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I always wear a tree belt at the very least. I have the full harness which is a lot safer but its a PITA to use. Fortunately, I have only had one tree stand mishap in 38 years of hunting . 2 years ago while descending, the platform piece came off my feet, fell to the ground and landed on my...

For those who sometimes seem shocked or dismayed when they encounter gun-toting or bow-toting people in the pines, this Saturday marks the opening of fall bow for deer and firearm for squirrel. A few zones opened for bow the first Saturday in September but bow will be open statewide this...

Down here in Pestletown the Forest Fire Service just finished dozing and "fixing" about a mile and a half of woods road off the end of my street. They turned a passable road with several hard-bottomed holes into a total disaster. The hard-bottomed holes are now 100' stretches of slop with the...

"Spongs" are lumped in with the vernal ponds inventoried by NJDEP. There are several here in Waterford in the mapped inventory. Here is a link to the vernal pond research: http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/ensp/vernalpool.htm Scott

The young are called poults. The reintroduction of wild turkey to NJ is one of the greatest successes ever managed by Fish and Game. The program was in its early stages in 1979 when I had a classs at Rutgers in wildlife management. The Fish and Game guys gave us a demo of shotgun netting and...

Wow. Sitting in there since July 25. The buzzards must have been yankin' on the door handles.

I have been doing this for over 30 years and I can tell you that the only thing you should use a chain for is anchoring to a tree. Chains transmit too much shock to the frame if you have to have someone yank you out. King is right. Buy a 30' 3" or 4" wide Keeper brand recovery strap.3" is more...

I would have gladly helped. A weekday would have bewen tough though. I have two 4WD F-350's with a 30' 30,000 lb strap and lots of chains and shackles. A list of volunteer rescue vehicles wouldn't be a bad idea. Scott

Mining of sand and gravel is very much a part of the pines heritage and history. The Pinelands Commission recognizes this and to anyone who works with the Pinelands Commission Comprehensive Management Plan (CMP), as I do in land use permitting, realizes that sand mining is a necessary part of...

The newest high accuracy baseline for instrument calibration is along the easterly right of way of route 54 in Folsom starting at the intersection of Mays Landing road and running south towards the Egg Harbor River crossing. It was finished last year. I went to a seminar in January at the...

We never heard of Solidworks . We are currently transitioning all of our CAD drafting software to Landesktop which operates with Autocad. It is supposed to be a great system and compatible with our data collector but I won't be using it much since I am not a draftsman. I still do most of my...

I am a licensed land surveyor and I receive several professional journals throughout the year including a monthly called American Surveyor. This month's edition has an article about early meridian stones in Nantucket that were used as a reference for true north and as a means of measuring...

I apologize for hijacking the thread and ramming a pipe through the spokes of the wheels of the welcome wagon. I don't apologize for anything else. As you can see, it doesn't take much to fire me up. Scott

What I find "scary" is that people can devote so much energy to crack-pot causes like protecting the interests of circus elephants (really, read one of their forums about tracking circuses). There is no shortage of human suffering and mistreatment of children in this world, including right here...

I am sure you will score high with any veterans on this site. The Elephant Commentator is pretty scary too. Scott

I always feel like I am bulletproof and at 47 3/4 yrs. old, so far it has been holding true. No surgeries, diseases, broken bones, hospital stays and no medications of any kind, not even aspirin. It might be the homemade wine and chewing tobacco. I took my first guzzlings of the Batsto in...

My '97 F-350 gasser is a 5 spd with a creeper and my '02 F-350 diesel is a 6 spd with a creeper. The '02 has a German ZF heavy duty trans with a nice short throw and tight gates. My wife drives both (she learned on a manual) and my youngest son has a 5 spd 'Yota. My older son likes autos. I...

Turkey opened statewide on April 18th. The permits are day-specific. Mine is for Saturdays only. There are permits for each day of the week. Only in N.J.! The season ends May 27. Scott

Nice post in their forum Steve. It will be interesting to see the reply from WNJ. I have been carrying some sort of knife almost since birth, its just the way I was raised. My grandfather and father were never without a knife. It sounds like your daughter's friend wasn't taking any chances...

Are you sure you were in Hammonton? I never heard of either of those roads around this area. Scott