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Iabow 28 yrs Bow Oct. 1 - Dec. 4 Dec. 21 - Jan. 10 Shotgun Dec. 5-9

Nice pics, and way to clean the bird while it's still in the air;). I'm missing it already.

My buddy shot BlackCloud this year, the BBs and 4s. I must say the big stuff he and I both didn't think was to hot but the 4s impressed the heck out of him and I both. He was shooting a IC Nova. Acouple times the ducks were out there beyond what I'll shot at, maybe 50 yds and he dropped them cold dead with one shot. I hit a cripple that sailed off about 65 or so yds, looked at him asked if he could finish that one. One shot the water just made him vanish, not one leg kicked. It's a little to expensive for me and for my ranges but I still was impressed. Some of the wound channels were crazy too in those birds I cleaned.

Man, made me shed a couple tears. I really miss seeing him out there and that grin. When that guy said it felt like a piece of him died, I felt that too with so many others. He was my hero, an inspiration growing up, never be another like him. Here's to Dale

Thanks WKTeacher, sounds pretty interesting. Well my season has ended, I got out 2 days. The first day we sat in the blind, had a beautiful dark hen come in right behind the decoy. She walked up behind it from 100+ yards after some clucking and light purring. The hen stood there for about ten minutes just cleaning herself and then started to walk off into the field stopping and looking back the whole time, on the edge was where we were sitting. She gets about 50 yds away and does a 180 and comes right back to the decoy, stands right behind it and after another couple min. begins to walk the fence line the decoy was facing. The entire time she would stop and look back at the decoy like "are you coming or what" lol, I think she wanted a friend. Well a short time latter on the other side of the field we set up. After ten minutes I look along the edge and 20 yds from the blind is a brownish looking hen dusting away. First time ever seeing that in the wild it was pretty cool. After 5 min. of dusting she walked right behind my decoy and walked off down the fence line. That was the first day no toms seen or heard. Our second adventure was better. We set up on that same field edge where the second hen came out. After about an hour of me calling we heard a distant gobble. So I called again and another gobble. Thinking the birds might have been pressured I played mr. soft and hard to get. They would gobble but were going away. So I thought what the heck lets have some fun with them, so I cranked it up, being very aggressive. Gobble, gobble double and triple gobbles from not one but 5 or 6 toms in different locales in three groups. So I kept on them if I quieted down they would start to walk away, but the more aggressive I got them more they closed the gap. Until two were booming right behind us, we could hear they’re feathers scratching the foliage and ground. It was my dad's first time hearing one spit and drum, he had to ask” what was that” later. They can thunder pretty loud when they are in your back pocket. About that time I big tom with a thick paint brush steps out in the field 40 or so yards away coming are way, along with two birds booming behind us and two or three more 200 yds away in the woods to our right. I was feeling pretty good right then, my plan of trying to get the toms to get to me before the other was working, playing em off one another. My heart was thumping, everything ready, release on bow, going through my checklist, calming my nerves, finally. Well wouldn't you know at that exact time the guy on the neighboring land drove his four wheel along the field fence, what timing. This is on a dead end road with no houses. Needless to say the tom in the field booked like nobody's business and the two behind us did the same. So I watched as he drove down his fence line in the wood edge and back not to be seen or heard from again. What timing. As for the three that were 200+ away to the right we found out where they were, across the river that I don't have permission for. After that ordeal thought I would play though, never heard so much gobbling in my life, 5 or 6, my dad said 6 I thought 5. Singing back ontop of one another trying to out do each other at my calls but after working them into a frenzy for 20 min. we decided to call it a day. My foot very sore and throbbing, worn out from walking with the crutches and disappointed over what had happened, we make it back to the truck just in time to hear my Cubbies blow a 5 run lead in the bottom of the 9th. What a day, I went home and had to soak the foot good with epsom salt and take a Pain Pill, things looked better after that LOL. I really enjoyed experiencing that with my dad right there though, we had a good time. Esp. seeing his face when he heard the drumming. Sorry I couldn't have put one up for us guys, I did try hard when I could go out.

Hey guys, looks like I'm going to make out for a couple days after all!!! It's a little late in the season but better late then never. I got till the 20th. My dad is going to help me out and it will be good to share a blind with him. Landowner said there is quite a few birds around so hopefully. WKyTeacher what is the land judging about, do you judge the quality of the soil? Sorry if it's a stupid question but I've never heard of it.

Congrats on the bird!!! Good to hear you guys are still having fun.

How's everyone doing? Been hearing mixed reports up here. I go back to the doctor on the 30th to get some x-rays taken. I've been putting some presure on my foot, so I'm optimistic that I might be able to sneak a day or two in hunting. My dad said he would help me out, setting up and all, just have to talk my mom into letting him lol.

Same here,I had one on my Vtec and really liked the rest. Only problem I had was some wear on my cable so I just went to a rip cord.

Cool Video and Congrats on the Rio!

Pretty good idea. Hope you have success with him.

Thanks you guys, I appreciate it and yes family I agree. I'll try to get a picture of the x-ray up for you guys. I will enjoy hearing some stories and seeing some pictures of the big boys you guys take! and the ones you don't. The experience is what really counts out there, don't you agree? I guess it will just be one more year for them to get bigger on my end. Strut10 Thanks again.

