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Yep that be PIE EYE!!:smiley:

Sorry I mispoke...it was in September.
 
My bad!!

Have a great trip!!!
 
 Be sure to remove the "knife" from between your teeth before ya goes to eat somethin' :smiley: :smiley:

I lived in the Smokey Mountain Range most my life Antler. I'm a little used to knowing bear could be around anywhere.
 
I'm not sure how many they are relocating to our area but I suspect a lot of the relocation has already taken place. They seem to tell ya something like a major "relocation" after the fact. :smiley:

I lived in the Smokey Mountain Range most my life Antler.  I'm a little used to knowing bear could be around anywhere.
 
I'm not sure how many they are relocating to our area but I suspect a lot of the relocation has already taken place.  They seem to tell ya something like a major "relocation" after the fact. :smiley:

You'll be fine Antler.  Just be watchful and use your senses...sight, sound and smell.
 
Bear do have a definate smell about them...
 
I suspect when you go to using calls the bear will scatter.   And they will smell you.
 
They are moving Smokey Mountain bear into our area.  These bear are used to the human scent and can be very dangerous.  If they smell food you're liable to find them on your door step.
 
Remember they have their cubs this time of the year.  Last years cubs and this year cubs.

Black bear are driven by two things Antler.  Fear and food.  
Like Paul says I have seen many bear in the woods and mountains and they have made a very quick exit from me.
 
Just don't have any open food laying around.  And try to stay away from a mom with cubs.
 
Talked to a guy the other day who was turkey hunting.  And a bear attacked him.  He was in an area full of rock formations and knooks and crannies.  Thinks he must have stumbled on a den and a Moma bear.
 
He shot the bear.  The bear ran off and he followed the blood trail but never found the bear.
 
The one thing I would do is make sure you have a weapon on you that would Kill a bear if attacked.

Country music might work.:smiley:
 
I don't know too much about their turkey business but I do know they are in it to "make" turkeys. :smiley:
Not sure how often they "rob" the nests.  They have one building full of incubators.  And the new babies are kept separated from the older turkeys.
 
 Truck comes by every so many days to pick up a load of new hatching's.
 
Their not on the killing end of the turkey business they are on the "making" end of the business. :smiley:

Welcome IME.  
 
Great to have you aboard!!:smiley:

I'm wondering Daryl if you're going to have classical music playing in their pen?
 
I know a family raises turkey commercially.  They have about 6 hugh buildings, two story.  Early evening they shut the shutters to the windows,  have a small night light in every hall.  And turn on the classical music.
 
Each building has central heat and air and the temp is kept at 72o.
 
They say it's too keep the Toms in the mood.  Sorta like setting the stage. :smiley:
 
It's strange being at their place in the evening.  Setting out on the deck after a great meal and hearing the soft sound of classical music....but no Turkey sounds.
 
They also raise pigs in a sterile environment but that's another story.

That's local hunting Grey.
 
If I'm planning on doing bear hunting this year I'll have to travel 400+miles.  Half way across the state of TN.
 
130miles from me is almost at the Mississippi.  Or Memphis.  No hunting in Memphis..less ya count hunting for Elvis!!:eek:

I'd get some welders gloves.  Might be a little unhandy but will protect your hands.
 
I've seen stuffed porcupine at Bass Pro Shop.  
 
I'd say ya need to handle a porcupine VERY GENTLY!!:biggthumpup:

Me too they be Cool!!
 
And I think ya gots yourself a Tom there Daryl. :D

I'd cut either of them up into pieces and stew them. Then maybe add some veggies to the mix.
I've never eaten either of them so I really don't have a clue.
 
But any meat I don't know how to fix I usually end up stewing.
 
I just looked and found a recipe for BBQ'd beaver.   Most important thing they said was to be sure and get all the fat off the beaver.  The fat does not taste good.
 
The recipe is the same as my BBQ'd pork.

You'll get that bear!!:eek:
 
I've been lookin' for nestings.  I was out trimming trees yesterday and not a nest to be found in our ornamental trees.
 
A creek surrounds our property and I'm looking in the trees around the creek.  All the birds and other assorted wild life come to take a drink.  
 
I've been watching a particular Mockingbird.  She's up to something.  I think her and her mate are building a nest in our Snowball tree. :smiley: