DeerSlayer

Lol, yes both statements would be true.

Call a lawyer for legal advice would be my suggestion.

I just had the bedside completely replaced on my 05 ram. My buddy did it that works at a body shop. New pannel, paint, sealer, clear, & new mopar rumble bee sticker and stripe sticker was around $1000 I paid him $500 for labor. Mine started rotting over the top of the wheel well. I also needle scaled the frame when we had the bed off and painted everything with Por15 chassis black. While the bed was off I threw in a new set of Bilstine rear shocks since they were easy to get to and mine have 80k on them. Had a spray in bedliner done as well for another $300. $1500 seems in line for that job. And its common on your truck just like mine. I've been seeing many around the same year as mine and yours with the same issues. And I'm anal with keeping it clean especially during winter. When we took the bed skin off the bed structure there was a bead of body glue between the inner fender well and the bed skin. That was where it rusted because it holds water and road grit. I had to weld in some new metal in the inner wheel well also. This time we didn't use the body glue the factory used and I por15 painted the inside of the skin and the inner fender well under the skin before we welded the new one on. I also drilled three holes where it previously rusted at the lowest points in the arch so it can drain and i can clean it when I wash it.

A rifle over .25 cal or .357 or larger revolver would both be good choices. 12g Slugs lay them down pretty quickly as well.

Florida permits open carry while engaged in hunting or fishing activities only.

Someone killed a bear a few years ago in Denville with a .22, so yeah .223 or 5.56 would kill a bear. But probably not instantly. I killed one with a .50 cal muzzle loader During hunting season, and it ran for a while before it dropped dead with a hole in his liver and lung. A bow and arrow will also kill a bear. Some idiot in Hackettstown did it last year because he claimed it was attacking his dog. He was charged as well. My advice is if you are going to kill one illegally (outside your home not during bear season as a licensed Hunter in a legal hunting spot) I highly recommend using a shotgun with slugs. That way when the conservation officer is writing up your charges he cant get you for killing the bear with a weapon not approved for bear hunting. It will be one less charge you will be facing.

Exactly the reason I live 1000 feet above sea level on top of a mountain. Its safer! If we had a flood here the rest of the state is in big trouble

Its because people are idiots and build/buy property on Barrier islands. Really your just asking for it! I feel bad for those people when a hurricane comes and wipes everything out. But its really not a smart investment in actuality. Those island's are there to protect the mainland not for human habitat. Kinda like building your house on an interstate median in between oncoming lanes of traffic. Sooner or later a truck is going to drive through your house. Probably why we don't see that, so why do people sink all of their money into an asset the ocean can claim with one storm within a few hours? Everyone that buys property on a barrier island should be checked for brain damage.

Believe me I spend hours in the woods every year along with many other guys. If we had big cats there would be trail cam pictures, tracks, skat, and many kills that someone would find. From a distance people often mistake Bob cats for mtn lions. We really don't have the terrain and range here that the Western cougar likes. Big cats don't like being around people and thats one thing we have a plethora of in our state. Only a very small portion of upper Sussex county has that type of land for supporting big cats possibly. Or maybe some areas of the pines, although they dislike that type of terrain because its flat and den sites they desire are usually high up in Rocky areas. The odds of one staying here even if it did find its way to our Forrest is slim at best, this is according to our state wildlife biology team. I'm acquainted with a few of the members on that team, and we have had this discussion before. Again not impossible so I'm not saying your a liar or a loon but the odds are slim.

Was it walking along side Bigfoot? I'll believe it when i see a carcass, with claws. Most of the captive ones are declawed. One did make it from Iowa to CT and got hit by a car so its not impossible. But as of now no proof no cats.

We don't have mountain lions in Jersey. Only bobcat. The eastern cougar is extinct. Any that have been captured in state or found dead and there have been some. Were all released or escaped exotic pets, or drug dealers using them to protect their stash houses. If we had actual wild mtn lion we would find scat, dens, and kills most likely livestock because its easy pickings fenced in here. As well as dead ones on the roads. We have no such evidence. Until we do we don't have wild Mtn. lion living here no matter how many people spot them.

This is also a reason they are useful.

Here are my trail cam pics from last fall in Randolph, where I hunt off of South Road near the Jewish Cemetery. There are some serious bear in Morris county too! At home I keep a paintball marker near the sliding glass door loaded with pepper balls. It works well, neighbors don't hear gun shots from rubber buckshot or bean bags and it doesn't permanently harm the bear. But when they see me come outside now they run because they know what happens if they hang out.

I'm in the heart of bear country myself, (Sussex county) as much as I dislike having them in my yard daily I can assure you they are better to deal with than bloods and crips any day!

I don't think I would even want to shoot that gun on FA without the ability to shoulder it. I'm aware of how easily it can run away on the shooter.

