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This is just me, if it doesnt sound right the first time i replace it with another one. I fought one for a week onetime and its just easyer to replace it. I use Primos Sig Series, Pittman, Headcrusher calls and MAD Just my $.02 Most HS are plastic and there isnt much you can do. If they are alunium you can bend it a litlle sometimes it will work.

Nice week congrats on some nice birds

nice congrats thats a good one

Yep at first glance I looked at the forearm and the magcap. Looked like a benelli on my phone. but I see the gold trigger now on my computer. Wont knock you for shooting a Browning:D haha na I shoot some Brownings too. I know what your talking about with the weight, i went with wood stocks on mine for weight and it makes all the difference. I shoot Nirto's and they basicly pump my gun for me all i have to do is push my forearm foward just a little. But i dont feel any of it because of the stock weight and pad on my gun. I heard a guy Sunday morning before church that could have used that mag extension, boom, boom, boom, boom. AHhhh public land.

congrats

Opeinging day, awesome. congrats.

Congrats, nothing like an opening day bird.

Nice

congrats nice bird Glad to see someone with a MS bird

Thats what it is about. Congrats to both of you. A 25lb. 2yr old good gosh.

Congrats that a tough accomplishment. Nice bird

Nice Bird Leo. Congrats I like that Benelli. Extended mag and all looks like it would be fun to shoot.

Congrats i like the white in his middle tail feathers.

Don't feel bad its been rough for everyone this year. I’m no pro either but this has worked for me in the past. 1. Try leaving your decoy in the truck a time or two. I use them and they will work but some old toms just act funny when they see that decoy. 2. If you have him roosted get in close and when you think your as close as you can get go 20-30yds closer. You don’t want to be under him but you want to be close. Around 60-80yds is what i try to do. 3. This is the hard part. Either soft tree yelp and if he answers you put the call down and wait. He knows where you are and he will come and check on you. Now it may take a while and he may go the other way with a hen but he knows he heard a hen that’s not with him and he will come back and check on her. Its hard not to call but this one works. Another one is get in close and never call just use a wing to do a couple fly downs with and then scratch the ground a little. Give him time sometimes they will just about light in your lap with that one. 4. Let them get together and bust them up, just run at them and spook the mess out of them. After they have flown off walk in the direction that the gobbler went for about 50yds or so. Set up and wait for about an hour or so then start soft calling slowly getting louder with lost calls. He will want to regroup his hens and will usually run to the sounds of a lost hen. Just some things that have worked for me on stubborn birds. Good luck

Here in MS the turkeys have been acting very strange. This will rate as one of the hardest seasons to date for me and most of the people I’ve been talking to. Guessing that is because of a couple years of low hatch numbers that the majority of the birds we have are all 3+yrs old. But funny thing is last year we saw a good number of jakes and have yet to find them this year. I was able to sit down on my first bird of the year, our season started on 3/12/11, on 4/7/11. This was the first time into this spot this year. Some other people had been hunting it this year so I backed out. They couldn’t do anything with any of the birds there and quit hunting so I decided to take a try. At least if I heard a bird it would be more that I was doing in most of my other places. This bird worked perfect and I was able to get a shot at 20yds at 6:45 that morning. 10.5"beard 1" sharp spurs 19lbs Didn’t hear another gobble the whole next week, until after 7:00am on 4/13/11 and it was as far as you could possible hear one. I figured it was off our property but if he is gobbling then I may have a slight chance to call him across the line. Worth a shot. I ran 1/2mile only to hear nothing. Except for where I had been standing 30min before. So I run back to the top of the hill (1/2mile) only to see 2 red heads going into a thicket. I didn’t want to spook them so I just sat quietly for a few minutes to let things settle down. Then I hear my long bird gobbling again. So I’m off again, only to hear silence once I’m 1/2mile deep in the woods again. So I wait for a while and walk back out to the top of the hill only for him to start blowing it out (I laughed and said they must have radios or something, this is nuts) so I’m off again. I get back down in the area of the gobbling and nothing, to heck with this I thought. On the way out when I reached the top of the hill I called and nothing other than the bird in the distance had cranked back up, a crow hollered and nothing then a woodpecker cackled and two birds gobbled 100yds away. I sat up but could tell they were on the move so I made a huge circle to get in front of them, figured they were headed to a dusting spot I knew of. I was right but they beat me there. The woods were so thick that I could see their heads but couldn’t tell what anything was other than hens and gobblers. I wouldn’t take a shot even though it was only 20yds, I figured there was a jake in the bunch and I didn’t want to get him. I let them walk off after 20min and made another big loop and sat up at the edge of a hardwood draw. 10min later I was able to call up the longbeard and jake to 30yds and that ended an exhausting morning with a beautiful limbhanger. 11 3/8"beard 1 1/8" Sharp spurs 18lbs.

Great job Al. Congrats. Our birds are lockjawed at our camp hope they crank up soon.

Id say New mexico. Rio, Merriam, Gould But the map shows WA being good also.

I shoot the Nitros and the have some friends that shoot the Hevi mag blend. It is real close and $2 a shot cheaper. Its a dang good shell and you wont be disapointed.

While turkey hunting the other afternoon in some MS river backwater. I got the chance to try out my Snake boots. Thank God they worked. I got popped just above the ankle on the left calf. The cotton mouth was in some grass and i never saw him until it was to late. Needless to say my eyes hurt from scanning the ground the rest of the afternoon. My whole core was sore from all the jumping i did after the strike. Anyway thought i would share this experience for anyone who thinks they don’t need snake boots. This was the first time that I've been hit and hope its the last. This cotton mouth is pushing 40". My boots are Cabelas Pinnacle snake boots if anyone was wondering. This is what i saw just after he hit me and recocked. This is him after i regained my composure and found a 3' stick. My bow from tip to tip is 37".

Congrats on a nice rope. looks to have good spurs too.

Congrats on a great bird Al. Any luck locating that double spured bird.

Went to my first HRC Hunt Test and my 7month old pup Coal passed both days. Got a ways to go but were getting there.

Awesome hunt congrats.

I set mine on the ground. When i shoot from a stand there is not that big of a difference, Granted i always aim lower so if they jump string im still good most of the time. Id rather hit low than high any day. Main thing is try to picture where your arrow is going to exit the animal. The only time I've seen a stand have affect on my point of impact is when it is a 10yd or less shot. Then the practice from the stand really pays off. Just my $.02

Me and a couple buddies, back in the 90's (wow thats a while ago) figured out that you could crimp a couple nocks on your string next to your cam and then use some shrinkwrap to hold them, this would add some speed to our bows back then. Its the same concept. Depends on what bow you have, a lot of bows already have something similar on them stock. If you do get them take your bow and shoot it first a few time to get an average speed then put the studs on it and see what it does, let me know how it turns out. I know the difference in whiskers or string leach's is about 4fps winner in that one is whiskers. Heck even the size of your feather or vane will make a small difference.