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I've long pondered why a big bird that will stand and look at you from 10 yards in the Fall will flush like a quail when it spots you a mile away in the Spring. Back in Alabama I was told for true by a man that knew his business that there was one day of the year when more turkeys were shot than any other. That was opening day of squirrel season.
“When Tyranny becomes Law, Rebellion becomes Duty”
Colossians 3:17 (New King James Version)
"And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him."
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Pellet counts back at the house. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/MGpZDch7/20220401-135557.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/Gtw1Z9SS/20220401-135515.jpg) These targets are some very bad news for a big bird! Still have 10 days to wait here before season opens. Season is open here. I've just found a few more places to try out from some folks been in the area for years/grew up here. Now I just have to be able to get a full day away from this place. And Dr and Dentist appointments and such.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
member of the cabal of dysfunctional squirrels?
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Ren got a lot going last couple days. Scheduling for his knee surgery, pre op stuff.
In addition to his wife’s pre op stuff. She has surgery tomorrow.
Wait, he planned stuff during a hunting season?????
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Ren got a lot going last couple days. Scheduling for his knee surgery, pre op stuff.
In addition to his wife’s pre op stuff. She has surgery tomorrow.
Wait, he planned stuff during a hunting season????? 😄😄😄😄 Gotta do what I gotta do brother. Going out in the morning. Come back down here visit the wife late morning early afternoon.
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Hah that is a fine tight pattern. I'm still using and old Mossberg 500 with a Primos Turkey tube. 2 3/4 inch 1 1/4 oz of 6's or 7.5's and I am good. I can't hardly get a shot over 30 yards where I hunt though. Thinking I should paint the old beater camo.The Copperheads are thick this year already.
Dog I rescued in January ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/yYDjsxrQ/IMG-0124.jpg)
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Ren got a lot going last couple days. Scheduling for his knee surgery, pre op stuff.
In addition to his wife’s pre op stuff. She has surgery tomorrow.
Wait, he planned stuff during a hunting season????? 😄😄😄😄 Gotta do what I gotta do brother. Going out in the morning. Come back down here visit the wife late morning early afternoon. You know I was teasing. Family before fins, feathers and fur.
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I shot a 12 ga. 3.5 ONCE
Gotta love any one who benches one 835 with a Pentax turkey scope... On the bench is brutal. I know the hard way
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Just to clarify, I meant most family. I mean, seeing my sister or going hunting is rhetorical for me, and the answer ain't sis.
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I shot a 12 ga. 3.5 ONCE
Gotta love any one who benches one 835 with a Pentax turkey scope... On the bench is brutal. I know the hard way I have found, over the years, that the only way to shoot heavy-recoil items is standing on your hind legs. If you have to get a level of precision offhand does not provide, find something to rest over that's high enough to stand up pretty straight and roll with the punch. I can't imagine needing that level of precision to put a load of birdshot where it should go at turkey-shooting distances.
Mathew 22: 37-39
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I started to go this morning before work... nope!, I ain’t chasing them in the snow!! 
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I calculated free recoil for a 10 gauge pump shooting a 2 1/4 oz load (weigh the whole unfired case then an empty to get the entire amount of projectile) and it came up to be in the elephant gun range. Don’t recall the exact number. But that shotgun weighed 9 1/4 lb empty. Seems like the 835 Mossberg weighs around 7 1/2. No thank you.
“When Tyranny becomes Law, Rebellion becomes Duty”
Colossians 3:17 (New King James Version)
"And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him."
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I still have a 10 gauge H&R single shot I used for ducks as a teen. Shot a freezer full of squirrels with it
Hate shooting that beast now
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Good luck on the knees. My stepdad had both his done in the last 6 months. Damn near bought a 835 ulti-mag last week. Didn’t but I thought about it.  I’d have to eat a lot of crow on that one. I don’t like crow.
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