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#51

General Forum / Re: Missouri Non-Resident Regs

Last post by Dtrkyman - December 17, 2025, 06:21:42 PM

Too bad us turkey hunters couldn't band together and boycott Missouri and any other state sticking it to non res. Hunters!

As few of the non res hunters that kill birds anyway why not offer a second tag only after harvesting your first bird and only good after the first week?

I'm considering skipping Missouri for the first time in probably 15 years?

OK. And Arkansas can go jump too!


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#52

Box Calls / Re: Futures

Last post by callmakerman - December 17, 2025, 05:48:56 PM

Great box call woods. Looking forward to seeing what you use for lids. I wish I had the time to build a few myself. Maybe after the Christmas break as I'll be working the ski area the next 21 days.

Hope you get some time in the shop Bill. Everyone would love to see a couple of your calls in the classifieds.

As usual I have a number of boxes and lids made up for some time now for Turpin boxes. I start them and then lose interest for a while as I'm more of a pot call or scratch box guy. I'll get back at them at some point.

#53

Box Calls / Re: Futures

Last post by Spring Creek Calls - December 17, 2025, 04:01:23 PM

Great box call woods. Looking forward to seeing what you use for lids. I wish I had the time to build a few myself. Maybe after the Christmas break as I'll be working the ski area the next 21 days.

Hope you get some time in the shop Bill. Everyone would love to see a couple of your calls in the classifieds.

#54

Box Calls / Re: Futures

Last post by callmakerman - December 17, 2025, 03:55:17 PM

Great box call woods. Looking forward to seeing what you use for lids. I wish I had the time to build a few myself. Maybe after the Christmas break as I'll be working the ski area the next 21 days.

#55

Box Calls / Futures

Last post by Spring Creek Calls - December 17, 2025, 03:43:41 PM

Some future box calls. Butternut, black limba and sycamore.

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#56

General Forum / Re: New 20 gauge shotguns 2026...

Last post by BullTom - December 17, 2025, 02:46:20 PM

Ive been hearing rumors about 940 sub gauges for over a year now. Holding out for a 28ga. myself.

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#57

General Forum / Re: 3 word story

Last post by NCL - December 17, 2025, 02:18:00 PM

are usually right

#58

General Forum / Re: Christmas Shopping $$ Save...

Last post by Tom007 - December 17, 2025, 01:18:34 PM

I learned something from a 20 year old last night. I went to get Mrs Z's Christmas present and the young man asked me if I had their app. LOL, not a chance. So he proceeded to help me save $175 on a $555 purchase. If you order something on a store app and pick it up in store, it can be way cheaper. I picked out the items from the store, he got them from the locked area and that was it. Just like I was going to do and pay full price. It may not be at all stores, but its worth checking out. Good luck and Merry Christmas all you killers. Z  

She's gonna love that new shotgun Z! Lol

#59

General Forum / New 20 gauge shotguns 2026?

Last post by Johnhunter21 - December 17, 2025, 01:14:40 PM

Just curious if anyone has heard of any new 20 gauge turkey guns coming out in 2026? Im holding out for a 20 gauge in the Mossberg 940 style, hopefully this is the year.

#60

General Forum / Re: Texas turkey hunt

Last post by GobbleNut - December 17, 2025, 11:41:20 AM

I booked my first Texas turkey hunt for this March in southern Texas. The outfitter I chose makes you sign a contract. One of the stipulations was that I cannot hunt within 1,000 yards of a feeder or near a roosting tree and that I must call them in and hunt them sportingly. There are good outfitters available, you just need to do your homework.


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That is a good outfitter. I never hunted Texas but I hunted Rios in Oklahoma. just across the border, and the rancher had two roost on his property, he turned me loose at a gate and firmly told me that if I was caught hunting within a half mile of a roost there would be more then a dead turkey in my future. Talking later I learned that some eastern hunters came in once and shot birds directly after flydown at a roost site and the birds moved 6 miles away for three years. His ranch was screwed for turkey hunting. He did tell me the route they would take after flydown and I killed my two birds in a couple days of hunting.

Good points...but obviously it depends on the property and the situation. As an example, one of the places I hunted, there was one main roost site in the middle of the property that apparently attracted all of the turkeys in the area, even those that spent most of their time off of the property during the day. If we had had to stay a half mile (or even half of that) away from that roost, we could not have hunted at all because the property boundaries were less than that in any direction.

Even though we tried to limit our impact around that roost as much as possible, we still ended up killing a number of gobblers close to it. Yet, every evening those turkeys would return to that roost site. However, I would also note that we were the only ones hunting the property and our hunts there never exceeded three mornings/evenings. I am sure in different "conveyor belt" hunting operations where there is a "next" group of hunters coming in, one after another, that closely hunting a roost would most certainly impact that roost site.

...Just another reason for anybody hunting TX to do their research and inquire as to the "particulars" of the hunting operation on any given property.