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21 hours ago, WNYBuckHunter said:
After a month and a half of scouting, and getting Haley on birds youth weekend, it was finally my turn to get behind the gun yesterday and see if I could get done what Id been trying to do for about the last 5 or 6 seasons, get my first bird on the ground. For one reason or another, I just hadnt been able to get things to line up when it was my turn to hunt. Ive gotten alot better at finding birds, scouting and patterning them, and proficient enough at calling to bring them in over the last couple of seasons. The last 2 years in a row, I had been able to get Haley in front of birds.
Monday night I headed down to the farm to setup my blind for the morning. The birds were in the field and I had to wait almost till dark to head back and get the blind up. After I was done, I headed home, set my alarm for 4am and fell asleep on the couch, as I didnt want to wake my girlfriend at 4 with my alarm. I woke up, looked at my phone, it was 3:45am, 15 mins before my alarm time. Why cant I wake up like that when I have to go to work? lol. So I get dressed, grab my gear, hop in the truck and off I go. I get to the farm and head for my blind, which is a pretty short 300ish yard walk. I get my gear in the blind, setup my decoys and then sit down and relax while I get situated. About 20 mins later, my phone is buzzing in my pocket. It was one of the guys I hunt with asking where I was sitting. I told him and asked where he was headed, he was going to sit on the opposite side of the large field that I was near, about 300 yards away. I sat back and enjoyed the sounds of the woods waking up, the birds tweeting, geese honking and then as the Eastern sky was lighting up I heard the first gobble. It was about 200 yards away, off to my left, back in the swamp. a couple of minutes later, another gobble, this one right ahead of me about 150 yards back in the woods, then another off to my right a couple hundred yards out. The 3 groups gobbled back and forth for a bit and I heard a 4th group light up quite a ways off, at the south end of the property. After 10 or 15 mins, things quieted down for a bit, I figured they were flying down at that point. The gobbling started back up and I could tell they were on the ground, moving through the woods, headed to the fields. A few mins later and a hen popped out, to my left, about half way between where I was sitting and where the other guy was. Just after that, a loud gobble from the area where she was, and another hen and a big tom walked out into the field. A trio of gobbles came from right in front of me, back in the woods. I picked up my call and let out a few calls to try and get the attention of the birds. My call was cut off by the trio, which had moved a bit more to my left, toward the birds in the field. I kept calling, and each time my calls were cut off by gobbling. By this time there were 7 or 8 hens in the field and the lone tom, who kept silent, but strutted around every so often, staying toward the middle of the field. A few minutes later the trio of toms popped into the field and continued gobblig and chasing each other around. I head my buddy start calling on the other side of the field and the 3 toms went back into the woods near a point of trees that sticks out into the open field. The lone tom continued strutting around the field, steadilly following his hens, which were slowly working in my direction. About 10 mins later, the 3 toms appeared on the field edge, about 150 yards from me. They started hammering at the gobbler out in the field, and he started gobbling back at them. All of this got the hens fired up and they started going nuts calling. I picked up my range finder and ranged the lone tom at 101 yards as he started heading in my direction, following behind 3 hens. The trio of toms at the back of the field started moving in the same direction, but I lost sight of them due to a hedgerow about 25 yards in front and to my left. I watched as the lone tom cut the distance, and I ranged him again. 52 yards, standing there with his head up watching the hens and checking out my decoys. I thought about shooting him, but decided I wanted a closer shot. Just then a very loud gobble cracked off and I looked over near the hedgerow, there was the trio of toms, all in full strut. I ranged them, 60 yards. I got a good look at all 3 and one was noticeably larger than the other 2, and had a very long beard, longer than the lone tom's was. I kept watching them and looking back to the lone tom, which was at 45 yards now. I hoped that the biggest tom would head over to check my decoys out, but the trio headed away from me and I lost sight of them. I watched to see if they would pop out from the hedgerow, but they never did. Instead, 2 hens came into view, right near my decoys. The larger of the hens had a thin, 5ish inch beard, and the two of them circled the decoys, calling at them, trying to figure out why these turkeys wouldnt move. I looked over at the lone tom, he was now following one hen and she was headed right toward me when she suddenly popped into the hedge row. The lone tom followed, and I watched where the hen came out of the hedgerow, at around 30 yards, and settled my gun in that area. I watched as the lone tom entered the hedgerow and made his way through it. Just as he started coming out of the brush, he stretched his head out to try and find where his hen had gone, so I lined up and let him have it. The load of Heavi-shot Triple Beard dropped him in his tracks! I went over and took a look. He was a great bird with a lon, thick beard and great hooks. It felt great to finally have my first tom on the ground. My buddy came over, we took pics and I headed home, then went to work.
