2012 HNI Spring Turkey Contest Champions Team 4 Beard Bandits
03-14-2012, 07:03 PM
#41
Typical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Tuscaloosa AL
Posts: 609
Ok it starts in the morning, don't guess I'll sleep tonight! Not sure how it's going to go lots of water on my place, I'll be in chest waders getting to my spots again. It's supposed to get 84deg here tomorrow! It went from winter (if you can call it that) to summer in about 2 days!! Usually still good frosts early in the season.
03-14-2012, 07:41 PM
#42
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Alabama
Posts: 1,068
excitement
Opening day eve is way more exciting than Christmas ever was. With the dogwoods already blooming and the forecast saying low to mid 80s, I'm expecting a good opening day and weekend. Not sure which tract I'll go to first tomorrow, but I may try to get the other bird that gobbled last Saturday when my wife's cousin scored that big one. Good luck tomorrow Ethan, hopefully we'll both have a big day!
03-15-2012, 06:30 AM
#43
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Sulphur,Indiana
Posts: 1,350
Doetrain,checking in as ordered sir! Looking forward to a good team effort this season.Hello to all my Teammates,drop me a line if you would like. Will be in touch later,work has piled up on me being off.
03-15-2012, 01:45 PM
#45
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Alabama
Posts: 1,068
I hear ya Ethan! Did he gobble much? I went to three different tracts of land today and didn't hear a sound. Checked the fields and didn't see anything. I'll try again tomorrow, maybe they'll talk to me a little. Congratulations bud! Get those pictures up man I'm ready to see him!
03-15-2012, 02:18 PM
#47
Typical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Tuscaloosa AL
Posts: 609
SS, I heard 2 at daylight, way off my place. One hit a couple times, the other was hammerin! It was pretty wet, and the sipsy river is my property line on the east. That's not a place I ever hunt because of water, but went there this morning anyway. By then all the gobbling had stopped anyway. I just called and sat down trying to figure out where to go. 15 min and a few texts later I hear a bird across the river! I thought he was to far but started to the riverbank anyway ( about 150yds). He was gobbling on his own and apparently going to the river too. When I reached the edge he sounded about 200yds. I backed up so he couldn't see the "hen" from his side, and cut....he gobbled and I shut up. He went 10 min without a sound till a crow cawwed and he triple gobbled CLOSE to the bank. I yelped soft and put my call in my vest, didn't want to hang him up. He was silent again but I knew he was interested. It wasn't long before I heard him pitch up and I could see him cross the river, landed 45 yds to me! He came on in on a string and I smoked him at 25yds!!!
03-15-2012, 02:38 PM
#48
Typical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Tuscaloosa AL
Posts: 609
Arrow!!! You didn't have to post that crazy pic man, I'll send ya better ones! Hahaha! Just took that to send you right off the bat to let ya know IT'S OWN!! Lol! Hey, and didn't I shoot a dang longbeard last year with slick legs? Man, what's up! Haha!
