**OFFICIAL HUNTING THREAD**

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  1. wes tegg

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    What kind of turkeys do you have in Minnesota? Is it mostly Merriam's?
     
  2. lhprop1

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    All Easterns here. If I head 3 hours west, I could get 3/4 of my Grand Slam in South Dakota.
     
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  3. * J Y *

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    Turkey is so good.
     
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  4. SkilleyBinner

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    A dog got eaten this weekend by a gator in the lake behind my house. It caused a lot of commotion happening around noon yesterday, during several mothers day celebrations. I spoke to the game warden and finally got the go ahead to catch and relocate it. I put out 4 chickens last night. I am very excited to get home this afternoon and check my lines.
     
  5. lhprop1

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    CHOOT EM!
     
  6. NoleNBlue (Ret.)

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    Take it to the Trapper John thread, Trapper John!
     
  7. SkilleyBinner

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    Done deal. Caught him on a line baited with chicken. Foul hooked him in the tail and pulled him in sideways until we could get a lasso around his neck. Pulled him in, tied him to a tree and jumped on his back and taped him up. The alligator farm people showed up to take him away about an hour ago and measured him at 9'10". Not sure if you can tell from the pictures but he only had one eye, it looked like he had caught a shotgun to the face a few years ago.

    What I described is what happened, it just did not go nearly as smoothly as it reads. There were just two of us and we had our hands full. I am beat and just want to go to bed.

     
  8. * J Y *

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  9. Randy Bobandi

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    Mods please change title to catch and release thread.
     
  10. blind dog

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    My money is on Chubbs

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  11. Llama

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    Did he have puppy breath?
     
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  12. High Cotton

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    It's like he's looking up at you and still talking shit.
     
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  13. burnttatertot

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    :doge:
     
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  14. NoleNBlue (Ret.)

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    Delicious
     
  15. SkilleyBinner

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    Well it hasn't even been a week and two new monsters have moved in. They hit this guy on Friday night and were taking turns eating him this morning. I put one about 10' the other around 8'. It may be a busy summer keeping these things in check.

    I tried to spoiler this but couldn't get it to work

     
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  16. Lucky24Seven

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    Do any of you guys do any trapping? I got about 20 fox out on my golf course. I caught a few kits in some small traps but now none of them will come close to one. Even called two animal control places to see what they could do since he fox are moving into neighborhoods. Might be time to roll up my sleeves and get a new fox skin blanket.
     
  17. thunderstruck

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    Getting into a lease with my in laws that’s only about 30 minutes from my house. Outside of one or two hunts a year for the past 3 years I’ve been out of the game.

    Got a new block to shoot in the back yard, need to have my bow restrung, and go sight my rifle but I’m pretty pumped about getting back into it.
     
  18. wes tegg

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    I have no level of expertise in trapping, but I think fox are notoriously difficult to trap.
     
  19. blind dog

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    Only thing I've ever trapped are raccoons using those marshmallow traps. I'm guessing fox are too smart for that though
     
  20. Lucky24Seven

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    Yeah, I may have to wait them out with some sub sonic .22 rounds since I’m in the city. Probably the reason the animal control people haven’t called me back. I’m about ready to dig a big hole, put a few live chickens in it, then when the fox jump in for the chicken they can’t get out and I’ll bury the SOBs.

    Scarcasm with the burying them alive part
     
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  21. * J Y *

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    Where are you located?
     
  22. * J Y *

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    I used to be an expert at trapping pigeons in hav a harts and putting them in people's toilets with the lid closed in college ama.
     
  23. NoleNBlue (Ret.)

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    The city
     
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  24. SkilleyBinner

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    Southwest of Houston
     
  25. * J Y *

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    I may have to come help you with your gatah problem.
     
  26. SkilleyBinner

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    I'll let you know when I get a pattern on one. I have seen no sign of the big ones since the deer massacre. The lake I live on is about 300 acres so the big ones tend to move around a lot.
     
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  27. a.tramp

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    My old man harvested a nice Axis buck off of his land the other day.

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  28. NoleNBlue (Ret.)

