Season starts 2 weeks from tomorrow and I'm getting my gear ready.....
Season starts 2 weeks from tomorrow and I'm getting my gear ready.....
Where's Dean........? Still discussing Elton's performance?
How did I miss this thread?
Mr. BSG is already giddy. He's buying stuff, watching the freakin' Outdoor Channel - you name it.
I accept this behavior as his version of 'shoes' - I do not question what I do not understand.
Yes, I do love this time of year and yes it is an obsession.
I love to turkey hunt! Probably my favorite thing to hunt. I've gone to MO the last two springs but probably not this year. I have invites to KS, TX, MO and AR but probably won't be able to go anywhere to far from home this year. I can't wait to get after them though!!!
I can hardly freaking WAIT!!
What kind of a call do you use, box, slate, mouth or combination? I love my box call, called in alot of nice Tom's (29 lb Tom with an 11 inch beard in 2000)with it.Originally Posted by achiro
I am eating wild turkey (been marinating for 2 days now) for dinner tomorrow night. He's one I took last year. I counted 11 (one nice tom, a couple jakes, and a bunch of hens) but there were more in the brush right behind one of my ponds last week. They've been shock gobbling when the roosters crow out back.
Of course I didn't see/hear a single turkey all through deer season. Last year, I counted over 100 in my pasture during deer season. Kinda weird how they're moving around.
Anyhow, asking me if I'm going turkey hunting is like asking if a pig's that which shall not be named is pork.
A pigs Orange Bowl? That doesn't sound too dirty...sorry, continue...
Sometimes I think I drink alot, then I see, like, the Motley Crüe behind the music, and realize I'm a huge *****.
Dean sounds like your'e gonna have a nice dinner. Wild Turkey (the meat) is great table fare if prepared right. I'm going after Rio's out by Cheyenne on the 6th, Then a week later we'll be chasing Eastern's down by Daisy.
Sounds like you just have to walk to the back pasture........Good Luck!
I sold my shotgun...
Anyone ever hunt turkey with a rifle?
I've got em all in my vest. I use the mouth call mostly and a slate would normally be my second choice. I use a box call mostly to locate but have called in birds with it.
Never used a rifle but it is or used to be legal in the Fall......
I start with my box call (fly down cackle), then move to the slate (soft yelps and purrs) when their close.....don't use my mouth call much.
It wasn't pre-meditated, but yes. Sat in my deer stand all day back in '01 down in S. Texas and didn't see a buck all morning. Was heading back to the 4 wheeler when I noticed a group of 20 or so Rios. Got behind a big cactus bush and waited for the right shot. Sighted in the biggest Tom I could find through my scope and took out his adams apple with a .308 Winchester.
I'm going.
My very first turkey. It was in the fall in TX. Shot it in the head at 100 yards(I was aiming for the body)
I like to hunt them with my bow too. I've killed 7 with my bow so far.
Now that's impressive. Were you using a ground blind?My very first turkey. It was in the fall in TX. Shot it in the head at 100 yards(I was aiming for the body
I like to hunt them with my bow too. I've killed 7 with my bow so far.
I'm having a custom bow made for just such an adventure...
I can qualify for a Crossbow but I just never felt like going throught the trouble of the legalities.
The new bow will allow me to hunt again in bow seasons...
I too, almost took a tom during deer season with my 30-.06...
It was late in the day and I had just seen movement of deer so i refrained.
Not with the first 4. One of the last three was in the fall from a tree stand(thats harder than from the ground, those dudes definitely look up!) The other two were from a double bull blind.
I will probably use the blind from now on(when I want to bowhunt them) just because its so much more comfortable.
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