am i just crazy???
02-25-2014 | 01:55 PM
#12
Typical Buck
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From: West TN
hi,
I want to start by sayin im a hardcore turkey hunter. I often have nightmares that I oversleep opening morning of turkey season, so maby that will help the rest of this post not sound so rediculas.
The night before opening morning I take everything off my dining room table. I bring all my decoys, calls, gun, shells, clothing, boots, vest, even underpants in to the dining room and spread it out over the dining room table, so it is right there when I get up in the morning. Now this is the part im kinda emmbarased about. As I said I am terrified of missing opening morning so I set 7 alarms. I use a mixture of alarm clocks, my phone, and some windup clocks. the sun rises at 6:30 in sw mo durin spring season, but I set all my alarms for 4:00. I get dressed and sit in my chair and drink coffe until 5:00. and after all that I finally get to turkey hunt.
so my question is. do other people prepare like this, or am I just crazy?
I want to start by sayin im a hardcore turkey hunter. I often have nightmares that I oversleep opening morning of turkey season, so maby that will help the rest of this post not sound so rediculas.
The night before opening morning I take everything off my dining room table. I bring all my decoys, calls, gun, shells, clothing, boots, vest, even underpants in to the dining room and spread it out over the dining room table, so it is right there when I get up in the morning. Now this is the part im kinda emmbarased about. As I said I am terrified of missing opening morning so I set 7 alarms. I use a mixture of alarm clocks, my phone, and some windup clocks. the sun rises at 6:30 in sw mo durin spring season, but I set all my alarms for 4:00. I get dressed and sit in my chair and drink coffe until 5:00. and after all that I finally get to turkey hunt.
so my question is. do other people prepare like this, or am I just crazy?
For 20 seasons from 1985-2006 I had the PLEASURE & GOD GIVEN PRIVILEGE of having a 10k+ acre section of family land to turkey and deer hunt on just south of Mountain View, MO (just east of West Plains). There simply IS NOT a FINER region to turkey hunt on the GLOBE!!! Over the years we had names like Memphis area call makers Roy "Golden Gobbler" Rhodes & Frank Cox, Chuck Jones of Knight & Hale who was originally from West Plains, Mr. Robert "The Last Call" Clifft of Bolivar TN and several other "industry experts" up to hunt on the ranch and ALL of them were simply AMAZED after a morning or two of "Missouri Music"! I was 16 when I killed my first bird up there in 1987 and I took MANY birds up there over the next 2 decades. The 2yr old birds weighed well over 20#s and toted 10"-11"+ beards. The 4+yr old birds ALL weighed OVER 25#s and usually had 11.5"-13"+ bears as well as 1.75" spurs (if they hadn't wore them down on those steep, rocky ridges)
DEAR GOD would those birds THUNDER!!!
Like I said it was a large ranch and with the rolling terrain we could hear and chase birds for MILES but usually that was never necessary. We'd just start the day on a few choice listening areas and typically very quickly were "in the action". Did I mention those birds were VOCAL??? 
Even when Chuck Jones came up he was AMAZED. He said, "You know where all I've been and I thought I'd seen it all but I've NEVER heard or seen ANY place like this ranch. Yall got a pretty special place here!" (Sadly in 2005 a death in the family, lawsuits and lawyers put an end to all that within a year or two! 
) BUT I don't cry over the spilled milk, I just relish the 2 decades I enjoyed and learned there. I hope some day to get back up in the Ozarks with my now teen aged boys and let them likewise hear that "Missouri Music"...
A gobbler by anyother gobbler just AINT the same as they are in the Ozarks!!!
02-25-2014 | 02:21 PM
#13
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Typical Buck
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From: SW, missouri
I WOULD say that you ARE nuttier than a squirrel turd... BUT you are in SW MO! For those that have never turkey hunted the Ozarks of MO they THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND!!!
