DaFreakinFarmer

Almost all of the turkeys in Louisiana died. The 2025 snowstorm and 2021 ice storm finished off most of the ones that didn't perish in the 2016 flood. Terrible thing.

My daughter was 5 or so and would sleep in a hammock in the woods. She was a busy toddler and it would have been difficult when she was younger. She's been sleeping outside pretty regularly since then. My son has been sleeping in a tent since 3 or so. I never really pressed to take them when they were younger, but we would have managed at almost any age. You just have to prepare yourself they are young and set appropriate expectations. My wife is not an outdoors person so taking the kids when they were young was just me aside from one time my wife came and a storm blew through about 2am. She hasn't asked to go back in 20 years lol

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A 458 lott pushes a 500gr bullet at something like 2200 fps.

A 12ga 3.5" heavy TSS is moving 2.5 Oz (1094gr of shot, add a wad to that )@ 1000 fps. More than double the weight of a heavy 458 lott load.

3.5" 12ga shells are STUPID amounts of recoil. Its horrible.

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Pretty sure 3.5" TSS loads are about 3x the recoil of a 300win mag

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Which was dumb. Kenseth was extremely consistent that season. I looked it up: 1 win, 11 Top 5s, 25 Top 10s, an average finishing position of 10.3, and only 2 DNFs.

He earned the championship, even if he only had one win.

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I agree. That's why I never understood why they changed the points system, but they did because they wanted to put more focus on wins.

To find out how many longbeards are on a property so that you don't shoot too many, I can see where that would be useful.

To use cameras to aid in killing turkeys is for losers

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Old people have everything. Give them a pack of steaks

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Came here to post steaks or shrimp

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I would just be surprised a reptile surviving 5 ft in the air in single digits.

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I agree with you. I know the snakes build a fire to stay warm when it gets cold.

Full Rut Meat Shop in Walker makes the best snack sticks I've ever had. They are pricey, so it's the only thing I don't make myself. Every time I have got some from there they have been awesome. Had some from Tramonte's last week someone gave me and they were ok. Not terrible.

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They still aren’t hitting my corn??

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Deer don't have to eat corn. Even when you kill a deer at a feeder if you cut his stomachs open you'll see corn only makes up single-digit percentage of the total diet in most cases.

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In my experience, there is a very little chance any big deer gets killed by a still hunter in an area where dogs are used heavily.

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In my experience, you are full of shite. We've killed a pile of big deer and there have been dog hunters around us for 50+ years (including a couple years in the 90s when we had a guy in the club with dogs. We'd run on our lease a few times a year.

Dog's don't mess up hunting nearly as much as people riding their side by side to their stands every day and around property putting out 100lbs of mo-buck every few days. Dogs in the woods chasing deer is 100x more natural than the woods smelling like beer farts and sounding like a racetrack.