My son gets to go on the Minnesota youth hunt this Saturday. The land owner where his hunt is taking place says there are a lot of birds. He had twelve Toms in his yard all at the same time last week. Two days earlier he was watching birds in his field through binoculars. He lost count at 38 and there were 10 Toms and 11 Jakes. It should be fun for him and I both. He has a Mentor from the NWTF that is actually doing the calling. After the morning hunt there is a luncheon for the kids at the local DNR office where the media will be interviewing them. I don't know who is more excited him or I ?? My hunt takes place May 14th in Wisconsin.

 

well hell. A gigantic prairie fire on Ft Carson last night wiped out my hunting plans. It was 9000 acres when I went to bed- evacuated entire neighborhoods, shut down the highway.

You could see the glow from my back porch. A firefighting plane crashed and killed the pilot. Only with better weather today have they gotten on top of the fire.

There goes my hunting spot for turkey. Today, literally right this moment I was supposed to be out there chasing down a flock of turkey I scouted late last year.

Instead those birds are already cooked......

Sadly another fire to the south burned down most of a town, which was completely evacuated just in time. Only a couple died there.