For 20 seasons from 1985-2006 I had the PLEASURE & GOD GIVEN PRIVILEGE of having a 10k+ acre section of family land to turkey and deer hunt on just south of Mountain View, MO (just east of West Plains). There simply IS NOT a FINER region to turkey hunt on the GLOBE!!! Over the years we had names like Memphis area call makers Roy "Golden Gobbler" Rhodes & Frank Cox, Chuck Jones of Knight & Hale who was originally from West Plains, Mr. Robert "The Last Call" Clifft of Bolivar TN and several other "industry experts" up to hunt on the ranch and ALL of them were simply AMAZED after a morning or two of "Missouri Music"! I was 16 when I killed my first bird up there in 1987 and I took MANY birds up there over the next 2 decades. The 2yr old birds weighed well over 20#s and toted 10"-11"+ beards. The 4+yr old birds ALL weighed OVER 25#s and usually had 11.5"-13"+ bears as well as 1.75" spurs (if they hadn't wore them down on those steep, rocky ridges)
DEAR GOD would those birds THUNDER!!! Like I said it was a large ranch and with the rolling terrain we could hear and chase birds for MILES but usually that was never necessary. We'd just start the day on a few choice listening areas and typically very quickly were "in the action". Did I mention those birds were VOCAL??? Even when Chuck Jones came up he was AMAZED. He said, "You know where all I've been and I thought I'd seen it all but I've NEVER heard or seen ANY place like this ranch. Yall got a pretty special place here!" (Sadly in 2005 a death in the family, lawsuits and lawyers put an end to all that within a year or two! )
BUT I don't cry over the spilled milk, I just relish the 2 decades I enjoyed and learned there. I hope some day to get back up in the Ozarks with my now teen aged boys and let them likewise hear that "Missouri Music"...
A gobbler by anyother gobbler just AINT the same as they are in the Ozarks!!!
For 20 seasons from 1985-2006 I had the PLEASURE & GOD GIVEN PRIVILEGE of having a 10k+ acre section of family land to turkey and deer hunt on just south of Mountain View, MO (just east of West Plains). There simply IS NOT a FINER region to turkey hunt on the GLOBE!!! Over the years we had names like Memphis area call makers Roy "Golden Gobbler" Rhodes & Frank Cox, Chuck Jones of Knight & Hale who was originally from West Plains, Mr. Robert "The Last Call" Clifft of Bolivar TN and several other "industry experts" up to hunt on the ranch and ALL of them were simply AMAZED after a morning or two of "Missouri Music"! I was 16 when I killed my first bird up there in 1987 and I took MANY birds up there over the next 2 decades. The 2yr old birds weighed well over 20#s and toted 10"-11"+ beards. The 4+yr old birds ALL weighed OVER 25#s and usually had 11.5"-13"+ bears as well as 1.75" spurs (if they hadn't wore them down on those steep, rocky ridges)
DEAR GOD would those birds THUNDER!!!
Like I said it was a large ranch and with the rolling terrain we could hear and chase birds for MILES but usually that was never necessary. We'd just start the day on a few choice listening areas and typically very quickly were "in the action". Did I mention those birds were VOCAL??? Even when Chuck Jones came up he was AMAZED. He said, "You know where all I've been and I thought I'd seen it all but I've NEVER heard or seen ANY place like this ranch. Yall got a pretty special place here!" (Sadly in 2005 a death in the family, lawsuits and lawyers put an end to all that within a year or two! ) BUT I don't cry over the spilled milk, I just relish the 2 decades I enjoyed and learned there. I hope some day to get back up in the Ozarks with my now teen aged boys and let them likewise hear that "Missouri Music"...
A gobbler by anyother gobbler just AINT the same as they are in the Ozarks!!!
02-25-2014 | 03:40 PM
#15
Nontypical Buck
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From: Pa
buckman I Do the same thing at hunting camp... I mt my vest on table set out my close and boots and re pack vest that night making sure I haven't forgot anything and sometime triple check things... but come morning im ready!!! let get it on baby
02-26-2014 | 06:08 AM
#17
Nontypical Buck
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From: DeFuniak Spr.Florida
After many years of marriage,my wife has learned to just ask "and when does this season end"?LOL
02-26-2014 | 06:51 AM
#18
Fork Horn
Joined: May 2011
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From: SouthWest Ohio Somewhere
My wife has somewhat learned to just deal with it ever since she got a taste of some fried turkey nuggets. I divvy the meat up into serving size quart freezer bags to make it last all year long. I only have one bag left. Almost time to restock.
02-26-2014 | 03:37 PM
#20
Spike
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