Chris B

I have an 870 express w the extra full choke that came w it and I have killed a handful of turkeys out to 55-60. But as far as other chokes, a friend of mine raves about the “jellyhead” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’ve had some of my best luck shifting a stand 50-100yds and then hunting it the very next day. One of my favorite tactics actually Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The dec has a cellphone app as well called HuntFishNY. Makes it super easy Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I plan on going tomm. Can only hunt til 12 tho... Hoping to have a good last day! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Pygmy agree 100%! What we found to work really well is to use hand calls as needed in the morning, and after the first couple hours we might just turn the foxpro on to standard crow sounds and just let it run in intervals, while using hand calls to respond to crows we hear close by. Then once the shooting slows down after middday we will start hitting them w a lot of crow fights. But.... every hunt is a little different. We adjust slightly depending on what’s working. We are actually really conservative with our shooting too. We won’t shoot unless they are dropping in. One thing I learned about the large groups is that if we roll the crow fight on the foxpro once they all start circling, we can get a couple shots and then just keep playing the fight sound and most of the time we can pull the others back in for another shot. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

After a few week break I decided to take a vacation day yesterday and go do some crow hunting at the farm we picked up this year. Let me tell you, this was one for the books! Got set up by sunrise and as soon as we heard the first crow sound off, we had a constant wave of singles and doubles dropping in to check us out. We stayed quiet, just responding w some light hand calls as needed. I ended up going 8 for 8 in the first hour! We didn’t even use the foxpro caller until noon, which by then we figured we had around 17. Of course we had some that hopped away and a couple that we hit and watched fly a few hundred yards before falling but we were on fire! The wind picked up for a few hours but playing two foxpro’s on high volume running crow fight (10 minutes on, 15 minutes quiet) helped us call in a handful in crappy conditions. The shooting definitely got tough in the high wind. From 4 to 5 o’clock the wind calmed a lot and we caught the groups heading back towards their roost and the shooting was hot again. We knocked down about 9 in that last bit of time just running dueling crow fights w the foxpros. Shattered our previous record of 18! One thing worth mentioning was that as we killed a few crows, we’d go out and set them up and incorporate them into our decoy set. We have about 9 decoys and 1 scout that we start w but we found that the more dead crows we used in our setup, the easier it was to get them to drop in...even in the high winds Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’m still working on coyotes but I have the fox pretty well figured out. We always hunt fox starting right at sundown, as soon as it’s dark enough to shine the light (say an hour or so after sunset) and usually hit 3-4 stands, calling it a night around 10 pm. My favorite sequence is baby cottontail for 2 minutes on low, turn up the volume to medium and run 3 more min, switch to adult cottontail on medium for 5 minutes, and then switch to grey fox distress on high for 5 minutes. I let the fox distress run for a couple minutes on high and then I run the volume up and down for the remainder and that is usually when they come in. I’m a huge fan of “backyard” stands close to houses. We set up on a field that gives us atleast a 40 yd shot to the edge of the field. We always try to hunt close to thick cover/brush unless the landowner is seeing fox and then we will just go after them bc we know they’re there. I also run a foxjack decoy on every stand. We like either a crosswind or quartering-away wind, and place the caller out and upwind of us. Never call w a wind in your face, you’ll have a lot that try to slip in behind u. A trick I’ve learned is that if I’m running fox distress and I catch eyes and it doesn’t want to commit after a couple minutes, I switch to a different fox distress and have had lots of luck pulling them out for a shot. If we shoot a fox at any time during our favorite sequence, I immediately switch to fox distress (or a diff fox distress if I was running a fox distress during the shot) and we have gotten 3 doubles this year Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We crow hunted a few times after deer season ended but have been focusing on fox the past month. I heard they spread manure at the farm we been hunting, specifically the field where one of our blinds is located. Chomping at the bit to go this weekend if the weather cooperates. I’m a little late to this post but for a load setup, I use a 12 ga w a mod choke and I love using the Winchester AA super sport loads 1 1/8 oz, 7 1/2, 1300 FPS. I used to miss a lot but we worked on building a better blind and letting the crows drop in more before shooting and our numbers have gone way up. A couple pics of our hunts: Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Since fox season has come to a close, I thought I would share our success this year. We hunt Broome and Tioga counties. Between the heavy winds and my hunting partner and I trading off sicknesses all season, we only got to hunt 15 nights for fox. However, we’ve seen fox every night we’ve gone and have gotten multiple doubles this year. I’m thinking I finally got the hang of calling in fox! It’s also worth noting that we only call 2-3 stands a night. The last two months, we’ve only called one pair of fox in with prey distress sounds; the rest of the fox were all called in using fox distress. You’ll notice we killed mostly greys.... a lot of which were in “red fox rich” locations. I do all the calling and my hunting partner loves to pick on me, saying that I could go to the red fox capital of the world and be the only one to call in all greys! [emoji12] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Shot this 20-ish lb female October 21st. Came in 1 minute after a couple long howls on the Randy Anderson Hot Dog howler. She hung up just over the knoll before she was in range to shoot and starting pacing back and forth, not wanting to fully commit. I played vole squeaks on low and my hunting partner turned the intensity of the light way down just enough to barely see the eyes. She circled the call and it put her into my view and I dropped her in her tracks at 130 yds w my 22-250. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I have not heard of this thing called lazy yote hunting??? Lol in my opinion it’s all-in or a waste of time..... the more you go, the more you’ll realize how tough it is. I suggest learning how to use a mouth-blown howler as well. The “hot dog” is a great howler that only takes a little practice. Tell your friend to howl a couple times and give 10-15 min of silence, and then squawk on the distress call intermittently for 10-15 min and then sit in silence for another 10. If nothing comes in, the couch will be waiting. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

