Two in the hand is better than one in the bush. That's the text I got from Nate when I told him I shot two jakes but the big Tom hung up in the brush. I read it and said, wait what, that don't seem right. I laughed but he is right he just didn't get the saying quite right. Me and Patrick were out this time for some big gobblers and we had the perfect set up. We got to the roost just in time and got set up, Patrick on the camcorder and me on the 12 gauge. The birds starting flying down and I …
Opening Day Turkey Season
It wasn't the start I hoped for but baseball got in the way and we missed the morning hunt. After a stop for food and gas we got to camp at 10:00 AM. I had a big crew with me Saturday. My friend Steve needed firewood and I figured his son Aaron needed to catch a fish so he came along and Alex and Braden came because I tricked them into thinking they were gonna get to do a lot of hunting but first we had a chord of wood to cut, I left that part out when I told them we were going hunting. Between …
Trapping, wood cutting, and Cottons Cafe
I've been having trouble with the coons over the deer season tearing up everything I own so I decided to thin them out a little. I haven't ran traps in several years and usually shoot enough coons with my bow to keep them in check but this year the population exploded for some reason. The old timers say its from the drought and after the explanation they gave I believe them. They say that because of the drought all of the stock tanks are low and the fish and frogs become easy pickins for the …
