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This is the annual den that's less than 50 yards from our bedroom window. Kits emerged last Thursday night/Friday morning. Most years Momma relocates them after they are mobile enough. Last year her litter hung around til August which was a pain. We have a little dog, an outdoor cat, and a chicken coop 75 yards from the den site. One night in August, there was a commotion and when I flipped on the lights four of them had our cat surrounded. I'll give them a week or so to relocate before I urge them along. For my urging, I drop a towel soaked with ammonia near one of the den entrances, and a transistor radio in a plastic bag with fresh batteries and on half-volume goes in the hole. They don't like any of that.

I could not recommend it more to anybody else in ENY if @Buckmaster7600 decides to do this again. Dude really, really knows his stuff and not only helped me a great deal, but taught us how to teach ourselves. Thanks again!

Decent Tom today? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I had a great time yesterday! I hope you guys learned a little something. We’ll definitely do it again sometime after turkey season winds down! Thanks again [mention]UpStateRedNeck [/mention] and [mention]ApexerER [/mention] for coming out. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Got to shoot it over the weekend. What a rip I had. I wouldn’t even hesitate to shoot a turkey with ether barrel at 30yrds. It was very consistent. The load was 80gr. FF black powder with 11/2oz of nickel plated #5’s. I was also shooting a basketball with #71/2’s just for fun and fun it was. Cylinder bore Modified bore Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Gobble was fairly close.. probably 300 yards at the most. Gobbled probably 30 times. I'm only 5 miles from the farm I hunt, and its overrun with birds. But rarely or never see or here a gobble at the house. Lots of birds around from July to November, but rarely see or hear a spring gobble.

Bears were sought after for many uses historically. If you were eating meat at a table it was likely bear and they rendered down bear fat to use as oil to burn in lamps, a protectant for leather and metal, etc.

I used low brass 8s to get close because I like my shoulder and also to prevent flinching. Im a wuss

@Buckmaster7600, thank you so much for yesterday. It was amazing how much i learned in a couple hours and how my groups tightened up. Had a great time!! @UpStateRedNeckit was great to meet you and good shooting! I am in for sure anytime you want to do this again and will be looking forward too it!

Agreed, I even start by closer 10 yrds or less to get that tight hole. Put the red dot on top and then you can adjust in another couple of shots out to 40 or 50 yrds

I agree on using the light loads...Also, don't try to shoot over 20 or 25 yards at first...It is much easier to determine center of pattern with a small pattern at close range...Get it dead on at close range with the light loads and then confirm with a couple of your hunting loads at longer range to make any final adjustments, if necessary...

That's a video of 4 years worth of Trump flubs. Biden has only been in office 2.5 months and could triple that amount of flubs right now, and he reads from a teleprompter. Biden hasn't got the ability to accomplish 1% of what Trump did for freedom and liberty in America. In fact, he's doing all he can to eliminate much of it every day he breaths our air. How anyone can still support Democrats after watching the last four years of insane leftist lunacy and now Biden as President? One really has to be completely delusional to do it IMHO.

I have read articles about Turkey hunting with a rifle, it is done mostly in western states where open country and longer range seems to play a big factor. The 22 Hornet with FMJ bullets was a big favorite and effective with those hunters. The other 22 cal varmint rounds loaded to the same ballistics as the Hornet were also used with minimal meat damage. If rifles were legal to use here and I hunted habitat like open farmland where Turkeys could be called into fields for clear shots I would have no problem using a rifle. In the woods where there is a lot of cover to get into the way of a clear shot I would stick with a shotgun, I once raised Merriams wild Turkeys free range here on the farm, when I wanted one for the pot I would use one of my 22 magnums for the kill. I also used a 17 HMR a couple of times. I did so because I found out quickly that is not an easy task to catch a Turkey and take it to the chopping block like a chicken, a big Tom will beat the Hell out of you with his wings. When shooting one I made sure they never knew it was me doing the killing. I would conceal myself and take them at distances sometimes close to 100 yards and never had to shoot more than once. With a shot placed behind the wing where it attached to the body similar to the Deer behind the shoulder lung shot they would drop pretty much where they stood with very little meat damage. I knocked off at least a couple of dozen this way so for me the 22 mag and 17 HMR were very effective and would yield the same result on wild birds I think. Al

Out on a scouting/listening mission this morning and I haven’t heard this much gobbling in 20 years. There’s gobbling and n 360 degrees from close to as far as I can hear. Let’s hope they stay this vocal until youth season! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Potato Head didn't get 80 mil votes...maybe 62-63 mil, with the rest fraudulent. Swamp is deep.