What channel and when is it on? Sounds interesting Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We glassed a field at dusk last Night before we went out to coyote hunt and watched two small bucks fight on and off for over 20 minutes. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We set up a ground blind and put out some dekes. We use both electronic call and mouth calls. We like to mouth call them until they are in "the zone", which im gonna guess and say that's within 2-300 yards, and then we start the electronic caller. It's so much fun, we have a blast. One piece of advice I'll give you from my experience is to let the scout go. But if u do decide to shoot at the scout, don't miss!! Lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I tried to listen but couldn't tell. To me it looked like someone turned on the light from an atv or something. PS I also want to add that I am really jealous of your clover! I have been struggling for years to try and get mine to look like that and it's still a mess lol

I would also enjoy a hunting dog section. I mainly grouse and woodcock hunt and do a little pheasant hunting with my shorthair. I'm a new gun dog owner and I like the idea of being able to chat with the seasoned guys. I'm also interested in what other kinds of hunting guys are doing with their dogs. IE: running coyotes.

It's been tough. I have only gone a couple times and haven't even had a follow. I know a couple other guys that pound it pretty hard and one guy has had only a couple follows and lost one, and the other guy has caught 1.

you can buy a soil test kit from whitetail institute for around $7 I believe. You mail your sample to them in the envelope provided and they have lime/fert recommendations back to you within a couple days.

I hunt almost all the same stands year after year, and I do have a couple cameras out. 1 overlooking a food plot, and the other overlooks the corner of a field where the deer funnel into. But I will also say that I scout a lot. Even when I am not officially scouting, I am still scouting. I'll use those scouting trips to see if I need to throw a stand in a new hotspot, mostly. I also use my hunting trips as real-time scouting. I have moved my stands 60-100 yards after hunting a couple times and witnessing them doing things a little different, with success. Now just out of curiosity, what do you consider to be improper use? Or better yet, if you were to teach someone the "right way" to use trail cams, what would you tell them? This is out of pure curiosity.

Exactly. I see what you are saying Jerkman but that could be the case for many memes when viewed by people who have no idea of the background in which they were created. In this context, we all know what it represents and exactly who this guy is, so I wouldn't expect it to be taken the wrong way.

This one is my favorite lol

I have trail cam pics of 4-5 (if I remember correctly) running together in the middle of winter. A buddy of mine has seen a few running together while he was deer hunting before. Mostly though, I see them in singles or pairs. As far as the OP, that's quite a catch, and nature's way for sure....

I just had woodcock for the first time last week and I thought it was horrible. Going to try some different recipes in the future and see if I can make it any better for myself

I've always just looked at my target through the pin while aiming. That's pretty interesting though

I have only had bear a couple times but I was taught to slow cook it if possible to make sure it is thoroughly cooked. Someone gave me some stew meat from a bear they got and here is how I did mine: Put stew meat in crock pot Add a large can of cream of mushroom soup Add a packet of Beefy onion soup mix Cut up carrots, celery, onions, mushroom Add a big spoonful of minced garlic, add pepper as desired Cook on low ~7-8 hours Serve over mashed potatoes I make venison roasts the exact same way, its delicious