Snow birds this morning

Dave Parks

Dave Parks

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Theer wee 8 wood ducks on the little pond here by the house when I got up this morning. By the time I got dressed and grabbed the camera they had taken off. A short time later our resident pair of honkers flew in from the big pond by the barn and by the time I dug out the camera again 3 jakes and a tom joined them.

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A small tom and a jake.

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The pair of honkers.

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I just looked out the kitchen window, the geese and turkeys are gone now. but a pair of beautiful wood ducks just landed and I see the snow is starting to come down again.

BTW I did manage to get a photo of our rarest jake Rio Grande....a FOUR LEGGED one! Amazing isn't it????
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:^) Dave
 

Dave,great pics.What kind of mower do you use to cut white grass?Bird season over on Thursday.I have nine plump Bobs left for some fun on closing day.I always uee the .410 on the last day.Thoes that are lucky may breed next month.
3Dogs
 
Nothing like getting them fat and tamed up before the season starts. Your turkeys are very nice looking birds out there.

Tim
 
dave

where are you we are having a spring speck hunt and you are no where to be seen

thats ok we shot 10 on saturday and 8 on sunday and i am still trying to dry out from all of this lovely snow.

i have the perfect loads that a buddy just gave me for those pesky turkeys 1 7/8 oz of #2 power pistons

hope all is well
 
Hi Matt,

you are the one who has not been heard from in a long time. I have not seen you since that time at Bob Houks right after he'd moved in! Glad you are having fun shooting Specks. With all this snow I'd have about as much luck making it over the pass as the Donner party.

Judy got a call at 4:45 this morning telling her that scholl had been called off because of snow. That's the 3rd time in 6 days and it looks like it may be called off again in the morning.

1-7/8th's sounds like a good goose load to me. Have fun swimming in that snow over there in the Banana Belt. Bob has 4 foot drifts up against his doors and can't get out of the house. They have been entering and leaving via the chimney like Santa I hear. Oh well, that's life when you live in a Banana Belt.

Dave
 
Please don't post any more turkey pictures. I already have the fever and may not be able to go a single day this season due to finishing my thesis... and your not making it any easier. :)
 
spring turkey season is right around the corner...


alright- i'l wait a couple of months... but it's closing in! =)
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Our season opens on March 15th so I'm almost ready to count down the hours... :)
 
Dave

So how much snow do you have? Last I talked to my gramps they were expectiong 10" of snow down to 2500 ft. What's your elevation up there? Got any pics of the snow????? It's 80 degrees here and my tan is coming back! February and I'm already tanning out at the pool. You'd think we were down in the tropics or something :)

Geese, ducks, turkeys...all right outside the window. Can't get much better. When does the season open up for turkey lurkeys?
 

If turkeys would sit for pointing dogs,I'd hunt them.Flying....I want them FLYING!
Fair Winds
3Dogs
 
We had a little over 15" of snow here, but betwrrn yesterday afternoon and today it's all but gone. The sun came out, it warmed up to 43 degrees and it melted away in short order. Ya, Ya, Ya, I hear ya on the tanning business, but if all I had to do was laze around a pool in a bathing suit in 80 degree weather..........Shucks....I'd look like the red-neck that I am. And besides, you DO live in the tropic's.......ya even have GATORS and Crocko-mindile's!

They got about a foot of snow over in Rogue River I heard. Like here, it did not all come at once. It snowed some everyday for a week. The most we had at any one time was about 9 inches on the ground. Judy was called 3 days during this past week telling her that shools on her route were closed due to snow. The days she did drive the school bus the roads were pretty bad but we never had to chain the bus up. It did seem funny to see my van, trucks and the big school bus sitting here all covered in snow. I didn't get any pic's when the snow was deep......to cold and snowy to take any.

Give your mom my best,

Dave
 
For the 1st time in years I won't have to call in sick for the opening day of Missouri's Turkey season. My odd days off finally pay off. Our weather here has been trying to live up to the old saying, if ya don't like the weather wait ten minutes. On wed night we had T storms 3/4 hail and 45 mph gusts at my house, and I woke up to Snow flurries the next morning.

Kyle



Gobble Gobble !
 
Cool! Nice to be able to make an opener without taking time off work. Do you have any good turkey hunting around Independence Kyle, or do you have to travel a ways to find an area to hunt?

Good luck on your "T" season!

Dave
 
Lotsa great spots around Independence, But the local law enforcement wouldn't look too kindly on it. We hunt our Turkeys on the same Cattle farm we duck, goose, snow goose this week and deer hunt on. We go about 60miles north Around Cameron Mo.

Kyle
 
So, is part of the State closed to turkey hunting or is it just a "no discharging of firearms" area around Independence? You have to forgive me Kyle, I'm from the West and I don't understand about a NO HUNTING area. Out here we can pretty much shoot anywhere, except at patrol cars :^)

Good luck on you T hunts.


Dave
 
Sorry, yeah Independence is all no discharging weapons area. They pushed it to the point that you couldn't even shoot a bow inside city limits. Last year the city finally made it legal to bowhunt deer inside city limits as long as you are on 15 continuos acres or more. Missouri Department of Conservation says you can bow hunt inside city limits as long as you have permission from the landowner regardless of acreage.

Oh Well life in the city.

Kyle
 
Yep he scored 134, that was 2004's buck. I finally got a long ranged deer gun, Ruger MKII in 7 Rem mag, and this guy walked out 1ft away from my blind, he stopped a whopping 40 yards away broadside. One note to anyone hunting out of a pop up style blind, when shouldering a scoped rifle, make sure you haven't lifted the open window with the barrel. Ameristep was kind enough to send me 1 yard of material for free.

Kyle
 
yea that 7mm mag is a great longrange caliber im shooting those federal fusions with a 165 grain seirra lead tip, my 05 buck i one lunged him at 200yds and he walked about 5 yrds before collapsing. i liked the mag so much i went and bought the little brother 7mm-08 for a thick woods close quarters gun. up here in vt the best bucks we can get are 120s. at least now with our antler regs its making a huge difference. my dad and i shoot 7mags in rem 700s and my 08 is a model 7 but those MKII's are awesome to shoot. i got one in a 243 with a leupold vx2 6-18x40 i shoot for fox and coyote.

eddie
 
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