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Season goals Mature buck with the bow. Hopefully this is the year.

Huge loss in my family, prayers please. Praying for you and your family!

Happy Birthday dbhunterNY Happy birthday!

Taking the kids........ maybe. No kids, but a brother who's 12 years younger than me. I'd imagine he started sitting with us as early as 3. First deer came at age 6. I was sitting with him, but he did it 110% alone. First turkey at age 7, we were headed around the birds to setup when they caught us off guard. He ended up on a tree 15 yards from me. Watched him do it all with no coaching, out of the corner of my eye.

Snipe hunting?? Need advise Welcome back muggsy

What's he going to turn into? Yeah I'm pretty sure that he's got an extra point on that right beam. He may not turn into anything special, but I think he has some extra mass and plenty of time to grow some tine length. I'm trying to hold off on checking til the first full week of August. Maybe ill have a better idea on him then

What's he going to turn into? Only two pics I have. Looks like he didnt even pay the new salt lick any attention, but was just exiting the clover patch in that direction each time. I know velvet can fool you, but he looks to have a lot of mass and an abnormal coming off between the g2 and g3. I think he'll turn into a real good deer

Bojangles' = YUM !!!!!!!!!!! I ate at one somewhere in Arkansas a many years ago and loved it. Never ate at another until they opened the one in Starkville the guys are referencing, a few years back. To make it better, it was located about 100 yards behind my apartment... Lets just say I had a lot of chicken and biscuits on the way to campus(and may have even splurged and got a boberry biscuit a time or two)

It's a girl!!!!! Congrats!

The passing of my Mother Prayers are with you and your family

Cancer Update Awesome news! Congrats!!

if you could change one thing Would cut MS three month gun season in half.

My turkey season was sure not what I was hoping it would be. My first one out of college, with job, house, and hunting land all close enough that before work hunts and especially after work hunts were feasible, I had big expectations. I won't bore you with all the details of why it didn't work out, but it consists of working my first tax season, trying to keep up with the six yards I mow, a lingering tired feeling from my radiation treatments last winter, and most of all, studying for a cpa exam. Add on to that, the turkeys seemingly never roosted on my main land for the first time I can remember, and my season pretty much sucked. I don't have an exact count of hunts, but I think I made around 8, which is much lower than normal. Saturday morning, April 13 was the only exception. It was the first and would end up being the only time that my dad and I got to hunt by ourselves all season. The walk up the listening hill was halted with the sound of distant gobbles. Some 500 yards off of our property line we estimated, right where the birds on that side had been most of the season. We decided to ignore them in hopes that something on us would gobble. Our decision was rewarded, but to make a long story short, those birds were roosted on the other property line, flew down into the adjacent cutover, and proceeded to gobble at our calls for the next hour as they marched away. We headed back, I was honestly ready to go to the house and catch a few more hours of sleep, but when my dad asked if I wanted to see how close the other birds were I agreed, mostly hoping to find a shed or two in a food plot that direction. As we neared, we let loose a yelp, answered by a hen cutting and followed by a gobble on our land. We drew up a game plan to circle the food plot and dip down into a creek and go from there. Once down the creek, a few more gobbles had let us know that we were probably stuck there, and a quick peak over the edge confirmed that. The bird was strutting back and forth about 100 yards through the hardwoods. I stood on my toes to the left of my dad, he shoots lefty so my plan was that he would shoot any bird that came into the right and I'd get one to the left. After 20 minutes of a lot of calling and a lot of gobbling(we hunt a little differently; he cranks out the yelps and cranks them out often, I'm much more reserved.... he's much more successful), the bird broke strut and began a slow meandering walk toward the ditch. I had the visual on the bird as a tree was blocking most of my dad's view. As he neared, I took my safety off and shouldered and beaded up on the head, but he cut my dads direction hard at that point and my window of opportunity was gone. I whispered to my dad what had happened, and watched as he slipped his call into his pocket, shouldered, and shot(I couldn't see the bird). On the trigger pull I expected a laugh or him to turn and say something to me, or quite frankly, anything other than what I got. He just stood on his tip toes(we both stand around 6'2" and the ditch was at least 7 ft in that spot) with a confused look on his face, and finally said "I think I stunned him." That sent me into a panic, up the hill, and beaded down on the bird running straight away at about 40 yards. The nitro did its job and the bird went to flopping that time. To my dad's defense, he was shooting through a good bit of briars. Still funny to mess with him about having to bail him out. Guess you would say that it was truly a "shared bird". 10" beard, right at 1" spurs.

Look what FedEx dragged in.... Sweet bow! I've been thinking about getting an elite, just haven't made myself pull the trigger. Congrats!

Anybody keep up with the CWS? You know I am! Hailstate!

Realtree forum hunt I would jump all over this, but April 10-13 doesn't work too well for someone in public accounting. Y'all will have a blast though.

Picture of First Buck

proud of our oldest, she is still determined....... Those are awesome! Congrats to her! I have to plug MS State. Great ag and biology program. It's a "big" school with a small town to go with it, and shouldn't be over 4-5 hours from y'all.

I don't understand (credit card) I just went through the same thing. Never realized what all needed credit for you to have an account... Cspire wouldn't even let me swap my phone bill from my parents to my own without credit. I got one from capital one and don't see any problems so far. High interest rate, but no problem as long as payments are on time

I'm going to be a daddy!! Congrats Hoosier!

What happened to REALTREE FORUMS?? I still check in every few days, but am no where near as active as I once was. Part of that is life being much more busier than it once was. Part of it is being on an in state forum that sort of is more of what I'm looking to read. Part of it is that this place is just nowhere near the same as it once was. This place was awesome at one time. Couldn't pop in to the sports room without having several different discussions about whatever sport was going on at the time and some sort of fantasy ot pick em league going on. The bow, deer, and turkey hunting forums always had interesting threads in them. They seem to be cluttered with rookieish threads these days however, my "favorite" being what bait and decoy to use. I still check in to see the kill stories from the posters that have always killed good deer and written awesome turkey stories, but in doing so, I try hard to avoid the threads that make my stomach turn.

So much for shed hunting!! I've found 8 so far, but saw 7 bucks still carrying two weekends ago. They seem alot later than normal this year to me.

Careers in the outdoors Sounds like you definitely need to look into wildlife biology. That's what I wanted to do, but ended up not pursuing it because of the money and job outlook. I started off in civil engineering, switched to teaching/coaching, and then switched to accounting. Graduated with both an accounting degree and a business degree last spring and am in the process of sitting for my CPA now. If I could go back and do it again, id go into pharmacy or some higher specified medical field.

Opening Weekend Success Very nice Al! Always enjoy your stories