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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Jake Scott on March 04, 2014, 08:25:00 AM
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Lets hear from everyone going after longbeards this spring. What is your setup? Preferred calls, blind or not blind, decoys etc.
I'll start this one. I will be using a 53# foley recurve, with easton fmj's and Simmons landsharks out front. I will be blind hunting with a jake and hen deke setup. I mostly use mouthcalls. Looking forward to hearing everyone's setup.
Thanks in advance guys
Jake
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Sorry for the double post, guys.
Jake
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Yep, I'll be after them again this spring, using my 55# Hill, woodies, and whatever 2 blade head I stick in the quiver. I will use a hen/jake deek setup, and natural ground blind, but maybe a commercial blind, too. I will also spot and stalk, since turkeys seem to run from my calling more than come to my calls.
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Ghillie suit,Bear Kodiak Magnum 50# @28", 11/32 cedars, 125 gr. 3 blade sniffers.
Old box call, old slate call, and hen decoy. I've had the calls so long can't even remember when I got Em! Decoy I bought after hunting season from Wal-Mart 12+ yrs back
Larrydawg
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Leafy wear 63 lb Zipper recurve Gold tip traditionals and a 125 snuffer. Mouth calls and my old wingbone call
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Pop-up Blind, 42# Big Jim Buffalo, 3555 GTs/135g Stos BH, Primos mouth call, various slate/box calls
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I'll use a couple different bows through the season,but it'll be a Pete George longbow for sure(that's all I have now) probably start with "BamYew" 66" 66# @ 27" Arrows will be wood with big Snuffers out of any of the bows. I hunt out of both pop up and blinds made out of natural cover,really hoping to get a hidden hunter to try this year. Calling with diaphram,box and slate calls. Have a really nice cedar box call a friend built. Jake,hen,both or no decoys, depending on the time and situation. And finally the best part, I'll have my daughter with me for some of the hunts again this year.
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Heading to North Platte on May 1st. Using some no name longbow, 50#, some carbon or woodies (if I get them built in time), woodsman heads and that's about it. Favorite calls? Whichever one brings the boys to the yard! Good luck to everyone.
-Jeremy :coffee:
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My BW PCH at 57#, my 18 yr old feather flex jake and hen decoys and a Primos Preditor Den pop up. I use a combo of mouth and box calls. I like mid mornings the best. I'll set up and blind call, doing a series of "lost hen" yelps. I wait a half hr, if I don't hear a gobble, I'll call again. If I hear a gobble, I'll switch to my dirty hen talk. As he closes in, I just purr & cluck with my mouth diaphragm. Been doing it this way for over 30 years!! Good luck guys.
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I'll be after them hard! Looks like I might be loosing my lease this year (oilfield) and I am going to try to tag out! I am not a trophy turkey hunter anyway. I just like to eat them. So, if I see a beard, it gets shot at!
Bisch
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Ghillie suit most of the time, maybe some time in a pop up as well. Bear green stripe take down, Gold Tip shafts with Woodsman Elites on the end.
Looking like I might need to add a pair of snowshoes. :rolleyes:
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I will be at em for sure with my #58 tall tines and my trusty Simmons tiger shark heads and of course my ameristep brick house groundblind...CANT WAIT!!
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55# Maddog recurve and 55# Kanati Easton Axis Trads, may try 2 blade VPA, ASAT leafy suit no blind, jake and hen decoys. One week in KS, rest of the time in Colorado. Nothing gets me more fired up than spring turkey season!!!
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60# Bear AuSable Longbow, CE 250 with 175 grain VPA 3 blade heads. Leafy suit, Dean T. tree seat, box call and a slate call. Maybe a decoy or two. Also bringing a lot of patience!
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I will either be shooting a vintage Browning Explorer I or a Robertson Vision Falcon with Snuffers on end of red balau hardwood shafts fletched with either goose or wild turkey feathers....will decide this weekend.
I use both natural and pop-up blinds....and use mouthcalls as well as glass pot calls.
Decoy is a hen decoy with real feather vest installed...and maybe a half strut jake if they are really fired up.
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No pop up blinds here, I use all natural cover. I have a few spots already setup to call from but when your walking and "Yelping"...and get a gobble, you just scramble to find anything to hide behind and hope for the best.
I prefer diaphrams over box calls. I use my 55# 50" Browning Cobra, 580 gr Fir arrows tipped with 160 gr Snuffers. This spring I'm going to use my left hand Fedora also. Attempting to take 2 birds from both sides.
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Awesome guys!!! I am excited too! How do those of you that use them like your leafy suits?
Keep the great stuff coming.
Jake
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Every year after turkey season I sat to myself that I am never going to hunt them again but then this time of year rolls around and I slowly but surely warm up to it and can't to hit the woods! I will be chasing them this year for sure.
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I will be using my Wild Horse Creek 54" Mariah Recurve with 2016's tipped with Zwickey Deltas. I usually use both blinds and ghillie suits throughout the season, it just depends on where I am at. I have had good luck in the past with my ghillie suit as long as I was tucked away in some kind of cover or if I was stalking, I would stay close to big cover to blend into. I'm going to try something new this year. Over my spring break here in a couple weeks I am gonna make a turkey house. There is a spot where the birds on our property funnel through after they come off the roost and it has been a great spot to sit the last few years. The temporary blind we had in years past is long over due for a reconstruction so I decided to basically try and make a box blind to shoot my bow out of. I have a lot of extra wood left from various wedding projects my wife had me do so it could get interesting what I come up with. I take a few young kids hunting every year and it will be a nice roomy and comfortable blind to put them in as well. It's less than a month away, cant wait.
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i would love to hunt them; unfortunately this year, i dont think ill be able to chase them. i have a little one due to arrive then so my time will be taken up this spring. but i do plan on being in the woods as soon fall comes around. if i could go my set up would be my 55# sage with beman ics 400's with muzzy 3 blade out front and 120 grains behind it (needed to do this to have a good tune for that particular setup) hunting from the ground with no decoy or blind and using a slate call.
for those who are going out this spring i hope you are able to enjoy the Creator's wonders and are able to shoot straight and bring em home!! :thumbsup:
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I will have new pop up blind and a new long bow build by a buddy along with a B-mobile. Will use both glass and mouth calls.
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On moving days, the days that I have no clue where the turkeys went, mouth calls, Morningstar longbow, cedars with Grizzlies, and an apple and some water. On sitting days, a Huntmor, bush in a bag, same bow and arrows, a box call, a squatting jake, an apple, thermos of Earl Grey tea, a sandwich, a zip lock full of wet ones, and a cigar.
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Oh man! At this point I'm wondering if I might be wearing my snow camo for our early Michigan season in April. I'll be using my Two Tracks Echo longbow with Douglas Fir shafts and Grizzly heads. I'll probably use both a pop up or natural blind depending on the mood I'm in the day of my hunt. I'll go with my standard jake/hen set up and hope for the best.
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Going to fl for osceolas with true south using a57 lb lil creep with ash arrows and abowyer whitetail heads can't wait!
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Vesty, sure does look like one of those years we'll start off in the white stuff!!!
Bow:
Hill Country Cree Recurve - 61#, 56" AMO - 2013 Miss Faith.
Arrow:
Primary arrow will be a 700grain cane arrow a good friend made for me. It's 700gr inclusive of a 190gr VPA.
Blind with jake/hen decoys. Box call, slate, and crystal/glass
Good luck fellas. I am hoping for my first bird with a bow!
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I'm really psyched for turkey season! I will be hunting with Sarral's "Hope" during Pennsylvania's season, and I'm really looking forward to it. This will be my first year hunting gobblers with a bow, so I haven't worked out all the details yet, but I do have a pop-up blind and a ghillie, and I plan to use both. I'll probably use the blind when my 9 year old daughter comes with me, and the ghillie when going solo.
Good luck to you all!
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I will probably just use the old longbow and leafy camosuit, with the Rackpack chair. If i get it set up in time, I may try the K-Mag with the Double Bull.
Getting excited.
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I will use my 55# Hill Cheetah with wooden arrows carrying Zwicky 2 blade broadheads. I will hunt from a ground brush blind. My primary decoy will be my turkey 3D target.
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I will be after them again with my Das 50#, at my draw. traditional only shafts and probably muzzy phantom broadheads I think this will be the 7th year bow only and I have gotten atleast one bird every year the past 5 years! I mostly hunt out of my double bull matrix, and I'm pretty lucky with the turkey's.
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I'll be after them with my 55 # Robertson Mystical, some new Surewood Douglas fir arrows with snuffers, and a jake and hen decoy. I also get to use my new Hidden Hunter blind in Predator green, which I was able to buy after selling a couple of Encore barrels which I never used. Now I just need the 4 plus feet of snow to melt here in Mn before season.
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I will be hunting turkey for the first time this year.My buddy swears Iam going to love it.Iam an avid deer hunter.so I will be listening to this thread very closely.We have a good turkey population on our lease an they are big I see them deer hunting all the time.I just hope they are there turkey season.how ever I will probally see deer aint that the way it goes.I got a nice box call should I use decoys? thanks for your help you all always steer me in the right direction.
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I will be shooting a homemade bow 64 long around 50 lbs and woodsman heads. I will be hunting out of a couple of popup blinds as well as using my Waldrop seat and a ghillie. I love turkey hunting. I will be using a call made by JoeBuck as well as a Doug Camp slate.RC
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No turkey hunting for me...just no place to hunt. The local WFA has drawings for three day slots but you have to buy your tag before even entering the drawing. And, the tag costs more than a turkey is worth in the first place.
It's too bad because I've been seeing lots of turkeys around. There's just no way to hunt the land where the turkeys are.
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Blackwidow MAII 55lbs Easton axis with either phantoms or Magnus bh on the end. And if I get my replacement hub from primos I'll be in my pop up blind, if not, I'll be in some brush. Mostly I favor a slate call.
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I will either be using my recently acquired sheepeater obsidian or 56" grizzly. Pop up blinds mostly, but I may not stay in them very long :D Also some brush blinds. More than likely snuffers or vpas. Primos decoys,(real turkey fan), Jake, hen, whatever I feel that given day. And whatever call I can get to work!
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Plumber:
Turkey hunting is a BLAST!
Very difficult. You have to learn to enjoy the process and the mere fact you are sitting in the woods after a long cold winter.
Read all you can on them, but I won't bore you on this post. There are MANY folks on here that are better turkey hunters than me.
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Dale Dye recurve. Woodies (cedar) and big A.C.E 200 grn heads. Double bull blind w/ best turkey decoy jake and Avian hens. I use a feeder and breeder hen. Crystal Mistress pot and box call. Mouth calls make me gag... :(
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This will be my first year chasing them with a bow. I'll use a vintage Browning Explorer II pulling 50# with gamegetter 500 shafts and wensel woodsmans broadheads. I'll be chasing them in the woods at flydown using only a leafy wear suite and whatever I can hide in/behind/next to/under. Probably use a pop-up and decoys at a fields edge mid-morning when the action slows down. I'll thrown every call I have at 'em over the course of the day. Good luck fellas.
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My bow of choice is my The Stick 55#@28 Goldtip. 5575 5@1/2 gateway feathers. Up front 125 grain Zwickey Eskimo 2-Blade .sometimes I use a pop up blind but most the time I'm in my leafy suit. I carry a The freak pot on my leg and I carry two pots in a hang on bag a Lil’ Jack™ and a Turkey Stamp Slate and triple sevon,cuttin stick and a kee-kee striker and I make my carbon strikers out of broken shaft's and corn cob top.And for decoys I use the funkey chicken ,feeding hen inflatable along with a standing hen
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Thanks to everyone who has posted. Good luck out there guys. Let's see some hero pics here in a couple of weeks.
Shoot straight, pick a spot, and call soft when they're close.
Jake
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After two misses I am really hoping for my first Tom this year! Came within 5 yards of a longbeard last year and still couldn't seal the deal... CHALLENGING!
Bow: JD Berry 62" North Star 42@28 or JD Berry 66" Argos 47@28
Arrows: GT Trad's 3515 for NS or 3555 for Argos/Magnus II BH, 125 grains up front
Blind: natural limbs from Doug fir and Ponderosa Pines
Call: PT Tully box call/Primos slate
Decoy: 2 cheapo hens and a Jake from Best Turkey Decoy-Dakota Extreme Jake
Target: Merriam's tom turkeys (2 tags)right along the center of the wing
Opener: April 15th!!
Best of luck to you all!
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Can't wait!! Been scouting a bit, mainly just wandering around in the afternoons seeing where the tracks in the snow are; another couple weeks I'll be out before first light most mornings. I'll be using a 52lb 60 inch Black Widow PCH, GT 5575's with a big ol Snuffer up front. I picked up a hidden draw bow blind, and anticipate that I'll be using that a good bit. Havent sorted out what combo of calls I'll be using yet, still experimenting with what I have...whichever I can get the best out of; a mix of slate and mouth calls.
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I got 5 tags in the mail yesterday.
Never even considered hunting turkeys... spring time has always been for fishing but I don't have a boat any more so....
My plan is to hang around places I see them during deer season with my Hill and a backquiver full of Woodsman tipped fir shafts.
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Recently received a DSD hen decoy. Looking forward to trying it on the local birds. They all seemed to laugh at my old Primos decoy!
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I am getting the itch something fierce!!! I will be heading out with with same setup as last year:
Bow: Selway Lil' Magnum 60@31
Arrows: Easton Axis 400s with 100gr inserts
Broadheads: 125gr Snuffers
Blind: Double Bull T-5
Decoy: avian x hen
Calls: wood haven copperhead and primos slate call
Huntin michigan, ohio, and Wyoming this spring
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I've got a 2nd season tag for WI. I might have to hunt from and Igloo!
I'll either be using one of my Tall Tines or my selfbow that I made.
I typically hunt with a gille suit or with a blind.
I have a pop-up and some Bale Blinds that I use on my property. I used the bale blind for the first time last year and it worked great. Of course they cannot be set-up and taken down quickly like a pop-up, but they work awesome on my farm.
For me it's all about scouting and patterning the birds so I am setup in the right spot(s)
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Hoyt dorado 47@27 Easton axis 500 with Magnus buzzcut. Primos club xl blind. Pretty girl hen decoy. Homade pot call my grandfather made out of slate .
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The way things are looking, I'll probably have to hunt for the stretch necks before I can hunt the stretch necks. Will probably use my 60" Kota Prairie Nomad and Hemlock shafts with a 4 blade Eskimo. Natural ground blinds.
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Man I am obsessed with turkey hunting. Using my Bear takedown 54# at 30 using blinds on some, ghille on others and dekes usually. I will be in:
Illinois for opener April 7
Kentucky for opener the following weekend.
Nebraska the week after that with Joe Buck
Indiana the weekend after that and finally
Illinois first week of May.
It's gonna be a busy spring :)
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Good luck Mike. JoeBuck is my hero.RC
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Blind, Ghillie and Waldrop seat
Dekes - occassional
Bow...Dryad...60"...52#
Arrow...540 gn...312 up front tipped with a Big 3
Calls...Turkey Trumpet, Box call, friction calls and a Haint.
Strategies vary.
