radioactive stealth clothing." said the shaman. "This is all that's left." He held up an arm, there was a bright shred of fabric attached to his wrist.

"What happened to the rest of it?" asked Nosmo.

"Woodpeckers." said the shaman. "Woodpeckers. Squirrels. Raccoons. It was awful."

"I don't understand." said Nosmo.

"I got up in my treestand and put on these coveralls." said the shaman. "I'm just sitting there, waiting for the light to come up."

"Yeah?"

"And the first thing I noticed was that the cloth was so bright in the low light that I couldn't see the ground. I could see the trees against the sky, but that was about it. If I looked down, the reflection off the clothes was too much. It took until the sun was well up before things got bright enough for me to see anything below. About that time, I started seeing wildlife, and shortly after that, they started coming at me."

"Who did?"

"They all did." said the shaman. "I dunno. At first I thought it was an attractant, but the more I got into it, I realized the new UV clothing was an irritant. I didn't know animals were so sensitive to fashion statements. They ganged up on me. Luckily I was wearing some Carharts underneath. All of a sudden I had birds, squirrels-- you name it. I even had a raccoon on my leg, gnawing at that suit."

"Maybe it was an attractant. Maybe they really like it."

"I doubt it." said the shaman. "After they chewed it off me, they all ganged up on the shreds of cloth and. . ."

"And what?"

"They defecated on them."

"I can still see this working for you, buddy." said Nosmo. "Instead of clothing, you can build a target decoy thingy and put it up. Did it attract deer?"

"I think so." said the shaman. "After I fell out of my stand, something came in and kicked the snot out of me. I don't think they liked it either. I was too busy fighting off the porcupines to really notice. One thing is for sure."

"What's that?"

"Anyone wearing UV-sensitive clothing in the woods sure knows it in a hurry. I've never seen such a reaction.

AH! But I did!!! Follow this link: http://blackh...

2009-09-17T17:40:45.543-04:00

AH!
But I did!!! Follow this link:

http://blackholecoffeehouse.blogspot.com/2008/12/last-bunch-of-uv-killer-tests.html

The bottom line: more snake oil.

I wonder why you have not posted about tis since y...

2009-09-17T16:06:16.625-04:00

I wonder why you have not posted about tis since you've received the blacklight??

I like how you have presented the information in f...

2009-08-22T23:09:41.232-04:00

I like how you have presented the information in full detail. Keep up the great work and please stop by my site crane trucks sometime. Keep it up..

luv the slide show, dorf.. keep em' coming! the fa...

2009-05-15T12:18:00.000-04:00

luv the slide show, dorf.. keep em' coming! the farm looks awesome; perhaps u should go into organic gardening, raising and such... this stuff is HOT these days! :) --gina

Suplhur? Never thought of that one. Thanks for the...

2009-05-04T15:25:00.000-04:00

Suplhur? Never thought of that one. Thanks for the tip, I'll have to give that one a try.

I'm glad I was able to light the way for thee. Se...

2009-04-07T09:24:00.000-04:00

I'm glad I was able to light the way for thee. Send pictures of Mister Remmy, and I'll post them.

How does one apply for entry into the Order of the Blue Snood. I'm interested.

Sign the guestbook, become a follower or something so I know who you are. You sound like my kind of guy.

Write soon. Write often.

Inspirational. That's what your ministry has done ...

2009-04-06T23:25:00.000-04:00

Inspirational. That's what your ministry has done for me. I too had a sticky-tape camo job on my Rem 870 home brew turkey gun. Since I am the President of the "Order of the Blue Snood" here in Washington State, I felt it was time to give ol' Mister Remmy a makeover. A visit to the local Fred Meyer store and $28 bucks later I was spraying my way to the coolest do-it-yourself bubba gun I've ever done. (OK, it was only my second.) I will be proud when I address my brethren on opening day. I will jump with glee when asked to show the game officer my gun for 3 shell compliance. I feel like a kid again. I just wish I had more stuff to paint.

Thanks anonymous for pitching in and helping. As ...

2008-12-07T20:30:00.000-05:00

Thanks anonymous for pitching in and helping. As I said, I had no idea what translation.com was giving me. If I knew what it was saying I would probably have laughed as well.

Please, just keep laughing. While you were off getting your jollies, Alexandre helped me and wrote his own translation for me. It's up there now.

Read your translation on DDay Forum ; absolutely i...

2008-12-07T13:05:00.000-05:00

Read your translation on DDay Forum ; absolutely incomprehensible! worse, laughable at times!

congratulations on the clips.I didn't think it was...

2008-12-06T23:04:00.000-05:00

congratulations on the clips.

I didn't think it was that long, either.

If someone had said 10 years ago I'd be looking ba...

2008-12-02T14:34:00.000-05:00

If someone had said 10 years ago I'd be looking back on bow hunting when I was 50, I'd have said they were nuts.

If I had to look at the single greatest contributor, it would be not being able to walk out into my own back yard and take a few practice shots before dinner. It's a bummer, but what can you do?

Well - I like how you lay it all out. I'll simply ...

2008-12-02T11:29:00.000-05:00

Well - I like how you lay it all out. I'll simply say I prefer hunting with a bow, but I don't hesitate to pick up the ol' .270, either. A buddy of mine echos my own sentiments when he says, "If they only let me hunt with rocks, I'd hunt with rocks."

The biggest reason I hunt with a bow, is the crowds are much much smaller in the woods during bow season. At least out here in Idaho that's the case.

Thanks!Putting those two clover fields really save...

2008-11-19T12:01:00.000-05:00

Thanks!
Putting those two clover fields really saved the season. I can't wait to see what they do in year #2 with some good rain.

It's funny, most years, when the acorns are good, folks around my place complain because the see no deer. They're all hunting pastures and food plots. Now everyone is talking about what a great year it was.

Welcome to the sport. It sounds like you've got a...

2008-11-19T11:57:00.000-05:00

Welcome to the sport. It sounds like you've got a good start.

Well, Dan at Atsko is sending me a UV bulb to repeat my tests. We'll see.

Of course, I don't buy much of what folks claim about deer to begin with. Last week I was in an open treestand, with my UV-Radioactive poncho on (the sample from the test) and eating goose liver on crackers and watching all sorts of deer come by and pay me no nevermind at all. The stand was only 12 feet off the ground and my scent was blowing all over half of them. Some of the deer were downwind of me and some were close enough for a bow shot if I'd been so armed.

On top of it all, I had a herd of turkeys feeding right under me. One even went after a goose liver cracker that I'd dropped. Now that's icky!!!

Now I'm sure that if I'd not taken a shower that morning, the deer would have winded me, but all it took was water and sodium bicarb-- not $10/bottle preparations and a $300 MOP suit.

If a deer got hinky on me, all I had to do was stay put for a bit, and she'd just lower her head and go back to feeding.

PS:
Cabelas has everything, but wingsupply.com and sportsmansguide.com have it cheaper. Now that Walmart has stopped selling deer hunting stuff in my area, I'm always on the prowl for a good source of hunting supplies.

Check Wing Supply's Close-Outs for great deals. I haunt Sportsman's Guide for mil-surp stuff. All my kids are outfitted in mil-surp camo. We all wear mil-surp wool sweaters, balaklavas, and gloves. Both vendors have good deals on treestands.

Sounds like a good year to me! Except for the truc...

2008-11-19T11:22:00.000-05:00

Sounds like a good year to me! Except for the truck problems and the hurricane. I guess those aren't real good things - hope next year's acorn crop is a better one. I can certainly understand the frustration of what a drought does to the hunting being from the desert.