3whunt

started my girlfriend(now wife) with a .223...no recoil...she dropped her first deer in his tracks....their are several manufaturers that have 60+ grain pullets....I have no problem/fears shooting the .223. savage has several decent packages that won't kill the wallet....

My daughter went on her first hunt this spring....she had just turned two....we didn't close the deal, but everytime the woods blew up with a gobble her eyes really lit up....I think she is hooked.

how about..... buck busters... bambi busters.... treestand assasins (sp?)....

I guess we need to start deciding on a name...I am horrible at coming up with any, so I will leave that part up to you guys. I also thought it would be nice to put a face with the screen names so we could see who our team members are. I'll go first on that. Here is my ML buck from last October.

Checkin in.....Oklahoma hunter....Oct. 1-Jan 15 this year...only one month away....

3whunt 26 Oklahoma...Oct 1-Jan 15

Season is officially over....no bird for me this year...sorry yall.

Way to go...congrats on all three birds taken for the team. I will be headed back to Western Oklahoma this final weekend to try and lay the smack down on a Rio. The only other time I hunted the Rios the wind was blowing 20mph and gusting to thirty. Hopefully the wind will cooperate this weekend. The birds I have hunted the past two weekends in Eastern Oklahoma have not responded to calls at all. They have gobbled their heads off on roost but after that they shut down. I have a feeling that the neighborhood stray dogs are chasing the "noisy" birds. We had one roosted on us at about two hours before dark. Sure enough, we saw dogs withing 100 yards of the tree. Wish me one final good luck. I will check back in Monday.

She is in my avatar

I use chain-ons sometimes...when I do, they are secured with one of these.. http://1st-chainsupply.com/binders/tightener.htm

Checkin in.... I had several close encounters this week, but couldn't close the deal. Seems like the toms still have several hens with them at all times. It should get better in a week or two. I may give the Rios a try this weekend, maybe they will work a little better.

Thanks Moon. Wish me luck guys...heading to Okie land this evening. Season opens in the morning...Hopefully I will have a bird to enter Monday evening.

Have used the ol' hat trick several times myself.

Thanks...I didn't want to rock the boat!!

I don't think you can legally harvest a bearded hen in Texas' spring season...might want to check into that before you pull the trigger.

Good to be here. Been a member at realtree for awhile. I don't post too much, but check-in every day or two. I am a natural born Okie, but now live just north of Dallas, Texas. I hunt in Push/Leflore counties (se oklahoma). We have been getting some game cam pics of several monster toms. Can't wait to get after 'em. One week until season opens......

Crow call by Haydel when i use one...

I'll second that notion...

Put me down as an alternate as well.

Here is a pic of some birds coming to the winter corn. The toms and hens on our lease in SE Oklahoma seem to still be seperated. We didn't get one pic of mixed sex birds. These pics were taken in mid Feb. Hopefully there is some strutters on our next round. This gives me something to look forward to. Toms Hens

I'd get to the spot really early being that it is public land; sometimes we used to park two vehicles on the road to deter other hunters from crowding into an area. I wouldn't set out a decoy if anyone else might be hunting the same birds for safety reasons. All my experience with public land turkeys have lead me to believe that you need to set up as close to the roost as possible and call very little. A few tree yelps and then some quite purrs and clucks. Try to get between the roost and the field if possible.

With the lack of cover, Rios usually roost in the same tree(s) everyday. I like to get as close as I can to their roost as early as I can; at least an hour before sunrise. They flydown earlier than easterns too. I have had much better luck calling in rios with friction calls rather than mouth calls. The louder and raspier the better. Just a few tips...good luck.

I use the ol' yeller slate call and the ol yelper box call....I also use a really old N&H box call for rios: it is extremely loud and sounds like a goose to me..those rios can't resist it. i don't think you can go wrong with their turkey calls...

Got this in an email. You all might have seen it, but I thought it was worth sharing. I couldn't agree more. There was a Chemistry professor in a large college that had some Exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Prof noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his back And stretching as if his back hurt. The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist government In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked, ' Do you know how to catch wild pigs?' The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said this was no joke."You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come every day to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in The last side. The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat, you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how To forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity." The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening to America . The government keeps pushing us toward Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc while we continually lose our freedoms- just a little at a time. One should always remember 'There is no such thing as a free Lunch! Also, 'You can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself Also, if you see that all of this wonderful government 'help' is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America , you might want to send this on to your friends. If you think the free ride is essential to our way of life, then you will probably delete this email, but God help us when the gate slams shut!

You were well within your right's. The other guy needs to get a life.