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Thanks to a lot of early morning trips to camp over the past 3-4 weeks, I was able to come up with a good game plan for taking my son out today. The first gobbler sounded off ~80 yards from us, just about to the minute, when he's started in previous mornings. My son has only killed one other turkey, so he was pretty excited! I responded with some soft tree yelps. He got fired up! A red tailed hawk flew into the area and called and 4 gobblers went nuts ~80 yards away! We were pumped! Anyway, they flew down and started milling towards our decoys (hens), gobbling every now and then. The 4 jakes stopped at 35 yards and I wasn't positive if they were going to come in or follow the hen away that was with them. All of a sudden, I looked out the window of the blind to my right, and another hen was walking by 2 yards from the blind heading to the decoys (just about could have reached out and pet her, as she was so close! LOL)! Once the jakes saw this other hen going to the decoys, they walked straight in! Before we knew it, the jakes were ~10 yards from the blind, when I remembered to give my son the green light to shoot! He shot, the turkey dropped, and the next thing I knew, I was sitting in the WIDE OPEN!! I glanced over at my son and realized that the 3 1/2" mag tipped him over backwards in his stool (we were on a small incline anyway) and since the gun barrel was sticking out the window of the blind, it tipped the blind over backwards with him, so it went right over my head!! We laughed our heads off! A hunt to remember!!! Had a good year so far, as I called in a jake for my daughter during the youth season and she connected on her first!

Went out at about 6 am... saw 10 deer during the next hour (more than i saw all last deer season) called and called... NOTHING... then saw a strutter in the plowed field (map below) called for a while... NOTHING... finally i got tired of waiting and started crawling tward him... calling every little while... crawled to the top of a little knoll... laid flat on my stomach and called for a few min... saw some movement... swung gun over and up... three jakes come trotting up and stop 6 steps from me... BOOM!!! first turkey of the yr down!!!! red box on right= setup yellow box= decoy red line= where i crawled blue boxes= turkeys blue box= where i shot im (6 steps)

connected at 1130 today! 20 or so lbs. 9 3/4 beard 1 1/4 spurs!

Keep at it! Persistence paid off for me today. 1130 kinds persistence lol!

Nailed him at 6:18 this am,30 yard shot.7 1/2 inch beard,1 inch spurs and 20 pounds.Breast meat is in baggies marinating already!!

I like how the grain of the wood plague outlines the shape of the skull......great job !

Dont set up my blind on or near wild onion grass. OMG the smell is potent!

Healthy according to who? PETA?

i would set up in the trees behind the farm, (the U shape) driveway facing creek.

That's how it's been for me for the past couple of mornings too. They gobble a few times on the roost and then completely clam up when the hit the ground. The frustrations of hunting henned up gobblers...

When I was boiling in march I was seeing mosquitos. Oddest thing I ever seen in march, well almost the oddest lol. Today the black flies exploded and the worse I have seen in years. 5 minutes outside and it was awful. I think certain powers to be could skip the water dripping on the forhead to drive a man insane and just send them to NY filled with a room of black flies to get them talking in a hurry

You keep the Ticks and i'll keep the black flies .....

one word..... neoprene!!!

POST IT!!!!! you're already 1 up on a lot of us!

I couldn't imagine running into one of them... You would see the punk in me come out real quick. Hah

LOL. I was peeling cloths off, down to my shirt sleeves at 9:15; by 11:30, both my arms were glowing, ouch tonight. Don't remember any turkey open where it was 80 degrees with bright sunshine. Back at the hunt tomorrow. I like onions.

Oh really, well heck my first was a jake and I had NnnOooooooo shame pullin that trigger Haha.... I'm rootin for ya, u think ur hooked now!?! Just wait, lol ... This morning was my "1st" eastern but my 35th turkey overall n my heart still beats outa my neck every time, I love deer Huntin, but the interaction is what gets me with turkeys.... Good luck dude

Bird numbers are lower. We got on a bird this a.m. and had him almost dead, but as usual, he hung up a mere yard or two too far to shoot in the timber full strut...right in front of my game cam...got two dozen pics to remember him by. He was the only tom or jake heard/seen today.

I would enter him, add a nice gobbler to that and you might be suprised, and congrats, nice bird

I have a CVA optima, it shoots well and wasn't very expensive. I have no complaints with it.

You wouldnt resharpen a G5 Montec or other blade that is able to be sharpened, and use it again?

Expected to see a "couple" deer

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha... Mexican Cartels invading the ADK's for the growing potential.... Pretty sure I would have heard about that by now.

i really like the mount and idea, but I'm not sure I'm feeling the antlers on the back. seems like they're "wasted" there. just my opinion and it's your mount so who cares what I think? haha. congrats

My calculations came out to 160 1/8 I crunched the #'s in my new Primos "Truth Stretcher"

Great pics and experience!! I never thought about a female having that many pups before! No wonder their population has exploded!! Cute or not...... yeah, we better not go there....

Wow, those are great!

Great pictures, they are soo cute

Holy cow, that is amazing.....

Incredible pictures!!!! I'm still waiting for your wildlife photos book to hit the shelf!

These have to be some of the coolest pictures I have saw on this site. Thats super cool.

Very cool Wooly.

beautiful pics. So cute. Maybe you've covered this before but what is your camera rig?

I think the danger is having your waders fill up in a fast current, not necessarily just having them fill up.

Ha-ha .... Before you get too comfortable with the idea, be sure to pay attention to the 2nd part of that reply that deals with getting back out of the water. After all, eventually there will come a time when getting out is necessary. Of course I am assuming that you are talking about slipping into water that is deep enough so that your feet do not touch the bottom. Also, I'm not too sure how easily legs move (as in necessary swimming motions) when you have two heavy rubber bags of water that you have to move through the water. I don't think they are recommended swimming apparel. Anyway, if you ever get a chance to try it out, let us know how you make out .... lol.

Thanks Pal, as a newbie it helped me a lot!!!

Hunger....It's a great motivator!!!!