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  29. a.tramp

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    There are about 20 or so that range through his property. I hope to put one in the freezer soon.
     
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  30. SkilleyBinner

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    Some good eatin' right there.
     
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  31. lhprop1

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    Keep the foxes and blast the yotes. Field and Stream had an article a month or two back about this, with all sorts of sciency stuff and it's pretty eye-opening. The higher the fox population, the lower the tick population, and that's most likely because foxes prey on small critters like mice that are the primary hosts for ticks. Once he coyotes move in and push the fox out, the tick population booms.
     
  32. Lucky24Seven

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    Yeah, they were cool at first but they pull up all the hazard stakes, chew my flag sticks, and shit on top of my sprinkler heads.
     
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  33. thunderstruck

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    I lol’d at that last reason.
     
  34. Lucky24Seven

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    It’s insane. Those MFers will let me know every single low spot by shitting in it. Then, I got guys that will drive and mow through it and leave poop smears down my fairway for 10 yards. SMDH...
     
  35. SkilleyBinner

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    We do some trapping for coyotes and foxes but depending on your surroundings your bicatch may be yard dogs and house cats, if you are running snares or have-a-hearts.

    The most effective way I have ever witnessed for removing both was using dogs. I have seen it done with plott hounds and curs that would bay the foxes into their holes (eventually) and also seen it done with 2 big cur dogs that would just bay and catch on their own. It's not for the faint of heart, but extremely effective.

    Not saying you need to go buy a bunch of dogs but depending on where you are there may be some guys in the area with dogs that would gladly run your ground for you a couple nights a week. And maybe even for free.
     
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  36. NoleNBlue (Ret.)

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    Train a pack of rescue dogs to do this. Championships.
     
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  37. Lucky24Seven

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    Took some pictures today and I’ll upload after work.
    Edit: Work Upload

    Culprit:
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    Low Spot Poop-a-Palooza:
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    Sprinkler covered in poo and someone mowed and smeared it: thunderstruck
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    When it gets stuck to a tire:
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  38. lhprop1

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    So, you're Carl Spackler with a new nemesis. Got it.

    Is your golf course giving you permission to get rid of them? Around here, we always hunt them at night. If your golf course will allow that and local hunting laws permit it, you might want to try that. Find someone with FoxPro call and get an AR with a night scope, then start blasting.
     
  39. Lucky24Seven

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    Got one of them this AM munching on a beaver dog. Anyone do any skinning and tanning of their own? I’d kind of like a fox pelt blanket. Got a taxidermist’s number I’ll be calling this afternoon, too.
     
  40. NoleNBlue (Ret.)

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    Make one of those hats like the kid on Christmas Story wears
     
  41. PSU12

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    Should go with this imo
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  42. NoleNBlue (Ret.)

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    Get your own material
     
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  43. Lucky24Seven

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    Course hasn’t necessarily given me permission, but they want them gone. One of those “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” deals. Got one with my 10/22, but I need an excuse to get a Compound Bow. Been putting it off for years.
     
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  44. NoleNBlue (Ret.)

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    Congrats on the new bow
     
  45. Lucky24Seven

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    About time to put that Hunter’s Friend Bow website you sent me to use.
     
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  46. NoleNBlue (Ret.)

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    Yezzir
     
  47. Bo Pelinis

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    Do it do it do it
     
  48. SkilleyBinner

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    The dogs caught one of our better hogs of the summer last weekend. We caught him in a milo field, 2 cur dogs tracked him and 2 80# bulldogs caught him. The boar went just under 375# on the scale. It was a wild ride grabbing a back leg so we could stick him.

     
  49. FarmerBrown

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    So who's all pumped up for dove/teal season, just 55 days away.
     
  50. Pharm

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    I really need to find some land in Jacksonville area. I have free reign back in South Georgia of a plantation as long as the owner isn't there showing it off. My dad "works" form him in his retirement. Basically just takes care of the place and my dad gets to hunt and fish all he wants. He is upset they made his favorite crappie pond into a huge duck pond that likely will only get wood ducks