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I only use hang ons with stick sets and would say 95% are 15 to 20 feet all depending on terrain. I have one spot that is a deep and steep ravine. On the top it's a fairly narrow piece of woods maybe 60 yds wide and borders the land owners back yard. It is also very thick and a bedding area so I hung a stand on the downhill towards the ravine so I could still make a bow shot to the edge that is heavily traveled. In order to be about 10 ft higher than that level my platform is about 40 ft. Definitely not a stand to sit when the wind picks up.

Finished work early so figured I'd have an evening sit. I'm thinking I'm going to be at least 20 lbs lighter after these mosquitoes get done with me

I know he still has to get the brain out which I honestly don't know how he does it but the beetles do an excellent job of getting everything else. I will say that the odor from the two old chest freezers he keeps the beetles in isn't very pleasant.

If one shows itself I will have something for it.

What's with the folding chair in the top left corner?

Just had a doe come through with a little 4 point. He wasn't chasing her but he wouldn't let her get to far away either.

I have one buddy that traps and he has set up cameras on a few sets and after watching the video of how they approach the sets and reactions to everything it's amazing they ever get trapped. It seems as if everything isn't perfect they won't approach.

I saw more yotes this past spring Turkey season than I ever have, and I'm pretty sure they didn't help getting a bird at all. Birds would gobble on roost hit the ground and shut up. Couldn't understand what was going on at first until I caught a couple sneaking in on my set up.

Sure is and IMHO there should be an open season on them. This is a pic from another forum I go on.

I shoot em when I see them. I've gone with a couple buddies a few times and it was a blast. Thought about trapping for them just can't commit that kind of time.

I can't stand these damn coyotes. And now they want to start hanging around my stand sites in the middle of the day.

My two euros a buddy did. He has beetles and actually does a bunch for a local taxidermist.

Didn't make it this morning but got out this afternoon to see a few grey squirrels and countless mosquitoes. The neighbor decided it was a good afternoon to clear all the dead branches and brush on the edge of his yard as well. I guess it's better now than when things start getting heated up.

Scrolling through the forums last night I stumbled across this thread and it reminded me of a trailcam pic from a few years ago.

Got out for a few hours before work for my first sit. A doe with a fawn and a small 6 was all but it sure did feel good to get back in the tree.

Unfortunately work is keeping my from the morning hunts until Thursday morning and I guarantee I'll be in the tree then. Thankfully there's hardly any pressure from the neighbors until gun season starts.

95% between 15 and 20 yards. The farthest was this one at 43 yards in the open hardwoods.

2017 Hoyt Pro Defiant

Well I just made my last card pull and got this one. I can't really tell if it's the same one or not but I'll be happy with either one.

This 8 has been here every day since August 10'th until my last card pull. He is the biggest I have on camera and I'm pretty sure he is a deer I had a run in with last year.

It's a freeze dried head.

Got him today. Mount by Kyle Konecny

Turkey was shot on May 5'th 2013. Mount done by Kyle Konecny.

I'll be after him for sure, time restraints and other obligations have kept me from hunting that piece again until maybe tomorrow morning.

On Friday I took a buddy to one of my spots. We went in blind but having hunted there the past 5 yrs I had a good idea of the turkeys roosting areas. We climb to the top of the ridge and I set him right at the crest with a single hen 20 yds in front of him and I sit 25 yds to his right. As the woods began to lighten up a single gobble erupts from the trees 50 yds in front of us. A minute later he gobbles again and now I can see him on his branch so I give 2 soft clucks and he double gobbles. When he does this 3 birds on the other side of the road start gobbling and I can see him pacing on his branch so I gave a cackle and flapped my Primos real wing a few times and he double gobbles again. I did one purr and he drops straight down and starts strutting our way. At 5:55 when my buddy is putting his tag on him he ask if I want to go after the ones across the road. We come down off the hill and leave the bird and his gun in the truck and head up the hill across the road. When we get to the top of the hill we still haven't got a bird to sound off so we start to go across the ridge and about halfway across a bird gobbles behind and above us. We sit down and call a little and it's obvious the bird isn't going to come around a swampy area as he keeps going from end to the other gobbling. When the bird gobbles at the opposite end of the swamp from us we make our move to get around our end of the swamp and get set up. The bird is now coming but at his own pace. It had to be a half hour for him to come 150 or so yards. Before my buddy could get there he is out I heard him spitting and drumming. The bird is now behind a huge split trunk oak and I can only see glimpses of his white head and fan as he struts there for 10 minutes. Suddenly a Jake comes from behind him and goes past him to my left. I figure the stutter is going to follow him to chase him out so as the Jakes head is behind another tree I get my gun off my knee and swung to my left. Now as I'm free handing my gun the Jake goes back in the direction that he came from and past the strutter. Just as I'm about to swing my gun back to my knee I hear something in front of me and look without turning my head to see 2 hens 10 yards away looking in my direction. They started milling their way past me in the direction my gun is pointed and I think thank god as my gun now feels like I'm trying to hold up an elephant. The bird finally breaks strut and starts toward my opening. As soon as his head enters my scope I hear the hens putt and take off he lifts his head and I squeeze the trigger and watch as he turns and runs so I send another load of 5's at him and he never slows down. Now as I'm wanting to wrap my gun around the tree thinking how can I miss at 25 yards from a gun I just patterned a week ago my buddy tells me that he could see me wobbling from 20 yards behind me. So as we walk back down the hill talking about the hunt and if we did this or that he stops with that crap eating grin and says you know we could of had a good pic of a double if you didn't mess it up. So I declare that I now have a turkey nemesis. All in all it was a great hunt and a memory my buddy will not let me forget anytime soon I'm sure. Now for the question. I have gone after birds that have busted me before shortly after and got them but I have never gone after a bird I have shot at and missed. Is a week enough time for him to settle down and should I get to the area he was at when first contact was made using different calls?