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Nephew and I doubled up at 6:55 this morning. Fun hunt.

Powers Taxidermy in Canisteo. Did a great job real happy with it.

So my buddy has three reveal cameras on the lease property. He keeps them going all year. In the last month a few small bears have come by. Big guy came by this week. One night he hung around for hours! Pretty nice one for this time of year.

Teddi Competes this weekend with the A2 Spartans Sandhurst team. I'll go down early Friday to watch as much as I can. Teams from all over the world are at West Point for the competition. Her words to me, " Dad I'm nervously excited" that's Teddi! Wish her luck!!!! I'll report back. https://www.westpoint.edu/about/traditions/sandhurst

The issue of illegal invaders of our border and the burgeoning results on our safety and economy are just one aspect of the treason being committed by this administration since its inception. There has to be more to the current downward slide of our position in the world than just coincidence. Biden or whoever is pulling his strings keep edging us closer to world war. His financial and policy gifts to Iran are now undoing everything that Trump had in place to keep Iran under control with no ability to financially get into the adventures that they are now involved with. Biden financed their war on Israel and on us right from the beginning with the billions given to Iran. He also destroyed Trump initiated policies to keep Iran in an impoverished condition where waging and financing wars was virtually impossible. Budget cuts on the military have now left us in a condition of shortages. The destruction of our fuel industry is crippling our economy along with the foolish mad expenditures of their so-called green energy policies. The Democrats are doing everything they can to bankrupt this nation and its citizenry. His wholesale voter bribery with free this and free that is running amok in our economy. The absolute acts of irresponsibility regarding the trashing of our legal system has us in fear of using the subways and even the streets. Come-on, all these things and more are not simply coincidental. It has to be an orchestrated plan of chaos, being perpetrated by some external force and influence (Think China). I think the crooked shenanigans that the entire Biden family have been implicated in, kind of makes one wonder where his allegiances really are. I know that we always hesitate to use the word treason when talking about the highest office in our country, but at some point, you have to say, "If it walks like a duck and sounds like a duck, and looks like a duck, it probably is actually a duck.

@airedale. Many thanks. This group is awesome. Any time I reach out with a question, someone is willing to share their knowledge

Gobbling up a storm around here, my Royal Palms are gobbling non stop and the wild birds in the woods answer them. Al

If you see an ACME truck pull up to the park, Run away fast !

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Im currently debating a Libbie dude on the NJ forum who (Surprise!) has a dreadful case of TDS and believes the #1 issue this country faces is income inequality !! Doesnt matter WHEN ,WHERE OR WHAT time frame were talking about, some of these Lefties are SO classically trained and ideologically entrenched that the Chinese Army could be in the midst of launching an invasion-through our open souhtern border, nonetheless- and , literally, at their front door and they would say that, anyway!! unbelieveable

Kinda Long ... Sorry ( from Fox News ) Here are 11 now familiar steps to civilizational destruction: 1. Wipe out a 2,000-mile border. Allow 10 million foreign nationals to enter unlawfully. Have no audit of any; nullify all federal immigration laws. Let in toxic drugs that kill 100,000 Americans a year. Give free support to those millions who broke the law. Smear any objectors as racists and xenophobes. 2. Run up $35 trillion in national debt. Keep adding $1 trillion to it each 100 days. Defame anyone wishing to cut wild spending as cruel and inhumane. 3. Appease or subsidize enemies like Iran and China. Demonize allies like Israel. Allow terrorists to attack Americans without adequate response. See Islam as either similar or superior to Christianity. Make amends to leftist governments for supposedly past toxic American international behavior. Follow the lead of international agencies like the U.N., ICC and WHO to atone for past American neocolonial and imperialist behavior. Recede to second-tier international status, befitting American decline. 4. In a multiracial democracy, redefine identity only as one’s tribal affiliation. Ensure each identity group rivals the other for victimhood and the state spoils it confers. Reboot all political issues by race and sex oppressors and oppressed. Destroy all meritocratic standards of admission, retention, promotion and commendation. 5. Recalibrate violent crime as understandable, cry-of-the-heart expressions of social justice. Ensure no bail and same-day release for arrested, repeat violent felons. Empathize with the violent killer and rapist; ignore their victims, especially if they are slain police officers. 6. Emasculate the military by using non-meritocratic standards of race, gender, and sexual orientation to determine promotion and commendation. Deliberately impugn as racists and insurrectionists the largest demographic in the military who in recent wars died at twice their numbers in the population — so that they leave or never join the military. Encourage retired high officers to slander their commander-in-chief. Cut the defense budget. Stop producing sufficient weapons, but leave billions of dollars’ worth of arms to terrorists. 7. Reinvent the justice system to indict, bankrupt, convict, jail and eliminate political opponents. Use ballot removal, impeachment, civil suits, and state and federal indictments rather than elections to defeat an opponent. Mob the homes of non-compliant Supreme Court justices, and attack them personally by name. 8. Encourage the fusion of the bureaucratic state with the electronic media to form a powerful force for political audit, surveillance, censorship and coercion. Marry the FBI to Silicon Valley and hire its contractors to warp the news and hound supposed enemies of the people. 9. Make war on affordable gasoline and natural gas. Substitute inefficient, unreliable and expensive wind and solar power, even as energy prices nearly bankrupt the middle class. 10. Marry late, but preferably not at all. Consider males toxic, especially boys. Have no children, or as few as possible. Otherwise, assure children they are entitled, and must be sheltered. Raise them to have grievances against past generations and current norms. 11. Turn world-class universities into indoctrination centers. Suspend the Bill of Rights on campuses. Train youth to graduate despising their own culture and civilization. Recruit foreign students from hostile nations to subsidize campus commissar bloat. Replace the curriculum with therapeutic propaganda. Ban the SAT/ACT and do not evaluate comparative high school GPAs. Ensure merit does not select the student body. Charge tuition higher than the rate of inflation. Bill the government when students default on their loans.

