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We just bought a house. We are stretched as far as we can possibly go without cutting into emergency stuff which I am not doing. We are a young couple in our first house. I appreciate the advice but paying someone thousands to do this simply isn’t an option. The money to do that does not exist.

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We’ve all been there. You are going to purchase $100 worth of tools to do it yourself. It may still be worth it for you to take $50 and whatever meat you can part with from your freezer, and a case of Budweiser to your nearest job site and find a Pedro that wants can knock it out in an hour after he leaves another job site.

If all else fails just get 3 of them. If one isn’t good toss it and try the next. Life’s too short to eat sub par watermelon.

I would drive my FIL to the dealer immediately if he was thinking about buying one with a mulcher.

Get a lynch fool proof box call and whatever glass call that fits your budget. You will have everything you need to kill a turkey. Might get a crow call too so that you can use it to make one gobble while you get as close as possible to setup on him.

Buy a variety pack of diaphragm calls and put them in your truck to practice with. You’ll probably find out that a certain cut fits your wind pattern better. Keep that one and throw the rest out of the window. Learn to make simple sounds on a mouth call. Clean clucks and 3-4 note yelps. You can use these when a turkey is close and you can’t get to your other calls without spooking him.

Record yourself outside and listen to the recordings. It sounds different outside and 20 yards away than in the truck or house.

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Mine look just like that but luckily the top is actually a cap/cover that snaps into place.

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Same here.

Call his doctor. They might keep extra for when someone’s insurance is slow to approve a drug.

Always been very good at being able to kill or catch just about anything. Also been very good at being able to take said dead critter and make a fine meal with it.

Never been able to do anything with music. Have owned 3-4 pawn shop guitars and same amount of instructional videos through the years. Can’t play a chord.

Through the years have been able to pick up quite a few handyman skills. Can hang and finish Sheetrock, do simple residential electrical and plumbing, and can work on small engines and fix simple issues.

Can’t cut crown molding to save my life. Will screw up 4 times just to get a piece to match, and still usually need at least a medium caulk job to hide my cut.

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I clean them where they fall unless I'm pretty close to my truck. It's quicker than dragging, cleaning, then disposing carcass.

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This is the way. I switched to this pretty much exclusively about 10-15 years ago. I never go into the woods without 3 trash can (35 gallon) liners to tote deboned meat out in. Even on a buck you can debone and get it all out in one trip. Might have to carry a bag or two of meat in your hands, but it saves hours.

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With modern TSS a 12ga is overkill for turkeys. Many will be killed this year by grown men with single shot 410

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He said it would be used for other things too. Maybe he just wants to buy one shotgun, and is set on it being a 12?

OP, I have the SX4 and it’s a nice shotgun. I wish I had the A400, as I hear it’s unbelievable at throwing out light loads. I’ve had minimal problems with the SX4 throwing out light loads, but it does happen

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Maybe a dumb question, but why are these posts getting downvotes???

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Because he’s possibly the worst poster on this board.