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The Six – Nevada, Missouri

February 5, 2017 By Tim Leave a Comment

Thursday morning, second week of the Missouri season, finds me en-route to Walker, Missouri to hunt at my friend Chuck’s place. Chuck and Gina Naas own about 60 acres, running about 35% timber. Chuck and Gina live here and early after they purchased the land, he jokingly name it The Six. This means if someone else bought the land, they would have subdivided it into six, ten acres lots. Chuck and I go back to our college days at Northwest Missouri State. I have hunted the Six for nearly eight years off and on. Chuck and Gina have graciously let me stay at their home a few times during spring season. Most years there are birds on his place. It is very to access. A decent riparian corridor exists along the creek, with scattered pecan trees in the bottoms. It is a great place to take a kid; however, you need a ground blind. I have taken my kids down there several times.

As always, I have to leave at 4:20 to arrive at 5:26. One hour and six minutes exactly. Besides the long drive, once I get there it doesn’t take more than three minutes to walk in. I decide this morning to simply pick a big tree on the east side of the bottoms and face west. The bottom runs maybe a quarter mile north to south and I’ve had turkeys roosted all along the east side in years past. This morning it was a dead zone. No gobbling, no hens, no nothing. I try hunting an overgrown patch above the creek south of his house and with the same result. I depart at 10:oo. Before I drove down he told me he’d been hearing a few off and on. I don’t know if the populations are down, or the birds are simply using different property this year. The weekend weather forecast again looks abysmal for Walker. I decide to focus my efforts back over in Kansas at Stranger 157. This is the second year in a row I have not harvested a bird in Missouri. It certainly doesn’t help that places I hunt are small, but I do believe harvesting a bird is possible even on small acreages. This will be the one and only time I hunt The Six this year. Rain and winds have hampered the days I’m available to hunt. I shall return for redemption in 2017.

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Turkey Fan Mounts

My passion for turkey hunting has grown into an obsession. So has the desire to create beautiful turkey fan mounts and turkey beard mount displays & plaques. When it's not turkey season, you'll find me in my workshop creating high quality display mounting plaques, with choice wood selections. Each one is hand crafted with your choice of footprint style on highly figured Curly Maple, Black Walnut, Curly Black Cherry, and Quarter-Sawn White Oak. Or any wood of your choice. All wood is finished with an oil-urethane finish that brings out the best of the wood grain. Turkey mounting plaques are designed to hold not only your tail fan and beard, but also the spurs. Select your choice of a wild turkey footprint style that highlights the wood grain. Your tail fan and beard install easily and can be replaced easily. Stump Jumper Designs offers you a unique and beautiful way to display the most sought after and majestic of all game birds, the wild turkey, Meliagris gallapavo.

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