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    Dept of Interior handed over to DOGE

    Yeah we will be paying the price of the sledgehammer approach for the next ten years. Flight of the best talent, creating an environment of corruption and mismanagement, plus the cost to fix all this crap once the American public starts to feel the pain of (somehow) even more incompetent federal...
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    Dept of Interior handed over to DOGE

    Musk initially claimed he could cut “at least” 2 trillion from the federal budget. He then walked it back with a new promise of maybe 1 trillion. The total annual cost of federal discretionary spending is $1.8 trillion. So how well is Musk doing? At best he’s cut $160Bn, but at worst he might...
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    Gobble gobble Spring Turkey 2025

    I’ll give it another hour and then hang it up for the day. At least I sound enough like a turkey not to scare the deer away.
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    Gobble gobble Spring Turkey 2025

    Same spot, early AM this time. Quiet birds today. So far just two hens filtered through the decoys.
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    Turkey help

    I try to call just loud enough to be heard by the tom. If you get a reply, I wouldn’t get any louder. I progressively try to get even quieter, and call less often. Real hens are not particularly loud. If you are safe from being seen, thrashing a stick around in the leaf litter can sometimes get...
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    Zero Outfitter Fees??

    The guys who draw are the ones who come on here and want info on the unit they’ve never heard of, then disappear forever. And half the time they’re being guided or put on some ranch anyways.
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    Gobble gobble Spring Turkey 2025

    First day out with my daughter. At the last minute I changed my mind about which public spot to hunt. As we are pulling up there is a strutter in the parking lot 😂 I want her to have an actual hunting experience, so we parked elsewhere and looped around 1/4 mile or so. We got set up and took...
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    Hunting Meme Thread

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    Facebook Marketplace Gold

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    Help Me Legalize Semiauto Rifle Big Game Hunting In Pennsylvania

    The trend for Iowa is AR’s in gun deer season. It is like Call of Duty out there. For every responsible AR hunter there is another one who is spray and pray. Conservation officers deal with shot people, livestock, and buildings every December. Zumbo was right. Be careful what you wish for.
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    Help Me Legalize Semiauto Rifle Big Game Hunting In Pennsylvania

    Anyone have a link to a petition to keep the law as it is? I’d be happy to sign that one.
  12. Pucky Freak

    Gobble gobble Spring Turkey 2025

    If you don’t dehydrate first, it ruins the texture. I submerge and soak overnight, rinse and slice lengthwise, then dehydrate and freeze. There are many ways to dehydrate - low-temp dehydrator, sun dry, or fan dry. I do not like a heat element (oven, etc.) as I think it produces a different...
  13. Pucky Freak

    Gobble gobble Spring Turkey 2025

    Met ten mushroom hunters afield, making turkey encounters a tall order. I tried pulling a private land tom off 3 hens this evening, but no dice. Precip and soil temp were just right this year, and mushrooms are everywhere. We all made out like bandits.
  14. Pucky Freak

    Iowa deer… who wants a tag?

    With all due respect, Ben, I think we took a wrong turn. An auction might bring in more $$ in the short term, but harm reputation in the long run.
  15. Pucky Freak

    Iowa deer… who wants a tag?

    Oh, man, how did I miss this thread? When the Governor’s tags began getting scrutinized around 2012 we realized what a dumb-ass idea it was to divvy out 75 celebrity tags to “promote” hunting in Iowa. Nonresident tags sell out every year, so there was zero ROI in the program. IA can still...
  16. Pucky Freak

    Gobble gobble Spring Turkey 2025

    Found a few morels, and heard my first gobble around 9:30. Caught up with the bird after 45 mins, and called/fanned (actually) 2 toms within gun range 3 times, but they would not cross a hog fence on to public. Two different real hens pulled them away from me twice. Did find two new morel spots...
  17. Pucky Freak

    Gobble gobble Spring Turkey 2025

    Set up with decoys last night between the two spots I previously heard roost gobbles. Did some calling and had a hen check out the spread. At sunset the only gobbles were very far away. Mushroom hunters are out in force, which bodes well for May hunting, as morels will be over by then. I was...
  18. Pucky Freak

    Gobble gobble Spring Turkey 2025

    Yesterday evening I had 4 hens in my little spot, and lots of fungi. 2 roost gobblers elsewhere, a quarter mile apart, and both on public. I need to decide if I want to pick a whole bunch more morels, or try for a turkey tonight.
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    Gobble gobble Spring Turkey 2025

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    2025 spring bear thread

    Add me to the mix in 4 weeks. It has been a long 3 year wait since my last MT bear trip.

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