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Gone through your gear for the umteenth time. You know it's ready, but you still do it. Think I'll go check mine again.. even though I used it last weekend for youth season.

That is hilarious. I've been ” charged", but they always ended before contact. Had to stop in the middle of the road once, because a grouse didn't like the looks of my truck. Lol

I have several friends/people I know, that absolutely hate venison. They give everything they harvest to family or donation to hunter feeding the hungry. They love the challenge of chasing deer around. I will say 90% of them target the largest deer they've scouted. As horns mean more than meat. Myself. I love venison. Certain cuts better than others. Steaks, only if I wrap them in bacon and run them through the cubber. Most of the time I brine/cure the 3 major cuts from the hind and make vastrami. The back straps are butterflied and stuffed with different ingredients, or just fired in butter and garlic. The inners and the eye of round get the same butter and garlic treatment. They rest gets ground for burger. My burger is 100% venison. I don't mix beef or pork with it, unless I'm making sausage or other snacks. I like my burger to taste like venison. If I want beef flavor I'll cook a beef burger.

I've come across many a old doe that was just as if not harder to hunt (bow) then most bucks. They've spoiled many a hunt, and proved to be extremely difficult to kill.

In 4u it looking like low 70's, Wednesday upper 70's to 80.

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I've tried bounce dryer sheets in my camper. Mice made nests out of them. For the past few yrs I've used pure peppermint extract. I put it in a garden sprayer add a little water, and spray the underside of the camper. Also spray my mowers, tractor. Works very well.

This is where it becomes a personal preference. Some are only looking to fill the freezer.. period. Some are looking for the best buck in there area... Period. There there's the hunters who are looking for antlers, but will shoot a spike! Are either one better than the other? HELL NO. Everyone is different. Doesn't make them better or worng. Shoot whatever makes you and your freezer ( if that's your goal) happy. Hunt, and shoot whatever your goals are. Disregard others goals. As long as it's leagle, have at it.

I only hunt private lands. If a bird Interrupters everything I through at him, I'm gonna hammer him with cutting and yelps every time he gobbles. If he's that hot, I want to know where he is so I can get the gun pointed in the direction he's coming from because I've had many a tom come from a different angle then the last gobble. The more gobbles, the better I can keep track of his location and adjust my shooting position. As he gets closer, I do tone the volume down. I want him to think I'm not interested and moving away. Then there's the unhuntable tom. So educated, he won't respond to any call once he hits the ground. If he hears any calls on roost, he pitches off in the opposite direction. Those are the toms that become huntable after 9 am, but only with soft calls and being where he travels at that time. I've killed several toms that I never called to at all. Just learned there patterns, and ambushed them as they strutted by.

Bow, antlers... Gun, sure I like antlers, but after the first week, I'm filling tags.

Been so busy lately.. I've been living the smoking life through this thread, lol. I was looking for some bacon in my chest freezer, and took a pork but out and set it aside. Yup.. forgot it. Luckily I went downstairs the next day and found a partaily thawed PB. So it looks like the pellet grill will be going tomorrow to smoke a unscheduled PB.

I should have taken a break from yard work and did a little research myself, but I'm on a roll and didn't want to stop. Thanks for clarifying.

With Paula's thread fresh in my mind, I was doing some yard work, and spotted these on the edge of my lawn and into the woods. They don't smell very much, and in some of the posts on her thead people mentioned they can smell them while driving down to road. I'm thinking there some kind of flower.

I had a 12x16 delivered two yrs ago. It has 4x4 PT runners. I made a box out or 4x4 3' wider and longer than the shed and filled it with 3/4” stone. Don't use crusher run. It holds moisture. The stone allows the rain to flow through it easily.

5:25 was the magic time this past weekend for the first gobble. If your hunting field edges and going to be set up fairly close, I'd be set and ready by 5, if not 4:45.

What, you didn't leave him the onions and buns too. Shame on you. Yrs go we had a St Bernard. Mon put the Thanksgiving turkey on the dining room table, and went back to the kitchen to make the gray. Moose took it upon himself to start without us. We ended up having burgers with all the trimmings. He had never taken anything off the table or counter before. Guess the bird was too tempting.

One of the best techniques is to wait until the hens leave the toms to go nest. That usually happens around 8 am or so. What happens is the tom is suddenly all alone and horny as heck as all his hen have disappeared. He gets lonely and starts gobbling. This is where patience on your part kicks in. You'll want to call as soon as he gobbles, but don't. You need to worry him. Make him think "your" not so interested. Resist calling as he gobbles every now and then. Only soft calls. Often you will catch him sneaking in to find the hen that has teased him for the past 2 hrs. But sometimes you need to take his temperature, so to speak. If he cuts your calls off with a gobble, hammer him. If he answers sparingly, soft not frequent calling is your best bet.

