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Me & Lil got up at 4:30 and hit the trout stream. We both limited out. Great morning !!! Came home.........made a killer bacon & eggs spread, chilled a bit and now we're sitting down to some burgers off the grill. Headed to my sister's house at 6:00 for a whole family picnic supper. cousin and her kiddos are up from Virginia. Great day !!!

This year you would be HIS !!!!!!!!! :yes:

Yeah........... ummmmmmmm ..................about that................

Bowhunting fever !!! Both my gobbler tags were gone a couple weeks ago. Found a pair of button buck fawns yesterday. Pulled my trailcam cards over the weekend and got several velvet buck pics. Lil Strut found the shed left side off this buck a week or two back. It's all adding up to the beginning of a summer-long sickness. I can remedy it a little bit if the summer walleye bite is good and if I can get the boat out to do some tubing on the lakes or river. But with another week and then some until spring gobbler season is over.................and I LOVE summer............bow season is NEVER gonna get here !!!!!!!

He is pretty athletic. He weighs right in the 150# neighborhood but is one of the fastest, quickest dogs I've ever seen. A fellow wouldn't wanna have to outrun him if he wanted a chunk of you.

............you'd better not be wearing soap-bubble underwear !!! Pickle was having some fun with her puppy today. Here's Crosby in calmer moments: And in full attack mode:

Ran across these little boogers while I was on a woods walk this afternoon. Cute, ain't they ???

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CONGRATS Tim !!! Waiting to hear all the details !!! Now you'll be REALLY famous and I can tell everybody that I made you buy me a bunch of lunches waaaaay back in the old days when you were a nobody. :clown:

I have a 28" NWTF 1300. It has been my test gun for shell-choke combos for years and is a VERY SOLID shooter with most any combination. Good reliable gun. My buddy has an identical twin to the one in your pics. It works very well, too. I always liked the 1300 Turkey Specials. If the price is right........JUMP ON IT !!

Nothin' a .22 shotshell or a hoe wouldn't fix.

Thanks !! I'm gonna say I was somewhere in the 40-60 yard range.

Snapped some quick shots of a momma bear and 3 cubs while turkey hunting in northern PA last week. Actually was driving down the road when they crossed in front of me. The couple shots of momma didn't focus well. Here's a few of the kids:

Been getting some 'yote pics on my cams this spring too. Sure wish I had more time to whittle away at the local population.

Don't hold your breath. Snakes are for one thing and that's killin'. :gun2:

Looks like a Southern Pine Snake to me. It's a variation on the King Snake. I guess if you have venomous ones there, I'd probably let this guy live to kill them. Up here............he's got a date with a spade shovel.

It doesn't look any bigger to me. But there are 2 longbeards sitting on the limb 250 yards out my back door STILL hollering their heads off as I type !!! It must be doing something for them. The birds in this neck nearly NEVER gobble after fly-up.........EVER. Wierd.

Well............. We are going to work on our patience skills between now and next hunt. After a pretty stiff chug uphill to our listening point, we began to hear a number of gobbling birds at a distance. Then we had a bird open up about 350 yards below us. Most times I would move on a bird that far. But I knew there were 3 ways for him to go and we were standing right in one of them. So we plunked down a decoy and when it was tme I gave him a flydown which he answered. For the next half hour or so, I would call softly every so often. He was gobbling below us, still in the 350 yard area. Pickle started getting antsy around 6:30. Told her to give it til 8:00. Told her that turkey hunting was waaaay more walking and waiting than anything else. At one point around 6:45 the bird gobbled noticably closer..........still a couple hunderd yards or better down the valley. But they will generally hop on the gaswell road that comes up the hill and opens into a clearing smack in front of us. At 7:00 I made the executive decision that maybe a stand-up and leg stretching would buy us a bit more patience. Stood up for a couple minutes and just as I turned to tell Pickle it was time to sit back down, the bird crested the hill silently, busted us and vamoosed. We had a brief conference, me & Pickle did, and decided it was time to go to the resturaunt for breakfast. So we heard lots of birds, saw one plus a couple squirrels and had a pair of sparrows nearly perch on us. VERY successful morning by my calculation. Here's Pickle. Realtree Hardwoods has never looked so good !!

My little girl is going on her first actual hunt for anything !!!!!! Pickle is 7 and in 1st grade. She has been in a treestand with me in gun season for deer and along on a fall turkey hunt. But today she's got her license and we're going to try to put a gobbler on the ground !!! I have not been this excited about a turkey hunt in 20 years !!!!!!!!

Good lookin' bird !!!

Well...............as of 9:10 AM today, my 2012 spring season (at least carrying a gun) is over. After starting on another ridge on the Strut 10 Ranch, I ended up a mile and a half walk away on the other side. This bird was gobbling on his own every so often. So I got way around and set up on him. A lot of soft convincing, a goodly amount of silence and a bit of downright sleazy cursing brought him pushing a jake ahead of him out of the field up one of our tree farm roads. He dropped out of strut at 42 yards and ran his noggin up whereupon the Super X2 delivered him a dose of #6 shot in the face. He was a gorgeous bird to see.............until he flopped down into a clay ditch with a big puddle full of yesterday morning's thundershowers. 20 1/2 lbs. 9 1/4" beard and 7/8" spurs.

WELCOME aboard !!!!!!!!!

Did not do a test. But this ground has not been limed for over 15 years. In these parts, you can never go wrong with 2-3 tons/acre. Not going to fertilize until the clover gets a foothold. Then will hit it with a low or no nitrogen mix. When the brassicas go in they will get a dose of trip-19. Will have to do a little figuring as to how much. Probably around 80-100 lbs. nitrogen/acre.

Not uncommon at all. My Super X2 is the same way and my BPS 10 ga. is too. Density-wise, most of my guns are 50 yard capeable......... but that's with 6's and I ain't going there. We have two guns that run #5 shot. A 3" 870 12 ga. and my BPS 10 ga. On two separate occasions over the years there have been severe yardage mis-estimations. Both birds ended up being.......... well.............over 50 yards and we will leave it at that. Both were dumped on their tailfeathers. I have a combo for my BPS 10 ga. using 2 1/4 oz. of #2 shot (which is not legal for turkey in PA) that is 75 yard capeable without blinking an eye. But that wouldn't even be turkey hunting. Just turkey shooting.

There's worse places to be stuck in May. You got a PA tag ??