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Pop and I got it done Saturday morning....hunted a new property had know idea what we were in for...did a little scouting the afternoon before and found some area where they looked like they would be...We were right!!! I did the calling Pop did the killing! Struted across a 300 yard field all the way into the decoys! Coolest hunt we were ever on! Nothing better than a father son team! 22 pounds, 9.5" beard, 1.25" spurs. Awesome 3 year old bird!

I'd schedule a doctors appointment......I hear they can spot an easy meal.

Story and pics to come later. Just finished typing last message and yelped a few times on a slate and heard a gobble. 5 min later hes flopping. As i standing on my birds neck i see 3 jales down a logging road about 85 yards away so hit the deck and start cutting. Trying to get one for my brother. As i am calling to them 3 other sound off and come up. Another 5 min later and another one is flopping.

Went out today and shot my oldest bird to date. It was windy and rainy but the birds were still gobbling. My hunting partner knew exactly what the birds were going to do. He had watched them from a distance on Saturday . At 6:35 four hens, two jakes and two toms entered our field. At 6:40 I shot the tom with an eight inch beard and inch and a half spurs. His beard appeared to have been broken off over the winter but still a great bird!

This is what we are up against It is now or never. Get the word out

The Browning laid to rest this lonely 2 year old yesterday morning at 6:35. Counting last weekend'syouth hunt, makes 3 birds down in 4 days!!!

Happy Birthday Woodjr55 , the big 25 , enjoy your day and good luck hunting !!

5/4 9:50am, 19lbs, 7 1/2" beard, 7/8" Spurs: His feathers surely did take a beating...I told the story on the Spring Turkey Report Thread: http://huntingny.com/forums/index.php?/topic/22421-TURKEY-REPORTS---SPRING-2014/page__view__findpost__p__300925 My first turkey harvest with the bow! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Picked up the rug today, came out good. Also looked up the 2013 bear take from the DEC stats. and she was the only bear taken in the town I hunt and was 1 of only 8 taken for all of Otsego county. Find myself very fortunate to harvest this huge sow , she went 260lbs. Now just waiting patiently for DEC to send me her age. Here's a picture of her laid out on grass then up on wall.

Had a friend ask me to take her turkey hunting, so we set out this am at 510. walked 200 yards and i gave an owl hoot, and had a bird anser about 75 yards away. we snuck in and set up 60 yards or so from the tom. tom. a hen started calling to our left and after 15 or so minutes of gobbling the bird pitched down and went toward the hen. a calling contest ensued for the next hour with several jakes and other hens joining the group 50 yards below us. finally the boss hen started to drag the tom away, but not before a jack came in range of her 20 guage gun at 12 yards... her aim was slightly off as she hit some brush in front of it and the bird managed to get airborne and landed in a tree. the other birds got quiet but we didnt move. after 5 min of watching the bird swaying on its roost limb, it dropped to the ground. i told her i stand up and see if it was dead. i could see it with its head up about 45 yards from us. asecond shot finished it. she had her first bird!!! as birds erupted from all around the flat and looking to my left i saw a jake standing in bewilderment about 50 yards from me. a quick shot from my 835 and the double was complete!

Here ya go ........

Comparing a Barnett to an Excal is an insult to the Excal. Kinda like comparing a Kia to a Mercedes.

Most of the time, mouth calls. I like the higher pitched, not as raspy calls. But thats what works for me. I have had real good luck with slates and box calls too………Who knows?????? I can't figure the damn things out…LOL!

Ah you get to hunt him again. Bittersweet problem to have. Love when it gets personal. Had deer foot stomping and snorting at me other morning. Every year I catch a coyote trying to sneak in ............... Good luck and enjoy the hunt(s) on that bird.

Geography, henned up, or you calling basically told him you know where he is and are coming to him. Some cluck too much and too much like a putt. Gobblers won't come over because they think you're telling them it's a bad idea. Instead they gobble to let you know hey were over here head this way

Bubba ---- I think they are members on this site ..........

Congrats on the bird. Keep that relationship going for as long as you can. I have hunted with my dad since I could, and I am now 23. We tagged out (for that day IMO) Saturday morning with long beards as well. No greater reward than hunting with the man that taught you how to hunt.