My dad was born and raised in Fair Haven VT. He used to tell me about fiddle head picking in the spring. He mentioned they fried them in butter and garlic, or pickled them. Raved about how good they were. Moved back to upstate NY, and low and behold, our 6 acres of land had a creek and wet area that just happened to have a crop of fiddle head ferns. Dad was excited that spring. His childhood memories flooding his mind... Telling me how delicious these were. We'd check them every other day until dad said there ready. Don't remember the process of cleaning par boiling maybe to make them safe( might be remembering it wrong). They SUCKED. He loved em, but I spit the thing across the room, lol.

Riders are itching to get out. Been a long winter and some might be a little overzealous on the throttle. My wife and I were headed to home Depot yesterday. On two different occasions we seen motorcyclist doing stupid stuff. Two riders were taking off from a stop light and we're drag racing. Little while later spotted a guy doing wheelies. Not saying the accident mentioned was do to the rider doing something stupid, but there's a good chance it might be. I stopped riding because of the cagers on there phone. Had more than one close call because some young twit was in my lane while looking at their cell phone. Stay safe everyone.

Ok. This is Dom's story... The night before the season, me, my brother and uncle roosted a few jakes, Tom's and hens. The next morning we set up about 80 yrs from them. They all flew down to the bottom of the hill where we couldn't see them, but they gobbled alot. About a hr went by, and we heard a bunch of gobbling just over the hill. My uncle told me to call get ready, and a few minutes later, 8 Jake's were only 20 yrd away. I had to wait to shoot because they were too close together. Everytime I'd get ready to shoot, my uncle would stop because he wanted to make sure I didn't shoot 2. The longer I waited the more nervous I got. My uncle kept telling me to calm down and breathe. Finally one Jake stepped away from the others, and I shot. He went down. Buy the time we got to him, he stopped flopping. I had my first turkey. I was very exciting. He weighed 13# and had a 3 3/4” beard.

Rob,. I called 8 Jake's over several hundred yards on Saturday. Now I know Jake's are somewhat easy, but my grandnephew didn't care. Many yrs ago I was hunting with a couple buddies from Maine. This is before they even had a spring turkey season. A good friend of mine was set up 100 yrds away from the tom on roost. I couldn't hear my buddy calling, but I could barely hear the tom going ballistic. Because the tom was on roost and my buddy was probably 200' in elevation below the tom, I couldn't hear him calling to the tom. This tom was probably a 1/2 mi or more from me and Jim. It took about 2 hrs to get that tom within range. My buddy could here me calling, but I couldn't her him because I was much higher in elevation then him. Tony did everything he could to get that tom from heading towards me. Jim, the guy I was calling for, ended up killing that bird. 9 1/4” beard and 1 1/4” Spurs. Both Tony and I had video cameras. You couldn't hear my buddy calling on my video, but on his video, you could plainly, although faint, here me calling. They couldn't believe that tom wouldn't travel 100 yrds to him, but hiked over 1/2 mile to get to me. And my buddy is as good a caller as me if not several notches better than me. Basically, don't give up. Even if they are roosted far from you, they might have heard or seen a Flashlight beam, or been spooked somewhat that has them heading towards you. If they spook them once or twice, or kill one on opening day, it could benefit you. Don't give up. Eventually, it will pay off.

Have a great trip. Hopefully the turkeys will follow the game plan. Oh forgot...... Eh...

What a beautiful morning. Crisp... Ok.. cold, clear morning. Little wind and 4-5 toms gobbling on roost only 80 yrds away. Had to be 8 or more across the street gobbling constantly. Assuming some of those were Jake's. Probably heard over 100 gobbles. Kayden was shaking with excitement. Unfortunately, the toms and hens flew into the field well out of range, and totally ignored the deeks and my calls. Eventually they walked out of sight. We hurried over to the other side of the road, but the birds had worked there way onto posted property and kept on going. Really looking forward to May 1st.

Wow. Did I ever mention the other thread.. no. Also that thread was directed at all the BS that's been going on in this forum. Seems you have nothing better to do then to troll others. Good job..

No. Never mentioned the other thread. The OP is only discussing a topic about what he considers hunting. He didn't bash anyone on there style of way of hunting. Simply stating his opinion. Do I agree with him? No, but I'm surely not going to take my time to quote him on another thread where I disagreed with him there too. Oh well. Going to pick up the grandnephews for day two of youth turkey season. If you're going out this morning, good luck.