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If they were..wouldn't surprise me even a tiny little bit...though I've made my opinion on 8's leadership well known over the years .

Lol...I think beach left me out of that last post...I didn't see narrow minded..hahaha

No hunting for me this morning.turned alarm off. I'm having a hard enough time trying to hold my cup of coffee let alone a gun...weather change is coming..my arthritis is pretty angry right now.

Could be a number of reasons, the rain lately for one,distemper,loss of a den tree,brain worms,mange,and yes rabies.

Finally dried up enough to get another spraying done...I also went to the new plot and sprayed all the tiny new growth of weeds keeping the ferns a bush and the 2 apples cleared. I had a few more trees I wanted to cut...not only for that plot but the lane way plot I intend on putting in...if I ever get the tractor...Mr B has a bug firmly attached to his nether region...hhmm that was frank.....any ways I'll get it done one way or another ...The plot in pics is ready to seed in clover and hand rake in...I have various features in there so I can not use the drag... which is alright I had raked the entire thing for rocks...just good arm strengthening.. The trees added nicely to my old and new brush pile fences...the old one is well over my head and the new one is at face level. Plus I had downed a few rather large ash dead and alive. Also a couple of bad maples...these went across the lane way and needed to be sectioned so I could handle moving them. I really don't like doing that with the pruner...even though that's how I downed them..It's a skill when on the stump,but on the ground much harder on the saw...I usually ask for my son to come over and make a few cuts..but he's got a gutted house and new kitchen cabinets and a floor to level to get anything else done. so I put on my get er done! attitude and made the sections...though I will need to do some fancy winch work to get at least two sections off to the side. Lots of bright and filtered light getting in there...it is going to be awesome when done and so very pretty to boot. Got all the weeds in garden sprayed but no tilling just yet...

Well done ...congrats on a nice first bird!

How to make a Eco friendly out house for parties camps what ever...dig a hole deep enough to accommodate 1-2 blue plastic barrels or wide and deep enough to have them side by side with the second deeper then the first. partially fill with pea gravel and charcoal. If end to end stacked with a hole in the bottom of one and top of the other with many small holes drilled in the bottom of the lower/second barrel and bolt together...if side by side attach pvc pipe from lower part of first to upper part of second. Build your out house over the top but so you do not get bees and flies in there use a culvert pipe long enough to partially bury over the barrel hole and have a firm seal to the wooden floor of your out house. Now if you want to be fancy...buy a cheap toilet and build a tall frame with a ladder to hold another 55 gal barrel on the back side of building...then rig a flow tube from that to the toilet tank so you can have a number of flushes refilling the barrel as needed . Ps .......in the cold hunting months just let the barrel go half or less in case of freezing and leave the tank empty...take a bucket of cold water with you when you goe...you don't water in the tank or bowl to freeze....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUiBMeMww98 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LODSs_5Pu8

Ha! I just realized I said 2400 yrds...it's ft..... so 800 yrds width wise including the highway the very top section for 350ft is 29411 ft from line to line... dang I wish our place was 2400yrds wide, for the entire length!!!

I had to cut hunting short so much work to do...So I was out spraying and pulled the card on new cam I wonder if this is the guy that hung up on me this a.m. This cam is correct time and date. This pic is 2400 yrds from where I was this morning...300 yrds from the blind I took the deer video in the other day. These are 2 different young bucks starting head gear...ones notably bigger than the other right now. It begins.....

Shad ...Congrats to you both...memories to last a life time for sure!