Im looking forward to getting back out there this weekend. Im gonna be going after that really big bird for the rest of the season.
Awesome hunt. Very nice bird
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A little different opening day weather wise this year. Looked more like deer season. Had some birds on roost gobbling. Then the hen started. She and I going. I pissed her off. Tom's gobbled at both of us. Flew down and walked off with her. Plan A didn't work. Went back into roost area at 10:00. Set up and called. Got a gobble. Worked him all the way to the gun. 20 lbs. 8" beard with 3/4" spurs. Not the biggest Tom on the farm but he gave me an awesome hunt.
Signed,
Happy Hunter.
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45 minutes ago, WNYBuckHunter said:
That's a beauty
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Probably one of last seasons bagles
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3 hours ago, Iluvracks1359 said:
the horn on your moped?!?! lmao now ive heard it all.
I was on the mountain behind the farm one morning. No gobbling since they flew down. Then the milk tanker pulled into the barn yard. He gave a couple blasts on his air horn. Two gobblers busted out just down the ridge from me. One of them went for a ride in my truck. Who'd of thought.
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Merry Christmas
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4 minutes ago, turkeyfeathers said:
Anyone hearing anything ?
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkGo back to bed.
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15 hours ago, Bill Schmidt said:
TAGGED OUT WITH REALLY NICE 20 POUNDER.
I was out before work. Light rain and some wind.I heard a total of 3 gobblers today. 2 in the hardwoods with me and 1 in the field. Today, I was using the Primos Jackpot caller. A glass caller with a hickory peg. I pressed this caller to my side and closed off the sound ports. 5 yelps in a circular way and a roosted hen starts yelping back at me!! You know you have a good caller when a hen responds like that. And closed off like that- my Jackpot had a perfect nasal tone.
Now that field gobbler was getting closer to me and that roosted hen. I worked my way to the edge through thick briars. The rain and wind covered this noise. Finally near the edge- but 10 feet back, I was behind a bush with that gobbler looking in my direction. I had a bad position though. I had to move to a better spot close by and hit those nasal yelps again. He did not gobble - but took some steps closer to the field edge.
A hen came running into the field and was close to that gobbler. That bush, I was behind was thick! The hen moved off and I lost sight of the gobbler. I moved even closer to the edge and looked way right---empty field. I took a chance and moved like a snail out to the side of that thick bush. There was my gobbler at 25 yards- standing in the light rain at 25 yards and looking for the hen--(me). Clean neck shot . He weighed 20 pounds even and his breast sponge was almost depleted. He just started to eat again as there was grass seeds in his gizzard. He had sharp 1" spurs and a 81/2 beard. Taken in the Orange County (black dirt) area where onions are the #1 crop. Hopefully Jeannine will go out this weekend-- I will do the calling.
Great hunt. Every hunt is different, a challenge. Good job.
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Awesome hunt. Any bird is a good bird. They don't come easy. Congratulations.
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ThisOn the lid it says Yellow Tulip Poplar and Eastern Cedar. It has a medium raspy yelp. Sounds nice. This bird really liked it too.
