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#101
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: NW FLORIDA
Posts: 230
florida season ended yesterday with the wind blowing so hard you couldn't have heard a turkey unless it was in your lap. saturday i chased one for a couple of hours. it would only gobble once every 20/30 mins. i gave up to go to a equipment auction and checked him about 3;00 on the way home. i swear he gobbled about 150yards from where i was parked.have to stop hunting at noon on management land................tony
Last edited by hycohounds; 04-23-2012 at 02:17 PM. Reason: sp
#102
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Tillsonburg Ontario Canada
Posts: 311
Well the season finally starts in the morning. It could be hard to get birds I've heard reports of hens with little ones already. Could be worse the guys just north of me are dealing with 4 inches of snow today. Goldeneagle you dug out yet.
#103
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Tillsonburg Ontario Canada
Posts: 311
Well my concerns about the breeding, being maybe right. Opening has come and gone with hearing only one bird gobbling on the roost. My usual first morning spot with another hunter set up in it. So plan "B". I hit four different spots on three different farms. Calling for a hour at each spot. Got one one to gobble but I knew he was on the wrong side of a deep gully going the wrong way. My last spt of the morning I chased two hens out the field and bumped two more birds. Set up anyway. Five minutes into a calling, this guy enters the field at the same place as I did. He strutted 400 yds. to the decoys, he didn't gobble once. I shot him at 17 yds.
Wgt: 23 lbs 4 oz
Beard: 11 1/8"
R spur: 1 1/8"
L spur: 1"
Total: 66.75
Wgt: 23 lbs 4 oz
Beard: 11 1/8"
R spur: 1 1/8"
L spur: 1"
Total: 66.75
Last edited by colbea; 04-25-2012 at 04:41 PM.
#106
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Tillsonburg Ontario Canada
Posts: 311
Congrats mfd. well today has a totally different store. I went to another farm and had it to myself. The toms started gobbling about 10 minutes from shooting time. I counted around 9 birds They continued to 0730. They went silent right after i shot my second and last last bird of the season. A prefect deep fryer bird, a 14 lbs. Jake.
wgt 14lb 14oz
beard 3"
spurs 1/4"
total 25.875
wgt 14lb 14oz
beard 3"
spurs 1/4"
total 25.875
#107
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Brainerd Mn. USA
Posts: 419
HI Guys! I just got back from from SD and am plum tuckered out, but just want to say that I put 4 longbeards on the ground in 4 days of hunting. Story and pics to follow. I'll get these birds posted and everybody elses up tomorrow. I'm going to bed!
Paintbrush
Paintbrush
#109
Hey guys, gave this bird the death penalty this morning at 7:30 AM. And man am i still excited.
Setup in a pop up blind this morning with a heater because temps were below freezing, and I wasnt gonna freeze. Watched the birds fly down in the same field they always do, so i tried calling and calling....nothin. I watched them walk to a neighboring field. So i decided I can either sit here and try calling and probably come out empty handed again, or I can go TO the bird.
So i packed my stuff up, walked over to a field that was butting up to the field that they were in, and noticed 3 strutting toms with hens. I started calling and about 15 minutes later 4 hens started coming my way. So i hurried up and set up and got ready.
About 2 minutes later, those 4 hens walked in at 30 yards. Then i saw another one, thinking it was a tom....Nope. Another hen. Then another bird.........Hen. Im thinking, thats 6 hens, those toms have GOT to be following soon.
So i waited and after about 5 minutes with very light calling, one walked in, saw the beard, took the safety off and sent a Nitro his way, dropping him at 37 yards.
Im happy as heck. Last night the Lions got a solid draft pick, and today I got a solid bird. Good luck to the rest of you guys. Unfortunately for myself, Michigan allows only 1 bird per season, so im done.
19# 10.5" beard (personal record beard) roughly 3/4" spurs
Setup in a pop up blind this morning with a heater because temps were below freezing, and I wasnt gonna freeze. Watched the birds fly down in the same field they always do, so i tried calling and calling....nothin. I watched them walk to a neighboring field. So i decided I can either sit here and try calling and probably come out empty handed again, or I can go TO the bird.
So i packed my stuff up, walked over to a field that was butting up to the field that they were in, and noticed 3 strutting toms with hens. I started calling and about 15 minutes later 4 hens started coming my way. So i hurried up and set up and got ready.
About 2 minutes later, those 4 hens walked in at 30 yards. Then i saw another one, thinking it was a tom....Nope. Another hen. Then another bird.........Hen. Im thinking, thats 6 hens, those toms have GOT to be following soon.
So i waited and after about 5 minutes with very light calling, one walked in, saw the beard, took the safety off and sent a Nitro his way, dropping him at 37 yards.
Im happy as heck. Last night the Lions got a solid draft pick, and today I got a solid bird. Good luck to the rest of you guys. Unfortunately for myself, Michigan allows only 1 bird per season, so im done.
19# 10.5" beard (personal record beard) roughly 3/4" spurs