2022 Hunting Picture Thread.

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I can't believe it is already time for a 2022 hunting thread.
I guess I will kick it off with this morning's spring turkey!
4/5/22.
Turkey season opened yesterday morning. My neighbor and I share a border of some pretty good Turkey hunting property. We usually hunt opening week together. We doubled on the second day of the season. His was a HUGE Tom that pulled 29lbs on my deer scale. Mine was a normal sized bird that we didn't weigh. Both birds had 8 inch beards and 1¼ inch spurs.
Jim only has a first season permit, where mine is an all-season landowner permit....so he takes first shot. Jim toppled is bird with a 45yd (stepped off) shot with his 3" magnum 20ga benelli.
My bird came rushing in after the shot to see what all the commotion was about and got somersaulted by my H&R with a 3" 12ga load of #5s!
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We doubled back in 2016 and took pics on the same tree! Dejavu!
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It was a dreary morning, but we enjoyed the comfort of a popup blind with good chairs. We had a beautiful pair of wood ducks that claimed the puddle of water directly in front of us. We watched them with our binos all morning.
 
Way cool! I used to run around public land trying to kill a bird. I have called them in close but not enough to shoot. Gave that up about 8-9yrs ago. I do love the sound of one gobbling on a cool, foggy spring morning.
 
What I am sure is that it was big!
We weighed it on one of those spring deer scales from cabelas...probably accurate at 200 but not so much at 30ish.
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My bird us a normal sized mature Tom with 1¼" spurs and 8¾in beard. (Hanging by spurs on the limb). My bird is on the left.
When we first spotted him with our binos, we could tell he was big.
 
FL-NC said:
29 POUNDS? Are you sure that wasn't some mutant cross bred with an ostrich? I shot a 26 pound tom in Iowa a few years back that was the biggest bird I have ever seen! Trying my luck in Tn in a couple weeks.
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We have been down to Pall Mall, TN several times at the end of March for a BP shoot. We always see birds around there.
Beautiful country.
Good luck! Post pics!
Mushrooms?
 
Armored farmer said:
We have been down to Pall Mall, TN several times at the end of March for a BP shoot. We always see birds around there.
Beautiful country.
Good luck! Post pics!
Mushrooms?
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We looked for those morrels in Iowa a few years ago after we tagged out on turkeys. I don't know that they have them in Tn. We will be near Nashville.
 
FL-NC said:
We looked for those morrels in Iowa a few years ago after we tagged out on turkeys. I don't know that they have them in Tn. We will be near Nashville.
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Ask around....I think they do. I know Kentucky lake area is like mecca for folks around here to go 'shrooming.
Keep a sharp eye for them . Wild turkey and morels......! Oooh!
 
Beavers started hitting my folks' place again, which I discovered while doing some lawn work for them. I noticed several downed and missing trees including small and medium-sized trees. Set up 75 yards from the creek and took them both on the opposite bank at 85 yards. I have video, but the video is more boring that the picture, LOL. 6.5 Grendel & Hornady SST 123 gr. bullets.

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I was squirrel hunting on the last day of the season here in CT (Feb 28) with my custom built .36 flint lock. I saw a squirrel run up a tree and dive into a hole about 25' up. I took a stand about 35 yards from the tree where I could watch the hole, waited about 10 min and began to use my squirrel squeaker call. Just as I was ready to give up, I spied some movement about 40 yards out. A coyote was coming to my squirrel squeaker noises. One shot from my .36 put the dog down at about 30 yards. A satisfying last day hunt. CIMG0242.JPG
 
64187D32-23FB-4439-A407-0DD8E405E65C.png Killed a decent 10 point this past January, 2022. Got in the stand around 3:00 pm. Kind of warm, which is not unusual for South Miss.

Around 3:45 to 4:00 PM, I observed a buck running through a pine thicket. He hit a narrow opening, and I fired. My shot hit him a bit too far forward. The 130 gr .270 Win bullet hit him where the neck meets the shoulder and about as high on the body as a normal kill shot is.

The 10 point buck hit the ground, not moving. Distance was only 60 to maybe 70 yards.

Observed he was still alive when I got there. Shot him twice with my 1911, and helped him transition to death.

Pics of the skull mount
 
Tried my hand at crossbow hunting to take advantage of the long season. Bought it from my treestand as Christmas present to myself last December while freezing my butt off. Lol. But drew first lood of the season this morning. Opening day in WI and 3 does came in at 7:15am. She was the biggest and eventually presented the shot. Needless to say I'm hooked! Happy to still have a buck and 2 antleress tags left. 20220917_091147.jpg
 
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