COUNTRY'S CORNER:

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I HAVE DECIDED TO JOIN IN AND START KEEPING UP WITH MY HUNTING SEASON HERE. AS THE 'O7 TURKEY SEASON IS ABOUT TO START......................................

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NEXT WEEKEND IS THE START OF THE SEASON. I HAVE BEEN GETTING READY. WENT THIS WEEK AND SPENT SOME JACK ON NEW SUPPLIES AND A NEW DIGITAL CAMERA. SOMETHING I HAVE NEEDED TO BUY FOR A LONG TIME. NOW I CAN GET THEM PICS. OF THAT TOM TAKEN AND POSTED WITH CLEAR PICS. NO BIRDS TALKING THIS MORNING BUT IT WAS DANG COOL OUT. GOOD NEWS IS IT IS GOING TO WARM UP BEFORE NEXT WEEKEND!!!!

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getting pumped. three more days and it's on. i want a strutting decoy now thanks to brians good luck with his. i know the toms are getting with the girls at fly down so i need me a strutter. oh man i gots to get thru these last three days!!!!!!

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I BROKE DOWN AND SPENT A LITTLE MORE JACK AND GOT THAT STRUTTING DEEK. BRIANS IS BILL WITH THE REAL FAN. MINE IS FILL THE F IS FOR "FAKE" FAN. ANYWAYS OPENING WEEKEND WAS SO BAD I DON'T EVEN WANT TO POST ABOUT IT I JUST WANT TO FORGET IT. I WENT OUT THIS AFTERNOON AFTER WORK AND CALLED IN TWO SILENT JAKES. COULD HAVE BLASTED BUT I AM HOLDING OUT.AND IT PAYED OFF I THINK BECAUSE NOT LONG AFTER THE JAKES PASSED I HEARD A DISTANT GOBBLE ONLY THE SECOND GOBBLE I HAVE HEARD SO FAR THIS SEASON SO I BROKE AND WENT FOR IT ALTHOUGH IT WAS GETTING LATE. ALMOST TO WHERE I THOUGHT IT HAD COME FROM I HEAR A FLY UP RIGHT OUT IN FRONT OF ME. AND I MAKE OUT TWO LONGBEARDS IN THE TREES AHEAD BOTH GOBBLEING!!!!!!!! WHAT A GREAT SOUND TO BE HEARING IN MY HOME ZONE AGAIN!!!!!! THERE IS NO GETTING OUT OF WORK TOMMOROW SO I AM JUST GOING TO HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE WEEKEND OR MAYBE I CAN SLIP OUT EARLY AGAIN ONE DAY THIS WEEK. AT ANY RATE THINGS ARE DEFINATLY ON AN UPSWING FOR THE SEASON.

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SATURDAY STARTED OUT PERFECT. GOOBLERS SOUNDING OFF ON THE ROOST. TRIED TO MOVE ON ONE BUT AS SOON AS THEY FLEW DOWN THEY WENT SILENT AND WENT SOMEWHERE I WASN'T. LARRY WENT WITH ME AND TOOK HIS FIRST BIRD A NICE SIZE JAKE THAT CAME INTO HIS SET UP SILENT. DANG THESE SILENT BIRDS!!!!! I PASSED ON ANOTHER JAKE WAITING TO TAKE A BIG TOM. SUNDAY WENT BACK AND NOT ONE GOBBLE ALL DAY LONG!!! THIS SEASON IS ABOUT TO GET ON MY NERVES. I NEED FIELDS TO HUNT THESE SILENT BIRDS BUT ON THE LEASE THERE ARE NONE.I HAVE IT IN MIND TO TAKE THE FIRST BEARD I SEE NEXT WEEKEND JAKE OR NOT. I AM FRUSTERATED!!!!!!!!!

