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Wife stopped at a garage sale and spotted these bowling pins, she remember I had a bunch of them set up on the backyard range until they were blasted to bits, so she got these for me, "good girl" These are a blast knocking off with big handguns. Al

Heard lots of gobbling this morning. Checked scouting cameras. Looks good so far.

Got a nice batch today. Cleaned and ready for blanching and vacuum sealing tomorrow.

Heading out tomorrow morning with a buddy and will meet my son there, always a good time. Al

So headed out to the gun show this morning with a plan to buy a takedown 22 rifle that would fit in the compartment under my scooter's seat. The Henry AR7 and Ruger's takedown 10/22 were two serious contenders. Well come to find out I can no longer buy an autoloading rifle without an amendment on my handgun permit, a new law passed under my radar last September, I did not know about this horse's ass law. I was just in the permit office last week and had I known I would have had that amendment added for a fee of course. And I guess if one does not have a permit they are shit out of luck for and any autoloading rifle purchase. This state sucks more and more, every time you turn around more dumb ass laws. Al

Another good reason not to mow the lawn.

I was a bit put out to see an ad for the ASPCA pop up on the screen of this hunting forum. Are we supporting anti-hunting organizations now? The ASPCA proudly boasts of their opposition to the hunting of animals for any reason.

Wolc's favorite tool, I am sold on it too! I do it just a bit different than the videos. I insert it and give it a twist and then I will take my knife and cut the skin around the Butt Out detaching it from the Deer, Everything comes out super easy. Al

Here is the second part of the butchering video, I have processed a pile of Deer in my day but I have to admit I learned a couple of tips from this gal. The old saying "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" is not true, I learn new things all the time. Both the above video and this one are very good. Al

Some interesting changes in the flock's pattern mentioned above. Early in the Spring they were hanging out in an area about a half mile from where I live mainly because of what I believe was a good source of food for them. Probably the most Turkeys I have seen around here in several years, a decent size group consisting of 5 or 6 hens, a couple of Jakes and a boss Tom. In the woods I never positioned myself for a sure shot, they always seemed to be just out of range and those Toms could not be pulled away from the hens. Once the temperatures warmed and things started to green up they migrated out of that area and started showing up in the open pastures on my property pretty much the same as the group that hung around here last spring. It would be easy for me to kill one now but not my cup of tea, it would be almost like shooting barnyard Turkeys now. They are roosting a couple of hundred yards away from my house and fly down at daybreak in pretty much the same spot every morning. Been in the woods Deer hunting and have seen Turkeys fly up into their roosting trees several times but just before dark the other afternoon I got to see something a bit different. The sun was down, almost dark and there were two birds out in the middle of my pastures walking toward the woods. All of a sudden they bolted into an all out sprint and lifted off the ground like a couple of B52s and flew into the woods to roost, it is a wonder they did not break something crashing into the tree tops. A couple of photos below Al

I picked dandelions two days in a row, and cut all the petals, off them for my wife. She made 24 jars of dandelion/orange jelly. This is the second year we did this, after finding we LOVE how good it turned out last year. I have a new appreciation for dandelions, a plant I formally hated, and actually refused to mow my lawn until I got enough picked to can jelly.