Skillet

Welcome! Hope you find that you like hunting over here as well as over there.

Holy crap! That deer's about to stomp the crap outa that trout!

The meadow is about 5 acres, 2 of which is pine trees. They range from 2 feet to about 20 feet tall, but most are on the shorter side. The path is the only clear area in the field where a tom could see another turkey from a distance, this is why I like to put my deke in there, it is visible from 150+ yds in each direction. In his strut zone, you may find several wing feathers (there may not be any, but I usually see at least a couple), drag marks in the dirt from his wing tips where he was strutting, scratching on the ground, or even turkey crap. Male turkey crap is in a rough "J" shape. Another good sign is a dusting spot, a nice dry area of fine dirt, where they dust themselves. It'll be a few square feet of disturbed, scratched up ground with some small feathers around it. You can often find them on field edges.

Good luck. Be safe.

Ha, None taken!

Thanks Guys!

I bought my girlfriend the 500 20Ga deer / turkey combo, in full camo. It came with the rifled barrel. She wants a smoothbore slug barrel, so I sold the rifled one. I went to the Mossberg site to order one, and it says out of stock, unable to backorder. So I called Beikirch's, a nice gun shop by my work. My friend there said that he's still waiting on barrels from Mossberg that he ordered in JUNE. I can't find one anywhere, and I am starting to fear that she will not have a barrel before deer season. No one has any of these barrels.

Have fun and be safe. When will you be back?

This is kind of an awkward moment. One of the girls at work started shooting awhile back, so I invited her and her husband down to my place. I forgot that he was dead. That kind of awkward.

A 9mm will work, but you gotta untie your boots, drop your pants past your butt, hold your "piece" sideways, walk up to that sucka' and bust a cap in his ass.

On the sack lines, we leave the bail open and wrap a loop of line around the neck of an empty beer bottle. Fish hits, bottle falls. I've had such violent hits that the bottle has broken. From the sounds of it, you've had enough Genny's for the night, brother. LOL. That used to be my favorite beer, don't drink anymore tho.

I heard she was a tranny, anybody else heard that?

I like the scepter. "look into my eyes, you will obey me. Go to the village and fetch me ten virgins, I must sacrafice them before dawn, or I will turn back into a man"

I fish mainly at night, usually from around 2200 - dawn. The kings come in a lot closer at night, and their activity really picks up. I fish the Genesee river, right where it meets lake Ontario. No restrictions, other than I think you cannot fish upstream of the first impassable barrier at night

Yeah.........

Gaga is one ugly wmoan.

Larry, you're right, they are sometimes easier to kill later in the morning. Most of my birds are killed within an hour of dawn, or later from 0900-1200. I think their hens leave them, and they go out searching again. I've killed a few that gobbled their arses off at first light, called back to me, and then disappeared. Only to come right in to me, silently, an hour or two later. That's why I hate to move after I've had a bird talking at me. I still go out early tho, I love sneaking around in the dark, and watching the woods wake up.

I've killed them in our meadow, it's mostly goldenrod and small pines with a wheeler trail through the middle. The toms seem to cruise this trail late in the morning, after the girls ditch them. The trail is the only place in the meadow I've shot them. I see them in the field a lot when it's raining. I really like hunting in the woods, especially after opening day when the birds are getting educated. Try to find a nice ridge with large trees, and an open forest floor, where a tom would be likely to strut. If it's an active area, there should be sign, scratching or feathers, etc. The problem with hunting his strut zone is that he may roost there as well, not a problem if you get in there early and stealthily. But if it's getting light out, or if you make too much noise, it's game over. I've shot them as soon as they flew down from the roost, and didn't feel bad about it at all. Heck, I'd have shot him in the tree if I'd seen him. I have a friend who loves to sneak in and shoot them off the roost (Yes, he waits for legal light) Not everyone's cup of tea, but each to their own. He calls it " e'limb'inating " them, get it? LOL

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Yeah!

I hate this holiday.

I'm all for it, the more of us out hunting, the better.

Early, which monkey are you? Hear no evil, see no evil, or speak no lies?

It's getting deep in here. You don't know Jim McGreevy or Sarah Palin personally. All You know is what the media (In your case, the liberal media) tells you. I would rather be looking for the boogey man, than living under a rock, like you obviously do.

Skilled politicians? You do realize that Clinton and Pelosi are two of the most anti gun politicians out there, right? Do you also support obama's appointees to the supreme court? How the hell can you say with a straight face that you support freedom? Especially the right to bear arms.

I'm sorry to see you sell it, it's kind of sad.