Have had numerous contacts, haven't been able to seal the deal. I'm learning a lot in my rookie year, but this weather has been garbage. Yea that's it, the weather is the reason I haven't harvested my first bird! Sent from my DROID RAZR HD using Tapatalk

Enjoy the great morning, good luck....I had very good action this time of day this season. I heard very little this weekend but the birds were all around me and receptive to occasional light to moderate calling. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Good luck today! Sucks to be going back to work for a full week. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

It's skunk cabbage.

you will never forget the 1st with a bow. congrats on a nice bird and very well done.

Congrats!!

If you save your wing bones from this spring I'll make you a free wingbone call if you send me four sets of bones (that's both wings from two birds). If you only get one bird send both wings and I'll give you a discounted price on a call. I would especially like to get some jake bones. These will be plain field grade three bone calls, no thread wrapping, carving, or wood burning. I will do a discount on the fancier calls instead of a free call if that is what you would prefer.

Nice job with the bow...Congrats!

That's awesome, I want to give bow hunting turkeys a try. Did you use a blind and what broadheads? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That's pretty sweet! What kind of material is the red part? I know what you're going to be this coming Halloween,lol

Maybe its time to take the not so nice approach and call mr green jeans. Its apparent he isnt listening to you, multiple people have said get off the land, and whats even worse is his kid is learning its ok to trespass.

Fill up the tank and don't stop until you find 5 more! Nice bonus set there!

This story was told to me by an old friend who passed away last fall, so I guess I can tell it on here now. The turkey hunt took place about 15 years ago.. You had to know this man and that he would not say something if it was untrue. I knew him to be one of the better turkey hunters around who always got his birds in the spring season and they were always mature birds.He didn't tell this story to many people because he knew that some people would not believe him. This man would not say sh#% if he had a mouth full or would he willing break any laws. He told me that year that he took a nice gobbler on the first day and then waited for the third week to go after his second. He said the turkeys had shut down and the hunting was slow with no gobbleing. He checked the usual spots with no luck,but this didn't stop him because he always knew of a couple of places were other hunters wouldn't walk in that far back and he aways could find birds there. He told me he had two or three places like that. So one morrning he made the walk in. It took him a good hour to get back in there and set up. He set back about twenty or so yards from the steep ridge that he knew the turkeys would holding out below him. there was a woodes road or fire trial off to his right on the flat that he was on. He said that most years the the turkeys would come straight up the hill when called to. He gave some calls with no answers and this he said, he did for about an hour or so. This didn't stop him because he aways had a bag of tricks when turkey hunting that he knew if they were there would make them gobble. He did this call and got a gobble right back at him. He worked this bird for a good hour without the bird making a move, then the bird shut up and he knew the bird was on it way to him. Not a sound for 15 min. and then a gobble that was off to his right and half way up the hill to him. So he swung to his right to get a shot when the bird came over the ridge. About 10 to 15 yards in front of him was a bush in his line. of sight and about 25 yards the other side of the bush up stepped not one but two mature gobblers side by side. They stepped on to woods road and turned and came straght at him. side by side one on the right side of the bush and the on the left side. He told me that there had to be 2 or 3 feet between them. He aimed for the one on the right and shot and both birds went down. the bird on the left was stone dead still and the one on the right was flopping all over the place, that was the bird he was aiming at.. He checked the birds out and both of them were dead. He had killed two birds with one shot. Two birds that had been side by side with 2 to 3 feet between then, not one in front of the other. He checked the bush and saw that he had hit a couple of branches and a BB must have shot left hitting the other bird that he was not aiming at and dropped him stone dead. He wasn't going to leave a bird lay and took both birds out with him. He also said that he never wanted to have carry two birds out again along with his gun being that far away from his truck. he said he had to stop and rest many times with it being a hot day in May. He told me that he thought about calling a game warden and telling what had happen , but he thought the game warden wouldn't believe him ,so he called another friend who he knew that had not gotten a bird and gave it to him to have and tag.I know where this man was hunting and it is a long walk and I know I wouldn't want to be carry two birds out from there. If you liked this story let me because I have another one about him and not about 2 birds but 4 birds. I know that is true because I was there.

