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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 !

He would feed Wolc's clan by himself. Al

This guy keeps preventing me from entering my driveway, I think he’s some kind of climate change activist.

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

That’s pretty interesting. I’m glad it includes the chest girth. 47” is huge. The largest that I ever measured (since G-man first introduced the importance of that measurement here maybe 10 years ago), was 43-1/2”: Our youngest daughter named this busted up 3.5 yr old 6 pointer taco. He certainly made lots of them. I’m guessing a bit over 200 lbs field dressed.

Sledge Hammer ? LOL

Yup. Sounds like starter. Pretty simple fix. Next time it won’t start take a hammer and tap on the starter a few times and give it another try.

Congrats!We had a young lady get her first by me. All good!