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I HAVE GOT TO SHARE MY AFTERNOON WITH YA. THEY WERE CALLING FOR RAIN SO WE DID NOT RUN ASPHALT. SO I GOT TO GET OUT OF THERE AROUND 1:00 AND HAD MY COUNTRY AZZ IN THE WOODS BY 3:00 THIS AFTERNOON. IT HAD ALREADY BEEN SPINKELING AND WAS LOOKING BAD SO I LEFT THE DECOYS IN THE TRUCK AND JUST DECIDED TO GO SIT BY A PRIVATE FIELD THAT BORDERS OUR LEASE. WELL I WAS CALLING ON THE LOCATOR AND NOTHING. I SAT DOWN WHERE I PLANNED TO WAIT AND MADE JUST A FEW LOUD CALLS ON THE BOX. ONCE AGAIN NOTTA SO I JUST SIT BACK AND PLAN BEING SILENT LIKE WE DISCUSSED.ABOUT THIS TIME A LARGE CLAP OF THUNDER ROLLS DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I COULD NOT BELIVE MY EARS THERE WERE GOBBLES FROM EVERYWHERE. AND SOME WERE AT THE END OF THE PRIVATE FIELD. MIND YOU I HAD JUST USED A LOCATOR AND THE BOX AND DID NOT HEAR A PEEP BUT WITH THAT CLAP OF THUNDER I GOT GOBBLER STRUCK!!!!! I BET I HEARD 10 DIFFERENT GOBBLES.ANY WAY AFTER THE THUNDER I KNEW WHERE THEY WERE AND MADE VOLUME ADJUSTMENTS TO MY CALLING AND CALLED RIGHT AWAY I HEARD AT LEAST TWO ANSWER. NOW WHAT I THOUGHT SHOULD I SEE IF I CAN CALL THEM ACROSS THE FIELD I DECIDED I WOULD TRY JUST A LITTLE MORE.AND MAN THEY STARTED GOOBLEING AT EVERY CALL CUTTING ME OFF AND STUFF AND THEY WERE COMEING UP THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FIELD TIL THEY GOT STRAIT ACROSS FROM ME AND BAM ANOTHER LOUD THUNDER CLAP. ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE IN THE WOODS THEN HOLY CRAP I AM ABOUT TO crap ON MYSELF I DID NOT KNOW THERE WERE THAT MANY TURKEYS EVEN IN THESE WOODS!!!!!! I HAVE NEVER HEARD THIS MUCH GOOBLEING IN MY LIFE!!!! AND ALL THIS IS COMEING FROM WHERE I HAVEN'T BEEN HEARING BUT JUST A SMALL FEW ALL SEASON! I FIGURE MAN THEY ARE WIRED SO I AM GOING TO KEEP ON CALLING I CALL LOOK ACROSS THE FIELD AND SEE HEADS COMMING ACROSS......RIGHT TO ME!!!! THERE ARE FOUR GOBBLERS IN THE FLOCK AND ALL FOUR ARE ABSOLUTLY RAISEING HELL I AM ABOUT TO HAVE A STINKIN HEART ATTACK I HAVE NEVER HAD MORE THAN ONE GOBBLER COME IN TO ME AT A TIME SO THIS IS BLOWING MY MIND!!!!!! THEN I SEE A MAJOR PROBLEM AT THE TOP OF THE SMALL FIELD NOT FAR FROM WHERE I AM IS A HOUSE AND AT THIS HOUSE IS A TRACTOR AND ON THAT TRACTOR THERE IS AN OWNER AND OH NO HE DOES IT HE FIRES UP THE DANG THING MY BIRDS STOP COLD OUT OF RANGE AND STILL IN SOME THICK BRUSH. THIS IS THE MANS ONLY FIELD SO I KNOW DANG WELL WHERE THE TRACTOR IS COMEING SURE ENOUGH THE BIRDS STAY PUT UNTIL HE GETS TO THE GATE AND OFF TO OPEN IT THEN I HEAR THAT DREADED PUT AND OFF THEY GO BACK TO WHERE THEY CAME IN AND OUT OF THE FIELD. WASN'T LONG AFTER A PRETTY HARD RAIN CAME IN AND I LEFT BUT HOLY COW!!!!!!! I AM STILL WOUND UP OVER THE MOST EXCITEING DAY I GUESS I EVER HAD TURKEY HUNTING!!!!!!

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WENT BACK AGAIN YESTERDAY. NO GOBBLES SO I SAT SILENT. SEEN A LONE HEN. AND HEARD NO FLY UP'S.

