deerpassion

no idea man,, who said anything about crossbow... ?

thats a hell of a bird and a mount, not crazy buot the head on the mount, but still a stellar bird, congrats....

looks can be deceiving.. those trails are only about 3 to 4 inches deep and no problem for the airboat... but just off the side of the trails in the slews can be a little deeper, and certainly yes.... best fishing is when the water runs really low and all the fish filter into the deeper canals , like shootin fish in a barrel... my dad n i caught 60 plus bass each on top water in an afternoon during one of these dry spells...

if you watch be sure to switch quality to 1080 p hd on the setting for the video...

just a little taste of camp in the glades near our duck grounds in S FLa.... moving up to western NY in a month for grad school n lookin forward to some different hunting.... but sure gonna miss the nights out at camp...

better safe than sorry with a price tag like that!!! not to mention safety...

im always lookin for that action packed gobblin his head off hunt when he comes in less than 45 min, but hey i'll take a bird however i can get em....

that sounds like it would be pretty good with venison or even duck too!

ok sorry... public ranges.... need to get my smokepole and the 30-06 dialed in once i get up there.... surprised there are not more public spots to shoot.... !!

can anyone recommend a decent outdoor rifle range min 100yds and maybe even a 200yd'er... neer tonowanda ? searched online , n really havent found anything solid... thnks guys

hmmm, not familiar with the vendetta as far as the set up... well at least he's gotten a viable response in writing to help his case if you get some hot shot officer up his a*& that day...

says it right in the regs that as long as there is now visible beam of light such as a lazer it is ok!

http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/35010.html

than you sir have got a winner!

looks like stock in permytherin just went up lol ....

i agree, thats a tough one! it pops up in my average day at least ten or so times whether watching video, planning, or talking about a hunt or trip to the range.... goodluck

ya ya ya

so much for cuddebacks fast reaction time

that's a possibility, don't know how good of a heard a birds you have in the area, but heck, go for it n see what happens,, if they don't like it, go back the next hunt with a different set up... i changed setups three times this year before i scored.... always an active learning curve each season....

as far as decoys, i grew up huntin osceolas ( the hardest dam birds to get, not quite as aggressive as the easterns, a little more call shy, and the least vocal of all the subspecies of turkey's) so i usually just use a quarter strutt jake, and sometimes combine it with a hen, it depends on the feel of the woods at that time.... for you a full strutt tom will work earlier on in the season when birds havent been beat up so bad yet, but as the season progresses birds get a little shy and tired of getting there but wooped*( those being the subordinate satallite gobblers that are younger birds jakes/2 year olds) if it is the boss gobbler of the woods he will most certainly want to fight... my recommendation is the 1/4 strutt jake Avion-X jake decoy.... most realistic/durable decoy i've seen yet... scored two osceolas this year (a 2 yr old and a 3 to 4 year old bossssss) definitely get a regular hen decoy(same company) and if you want to spend the money get a breading hen too... basically if you get a bird fired up, and he knows where you are as soon as he answers(so no need to call your head off at him) he will be expecting a hen to be there, but when he shows up to see a jake beat him to his lady he's lookin for he wont be too happy and want to fight... four setups you can use and why: a single jake- for the reason i just explained, a jake and a regular hen- he'll get a visual of the hen and want to bump the jake off a potential partner, a jake and the breading hen- same deal, he'll not take it lightly that a subordinate bird is trying to breed his lady, or you can use a single hen if they are getting shy or educated with the jake decoy.... full strutt decoys work very well, but its a touch n go thing, its gotta be the right time and the right bird( the BOSS) .... good luck , hope this helps... of course there's always more to say, but in short thats the basics....

the second one has a good technique with a straw and a string if you don't have tweezers!

sometimes they do if they are pressured birds like on state land, but if its your property and your the only one huntin it, than you should be fine throwin it up n huntin.... brush it in a little with some left over corn stalks if you got em n you should be good

just to be sure, everyone is taking tweazers and grabbing as close to the head as possible and applying steady pressure till he lets go right!!!?// otherwise that head'll pop right off n stay in you, that's how infections and even greater risk of lymes transmition occurs...