I figured he was going to have a tough hunt. we have howling winds and temps in the mid 30's. And a dusting of snow[:'(]A guy waits all year and then gets this. Wheres the love? Good luck. If your hunting in this you deserve it!

Well give it up Kyle, I see you lurking!!!!!!!!!

Wow, what a hunt!

I woke up at around 4:25 am, and I use the term “woke up” loosely, because technically I didn’t sleep much. I get too jacked up for the opening morning hunt, I can never sleep, happens every year [&:]I peer out the window, hoping to not see rain, and... well…I didn’t. I saw that beautiful white, cold substance we in Minnesota like to call snow. Snow? On April 26th? On opening day of SPRING turkey hunting? Hmm…snow[&o]. Whatever, I like a challenge, so..

I wake pops up, who is sawing logs, paying no attention to the alarm ringing in mom’s ear. I grab a Mountain Dew, and he his beloved coffee, we load up the ranger and drive to “the spot”.

We get there about 5:30, and I get the deeks out, all the while laughing to myself watching dad try to set up the matrix. 7 second set up? Not in his world! So I got that set up, and we settled in for the morning. We forgot to dress for the 40 degree weather, but we’ll stick with er.

At around 6:05, one sounds out. I was no longer cold. Two more sound off, okay, I love turkey hunting. After a little calling and almost getting blown over by the wind, another pops off, another after him, three, five, seven, Holy balls[:-]. They were everywhere in the trees, all hot and bothered. We couldn’t see them, but they weren’t really incognito.

I’ve never heard as many turkeys as we did, today. It was bonkers. We never laid our eyes on a bird, but we know where they went, and where we’ll be in the morning. We heard somewhere around 15 birds, and 150-200 gobbles. We’ve never heard that where we hunt, it was AWESOME. It was also nice to hunt with my dad again, we don’t get to talk much since I moved to college. It was a great day, but…Snow[&o]

Sounds like you and your Father had a great hunt! Just hearing the Birds sounding off is pretty amazing itself! Good luck in the Morning!

Just hearing them gobble is worth getting up early. Maybe you will have to use your snow camo ground blind. The pic with your decoys all snowy is cool. Good luck tomorrow.

Sounds like an awesome morning, its good to spend time hunting with your dad I miss those days. We never used blinds or decoys we would alwayspick the hottest one and go after him. I was with him when he killed a 32 pounder at LBL(state forest)it was his last bird

Nice pics! I hope the weather remains calm (no wind) for you. It is gusting 30 mph where I live and is generally not conducive for hunting.

Good luck.

Nice pics Kyle and thanks for the update. Good Luck Brotha

Thanks guys, it will be a hunt I remember forever. Not too often you get to hunt turkeys in the snow. I'll update again, tomorrow afternoon.

GregH, aint that the truth. It wasn't TOO windy where we were, we were kind of in a bowl. I know two other guys who were out that packed 'er in early because of the wind.

Funny you bring up the wind. I think it may have been why there was SO much gobbling. I have a feeling they were jumpin' trees last night on the roost to get out of the wind, as they were pretty deep. When the morning came, I think they wanted to know where their home boys were[8D]

Sounds like a great hunt Kyle!! Good luck, tonight should be another sleepless night especially after hearing the circus and knowing you have the drop on them for the morning. Good luck buddy