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#11
THE FISHING LURE / Re: Brook trout
Last post by gitano - May 13, 2024, 02:09:30 PMI hate you!
Paul
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#12
THE FISHING LURE / Brook trout
Last post by davidlt89 - May 13, 2024, 01:26:42 PMWell, it is not only turkey season up here, it is also fishing season. I figured I would go out and get a mess of brook trout to eat at one of my old holes. Fishing is just good for the Soul. God Bless.
#13
TURKEY HUNTING / Maine Turkey hunt 2024
Last post by davidlt89 - May 13, 2024, 01:22:07 PMTo say it's been a rough week with the turkey hunting over here in my parts would be an understatement!
Turkey were non responsive to calls right from day one and would just not leave the hens to save their lives.
I literally could not get these turkeys to give up their roost either.
I spent a lot of time, spotting, stalking, going to where I thought they might end up, etc..
Then last night I caught them across the road and actually watched them roost from my driveway. My "hopes" were to get close enough and maybe they would fly down by the decoys and I could get a pop at one.
I set up about 60 yards from where I figured the tom's roosted. It was not long after getting against the tree they sounded off and I was not all that far from them.
I heard at least two fly down, but it sounded like they headed to the other side of the woods and the field in the back.
I sat tight until 5:30, then I got up and took a good look down the field edge and the flock was about 150 yards from me.
So I sat back down and just figured I had nothing better to do and I would wait and see if they made their way down to me.
About 20 min later, this guy broke off and came to check out my decoys.
He was all puffed out and I honestly thought he was the big tom. He got within about 20 yards of my decoys, puffed down, and it looked like he was not buying it.
I pulled up the gun and shot him at about 25 yards.
He is a funny turkey, has the tail of tom, and the body of a jake. The beard is 2", and he weighs in a little under 15lbs.
This is a very young turkey so the tail is very confusing to me. The 4 middle feathers of a jake's tail are longer than all the rest of the feathers, one easy way to identify a jake. But that is not the case here.
So it looks like my string of 20+lb turkeys is now broken! But after the week I have had with these turkeys, I will gladly take what God gives me and be happy with it!
Turkey were non responsive to calls right from day one and would just not leave the hens to save their lives.
I literally could not get these turkeys to give up their roost either.
I spent a lot of time, spotting, stalking, going to where I thought they might end up, etc..
Then last night I caught them across the road and actually watched them roost from my driveway. My "hopes" were to get close enough and maybe they would fly down by the decoys and I could get a pop at one.
I set up about 60 yards from where I figured the tom's roosted. It was not long after getting against the tree they sounded off and I was not all that far from them.
I heard at least two fly down, but it sounded like they headed to the other side of the woods and the field in the back.
I sat tight until 5:30, then I got up and took a good look down the field edge and the flock was about 150 yards from me.
So I sat back down and just figured I had nothing better to do and I would wait and see if they made their way down to me.
About 20 min later, this guy broke off and came to check out my decoys.
He was all puffed out and I honestly thought he was the big tom. He got within about 20 yards of my decoys, puffed down, and it looked like he was not buying it.
I pulled up the gun and shot him at about 25 yards.
He is a funny turkey, has the tail of tom, and the body of a jake. The beard is 2", and he weighs in a little under 15lbs.
This is a very young turkey so the tail is very confusing to me. The 4 middle feathers of a jake's tail are longer than all the rest of the feathers, one easy way to identify a jake. But that is not the case here.
So it looks like my string of 20+lb turkeys is now broken! But after the week I have had with these turkeys, I will gladly take what God gives me and be happy with it!
#15
TEST FORUM / Re: Image posting test
Last post by gitano - May 10, 2024, 11:57:23 AMtesting image posting
#16
TEST FORUM / Image posting test
Last post by gitano - May 10, 2024, 11:39:03 AMTest picture loading
#17
AIR GUNS / Re: 5.52mm vs 5.51mm pellets -...
Last post by Jamie.270 - May 09, 2024, 07:47:48 AMBe sure and let me know when you guys start this new forum.
As I have much to say on that topic.
But for now, you'll just have to settle for my sig line.
As I have much to say on that topic.
But for now, you'll just have to settle for my sig line.
#18
AIR GUNS / Re: 5.52mm vs 5.51mm pellets -...
Last post by gitano - May 09, 2024, 07:31:50 AMI wasn't being sarcastic. I meant it when I said the GB rule on 12FPE made sense in the context of GBs other gun laws, and our shotgun-only hunting laws are silly. But... I agree with the point that discussion of silly/tyrannical gun laws would require a entirely new firum.
Paul
Paul
#19
AIR GUNS / Re: 5.52mm vs 5.51mm pellets -...
Last post by SmokeyJoe - May 09, 2024, 04:51:13 AMQuote from: gitano on May 03, 2024, 06:10:27 AMI have the exact same wish and hesitancy.Now Sir, I won't have you bad mouthing our great nation. You'll steal my thunder...
The FPE restriction, while stupid and egregious, at least "makes sense", in the context of the British authority's restricting firearms. To illustrate what I mean, our "shotgun only" hunting states are equally illogical. You can't use a "rifle" to hunt with, but you CAN use a shotgun, with a slug, from a shotgun WITH A FULLY RIFLED BARREL that will cast that projectile at least 300 yd. If people in GB were allowed to use UNLICENSED pneumatic firearms of ANY FPE, then they would make them powerful enough to kill people. GB citizens CAN possess pneumatic arms with FPEs greater than 12, BUT, they have to be included on the owner's LICENSE.
I have always thought a .25 caliber PCP would be a great gun to have 'around'.
Paul
Shotgun cartridges - You can have as many as you want (if you have a Shotgun certificate which many people do, far more than Firearms cert holders). But you don't have to store them in a locked steel cabinet, or a wooden one, or a locked one of any kind. You can keep them in the bedside cabinet or your mantlepiece, for all they care. Go figure.
But enough of this, if we are going to have a thread about illogical and tyrannical laws, that really deserves its own complete board!
#20
AIR GUNS / Re: 5.52mm vs 5.51mm pellets -...
Last post by SmokeyJoe - May 09, 2024, 04:43:24 AMQuote from: Jamie.270 on May 03, 2024, 05:30:45 AMHa, I moan about this all the time, but yesterday I found out something new...Quote from: gitano on May 02, 2024, 08:43:16 AMToo bad you guys get intercoursed on firearms-related components.Just as egregious is the near minuscule FPE limit imposed on airguns over there.
Paul
I'd like to have a .25 cal PCP myself. something that will push a lead pellet to 700-900 FPS.
But I struggle with justifying the cost of the compressor.
In Germany (a nation in the Union of Soviet Socialist European Republics) - their air rifle limit is HALF the limit here in the UK, at just 6 FPE. I nearly fell off my chair when I read that. Europe has gone to the dogs, and they've all been put down.
PS I have seen some very fun looking .50 cal PCPs, only in the land of the free of course, but at least our government lets us watch (drool) over youtube videos from your neck of the woods. (For now anyway)