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I will be using my 60" 50# Lynx (55# at my draw), shooting 2216 alum. with a 150 grain Magnus Stinger BH. I'll be using a ground blind. I use a mixture of calls, mostly slate & glass calls. I also use a box and mouth call occasionally.
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That's awesome Mike!! Turkey season is a hard time for me to get off work, but I make it work somehow. Hopefully there will be a mess of longbeard hero pics here very soon. Best of luck to everyone.
Jake
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I will be hunting with my Black Widow PSA X, 2016 arrows and Muzzy Phantom blades. Going to try an "Ugly Chicken" decoy. Need to buy a new pop-up blind in the next few weeks. Come on hunt 234!!! :bigsmyl: :thumbsup:
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I can't wait for season to open. Be after them with a Silvertip, Double Bull, Dekes and all the arrows I can pack. :archer2:
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I use a Black Widow PSAX 47#@28" with a surewood shaft tipped with a 160 grain VPA. Hunt out of an Eastman Matrix blind set up in a spot that is proven year after year . I have a few ground built blinds in strategic spots that I can get to without too much trouble or time when they are not coming to me. Have hunted this area several years so I know it pretty well. Use mouth calls mostly, sometimes a slate call.
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Toting an old Super Grizzly with some footed cedars tipped with Ace or Wolverine heads most likely. Natural cover, mouth calls and maybe a box a buddy gifted me.
Can't wait to get out there after this long poopy winter...
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Good luck everyone! :archer2:
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I see turkeys all over the place now, but experience has taught me they are nowhere to be found by the time May rolls around.
Last year I never heard a gobble or saw a bird. 2 weeks prior, they were behind every tree.
i stink at hunting them, therefore I will do the unmentionable for the first morning. If I can find a flock still around, I will use either a G&L mantis 1 piece, 56" Long Bow or a 56" Grizzly.
I will shoot arrows lol. Either 35/55's tipped with Snuffers or a 2 blade in my box.
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I can't wait to get after them again this year... Holzrichter Custom longbow "Ebony", likely Easton traditional shafts with Eichler series Muzzy Phantom 150 grain four blade heads, leafy suit, natural cover, mouth calls and my Avian X breeder hen with an HS strut hottie hen and jake. Hopefully by the time I get my order from Snag at Wilderness Custom Arrows, I'll have decided on a broadhead to tip some new tapered douglas fir Surewoods. One might say I'm a little worked up for the season to open!
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I will be using a pop up blind. I will be hunting with my 2013 Bubinga Bear T/D, 48@28", GT 35/55 with Wensel's Woodmans Elite broadheads. I will use a box call and my buddy will be using a mouthcall. We will use a Tom, Jake and hen decoy. Ken
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I leave tomorrow afternoon for the Tennessee opener. Best of luck to all you guys!!!!
Jake
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I'll be using either my 50# Kodiak Mag. or a 50# Bear T/D. 2018's with a 125gr. Snuffer, out of a pop-up.
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66inch 56@27 Osage Selbow backed with rawhide. Footed poplar shafts with homemade single bevel trade point. Mouth and a slate call. No blind and Gertrude my dependable decoy. WY G&F has made the area around me an open area so I cant wait to get after um. Next week is the opener I am already feeling a sick day coming on.
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I've got 3rd season here in WI. I'll likely be hunting out of a double bull. Hen and jake decoy, whatever slate or mouth calls I can dig up. I'll be hunting with my brand new today Shrew Classic Hunter 45lbs @26 with gold tip 1535's. I haven't settled on a broadhead at the moment though. I still need to practice my new set up. Any clues what I'll be doing all morning before work tomorrow? YEEEHAAAWWW!!!
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Im going to give it a shot. Using my new 58" Whip, 52 @ 27 and Simmons interceptors. If I manage that early I am going to break out the selfbow and primitive arrows. I'm dreaming pretty big though since I will only have a couple days,LOL.
