Leaderboard

Climbing up into trees can be dangerous no matter what type of stand you choose. Someone getting up there in age should wise up and hunt from the ground. That's my take on this subject. Hard enough for a young person to recover from a fall nevermind someone 60 plus.

Like landtracdeerhunter said things on a whole started a little early this spring. My domestic hens have been laying for weeks and had the eggs been incubated some would have hatched some time ago. Al

That button is the barrel selector on your particular model, it will push forward and backward giving you instant selection on which barrel and cartridge will fire. The current model 42 uses the same type of selector. Al

Got to be safe. I have pulled some of our older stands down with a tractor. Save someone from getting injured..

I have the same gun........ALMOST. Mine came to me as an inherited set of guns from my brother-in-law after his passing. This one is a Savage over and under model 24S-D. It has a 22 long rifle barrel on top, and a 410 ga. bottom barrel. The barrel break lever is on the right hand side instead of on the top of the stock as your pictures show. The hammer has some extra feature that I have not yet figured out (an extra knurled button built into the hammer). It is in pretty good shape, but the finish on the stock is a bit barked up (Not the wood itself, but the finish). I have no idea when this model was built. I haven't shot it yet, but when I get a chance and a dry day, I will check it out.

I believe Turkeys can have quite a large range constantly on the move and will travel pretty far in search of food and mates, they have probably moved on to what they consider greener pastures. The Turkey pattern around here has changed some from what is has been the past few years. Because of the low snow impact they seemed to get an early start on strutting and mating behavior. Al

Congrats WWJD-Hunter Al

Redemption Jake. First week of May , I was chasing some birds and on the third day I had a Tom come snuck up on me . I wasn’t able to shoot him at ten yards , so I let him go away pick up my gun to shoot and I hit a tree. Today I came up to my family farm and 3 turkeys were gobbling their heads of across the road. I Yelp at them from across the road and about 30 minutes I hear a gobble on the side I was. I move to the field edge and call , but nothing responded. As I was getting to ready to move, I looked into the field and their stood two Jake’s. I call to them and they came my way and I blasted one of the Jake’s at 15 yards. I think these birds ended up crossing the road to my calls. These turkeys seem very lonely the second week of May. God always gets the glory. Sorry guys for the long story.

There are times when I am thankful that I developed a fear of heights. It has been a few decades since I have been a tree-dweller because of the discomfort of sitting in treestands. It finally got to the point where I had to hang on to the tree. Ever try to shoot a bow while hanging on to the tree......Ha-ha-ha-ha. Since the time that I decided to stay on the ground, I lost a cousin in a treestand accident, and had several friends that have taken an abrupt fall and simply got lucky. I have never fallen out of a ground-stand. Back when I was still building and using treestands, I had a stand built 20 feet in the air. I took a look at it one season and found that almost all of the nails had snapped in two because of the constant bending and twisting of the three major trunks that it was fastened to. It was a pine tree with three huge trunks coming out of the same base. The nails did not fail because of rust or any kind of physical deterioration. It was simply the repeated stress of constantly twisting and bending. The nails finally snapped from fatigue. It wasn't long after that that I became very good at building ground stands. I cannot argue the advantages of hunting from elevated stands, but I also cannot argue the life altering devastation that can result from a fall.

A couple of Jakes down in the barnyard flirting with the Royal Palm hens.

We did the trip and had a good time. We struck out on the trout fishing but it was plenty of fun anyway. When I get some time I'll post more details.

Finally found a morning I could get out back and enjoy a sunrise. Busy spring planting and building pen’s keeps time tight. Perfect Morning!

Cam pics so far

That’s actually the PA chest girth chart method, first introduced on this sight by G-man. As it turned out, that chart was a bit conservative, when it came to estimating the field dressed weight of a WNY deer. Several members here, myself included, checked it against scales (the one I used was a “legal for trade” butcher’s scale, while the others used those cheap Asian dial ones from Harbor freight, Bass Pro or whatever). All of them showed that the real weights were significantly heavier than that predicted by the PA chest girth chart. I’m guessing that the reason for that, is because the further north in the whitetail deer’s range, the heavier their average body weight. The largest chest girth I ever measured on one was this stout 6 pointer, back in 2017, at 43-1/2”. With a WNY correction applied to the PA chrart, the field dressed weight would have broke 200 lbs. I was never real big on weight because more than half of that field dressed weight consists of water, which has no nutritional value. Also, the weight of a field dressed deer is highly dependent on how fast it is weighed after it is killed. They start to dehydrate and lose water weight very fast . My biggest concert is always meat volume, not weight. The chest girth method allows for a more accurate estimate of that. I know about how many quarts of meat I need to feed my family, and how much my freezer holds, and how many bags to buy.

And remember wolc123 girth measurement. How could we ever forget that? LOL.

Sorry, I am not buying it and anyone with a half a brain knows what you are up to, these arguing bullshit threads need to be nipped in the bud. Al

I didn’t have a Dr sign mine where it said “ drs signature “ I put “ see attached” and attached a copy of my office visit stating I had rotor cuff inpingment emailed it and had the permit in less than an hour