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Holy CRAP !!!!! I just looked. In about 3 weeks (Aug 12th) it'll be 20 years hanging out in the RT Forums for me.......... !!!! Where DO da time GO ?????

Just got to looking............ Several of the Ontario wildfires are RIGHT where we go into the wilderness to fish. Doubtful we'd even be allowed back in there right now. Yesterday there was a weird haze here at home in west-central PA. Pretty sure I heard the weatherman say it was from the Canadian wildfires.

CONGRATS !!!! Have a wonderful trip !!!

That water looks like it should have some walleyes and northerns in it............

Hey, William !!! Sorry to hear what you had to endure. But glad the end result is a positive one. Now that you got a rebuild kit in ya, you oughta be good to go for a lotta more miles. Hoping that your recovery continues well and is as full as can be or better !!!!

Good deal !!!! Saw a bunch of goats when we were turkey hunting Wyoming a couple years back. I think a spot and stalk hunt (with a rifle) would be a good time, too. Best of luck in tagging a stud !!!

I ended up shooting a bird early on our opener. Then another 3 days later. Poof !!!! Outta tags. If I could figure out how to post pics.......... I would.

Good hooks !!!!!

That's the way ya do it !!!!! CONGRATS on a solid bird !!!!!

Thanks for the kind words, fellers !!! And thanks for bailing me out on the pics, William !!!!

THANK YOU, William !!!!!!!!! I'm too dumb to figure it out. Lol !! If you get bored and wanna work your magic on the first dead link, too............be my guest.

I don't understand why the images won't show. They are hosted and linked in the same format that EVERY other website accepts.............

And I have NO idea why my hosted pics won't show up.....................

Still 2 weeks to wait til our ridiculously late opener. I get tired of waiting sometimes. So a couple weeks ago, my cousin and I made a whirlwind (2300 miles in 5 days to hunt 2 days) trip to Florida to chase Osceolas for the first time. I was given lots of pointers before I went. The best of them being "They don't gobble much on the ground" and "Take a Thermacell". Both spot on !!! The first morning we hunted in the Gainesville area. Cousin took a long-spurred slammer at 10:30. Then I switched my deal up in the afternoon and called in a 2 year bird...........strutting down a sand road the whole way. But never gobbled. [img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51015315845_60182c48a2_z.jpg[/img] Although taken below the "official Osceola line", this bird shows lots of Eastern influence. The next day was a travel day, on south. Day 3 we hunted a big property we'd never seen or set foot on. Called in some hens at first light with a bird gobbling hard from 1/2 mile across a "savannah" field. We decided to relocate somewhere down through an ak hammock and see what was what. We walked a ways and found just a classic looking place to call a bird. The tom that was half a mile away was still hammering. For the heck of it I ripped some yelps with a longbox and he hit me back. I cut him off and he hammers back. Told cousin at least that bird knew where we were. We sat down and I started calling a little. Wasn't long that 3 hens came up the hammock the way we had come in. I noticed the mouthy gobbler had gone quiet. With the savannah field to our left, I told cousin to keep his eye that way as the goofy thing just COULD be coming. He was. Within a minute of me saying that, he came out of the fog and right into the oaks......headed to the 3 hens that were headed to me. At just about 40 yards, he strutted out from behind a palmetto clump and my second Osceola was down. [img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51084592662_2ef53ec207_c.jpg[/img] I always love hunting different birds in different places and different habitats. I can't say for sure which has been my absolute favorite. They all have their attractions. But an untouched Florida oak hammock..........like pre-white man, untouched........at gobble time is just magical. I don't know if I can go back next year or if I'll never do it again. But this was one of the most incredible hunts I've ever been on.

7, 8 and 16 are definitely me.

Happened to me and the Mrs. one time. We went to WV to hunt the first week. We were in the sporting goods store the night before the traditional, historic opening day when the clerk told us the state changed the opener to the NEXT week that year. That was a bummer to say the least.

Call William at Sumtoy Customs. The man knows how to make little guns shoot. SumToy Customs - Home

P.S. -4 degrees here this morning. It gets colder. But it's been warmer.

Not the most healthy eater in the world, here.............. But I just can't eat biscuits & gravy. Put that gravy over some chicken fired steak and a couple biscuits on the side........ I'M IN !!!

Good deal. Now, get it stuck together and print some paper with it. Hope you already have ammo for it......................

HUGE loss to true Americans.

I was ready the day after season closed LAST year !!!! My season is looking like Florida in March and PA in May. I'm looking forward to it. Just hard to get too cranked up about it when we're staring at -15 temps at night a week from now. Winter is an old hag. I don't need to tell you OR Martin anything more about THAT.................

I actually do. Not that I need them right here around the Strut10 Ranch. But, in the PA mountains......... Nebraska........Wyoming.......Texas.........West Virginia............ There's bitey stuff all those places. I just like the high ankle support so I wear them most all the time. But, thanks for the tip. Be glad to hear whatever else ya got.

Supposedly, this place is slap covered UP in Osceolas. From what I hear, there have been TV shows filmed on this property. Sounds like there should be a nice selection of birds. Yep. I'm looking forward to hunting in a whole new type of setting than what I've ever done before.

Thanks, Al !!!! All indications are that I'll, at least, be in the right place.