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Geo, Despite not being to hunt as much as I'd like this season, I am ready to see the season in the rear view mirror. In another two weeks I'll be looking forward to next Spring's gobbler season. Not to mention, September dove, November quail and snipe, and January-February Woodcock.

The Fox and the Turkeys

This is in my back yard and they are protected by my wife, the gamekeeper. The Fox comes near daily and will sit and watch the Turkeys and of course they watch her.

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Leighton, we have pretty creatures come by from time to time. In younger years I would react and shoot, but now I watch them and hope they come back. Thanks for the pictures.

I finished my AL limit a couple of weeks back with my Spanish sxs. I talked about the problems I had with the triggers and barrel regulation in another thread, so I won't call the name. But after some work, its made a nice little 20 gauge turkey gun. It had a poly finish that I hated, so I put a tru-oil finish on it. Now it shoots both barrels to poa and I have a tight pattern with the left barrel and a more open pattern with the right barrel that should still be lethal to 40 yards.

I will call the name of the gunsmith who fixed the triggers - Harvey King in Selma, AL. He turned the worst triggers I've ever had on any firearm into great triggers that break at 4 lbs with no creep at all.

Good luck to all still turkey hunting!

This year my turkey season ended at 5 PM on May 16.

This years secret to success was to set out the decoys, take a nap, wake up and shoot the Tom standing a few yards away while he listened to three green lumps snoring in the bushes. My buddies and I had been up since 2:00 am. It was a great spring afternoon when we setup the decoys at 3:45pm. By 4 were all out take a needed nap. At five I woke up and notice a little cat stalking our decoys. I woke one of my friends and whispered there was cat to our left. He got out his cell phone to video the silly cat creeping up on the decoys. I needed to sit up and as I raised up a little I saw turkeys right in front of me. I quickly laid back down, slipped off the safety on the old Fox. I raised up as high as could on my elbow and took the shot at the Tom. My friend that was still laying down behind us in the brush asked me why the heck I shot the cat. I laughed and told him I killed a turkey. I'm not sure he believed me.

The Tom was close, more like feet than yards. I could have taken him with a 9mm garden gun.

This Rio Tom weighs just over 20 lbs. and has a 9 inch beard. He had little short, less than 1/2 inch, spurs.

Slowpoke, that A Grade Fox and big Tom make a good picture, but that hen decoy is the most realistic I've ever seen. What brand is that?

Since our season's over down here and I'm in the mood to buy some new turkey kit for next year while it's fresh on my mind, I've got to get me some new camo duds like Slowpoke Bill is wearing in his other pic on the last page above. It has been pointed out to me that no one can expect to successfully hunt 2014 Wild Turkeys wearing 1990's mil-surp rip-stop cotton woodland camo anymore.

Congratulations on the big Rio Bill!...Geo

Geo, all the gear right down to the Fox came from Cabela's over the years. Disclaimer...they also provide me with a paycheck which helps support may bad habits.

I'm pretty sure this was the decoy but not positive. It has a nice iridescent paint on the back.

http://www.cabelas.com/product/Hunting/Hunting-Decoys/Turkey-Decoys%7C/pc/104791680/c/104714280/sc/104663880/Avian-X-LCD-Collapsible-Lookout-Hen-Turkey-Decoys/1802374.uts?destination=%2Fcatalog%2Fbrowse%2Fturkey-decoys%2F_%2FN-1100085%2FNs-CATEGORY_SEQ_104663880%3FWTz_l%3DUnknown%253Bcat104791680%253Bcat104714280&WTz_l=Unknown%3Bcat104791680%3Bcat104714280%3Bcat104663880

George, each year when the season officially ends, my batteries are low, but not fully drained. I, too, start gathering equipment for the next spring. I piddle with making calls and am building another Baikal single-shot for another longtime friend and turkey buddy. I'll load some shells for the next season and make sure I have enough of my favorite mouth calls before next March. Just before the end of this season I did a room-to-room search for my old ripstop jungle fatigues. I planned on finishing the season in my old duds, but where in the hell did I put them? Today I washed my clothes, put my strikers in a drilled out piece of cedar on display upstairs, and loaded the remainder of my calls, cushions, clothes, ghillie suit, etc., shells, hats and gloves in a laundry basket which is placed inside a large blanket chest. Next season, third Saturday in March, 2015, I'll pull out the basket, grab the gun, snakeboots, strikers and head to the woods. The basket will remain in the back of my SUV until May 15, 2015. Hopefully, you and I will have many more of these cycles to come. Gil

wood awl o youse turkey hunters please go up to northern nh, and kindly kill awl o dem grouse egg eatin and grouse chick eatin, feathered lizards, so we can possibly have some decent grouse huntin north o de white mountains once again?

stan: is dat yo bss wid dah 30" barrels?