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Went to my favorite spot. Was in at 5:12 first gobble from roost 5:35. There were actually 4 Toms roosted around me. First one flew down and started to walk towards me. At 30 yards I let him have it! Man was I excited. Had to put a stick across his neck and he was done. Going to have him mounted. Ended up being 17 lbs 8.5 inch beard and 1 inch spurs. Real beautiful bird.

My son missed a Jake in PA Saturday in the miserable weather, followed it up with a beautiful double bearded heavy Tom. Saw 11 beards in these high winds and it was not easy, we covered 5-6 miles locating a dozen birds, when we found them they wanted to play. Our buddies son missed a Jake for his first bird. Back at it Thursday.

This weekend was the International Sandhurst competition. Her company came in 16th out of 48. They were very happy. She got banged up but participated in all of the events. The guy next to her is her fist love. Yup been dating for 6 months now. Great kid from Minnesota!

My two Royal Palm gobblers, the hens have been laying and one is setting on a nest, it will be interesting to see if she hatches them out. Al

This guy gave me the slip yesterday. Had his hens all gathered up. Today he wasn't so lucky. Leatherstocking country was beautiful.

Happy Easter Everybody. The Lord is Risen !

Managed to scrape up 50 sheds on the season. No dog here, just ALOT of miles on the boots...

Nice I got one too ..

Took my pup Airedale Ruff for a walk in the woods and he found himself a small antler, been doing just a little rudimentary training shown in some youtube videos and it paid off. Al

I went to retrieve my ladder that got buried under my elevated deer house stand that blew over. Thank goodness without me in it! And when I got there I kicked up at least 20 deer. Tails going everywhere! Then I caught site a a really big Tom strutting across my field. I videoed some of him and tried to get a few pictures. Then after pulling my ladder out and stacking some of the salvaged wood, I rode up into the woods to check the couple cameras I have. I’m actually there now. And the woods were booming with gobbling for about 45 minutes I’m up here. It’s the first spring in many years I have heard this here. I may actually get the bug to try his Spring.

Have you considered a couple of strands of heavy-duty electric fencing around the bees? Might be good insurance. Maybe a solar unit if the hives are too far away from any electric source. All it takes is one visit, one night from one of those critters and the whole deal can be ruined.

I am always amazed at the capabilities of these ATVs. I have pulled some pretty large logs with mine, and compared to the HP of some of the machines available today, mine is just a baby. One of those pictures above shows the ability to climb the snow piles to push snow over the top and make room for more snow piling. Don't try doing that with a 4WD pickup truck....lol. I have the ability to turn around right in the middle of the driveway, or push snow sideways anywhere in the driveway. It has maneuverability that no truck has. I do not know the capabilities of the bigger side-by-sides in the maneuverability category. The only drawback is in wet snow depth. But I have found that a lot of trucks have limits too. One storm that I couldn't even begin to clear was a 36" dump in March back in the early 70's. Nobody with a truck would even discuss it. It took a payloader to clear a skinny one lane trail up the 1000' of driveway. Everything has its limits, but there has only been a few times when I had to call in outside help for snow removal. I hope I have not jinxed myself now.