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Actually one of my favorite hunts was this past Saturday. A friend of mine knew this old man who use to hunt. He still makes turkey calls by hand. He gave my friend a box call. The old fella passed away this past winter. This box call has never been in the field. My friend said take it and call one in with it in memory of Charley. He gobbled of his roost at at the call. Flew down and headed my way. The decoys did the rest. Absolutely awesome hunt. Very memorable.
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Hunting in Otsego county central NY. Leatherstocking country. Absolutely beautiful. Had more gobblers on the farm I hunt than last year. That was a good sign when I started scouting. Got six days of hunting in two get my two birds. Absolutely awesome hunting this year. Good luck to all you guys with tags to fill. I'm going fishing.
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45 minutes ago, mpavlus said:
Had a bird gobble from his roost last night. He gobbled alot this morning. Grass was so tall I had to snip off some old corn stalks and put my decoys on them. It worked. I heard him fly down. When he came out into the field he spotted my decoys and came straight towards them. First time in three weekends he didn't have a hen with him. Perfect weather and awesome hunt.
45 minutes ago, mpavlus said:Had a bird gobble from his roost last night. He gobbled alot this morning. Grass was so tall I had to snip off some old corn stalks and put my decoys on them. It worked. I heard him fly down. When he came out into the field he spotted my decoys and came straight towards them. First time in three weekends he didn't have a hen with him. Perfect weather and awesome hunt.
I also used a handmade box call that has never been on a hunt before. It did the trick
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Had a bird gobble from his roost last night. He gobbled alot this morning. Grass was so tall I had to snip off some old corn stalks and put my decoys on them. It worked. I heard him fly down. When he came out into the field he spotted my decoys and came straight towards them. First time in three weekends he didn't have a hen with him. Perfect weather and awesome hunt.
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7 hours ago, WNY Bowhunter said:
Teamed up with dad this morning and called him in one of the birds he's been after. Best hunt of the year...five birds gobbling. Dad whacked him at 12 yds after he knocked the Jake deke off the stake.
Great hunt. And a beautiful morning too.
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55 minutes ago, Grizz1219 said:
Awesome to see you guys still diving in!! Wife only wants to hunt 1 day a weekend.... We drive 2 hours to get to our spot so I understand her thinking... I worked birds all Saturday morning, had 3 LB's coming in at 70 yards, then the farmer did his usual thing, got him on camera every day doing this very thing all pre season, brought his tractor down to spray something in the field... birds left gobbling, went to the neighboring land, I don't have permission to hunt there... they just would not come back to my farm... left them gobbling... but we will be back this coming weekend for a rematch though!!!! LOL
I have the same situation where I hunt. If they fly down and go uphill to the fields I can't hunt that farm. All I can do is watch them. If the go downhill to those fields I can hunt them. So I never know what's going to happen. I'm going to try a new plan from the play book this weekend.
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On 5/12/2017 at 9:29 PM, mpavlus said:
I had one gobble from his roost tonight. So I've got a hunt for tomorrow morning. We'll see how it goes.
Well, Saturday morning he flew down and walked off with a hen. Sunday morning I got in closer. I saw him fly down. Then he walked off with that hen again. This fall I'm taking her out....
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I had one gobble from his roost tonight. So I've got a hunt for tomorrow morning. We'll see how it goes.
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Great experience. Every hunt is different.
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Nice bird. Love the woods this time of year.
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Birds off the roost gave me the slip. They gobbled from the field but wouldn't leave. Hunted them all morning. Went back to the roost area, set up and called in between naps. 11:20 I heard him gobble. 11:53 I shot him. 19lbs. 9" beard with 3/4" spurs. Stuck it out and it paid off.
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Awesome hunt. Have to dig out my aluminum call. It's time to change things up.
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I know your pain. I rolled a nice one last year. Was sick about it.
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That's an awesome picture. Congratulations on a nice bird
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Congratulations. Awesome double. Beautiful birds.