I put these up here for the benefit of those of you who have not caught up with the rest of the world and joined Facebook. And for those of you who really don't care, sorry. God has been very gracious to me this spring, as He has granted me favor in bringing a few parts of creation under my dominion. Thank you, Lord. And thanks to the landowners for their generosity! And to my new hunting buddy, Charlie.
This is the first turkey I killed this year, 3 yr old bird, 10" beard, 1.25" spurs, about 20 lbs. Awesome hunt after he gave me the slip the previous morning. Hadn't killed a bird in a couple of years, but this one went really smooth!
The next time we went out, no turkeys, but Charlie finished off this 200 lbs hog after I made it mad with some OOO Buck, great shot Charlie! I missed another one that morning too with my pistol...
This is the second turkey I killed a couple of weeks later. Never killed 2 birds in season, usually stop with one, and got skunked last year for the first time in a lot of years. 2 yr old bird, 7" beard, 1" spurs, maybe 17 lbs. You can see the tail feathers are a little messed up, long morning--picture perfect, Outdoor Channel stuff until I pulled the trigger, but I will spare you the details. It sure is a story to pass along someday...
Then later that week, Charlie and I went out again, and waited on a gobbler that gobbled for an hour, then went the other way--that's turkey hunting. But then we stumbled upon this little piggy. And after a couple of 12 ga slugs, and .40 cal pistol rounds, I killed my first ever wild hog!
Rattlesnakes are fairly common here in South Georgia. In our area, though, we most have Eastern Diamondbacks. But as I drove home, I saw this beautiful Timber rattler, (some of you may call it a Canebrake) in the road dead. I knew that my girls would love to see it, so I brought it home. It had 10 rattles and the button, was about 4 feet long, and had fangs that were almost a full inch. And my oldest was telling her Nana what she had been doing that day, and she included "playing with the rattlesnake" in her list...too funny.
Sorry, I didn't get a picture of the fangs, they were really cool...