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Yup, again, this time with three tags (longer season). I have and may use a DB Darkhorse recurve blind in the endeavor, but will start out wearing a ghillie set up and a home made bow blind unit.
I will be using the recurve limbs on my RER, about 58 pounds at my draw length. Full length Beman 340 arrows with 4-4" naner" cut feathers and 175 grain VPA 3 blade heads.
I have hand painted hen and tom decoys with the fan replaced on the tom, switched with a smallish jake fan. Also, I am thinking of putting the jake on a sled of sorts, positioning it 75 yards away from the hen and walking it to me with a string upon sighting of birds.
Who knows... might be like trolling.
ChuckC
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3 weeks away and can't wait...been seeing birds everywhere.
64@28 PL black widow, 300g big Jim heads, Easton axis traditional arrows, big Mike's ground blind, pretty boy and primos decoys, diaphragm and box calls made locally
Best of luck to all!
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Hoping they all didn't freeze to death. Going to try my luck in May. Will be using my new Bear takedown. Still snow on the ground hope we're thawed out by then.
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On my way to pickup my daughter at daycare I saw a flock of 15 to 20 birds in the snow cover field, 3 nice gobblers strutting around. I'm all fired up now! Course I've still got a month to wait, and it sounds like we have another snow Event on its way Thursday. :deadhorse: :deadhorse: Made a string tracker bracket for my new TD, looks like it'll work good.
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Going to Louisburg ks opening day on private land .I'll be taking 5575 goldtip trads with my zwickey eskimo 160 grain with my Savannah longbow and The Stick longbow so that I can hunt from blind a couple of days then break the Savannah out for some spot and stalk. I put out 2 or 4 decoys depends on the birds .I use the funky chicken ,submissive sally and a couple of feeding hens.For calls I love my pot calls and my old long box helper.
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I think I'll be using my old Wing Slim Line with some BEAUTIFUL rattler skins on it this year. 2016 shafts and 125 grn Thunderheads. Ground blind and spot and stalk, slate call because I lost my box call last year some place in the turkey woods ... need to get a new one
Good luck to all and be safe
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Best of luck to everyone! I made it to Tennessee for their opener this past weekend. I was hip deep in birds Sunday and Monday, but never could connect on one. Talk about adding fuel to the fire!! We open here in NC next weekend, and I am stoked. Call soft and shoot straight guys!!
Jake
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I got one!
I love turkey hunting. I got this bird Tuesday morning before going in to work. I was in a blind and had one hen decoy out. A few soft calls on the diaphram after flydown and this bird came in with a jake. The shot was about 7 yards with my Rick Welch Dakota 45# at 28" and Silver Flame XL broadhead. I was using a string tracker and it worked great but was not necessary because this bird only went about 20 yards.
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I'm going after them again this year. 50# Pronghorn and a popup.
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I'll be out there soon as well.
I'll be shooting a 60" hickory - maple - shedua tr-lam longbow. 45# @ 25". or a '69 54" york thunderbolt, 50# @ 28"
23/64" surewood doug fir shafts w/ 125 zwickey 2 blade ~525gr
Basically my deer hunting setup
Hunting from a hub style blind possibly with jake decoy
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Congrats TexasTrad!!!
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68" Kohannah Longbow 62@30. Douglas Fir shafts with two blade Zwickey Eskimos. Newly made Ghillie, a slate call and a plunger call. Flambeau dekes, if I use them.
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Forgot to add, I'll be using a few wingbone calls from past birds, a turtleshell call with cedar slate, custom box call and probably some mouth calls ... can't be too prepared.
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Hey LittleBen, would love to see a pic of your home - built wing calls! That sounds really cool.
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Caribows Perigrine, Easton Axis from a blind. I love my Avian X hen and jake decoy set.. So lifelike Toms can't stand it!
Hunting in the rain can be great turkey huntiing!
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Looks like i got a change of plans.... I'm heading to Texas on the 15th and try my luck for 3 days on hogs & birds.... This will be my first official turkey hunt.... I'm getting Jazzed.
