idn713

That’s the way to do it boys!

So after a 11 year hiatus from turkey hunting (due to not having a private access to turkey) I decided to put my nose to the grindstone, cut the pity party, and get after some birds on public in NY. Started scouting the first week of April and found some birds. I worked them a bit this week with a close encounter on two big Toms. Those birds gobbled up a storm with hens yelping everywhere. Ultimately that set was busted due to a hen at 5 yards who didn’t like the set and set out away from me putting and leading the Toms off. I went back to the same area this morning and sat for a good 2 hours occasionally yelping and scouting around without a single gobble or yelp. Discouraged I headed back to the truck and decided that at 8 AM, the morning ain’t over and I should check out another public spot across the road. Well I get on to a logging trail that is in the timber and I get to a private field where it meets public. Let out a few yelps and POW, I got a tom hammerin about 200 out in the field. I play a few soft sequences with him and I got him coming on a rope, I lift my head to see him sprinting to the field headed to the public timber, right to me. I kneel behind my big pine tree and get the red dot up, he doesn’t even hesitate charging through the hedge from the field and skirts behind a mound 30 yards away from me. He pops the head and neck over the mound, and I say “you’re done”. Pulled the trigger on the 410, and I got my first Tom in a long time and my first ever public land bird! 18lbs, .75 spurs, 7.75 beard. Not the biggest, but a mature bird and one hell of a memory!

So after looking into it, I now understand how the surge system on most boat trailers now work. Here is the weird part, I have been around a lot of boat trailers and around quite a few that are new but only have the 4 pin wiring system. So that would mean no electronic stop for the surge brakes, and the lockout key would be the only way to back the trailer up, yet I have NEVER seen anyone use a lockout key. Like ever. Most of the trailers again didn't have the electronic brake stop so is it possible that damn near every trailer I have seen to this point just isn't using it's surge brake system when in reverse? Or is it that at slower speeds the surge system is not being acted upon with enough force to actually engage the brakes, which would allow for backing the boat in at ramps or at your house into the garage. Just seems weird I have never once seen or experienced a surge brake lockout.

Huh, looks like you are right and I do have the lockout tab (not installed) but I don’t think I have ever once had my brakes lock up in reverse. Again this is a 2019 trailer in almost new condition so wouldn’t it be unlikely the brakes are already not working?

Now this is confusing becuase by this logic if I manually tried to push it into my garage when I got home (which I’ve done with like 5-6 different brand new boats at different locations) then the brakes would lock up and it would never go in reverse? To be clear, the electrical hookup on this trailer only operates the lights. Also, I did not pull out the breakaway cable, the S hook simply bent. I was under the impression the brakes were for emergency runaway trailer purposes only and that’s what the point of the breakaway cable is. I’ve never had any issue ever backing up a single axle boat trailer regardless of the plug being plugged in.

I feel like the population in certain locations is certainly boom or bust. The western NY portion of the state definitely seems hit or miss, or the birds just aren’t hitting fields in those particular habitats.

Update it def has brakes as you all pointed out, just don’t think it was pulled enough obviously to make them kick in. I like this threaded chain link idea and I’ll be putting one on my breakaway cable as well.

Seems odd, I never noticed a difference in any way shape or form regardless of the pull or not pull. Doesn’t that seem odd for a 2019 trailer? It’s too new to be faulty in that way

Right, my safety chains use a s hook with a retaining clip. Been around boats my whole life so I do know what’s what, but I wasn’t sure about the functionality of the breakaway cable on a single axle trailer without a obvious braking system. Like why would they put it on there?

Tried, it’s crazy resilient

So I have a 2019 175 Alumacraft Competitor, sits on a single axle simple trailer, no brakes of its own. Due to an imprudent pull away while the breakaway cable was still attached, I bent out the S hook on the cable. Now it drives me nuts because it’s too thick to bend back and it doesn’t want to hook on to the hitch well anymore. Does this thing even do anything on a trailer with no braking system? Or is it just a internal fail safe system that is only triggered if the cable breaks away. I ask becuase I’m thinking of getting rid of it altogether. This might be the dumbest question of all time but I don’t know the answer so it can’t hurt to ask.

Lol not butt hurt at all and glad to know you think it can be better. Hope you have a good Turkey season

#8 by Burgess Creek. 3 inch shells.

Really? With 5 in the brain and close to 30 landed on the head/neck. I feel very comfortable at 40 all day long. And no I didn’t. I’m going with the 410z

In case you were wondering what 410s do at 40 yds to turkeys nowadays. TSS is amazing.

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With the advent of TSS, this is now the dumbest law in existence.

I have the 410 for light packability and versatility on state land. I got a patternmaster code black choke and I have several shot sizes that I will be trying soon. I will report back on the results soon! Watch the Blue Collar Outdoors boys on Youtube, they are an incredible resource.

Another one smoked. The turkey better thank me for this 😂

Got on my first coyotes ever this season! The first pic was an alpha female that manny called in for me! That was a great hunt and I dropped her like a rock at 100 yds. And last night I scored a double over a bait pile! Was a boring wait for the pack to come out but once they were on the deer I put 2 good shots on them to smoke two yotes from about 200 yds out. Sidenote, I am shooting a Ruger American Predator in .204 and I gotta say not only is this rifle crazy accurate, but everything I’ve shot with the 40 grain v max bullets has not taken a single step. Foxes, yotes, whatever, once they get hit with the bullet they go straight down. I love this rifle.

Hey guys, when do you typically start to hear gobbles in Western NY? I am actually going to be serious about scouting some public for turkey and wondering when I should start. I would like to be able to actually try to get some natural or shock gobbles if I could so I’m not just strictly looking for sign. Any ideas of when they start to fire up so I am looking for less of a needle in a haystack?

Put a roadkill deer out for yotes and foxes but today crows were all over it. I had nothing better today so what the heck, I’ll do a crow shoot. Got to the spot, hid in the hedge and fired up the icotech call with crow gang calls. In ohhhhg roughly 2 minutes I had a gang of crows all over me, I folded one immediately and missed like 5 others lol. In the future I’ll need to figure out the scouts first cause after I opened up they boogied pretty quick. I gotta say, crow hunting is pretty fun! Fast and furious is an understatement!