Steuben Jerry

8 or 9 maybe with a Crossman. Got it taken away until about 10. Bad form to shoot out a streetlight. Who knew?

I don't recall if mine came with rings or not, but I bought Weavers.

Happy Birthday!

X2. I bought a silver one to put on a used Savage stainless steel 22 mag I came across a couple of years ago. Works good enough and was very inexpensive. Can't put good glass on everything! MOA calc was the last three on top of the bullseye.

Queuing Pygmy in 3..2..1..

Good point Greg!

Hmm, maybe I should brush hog the perimeter of my fields before next weekend?

Looks great WNY!

Congrats Dan what a season!

Crap! Power blinked out overnight and the alarm didn’t go off. I just woke up with the light of the day coming in the windows. I moved my blind yesterday to just across from where they were roosted yesterday. Assuming they’re roosting late like yesterday so no way to get to it without getting busted. Looks like a later start AFTER I work up a plan B for the morning.

Sittin on the deck grilling some wieners..

I need to slide in at 25.

Congrats! way to go!

Congrats, nice bird!

No bird. Got in to my busy corner of the field at 4:50 and set a single feeding hen decoy 35 paces out. Get a roost gobble 200 yds across the far side of the field at 5:20, OPPOSITE of where they’ve been roosting for the last few weeks. Roosted in one of my bigger white pines 2-3 trees into the woods! Bah!! Figured I’d count gobbles. Stopped counting at 100 - bird stays roosted til 7:15. Then I see him and his white head on the ground 200 yds away. Checked him out through the binocs, he’s a big bird. Gave him some soft yelps and he took notice. After looking like he was going to come in, he turns, hops over the stone wall and into the woods going up toward my other field. For 10 minutes I hear him gobbling, heading away from me toward the back of that field. Then more roost gobbles. Two birds! The ones I’ve been getting on my cams. Then I see 4 or 5 hens pitch down into that other field about 7:30. They start making an absolute racket. Sounded like a turkey riot. I hear the far Tom gobbling making his way back toward the hens, and over the next 15 minutes they all move north toward the cut corn field cackling, yelping, and gobbling the whole way. I called, but I doubt they could hear me over that racket. Never saw the second tom. Getting that windshield replaced this morning and I get a text that he’ll be here at 9:00. Listened to those birds noising it up, moving away further into the corn field til 8:30 and came back to the house. Going to move my blind this afternoon to an intercept position in the other field for tomorrow morning. They walked in front of my tower stand, and I briefly thought about sitting there tomorrow. Pic explanation: North is up. Red dot is my blind, yellow dot was where they all roosted, yellow arrow is their path to the corn field (green field when the aerial pic was taken), blue dot is where I want to be in their way tomorrow. It’s about 300-ish yards from the red dot to the blue dot. Second pic is from earlier this year and I have lots of pics of those two palling around. My tower stand is in the hedgerow just to the left of that yellow arrowhead. Would you even think about sitting there? I have lots of pics of those two and the hens from the cam mounted to the leg of the tower. Seems wrong, especially shooting down on the bird. Going to move the blind around 2:00, that flock is usually on the far side of the corn field in the afternoon.

Up and at ‘em! Second cup of joe and out the door.

Just picked up a 12 of that at the Corning Wegmans. Haven’t tried it yet. I’ll pop one this afternoon.

This girl shows up 100% of the time in those rotating ads on the bottom of the page on this site. Advertising works. I want to meet her...

Hunting a few hundred yards behind the house and can get back quickly. Multitasking!

Bite to eat and a beer or two, and then early lights out to be bright eyed in the morning. I need to turn this target into the real thing. 35 yds, jellyhead choke and crappy old 3 inch Remington Nitro #5’s. Got a windshield swap in the driveway anytime between 7:30 and noon tomorrow so I’ll need to make my time count!

All for it - as long as that's where the money continues to go and not get redirected to the NYS general fund. I'll vote positive on the FB poll!

I’ve gotta try that!

Go bang one tomorrow!