Congrats!

On a side note, not long ago our preacher preached on "Breaking the Spirit of Asherah." Basically the point was not to follow animalistic desires when it comes to lust, because we are not animals. If we act like one, we will end up like one. As hunters, we're most successful when animals are following their feelings. I thought it was a good analogy that I could relate to.

Congrats PCP

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Sorry I missed out on this thread the first day.

But I suspect it was rejecting the offering of that bird in the tree right over y'all's heads. I won't reject any offerings anymore after learning my lesson the heard way a few years back.

But congrats on breaking the jinx. I think you must have been just given a warning on the rejection, instead of a full-blown, bad ju-ju sho'nuff jinx.

Tread carefully.... and I'm glad you didn't ruin that gun with camo....

Thanks Hal! I really do hate to ruin the looks of the little Spanish lady by giving her a camo dip. I spent a lot of time removing that awful poly finish that Julio put on her in 1978, and I then rubbed her with tru oil and made her into a nice looking gun.

But you might have noticed in the pic that I put the toy gun away and brought out the turkey cannon to end the jinx. There never would have been a jinx if I'd been using it opening morning; it would have shot between then saplings instead of trying to go thru one.

So I learned a valuable lesson - use the turkey cannon until I have killed a few. Use toy guns only later in the season.

Yessir. Keep the toys put up until the big girls have had their breakfast....

Had a patch of rough luck that was bordering on a jinx last week....momentarily thought about switching guns to cure it. Luckily, I didn't lose my absolute mind and kept the big gun out.

Big gun = dead turkeys. It is that simple.

Congrats PCP!

Fred whatever you did for PCP fix me up too! I'll send ya a certified Rubbermaid check for my $50! Lol!

That's a sign of lack of confidence in the little gun. Give it another couple more seasons and you will eventually mothball the cannon, except for occasional sentimental excursion because you feel guilty for abandoning it. But you'll get over that soon enough also.

But I don't know what's wrong with shooting through a sapling. Here's a couple of saplings that were in the way of the good stuff, but the turkeys died anyway....

Wow Hal! I don't know how you killed the turkey after putting that many shot into saplings. My sapling looked like that but the turkey just walked away. Not the first sapling I've nailed, but I hope the last. The fact that the barrels are not on the line of sight on a sxs is a bigger issue than I realized it would be. Since the foul-up, I've been more conscious of it, and I've been in several situations where it could have easily happened again. Got to be really aware of it when I use a sxs. Of course, got to be aware that the barrel is below the sight on the SBE. I once finished killing a cedar tree that I had pushed over with the dozer the fall before when shooting at a gobbler. It was about 3' in front of my barrel and absorbed the whole load. The red dot was right on the turkey; the barrel was right on the cedar. That turkey just walked off too.

My turkey I killed was 39 yds, so I'm sure the little gun would have killed him. Not ready to switch back yet.

I didn't kill either of those saplings. One was my nephew, and the other, I can't recall who it was. But both were using TSS 9s.

I bet if you just used a bead, you wouldn't be shooting so many saplings anyway.....

Don't listen to me. I'm getting a bit edgy these days as I've only gone out once so far, and ain't heard or seen hide nor hair of a turkey. I'll be in a better mood when I finally get to kill one....

So it sounds like the dounuts and red hair color really works, I,m going to remember that, my wife will probally be a redhed shortly after she goes to sleep tonight