Strut10

37 degrees here last Thursday morning.......................... 91 felt pretty nice yesterday.............. !!!!

I think more like they live to get embarrassed in front of their home crowd............ I hope............... ​Was at Game 5. Pens outplayed the Sharks BAAAAAAAAAAD..............for 57 minutes. The Sharks ain't gonna get the bounces every night......... The officiating was LOUSY, too............................ but still a once-in-a-lifetime thing to be at a Stanley Cup Final game !!!!

One more win and Lord Stanley, Lord Stanley............pour me some brandy !!!!!!!!!!!!

CONGRATS !!! Get to bed early and go get another one tomorrow morning !! They ain't that bright...........

You can clean after patterning if you want. I've never seen it improve the patterns in any of my guns by a significant margin. I'd just go with the flow and clean after the season. Oh...................and FWIW.................you need to be running 3" Federal Heavyweight #7's in that factory full choke SX3. You'll be amazed.

Our season just came in yesterday and the gobblers were being ignorant. Last weekend was our youth season and my daughter hammered her very first bird. http://forums.realtree.com/forum/general-discussion/turkey-hunting/2054877-pickle-shoots-and-scores

Good stuff right there !!!! CONGRATS to the both of you !!!

Couple of great birds, Al !!! CONGRATS !!!!!!!!!!

Today was our youth day. Took my 11 year old daughter Pickle to my honey hole before first light. I had scouted this spot 7 or 8 mornings over the last month and a half and there was a wad of 4-6 gobbling birds in the same place EVERY time................including the morning with 4" of fresh snow and including yesterday morning. To condense an entire morning..............not a peep !! Heard hens roosted right there. Saw 3 or 4 of them fly down. Not a gobble. We sat and called periodically til about 7:45 when Pickle decided she wanted to go for breakfast. I couldn't blame her as I was puzzled as heck. She just started to get up when she said "Dad !! Don't move !!" But it was too late. A bird had been coming through a tree field to our decoy silent and in full strut.................. Busted. So we went and had a big breakfast and came back around 10:30. We did a little walking & calling and ended up at what we call the Turkey Sleepin Log. It's a maple tree about 10 yards back in the woods off a hot little clearing that is just like sitting down in an easy chair. Nice place to plop a decoy on the clearing road and call. Been know to do a little snoozing at times too......... So I worked my Steve Kimble walnut over mahogany box every now and again and both of us relaxed/dozed some too. About 11:20 (we have to quit at noon) I heard a VERY faint gobble down in the hollow straight out............300-400 yards. Pickle was snoozing so I woke her. I called a few more times and the gobble came from a field I knew to be 250-300 yards down in. So we got the gun on the hickory stick and ready to rock. I called again. Waited.............called again..........waited............ Twenty minutes go by and nothing. Pickle is feeling really bummed and ready to go. We had a little talk about how turkey hunting goes sometimes, etc, etc............. I told her if she was ready to be done then we'd just gather up and go since it was 10 minutes til we had to quit anyways. I leaned over to my right to pick up my belt pack to stow my boxcall and there, coming up the road at maybe 45 yards and almost into the clearing was a bright red head !! The bird was in about 1/2 or 2/3 strut and in LOVE with Henrietta, our decoy. Pickle hadn't got the gun down yet. So I started talking her through moving her gun and where her shot would be, where to aim on a strutter.......... I thumbed the hammer back on her single 20 and leaned to look straight down the barrel. When the bird cleared the last of the bushes in the way I told her that was her shot whenever she was ready. It took all of 2 seconds and she lower a boom of Federal HW 7's on his noggin right at the 30 yard line. Right over onto its back !! Kicked its legs about 3 times and not so much as a flop !! There it was, right beside the road. Pickle's first ever turkey !!!!!

MUCHO CONGRATS on a slammer of a first bird for your buddy !!!! Nice field pic, too. Glad to hear you're still getting some use outta that old slate.

No. RemChoke threads do not interchange with any Mossberg pattern. Not sure about the 535, but many Mossberg's will interchange with standard Winchoke. But if he took a tube out of a Remington and screwed it into a Mossberg he used a 30" pipe wrench to do it ........

Awesome photos !!!!

Some darned impressive lookin birds Al !!! Now to just get us some spring goin on.......................

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Thank you, Sir William !!!

Had just enough snow New Year's morning to make seeing deer easier. Took a hike up to one of my favorite points on the Strut10 Ranch with my trusty flintlock and shooting stick. About 8:30 a nice big doe that looked like she might be carrying about 20 quarts of canning meat came sneaking by about 60-65 yards below me. She paused broadside and unaware for a moment and that's where she met the .50 cal Hornady PA Conical. She made about a 125 yard downhill dash (right toward the truck) and piled up in a little spring ravine. Last tag I had for this season.

Yep. Up by the lake. Yep. Lots of good places to get a deer with your truck up along 210. No doubt !!

Not a camp. He lives there................Off Fowler's Hollow up against the mountain.

You're right around the corner from my buddy's place. Yep. Down in Fowler's Hollow. Yep.

You're right up the road from me, I reckon. Yep.

Welcome to the forums !!! Hope you had a good opener today !! My brother downed a dandy 8 this afternoon................. not wide, but good tine length and heavy.

Great deer !!!!

You just keep the snow, Huck.......................... You just KEEP it.

Good stuff !!!! MUCHO CONGRATS to her !!!!!!!!!!!!!

CONGRATS !!!! Nice width on that boy !!!