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Post by Toby Benoit on Mar 2, 2008 13:11:37 GMT 12.75
Go get em Mars! Set that little hunting buddy of yours up to get that o' big tom! I'll cross my fingers and wish her lots of luck!
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Post by Mars on Mar 5, 2008 4:38:34 GMT 12.75
Then hens where out back this morning and the jakes and the big tom were with them. That bird is BIG! I managed to get a picture but he was still to far away to see in it. He's easily twice the size of any of the other birds. I'd love to get a picture of him in strut!
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Post by 10scn on Mar 6, 2008 16:03:41 GMT 12.75
Mars, When did you move to TN from the People's Republic of IL?
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Post by Mars on Mar 10, 2008 2:00:13 GMT 12.75
Freedom was achieved from Indiana on Dec. 26,2004.
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Post by Mars on Mar 10, 2008 2:23:04 GMT 12.75
Here's the pic but it's not very good. The tom is outlined in the red,white and blue lines in the middle of the pic.
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Post by 10scn on Mar 10, 2008 14:35:41 GMT 12.75
Good Grief Mars, I didn't realize it had been that long since I had posted on NAHC or anywhere else for that matter. Are some of the guys still posting on Moosie's or is he even still up?
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Post by Mars on Mar 11, 2008 0:15:18 GMT 12.75
I don't know about Moosie's. I quit that site a couple years ago.
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Post by Paws on Mar 11, 2008 0:29:30 GMT 12.75
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Post by Mars on Mar 11, 2008 2:56:40 GMT 12.75
Not the site I was thinking of. My bad!
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Post by Mars on Mar 11, 2008 2:59:05 GMT 12.75
And about the pic. I know he's hard to see but once you find him then realise that bird is 50-60 yards away and you'll get an idea how big he is.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Mar 11, 2008 15:48:16 GMT 12.75
Yep, he's a biggun! I didn't have any trouble spotting him, but I sure would like to see a close up. Maybe with little Mars behind him with a shotgun and a grin! ;D
You guys open this Saturday, right? What calls you gonna use or are you gonna let her still-hunt him?
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Post by Mars on Mar 12, 2008 0:07:21 GMT 12.75
The little kid season opens next Saturday, March 22-23. I'm call shy right now. I didn't realise to last week that all of my turkey calls where in my other truck when it was stolen and burned. I lost my box call that I've had for over 20 years and they don't make anymore. Know anyplace a fellar could get a good call in less then 2 weeks?
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Post by Mars on Mar 12, 2008 1:03:17 GMT 12.75
OK, I ordered your Rebel Yell and Long Tom. Let's see some speed! ;D
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Post by Toby Benoit on Mar 12, 2008 16:22:27 GMT 12.75
Thanks a lot buddy! I just got off the phone with Brian and he's got them all boxed up and ready to go! I told him to be sure and bless them with a little extra luck for you!
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Post by Mars on Mar 13, 2008 1:26:04 GMT 12.75
Now that's customer service? If she get's that bird or A BIRD then it may be a decent gift for her to have a picture of her with it mounted on her own call.HHHMMM
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Post by 10scn on Mar 13, 2008 15:23:08 GMT 12.75
I don't know about anyone else, but I can hardly wait for the spring season to open so I can get the smoke-pole out again. I'm going to have to get another blind before I try archery again. The windows are too high to kneel and shoot and the roof is too short to stand and shoot. So far my luck on drawing on a bird has been a bust. Only one time have I managed to keep a tree between me and a gobbling jake to draw and then the little rascal didn't have a visible beard so I couldn't shoot.
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Post by Mars on Mar 15, 2008 13:22:59 GMT 12.75
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Post by Paws on Mar 15, 2008 19:27:55 GMT 12.75
I don't know about anyone else, but I can hardly wait for the spring season to open so I can get the smoke-pole out again. I'm going to have to get another blind before I try archery again. The windows are too high to kneel and shoot and the roof is too short to stand and shoot. So far my luck on drawing on a bird has been a bust. Only one time have I managed to keep a tree between me and a gobbling jake to draw and then the little rascal didn't have a visible beard so I couldn't shoot. Can't you sit down on one of those padded buckets?
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Post by Mars on Mar 16, 2008 11:30:30 GMT 12.75
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Post by Toby Benoit on Mar 16, 2008 11:51:39 GMT 12.75
Man oh man! It looks like you got the fixin's for a first rate turkey pot-pie! My opener was a bust. I had a tom closing on my position and I figured his last gobble about eighty or so yards out and he had closed from almost two hundred in and hour. Then...a wild coughing spasm hit me! I buried my face in my elbow and tried to cover it up by cutting wildly on the box call, but I didn't fool anyone. The bird went silent and I never heard a peep or got a look at any others. Damn cold!!!!
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