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Finally got my front yard mowed. First mow of the season, only took 7 hours lol. Had some supervisors as well. Only 45 more hours of mowing to get caught up and have everything mowed. Sent from my SM-G930VL using Tapatalk

6-7000 square bales here in ny. And usually 800 to 1200 bales in pa. Usually its just me and glen here and just me in pa so if I do 300 bales I handle each at least 3 times by the time it's in the barn so on a 300 bale day I've handled 900 plus bales depending on where in the barn I'm stacking it. I did 367 on wed. And he tried killing me yesterday when we did 783, well 784 if you count the bale that was left in the shower when I was done at 1030 last night. Lol. Man this getting old craps for the birds, I'm a little sore today. Sent from my SM-G930VL using Tapatalk

Val find yourself a good international 504 utility. Low profile, good weight distribution, good power, torque, 3 point hitch and straight line draw bar, can be converted from thru the hood stack to down flow under tractor exhaust, live pto. I have one at my farm in pa and I use one here in NY on my buddies farm. They are work horses and a comfortable open station tractor. No matter what you get use extreme caution if skidding logs, use the 3 point system to get the nose of the log off the ground. A geared tractor will flip faster than you can imagine. I have had the misfortune of digging out 3 fatals from tractor flips..2 were dragging logs that the nose caught a stump and the last one was a woman that was trying to pull a stump. If you stumble across a 504 utility I have a spare loader. Sent from my SM-G930VL using Tapatalk

lol his invention led to his hand covered in marshmallow, chocolate an d pringles dust.

Got to camp 8pm Thursday night. Mowed hay till 11pn. Spent 36 hours on tractors between then and 9 last night. Gavin wanted a campfire to make pringle smores. ( his new invention he said) they didn't work out too well. Lol. Sent from my SM-G930VL using Tapatalk

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5 days in April including youth hunt in pa and rushed back to NY to take a kid out on the Sunday youth hunt. Back to pa for the opener on the last sat of April and then the 29th and 30th. Then back to ny to work till 10 PM then down to camp in Dundee for the opener. Once may hit it was 31 straight days. So I reckon 35 days hunting, called in and watched 11 gobblers taken including 4 of my own. Was a tough season but scouting and persistence paid off. Scouting started in March sporadically but come April 1st it was every day at daylight somewhere till the seasons started. Only 10 months till start time again. Sent from my SM-G930VL using Tapatalk

Was out scouting at daylight and birds were talking. Came back to camp and setting on the porch for the last half hour and have heard 5 different gobblers. Going to get tough to hear them now as the cicadas are really getting cranked up. Sent from my SM-G930VL using Tapatalk

Well just got back to the truck.only took 7hrs 30 minutes round trip. Lol. So now back to camp clean the bird and work on hay equipment so it's ready for hay season. Been a long 2 months. Didn't miss a daybreak in the woods since 4/1 got 2 gobblers in ny and 2 in pa. Got flooded out for Nebraska and just had too much work going to hit Ohio and Maine as planned. Hate the end of the season but I do need to catch up on work. At least i won't be racking up Miles on the truck, just over 4400 Miles since April 1st. Sent from my SM-G930VL using Tapatalk

Wow that didn't take long. She mustaches woke up on the wrong side of the limb today.. she screamed the whole 300 yards with everything from kee kee runs to had cutting he wouldn't even stop running to gobble. The hen went by me at 4 feet and had to yell to get him to stop. Lol. As soon as he stopped he went into strut and showed a full fan and as soon. As he broke strut it was lights out. Sent from my SM-G930VL using Tapatalk

Last day in pa been a tough week but have some blood to show for it. Fog is lifting and a bird just gobbled at the other end of a huge field and his hen is going ballistic after hearing some bomber talk. Got 13 hrs to make it happen. Let's play buddy. The hen is coming gotta see what happens here he is rapid fire gobbling now Sent from my SM-G930VL using Tapatalk

I put the feeders out 2 weeks ago when one of the ruby throated hummingbirds greeted me when I got out of the truck one afternoon. since then 3 more pairs have shown up so I put up the other 2 feeders as one of the males sets in the pine tree and dive bombs and chases away all other hummingbirds but his mate when they try to get to the feeder on the front porch. seems to be an abundance of birds this year and quite the variety have been daily visitors. 7 or 8 pairs of Baltimore Orioles, 2 pairs of orchard orioles, 2 pairs of indigo buntings, 9 pairs of cardinals, grosebeaks, goldfinches, bluejays, 20-30 doves, nuthatches, flickers, downy, redheaded, pileated woodpeckers, and as of yesterday a pair of mallards, but have not seen the pair of wood ducks yet. the oriole jelly feeder gets emptied in 3 days, I guess they like welches grape jelly. lol I started using the nut and berry bird seed mix in the gravity feeders and those need filled at least every other day, the black oil sunflower feeder lasts about 3 days and the nyger seed feeder about 4 days. an 80 lb bag of cracked corn and 2 80 lb bags of whole kernel corn a week gives good ground feed for the jays, starlings, grackles, red wing black birds, doves, sparrows, crows. the corn also helps immensely of keeping the 20 + grey squirrels off the feeders.

Pics of them with their birds. Sent from my LGL58VL using Tapatalk

the following hunts took place is Pennsylvania on 4/20/19 during the youth turkey hunt including the mentor youth program which allows kids under the age of 12 to participate also under the guidance of an adult mentor. worked a ton of hours to be able to take a few days off to take the grand kids down to camp for the weekend. Gavin and I arrived wed. evening after finishing up with my electrical inspection on a new cottage build I have going on. We got camp opened up, truck unloaded and were off to put birds up for the night. Thursday morning we were back out to listen as best we could with the wind, and then it was off to run and scout as many properties as possible. we were able to find a handful of gobblers through out the morning and had to run to town for early dinner to meet the rest of the gang that was on their way to camp. we were back in time to put up birds on some properties to free up others to be hit Friday morning off the roost. Friday morning was a perfect morning clear, sunny, and fast rising temps and not only greeted with numerous gobblers but even laid the spotting scope on a few of the target birds to confirm locations. Friday evening we hit all but 5 of the properties and I left Scott to put the flock of birds on my place to roost. while Gavin and I headed off to find his bird. We had birds put up to roost and had all the gear ready and kids to bed just after dark. Addison and Scott ( her dad) were off to my hay field where I told them to set up, Gavin and I were off to a different property. we were in and set up well before gobbling started and we had birds all around us except the target bird had flown way down into the stripmine during the night when a massive thunderstorm moved through. we got the text picture of Addison with her 3yo longbeard about 7:15. we had been having lots of response to sporadic calls but birds were being stubborn so we decided to go be aggressive and see what we could do. we walked south about 100 yards stopping a few times to call and got responses each time and finally the bird we had wanted to set up on opened up back to the northeast and we started back and just before cresting the ridge I gave a call to confirm his location as he was closing fast it seemed. we had our hats about blown off with 2 gobbles directly behind us. we sat down quick and as fast as possible got Gavin in position just as 2 white heads came running down the edge of the field right to 20 yards and stopped and stood there and blasted a gobble right at us. I guess the excitement was too much as Gavin completely wiffed the shot. His first miss in 6 years and at 12 years old won't be his last. so back to camp to shed some gear as it was warming up considerably. off to the races again, I drove up to my field and there were gobblers there but decided to leave them and go hit a piece of public land I have killed a pile of birds on. We were greeted with finding 2 longbeards all alone about 800 yards out with my spotting scope and I knew exactly how to enter the block of woods south of them and have had good success accessing from that direction. We parked the truck and as we were trying to hustle to get geared up they gobbled twice, it was 10 am. We had a main deer highway to sneak along with huge boulders between us and the field. We could only go 125 yards without being picked off in the sparse woods cover, I got Gavin set up against a huge rock and belly crawled 20 yards and stuck myrtle on a little dirt mound on the edge of the logging road. Crawled back to Gavin and they gobbled again. got him in position and my first double cluck into a 3 note yelp on the bomber was blasted with a quad gobble. I told Gavin to watch out front I made another call and received no response, I told Gavin they are coming get ready they can pop out from behind one of these rocks in a hurry. All of a sudden 2 white heads appear from behind a big moss covered rock at 25 yards. I could see the birds and could of killed either of them but Gavin setting just to my left couldn't see them.......they moved to our right and he can see them but they wouldn't stop walking and strutting, every time I would cluck they would stop and he couldn't see them, finally they get to a spot in the open at 20 yards and he is on them and as the barrel is doing figure 8's he fires and missed they gobble and as he racks another shell they gobble again and I am clucking and purring and as they stood there I said calm down put the crosshairs on that bird on the lefts head and shoot him. at the shot the bird dropped in its tracks another solid 3 yo gobbler. Gavin was on his feet in a split second and said he is laying right there I can see him. LOL time of kill 10:11 did some pics, filled out his tag and headed back to camp for pics, bird cleaning and packing up to head back to NY so I could get back to work to get caught up so I can head back for regular opener this weekend. pics to follow

