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Ok guys, today after I killed my turkey I decided to swing by my cams to check the cards. My pack on my back, my gun over one shoulder, and my turkey over the other.... I was anything but quiet on my way out. I was easily a mile or more from home at this point. When I got to the cam, I bumped 3 deer and watched them run off. Well, untill I opened the cam and looked up to see a deer running right to me! I didn't want to move and scare it so I slipped my pocket cam out and started taking pics with my point and shoot. After a little while, it was obvious this deer wasn't afraid of me. I think when it licked me, that was a dead giveaway,lol. So I got out the Nikon and backed up for a shot or two of her at my trail cam. Well she was still sticking around so I dropped my pack, gun and turkey and figured I'd get as many shots as I could. She was browsing all around me and would come over to lick my lens and sniff me whenever I moved around. She eventually made her way over to my gun and grabbed my hat nocking my gun over! I zoomed a bit more than I intended on this shot but it's close enough. I already had a mess of pics of her so I said goodbye and started to head home again. A few hundred yards later I found a nice log to take some more field photos of my turkey on so I composed the pic and got ready to hop in it. All of a sudden, my little friend comes flying up on me again and wants to be petted. Shortly after that she got in my field photo and became the star of the show! I messed around with her some more there, and wondered just how far she'd follow me. It didn't take long to realise, she was going home with me! Here she is on the edge of the yard over a mile from where she started following me. Eventually she made her way over to my "wall of shame" to see all her dead relatives. Finally she bedded down in the yard after mowing down some dandellions and clover. But the story aint over yet folks! Gotta edit and load more pics..... things are about to get interesting!

A friend of mine was turkey hunting last week. He was walking down a hedge row when a big doe popped up from the tall grass less than fifty yards to his left. He said that she didn't run but kept stomping and blowing at him. He just walked right by her and she never left. He said he was pretty sure that the doe had a fawn laying in the grass with her.

If the right neighbor comes around.....I'm stripping and dancing!!

http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/big-game-16-ultra-view-dx-ladder-tree-stand.aspx?a=826536 This what i got for my first stand. I wanted to go big because i wanted room for my feet and i thought about seat size also. I wanted something i could see 2 fields. But my most important reason was i wanted a bucket up there. Being a female it is not so easy to go to bathroom like guys. I didn't want to have to keep getting down to use bathroom. Took three of us to get it up and now i am thinking about moving it. Hate to see my husbands face when i tell him that

I'm thinking about getting one myself, not that I need another shotgun! I used my brothers one day when we were Turkey hunting to shoot a nice Tom. When we went to where the bird dropped in the field we looked back at the blind and said "That looks like a pretty far shot". My brother went back to the blind to get his rangefinder and ranged it off at 63 yards! My other shotguns would be lucky to hold a good pattern at 40 yards. I might buy one just for Turkey hunting that way I can leave my scope on my other shotgun for deer hunting!

you bring the ammo i will bring the guns lol

Friday I worked all day. Came home mowed the yard the went to the hospital. My bro and sis-law were having a baby. Well she didnt have it until almost 3am. All that time im thinkin how sat is my last chance to hunt this may. So we left the hospital at just about 4am, raced home grabbed my gear and heading for the hills. Made it to my spot a little after 5am. Heard some goggles way way off in the distance. Made some calls and just sat there. Going on 24hrs no sleep I dozzed off for a few minutes. Then I woke to some loud leaf crunchin. I awoke jerking my head in that direction. 4 jakes at 35yrs (came in silent) looking at me. They dont spoke, I slowly grab my gun thats sitting on the ground next to me as im lifting it to my shoulder they start look at me, bang!! 2nd bird of the yr down!! So pumped!! I grabbed the bird, tagged it drove home an went to bed!! Never forget that hunt!!

Any chance they named the kid Jake?

A sure fire way to defeat your enemy........make him your friend. I would send him a Christmas card and write it in, "I'm sorry for the misunderstanding this past deer season and hope we can be good neighbors again. Please except my best wishes for a Merry Christmas to you and your family.",and sign your name. If that does not fix things there is little hope, and at least you were the bigger person. Peace

Criminal negligence is negligence which requires a greater degree of culpability than the civil standard of negligence. The civil standard of negligence is defined according to a failure to follow the standard of conduct of a reasonable person in the same situation as the defendant. To show criminal negligence, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt the mental state involved in criminal negligence. Proof of that mental state requires that the failure to perceive a substantial and unjustifiable risk that a result will occur must be a gross deviation from the standard of a reasonable person. Criminal negligence is conduct which is such a departure from what would be that of an ordinary prudent or careful person in the same circumstance as to be incompatible with a proper regard for human life or an indifference to consequences. Criminal negligence is negligence that is aggravated, culpable or gross. The following is an example of one state's statute defining criminal negligence: ''A person acts with 'criminal negligence' with respect to a result or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense when he fails to perceive a substantial and unjustifiable risk that such result will occur or that such circumstance exists. The risk must be of such nature and degree that the failure to perceive it constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would observe in the situation.''

The law was pretty much written to protect hunter's from anti-hunter's who disrupt hunts, I think we all have heard of how they have organized to disrupt hunts at areas that are being opened for first time hunts or when they encounter hunters on public land.........unfortunately it isn't a crime to be a bad neighbor.