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Finally!!! Never had so many unsuccessful close encounters in one season without harvesting a bird.<br />Killed this one at 7:45am. Beard length is 8-1/2" and spur length on both sides was 1-1/8". <br />

Well done Growie! Sleeping in tomorrow?!?!

Yeah lol, I can use over a dozen words for the word cool haha

No doubt about that! Im hoping just to get one this year so I can enjoy a similar reward! My daughter and I picked a bunch of leeks this morning while we were out. Gonna go on homemade pizza tonight! Enjoy your turkey!

Did you just say "mint" geno? Hahahaha, classic! I havent heard that in a long time!

Congrats grow! 17 points for a contest total of 31!

I was able to get out to turkey hunt for a few hours this morning with my daughter, and man, was it a great time! The first spot we went to was where I figured the birds were roosting, based on where I had heard them roosting last year. We got in just at dawn and sat for about an hour. We heard some calls coming from the other side of the ravine soon after we got there, and it sounded like they were heading away from us, toward a recently plowed up corn field. I decided to head up to the corner of the plowed field, and we slowly walked that way along the edges of the rye fields. When we were about 100 yards from the corner i wanted to sit in, we heard hens calling, and some gobbling, which got both of us excited. I peered past the hedgerow up ahead, and sure enough, there were birds in the field! We slowly made our way to the hedgerow, as some of the birds were heading away from us. I saw a couple of jakes or toms across the field, and about 6 hens closer to us. We sat down and I started lightly calling. A hen poped up fraom a swail about 35 yards out and hung around picking for bugs for about 15 minutes. I wanted to get around to face a different direction, so I took the opportunity of the birds being gone to move to the next tree over, which gave me a way better view of the field and corner. I started a little light calling and all of a sudden a deer popped out about 30 feet away from us. It was a decent sized buck with about 2 or 3 inches of antler already. He turned toward us and got to within 15 feet before he spotted my daughter when she turned her head. He stood there for a few seconds and took off as another deer popped out where he had come from. 5 minutes later a squirrel hopped up on a tree about 4 feet from us, and sat there looking at us, trying to figure out what we were. Within a couple of minutes after he had left, I heard some rustling behind us and turned to see a big hen about 15 feet away. I told my daughter not to move and as I was trying to see if there were any other birds there, i felt my daughter nudge me. I turned and she whispered "Dad, theres a big coyote right there!" I turned my head and sure enough, there was a big yote crouched down about 15 feet in front of my daughter. I got my gun up off of my lap and it turned and took off. I looked back and the turkey was gone as well. That was about as much as my daughter could take for the morning, so we headed out, stopping to dig out some leeks on the way to the truck. No turkey coming home with us, but the leeks will be great on our homemade pizza tonight, and my daughter got to see her first turkeys and first coyote out in the field. She was more than happy with the morning, and I am happy as well. Some good memories made, and thats what really counts! Hopefully Ill get back to that spot before the season is out.

ok... i want one!! Feinstein is such an uneducated a$$ I cant believe she really thinks that cops are so great at shooting. A trained swat sniper.. Yes of course but not your average policemen. When I was 15 my father and I were at an NRA dinner and they had a shooting laser game with a real pistol which was tuned to the guns sights aat 50 feet. I beat 2 local cops and a state trooper that played. as did many other private citizens I just happened to win it all and won a 30-30 gold plated marlin lever action.....most policemen and women barely even practice with their firearm on a weekly basis. they qualify once every so often and thats it it sits in their holster. Their are police officers that do practice but they are few and far between.. Most times when there are police shootings or shootouts you hear that they fire off 50 plus rounds and only hit the target a small handful of times, granted situational stress and adrenoline are in play but these are suppsoe to be "TRAINED" law enforcement and not your untrained citizens

Had 4 jakes come in this am....only 3 left.heard 4 other places on the farm that had gobbles coming from it.I think the commission from the farming equipment made the birds leave the area for a bit,but they are back in full force now!! this is the first bird that I actually blew his head off!!HAHAHA I was going to post a pic but figured I better not

How about improving habitat, especially nesting habitat... and yes predator control but far more turkey eggs, hatchlings are kiiled in the nest by skunks, coons, possum than by coyotes year round.

I would love to be able to hunt coyotes in the summer. Not a bad way to spend your days leading up to deer season!

Legalize coyote hunting year round. Will def help the turkey population.

LOL, I should change that to Sent from the Toilet.

That's just out of my price range... By about 22k :/

22500!!!!

"i guess thats turkey hunting!" THAT is a mouth full right there. If and when you THINK you have the crazy SOB's HALF figured out, they'll make you look like a damned fool so fast it'll make your head spin. Good luck tomorrow.