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Title: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: Sean B on March 25, 2017, 08:44:00 AM
As March is winding down I know that Turkey season is opening in some states. Any early birds out there???
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: dbd870 on March 25, 2017, 08:47:00 AM
Our opening is still a good month away!    :mad:
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: Cyclic-Rivers on March 25, 2017, 09:09:00 AM
Hey Sean, I had a couple roost above my car 2 weeks ago.  Yesterday I walked about 3 miles trying to find tracks in the snow.  No luck though.
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: Sean B on March 25, 2017, 09:22:00 AM
QuoteOriginally posted by Cyclic-Rivers:
Hey Sean, I had a couple roost above my car 2 weeks ago.  Yesterday I walked about 3 miles trying to find tracks in the snow.  No luck though.
Hey Charlie are you still in NY or did you move back to Wisconsin??  Still have the same cell number??
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Post by: Bowwild on March 25, 2017, 09:31:00 AM
Our youth weekend is next weekend. Owner two weeks after. I usually see them in my backyard the week before the regular season opens. None yet.
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Post by: meathead on March 25, 2017, 09:56:00 AM
I am in Nebraska sitting in a blind now. Hopefully one of these birds will feel like donating to the cause after while.    :goldtooth:
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: Sean B on March 25, 2017, 09:59:00 AM
QuoteOriginally posted by meathead:
I am in Nebraska sitting in a blind now. Hopefully one of these birds will feel like donating to the cause after while.     :goldtooth:  
Good luck!!
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: khperkins on March 25, 2017, 10:33:00 AM
I've been seeing turkeys for a month, but season doesn't open til May 1st here...
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Post by: Sam McMichael on March 25, 2017, 11:25:00 AM
Not today. One was roosting right over my stand when I walked in, and he flew off. In the distance, I heard a gobble. Shortly thereafter there was a gunshot. No more activity after that.
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: fnshtr on March 25, 2017, 11:54:00 AM
Our season comes in on April 17th. My knee replacement keeps getting delayed. Hoping I can get it done soon and hunt the latter part of our season. Been seeing a flock of 17 from my front porch.

Good luck all!
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: Lowrider on March 25, 2017, 12:07:00 PM
Opened this morning. My wife and I were sitting in blind before daylight and after calling a bit had one comming in behind us gobbling at 8:00 AM. Tried not to call him to much because I have heard that is not good. He was comming straight in from behind the  blind from north to south and all of a sudden he turned East and circled around the blind about 300 yards. About 9:00 AM I saw 5 cross the road where I thought he went. Don't know if I called to much or he was with hens. Actually at one time we thought we heard two of them gobbling and were together. I am new to this and still learning.
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: Cyclic-Rivers on March 25, 2017, 02:33:00 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by Sean B:
 
QuoteOriginally posted by Cyclic-Rivers:
Hey Sean, I had a couple roost above my car 2 weeks ago.  Yesterday I walked about 3 miles trying to find tracks in the snow.  No luck though.
Hey Charlie are you still in NY or did you move back to Wisconsin??  Still have the same cell number?? [/b]
Still in NY buddy.  Same number.  I'm currently looking for work in Wisconsin.  Once the right job comes along I'll be gone pretty quickly though.
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: Friend on March 25, 2017, 05:13:00 PM
The gobs have been struttin and gobbin here the passed 2 weeks.
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Post by: rix2 on March 25, 2017, 06:53:00 PM
Hope what I have been seeing hangs around till April 17th.
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Post by: kleine on March 25, 2017, 08:19:00 PM
I had eleven toms in the yard couple days ago!
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: mangonboat on March 25, 2017, 09:34:00 PM
Hopefully the struttin toms around here are creating a next generation and will be stoopid  when season opens in 2 weeks.
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: Sean B on March 26, 2017, 06:11:00 PM
I have to wait til May 1st here in NY.  I'm chomping at the bit. I lost my honey hole a few years ago but I have some back up places.
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: meathead on March 26, 2017, 10:10:00 PM
One more day for me in Nebraska. Killed a nice tom yesterday. Kind of a slow day today but I have several roosted for the morning.
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: Fat Clyde on March 26, 2017, 10:54:00 PM
Its been a rough few hunts for the Thunder Chickens. I finally called one hen in last Friday. Got her in to about 8 yards without a blind. I have had this idea that my first Turkey would be with a bow an no blind. So far... No luck...
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: Ulysseys on March 26, 2017, 11:40:00 PM
End of April for NJ but they're rocking every morning behind my house
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: TradBrewSC on March 27, 2017, 08:47:00 AM
Things have been tough here in SC so far. There is a lot of live hen competition right now. I'm hoping these hens get bred soon so that they will give my calling and avion x a chance!
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: on March 27, 2017, 08:50:00 AM
Season opens this Saturday, but I don't think I will be able to get out there after them yet?

