Doewhacker

Had a hen talking, man it's tough to hear with the rain falling on the blind.

Had good action again this morning, bumped one off his roost but the othe three stayed. I did the fly down and they cut loose right above our heads. Two toms and a jake flew down, the jake was closest and the boy took a crack and missed again. I think it was just a bit too far for his 20, the birds just stood there and worked off. Lots of gobbles on the roost all around then nothing. Heading back out with the blind in a bit, rain just started here.

Heading out in a few. Spotted the same four long beards on their same routine the last two nights. It's a ways from our spot but you never know.

Sounds like a big waste of time, pop quiz, how many of the folks on the caucus supported the SAFE act? They decide who talks and what you will hear, yea sign me up for that one!

I would still scout them to see where they roost, fly down and what they do before they walk in front of the cam. Being able to set up with out being busted will be more important.

I got a head start by hunting youth season so I will be watching from the road with bino's.

Are the cams and cables coming in a separate box? Nice rig

What a day, after the miss we circled and bumped two turkeys we assumed were part of the flock. Then we were headed back to the scene of the miss and ran into the 4 Toms again happy as could be.

We made a move and spotted toms, then we cut the distance way down and I called 4 long beards in to 10 yards. Of course he had a brush pile in the way when he shot and didn't get a bird. I think he's hooked now at least. Nothing like thundering gobbles at 10 yards.

Dead silence here, other than the Chicka-Dee that landed on the end of his gun barrel.

Had one hammering as he went off with his hen.

Wow is that moon bright!

About the same for us yesterday too, even the jakes were silent. Heading out in a few, chilly start today of 35 and clear.

Just around the corner from us lol

Dbl post

Just had a hen going and had two jakes sneak in on the wrong side of the tree at 15 yards. Dang it.

Had two hens roost over the blind but the Tom was with other hens in a different roost. Cloudy and windy here.

Thank god for Expresso on days like this, we are ready for action!

Go ahead and find some examples of me breaking the rules since the warning went out on this thread. You on the other hand IMO, stalk and throw names around on a regular basis. Why are you and a few others allowed to constantly crap on others threads and stalk? I find your actions on here disturbing and sad, to think a future hunter might read some of the things you type should embarrass you but I know it doesn't. The openness with which you recommend and brag about breaking game laws should have got you banned long ago.

"Third we have been very laxed, perhaps to much in the moderation of posts and enforcement of our rules. The downside is a few members have chosen to exploit these opportunities to post curses, attacks and other completely useless content that doesn't belong here. There will be no warnings other then this one. Keep it clean, do not attack other members, do not curse (family site). I and all the amazing folks that help maintain and participate in this community have no time to baby sit. We will no longer issue warnings for something you should already know. You break the rules you are not welcome here. See: http://huntingny.com/rules" When will the rules start being enforced? Is it ok for certain members to stalk and harass other members? There is name calling in this thread for goodness sake.

I didn't sleep well last night after confirming the roost area of a big Tom with my son, it didn't help that I had to get up for work at like 345am today. I should sleep well tonight lol

I can't help but ponder what it would be like to basically hunt where ever you wanted, imagine how that would change things. It was also interesting to see how hunters there deal with animal rights wacko's like we do but seemingly to a greater extent.

