Team 7 Spur Collectors - Page 11

wis_rifle_hunter · 03-29-2010, 07:00 AM

congrats on the birds dan!! hopefully i'll get out this coming weekend to do some scouting and set a couple blinds up. i bought a couple new calls this last weekend so i'll break them in this coming weekend

mfd1027 · 03-29-2010, 04:13 PM

Made it back up. I heard one this morning but he gave me the slip. If he does the same thing twice I'll have another dead bird story to tell tomorrow. lol What's the odds of that happening. lol Anyways, the weather is rough and it's supposed to be in the 30's in the morning which is about 15 degrees below normal. The weather looks like it's going to get better as the wk. goes on. I'll keep you posted.

Dan

sirtoby · 03-30-2010, 05:23 PM

Dan really nice bird congrats !! 28 days to go here in MA, already seeing plenty of birds could be another good season.

Team 7
"Spur Collectors"
2010

ED

sirtoby · 03-30-2010, 05:43 PM

Team 7 "Spur Collectors"

I would be interested in knowing when your season opens and bag limits. Here in MA our spring season opens 4/26 - 5 /22 fall season 10/26 - 10 /30 two bird limit and only Toms during the spring season. Most fill there two tags during the spring as archery deer season is under way during our fall season.

Good Luck

Ed

wis_rifle_hunter · 03-30-2010, 06:00 PM

in wisconsin our season runs from April 14 to May 23 and its split into six 4 day periods. for the bag limit you use the tag your applied for then you can buy as many left over tags over the counter.

mfd1027 · 03-30-2010, 06:57 PM

I should have been tagged out this morning. I didn't hear a peep at daylight so I decided to set up where I had him hang up the other day. I got set up and started calling but didn't hear anything until 8:30 when I heard a faint gobble behind me. I hit him with some fancy footwork and the next time he gobbled he was a lot closer. I just kept it up because he seemed to like it. lol I was all set for him to come by on one side of the tree but he came a little more to the rt. than I wanted. It was ok because he passed me and then I stopped him with some soft stuff. He started strutting back in forth in some thick stuff about 40 yds out and in range the whole time but I couldn't get a good shot at him. I swear he was there for a good 15 min. and in range the whole time. My jake deke was out in front of me in the clear and I thought for sure he'd come over to beat it up but he didn't. He was content to just walk back and forth in that thick stuff. He finally had enough and headed back the way he came and again I thought I would kill him when he hit an opening but he angled away as he left and wound up about 60 yds. away when he hit the opening. I let him go. I was over there tonight and got him going again rt at dark so I know he's there. I'm going to set up on him in the direction he went on Mon. He came back to roost that way and walked rt. along the same field edge he walked on Monday morning. If he does what I think maybe I will get a shot at him tomorrow. I think the morning is going to be good. It's dead calm rt. now and about 50 degrees.

Dan

BUCKMARK · 04-02-2010, 05:26 PM

It's been in the 70's the last couple days around here, hope that didn't get the toms all fired up. Still have 2 weeks to go before it's time to drop the hammer. I'm in the middle of redoing one of my bathrooms, so I can't wait to get away and get out in the woods....

mfd1027 · 04-04-2010, 08:11 AM

I'm back in Miami. We had to bring our grandaughter home so she can go to school on Mon. The pollen was horrible the past few days and she wound up in the hosp. with an asthma attack yesterday morning at 3 am. We left for Miami from the hosp.

I had a great wk. hunting and could have killed two yr. old birds on Mon. Tue and Fri. Here's the story of Fridays hunt. I thought I post it just to keep you guys fired up. I'll probably hunt some in Big Cypress next wk. and then we will head back to Ga around the 20th. Here's the story. I had sent it to a buddy so I'll copy it and paste it.

OK. Fri. started out with a lot of gobbling. I got set up in what I thought was the rt. spot in between 2 or 3 birds and I started calling. Man, I had them fired up. They were all double and triple gobbling but they weren't closing the distance. I had a creek between me and two of them so that might have stopped those two but the other one I think had a relatively clear rt. to where I was. I don't know what his problem was but he never closed the distance so I got up and headed to another spot where I had been messing with that 3 yr. old. Enroute I was stopping every couple of hundred yds. and yelping some and at one spot I thought I heard a gobble but I wasn't sure so I headed in the direction I thought it came from. While I was walking that way I heard a crow cawing away and then I definitely heard a gobble. I picked up the pace and I wound up only about 75 yds. from my truck where I set up. The pines in this section were really open with a lot of pine straw on the ground which can be pretty noisy when its dry. I knew I wasn't going to be able to move around in there. I picked a tree with some cover in front of it. I started out with a loud ground cackle and I got cut off and they were close. Close enough that I couldn't understand why I couldn't see em. I thought they might run rt. over they cut me off so quickly so I just propped my gun up and got ready. This was at about 9:30. Well it turned into the ol Mexican standoff with them gobbling at everything I did. After that first cutt I cut it back to just yelping softly with few clucks thrown in. This went on for about 20 min. when I decided to switch to my kee kee call. I started doing that cluck-kee kee kee-yelp series I had heard that bird do 2 yrs. ago. Man, talk about gobbling. They went nuts so I just kept it up turning my head to the side to sound like another bird approaching. I could tell they were moving too which is a good sign. I swear if you can just get em to move from a spot where they have hung up you've got em. When I heard them gobble about 50 yds. to the side of where they had been I really toned it down to just a cluck every once in a while. Here they came. The first thing I saw was a flash from their feathers as they walked out of the shade into the sunlight. Man it was neat. It was like they were flashing a light on and off as they crossed shady spots. They were headed rt. for me and I ****ed the gun. At about 40 yds. I could tell the second one definitely had a bigger beard but I also knew they were 2 yr. olds. I was really tempted on that second bird because his beard was really thick and almost sticking straight out but it was only about 8" long. The first one had a kind of spindly beard and it was also about 8" long. I just let em pass at 20 yds. I just didn't want to end my season. lol Jarret's buddy Sean is into filming hunts and we want to try to film one when they come up that I can use on my website so if I'm going to shoot another 2 yr. old I want it on film. Man, this would have been a good one. I'm probably stupid to keep passing on these birds but I'm having so much fun that I hate see it end. lol Man, the birds are going nuts rt. now. It was warm on Wed. and Th. and it put them into high gear. Mike said he heard at least a dozen different birds gobbling on his place on Fri. morning and Brad heard a bunch. I kind of hated to leave but we had to.

Dan

tim03b · 04-04-2010, 09:34 AM

Whats our teams total score?

mfd1027 · 04-04-2010, 04:30 PM

We don't have a score. Is Jepcho our Capt.?? I know he said he was real busy building his house or something like that. His last post was Mar. 6. Maybe we need a co-captain. I'm sure JW would be receptive. I kind of hate to get too far behind.
Any volunteers?

Dan