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JALA RUT

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  1. 1 bird way off in the distance, barely audible gobbles...gobbled twice and that's it so far.
  2. All quiet, until I just called in a hen...she walked in clucking and walked right up to behind the tree i was sitting against...then stepped out to the right of my tree about 5 yards away...saw me, knew something wasn't right, and quickly walked away. Wasn't too spooked, never putted or ran off, just walked away....pretty cool, love those close encounters. Now if a gobbler would play the game
  3. Last week, first couple of pike of the season.
  4. Sorry to hear of the setback with bad news. Continued daily prayers.
  5. Continued prayers and good thoughts.
  6. All quiet today until finally striking one up at about 1015...long story short, I blew it and missed him at about 35 yards. He came in on the wrong side but ended up calling him in twice, second time in, he knew something wasn't right. He got hinkey and was getting ready to zip out of there and I rushed the shot...no excuses, I still should have had him. Oh well, nice to have heard a little gobbling and see him go into strut a couple times, hopefully next time ends with a bird over the shoulder. Good luck to all looking to fill tags still.
  7. Wow Bill, 120 turkeys is an impressive track record, Congrats on that! In my 30 years of turkey hunting, I've only taken 15 but still love to get after them every spring. I'm sure you'll get Cynthia in position to take one...Good luck!
  8. Feels like deer season instead of spring turkey season. Good luck to all out
  9. Prayers sent with good vibes, hoping for the best!
  10. Called in a hen. She walked into my decoys stood by them for about 5 minutes then ended up less than 10 yds from me until she walked off. Right after she was gone a buck with nubs started walked up to me...got to about 10 yds. Saw me trying to take pic of him with phone and took off. Then about 5 minutes later, tried calling agsin and that hen started yelping back and walked back up to my decoys before she walked off again. Love those close encounters.
  11. Crap...just got busted by one that came in quiet. About 20 minutes after a series of cutting and yelping, happen to look right and theres a big red head looking at me, at 25 yds...then he vanished just as fast. Oh well, nice to finally see a bird after 3 days.
  12. Went for a hike today and came upon a bachelor group of 4 bucks, starting nubs for new antler growth for the season. Pretty cool!
  13. I retired from law enforcement after 24 years, with my last 8 years being assigned in the Criminal Investigation Division. Now I'm employed as Corporate Security for a large corporation. So far I've been there for about 6 years.
  14. Not my pic, but my buddy at his camp has a grouse that joins them out in the woods for the past 2 years now...they've even named him Marvin. Walks with them, goes onto their wheelers, flys up and sits in treestands with them, and flys up into their arms so they can hold him and pet him...the grouse shows up pretty much most of the time they're out there.
  15. My biggest buck in 37 years of deer hunting. Taken 11/9/18 @ 10:25. Missed an opportunity at him the last day of muzzleloader in 2017 when he busted me turning in the stand for a shot, hearing noise from build up of snow and ice on the stand. Then bow season 2018, drew bow back on him on 11/7/18 when he followed a doe in but he never presented a shot. He was stopped at about 38 yards...safely behind a tree blocking his vitals. Holding on him for what seemed like an eternity. But then the doe that was now only about 22yds from my tree bolted and he bolted after her. No shot...and feeling helpless hearing them run away through the woods out of sight and out of hearing, hoping and praying they would circle back. Then about half an hour later a nice 8Pt came in sniffing the ground everywhere that doe walked. I passed on him at about 20yds, knowing the big 10Pt was in the area, hoping that he'd come back. Nothing more that day. Then two days later, 11/9/18 while looking at a doe about 10yds right of my tree, I heard a twig snap and see the big 10Pt walking, angling away from me about 40yds away in front of my stand, oblivious to me or the doe in the area. So, I reach for my grunt tube but the doe busted me, running away to my right. The buck heard her running away, snapped his head around looking in her direction, and then turned around slowly walking in her direction now...passing about 25yds in front of me. Buck fever started kicking in real bad, so it took me 3 tries to pull my bow back...LOL...But eventually got it pulled back and made a solid good shot on him. He turned running about 140yds before piling up with a solid double lung hit. Gross score 144-0/8, Net score 136-5/8.
  16. Nice...Love hearing the dogs working it!
  17. Will get out for some rabbits and grouse a few times plus planning a weekend trip up north for snowshoe hares. A few years ago started hobby of wildlife photography, mostly deer and turkey, so will do a bunch of hikes with camera in hand waiting for spring time fishing and turkey season.
  18. Out of work and set up in stand by 12:30 for a last effort. I'm in the stand that I got the broken up 8Pt out of last year on the last day of ML at 4:20. Would be nice to have history repeat itself today. Good luck to all out there on this last day.
  19. Hopefully out of work to be in treestand by 1 for this last day. Good luck to all those heading out.
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