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!

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.

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.

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!

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

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)

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 .

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.

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    

Good luck Mike. JoeBuck is my hero.RC

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.

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.

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

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!!!      

I can't wait for season to open.  Be after them with a Silvertip, Double Bull, Dekes and all the arrows I can pack.    

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.

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...







Good luck everyone!  

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.

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!

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