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I killed #2 about a week ago. It’s been tough hunting. Hopefully the last couple weeks of season will get hot.
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I killed one Saturday afternoon. Got schooled by an old bird on Sunday. His time will come though.
22lbs, 9.75” beard, 7/8” spurs. Killed him at 30 yards with the new 870 20ga.
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Whiskey, how does the 20 gauge guns work for you. I'm thinking great because you use them. I just wondered because you don't see many hunters using them. My brother in law and his wife have always used 20 gauge guns for turkeys.
20ga is all you need with TSS. If you aren’t shooting TSS, stick with a 12ga. I love the reduced recoil and lighter gun, but the TSS is just flat out a turkey killing load.
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I want to thank you for posting this so many years ago.
We still dip our clothes and I haven't had a tick latch on to me in years. No ill effects to us or our clothes.
Last year while backpacking in Montana, we were surrounded by a cloud of mosquitoes (literally) and neither of us had a single bite.
Good to hear! Glad it’s been helpful. I did get bit 2 summers back, but it was in my backyard. I’m still bite free when wearing treated clothes too.
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For the last 2 seasons I have hunted turkeys exclusively with a 20ga. I’ve killed 20 or so birds with a 20ga and watched 20 or so more die from 20ga turkey guns. However, I shoot handloaded TSS. A .410 is a solid turkey gun out to 40 yards when loaded with TSS shells and topped with an optic. However, most casual turkey hunters would be way better served with a 12ga, a good turkey choke and some Winchester Longbeard shells.
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Hunting shows don’t do anything to help the image of turkey hunters. Reaping is dangerous.
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I’m ready, short of some sighting in. Got a second 20ga this year. Loaded up a bunch of TSS and I can’t wait to smash some heads.
Spent today water proofing seams in these blinds. I love hunting rainy days, but hate being wet. We set these up on a couple farms so we can retreat to a blind of a rain storm moves in.
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Just wanted to update and say that I am still using Martin’s permethrin and I am still alive. Also, I have switched from dipping my clothes, to using a pump up garden sprayer. It wastes less and lets me touch the clothes up easier half way through season.
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Where would one find a box of these? I've never seen them.
I order them online. PM me your address and I’ll send you a few to try if you want.
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The tobacco grown in TN isn’t generally used in cigars. The majority of what is grown here is used in Smokeless tobacco, such as Chewing tobacco and moist snuff. However, the “dark fired” grown around Clarksville is also used as a condiment tobacco in many pipe tobacco blends and a couple of cigars. Most popular is the Drew Estates cigar “Kentucky Fire Cured” line. These are quality cigars with some dark fired tobacco. A less known cigar is the “Kentucky Cheroot” by Avanti cigars. Avanti makes mostly low end, machine rolled cigars similar to Swisher Sweets. The Kentucky Cheroot is a different animal. Think of Clint Eastwood westerns... this is what Clint would smoke. I like them. I keep a box around for occasional smokes. They are made of 100% Tennessee and Kentucky grown tobaccos and have a sweet, smokey flavor and I feel like a gun slinger when I smoke them.
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so just running across this thread and I have a question. Whiskey I see that you're dipping outer layer and underlayer of clothing? So skin contact is ok as long as it's dry? I'll be ordering my materials to make up a batch of this stuff this week.
Thanks
Yes, once it's dry it's safe for skin contact. Actually, permethrin is a cure for scabies at some dilution. Just an interesting fact.
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I had lunch with my daughter today and we discussed this. For now she is more comfortable without a firearm. She wants to see how things play out in the beginning.
I am of the mindset now that if she does decide she needs a gun, that a quick access safe and a revolver would be the better option.
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I too am considering this same question...my daughter just completed her bachelors degree and will be moving to Birmingham to pursue her Doctorate over the next 3-4 years. She will have an apartment on the south side in the Homewood area. It is not so much her I worry about but guests in her home that may not have had the exposure she has with weapons.
