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Anyone have any advice for hunting fall turkey? I have hunted spring once, but never fall. I know they won't be gobbling to help locate, what tactics do you use to locate them normally?

Congratulations! That is awesome.

We had the hen breasts for dinner tonight. It was amazing. Tons of garlic, tons of butter, etc. Legitimately one of the best meals my wife has ever cooked and she is a pretty decent cook. We are going to do this again, but next time over pasta.

We caught up to a group of hens yesterday afternoon, and my older son got a decent Tom yesterday evening. First turkey for both of us. His Tom death flopped into a tank we shot it on and got wet. We cleaned up the fan when we got home and I think it will turn out well. My son's are posed with my hen by the rocks, and my younger son is with it on the tailgate.

I tried to upload pics this morning, but I didn't have enough service. We cleaned the fan up when we got home a little bit ago.

My 11yr old son harvested a nice tom turkey yesterday. This was his first turkey and first big game harvest. When he dumped it, it death flopped into the water tank we were sitting and got muddy. It wasn't pretty for pictures, but it was a nice bird. He was super excited and so was his little brother, and of course I was probably more excited then both of them for him!

Once it calms down it will be even better, but scheels is awesome. I have been waiting for them to build one for 20yrs.

I went this morning around 10am and picked up a brick of Fed 210. They had some Remington 9.5s too along with SRP and pistol primers.

I love my bugout from Benchmade, I carry it every day. I wouldn't pay $600 for a knife though.

I didn't read thru all the comments, but, I have had a traeger for about 4 yrs now I think and love it. That said I would like a sear station and if/when I buy a new pellet grill it will likely be a Yoder since they are made in the USA. When it comes to pellets, DO NOT buy traeger pellets. They are not what they say, they are hardwood pellets flavored like apple and such. They were sued over it. Make sure you buy real hardwood pellets of the wood you want. I like some of Green Mountains pellets as well as the brand BBQ Island sells near me.

What size is the vest, and does it have a bird pocket in the back?

They seem to be pretty similar. I have always had a fascination with the mauser metric calibers that seem to be so ahead of their time that people are still basically reinventing them with new names. One of my main hunting rifles is a 6.5x55 which is basically 6.5 creedmoor that everyone loves/loves to hate, except it was invented 120 years ago.

If you use the 243 use Nosler Partitions and keep the range below 250yrds.

It is similar. It shows slightly faster on the chart, but very close. I am going to try some RL23 in a 300 win mag that I have tried 7828 in. The 7828 shot great at slower speeds, but didn't stay accurate as I wanted when I started pushing it. Every gun is different though. 7828 also shoots lights out with my 300 weatherby at moderate pressures.

Rl23 is a good powder too. Hard to find and works in lots of things.

We will be in 23 in a few weeks. Hopefully we can catch up with a flock.

I used both of those brands when I was making my own 257 weatherby brass out of 7mm Rem Mag and 264 Win Mag brass. 4-6 firings was typically all I got before a neck cracked or the primer got too loose. I seat my primers with my RCBS press and I will just keep running the brass until it takes almost no pressure from the press arm to seat the primer. When the primer is super easy to set, I mark that case, and after I fire that loading I trash the case. Assuming the primer has at least enough grip to hold itself in.

Howa barrels are really hard to get off normally from what I hear. When Axisworks did mine they told me before hand that they would likely have to relief cut it to get it off, and they did.

2nd firing is kind of quick for loose primer pockets unless you have a crazy high pressure load. What brand brass? Some are softer than others.

How many firings and what brass? On mag cases I get about 4-6 firings before the primer pockets are pretty loose. Part of it depends on how hard you are pushing the cases with load pressures.

The 338 it was on was light, and even with a brake was kinda punchy.

Has anyone used them? Do you have feedback? Seem to be feature rich for a very reasonable price.

I can probably meet you next week for the mags if that works. I work not dar from Tempe so I can probably figure out a time to meet you. I don't n have anything AICS, so it would be just cash.

Where are you located? I am interested in the 6 ARC mags.

My father in-law just died from prostate cancer. He had a rare form that PSA tests don't catch, and he had stage 4 prostate cancer that moved into his pelvis and hip bones before they caught it. He even had a bladder surgery a couple years ago and they didn't see anything wrong when they had him open. He lived about 1.5yr post diagnosis, but they couldn't really do anything to treat it.