Gobbler Nation

Well, since you liked the BPS, you'd love the Ithaca M37 which is the oldest designed pump still in production. It ain't cheap, however. The price is about what a Wingmaster 870 costs (not express). Suggested MRP is usually beat by a local gunshop which Ithaca will sell to at a discount. The quailit...

Don't fool yourself into thinking one gun will satisfy the itch. The late Phil Gramm said: "I have all the guns I need, but not all the guns I want." 12 gauge is the most versatile. It can shoot from 3/4 oz. or less to over 2 oz. or more depending on shell length. Once the glow of your fir...

If I were to buy an auto, it would be a gas operated Beretta, any model. The older ones are hard to beat. Gil

Welcome aboard on your first post. Do you have a price limit or range? Do you want an auto, pump, side by side or over and under?
Gil

Unless the gun doesn't fire, it's the old adage; "it's the indian,not the arrow" when it comes to killing turkeys. Gun brand is no more relevant to killing turkeys than the truck brand you drove to the woods.

That's tough. He looks relatively young.

Gil, have you tried a call holster to wear on your belt? Joe, I have, but every now and then it would jam on the ground when I'd sit. That's why I used to carry it around the neck. I don't carry a box all the time and it was convenient, but in hindsight stupid (and costly), to carry it in a unsecur...

I remember seeing his advertisements years ago and it struck me that he was copying the Cost design. He might not have been the first to utilize the same checkering and inlets (Mann and Williams, and maybe a few others did so with the Cost blessing), but his advertisements in the hook and bullet mag...

Nice sound. Does he sand flat a node to half cover the opening or is it plugged with wood? Gil

That's a great smile. Dad looks worn out which is expected.

I have two Cost calls left. Several years ago I converted 4 into $$. I kept my first, made in '77 which I bought in '78 for $25. The butternut was the last call I bought from him and my favorite. Over the years up until the early '90s, I bought a dozen from him and gave seven to friends. I was lucky...

Joe, the silver lining in losing the Paul box was that it wasn't one of my Neil Cost boxes. I had started carrying the "pocket" Paul call because of its size. Otherwise, the lost call would have been most likely my butternut Cost box. Gil

HartClemson99 wrote:Does anyone have a list of states where you can't hunt with a 28ga or 410 for turkeys? I'm going to chase the slam next spring with one of the two and I don't want to plan any hunts where it won't be legal.

What guns?

Joe, it was loose in my ghillie top pocket and must have fallen out in one of the most gawdawful tangles of ti-ti and cat brier my compass ever lead me into coursing a pre-dawn gobble.

I lost one like the bottom one depicted this past season. Holly and ebony. Henry Davis edition, short box. Nice sounding. It is in a ti-ti bay hopelessly lost. I was probably airborne walking limb to limb to get through the growing hell. P'Od about losing it through stupidity. Bastard bird stayed on...

They look great, but do they sound as good as they look??

What are the dates of your season??

The only other speed shooter that I've seen shoot that fast was Legolas Greenleaf. (Look him up.)

Good gravy, Tommy, that is quite a bird--8' wingspan? Wow. What's the power plant? Jepson's hangar is incredible. You could eat off the floor. I've never been up in a WWII era plane, but had the privilege back in 2006 of cruising in the last battle-trim PT Boat. PT 728 built just before war's end wa...

If any of you ever head down I95 into Ga, a few miles past the SC/GA border is the Mighty 8th Museum along 95. It is a marvelous tribute to the men of the Greatest Generation, the "citizen soldiers" such as Jimmy Stewart, who flew the B17s and B24s during daylight raids into the heart of G...

Tomgirl, Lookie what I found on Dirty Gert, a B24 Liberator:
http://forum.armyairforces.com/Anyone-w ... m6098.aspx

http://www.b24bestweb.com/dirtygert1.htm

Very cool Tommy. As a fellow WW II A/C junkie, I am jealous. I used to be a member of the Confederate Air Force and have spent lots of time in and around warbirds but never got the chance to fly in one.Did get the chance to work on a B-25 being restored down in Harlingen, Tx, but the B-17 was the c...

Tommy, I missed a chance to fly in the Belle a few years ago. It was neat seeing her fly through the local skies, however. Good move getting on board. A local man has a collection of P51 Mustangs, but the B17 always captured my imagination as a kid growing up in the fading shadow of WWII.

Ronnie, I thought the selling point was that "Benelli Badonka" Pro Staff sounded better than "Mossy Badonka" Pro Staff. But actually, Mossy Badonka has a ring to it.....

My insteps are too high for slide on/slide off boots of any kind. Gotta have a zipper or laces. It's good to hear that someone makes a snake proof Muck Boot. Here's a story about a man who couldn't find his snake boots and went out with his Muck boots instead. Not a happy story. https://www.facebook...