Good luck everyone.

Bisch
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: huskyarcher on March 27, 2017, 01:12:00 PM
Youth week starts this coming saturday, adults the saturday after. To say that i am antsy would be an understatement!
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: stagetek on March 28, 2017, 03:43:00 PM
April 19 for me.
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: TealCoin on March 28, 2017, 04:11:00 PM
One again (2 years in a row) totally forgot to send in for a turkey permit!  I feel awful.  Funny how life has a way of changing with a young family: 2 1/2 year old and a 10mo old.  

Never dawned on me until driving home Thursday last week when I saw a big tom strutting in the field with a handful of others surrounding him.  Then I had about a 10 minute talk with myself about how I can't wait to go turkey hunting this year.  Got home and mentioned it to my wife and she replied "When's the deadline for permits?  It's already end of March".  I think I got the words, "Well turkey season isn't until....."  When I realized crap - that's in about 2 weeks.  

Needless to say, I already have about 5 locations that have reminders to BUY TURKEY PERMIT 2018!!!!

Good luck to all getting out after the gobblers - My favorite game to eat.  (insert 425 degree oil, wet battered chunks of turkey and a few handfuls of morels)
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: mahantango on March 28, 2017, 06:47:00 PM
The gobblers were going nuts in the fencerow out back this morning. Saw 27 in my neighbors field yesterday. Actually been hearing gobbles since early February. Still say PA.spring season starts way too late.
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: Pointer on March 28, 2017, 08:05:00 PM
Just waiting on May 1....feels like forever..lol
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: meathead on March 28, 2017, 11:47:00 PM
Here is my son and I from the past couple days in Nebraska.

 (http://i426.photobucket.com/albums/pp343/nyazel/IMG_5031-2_zpsgex2dvmc.jpg) (http://s426.photobucket.com/user/nyazel/media/IMG_5031-2_zpsgex2dvmc.jpg.html)

 (http://i426.photobucket.com/albums/pp343/nyazel/IMG_4990-2_zpsenqulpg2.jpg) (http://s426.photobucket.com/user/nyazel/media/IMG_4990-2_zpsenqulpg2.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: Kip on March 29, 2017, 08:39:00 AM
Nice job Nate. He sure looks taller than I remember.Kip
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: mahantango on March 29, 2017, 04:08:00 PM
Update. This morning as I was heading to the farmers market, I rounded a bend in the road about a half mile from the house and had to stop for a flock in the road. Two gobblers were going toe to toe on the yellow line - full strut! They finally deflated and mosied off with the hens, but not before one turned and gave me a defiant ear-splitting gobble. Just you wait...
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: YosemiteSam on March 29, 2017, 08:01:00 PM
None out here last Sunday.  All was quiet -- not a single gobble.  Weather went a little odd, too but maybe it's just coincidence.  Heading back next week with my son.  But we only give it about 45 minutes a day of "serious" hunting.  He's only 8, after all.  So we spend most of the day looking for salamanders, throwing rocks, etc.  Hopefully, we'll pick up a few tips on location & such while we're out and I can come back the next weekend with a more serious approach.
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: Tater on March 30, 2017, 06:01:00 PM
Went out for a hike/stump shoot yesterday, had two gobblers in the creek bottom going at it.
   Season opens here Monday.
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: KodaChuck on March 30, 2017, 06:44:00 PM
Gobblers strutting in Central PA   today.....Looking good.
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: jonsimoneau on April 01, 2017, 10:10:00 AM
I'm headed out to begin my scouting tomorrow morning. Here in northern Illinois the birds are still in winter flocks but they are starting to break up a bit.
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: JakeD on April 01, 2017, 11:13:00 AM
We can't get after them til the 17th, but I just saw several strutters off the side of the road about 30 minutes ago. Can't wait to go after them.
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: CDK on April 01, 2017, 01:06:00 PM
Missed one this morning...at 9 yards. He's minus a few feathers
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: Sam McMichael on April 01, 2017, 05:28:00 PM
Again, not today. I heard some gobbles and a few hens were talking. Unfortunately, nothing came my way.
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: fnshtr on April 01, 2017, 08:32:00 PM
Been watching several gobblers from my front porch. Seen 3 long beards strutting for 7 hens yesterday morning and 2 smaller toms following another hen in the afternoon. Our season also begins on the 17th.
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: Sean B on April 03, 2017, 02:52:00 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by meathead:
Here is my son and I from the past couple days in Nebraska.

