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I still can’t believe what happened today. I never in my life thought I’d see an antler like this in this area, let alone get a chance to pick it up with my bare hands. This morning after work I set out to just find an antler, any antler as today was my birthday. By some miracle this antler showed up all by itself and didn’t have a care in the world as I snuck right up to it and picked it up off the ground while it was just laying there. Amazing how they completely lose their minds during shed season. After gaining my composure I picked up the antler, I turned to my wife and yelled woooooooooooooo hoooooooo so loud! I am very thankful I got this once in a lifetime opportunity and made the most of it. A quick score……….BIG! Could be one of the biggest antlers ever found in AZ by an old fart……..assuming it doesn’t shrink too much during the 60 day drying period, it could be close to top ten in my personal collection! Once again thankful for this awesome buck and thanks to my wife for going out hiking with me! I don’t have any more pictures! I sure got thirsty on this hike!

Have to dig a little to get more but here is the Western knife and hatchet plus a Buck skinner.

Am I the only Turkey expert in here? They roost at night, come to turkey calls in the day and are drier than a butterball you buy from the store.

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Was at Roosevelt on Saturday and it's turning on. Caught 6-7 over 3lbs, boated over 20 fish. BIL caught a nice 4.5 smallie. Mostly wacky rig because of brush.

In my experience Turkey's still call in the wind, we just have a difficult time hearing them. Due to that, I don't call once the wind picks up. Your best option is to sit water when it's windy! I usually drive around and check as many water sources as possible. I will usually eventually find a water source that's getting hit regularly. Once I find that water, I sit on it all day during windy days. Turkey's usually water 2 or 3 times a day. Even if they don't water, they like to feed around good water sources. If it's windy, sit water if it's calm, cover a lot of ground calling.

Great topic. Too bad I only have one old knife to share. Western Auto Branded knife I inherited from my father. Have no clue how old it is.

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All good info and also try to roost one the night before so you have an idea where there hanging out, get in there before light and call softly just before they hit the ground it can work.

This is the correct answer. Doing your homework scouting and knowing the pattern of the flock will pay off big time on windy days. Work with the wind in your face and you will be able to hear them better. Only down side is you will have to move in closer so they can hear your calling. It can be a lot of fun waiting for them to walk over a ridge or behind trees so you can cut the distance. A couple years ago on a super windy day I followed a flock from a distance for a mile or so before I was able get close enough for them to hear my calling, they came running when we got close enough for them to hear. We could hear them but they couldn't hear us.

Good to see an old fart out pounding the hills!

Hey, i’ve got an Solingen too. Great knives. No idea how old mine is. Dad gave it to me a long time ago.

Western L66. Not sure how old it is. I bought it 12 years ago at a thrift shop. Revived the stacked leather handle an put a new edge on it. Used it on every hunt and animal since. I like old high carbon steel knives.

My first hunting knife, Solingen Knife, German made.. And yes, we are antiques.

Social media ruined it...People want the picture that they can post to get the like button hit

What I took from it is Jed works for A3 and poached a great bull and I’ve been applying for an AZ elk tag for 18 years and that bull could have been taken by me next year.....legally !!

Came in pretty much right at 7 pounds on my wife's scale. This scale seems to weight rifles accurately but seems to weigh the wife a little light.

Try bonecollector777......wait.....he might be banned from anything having to do with antlers......

Thought I would start a topic about classic knife collections. Here is my puma white hunter i inherited from my father. Its at least 50 years old. What do you guys have?

A couple of Westerns I have and an Camillus.

Clicked on the link Prdrtr posted and just found out my Puma is from the 2nd quarter of 1968.

Western Knifes go back to Boulder Co, 1911. The name Coleman appears on Western knifes or sheath snaps 1984 to 1992. My uncle sent me this Western/ Coleman skinner last year. He says his mother in law bought it new in Tucson in the mid 1980s when he claims Western had a knife plant there.

Kinfolks stag handled Flame Edged Super Hunter-model 568 TC with a carbon tungsten edge on the blade. Kinfolk was in business 1925-1957 then sold out to Robeson Knives

I was putting my old knives together for a thread too. I like that knife, the blade profile and handle, sweet. Looks similar to a knife I made my cousin a couple years ago from an old saw blade and an oak handle.

Nets are for fish.