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KY Reports Record Gobbler Harvest
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Early Start on Food Plots
We got a late start on food plots last year. I didn’t buy the tractor until way after Turkey Season, so we started with fall plots planted in September. This year, I ordered seed early. Moose started prepping the one new plot in early April, taking advantage of the dry … Continue reading →
Turkey Post-Mortem, 2026
We wimped out. If you really want to know, we stopped turkey hunting over a week ago. We were down at camp. We were going out, but our hearts just were not in it. Moose went to work on the food plots. I ran to Maysville on errands. Angus left … Continue reading →
Shaman Finally Scores
This morning marked the eighth time out to the Honey Hole this season. I had a lot weighing on me. Earlier in the week, I missed a gimme shot at a nice gobbler. I had trouble picking the bird up in my scope and finally saw a head and went … Continue reading →
KY Turkey Record Weekend
From KYDFWR: I wish somebody would tell the turkeys on my side of the ridge! Views: 8 Related posts: Honey Holes On Learning to be an Expert Turkey Hunter I’m Done! Know Thy Game, Know Thyself Turkey Season Transitions So you want to hunt turkeys, huh? The Myth of Hunting … Continue reading →
Angus Bags a Gobbler on the Opener
Angus was out at the blind at Blackberry this AM for the Opener of the 2026 Spring Gobbler Season. Just before 0800, a gobbler started to respond to his new Quaker Boy Easy Yelper. In the minutes it took him to run down from the opposing ridge, a doe and … Continue reading →
Mooselette Gets her Turkey Gun
Mooselette finally got her turkey gun on Saturday. It was months late in coming, but she will have it for Spring Gobbler Season. It didn’t always look like that was going to happen. The shotgun is a used Mossberg 535 12 Gauge. I found it at a steeply reduced (should … Continue reading →
Kentucky Afield TV- 2026 Spring Turkey Q&A Show
Good show from KY Afield Views: 4 Related posts: KY Afield Show Q&A on Turkeys Yute Season 2021 The Role of Personal Ethics in Hunting Report from Deer Camp — 2012 Opener What’s It Going to Be Like on the Opener? Elk Jitters have me bad What’s in your vest? … Continue reading →
PODCAST: A Visit to S10
We have a blind overlooking Dead Skunk Hollow and Gobbler’s Knob. It’s the cap of my old S10 truck. It makes a great listening post for turkey hunting. I went out with the recording gear and captured a bunch of gobblers waking up on the south face of Gobbler’s knob. … Continue reading →
Spring Rules are Out
Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources has released the rules for the Spring Hunting Seasons. There are no big changes. This summarizes what few there are: The full list of rules including spring gobbler and spring squirrel are here: Views: 4 Related posts: KDFWR Turkey Study Underway From the … Continue reading →
Push-Pin to the Rescue
For a lot of turkey hunters, a push-pin type call is the first call they master. Once they get on something else, they leave the push-pin behind. Yeah, I get it. A push-pin is kind of limited, but it does work. I especially like it for the terminal phase– for … Continue reading →
Scouting or Just Trusting Your Spot
From OldGobbler.com Here is my response: I have been hunting the same 200 acre farm in SW Bracken County, KY for 23 seasons. What I’ve found is that the turkeys are still roosting in the same spots and hitting the same pastures every year. We have a few honey holes … Continue reading →
A New Gunsmith
The thought hit me in early December that the Mooselette could stand a full-sized grown-up turkey gun. I had not finished my first cup of coffee before I found a swinging deal on a Mossberg 535 that was receiving no bids. Bang! I had it. It was on the way … Continue reading →
ENSO-NADA, The Turkey Dead Zone
I do a yearly shamanic weather prediction for another forum– what’s it going to be like on the Turkey Opener? I don’t claim to be a major expert. All I’m doing is going on https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/ and reading the tea leaves. I do it, more than anything to piss off the … Continue reading →
Deer Vanishing
From 24hourcampfire.com My answer: I don’t know if this applies, but here is what I’m experiencing in SW Bracken County, KY. First off, investigate the harvest numbers published by the state. I started tracking KY’s deer harvest numbers for my county and the surrounding area 25 years ago. What I … Continue reading →
PA Considering Moving Deer Opener
The Pennsylvania Game Commission is considering moving the Deer Opener back to before Thanksgiving. Here’s the press release. I expect there will be a furor over this almost as big as when they moved the Deer Opener to Saturday from Monday. The believe was that this was such an ingrained … Continue reading →
Where’s the Shaman?
I got up this morning and realized I had not posted since Christmas. Y’all are probably wondering what’s up. The answer is that I’m fine. Life’s great. I just needed some surgery. Life will be back to normal about 2/1. I’m having myself surgically altered to fit a deer rifle. … Continue reading →
Deer Season Post-Mortem, 2025
Overall, I’d say this was not such a bad deer season– not great by any stretch. Moose and Foxtrot Charlie both had no luck. We missed out on a truly great day. Monday of Opening Week, we had snow at the farm. Everyone had their excuses for not being there. … Continue reading →
The Turkey’s Back
The big ol’ Gobbler that I took last spring is back from the taxidermist and I’m very impressed. I picked him up Sunday on the way home from muzzleloader hunting. The taxi is named David Noem of Noem’s Wildlife Artistry. If you look on his right leg you can see … Continue reading →
Mooselette Bags Her 1st Deer
A guy like me has passed some milestones in his life: marriages, births, your son’s first deer. Mooselette and I passed a big one yesterday together. She killed her first deer. Yesterday was the Yute Opener in KY. They’ve extended the early season so it runs for a whole week, … Continue reading →
Trip to the farm
Moose, Mooselette, and I went to the farm over the weekend. There was lots happening. When I pulled up Friday noon, there were more truck parked along the road than I’ve ever seen. It looked like an auction or something. It was the concrete contractor making maximum effort to get … Continue reading →
O.T. and the 25-06
I’ve never fully written down the experience of acquiring the rifle from O.T. I probably should have while it was still fresh. The details fade over time. What I can say now is that the trip was easily the most poignant experience I’ve had in 40-some years of hunting. I’d … Continue reading →
The Fish Truck. The Tractor, and the ATV
It was a busy weekend for us on a lot of fronts. First off, Supercore decided to donate his ATV to camp. He’s still coming out for season, but he wanted to get the ATV out of his garage. It’s a 2016 Arctic Cat Alterra 450. It will become a … Continue reading →
Turkey Season Post Mortem, 2025
It’s over. The Shamanic Dream Team did not make it out for the last weekend. Moose had to stay home with Junior. Angus was dealing with a seasonal allergy. I was nursing a bad back. This all belies the real reason: nobody really wanted to be out in that much … Continue reading →
Moose Nails a Good’n at Honey Hole
The Shamanic Dream Team has tagged a gobbler on the Second Saturday of KY Spring Gobbler Season. Moose and MooseWoman went to the Honey Hole this morning. MooseWoman does not hunt, at least not yet. She just went to enjoy the morning with her squeeze. It was a near-perfect morning. … Continue reading →