  (http://i426.photobucket.com/albums/pp343/nyazel/IMG_5031-2_zpsgex2dvmc.jpg) (http://s426.photobucket.com/user/nyazel/media/IMG_5031-2_zpsgex2dvmc.jpg.html)

  (http://i426.photobucket.com/albums/pp343/nyazel/IMG_4990-2_zpsenqulpg2.jpg) (http://s426.photobucket.com/user/nyazel/media/IMG_4990-2_zpsenqulpg2.jpg.html)  
Congrats!! Good luck guys!!
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Post by: woodchucker on April 03, 2017, 06:51:00 PM
Tyler & I were up in Walton trout fishing over the weekend... Saw about 50, in different flocks around the mountain!
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Post by: YosemiteSam on April 05, 2017, 07:07:00 PM
Big storm headed our way.  Hoping to get out on Sunday after the storm has passed.  Hopefully, there will be a few blue-balled gobblers willing to take a risk after a couple days of hunkering down.
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: kevsuperg on April 06, 2017, 04:30:00 PM
Our seasons opens April 15th.
Got home last night from work and heard gobbling coming from the woods behind the house. I grabbed my mouth call and hit the woods.
Had a good conversation going with some birds as I slipped along closing the gap hoping for a picture.
Turns out my neighbor is raising turkeys, ha ha.
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: YosemiteSam on April 06, 2017, 06:06:00 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by kevsuperg:
Our seasons opens April 15th.
Got home last night from work and heard gobbling coming from the woods behind the house. I grabbed my mouth call and hit the woods.
Had a good conversation going with some birds as I slipped along closing the gap hoping for a picture.
Turns out my neighbor is raising turkeys, ha ha.
Classic story!

As a teenager, my step dad & I spent half an hour creeping on our bellies toward some quiet, roosted gobblers that were oddly late in flying down for the morning.  

Turns out it was a flock of turkey vultures.
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: Sean B on April 09, 2017, 01:30:00 PM
Anymore??
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Post by: pdk25 on April 09, 2017, 01:56:00 PM
My buddy, Dave Sisamis(dirtybird), shot this bird in Oklahoma.  20#.

  (http://i.imgur.com/jmP8Ovi.jpg)


 (http://i.imgur.com/f1laToP.jpg)

 (http://i.imgur.com/4RYR5Gg.jpg)


And I shot this Jake on Friday using a Magnus bullhead.

 (http://i.imgur.com/JWhpvIj.jpg)
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: Sean B on April 09, 2017, 02:02:00 PM
Nice!!!!
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Post by: Warden609 on April 09, 2017, 04:28:00 PM
Nothing like a turkey hanging over your shoulder on a fine spring morning. Congrats to all!!
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Post by: Lethalflight57 on April 09, 2017, 11:35:00 PM
Way to go Dave.  Getting it done twice with TT bows. Sweet!
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Post by: Lowrider on April 10, 2017, 12:30:00 AM
Called in 2 hens two different times. Were within 10 yards of the blind both times. My wife goes with me and she calls them The Old Maids.
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: Limbhanger on April 10, 2017, 08:43:00 AM
Next week, my friend, it's on!!  Weather has been hot and i'm starting to see strutters in the fields.      

 Also, just sent in my deposit for my Gould's hunt, Spring '18.  I'm getting pumped and hope everyone has a safe and exciting season!!
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: kadbow on April 10, 2017, 01:00:00 PM
Season opened on Saturday. Got this one last evening.