They're not ready for that yet in most cases. I suppose there may be larger than average 9 year olds with the shooting experience and upper body strength to handle a non rimfire FA, but probably few and far between. And no I'm not for new laws, restrictions, or bans on ranges making their own rules. If the kid is ready, the kid is ready age shouldn't be a factor. What im saying is by 9 most aren't yet.

I'm willing to bet if you had a boat in a slip on Lake Hopatcong, the first 10 lbs of goose shit you cleaned off of it would change your mind also. I believe the last time I felt bad about blasting them was when I put an ice cold beer into my cup holder and it came out with a big green goose turd stuck to the Sam Adams label. I now kill them with zero prejudice, and always cover my boat lol.

As long as you have a shotgun license, federal migratory bird stamp, NJ waterfowl stamp, HIP #, and steel shot. Plus you need to set up 450' away from any frequently visited buildings or playgrounds. unless you have written permission from the people that own the buildings within that 450' radius. Your good to go.

Jerkey in the smoker is about the only way to make them palatable IMO. My mother-in-law had a pretty good cream sauce recipe for them in the slow cooker. I used to enjoy before she packed up and moved to Florida. Haven't had it in a few years. I usually give them to an old redneck that lives down the street from me. Not sure how he makes them, but he is always glad to take whatever I harvest.

Agreed^^^^^ We need a better bear season and more guys hunting them.

I was probably 9-10 when I started also with a .22 bolt action marlin (still have it). I also remember around the same time going to scout camp and earned my marksmanship badge with a .22cal rifle. Got my hunting license at 10 and my Step dad bought me a Mossberg 500 for Christmas that year, I got it two weeks early for 6 day. He had to customize the stock for my hand and shouldering, he built fine furniture and kitchen cabinets for a living so it came out nice. (Still have that gun also). Its really all about the kid, some are ready sooner than others. Some are never ready. Guns aren't for everyone I guess, some kids got it and some don't.

Ditto missingmoney.com is for real. I had an insurance company rebate for overpayment on there once it was around $250. I was skeptical at first myself but check came in mail and cleared in the bank.

The one I killed in 2004 was delicious! And my father had it made into a rug for his bachelor pad, at that time I didn't make enough coin to afford a rug. Think it cost close to 3K to have done. The old man always wanted one so he paid for it and keeps it at his house. I figure one day ill get it back, but I'm not in any hurry to see it in front of my fireplace, if you savvy what I'm saying.

If we had more hunters there would be much less issues. Bottom line is we went from a state where we had many many more hunters buying licences, down to a fraction of that amount today. Its no longer politically correct anymore to kill your own dinner. And its also a lot of work to be successful. Many guys lost the properties they hunted, to New developments of shit box McMansions with the real housewives of New Jersey living in them. God forbid they have a guy in the neighborhood bow hunting to protect what small amount of forestry we still have. Many of the older hunters moved and retired to other states. Furthermore kids these days are way to lazy to actually go outside to do things when they have a computer and a PS4 to keep them occupied, while stuffing their faces full of high fructose corn syrup filled treats becoming disgustingly obese. People also work more these days and later than in decades past. Many just plain don't have the time to go kill deer. The woods are decimated by deer here. You can see straight through them 6' high, because the deer have killed all the undergrowth and new saplings. Once the trees we have in these areas begin to die off there will be even less woods. Trees eventually live their lives and die, now there's nothing new growing to replace what we have now. I go in the woods at the end of my street ( thousands of acreage of open spaces property) and see hardly any deer sign anymore. But on my way there I pass at least 10 houses with hurds of 6 to 10 deer on the front lawns of almost every 5 or 6 houses I pass. Something is wrong with that! I do my part and kill everything I see even if its still got spots. If I could clone myself a few thousand times we may be ok again. Sportsmans groups like the one I belong to are pushing for an early bear season possibly for the next game code revisions that occur every two years. But we have to fight the Susan Kehoe's of the world to do it. Its not an easy task and I believe were lucky to even have the bear season we have now. Although I would love to see even an early November 3 day Muzzle Loader or a possible spring Archery season. Highly unlikely but possible with enough support from the public. Sooner or later a kid will be killed (God forbid) but its only a matter of time. Once that happens, public opinion will change and people will be calling for a hunt. Until then the public perception of the NJ black Bear is that of a loveable Disney Character, and I'm the "evil no good hunter". Actuality couldn't be further from that depiction. Sorry Rant Over.

Yeah she was in the news about a month ago. They unveiled the "Samantha" statue in front of Vernon town hall. What a bunch of loons those people are. Last year we had one dened under a house down the street from me. The cable guy got a surprise when he entered the crawl space to change a splitter. Hahha. Yeah man we live in bear country. All you can really do is make your yard as unappealing to the bears as possible. Idiots like the bear group only make things worse for all of us normal thinking humans.