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#81

10 Gauge Turkey Guns / Re: Currently available non-TS...

Last post by the Ward - Today at 09:39:32 AM

I saw rogers had magnum blends on sale.

Thanks for the heads up. Just checked them out, that's a good price for sure. I have plenty of 10g turkey ammo, but these have me tempted. I love mag blends in my 12 gauges, they always pattern well for me. These should shoot very well in the 10 gauge.

#82

General Forum / Re: NWTF Convention Calls / Wi...

Last post by Greg Massey - Today at 09:27:00 AM

congratulations to the winners. How are the winner chosen? Is it sound? Some of the class sound like it's more craftmanship, thanks 

Yes sound / tone  and craftsmanship / artistry / decorative

Decorative division and hunt division etc ...

#83

General Forum / Re: Looking for vacation info....

Last post by NOmad - Today at 09:25:59 AM

Spend a couple days in one of the cabins at White River Trout Club in Flippin, Arkansas. If you like to fly fish, it is a great place for it. If you don't like to fly fish, you are right in the center of a couple cool small Ozark towns with a strong outdoors culture and good eats. The cabins sit directly on the White River and have plenty of privacy.

Check out Bear Creek Winery in Walnut Shade, MO outside of Branson. I got married there, great little cabins with a winery on site and fantastic pizzas. There is an outdoor deck that sits on a big, wooded bluff with a magnificent view of the Ozarks rolling out for miles.

Swing north into Kentucky and check out Mammoth Caves National Park.

Another vote for the Bourbon Trail as well.

#84

General Forum / Re: NWTF Convention Calls / Wi...

Last post by Franklin7x57 - Today at 09:14:42 AM

congratulations to the winners. How are the winner chosen? Is it sound? Some of the class sound like it's more craftmanship, thanks 

#85

General Forum / Re: NWTF Convention Calls / Wi...

Last post by Greg Massey - Today at 09:10:34 AM

Thanks for posting Greg I was shocked to see I won amateur Trumpet this year congrats to all the winners!


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Congratulations to you and all the winners

#86

General Forum / Re: ENSO-Nada-- The Turkey D...

Last post by Dtrkyman - Today at 08:49:37 AM

You can kill turkeys in any weather but "pretty" weather puts them and us in a much better mood!

If you think you can kill as many turkeys in crappy weather as pretty weather, well, good luck!


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#87

General Forum / Re: Looking for vacation info....

Last post by 10th Legionaire - Today at 08:41:38 AM

I've been to the Arch in St Louis many times. Gone up in it? There ain't enough tea in China

There's always a chance at a Cardinals game if you're there.

There's the bourbon trail in Kentucky.

In Indiana we have The Dunes National Lakeshore up north. There's French Lick/West Baden down south. The Springs hotel is really cool. It was built in the 1800's and was the largest free span dome in the world until the Astrodome was built.

#88

Turkey Call Classifieds / Re: Gas money time guys ....

Last post by richard black - Today at 08:32:13 AM

I bought my two. Thanks Shannon.

#89

General Forum / Re: Gooserbat NoShow Giveaway

Last post by Cityslicker - Today at 08:25:18 AM

Dad's and One and Done

Not going this year

#90

General Forum / Re: ENSO-Nada-- The Turkey D...

Last post by shaman - Today at 08:21:37 AM

I've been wracking my brain on this.  So far, here's what I've come up with.

2020 was COVID. The governor decided to suspend non-resident tag sales. The season never happened for us.

There was one year where I had two gobblers surprise me from behind within an hour of each other on The Opener.  I didn't get a shot at either.  After that, I didn't see a gobbler for the rest of the season.

There were a couple of years in there where the neighbors were poaching heavily.  We didn't see any deer or turkey.  They were eventually evicted and the game came back.

The rest?  I will admit that I'll stay in if it's pouring rain.  However, I'll be out as soon as it shows clearing.  Some of the better hunts I've had have gone down that way.  Cold causes adjustments, but it generally doesn't cause me to stay home. 

I never remember a season where weather blew up the whole season.  However, I do remember seasons where turkeys never quite made it up on our ridge.  If you heard them at flydown, they were waaaay off. 

What this ENSO-NADA thing has pointed out to me is a deficiency in my record keeping.  I've got two means of recording my hunts.  The first is my weblog.  I make a post in that about every 6 days year round.  However, it's about stuff that I think folks would want to read.  It's not a diary.  The second is the camp's log.  I've got a record of every gobbler that's been taken at our camp going back to its founding.  However, it does not have info about the hunts where nothing happened and no near misses.  Up until 2022, my memory seemed good enough, but then I had chemo and . . .

Chemo did a real tapdance on my memory.  Three years on, and I'm just fine. However,the chemo wiped out a lot of peripheral stuff. I used to be a walking encyclopedia of what happened at the farm for the past 20-some years, but now the mundane stuff from way back is just gone.