Jump to content

Live from the turkey woods...

deerpassion

By deerpassion,
in Turkey Hunting

 Share

Recommended Posts

  • Replies 213
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Popular Posts

WNY Bowhunter
WNY Bowhunter

Update...he got a hevishot headache at 6:40!!!  

turkeyfeathers
turkeyfeathers

Had a great morning. Big boy was with two hens and a jake. I could see my daughter shaking as he displayed and ripped. First shot missed ?! 2nd gave him a knocking over. Weird, found shotshell wad bet

growalot
growalot

Bird down!...he's not the biggest mature Tom I've ever gotten  but he's going to taste good. 20 #'s 7 3/4 in beard and 3/4 in. spurs. Man did he ever make me work for him....from roost gobble to when

Posted Images

Deerthug Newbie

Deerthug

Posted
Posted

Called in a huge Tom from a good 200 yds away and he hung up about 60 yds to our left out of view. He sat there for a good 30 mins and then headed into the woods behind us. Then a Jake pops out about 60 yds and heads the other way. Nothing else since then.

Sent with Tapatalk on my Samsung Galaxy 4

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
blackradio Apprentice

blackradio

Posted
Posted

Didn't hear a thing for first hour so I got up and walked up and along top a ridge, calling every few minutes. Walked into a dozen hens, didn't see them until I was 10 yds away, they were silent. Called there for a while and nothing. Got bored and started looking for sheds. Found no sheds. Had a nice walk though.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
The_Field_Ager Newbie

The_Field_Ager

Posted
Posted (edited)

Got out a bit too late. Cat woke me up about 6:15. The Turkey were gobbling but henned up in the top field already. No getting them to cross the property line and back into my woods at this point. Came back for coffee. Will hit the woods early tomorrow. I think the warm morning shut down the gobbling early today as well. That , or the few birds around are already taken. Did hear 1 shot.

Edited by Papist
Link to comment
Share on other sites
alloutdoors Newbie

alloutdoors

Posted
Posted

Took a friend, located a gobbler with an owl call, and got set up inside of 80 yards. The bird was fired up on the limb, we didn't hear any hens and he probably gobbled 100 times if not more after just a few tree yelps. A little past legal shooting time I used my hat to do a flydown and then gave a few louder clucks and yelps. About twenty minutes later he pitched off the limb with his hens (turns out they were there all along), and landed thirty yards in front of us. My friend promptly missed him clean. Sigh. He's only got a couple gobblers under his belt, both taken with me, and I think all the gobbling shook him up.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
turkeyfeathers Veteran

turkeyfeathers

Posted
Posted

Just got back to car. Birds ripped on roost followed by silence. 8:15 I had a hen cutting 100 yards away and a gobbler fired up 250 out. She was between us. I tried soft calling her in so he'd follow up this hill. Both went silent

Upon last 100 yards out of woods I put up two toms and a hen to wing not more than 20 yards away. I was crossing creek they flew over. Go figure, never saw birds there. Guessing they were there for water. They only flew 200 yards but daughter has ballet competition soon. Have only heard one distant shot in 3 days.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
deerpassion Newbie

deerpassion

Posted
  • Author
Posted

Son bitches disappeared on me all together... Gonna get uncomfortably close tomorrow morning so that f'r has no choice but to see the deak's n never touch a call n see how that goes... I'm already down to clucks n pur's only...

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Link to comment
Share on other sites
turkeyfeathers Veteran

turkeyfeathers

Posted
Posted

Son bitches disappeared on me all together... Gonna get uncomfortably close tomorrow morning so that f'r has no choice but to see the deak's n never touch a call n see how that goes... I'm already down to clucks n pur's only...

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

and ?

Link to comment
Share on other sites
growalot Newbie

growalot

Posted
Posted (edited)

had another great morning Sunday...today I gave them a break and hit the gym...just fed and watered chickens...it looks like they have returned to that area...woods all scratched up...I need to be hunting water...the woods are bone dry ...I mean BONE dry...that's not good at all this time of year...Ya we need a warm dry spring but not too dry and yes...humidity is important to egg survival...Too much either way can effect hatches

Edited by growalot
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Lawdwaz Grand Master

Lawdwaz

Posted
Posted

had another great morning Sunday...today I gave them a break and hit the gym...just fed and watered chickens...it looks like they have returned to that area...woods all scratched up...I need to be hunting water...the woods are bone dry ...I mean BONE dry...that's nor good at all this time of year...Ya we need a warm dry spring but not too dry and yes...humidity is important to egg survival...Too much either way can effect hatches

 

Fire Hazard is high right now it's so dry! 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Two Track Newbie

Two Track

Posted
Posted

In 3M, heard lots of shots in the woods to my east and lots of people calling on Sat.

Owls calls until 9:30 or so.

 

Tried stirring things up wth a pheasant alarm call - nothing.  Had a crow hanging around me calling every so often, so it was pointless to try using my crow call. To bad crow season was closed, he was sitting 4 trees down from me most of the morning.

 

Sunday was pretty quiet, heard 1-2 shots other than when the Police started up practice at the their range a few miles away.  Less cars/trucks parked by the gates and parking lots than expected.

 

Places that are usually mushy in the Spring were dry here too.

Almost no dew on my boots from walking in on Sat. and Sun., very unusual.

 

May have to head closer to the swamps and away from the open fields.  Although the guy that was by the swamp closest to me never took a shot either and guess he saw no birds since I called him up over two slopes a good 1/3 - 1/2 mile away.  You get a good work out coming up those two slopes.

 

Got a few looks coming out of the woods when the bikers (MC clubs) rode by.  Knife on hip, gun in hand wearing full camo, waist-pack with shoulder harness, etc.  Probably not what they expected to see on a Sunday in May.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
turkeyfeathers Veteran

turkeyfeathers

Posted
Posted

Hour drive thru hills and thick fog sucked. Missed crucial turn, had to put gps on. Made this drive hundreds of times. Check

Found new hole in boot in trout stream ... Cold. Check

Stick to eye , check

Sweated my butt off mile up mountain , check

Wouldn't give this up for the world, priceless

Birds ripping on other mountain, nothing close yet.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
turkeyfeathers Veteran

turkeyfeathers

Posted
Posted

Said it's supposed to stick around past 8 ... Smh, waste of a morning if ya ask me...

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

IMO Sleeping in would be waste of the morning. I'm listening to the woods wake up. Not my neighbor leaving for work , hearing the paperboy, etc
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    No registered users viewing this page.

×
×
  • Create New...