Dr. Honk

The truck is all packed and ready to go goose hunting tomorrow. Going to take my cousin for his first goose hunt. I have located a flock of 80 about 1/4 mile from the field I plan to hunt. Hopefully they will come my way before hitting their normal field.

Walmart had to print mine on the old yellow paper. The camo paper would not work in their machine

Orange vest when deer hunting over camo. I don't worry about me shooting someone but I do worry about somebody shooting me.

Got two DMP's at Walmart in Wilton after dinner. No problems. They did have to print the license on last years yellow paper because the new camo looking paper does not work.

If they would have just left things alone, we would not have these problems. Un-bundle the license system and then add up the total for the individual licenses and guess what? No one cent savings for me. What a bunch of crap. Thanks Andy

I have been receiving the catalog for many years. Maybe because I have a Cabelas Club Visa card and use it for all my business transactions. Nothing like free stuff from Cabelas.

First of all, thank you for your service. Looking forward to hearing about your hunting adventures

Hey Dins. Do you think this stuff would be good to use on my M&P 9mm?

Just one. That was enough. A shade over $8,600 in damage to the front end.

Bought a F 150 4X4 in 2010 and still love it. Great running tuck, 5.4 liter with 6 speed transmission and tow package. I get about 17 mpg running around town and close to 20 on trips. Mileage drops down to about 12 mpg when towing my 30' 5th wheel.

I learned that video taping and hunting at the same time are difficult. I do enjoy this new twist to spring gobbler hunting. While I have always done a lot of pre season scouting, It takes a lot more scouting for set up areas. You have to know where the birds are roosting in different areas and where they are willing to come into view of your decoys to record a decent hunt. You also have to lug around a lot more gear.

I have one and like it a lot. I did not need it one day this spring while turkey hunting so I guess I saved money on fuel and scent.

Looks like you have put in a lot of time and hard work. The pictures look like that work is paying off already. I have enjoyed reading about your progress.

Congrats on your gobbler Wooly. Your story was unique and a great read. Nice pictures too.

Yes, he came in silent. The toms were very vocal in the beginning of the season but did not gobble much at all last week. This bird gobbled a couple times on the roost and once when he hit the ground.

That bird was done as soon as I touched the trigger. The shot was 24 yards with a very tight choke. I edited out the no flopping part. If you watch the video you will see there is no stiffness in the neck when he is flopping. If I was 20 years younger I may have ran out and stood on his head for the sake of the video. These 65 year old legs don't move as fast as they used to

Well Terry, it was a real learning experience since I come from a deer hunting family that did not even think about turkey hunting. I was fortunate that my Grandfather had a camp in the Catskills on 90 acres of hardwoods in Delaware County that had turkeys. As you may know, the Gilboa / Blenheim area was one of the first places that was used to relocate turkeys that were trapped in PA. I am sure the birds that I hunted were also transplants from PA or decedents of those birds. All of my hunting was in the hard wood hills of the Catskill mountains. No decoys, no blinds and old army pattern camo was what I used. My first turkey call was a signed box call by Ben Rogers Lee(I still have that call today), I would listen to a cassette tape on how to make turkey sounds and I would practice to get the proper sound and cadence. I believe I killed my very first gobbler (Jake) the second year I hunted turkeys. From then on it was hit or miss on weather I harvested a bird or not. It was not for lack of trying, just inexperience. I would set up in the wrong place on the mountain, be on the wrong side of the creek, move the gun and the turkey would see me, take a nap and wake up to a putt because I was snoring too loud. You know, typical rookie mistakes. I am much better today than back in the day and the good Lord has blessed me with more gobblers than any one man deserves. When diaphragm calls became available, I was determined to learn how to use them. My first diaphragm call was a Quaker Boy pro triple. I purchased it at the factory store in western NY while on a business trip. After a solid two weeks of gaging, choking and spitting on my self, I was finally able to make a sound that was similar to a turkey ( My wife was not too happy during that learning experience). Fast forward, my go to call is still a diaphragm but HS Strut split V in either 2,3 or 4 reeds. I like the rasp of these calls. I still carry a box call or slate call in my turkey vest and use them on occasion. I use Buckwing (now Primos) turkey decoys. I usually set up a hen and jake combo but have used different combinations of upright hens, feeding hens. Yesterday was the first time I used the B Mobile decoy although I have had that decoy for about four years. So that's my story for now. Thanks for asking.

Let me explain a few things about this hunt. 99.9% of the time I do not use a blind. This is the first year I have attempted to video tape my turkey hunts. When it is pouring down rain, you have an expensive video camera and you still want to fill your second tag, you hunt out of a blind. Water and electronics do not get along very well. Do you think I just stumbled on this bird by accident ("sitting in a blind hoping that a gobbler would come in")? Over the past week, the toms in this part of NY were not very vocal. The early part of the season was just the opposite. They may gobble on the roost and then maybe once or twice when they hit the ground. This is typical for late season gobblers but you probably already know that. I scouted this area all week before work. There were two long beards and three hens together. For me that was a 4:00 am wake up call every morning. Based on my scouting, I had a pretty good idea where these birds were roosting. Past experience has shown that turkeys like to go to fields during a hard rain. They would rather rely on eye sight than hearing to keep out of danger. Leaf covered trees are quite noisy when it rains. The area I hunted had several hay fields that were about a foot high and the corn field that had not been plowed. The corn field would be a logical pace for these birds to be THAT particular morning. But then again, what could I possibly know. I do enjoy spring turkey hunting every year in GA, PA and NY and have only killed 93 gobblers so far. But that's just me. Now to get back to your question on how I am going to prepare that bird? I really don't know yet. I have several ways to cook turkeys. Most of the time, I breast out my birds and keep e legs and thighs to make turkey soup. If I am going to deep fry I will leave the bird whole. With breast meat: I may season it and put it in the smoker. Chunk it, put it in an egg wash, coat it with zatarains chicken frying mix and fry in canola oil. Cut the breast into serving size portions, pound it out with a meat mallet to tenderize, egg wash, coat with Italian bread crumbs and make turkey parm. For the sauce I use Bertolli's with olive oil and extra garlic. I have also chunked it and put it in a slow cooker with butter and hot sauce to make buffalo style turkey breast. Thanks for watching the video.

Great looking gobbler. I enjoyed reading your story. Thanks.

Thanks Terry. I also prefer a video. It seems like I am a part of the hunt. I'll get better in my filming ability. Hard to believe I still get excited after hunting these birds since the mid 70's. Doc

I thought it would be more interesting to share a video than to post "I killed a nice long beard today". Even though it was not the best video out there, I enjoyed filming it and editing it. I am new to video taping but old to turkey hunting. Enjoy your season.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMCPOo8ujcM

Worked OK for me sort of. I had to repeat some things several times. Must be my Upstate NY accent

Congrats on your hard hunted gobbler.

Finally got to film and edit my turkey hunt from last week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Boi_5r7-P2A I hope you enjoy the video