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Decided to give a turkey euro a try today. I didn't realize how many nuts and bolts were in one of these things. Fortunately I took LOTS of reference photos had some spare parts laying around in the bone pile just in case. I had to swap a few out that must have got misplaced or broken during the shootout. Still gotta add some finishing touches to it (nasal bones), but it's done for the most part. Most likely paint this one white. I'm not crazy about the look of bird skulls, but it was a fun/relaxing little project, and sure beat the heck out of mowing the grass......, again!

Who are all these kids at my door? Is it Halloween or something,lol

I had that on a couple Trail Cams . I took a couple cotton balls and sprayed them with some ant poison . Then I put them inside the cover . No more ants .

Went to check my cams yesterday that I had put up about a month ago on my sisters property. I had bought less expensive cams over winter to replace 4 good ones the scumbags stole last year. When I got to second cam, I noticed lots of ants on outside of it crawling all around. I knocked them off and opened cam up, and they had made a nest full of eggs inside. I popped out s.d. card and they started crawling out from inside of cam. Anyways, that cam stayed where it was as I consider it junk. Cheaper cams certainly have flaws, and bugs getting into them is one of them.And the s.d. card was no good when I checked it back at home. I did get few pics from my other cam, at least that was bug free!!

If you are going to plant native warm season grasses you might want to roundup the field and get it ready for next year. Switchgrass and bluestem both need ground (dirt) not just mowed or dead sod in order to grow. You can get a great field of warm season native grasses the year following a field of corn (escpecially) if atrazine was used. I have one 6 acre switchgrass field (Blackwell variety) and another 3 long 10-15 yard strips about 500ft long. THe big field holds bacehelor buck groups in ths summer and use all the others as travel lanes allyear long. The grass is over 6 ft tall and the deer can walk in it unobserved. If you plant a 6-10 ft wide strips of clover along the edge of the grass the deer travel that and if disturbed can vanish in the grass in a flash. Good luck and keep planting. I just got my last been field (2acres) in this afternoon. I could not get the planter in the field so I had to broadcast and then covered it with a tined harrow.(Much more time consuming and expensive than using a planter but we do what we can with what we got.. EWHo knows if it stops raining we may actually get some crops. We shall see what happens. BTW Happy Fathers day to all you out there. Enjoy the day and the kids they kind of give you something to do iin between the hunting seasons

Hey meat manager... When is the farmer going to plant the corn? It isn't too late? Food plots look great by the way!

He's seen more bucks in June than I saw all last November

Cool Wooly! I have the head from my tom in the freezer so that I can do the same thing. Any tips?

very nice. job well done.

You're a patient man my friend!! lol

Thats pretty cool...

glad someone has time to relax and do cool things...lol

I have also gotten a lot of life out of the Tractor Supply Job Smart alkaline batteries . They often have the AA's on sale for $ 5.00 for 24 batteries .

Great job! But shouldn't a doe be doing the ironing ?

Why not? Looks good to me. Nice man cave/ shed/ camp hanger.

browning a-bolt , but expect to pay 2-3x the value of the gun for good optics if your going to make a good combo

Yea.....we would laugh you out of camp for wearing that hat that you just posted!!LOL

When I bought my 2012 f150 I test drove the 5.0 and the ecoboost. I didn't think much of the ecoboost performance wise compared to the 5.0. One of the big things for me was the sound while driving. 5.0 sounded like a truck should sound. Ecoboost was super quiet. One other thing is with the turbo on the ecoboost, if that goes and the warranty is up , that will be over a thousand bucks to repair it. It's just my 2cents but I would see the 5.0 being a better option on the ford. If you wanted to go the diesel route then the dodge with the 6 cyl diesel is supposed to be awsome. Ram is the only 1/2 ton on the market to offer a diesel . You have a lot of options. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I picked one up at Cabela's last season. You can also try Sportsman's Guide or some place like that. I think I remember them having some. It was hard to find one then I thought it should have been.

I'm not really sure how long duration wise. I swap them out with a freshly charged set at least once a week as long as I'm in the area. I get paranoid when rechargeables only read 50% battery left on a full charge so I never let them dip below 20%. Usually get between 5000-7000 pics or 1500 vids depending on length settings. They're not nearly as good as lithiums in the cold, but they're 100x's better than the alkalines.

I've got about 20 different brand SD cards for all my cameras and trail cams, and never noticed any performance advantages of one over another in a trail cam application, so I usually just go with whatever one is empty that day. SD cards are always on my Christmas list and everyone knows that I'll use them! I started saving a lot of money in batteries by switching to Energizer re-chargeables(2300 mah), over alkalines and even lithiums. Maybe those cost savings are passed on to my electric bill where they're less noticeable, I dunno... but spending $60 once for 16, in the past 2 years seems less painfull to me than $10 in alkalines every couple of weeks/months. They still hold a charge like the day I bought them, so no complaints there either. I got super life out of a set of lithiums, but they eventually die and for the same cost as rechargeable that can be re-vived.

dbHunterNY, Your post brings up a very good question. Because I am very detail oriented when it come to long range shooting I have lapped the rings on all my center fire rifle scopes to insure maximum contact of the bottom ring. You only need to do it to the bottom ring to get a rock solid mount. A short Midway video shows why its a good idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWv7SiBheV0 For my shotgun slug guns and muzzleloaders I have been using Warne weaver type rings these ring don't lend themselves to lapping but are sufficiently well machined that I seem to get a solid grip on the scope. I notice from year to year during sight-in that the zero on the lapped scopes changes less. You have the most control to insure a tight rock solid mount with intimate mechanical contact when you lap. When you don't lap you are at the mercy of the ring manufacturers and to a certain degree to the scope tube manufacturer. I use the non-permanent Loctite that you mentioned for locking in the bases. I agree that torx head screws are very good although hex socket head screws work well as long as the hex tip of your screw driver is made of good steel. In this regard, I found a good gunsmith screwdriver kit is well worth the investment.

I found another one ready to get turned into road pizza today. Decided to do a little one handed rescue while recording some video with the other. Thankfully I walked away with all my digits still in tact, and the only thing wounded was my pride when he gave me a "golden shower" at the end,lol Click on pic for 1 minute rescue clip.

I'll apologize to the mods for stirring up all this trouble... I believe it is also linked to the death threats that I posted about earlier... I'm thinking it is the same bunch of loons that called wanting to kill me...

I'm glad you guys liked it.