Can't Find a Shed!

 It's still a month until Ohio Turkey Season but we have this:

A couple nice gobblers in full strut.

I did the camera tour this week while carrying my buffalo rifle.

It's a couple pounds heavier than my regular hunting rifles.

I just wanted to see if it was a big deal to lug it around.

Not too bad but I didn't carry it all day long either.

I shot a group off sticks at 60 yards, then an offhand group from 20 yards, then a group from 60, then offhand again at 20.  Not perfect by any means but they should have been fatal on a buff.  Good full magazine practice, cycling and reacquiring the target.

I gave it a good cleaning - the first  one I think.  Not exactly following a classic break in routine.

I had two big walks looking for shed antlers.  This is a trail thru the prairie plot.

I checked all the food plots.

This is the turnip field that I hit with roundup and frost seeded clover.  Not much yet.

On the field edges, I keep finding historic trash dumps.

Not sure if this is woodpeckers?

Some sort of amphibian eggs in the vernal pond.

Hard to believe that it's been 4 years since we had the grandkids with us at the start of Covid.

Sunday morning sunrise.  I covered a lot of ground and not one shed antler.

What did this coyote get?  I can't tell if it is a bird or a beast.

This is 1/4 mile away and still carrying around.

This guy looks lame.

No privacy.

A series of white tails.

Curious.

Antlerless buck?

Conflict.

One of the few remaining with antlers.

Turkeys.

Here's some trailcams from Alex's first time driving any vehicle.

Investigating a poop of the week.