Finally got a chance to go yesterday

[Sidekick]

I haven't had much opportunity to coyote hunt this season. Between cancer, the flu and some unfit weather I just haven't been able to go. Until yesterday. I started off the afternoon cutting wood but after my saw gascan came up missing and then I poked a hole in my boot I decided to do something else for a while. It was about ten degrees and sunny with light wind when I left the house on my atv. I only had time for one stand before dark and I didn't convince any coyotes to show but I did see something kind of unusual for this time of year. Five turkeys feeding about a half mile away with a tom strutting in the middle. I've never seen that in January or in snow before. I stayed pretty warm until I left to go back to the house. It was a 3 mile ride and I was pretty cold by the time I got home. Anyhow I took a picture or two to give you an idea of what kind of terrain we have in my part of Missouri. Not much to stop the wind.

[Hi Ball]

Hello Sidekick, now what you needed with you was an old SOB like myself to tell you all about hard times! However, I'll save those stories for another day ya hear me Sprout!!!
Well, I see a rifle in your hands but I don't have a crystal ball or a magic wond, so why don't you enlighten all us Old Bogus Buzzards to what it is you plan on shooting those song dogs with across that cornfield ok.

I also would like you to tell me where all these friggin hogs seem to be in your part of the glorious SHOW ME STATE of MISSOURI? I am itchin to knock a couple down with this rifle of mine, that I finally got the bugs out of two weeks ago. It is a .475 caliber and shoots a 600 grain horse pill down range to the tune of 2140fps. I'll even let you take the first shot by golly just so you will know how things are with a dangerous game rifle.

[Sidekick]

I'm carrying a Remington 700 VLS in 22-250. I was just thinking, the last time I was in that field it was with an 800 bushel grain cart. A little warmer that day.