Team 2 Strut Stoppers
03-31-2016, 11:18 AM
#73
Spike
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: SW Florida
Posts: 55
Worst luck of my LIFE!!! Everyday I've hunted I have had a bird gobbling in the tree and EVERY SINGLE LAST ONE OF THEM hit the ground and gobbles/laughs at me all the way in the opposite direction. The hunting has been great but the killing has sucked! Hope everyone else is getting on them or about ready to. These public land turkeys every weekend seem to find a way to evade my H&R single shot 12 GA 3 1/2 that weighs about 4 lbs with a 22 in barrel a.k.a. "The Mule" a.k.a. "Ole Bessy"
03-31-2016, 05:47 PM
#74
Super Moderator
Thread Starter
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Indiana
Posts: 7,181
Worst luck of my LIFE!!! Everyday I've hunted I have had a bird gobbling in the tree and EVERY SINGLE LAST ONE OF THEM hit the ground and gobbles/laughs at me all the way in the opposite direction. The hunting has been great but the killing has sucked! Hope everyone else is getting on them or about ready to. These public land turkeys every weekend seem to find a way to evade my H&R single shot 12 GA 3 1/2 that weighs about 4 lbs with a 22 in barrel a.k.a. "The Mule" a.k.a. "Ole Bessy"
Keep at em swamp. It will happen
04-01-2016, 07:12 AM
#75
Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: lutz, Fl
Posts: 363
Worst luck of my LIFE!!! Everyday I've hunted I have had a bird gobbling in the tree and EVERY SINGLE LAST ONE OF THEM hit the ground and gobbles/laughs at me all the way in the opposite direction. The hunting has been great but the killing has sucked! Hope everyone else is getting on them or about ready to. These public land turkeys every weekend seem to find a way to evade my H&R single shot 12 GA 3 1/2 that weighs about 4 lbs with a 22 in barrel a.k.a. "The Mule" a.k.a. "Ole Bessy"
Do you stay put and wait for him to return later? RPD calls that the magic time, 9:30-11:00. The gobbler is done with those hens and comes back looling for you.
And the weather down here is not getting better, 3rd weekend in a row with rain forecast.
04-03-2016, 02:08 PM
#77
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Texas and Arkansas
Posts: 1,496
Glad to see team members scoring. I'll get to hunt starting on Friday, April 8 at San Angelo SP in central Texas. I scouted Hagerman NWR , where I get to hunt April 15-17 this morning. Had a jake within 30 yards and heard some other gobbling so they are where I thought they would be. Now I'm getting stoked.
