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This stratedgy worked well for me a couple of weeks ago. The toms were staying with the hens so I did my best to duplicate the hens calls back to them to pike their curiosity and bring them to me. Once I had them interested and replying I would stop for a bit which seemed to urk them and they couldn't help but to come closer.

If you are seeing sign I would stay in that area especially around sunset and listen for gobbles then see if you can find where they are roosting for the night. They really like to be at least 25 feet up or even higher to escape predators. Then go back about 45 minutes before sunrise and wait for them to fly down. If there is water around they will water in the first and last hours of light so you can also sit water.

Is the eye relief comparable to the Leica?

Thanks everyone for the encouraging words. He made it through the night and we are scheduled for his surgery tomorrow around noon.

Theyover him from ICU to another floor and the PT woman got him behind a walker and marched him around the ward for exercise. His heart rate jumped to 212 and now he is rushed back to ICU and they just shocked him again. 6th time in 7 days. Not looking good

Cleared it out.

I'll check to see if my in box is full

Flash back to early January and I get a text from a friend asking me if I was interested in a trip to Sonora to hunt Goulds. Well since I didn't get an Arizona tag it was a no brainer. So off we went last friday and met in a small town just this side of the border after work and got settled in. Morning came and we made our way across the border and met our host for the next few days. From there we traveled to his hometown to meet his family and pick up supplies before heading out for the drive to their cattle ranch. Weather was cool and sunny as we arrived at the ranch in just under an hour. We unloaded our stuff and took a quick tour of the ranch house before piling into my friends truck for a drive around the rather large ranch which was a mix of mesquite and grass covered hills to riverbottoms with juniper, oaks and beech trees at an elevation of 4200 to about 5000' after we had walked to a location about a mile from the ranch house to look at the first spot. On the way back to the ranch we heard a gobble not far from the road but with our shotguns back at the ranch we returned to the ranch for a cold beverage while the brother of the host served up dinner. We sat around on the patio after dinner and watch the moonrise before settling in for some shuteye. We rose an hour or so before sunrise and headed out in search of gobblers but they were quiet. Driving we went past where we had heard the lone gobbler the evening before we saw him and his hens making their way through the bush. We went just past them and parked the truck jumping out like a Chinese Fire Drill and headed in their direction. They found us just as we found them and we froze and setup. The Tom was oblivious to us and gobbles and strutted as we called but the hens had busted us and were headed for the hills with the lovestruck Tom in tow. I grabbed my shotgun and headed up the hill behind us paralleling the flock and after about 30 yards I saw the hens making their way up the hill in front of me. I duckwalked in their direction as one by one they went up of the hill. The Tom materialized from some mesquite bushed and slowly made his way in the direction of the hens as he pecked the ground looking for something to feed on. He put his head down and I hurried to a lone bush about 10 yards in front of me and waited for him to present me with a shot. As I lifted the shotgun he picked up his head to look around and I put my front sight just below his head and pulled the trigger. It was a good hit at a little over 30 yards maybe a bit more and he started flopping around as I ran to get him. High fives all around as my hunt was over less than 24 hours after I had arrived. His beard needs to be measured but it a typical beard about 8-10" long. We put the bird in the bed of the pickup and went off in search for a bird to fill my friends tag. He will chime in soon with his own story. I am now on my way to my Turkey Slam.

Don't unless you have a carbon monoxide alarm.

You mean inch pounds?

Factory barrel?

I was in northern Mexico over the weekend and they were gobbleing on the roost in the morning and for about a good hour after sunrise and in the evening.

http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/hairy-man-killed-by-hunters-believing-he-was-a-sasquatch/

Is that an old Penn Jigmaster?

There is a pair that nest not too far from Bass Pro and I frequently see them flying near Tempe Town Lake. The easiest ones to see though are the pair that are at Woods Canyon Lake. They are always there flying around and stealing fish from the Ospreys.

Amen Bob.

I don't let my buddies shoot my Marlin. What year production is that? Looks like a newer model.

Awesome. http://www.eagleyehg.com/catalog/product/view/1/2.html

Maybe something like this? https://www.instagram.com/p/BEX10gOJIAcgMrMbZpMIHk9HfPeBNr2wbCbhag0/

It last on a Goulds?

Pretty remarkable, I wonder how many of us would make it without losing our cool. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/04/13/the-wondrous-survival-of-a-72-year-old-woman-and-her-dog-lost-9-days-in-the-western-wilderness/

Well there you go. Some very good information.

I have found that they like to roost within 100 yards of a water source. If you stumble across them while out in the woods then try coming back to the general area this time of year when they are gobbling and get up high (if possible) an hour before the sun comes up and listen for them gobble while they are on the roost. You should be able to hear them from 300-400 yards away on a cool clear morning provided there isn't much wind.

I have the 10x14 and think it is way too small for one of those.

Rough crowd over there.