Any hunters here?

[snide]

Originally Posted by Entropy

Got skunked this weekend. Didn't even hear a turkey, let alone see one.

Ha! I shot 12 in my front yard this morning.

[Neutron]

Originally Posted by snide

Ha! I shot 12 in my front yard this morning.

Wow, so you really shot em all huh.

[snide]

Originally Posted by Neutron

Wow, so you really shot em all huh.

With my camera, yes.

[Neutron]

Originally Posted by snide

With my camera, yes.

I knew it.

[BuckyThreadkiller]

Turkeys gathering around snide. Hmmmm.

They weren't bowing and chanting your direction as though they had found a deity were they, Alan?

[Neutron]

Originally Posted by BuckyThreadkiller

Turkeys gathering around snide. Hmmmm.

They weren't bowing and chanting your direction as though they had found a deity were they, Alan?

Might wanna check BCF, Bucky. Snide's having a meltdown.

[BuckyThreadkiller]

Where? I didn't find where he's making any more or less sense than usual.

I'm more worried about a forlorn joebuck doing away with himself by jumping out a window... and then remembering he lives on the ground floor.

[Neutron]

Originally Posted by BuckyThreadkiller

Where? I didn't find where he's making any more or less sense than usual.

I'm more worried about a forlorn joebuck doing away with himself by jumping out a window... and then remembering he lives on the ground floor.

Jesus.

[willyfastz]

We hunt, my son has killed 4 bucks so far this season (he's 9 years old) and I've killed 2. My wildlife camera was showing loads of turkeys before deer season came in, but I haven't seen any since.

[Entropy]

Originally Posted by BuckyThreadkiller

Once upon a time, before my eyesight went away, I was a serious bird hunter. Quail, turkey, dove, pheasant (they were imported into northwest Texas 80 years ago and decided they liked it) and ducks. We'd walk the stubble fields for pheasant and traipse through the river breaks for quail, it was a kick every fall and winter.

Pheasant season starts this Saturday. I'm freakin' stoked. I don't have a dog, but my buddy does. Even if I can't go out with him, I'll load up the car and cruise the back roads looking for stupid roosters on the side of the road.

I was a bigtime Ducks Unlimited member and donor, too. Mostly for the banquets, because hunting ducks is the stupidest passtime ever devised by man. "Hey, it's freezing cold - let's get up at 3:30 and go the to lake and sit by the frozen water and wait for the sun to come up so we can go home when it warms up."
You may not drink when you hunt Ted, but when it's 12 degrees in a wet duck blind, I'm nipping a flask for antifreeze.

Duck and goose hunting is the only bird hunting I haven't done yet. That doesn't make me want to go.

I like to get out and support Friends of the NRA. They support the local high school trap team, which seems to go to state every year.

Then my eyes went and I couldn't see the front BB much less a dove in flight. I still have my shotgun - it's a simple, inexpensive Winchester 1200 I got in high school but for all the Remingtons and Benellis and Mossbergs I've tried, I've never shot a better gun than that 12 gauge pump Winchester.

I definitely understand. I have 2 shotguns, a Remington 870 and a Winchester 1300. The one that goes with me to the field: the 1300. I can't explain it, it just does a damn good job.

[BuckyThreadkiller]

We never hunted pheasant with a dog - we'd take 30 guys to a field and stand half of 'em at the end of the field to block and the rest would drive down to the opposite section line and the walk towards the blockers. The birds are dumb, they'd run up and down the stubble rows until they couldn't see a way out and they'd fly. Then everybody starts shooting.

I'd be lying if I said we all didn't get peppered a time or two. Carhardt jackets are more pellet proof than you'd think.

[Entropy]

Originally Posted by BuckyThreadkiller

We never hunted pheasant with a dog - we'd take 30 guys to a field and stand half of 'em at the end of the field to block and the rest would drive down to the opposite section line and the walk towards the blockers. The birds are dumb, they'd run up and down the stubble rows until they couldn't see a way out and they'd fly. Then everybody starts shooting.

I'd be lying if I said we all didn't get peppered a time or two. Carhardt jackets are more pellet proof than you'd think.

Duly noted on the Carhardt jacket.

Main reason we use dogs is that often we're in a big hay field that hasn't been cut, and often we're looking for maybe 1 or 2 birds. That and the population has taken a beating in the last 2 years with the hard winters.