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Sometimes they work. Sometimes they don't. If the birds where you're hunting have been pressured, it might be best to not pack them with you. I've had birds humping them, some see them and run the other direction. Hard to say what will happen. More open country some birds like to see what they're talking to. Thicker country seems a little bit easier to get them to come in closer to range. Again, some like them, some don't.

No, its had the same meaning since he wrote the book many many years back, . Don't let him fool you , he can hit a button at 100yrds out the passenger window with his red rider BB gun. Ya he's good

Last time I shot out the passenger window my limb hit the cup holder.

All I've ever used was a box call

Get a longer barrel so you can rest it on passenger door while driving.

Practice bro practice

My buckshot is still on the table of you need it

Yep I agree with Coues79. I've had times where they ran right into my decoys and others where the decoy made them stand-offish, or just flat out recognize it's a setup. It really depends on the situation, but don't be afraid to call and just sit tight.

Interesting. I knew animals could get cancer but always thought it had more not do with eating the processed food we give our pets. This is the first time I've heard of this on a wild animal. Is it possible it was an abscess and not cancer? Any agriculture or anything near where you were hunting? Anything unusual to take note of?

Just got to see these in person as they were getting caped. Awesome animals! Congrats!

A big group of my hunting buddies and I drove up to the San Carlos Reservation on Friday morning to chase turkeys for the weekend. We got to our campsite around 2:30pm and got the wall tent and kitchen set up. After consulting OnX, we figured out where each group was going and hit the road for a little evening scouting. It was the first weekend of the first season on the San Carlos, so we couldn’t actually hunt until Saturday morning. My hunting partner and I opted for a spot close to camp, hoping to minimize the drive time the next morning. We drove our road from about 4pm until just before sundown, without locating any birds (about 10 miles out-and-back with no gobbles). We had the windows down, heading back towards camp when I thought I heard a gobble. We stopped the car and listened for 5 minutes… nothing. I was sure I heard a tom! My hunting partner climbed back in the rig, probably thinking I was pulling his chain. He shut the door and BOOM - gobbles. Perfect. We had at least two toms roosted and were even able to see one of them roosted halfway up a ponderosa. We dropped a waypoint on OnX and made our way back to camp. After a good night’s sleep, we were up and at ‘em at 4:15am with coffee and premade breakfast burritos on the wood stove. While we were packing the truck, it started to snow (NOT IN THE FORECAST!). We made the short drive to our spot, parking 600 yards from where we had roosted the birds the night before, and heard the gobblers going off! That made it easier to pick a good spot to set up in the dark. The snow was really starting to come down as we made it into our spot and set up our decoys. I only started hunting turkeys in the past few years, so I was unsure how the weather would affect the birds. But I was convinced our toms would just hangout on the roost all day because I sure as heck wanted to be back in the warm truck! We made a few quiet yelps to let the gobblers know where we were and sat back. They gobbled for the next 30 minutes, without us prompting them. We felt like we were in a good position and made another quiet yelp sequence to keep them intrigued. 15 minutes before sunrise we heard some gobbles 100 yards to the north of where our birds were roosted. It was either another set of toms that we hadn’t known about OR our birds had gotten down out of the roost without us hearing them. It ended up being the latter! The next 5 minutes was chaos, with the gobbles getting closer and closer. Each time they gobbled, I could feel it more and more in my chest. I understand the thunder chicken moniker now! I began seeing movement 75 yards out, which was a feat with the snow coming down in droves. I didn’t know it in the moment, but I think the snow covered up our decoys making it harder for the three incoming toms to know where we were. They missed the “X” and were moving to my left. In doing so, they forced me to rotate my sitting position and turn my shotgun towards the birds who were in the open at 25 yards. Aiming at the middle tom, I squeezed the trigger and CLICK. While trying to be quiet at the truck earlier that morning, I guess I hadn’t let the bolt slam all the way closed on my 3.5” shell and had a misfire. Trying to not the let moment pass me up, I cycled the bolt on my shotgun and got another round in the chamber. With all that noise, the turkeys knew something was up. They were confused and fixin to leave, but not before I got a shot off! What a cool morning! I had my first tom on the ground after an exciting hunt and the pictures in the snow will remind of this weekend forever. Side note: we filled my buddies tag in a similar fashion on Sunday morning, after it had warmed up a bunch. I’m hooked - and we will be back in the turkey woods next spring. CHEERS and thanks for reading! -MM

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I always like to start my shed season running fence lines, over the years I’ve found a few singles this way. Wasn’t expecting to find a side by side set right on the fence but I will take it! Second pic is the buck wearing them.

Weatherby vanguard Vgl .308 with Burris 3x9x40 asking $625

Would also consider trade for chronograph. Still available

I will do better, I will come over and wake you up, make you breakfast, get my cuffs, im selling, make sure you are not radio active, then I will whisper in your year a story of all the nice things I have to sell, we will then go to lunch, you will pay for it, it will a very expensive lunch, then we will talk about over drinks and cigars. I can't keep up with what I am even doing LOL.

Thank you for the kind words. I'm happy with how it turned out.

I don’t think they are bringing it back. But there’s this!! I’ll be there this year.

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I personally have ran a ripcord Max micro rest and a hamskea trinity hunter pro rest. Both are great. The hamskea is definitely more durable but it is more expensive. No complaints with the ripcord at all. I currently run a spot Hogg fast Eddie and have yet to find a reason to change. Very durable and easy to use. Have ran a bee stinger stabilizer but found that cutter stabilizers are far better for me. Currently using a tight spot quiver. All though pricey I did find it to be worth every penny as you can really move it around and angle it if need be. Just my two cents.

I like the idea of putting NR's on an archery draw. Several big hunting websites like GoHunt have been pushing OTC opportunities in Arizona for quite a while and it's showing. I see as many out of state plates in the desert as I do Arizona plates. We do guide a lot of NR's on the OTC hunts but the demand is so high, switching to a draw wouldn't hurt us at all and what's most important is what's best for the animals.

I was not prepared for the politics that were involved. Also the resistance from some of the other wildlife organizations. I decided I had better things to do than try to communicate with people that didn't want to communicate.

Unit 27 this last August was worse than January IMO and most of that was residents. I was elk scouting otherwise I would have left for a different unit to archery deer hunt. im excited to see what happens in unit 1 with deer population and trophy quality in the next 3 to 4 years. Unit 1 has a little head start and we could see the benefits of draw only in that unit real soon.

Where was there a threat of lawsuit? This letter simply asks the governor to recind the approval for rule making under the guise of "public safety". Rightfully so because the department totally changed their tune. On a personal level I don't care one way or the other. It won't affect me at all. What I do personally oppose is arbitrary, unenforceable rules... which this is the way its worded.

took what was finally a win for the animals and environment and bogged it down in legal eze. What a complete shame and compete waste of resource. You mean people were actually going to have to scout and hunt for themselves.. what a travesty, yes lawsuits must incur immediately! Fkg joke.