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I graduated from Franklin County and had Mr. Jolly for several classes over the years. I don't really have a strong feeling either way on the video. He probably didn't do anything out of anger. She probably set him up. He should have kept his hands to himself. She probably needs her ass beat. He won't teach again. She will be worthless for her entire life. Teaching doesn't pay well enough to put up with the BS that teachers deal with. I am going to go beat my kid just to make sure she remembers to respect teachers. :p

I spent a couple hours this morning moving some friends of a friend out of their soon to be flooded home. We got the important stuff. The rest will have to be replaced. The water rose several feet in the time we were there and I know it will get into the house as the Red River crests.

For all the complaining I do about living on the side of a hill, I am dang glad I am sitting high tonight. Stay safe boys and girls.

I only shoot at hikers wearing TN VOL shirts/hats. ROLL TIDE

There used to be some hogs in middle TN but "WD40" killed them all. Georgia licenses for deer aren't cheap, not sure the regs on hogs, so they might have a cheaper option. Florida and Texas have sensible approaches to hog hunting. They allow you to feed year round, hunt over that food and kill as many as you can any time of the year. Tennessee wants to control hog populations, but doesn't want to let people bait or hunt year round. I don't understand how they can call an animal "feral" and a nuisance, but then keep regular hunting restraints on them. I guess Florida spoiled me.

Emailed Senator Tim Barnes and he will be voting to pass.

I have seen many fall to my Florida buddy's GP100 and Marlin .357's. He shoots XTP's but not sure what grain. Any of the heavier choices should work fine. Low and forward in the chest if you want a boiler room shot. I prefer the neck shot on hogs. Center mass of the neck. Usually makes tracking easy enough for Ray Charles. I will warn that I have never had one run off from a center of neck shot from a gun, but I have had them still alive when I walked over. If you are shooting a REALLY big boar, then you may want to try to get a quartering away shot and slip one in behind the front leg. Just keep it as low as you can. You have to be a lot lower than you would on a deer to get heart and lungs. Hogs have little bitty lungs.

If you have ever been to Tracy City, you might understand.

Get a couple of turkey loads and pattern them. You can use the 20ga. Pardner, but I would recommend keeping the shots to within 25 yards. My daughter uses an Undertaker choke in her 20ga and I make her keep shots within 30 yards. Just call them in close and you will be fine. Hunting with a .410 is better than not hunting at all. Just remember your limits.

I found 3 dead Turkey carcasses on the side of my road today. Breasts, Beards and feet cut off. I am positive some Jack-@$$ killed these three gobblers from the road on land he didn't have permission to hunt. I do have permission and I am the only one hunting there. I saw these 3 birds strutting next to the road on Sunday and I stopped and ran them back into the woods. I hate law-breaking poachers. I hope they choke to death on the meat. Luckily I have alternate places to hunt, but I am going to be royally peeved if I don't see the gobblers near the house again.

Great job Fenris. Congrats on the bird. My daughter and I went out after the birds this morning. Our first set up was a bust so I moved us just to the back side of a cornfield hill. I warned her that she had to be ready when the birds showed up because they would see her if she moved. She did so good for about 30 minutes while I worked a hard hammering gobbler. The gobbler hung up just out of sight and we sat patiently and waited. I noticed movement to my right and looked to see a hen eyeballing us. Just then Lana could see the gobbler and I hear her whisper, "He's huge Daddy". The hen started putting and easing away and I tried my best to coax her back, but she wasn't having any of it. The longbeard followed her over the hill and out of sight. We called a few more minutes, but no response. I told her we should probably go and I raised up to my knees. Just as I raised up two jakes come over the crest of the hill. I told her "Shoot, Shoot, Shoot". They turned and started walking away and BOOM. She shot just over his head. They were about 35 yards out and just at the edge of the 20ga range, probably too far to be honest. But I wasn't going to just let them walk off. I looked back at her after the shot and the recoil had rolled her off the tree and she was flat on her back, laughing her head off. We had a great morning and got oh so close to getting a bird. She said she had fun anyway. We saw two big coyotes just before sun up and that was the first time she had see one. I let her drive my new Tacoma 4x4 around the field roads and over a few bumps and hills. That really made the day for her. Nothing like throwing caution to the wind and letting an 11 year old take the wheel of a one week old truck. Definitely one of the best mornings I have spent in the woods. Perfect set-up, perfect calling, perfect bird and just one eye blink away from putting icing on the cake. I'd do it the same a hundred more times.