Poland's culture war opens a new front: forest hunting grounds Latest News Save for laterSaved Subscribe Understanding the divideBoth hunters and ecologists say that their values are under assault from each other, as Warsaw weighs changes to access of private lands for hunting and new logging in Poland's forests. By Sara Miller Llana, Staff writer Monika Rębała, Correspondent April 21, 2016 Save for laterSaved Zenon Kruczyński, an ex-hunter turned activist, stands in Białowieza National Park in eastern Poland. Mr. Kruczyński is a member of Workshop for All Beings, one of the nongovernmental organizations that sent a complaint to the European Commission against logging in the Bialowieza Forest. Monika Rebala 1 of 1 Przemyśl and Białowieża, Poland — Tadeusz Kroker and Zenon Kruczyński thrive in the thick woodland that covers Poland – one comparing it to a theater, the latter a place to forget one’s worries. But that’s where the similarities between the hunter and former hunter end. And their differing visions for the future of animal rights, land protection, and environment is pitting them against one another in the latest cultural war to erupt here: over Poland’s natural habitats. The Polish parliament is penning a new hunting bill to establish new rules for access to private land and possibly to handguns, while environmentalists lodged a complaint Tuesday against logging in Poland’s last primeval forest. And amid the changes both Mr. Kroker and Mr. Kruczyński say they worry that their values could be trampled – the former because the verbal attacks against hunters have never been so furious, and the latter because the hunting lobby has never been so strong. When Law & Justice (PiS) swept into power in October with enough votes to lead the government alone without a coalition, it was a clear statement about the desire for change in Polish society. But after a half year in power, deep fissures have formed in the political and media arenas, on the streets, and even around dinner tables on everything from justice, to the European Union, to abortion – and now Polish forests. A new hunting bill has been in the works since the term of the previous government, led by the liberal, EU-friendly Civic Platform, after the Constitutional Court ruled that the current bill, dating from 1995, doesn’t protect the rights of landowners. (As it currently stands, Poles can hunt on private land without asking permission.) Even under Civic Platform, the bill was hunter-friendly. Six of seven committee members who worked on the bill were hunters themselves, and the draft would have required landowners to file a request to court to forbid hunters from stepping on their land because of religious or moral beliefs. When PiS came into power, it drafted its own bill, following the lead of Civic Platform. But it included one controversial issue: easy access to handguns. The new bill should have been voted on by January under the court ruling. But it was withdrawn instead that month with no public reason given, leaving both hunters and activists on the defense about what their vision for hunters and the environment is. A sport under siege?Tomasz Kulesza, president of the Polish Hunting Association in the Przemyśl district, who was the Civic Platform lawmaker and head of the subcommittee that worked on the previous hunting bill, says that hunters love nature and know how to take care of it. “We also educate kids about nature, we tell them the real story, how wild animals really live, not the fake one presented by the ‘pseudo-ecologist,’ ” he says. He says that hunting, once only accessible to kings and magnates, was an elitist hobby. “Now almost anyone can be a member of the [hunting association],” he says. The numbers of hunters has gone up steadily, from 100,000 Poles with licenses in 2000 to 116,000 currently, says Mr. Kulesza. Yet hunters perceive they are increasingly rejected: A 2015 government poll found that 65.5 percent of hunters said society doesn’t accept their sport. If their rights are bolstered by the government, the voice of the protesters will grow louder – and the gap between both camps wider. Ecologists on Tuesday lodged a complaint with the European Commission in Brussels against extensive logging in Białowieża – sure to anger those locals who say they depend on the forest for their livelihoods. Hunters 'on the defensive'Those against the bill worry that on the issue of guns, a sport that is already violent will become more so, at a time when Europe is trying to restrict access to arms amid terror threats. “It's total nonsense to say that hunters need handguns,” says Kruczyński. “If they can't kill the animal with a rifle it means that they can't use the gun properly, and they could pose a threat to other people and themselves.” But guns are not the only issue that is dividing the two camps right now. Hunters largely say that they are increasingly misunderstood on all fronts. Kroker drives up a muddy path in the forests outside of Przemyśl in southeastern Poland. It’s not hunting season, but this day he’s checking on the feed and salt licks they’ve left out for the animals during the winter respite. Kroker was the first in his family to hunt, falling accidentally into the sport as a state forester who fell in love first with the scenery and then with the chase, particularly of the boar, which draws hunters to Poland from across Europe. Forty years later, he is still hooked on hunting. He says each player has its part and the sound of the forest is to him like music. “It’s like theater for me,” he says. But hunting has become ever more fraught, he says. Ecologists have increasingly harassed hunters, going in groups to the woods to disturb animals and stymie hunters. “We are increasingly on the defensive by ecologists,” he says. And while he says he personally isn’t fighting to carry a handgun – and in fact worries that it’s polarized the debate unnecessarily – he is worried the government will make it harder for hunters to access private land as they so easily do now. Protecting the woodsFar to the north in Białowieża National Forest, located on the Polish-Belarussian border, Kruczyński says he is worried about the reverse response from the government. Jan Szyszko, the minister of environment; Prime Minister Beata Szydło’s husband; and Konrad Tomaszewski, who is the director of state forests, are all hunters themselves. Kruczyński understands the appeal like no one else, born into a family of hunters and having accompanied his father on his first hunt at age 8. “You are in the woods for two to three days with your friends and you totally switch off, don't care about anything, you forget about all your problems,” he says. His turn towards activism, while a process, came definitively 20 years ago, when he was walking in the woods and suddenly saw stray dogs chasing the doe he hoped to shoot. “And just like that, without thinking I shot the dog because I didn't want him to hurt the doe,” he says. “After that I stopped hunting and sold my gun. It has been more than 20 years now.” Now he rails against the lead that seeps into groundwater with bullets, he says; about the gathering spots that hunters use to lure animals, which he calls murder; and, above all today, about government plans to harvest four times the amount of trees from Białowieża Forest than is currently allowed. Authorities are facing a bark beetle outbreak, but environmentalists claim the government is just looking for an excuse to pander to foresters in the ancient woodland, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Kruczyński says that hunters are especially watching this debate in his region. “If the government cuts down thousands of trees it might be the end of the wild forest; that means that hunters will be able to hunt even in the place where now the national park is,” he says

I treated my son and I's camo last night, we are most of the way ready for the weekend. All we have to do is set up the blind.

Enjoy your trip!