I used my bow more then my shotgun a few years ago for Spring turkey. I had one of the best days out I've had in a long time. I called a nice tom in, he hung up about 10 yards out of what I felt my effective range with the bow was. Even typing this my heart is thumping from memory. It felt so much more exciting to be at full draw waiting on that bird to just take a few more steps towards me. He finally strolled off and I let the bow down. It felt like hours passed but was only a few minutes. The toughest part was trying to deal with motion. Once getting eyes on the bird setting the call down and getting the bow up and ready. I can't use mouth calls so it makes a bit more of a challenge. I take the bow out a few times each Spring now.

What ! And one of his famous homemade gourmet dinners didn't come with it ? What a cheapo ! LOL

Couldn't have said it better myself! It was great to meet you!

" tight hole".....I LOVE it when you talk dirty....Hehehe....

All the teams around here go and I think its just about the coolest experience a little leaguer can have.

Not a rifle but 357 pistol for head shots.

Actually, a turkey's head and neck move a lot and very unpredictably. But the base of the neck, where it meets the shoulders moves very little when the head and neck move. That base of the neck spine shot isn't hard to do with a rifle as it is a target about the size of a baseball, which isn't hard to hit at 100 yards. If a turkey is standing still looking at you from a distance, which they often do, that lower neck shot would be easier to do with a rifle than a close range tight choke pattern shot at the birds head with a shotgun, especially if the bird is alert and moving.

Holy crap, that's awesome. I don’t care if I ever shoot another tom. I get more excitement from the youth or first timers than me shooting another turkey. Unless its with a BP. Looking forward to experiencing your traditional hunt through this thread. Good luck, im rooting for you.

Thank you sir my brother is very happy

Didn't take a pic, but put a rack of ST Louis ribs, baked beans, stuffed mushrooms, and bacon wrapped stuffed jalapeños on the pellet smoker. Came out fantastic.

Just picked up my Rifle Buck this weekend. It's been a long 5 months for me but I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out. Sent from my XT1650 using Tapatalk

Vension top round with@Bionic cow message rub. Smoked with some hickory. Sent from my SM-G781V using Tapatalk

Yankee baseball, golf and NASCAR on TV and a chicken in the smoker... not a bad rainy Sunday

Just a cool shot.

SOLD..........to a CNY member.

So, we have a bit of a rainfest going on this AM. What are some things we can do given the rain? We’re midtown and have to be at the Natural History Museum at 3. we had planned the boat ride this am but no go on that. We had an excellent meal at Quality Meats. The corn creme brûlée was out of this world. Let alone the steaks. Some girl from Belarus was our waitress and she was awesome.

Definitely not. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Perhaps if people understood their rights, they wouldn't tolerate this crap.

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yeah i know. Shit man, i have a hard enough time getting them to come within 30 haha

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1. No we don't 2. Any deer is a trophy is also not true. Every hunter sets their own trophy standards. So no, for many a doe or basket 6 is not a trophy. For some, you're right it is. But this is not a rule. 3. Same for you. Happy hunting brother.

Shooot it at 10 yards to get your pattern dialed in, leave it a few inches low. Then move out. To bore sight, You can set it up on a gun sled or tripod and look down the bore of the barrel towards your target and move your reddot to where the center of your bore is pointed if youd like. Same concept as a bore sighter. Or just shoot and adjust. I have red dots on most of my turkey guns, especially the ones that kick good. Put one on my 410 this weekend and sighted in. Also on my 20ga and 12 ga guns all have them as well. Luckily my 28ga OU is dead on with a single bead.

I sighted the one I put on my Savage 301 20 with slugs last fall because it's also being used as a deer gun as well as turkey. Then checked the pattern at 15 and 30 yards with the shot I'm using for turkey. The pattern was fine last fall and still is.

Amen to that. I feel the same basically. I love being there calling them, but the youth and newbie hunts mean way more to me..

And 4 or 5 of them are members here.

That domain from what I understand was purchased by some "left wing" group and though it is still there in some capacity, most of the members and grouchy bastards went here: https://nygunforum.com/

I totally understand wanting a lush lawn. I mow 4 acres though so I’m in no hurry to make it grow faster :-)

Yeah I was reading about that. The Indian Creek choke available for Mossberg accuchoke is a .675, the undertaker is .665. We'll see which is better for the #5 XX's. They're gobbling their heads off at my house this morning!

My brother bought a house last week in dutchess county (3G) with some land. I took a quick walk last Monday and saw a nice buck rub. My dad went back last Thursday and found this shed at the base of it. We threw a cam up and got some cool pics this past week. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro