Originally Posted by silent arrow (Post 3801839)

nauticstar you are the man! you are a bonafide turkey thug (ha-ha) good job bubba.
ksfowler helluva job as well ya'll have killed some beauts. I went out friday morning set up on a pasture sat for awhile heard a gobbler off in the distance knew exactly where he was as I've been on this bird a few times since before opening day just locating and twice since the season has been in.
Anyhow I woke up that morning running a little behind schedule got my gear loaded up come in to tell the old lady goodbye she says your blind is sitting on the porch I said " I dont need it" anyhow get on to the spot like I said heard the gobbler knew where he was went to him set up on a old cabin in the middle of a cow pasture.
Hit him with a few yelps got him stirred up and then i gave him a gobble to mess with his head he let loose with a stream of gobbles I had him figured then jumped out the old cabin bee-lined for the woods but it was a clear cut that had been turned into a section of cowpasture set-up my hen decoy got behind a oak stump that was pretty big that had been blowed over, let him have that fighting purr and he came in like he was on a string blowed up like a beach ball, boy he was hot! He came in to the barbwire fence which was 15 yrds but he came in so fast I just had got done ranging it and let my rangefinder go was getting ready to grab the bow and he busted me. He deflaited and hit the laurels and all i could hear was the old lady saying "the blind is on the porch"! I'm still sick about that. He was beautiful. a good 30lbs bird with at least a 8-10" beard. hopefully I can get on him monday afternoon but I'm thinking tuesday morning he's done! ya'll boys wish me luck or hail mail me some cause i need it ! our season ends may 7th times a ticking!

Originally Posted by Nauticstar (Post 3801890)

Great story SA. Good luck with that bird. 30 pounds? Wow! Would love to smack a heavy weight like that. The one I shot in Kansas this past week was 27 pounds, but he was soaking wet. Wish you the best. I'm done for the year. Sad to say, so keep me posted.

Originally Posted by silent arrow (Post 3802188)

sssssssssh. nauticstar dont give away our wet bird secret we'll be brought up in front of congress on waterlogging charges :happy0157:
if that ole bird aint 30lbs he aint but a few pounds from it ! you had a helluva season nauticstar! you going to hunt in the fall any? aint no fall season here in n.c. thinking bout trying to find me a honeyhole in va but folks dont let you hunt like they used to any more but i'm going to see.

Originally Posted by Nauticstar (Post 3802553)

Funny stuff! Yeah, I appreciate it SA. It's been one of my best seasons ever. Scary part is I should have killed two more here in Bama, didn't kill one in MS, and didn't get to hunt Ga, Tn, or Mt. Poor me huh? Ha! Ha! I really don't hunt in the fall for turkey. I get two archery tags in MO when I deer hunt, but rarely have I ever killed a turkey in the fall. I'm zoned in on those big whitetails. Good luck the rest of the way. Sitting here in Alabama pouting because I can't go anymore. Too scared to ask my wife. Lucky my key worked when I got home this weekend. LOL!

Originally Posted by steve25 (Post 3806603)

Well folks my season is over.

And I didn't score any birds. But that is how it goes.

If it wasn't the heavy rain and/or high winds it was the flooding making it near impossible to go hunting.

On the few day I did hunt I had a good time other than 2 when I didn't here no one gobble or see any birds.

The turkeys in the areas I hunt need a brake from this terrible nesting weather. The population is just getting lower and lower.

I went to MDC website and compare the number for the last 8 years I think and there was one common theme every year less bird being harvested and the jake percentage went from around 35% to 10-15% in counties I hunt. That tells me the hatch has been just awful!

But I am not giving up!!! I will be out there next year and hope the weather doesn't give us what we got this.


I would like to thank Nauticstar for stepping up and taking the team caption spot when I was/am unable to be on here very much due helping family and friends escape the flood waters. Which are now going down thank goodness. But now the clean up begins!!!

For those still hunting get after them!!! We need to try and take this thing!!!!

If your season is still in reply as to when your season closes so we can root you on!!!

Originally Posted by Whitetailmadness (Post 3808585)

Well, I hate to come here and say it team 8,but alas I've been skunked again and thats two seasons running. I'm not happy about it at all,but it's been tough hunting here for everybody from what Ive heard. We had a really hard winter year before last which I feel took a large toll on the birds not to mention there's so much food in the woods still from a bumber crop the birds are spread out. Winter before last we had at least 12 inches of hard frozen snow on the ground where I hunt for about 6 weeks straight and I think we lost alot of birds. Better luck next year I guess.

Originally Posted by camokenny (Post 3811611)

Captian, I have tried 2 different pc's and am still having trouble getting the pics up. Can you pm me your email address and I will send the pics to you so we can get them posted? Thanks