 (http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b229/kadbow/image_zpsb7fevb9d.jpeg) (http://s20.photobucket.com/user/kadbow/media/image_zpsb7fevb9d.jpeg.html)
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: kadbow on April 14, 2017, 10:21:00 AM
Forgot to mention, I used one of R.W. Mackey's calls (sponsor here) on the bird above and have called in a couple others so far this spring too.
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: suburbanirma on April 14, 2017, 10:42:00 AM
I harvested a nice gobbler April 11 in Kansas. Only shot opportunity in four days of hunting. Real hens seemed to keep the boys away from the decoys...
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: Sean B on April 15, 2017, 07:55:00 AM
QuoteOriginally posted by kadbow:
Season opened on Saturday. Got this one last evening.

  (http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b229/kadbow/image_zpsb7fevb9d.jpeg) (http://s20.photobucket.com/user/kadbow/media/image_zpsb7fevb9d.jpeg.html)  
Nice!!
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: Sean B on April 15, 2017, 07:57:00 AM
QuoteOriginally posted by suburbanirma:
I harvested a nice gobbler April 11 in Kansas. Only shot opportunity in four days of hunting. Real hens seemed to keep the boys away from the decoys...
Good job!   That's par for the course during the early season.
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Post by: RedRidge on April 15, 2017, 10:02:00 AM
Good job to everyone who has been successful. Go luck to those still waiting. Enjoying the pictures.
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Post by: hitman on April 15, 2017, 06:24:00 PM
Our season starts Monday. I just got permission on a farm I have always wanted to hunt. Walked out a road to a big field and there was 4 toms and a bunch of hens. I am the only one hunting on this farm. I've got goosebumps just thinking about it.
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Post by: Sam McMichael on April 15, 2017, 06:40:00 PM
Nope! Still no action yet. Its good to see the pictures of the successful adventures.

Had a close call, though. Mother Nature called out to me at a time when I had no idea that a bird was close by. It is humiliating to be squatted peacefully in the woods and have a damn turkey fly up into a tree close by to check out the scene. It didn't take him but a couple of seconds to decide to move along, though. I'm not sure if this actually qualifies as a hunting encounter.
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: bunyan on April 17, 2017, 06:47:00 AM
PA's season doesn't open till April 29, my dad's birthday. I'm planning to bring my 5 year old with me this season. I only have some burlap for a makeshift blind so I expect more bonding time than turkey time. But that's entirely worth it to me!!
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: JakeD on April 17, 2017, 02:38:00 PM
I was so close today. Pulled the stalk off on 2 longbeards......and I missed...twice! The first shot was probably 17 yards and my string caught my binoculars when I shot, causing me to shoot wide left. Well I fumbled around and the birds gave me another shot. Well, I don't have any excuse on the 2nd one, I shot just under one of them at about 20 yards. Rough start to the season!
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Post by: Matty on April 17, 2017, 08:53:00 PM
Nice birds guys!!
  (http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee256/krakka17/image_37.jpeg) (http://s234.photobucket.com/user/krakka17/media/image_37.jpeg.html)
Shot this day 2. Opener was a bust there were hunters everywhere. Got this when we saw 2 hunters sneak onto private land to kill a bird we had been watching from public. Well they shot (gun) and the birds scattered over to us. Pays not to trespass I guess!!
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Post by: Sean B on April 18, 2017, 11:00:00 AM
Nice!!   Been hearing birds all over!!  Less than two weeks!!
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Post by: kennym on April 21, 2017, 07:09:00 PM
I get to go for the first time in the morning. Supposed to rain so gonna sit in the hated blind....

Then Sunday morning is sposed to be nice so in the ghillie on another farm.
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: meathead on April 21, 2017, 11:06:00 PM
There are some nice looking turkeys you guys are killing. I get to get after some more birds when our season opens on Wednesday.
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: kennym on April 22, 2017, 08:58:00 AM
Two toms and seven hens at two hundred. Not too interested in my turkey hooker talk so far. Lol
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Post by: doubleo on April 22, 2017, 09:49:00 AM
Congrats on the beautiful turkeys you guys are shooting! I get to go May 3rd to the 16th here in Wis. 2 time periods, 2 different zones and 2 tags. I'm starting to get pumped up!
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Post by: kennym on April 22, 2017, 09:53:00 AM
Bearded hen four yards out, took tons of pics. Big birds went with the flock....
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Post by: Matty on April 23, 2017, 12:22:00 AM
QuoteOriginally posted by kennym:
Two toms and seven hens at two hundred. Not too interested in my turkey hooker talk so far. Lol
Hang in there brother! Pictures are fun too!
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Post by: Holm-Made on April 23, 2017, 10:49:00 AM
I had a great hunt Friday night.  I saw a hen with an 8" beard and shot a tom with a 7.5" beard.  The string tracker worked great.  He went 80 yards and hid in a brush pile.  No blood trail.
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Post by: kennym on April 23, 2017, 07:46:00 PM
Way to go Chad!!