8 pt he got last year with cross bow. Powers Taxidermy did the work. We loved the job! Added treat was this shed I found!

A new one from this morning!

Heard lots of gobbling this morning. Checked scouting cameras. Looks good so far.

Wife stopped at a garage sale and spotted these bowling pins, she remember I had a bunch of them set up on the backyard range until they were blasted to bits, so she got these for me, "good girl" These are a blast knocking off with big handguns. Al

Cell cam sent this pic today, first one on cam this spring. At my sisters property in 9A.

I was in the path of totality for an eclipse in 2017 - it was definitely not 100% dark, but very dusk-like. Birds quit chirping, night-time insects started making their noises, etc. It was a cool experience.

If the critters dont keep up with the news, I doubt they will notice anything. We have cloudy days...alot.

Yes that is the serial number The chart below shows the build dates of the G serial numbers, looks like 1957 Al

I will be in my barnyard observing the animals during the eclipse, it is going to be interesting to see how they all react. Al

At it again. The birds were nonexistent in my area yesterday and no gobbles so far again this morning. Off work until May 7 and still so nice to be out here watching the woods wake up.

Cam pics so far

Took a walk today. Looking for a spot for Wednesday. Not a lot of turkey sign but had a bucket and a small spade with me. Gathered up about 2/3 of a 5 gallon bucket. Gave half of them away to a friend. Sauted in olive oil on toasted bruschetta with eggs for breakfast tomorrow. A breakfast fit for a king imho.

Coyote season ended, so I mounted the RIX L3 on the .177 Fusion 2 yesterday afternoon and sighted it in. I'm used to lining up on bigger targets, so I'm a little shaky, but I got the job done. This Mus didn't know what hit it. SJC

Great time yesterday. They beat the crap out of themselves. She did real well along with her company!

Sooner or later there is going to be a severe attack with these critters getting bolder and bolder and losing their fear of humans.

When you're not really into it but someone mentioned snacks.

Was out yesterday with a 12yo young lady, the daughter of a friend. Her father was with us. Plenty of gobbling on the roost. They flew down into the field as expected, gobbling and strutting on the ground. It was a great show. Unfortunately they stayed just out of range from the blind. A couple of hens were leading two longbeards and no amount of my mediocre calling could convince them to commit lol. We hung out in the blind for the next couple hours but no takers. Got on the road early this morning to meet them at a different farm. Got a call about half way into my ride from her father saying she wanted to sleep in today. No big deal. Turned around and came home. A good day yesterday but the turkeys were just being, well, turkeys. Looking forward to next week.

So headed out to the gun show this morning with a plan to buy a takedown 22 rifle that would fit in the compartment under my scooter's seat. The Henry AR7 and Ruger's takedown 10/22 were two serious contenders. Well come to find out I can no longer buy an autoloading rifle without an amendment on my handgun permit, a new law passed under my radar last September, I did not know about this horse's ass law. I was just in the permit office last week and had I known I would have had that amendment added for a fee of course. And I guess if one does not have a permit they are shit out of luck for and any autoloading rifle purchase. This state sucks more and more, every time you turn around more dumb ass laws. Al

Got a nice batch today. Cleaned and ready for blanching and vacuum sealing tomorrow.

As bad as these incidents are, they will be dwarfed by the almost inevitable 911 style of terrorism that will begin with some of the bad-actors that Biden has turned loose in our country

The family that runs Dicks are big time players in the Democratic party. Kim Meyers ran for congress against Claudia Tenney a few years ago, a libtard woke Democrat through and through. The Democrat party members and platform is the bastion for groups that are anti hunting, animal rights and anti gun, it is pretty easy to read between the lines. Al

Did anyone notice the light in west and east horizons at once with an eree darkness between? That don't happen to often. The only other time I remember, close to this was a wall cloud out in Illinois before a tornado dropped out

Spotting shots at the range this year is going to have a different twist. I picked up a Tridapter phone adapter for my spotting scope. It is a gadget that places a phone over the eyepiece and lines up the phone's camera lens with the spotting scope's lens. Once setup you can see the target on the phone's screen at a glance, a nice convenience that also allows pictures to be taken. This gizmo will work out great I think. Al