What a great morning I had today!!!! The opening day of Ma turkey season and I started it off with a bang, literally… LOL. Sally, Sandy and I had done some scouting on a farm we have in Ware over the weekend and things were not “awesome” by any standard… We heard very few birds and the ones we heard were Jakes, not fully mature Tom’s. Sandy went back later on and saw much more promising sign, 1 mature Tom out in the field and several younger Tom’s with a hen. With work being busy I made the tough call to pass up OT for one day to head out hunting (Tough choice.. LOL). Sandy being the gracious hunting partner she is said to me Sunday night “Seeing I know you won’t shoot a Jake (young Tom), you are only hunting 1 morning this week, why don’t you go after that mature Tom and I’ll go hunt another area because I will shoot a Jake”… So this morning we headed our separate ways, I found a nice spot down the ridge from what I was guessing was a roosting spot.. At first light as gobblers started greeting the morning I realized I had set up within 50 yards of the two Jakes we had heard/seen the previous morning.. Thinking there is no way they didn’t know I was there, I went about trying to work the mature Tom. Well, best laid plans I guess, both Jakes flew down right in front of me, gobbling, strutting, etc.. LOL The mature Tom is now gobbling off to my right and then I hear him fly off… Watch him pitch out into the field roughly 200-250 yards away… I’m thinking “well, should have gone to work… LOL”… So with him way out in the field the Jakes finally get bored with my decoy and move off to my left out of sight… The Long beard sees this and here he comes… Strutting and walking.. never gobbled.. Kept a low profile because we found the two jakes were “bullies” and could beat up the mature Tom as a team but not by themselves.. Well as he got within 100 yards the Jakes noticed him and started heading right for him.. I thought for sure it was over.. But as they made their way to him he didn’t turn to run, he angled towards me. So to slow the Jakes progress towards him I fired up the old slate call and they did exactly as I wanted… Stopped running.. started gobbling and strutting… As I kept them from advancing.. I looked up to see the long beard now topping the hill coming in to my decoy 40 yards out… So I stopped calling and tried to get ready for the shot… Now the Jakes were back on the path to run him off, so he is now angling away from my decoy trying to avoid the Jakes… At 44 yards he stopped to look back and my Ultimag bowled him over with a 2 ¼ oz load of #5’s from Winchester.. He weighed in at 20 pounds, 10” beard and as a 2 year old, has ¾” spurs…

if it's considered a bow the same as a compound or recurve, and everyone who is pro crossbow say's they are, then the bowhunter safety course should be mandatory for anyone wanting to use one........everyone who has any bit of bowhunting experience knows that it's not the same as shooting a deer with a gun and a certain amount of education is needed......and every one who is a concerned hunter should demand it, no matter what side of the argument you were on.

People who are new to the concept of 'kill by cutting' need to understand the basic difference between that and a bullet. I would hope that if the state doesn't mandate education and knowledge of the difference, newbies at least take the time to learn about it on their own so that they know what to expect when they shoot at and hit a deer with a broadhead.

Not a gobble yesterday or today. Not on the evening roost, or the morning roost, or on the ground. Crazy how one day they are blowing up from 9am till noon and then nothing for the next two days. Well that's turkey hunting. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

Not sure if this 43 second clip of audio footage will run smoothly for you guys.(it's kinda choppy on my crappy computer) The ol' "Box Cutter" had 8 jakes fired up this morning for almost 2hrs! I got on them again at another setup and couldn't shut them up untill noon. Click on pic below for vid clip of gobbling.

Here are the points, updated as the entries come in... Blue numbers are for 1 bird, orange is for 2 birds. alloutdoors - 48 Mookyj - 48 GR8WhiteHunter - 47 josephmrtn - 46 Woodsman20 - 46 MACHINIST - 45 NaturesWay - 23 RTGobbler - 23 Gonehntn - 23 Verminater - 22 Terry - 22 Meat Manager - 22 Big Indian - 21 Shadd Rapp - 16