Wanderer

Nice! Yep, that looks just the way I hope to find em! Nada for me but maybe if I get some time in the turkey woods I’ll have some better luck.

Good stuff JB. The boots on the wrong feet thing with kids: you’d think there would mathematically be a 50/50 chance of it happening but reality shows more like 90/10!!

Good for you Bigfish JZ. That’s a situation I can’t even comprehend. I’m one of the 50 hour/week crowd. 5 weeks of vacation built up doesn’t really mean a thing.

October 27 - May 15

I have one. In my shed. Among other things I’m storing for my buddy. He said it was pretty cool; likes it a lot. Told me to try it but I haven’t cuz I don’t wanna like it a lot and have to buy one. Same mentality I have about new snowmobiles. Hope you enjoy it BD.

Top photo is a hen hooded merg. Red head Swan hybrid Goldeneye

For about a week now around Little Falls

Wow! No luck for me yet.

This will be my first year to apply. I don’t think I’m ready to get drawn yet but should be by the time I pull a permit. Sounds like a once every 3 year average around here. Who knows, maybe I’ll have to GET ready sooner!

All my calls are the same old Primos gear I bought when I got in the sport like 25 years ago. My acrylic slate is always the first one I start with. It’s the one I have the most control with and can get the most variety of tones from. My hinge box is my second favorite. I started with diaphragms and eventually learned to do pretty good without anything, just my own mouth calling. But I didn’t realize how much I was practicing it or something else changed cuz I’m not good at it anymore. I can still cluck and purr OK and throw out a good enough gobble but the bread and butter yelping with a couple cuts has MUCH work to be done!

That’s a dandy! Congrats on getting your dog tuned in.

2 tries and 0 results. Nice to be out anyway and looking around a new place. Found a dead doe today with foundered hooves. That was a first.

That hybrid is really cool! Agree with smurfy, awesome pics!

Can you claim that without having buffer strips in place?

I was holding out hope too for some more ice time but also pulled everything out in the driveway yesterday to dry, clean and wrap up for the summer storage season. Now waiting patiently for the river to open. Well, not waiting really, cramming as much honey do’s in as possible before they turn back into honey still needs to do it.