in the traditional deer hunting heritage towns and villages of the northern tier of the state of Pa. this will with out a doubt have a heavy financial impact on a good number of them with the loss of several days of income the friday and saturday prior to the monday opener. this change was not widely accepted by hunters nor was it accepted by all of the commissioners as the carrying votes were from region 7 and 8 covering the eastern end of the state. no matter what day of the week ANY season starts some will not be able to get off work or get out of school. it will be interesting to see if the monday after thanksgiving gets taken off the pa state holiday list. many stores held deer hunter widow sales on the first day of deer season. the heritage of deer hunting in the state of PA runs deep, BUT as all are aware hunter numbers are decreasing and new recruitment has slowed considerably since the early 2000's. As much as some of us try to recruit kids the bottom line is no matter what the season is, when it is, how long it is a vast majority of kids do not have the desire to take up the sport either because of peer pressure or a busy life, or just simply no patience to set and wait for a deer or turkey to walk by. traditions and history being wiped away almost on a daily basis with a stroke of a pen simply to satisfy the whats in it for me crowd. many people today only care about themselves and want everything to benefit themselves no matter how many other people it negatively affects. The days of orange leaning against every other tree the first day of gun season in PA are GONE and will never return, people have changed the way they hunt, since the inclusion of crossbow archery tag sales have increased, antlered harvests have gone up, early antlerless season for kids and seniors allow the early kill and some people are 1 and done for a deer because they cant eat more than 1 a year. the biggest majority of folks set in a stand, blind, shooting hut and don't move because they don;t want to push deer off their property. a lot of land is now posted and deer in some areas don't even know its deer season. folks don't see deer, don't hear shots close, and crappy weather just adds salt to their wounds and some just give up. the "doing it to help in recruitment" statement is nothing more than a feel good statement to play to peoples emotions. You want recruitment step up to the plate and do something to recruit a youngster, don't wait for the state to do something in hopes it will work.

I use 1 hen decoy for the youth hunts just to give the gobbler something to focus on while trying to get the youngster into shooting position and to double check their aim before they shoot. when I am hunting alone I haven't used a decoy in well over 25 years and have not had a problem killing longbeards every year no matter where I hunted. I will say that you will never see me setting anywhere close to a gobbler, jake, or fan decoy in the spring EVER. if folks wanna do that its their choice and i wish them luck and safety.

sunny or egg in the baskets.

happy birthday Dan, have a great day.

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sorry, too many Rob's on here to keep up with. LOL oh well if your out this way in early march on a fri-mon trip and its warm and breezy from the west bring your shooter and lots of shells.

Rob, If your timing is right meaning the right wind and temps, being right on the shoreline of lake ontario can be a world class crow shoot. early march hard south west or west wind rising temps you can burn through a ton of shells. generally you want to be within a few hundred yards of the lake. this morning was a different story as the crows were 4-500 yards inland but they were coming through by the thousands. as far as setting up in the woods goes, yes it can be done but generally its field edges/fencerows that folks set up on.

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thanks for all the birthday wishes. worked on blueprints and material lists yesterday so I didn't perch fish yesterday,,,,did the day before and last sunday. drill a 4 inch hole on 3000 acres of water and fill a bucket with iced gold. lol . fishing has been good. turkeys are back to visiting me every couple days, bucks are still carrying antlers. Judy is healing and is up and around, post op follow up next week to remove staples and go over pathology report. hoping its all good. again thanks all for the birthday wishes.

So who is going to pay for all these tests and for what??? No matter if it's proven that it's a legit harvest there will still be the storms out there saying it's crooked. A typing example of why many record qualifying animals never get entered every year. I know first hand and after having 1 record entry I would never do another one no matter what the score was. Sent from my LGL58VL using Tapatalk

Nothing in stone yet. It's showing promise that the move from Monday to Saturday will likely happen. I am sure the small towns in the traditional deer rich mountains will suffer imensly from this change. I guess now if this happens the Monday after Thanksgiving will no longer be a state holiday. Sunday hunting is on the table but is certainly not a given yet. The farm bureau is staunchly against the Sunday hunting as are a lot of land owners. The hunter numbers and mentality in PA is so much different than anywhere else. NY is a cake walk compared to PA. The last I heard was that the farm bureau was maybe willing to compromise IF some changes were made to the trespassing laws...something that has been needed for a long time. Semi rifle for big game is not looking good for making it through again this year. Surprisingly the biggest opponent to this is hunters themselves.