I would t send my kid to B'ham without a weapon.
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I'd probably just give her a handgun to use because then she can take it in the car in the console/glove box when traveling from where you all live to where she goes to school or any other road trips. I know she could have the shotgun loaded behind the seat of the car but that is a hassle when compared to a handgun in a console. Buy one of those electronic handgun safes for the apartment when she is not at her apartment and she would be all set.
Was I wrong believing she had to be 21 to possess a handgun?
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I too have a daughter who has grown up around firearms, she is 14 now, so I have 4 more years left to ponder this same question. My kid has never given me any reason to doubt her judgment in any way, and had been competently shooting pistols and long guns now for over 5 years (almost 10 years by the time she graduates HS). So, it would never be her I would worry about, its other people's less than intellectual children I worry about. Does she, generally speaking, associate with good kids?
She associates with kids her age, so by default there are a high percentage of idiots.
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I too have a daughter who has grown up around firearms, she is 14 now, so I have 4 more years left to ponder this same question. My kid has never given me any reason to doubt her judgment in any way, and had been competently shooting pistols and long guns now for over 5 years (almost 10 years by the time she graduates HS). So, it would never be her I would worry about, its other people's less than intellectual children I worry about. Does she, generally speaking, associate with good kids?
She associates with kids her age, so by default there are a high percentage of idiots.
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Whatever the two of you choose, also factor in this roommate. Does she also have the same mindset and similar training? What might be her capabilities?
Picking a defensive weapon for both of them also adds to the mix.
My best wishes for you in the search.
Good point! Her roommate is also a shooter. She hasn't had as much experience, but her responses to my questions were a consideration for sending the shotgun with them.
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My little girl is 18 and graduating high school in a few days. She will be moving into an apartment, with a 19yo female friend, near Austin Peay. I am considering sending her 20ga Mossberg Bantam with her.
For a little background on her: She started shooting a Crickett at 5yo, hunting squirrels at 6, hunting doves at 9, killed her first deer the month she turned 10, first turkey at 12, and hunted regularly till boys became a priority around 15. She is proficient with multiple long guns and pistols. At 14 she was home alone when the house alarm sounded. She locked herself in my bedroom, armed herself with a shotgun and a pistol before calling me. It was a false alarm, but she followed her training. She has had unrestricted access to firearms all her life, wether you agree or not, it's the path we chose. Needless to say, I feel she is educated enough to take the gun with her.
The other side of the coin is that she is a 18yo co-ed and I am certain there will be fun times and plenty of visitors coming and going. I do have concerns about mixing alcohol with a firearm present. She hasn't given me a single reason to expect irresponsibility, but I'm a dad and worrying is what I am good at.
I'd appreciate some opinions, experiences, and recommendations of rolling this out successfully, if I do chose to send her out armed.
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Just scrolled back through and realized I didn't post a pic of these...
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Finished the year out this morning. It's been a good year for me. Can't wait for next year.
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You are going to have to change your name from whiskey to TurkeyKing.
I'm known around these parts as the turkey ninja. LOL
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Tough hunting in Indiana. Rained on us Friday and Saturday. Did a lot of blind sitting and I can assure you an oatmeal cream pie ain't enough food for 12 hours in a blind! To make it worse, there weren't any birds! We decided to leave Saturday afternoon, but made a call to a buddy who had told me about his family farm in Indiana. Had to drive another couple hours, put the TSS on a couple of good Indiana limb hangers this morning.
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Good luck! Your having a great season.
Thanks. My buddy says, in the years you have turkeys, you learn "how to kill" turkeys. Those years you don't have turkeys, you learn "how to hunt" turkeys. This year, I'm fortunate to have lots of opportunities to land full of turkeys. My fear is the lack of jakes I am seeing and how that will impact next year.
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Headed to Indiana tomorrow for their opening week. This will be our 3rd year going up there. Been lucky the last two years, doubled both times.
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Congrats! Nice bird.
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