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black hills apr. 21-28. sw MI in may
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I am chomping at the bit. Booked opening day off (Apr 25th) and will be hunting with my Cari-bow Slynx, Big Mike Blind over a Dakota Decoy Jake using 2 slate calls.
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Going to be in sw ny first five days in May.lil creep for the matrix blind in nasty wet weather, will use the Osage self bow and cane arrows with the ghillie and waldrop chair,ala Joey Buchanan style, life is good!
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Saturday it starts. Me, my daughter, my '71 Super K, and hopefully one of these.........just pulled the cam yesterday after putting the tent up.
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Nice bird Tex!
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Have a first season tag (starts April 16) in northern Wisconsin and a fourth season tag, too (starts May 14). Still lots of snow in the woods but there are also some turkey tracks. Hopefully, the snow will be mostly gone before the opener and I can set up a pop up. Will use a Huntmore, Stick longbow and gold tips/VPA and string tracker. Will also use hen/jake decoys.
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'58 Bear Kodiak, 60", 58#; home-made POC tipped with Zwickey Eskimos; leafy suit; Torges seat ... and all the Repel tick repellent/killer I can get my hands on.
Been tracking them for the last couple of weeks – still lots of acorns for them on the ridges under the snow.
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I'll be going 4th season May 7 to 13 here in Wi.
Howatt Hi-Speed 58" 45#
CE Predator II shafts
Magnes 2 blade Stingers
Pop up blinds
I shot my first turkey with a bow this past fall on Sept. 23. Now hopefully it's time for a gobbler. Good luck to everyone!
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I'll be hunting with the bow in my signature beginning on April 28th (our opening day). In may I hope to be hunting with Sarrels Ms. Hope as Nittany Rider can't due to an injury. I HOPE to take a bird or two with her.
I'll use a pop up blind some and also do some run 'n' bow.
Good luck all... be safe.
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I just spent three days in a ground blind and only heard one gobble. Weather got the birds a little slow hear. Should pick up though.
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Okay fellas, I might be about to do something crazy. I am headed out tomorrow for out NC opening day. I have gotten permission to hunt a nice little piece of private land, which borders public land. I haven't had as much scouting opportunity as I prefer because of work and my upcoming wedding. Here is where I need advice. I am seriously considering leaving the dern blind in the truck. I want to be as proactive as possible when/if the gobbles start. I do not have a ghillie. Can I get away with this if I use natural cover to my advantage? Of course I will be in full camo and will have my yellow fletching covered. Someone talk me off the ledge if this is the craziest thing you've ever heard??? As always thanks in advance.
Jake
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Got out yesterday and finally got to hunt a field I've been closed out of the past few times (public land-first come first squatters). Had a hen beat both of my hen decoys into submission (laid both of them over) for 30 minutes. An hour or so goes past and so start the gobbles. Big Tom and three Jakes come out- Tom goes far south and the Jakes linger. Two of the Jakes come over to meet the new girls and another Tom comes out and heads south with the first Tom. The bigger of the two interested Jakes decides he'd like to breed my Avian Hen and while in full mount, takes 530 total grains of Easton Axis tipped with a 150 grain Fred Eichler series Muzzy Phantom just ahead of the left wing butt, through and out the right side of the chest under the wing. Pics and story to come.
Jake, I don't think it's crazy. The important thing to remember is to control your movement. I've had flocks of turkeys in my face while wearing plaid, sitting against a tree in the practical wide open and hadn't been busted once. Only move when you know the birds can't see you and you shouldn't have a problem hunting in natural cover. Hide your legs well with your back to a tree. Have your bow up and ready to draw, or across your lap behind cover to minimize the movement that birds may see. Good luck buddy!
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Great job Rory!
Thanks for the kind words, glad you got one. I am getting back after them this Saturday after two close calls with no shot opportunities.
Jake