Yes I did...should have been hunting there all along..I ALWAYS hunt opening day there but not this year. There just wasn't any turkey sign back there then.. So surprised by the deer..they were all hanging pretty low too...I actually thought one may drop around 80 yards out in the tallest grass...she certainly had a need to clean herself...a lot...lol

tractor supple also sells rolled grass mats...try looking on their web site ..ours usually won't carry them until fall I think.. https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/ez-straw-erosion-control-blanket-4-ft-x-50-ft?cm_vc=-10005

Well it almost worked...dang 4:30a.m. and it was dang bright out there..We had some winds last night so the trail clearing was for naught. Of course a maple snapped off 30 feet from the blind blocking a large area from movement between the CBB and the ridge edge brush blind. I get in snap, crackle and pop ,set up feeder and alert hens and settle in...15 mins later I hear faint clucks...so I do a few tree yelps and purrs...Goggle, gobble, gobble.....gobble, gobble, gobble...It made me jump because they were roosted behind the blind and there were two of them one about 30 yards away and they other 40-50.. This went on until about 6 and once in a while I'd cluck and purr until they flew down. The farthest one landed first about 75 yrds out and the other, closer one, flew off towards him. He was 60 or so yards out and immediately went into full strut...but wouldn't move...I know they both saw the decoys for I put them on two raised areas of ground in front of the blind. The 2nd bird was way bigger in body size but the first bird was way more cautious. he kept his feathers tight and he stayed in a low profile never coming closer then where he landed.. The other I could hear spit drumming and he was dragging his wing tips and both were gobbling. He slowly, VERY SLOWLY got to 47 yrds and his buddy had had enough. Dead calm so no movement from the hens and they never took their eyes off of them. Mr strutter then dropped his tail and froze..his buddy gave a loud cluck and turned walking away...he hit the ridge stand and started gobbling again all the way down the hill. In the mean time Mr. strut went in to strut one more time, turned and walked away as he dropped his tail. He meandered around on the edge of the ridge before disappearing and joining his buddy in gobbling again...Their last gobbles had them headed to our place across the road....I had tried different soft calls and even got out the slate so I could sound like 2 birds...I think it was the Maple tree top that helped to hang him up..He almost went around it then turned back...came back and turned again before stopping. I glassed him ,not the other and his beard dragged on the ground almost...fairly thick too...I am setting up a camera where I have seen scratching... will try again tomorrow had a great time. Now after all that I had 7 very pregnant doe and 2 yearling come in and feed around in the woods...looked like 2 different groups and 4 were big roman nosed doe...Our woods are covered in that grass I mentioned but it's 2 different kinds,,,ones in seed already both are clump grass..Wow we will have some deer this year!

BTW...This is worth a try ...worked for TF...I'm going to my favorite turkey blind and kill a long beard tomorrow morning!

Happy Birthday! Hope the day was great and may the year be even better!

You da man! great hunt!...

So your post had me going to check out the OCBB. That's where I should have been hunting I think...the woods are just tore up back there!...lets hope they are toms and hens as in past years....reset windows checked everything out cleared the trail in. Had the top of a maple tree come down...of course right across the trail so I know to watch my step in that area...so many 3ft maple saplings...the corn field has really cleared the area of deer...but there has always been some favorite turkey food in there during the spring...I'm not really sure what. So many wild flowers...I'm sure bugs and the hunting camp next door grew some special turkey grass on their place before we moved here...it has migrated with the wind up on to us.

Pretty sure the gun only hunter, would be glad to tell you the difference in that scenario....

Lol... I PM'd another member to ask if I was reading that right or if he was hunting a different state....

I do every year...My best turkey blind is the original card board box blind, which I haven't gone to yet this year but will tomorrow. I think most the birds I have ever taken were either from a tree stand in the fall or a raised covered blind...I use them when it's raining mostly or if the bugs a very bad. Which happens to be both cases this year...today it was just too dang cold to sit on the ground. Why do you ask?

LOL I should have put that on the list for the buck I saw this morning...could have been a car strike...hhmmmm BTW it got me looking things up again...I need to be careful...the Bot thread on squirrels has me off hunting them anymore... This will make my deer butchering take on a new light...eeewwwww https://www.qdma.com/10-weird-parasites-live-inside-deer/

He certainly is deserving for the dedication put forth

TF at first I thought he had gotten into a wild bee hive in that log...but just too cold out..Maybe he was digging up someones remains Perhaps that's how he got those long spikes so early...lol

The guy has a wonderful sarcastic sense of humor...hahahaha