Recent content by TheBenHoyle
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Turkey help
The bad weather sounds like it was your downfall. If you had had a little more time to work that bird you might have been able to get him to come to you. I am no expert in calling, but I have called many turkeys in. Sometimes I feel like I have called too much and other times I haven't called...- TheBenHoyle
- Post #5
- Forum: Other Big Game
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Gobble gobble Spring Turkey 2025
I got it done today on public land. This is my 5th turkey and the 2nd public land turkey. I hunted this area for 4 years with no success until now. Great day for it.- TheBenHoyle
- Post #376
- Forum: Feathers and Wings
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As they lay
This Tom really knew how to go out on full display.- TheBenHoyle
- Post #2,344
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Ben's semi-live 2025 hunt thread
Sunday morning I got to the spot and set up in the same spot with the same decoys. I had considered not bothering with decoys, but I have seen decoys work before so I figure better safe than sorry. Sun starts coming up and I hit the jackpot. I have gobblers all around me and a lot of them are...- TheBenHoyle
- Post #7
- Forum: Live Hunts
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Ben's semi-live 2025 hunt thread
At that point, I was ready to hit the road so I could get back to my parents' house and get right to sleep, but as I was shutting my back hatch a car pulled in. Guy asked if I had heard any gobbles and I told him I had only heard the one. I asked him if he was hunting this season o this public...- TheBenHoyle
- Post #6
- Forum: Live Hunts
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Ben's semi-live 2025 hunt thread
Super tired on a Sunday night, but I want to get this update in before my super busy week starts. I was able to roost a couple of gobblers Friday night and it fit in with the plan I had in my head for Saturday morning. I hustled back to my parents house and got to bed just in time time to get...- TheBenHoyle
- Post #5
- Forum: Live Hunts
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Ben's semi-live 2025 hunt thread
I have a 3rd season turkey tag for some public land near my parents house in NW IL. As soon as work is done I'm on the road west. Hopefully I can get into place before sunset to roost a bird. I have hunted this piece a few times so I feel pretty good about my chances. I'll be out there Saturday...- TheBenHoyle
- Post #4
- Forum: Live Hunts
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What won't you hunt?
It would be easier for me to list the species I am interested in hunting. A lot of that is that realistically I won't be traveling outside the US to hunt and I'm almost 50 so the chances I could take a lot of different hunting trips is very limited. So I have a list of species I would like to...- TheBenHoyle
- Post #116
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Ben's semi-live 2025 hunt thread
Well I had two nice days of spring woods hunting, but ultimately no turkeys. Tuesday was super windy and I thought maybe I heard turkeys, but I also thought maybe I was just trying to make distorted goose sounds into turkey sounds. Like I said it was super windy and I couldn't be sure of any...- TheBenHoyle
- Post #3
- Forum: Live Hunts
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Ben's semi-live 2025 hunt thread
Sunday night here. I just have to make it through work tomorrow and then I will be on my way out to my parents' house to sleep so I can get up before the dawn Tuesday to try to get a turkey. I have to come home Tuesday night for a band concert for my youngest and then I can hunt Wednesday if I...- TheBenHoyle
- Post #2
- Forum: Live Hunts
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Tariffs
Just a follow up from my earlier post, looks like my company is expecting our cost of goods to go up this year by 23%, higher in some areas and lower in others. But our total spend on the goods we buy will go up 23% this year over last year. That's a big hill to climb.- TheBenHoyle
- Post #101
- Forum: Money and Finances
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Tariffs
We are a wholesale supplier of office products and janitorial supplies.- TheBenHoyle
- Post #65
- Forum: Money and Finances
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Tariffs
My current employer is floundering do in large part to the fallout from inflationary price increases back in 2023 that were mismanaged. And we are just now beginning to get tariff price increases from our suppliers, so I am sure that is going to help that situation out. I am looking for a new...- TheBenHoyle
- Post #10
- Forum: Money and Finances
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Ben's semi-live 2025 hunt thread
I had the official first outing of my season 2025-2026 on Saturday. I was a little bummed that I didn't get a chance to close out my prior season with a coyote hunt but February was just too busy. But I have a game camera that needed a new antenna and a new piece of public I wanted to scout for...- TheBenHoyle
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- Forum: Live Hunts
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Gobble gobble Spring Turkey 2025
As for my plans, I have three Illinois tags. I have a tag for the county my parents live in. I a hoping that I can hunt the woods I got my turkey in 2 years ago. It is the 1st season so I plan on taking a couple days off work to hunt that tag since there are no weekend days in that season. I...- TheBenHoyle
- Post #33
- Forum: Feathers and Wings