Here's all I got, some pics! LOL
4 yards.... Legal but didn't want to take a hen...
(http://i.imgur.com/O85sEDP.jpg)


150 yards with 7 hens and another tom...
(http://i.imgur.com/QO8VXVK.jpg)


30 yards with several others...
(http://i.imgur.com/uHzL6WL.jpg)
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: meathead on April 24, 2017, 01:07:00 PM
Restraint is a fine thing but that hen would have looked good on the smoker.    :biglaugh:
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Post by: GreyGoose on April 25, 2017, 04:10:00 PM
I got a picture of a Tom from my truck last week, but I wasn't packing my bow.  Seems like they can read my mind....
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: centaur on April 25, 2017, 05:51:00 PM
Got lots of gobblers that are within range; of a 30-06. Had a bearded hen at 4 yards a couple of days ago but let her pass. Still a lot of season left here.
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Post by: batbow on May 04, 2017, 12:19:00 AM
https://imgur.com/a/G0SCq
First of all I have to thank all the trad gang for the helpful info!
This is my first turkey, and my first trad harvest.
Never would have been successful without the wealth of knowledge here.
Shot placement on a turkey, I never would have considered that the vitals were up near the top!
Shot at 22 yds no blind, just waited for a flock I saw earlier that had split up to rejoin, and waylaid them in between. Let the real turkeys call the other real turkeys and waited, blended into a tree. Drew when this lead Tom went behind a bush, shot when he was in the open again, thank goodness our brains go auto pilot, arrow went right where I was looking.
Went thru both lungs and  just clipped top of the heart severing one of the big blood vessels.
Although the arrow passed through the bird, it stayed in till he did his third somersault, it then fell out, he went maybe 30 ft, and that was cause it was a very steep side hill, otherwise he would not have made it ten feet.
Used my Black River 45lb Hybrid bow, Easton axis trad 500 spine arrows, 75grain insert 150 grain Eclipse single bevel broad heads , arrow 515 grains 19.4 foc. 170 fps
There is an amazing amount of bone surrounding the vitals.
It's no wonder they are considered a tough bird. Small vitall area and very little room for error with shot placement
Been shooting everyday since November, and it definitely paid off!
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Post by: perry f. on May 05, 2017, 01:24:00 PM
I got lucky    (http://i1301.photobucket.com/albums/ag113/pfraze2/6332374A-2741-478F-902A-24943BD5C823_zpsm3hnjhtl.jpg) (http://s1301.photobucket.com/user/pfraze2/media/6332374A-2741-478F-902A-24943BD5C823_zpsm3hnjhtl.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: Sean B on May 06, 2017, 09:19:00 AM
Congrats everyone!!  I went out Thursday morning for the first time. Had a lot of excitement. Had a couple of gobblers fighting. I caught some of it on cell video, mostly audio. Anyway, two longbeards came in but not to the decoys. They stayed on an old logging goad just 15 yards away. I didnt realize how close they were as the shoot through screen messed with my depth perception. Coulda killed them with a gun but that's not the way that I wanted to do it!!
Title: Re: Any Turkeys yet????
Post by: 23feetupandhappy on May 06, 2017, 09:22:00 AM
QuoteOriginally posted by Matty:
Nice birds guys!!
   (http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee256/krakka17/image_37.jpeg) (http://s234.photobucket.com/user/krakka17/media/image_37.jpeg.html)
Shot this day 2. Opener was a bust there were hunters everywhere. Got this when we saw 2 hunters sneak onto private land to kill a bird we had been watching from public. Well they shot (gun) and the birds scattered over to us. Pays not to trespass I guess!!
Way to go Matty!!!!!!