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i tend to be lazy on this sort of thing so i will try to start early this deer season to try to get in the habit of posting my season in country's corner. i have been seeing some trail cam photos from another member of racks and spurs whose hunting land is right up by our lease and it has me pumped to see so many legal bucks up around the area this year. some of these are fantastic mature bucks as well. i went this past Saturday and set out three feeders along with cams at our bow stand locations. with some luck i will have some cam pics of my own shortly. i am going up there Saturday with my dad and my son to do a little limb gripper hunting as it opens this weekend along with some checking of cams setting up feeders for muzzeloading and looking for sign. will report back after this weekend.

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been out all day. me and my son went hunting bushy tails this morning. he took a crack at a few but missed. he can hardly reach the trigger yet with the shotgun so he shoots a little awkward. i did not have many pics yet so i left the cams alone. i really made a bone head mistake and left the digital on standby and it was at the feeder that had been getting the most attention!!!! oh well i am prone to being a bonehead at times. but under that feeder was it was bare ground where they had been after it there. i found some rubs nothing to write home about but at least it is buck activity in the area of two stands. we moved two stands and all we like is two more feeders and re-filling the ones out next weekend and we will be set. one of the new stands has about 200 yards each direction of shooting looks like a good season shaping up.

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I DID MANAGE LATER THAT MORNING TO HAVE A LITTLE FUN WITH THE POWER CROW CALL. I CALLED IN SEVRAL CROWS WITH IT. THAT WAS PRETTY COOL.

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went back yesterday after work got off early because it was raining. me and the girls filled the feeders again. one is putting out much more than the other and was almost emty. i got the cudde back back up there. my pipe feeder i put up in a test area was dry as a bone with much sign around it.i filled it back up as well. it is now no longer a test area but a spot i am going to put an automatic feeder this weekend and take the pipe out. i saw a smaller racked buck around the stand my boy had the chance at the 8 point last season maybe a good stand to start him out on this youth hunt as well!! all in all i am just glad to see the gas drillers have not run all the deer out ;D

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went to fill feeders again today and seen a very nice shooter run across the county road in front of me and my son on the four wheeler. three does ran across at about the same time about fifty more yards up the road. they were headed towards the freeway stand. this may be the buck that is rubbing around the freeway stand. he looked like a great buck for bryar to hunt come the youth hunt. so i think i have found my sons buck for the year. not quite what i have in mind for myself. i hope to get bryar on this one though. he was pumped when we saw him!!!!!!!! heck who am i kidding so was i.

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got my first trail cam pics. off the cams this weekend and man what a let down. all does and a couple of yearlings and some of the does looked sickly!!! ribs were showin and just looked poor! the gas company's have been all out in the woods with the rumble machine again mapping gas pockets and i know they have the deer messed up right now. set cams out at different areas. will check them sometime this week or saturday. bow season starts tomorrow but i will be working and hopeing to get off early some. if not i will be out saturday.

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GOT TO GO THIS AFTERNOON. HAD NOT BEEN IN THE STAND FIVE MINUTES AND HAD A NUBBING BUCK WALK UNDER ME. AT DARK TWO DOES CAME OUT AND I SAW A BUCK QUICKLY CROSS THE TRAIL OUT OF RANGE. I WOULD NOT SHOOT A NUBBING EVER AND IT WAS TOO EARLY TO START SHOOTING DOES FOR ME ON A WORK NIGHT. THIS WEEKEND I WILL GO AHEAD AND TAKE A DOE IF I SEE IT.THEY WERE ALL AT THE PRODUCER STAND. WHILE THERE I FILLED UP MY PIPE FEEDER FOR SATURDAY. I KNOW THERE IS A BUCK THERE AS WELL I JUST DON'T KNOW HOW BIG HE IS YET. DAD SAID HE WILL HUNT THE CAMP STAND SATURDAY. WE WILL PUT UP THE FEEDERS AT THE GUN STANDS AS WELL AND START THEM FOR THE UPCOMEING MUZZELOAD SEASON, THE WEATHER IS FREAKIN SUMMER ALL OVER AGAIN THE SKEETERS WERE BAD AT DARK

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i went this morning and afternoon and saw a total of 4 deer. i could have took a doe but she had a fawn with spots still so i let her walk. the reat were out of range. i really expected to see a lot more from all the pics i got but it was stinkin hot. by the way i found the first scrape of the year and it was a big one!!!!!! i saw them from the pipe feeder stand. alot of the corn is being eat by the two swelled up coons i saw eating out of the feeder.