I have seen several on AEDC. Not sure the regs for hunting them on base though. I think they are open when any other season is open.

I have only had positive pull-overs. Even when I got tickets, the officers have been polite and accurate in writing me a ticket. One officer in FL pulled me over for speeding and then told me how my truck was out of alignment and was going down the road crooked. He had the same truck and the same issue. One officer accidentally kept my DL. I picked it up from him a few days later when I was passing back through his area. Didn't get a ticket on that stop, just a check to make sure 3 teenage boys were sober after pulling into a gas station to take a nap on the way to Talladega.

I got my name in the hat. Hoping I get drawn. What a great excuse to buy a new gun.

Nice Gobbler. I went this morning but only hens and jakes. 12 hens and 11 jakes altogether.

Your welcome. Good luck Saturday. I get to go back out for a Thursday morning sunrise hunt. Can't stay all day but hopefully I won't need it. One other thing I spent time working on before season was using a mouth diaphragm call. I especially worked on my soft calls. When it's raining a mouth call can save the day. When you are hunting alone and have a bird coming in and you have your gun up ready to shoot, but need a few soft calls to get him in 10 more yards, then a mouth call requires no movement. Just a couple soft putts or a purr could get you a bird. I am not an expert at mouth calls, but I did manage to get confident enough to use them in the field.

I have found that 3" shells pattern better in my buddy's 870. I patterned his with Winchester extended range Supreme's that are about 2-3x the cost of the regular supremes. I would shoot his to 45 yards with that load.

My best advice, FWIW, is that once you have them coming to you, stop calling and get on the gun, ready to shoot. Only call again if they hang up too far out. I have had many experts tell me this advice. They assured me that turkeys have such keen hearing that once they hear your call they know exactly where you are and will walk right to you. They don't need constant calling to zero in on. Even if your calling is world class, you can make one shy away with too much.

Way to go Brother! Glad to see you got one. Day 2 of Turkey season was HOT for me, but no bird on the ground. I could hear no less than 8 gobblers before sunrise. The pitched the opposite way as day 1 do I was in the wrong spot...again. I managed to call them back to me, but only 6 hens and 2 jakes. Passed on the Jakes at 30 yards. Gobblers cooled off a little once they got on the ground, but they did keep gobbling. While I was working a gobbler out in front of me, 3 came in behind me. I barely moved my head and off they went. Oh well, there is always tomorrow, well actually Thursday.

Called in 9 different hens all within 20 yards. Had 3 hens within 5 yards. I thought one was going to peck my boot. Heard gobblers early during the hurricane that was passing through at daylight. So I sat in the rain, and sat and sat and sat. No gobblers. Just more and more hens. Going back in the morning to get set up closer to where they were roosted and try to cut them off when they fly down.

I love my Henry. I am sure that you will too.

I found a stolen truck up in the mountains in Grundy County. It had been stolen and driven down a powerline clearing and ditched deep in the woods after it ran out of gas. I can't imagine the idiots that drove it in there and then had to walk out. Found a natural stone bridge and some nice bluff shelters in the mountains. I found a bum camped out in the woods in Florida. If I was a bum I would camp in the woods in Florida in the winter and the Mountains in the summer. He was a nice bum.

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Fingers crossed that my cam comes in soon!

Our birds were gobbling at 6:15. They flew down before 7. Sunrise was 6:42 and we should have been set up and still before 6.