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This ol' girl has been sitting on 7 eggs on the creek bank for almost 3 weeks now. Those babies will be crackin' any day now! I hung a cam over the nest a while back to find that "dad" returns at night to help protect his girl into the weeeee hours of the morning. Mom rotates the eggs every 40 minutes or so now 24/7. She sits a little tighter lately and is beginning to hiss and display to let me know when I get too close, so they gotta be getting ready to pop soon. She still has plenty of patience and gives me a chance to experiment with settings. Couple other shots to end it...

When the ice melted, I set up a camera by the pond.

Some of my turkey pics.. something to brighten up a gloomy day..I love this grouse strutting ...

Lucky to see this nest about 80ft up in a old growth white pine stand 3 great horned owl chick's and adult.. already so big..

I like to use one of each (hen/jake) about 6-8ft apart and within 20yds of my set up. Jake usually get's and holds most of the attention from an approaching tom. Position him where you want your gobbler to be directly in front of him. Make sure you leave a tom some room to strut in front of the fakes. I just use the hen for added realism effect but she rarely gets any attention. She's always facing me so any gobbler that approaches her from the rear will be closing the distance to me.

Looks like an excellent property, Biz. Filled with everything a NY hunter could want! Lots of memories will be made there with you and your Dad.

Quick info for those of us with less than youthful eyes. My sight is horrible. I recently acquired a lever gun with open sights and in playing around with it I discovered I could see the front and rear sight pretty clearly with my "Computer Glasses". My computer glasses are glasses that have progressive lenses but, unlike regular progressive lens glasses, have most of the intermediate vision area, the 12"-2' range, taking up a larger portion of the center of the lenses. Regular progressives have distance vision at the top, intermediate in the middle and close at the bottom (that's why it is sometime hard to get used to stairs, we're looking down through the close vision part of the lens). Typically, the intermediate portion of the lens is about 1/3 of the lens, same as distance and close. In computer glasses, the intermediate vision part of the lens occupies a much larger portion of the lens, at least half the lens. Just by chance, I found I can see the open sights, still see distance and close up as well with these glasses. Actually, the distance and intermediate seem about the same and I can see the target, the front sight and pretty well the rear sight. Just FYI P.S., I do not get the same results with my progressive contacts, can't see the rear sight at all.

Never mind, I've got everything under control! Haha- perfect and fun for everyone!(including ME) This is what happens when I get put in charge of planning,lol http://hiddenvalleyadventure.com/

Maybe they can sue for the 19 trillion of debt they will inherit

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Oven/grill would get me run out of a BBQ forum but to me you can't beat it.

Call for desperate measures!! Bored out of my gourd due to this weather do I decided to go to my buddies in Arcade late this morning and do some fishing and visiting. I thought I'd stream fish but figured just for giggles I'd hit the big pond, it has all kinds of pan fish in it. Ice was on the edges in some spots but I had enough open water to toss some jigs tipped with red worms. A few fish were caught before I numbed up from the cold.

I'm calling you out... on behalf of today's society.... those are definitely flying twinkies with doggy faces and not flying corn dogs. my agenda is now full filled.

Yea, I might buy a license. I'll be out of the country for opening day, but maybe my Dad will shoot that Tom. I'll probably try on the 7th.

Nice action there Biz. I would set up for that bird. May as well start turkey hunting now that you own the land.

I'm coming up on a year on mine , no issues with the battery or the heat on the right side. If you wear shorts in the middle of summer your going to feel the heat no matter what. I added the Polaris 2500HD winch , that was so simple my daughter could have done it. It was more money but to me the ease and perfect fit was worth the added cost. Added a kolpin scout storage box , other then having to add a few zip ties to mount it that fit perfect too. All in all , I still think you can't beat this ATV for the money .

Thank you all, it was a wonderful day!

A girl called and said " Come on over....Nobody's home"..I went over...Nobody was home. Talk about UGLY ! My mother-in-law is so ugly that if you look up the word UGLY in the dictionary, they have her PICTURE in there ... I get no respect...I went to my doctor, Doctor Vinnie Boombotz... He said" You're too fat" I said " I want a second opinion"....He said, " okay, you're UGLY too !"

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We used to have BB gun wars . No eye protection . We took body shots . Also had wars with apple throwers , walnuts , etc .. Made sure we were wearing old clothes so we didn't end up with walnut stain on any good clothes . The lucky ones were the kids that had a rubber glove so they didn't get walnut stain on their hand as it didn't wash off . We hiked in the gullies , slid down the slate banks , caught crayfish and drank water from the creeks . Wouldn't drink that water on a bet now days . A few farmers had old wooden wheeled wagons . We would ride them down hills using a rope to steer with . It's a wonder we survived that . Made tree houses and forts out of any lumber we could scrounge up . Shot pigeons in barns . Played kick the can . Played softball all summer . Roller skated at Long Point Park . Most everything we did was outside .

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Wow- you should ask for more funding from forum members. When I told you that you needed a new hobby..., I thought you would come up with something better than this!

Can't even see the ham and Swiss hiding in there!

I can't stand that liberal rag paper. The only mindless zombies are the morons reading that thing.

No, just more BS. So who did 9/11? Jews right? lol.

Awesome shots Wooly! Love the Chickadee pic!

Like their personal debts and student loans, they are not worried, having no intention of ever paying them back. Just what they've been taught by the political party they endorse.

Nice shots!

Both birds are nice, take either one of them.

^^^^^^ This

Wooly, That place is awesome !!!My buddy is the chef there. Been there a few times. Nice lodge like setting , the animal safari like ride a must do. We fed elk, ostrich, zebras, water buffalo etc out of your hand. Great idea

Another thing: The video is about Brian Shapiro, the NY Director of the Humane Society of the US. But, they are criticizing me. No mention of Shapiro, but rather they attack me. How do you reconcile that?

Cossack75 ..... first post ? Welcome

The head changes color on toms when horned up. Probably the same bird in both pictures.

Toms have a full fan and a longer beard...jakes usually have a 2" beard max and the middle tail feathers are longer compared to the ones on the edges.

happy birthday

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That power line would be my number 1 go to when it comes to scouting and maybe some planting. The bucks will stage and walk the inside of that line when it come's scent checking time. Were the rub's very far off the power line?

Thanks all! That's great news stones... I'm so busy now I can't keep up with all the litters and hatchlings! I still need to set a day aside to chase some strutters! Got some crappy shots the other day when I wasn't ready for them but it hard to pick what I want to chase any given day now that things are getting lively again. Fox den shots coming soon!

Happy Birthday!

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This information would definitely be used in conjunction with various reloading manuals. This kind of info would probably not be of much interest to the average reloader, for someone that has gone off the deep end it can be very enlightening. Al

Beer brats on the grill. A little surprised that soaking them in Stella Artois gave them good flavor not being a really hearty beer. Side of chips.

Ribs! Oven then grill

You can contact most custom makers and request something also. Many will try to tune a call per your request. A call with less or more rasp, higher or deeper pitch, fast or slow roll over, or any combo between.

Happy Birthday Guys!

Happy Birthday and have a great day !

Rodney Dangerfield....One of the all time greatest stand up comedians.

Green bottles are OK with me. When I reported for active duty at the receiving station in the Brooklyn Navy Yard in April of 1971, Heineken sold for 35 cents a bottle at the EM club. PREMIUM beer like Bud or Schlitz was 30 cents and regular stuff like Rheingold or Schaeffer's was a quarter.. I felt real sophisticated paying the extra dime for the IMPORTED stuff.

Skipped school a few days many moons ago to shoot them off my neighbors chimney. Priorities you know.