Nice picture and bird!!

Congrats!!!

Well Guys I have some bad news to share. First off I have asked Strut10 to replace me with an alternate, not because I want to but because it's only fair to you guys. Sunday morning I went scouting to the place I told you about before. It was a beautiful morning with some good gobbling coming from where I pegged them. I listened and scouted around for a while with good results, nothing changed and things were set for the opener. Now the bad news I had taken my grandpas .22 ruger pistol with me incase I spotted a yote or some wild dogs. When I got back to the truck, thinking I'd shoot my bow, while I was unloading the gun with it on safe and away from me it happened. POP. What had happened was as I was pulling the bolt back and it was stiff pulling so I pulled with a little more force to eject the shell. Well my hand on the bolt slipped which caused my other hand that was holding the gun to move to my left, towards my foot. How the gun actually went off I don't know for sure, I keep playing it out in my mind but still don't know (beings it was on safe). I found out today that this gun has miss-fired before, so maybe that was it, I don't know. As you have gathered, I shot myself in my left foot half way up. I heard the pop and my foot just felt like it went fat. I took my boot off to check if I really did it and left a nice blood trail, thankfully I was right by the truck. I took off the shoelace and made a tourniquet around my ankle. Off I went doing 60mph to the blacktop, about 85mph on the blacktop. A couple miles down the road to the hospital I passed a guy walking and as soon as I passed him I started to get narrow vision. So I turned around and asked the guy to take me, thank God he said yes. I didn't want to hurt anyone else by driving. I was shaking pretty bad on the way, so I kept asking the guy questions to keep me alert and active. On the way which felt like the slowest 90mph ever I called my family about what happened, all I keep getting was "you what". They didn't believe I would be the one to do something like this, because I'm one of those safety conscious people in all things. It was sort of funny every person family and friend said the same thing. They thought it would have been my dad not me. Talk about feeling stupid. Anyways the bullet went through and hit my second toe bone going through. I asked the doctor today if it would be ok for me to go hunt but he said because I hit bone I'll probably be laid up for a while and I can't chance getting it infected. If it was only meat I could in 2-3 weeks, so much for my aim. This was the first time for surgery, IVs, stitches, passing out and such for me. I thank God the man decided to walk that way that day, he said normally he don't, just that day and the right surgeon had just come in for a special appointment and traffic was light. Thank God people were praying for me. But Strut10 said he'll find a replacement for me, I would like to know if it would be ok if I still talked with you guys and sort of live my season out by you guys? I can probably post some pictures of the x-ray if you would like? Anyway BE SAFE out there and good hunting.

Can't wait, I start Monday, just won't be able to get out in the morning. I got permission for 1 and 3 season on a place I've seen a couple big birds a couple years ago so we'll see how it goes!!!

Re: Ameristep Customer Service I had a deer cart that the wheel broke on. My fault, I was using it to transport about 200 lbs(not a deer) and came off a 8" step and shattered the wheel. I told them exactly what happened, it was my fault and could I buy a new wheel. They sent me two new wheels free of charge with in a couple days. Great service.

Re: WY Black Hills Welcome to the Realtree Family!! What kind of info are you looking for, hunting tips, places to hunt? It absolutely beautiful out there, you can see Devil's Tower from the back of my aunt’s ranch. Just awesome out there.

Re: Ever try this? I carry a small Tim Grounds half-breed goose call with me. I've had some success with it but never would they only answer the goose call and not others. I take it just in case, was also thinking of taking a small air horn with me and trying that. I've also have taken a whistle with the ball removed and got them to gobble at that. Like it was said they gobble at a lot of things they shouldn't. Boom - gooobble

Re: TURKEY TEAM #9 Congrats and there is no need to feel sorry about a trophy my friend. Sounds like you had great time. I’m curious about your setup, looks similar to mine. I'm shooting a Vtec, kwike quiver, s-coil, spitfires and truball tornado. I'm also working on my first bow bird after 2 years. First year I shaved a huge tom. I rushed the shot because I was kneeling in the open with a group looking my direction. It was a Dooh moment.

Re: TURKEY TEAM #9 18 degrees and snowing here this morning, guess I should have shut my mouth. WKTeacher sounds like you can sit in your easy chair and fill a tag .

Well fellow Hawk fans, it looks like the new coach will be Butler's Todd Lickliter! He was named Division I Coach of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches this year. They've gone to the big dance 4 out of his 6 years there, with 2 sweet sixteen appearances. I really like this hire personally, so hopefully it's not another run like we just had. Here is a link to more info about Lickliter. Butler Web Page

Re: Finally. . . . . Ker-Plunk, Flop Flop! That's awesome, way to tell the story too. The spitting and drumming that close is a rush. Looking to connect with my Hoyt on my first bow bird, 3rd year trying.

Re: Who\'s using there???? Bow for me with 100gr spitfires. Might try the 11-87 for fourth season.

Re: TURKEY TEAM #9 80-86 is alittle to hot to early for me.