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Turkeys always look so noble in the winter when 500 of them are yarded up in the feed lots scratching through the cow-plops looking for undigested corn kernels.
I can walk on water.......................but I do stagger a bit on alcohol.
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Ftcky has been cut to 2 weeks down from 6 weeks due to a major training exercise.
Limit is 2 birds on post.
Probably not gonna be alot of hunters buying their permit because of that.
Which is fine by me.
Also be alot more older birds next yr from this also.
TN last till mid may.
Focus next 3 days on post.
Closed to hunting tuesdays and wensdays.
Basically a 11 day season this year.
They couldnt even make a acception to policy and open it tue and wens for those extra 4 days after cutting the season by 4 weeks.
Ever since Isportsman became the norm 5 yrs ago DOD wide.
The faceless little entities running it just go with the flow and get paid.
No more bio data gathered on deer or turkey kills in person at tagging shack.
Electronic check in of kills.
0 hunting and fishing unit staff employed anymore doing surveys or field work.
It has been magnified by the convenient. Gov worker C19 excuse to do the least for the most $ also....
There's not a whole lot done to improve turkey numbers in the state anymore.
Why do I have to press 1, for English?
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Keep em or throw them in the ditch Ren? If I recall correctly, Slum was the only one that claimed he ditched them. Rene would at least feed them to his dog. I quit shooting them years ago, because the ones here in N TX taste nasty as hell. When you’d clean them, they’d be chock full of grasshoppers. Gave the breast to the dogs Cookie, Blackjack, and Rico loved raw turkey breast. Those 3 dogs are gone. My dogs solely loyal to me. Baylor and Brady are the ones now. Wife and Daughters dogs. Not loyal to me as soon as one of the women get home. It's like screw you dude I want upstairs with the ladies. So I gotta give em it on the sly. They treat them 2 like dietary controlled lab rats. If they only knew all the snacks they get from me each day when they are at work. 😄😄😄 Neither have ever had raw wild turkey before. Be interesting to see how they react. 👍👍👍 LOL. Do they like those peanut butter filled pretzels? 😬 I killed a huge gobbler on a friend’s Ranch in Coleman, TX about 10 or 12 years ago. Wasn’t gonna shoot him, but I was culling does for the The Ranch and this Gobbler chased off all the does at the feeder. So I whacked him with a 7x57. Took him back to the Ranch House, and my best friend said that’s a huge bird, you ought to get him mounted. So I hung him up on the gate to the Ranch House, and went in to make me a sandwich. Came back out in about an hour and my friends big ole male chocolate Lab had jumped high enough to get the turkey off the fence and was chowing down on it in the middle of the yard. Turkey guts and feathers EVERYWHERE. My Buddy was really pissed off at his dog. I just laughed and told him him not to worry about it. His ole Lab has just saved me a big ole Taxidermy Bill. 🤠
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston
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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.
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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. I dunno. I kinda think, based on experiences in the VA mountains years ago, that taking a big gobbler in the Fall, when his wanker’s not running the show, might be one of the unsung challenges in hunting, if sniping from long range is excluded. Flocked up hens and poults seem like pretty easy meat OTOH. Nothing wrong with that BTW.
What fresh Hell is this?
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Keep em or throw them in the ditch Ren? If I recall correctly, Slum was the only one that claimed he ditched them. Rene would at least feed them to his dog. I quit shooting them years ago, because the ones here in N TX taste nasty as hell. When you’d clean them, they’d be chock full of grasshoppers. Gave the breast to the dogs Cookie, Blackjack, and Rico loved raw turkey breast. Those 3 dogs are gone. My dogs solely loyal to me. Baylor and Brady are the ones now. Wife and Daughters dogs. Not loyal to me as soon as one of the women get home. It's like screw you dude I want upstairs with the ladies. So I gotta give em it on the sly. They treat them 2 like dietary controlled lab rats. If they only knew all the snacks they get from me each day when they are at work. 😄😄😄 Neither have ever had raw wild turkey before. Be interesting to see how they react.👍👍👍 I have a sneaky suspicion they will watch for shotguns coming out of the safe in the future.
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)
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I have never had an issue using regular #6 pheasant loads out to 50 or so yards, with just a full or even sometimes a mod choke. No fancy "turkey" equipment needed.
Good luck, in any event.
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Don't forget that our season in Weirgate doesn't open 'til the 22nd.
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Dave
�The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.� Lou Holtz
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It's a season, not a day though.
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Can we at least get an update?
We want pics, or a story about the creepy section you used to hunt, anything besides commies vs NWO globohomo crap
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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.
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Pellet counts back at the house. These targets are some very bad news for a big bird! Still have 10 days to wait here before season opens. We need to see the results on a big Tom.
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I shot a 12 ga. 3.5 ONCE
Gotta love any one who benches one
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I shot a 12 ga. 3.5 ONCE
Gotta love any one who benches one So, you're saying I should take video when I try out the 3.5" loads in my Supernova????
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3" 20 gauge 1 1/8 oz load of#5s works well for me.
Its all right to be white!!
Stupidity left unattended will run rampant
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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.
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I shot a 12 ga. 3.5 ONCE
Gotta love any one who benches one So, you're saying I should take video when I try out the 3.5" loads in my Supernova???? Video it with one of them head cameras so we can see the full effect. And have the volume turned up so we can hear yore brain rattle.
“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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