Any luck this weekend?
Laying down boot leather
Any luck this weekend?
What you do for yourself dies with you. What you do for others lives long after you're gone.
T.R.
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4:15 is no problem.Originally Posted by boscheefish
When & where is the question ?
Look at my thread "Opening Day Turkey".
Or do a search for "turkey".
if people of color do it, it's "affirmative action" "civil rights", etc, etc. If a bunch of white folks do it....its "racist" and "hate speech" quote Willyqbc
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hey guys, was at my spot again! very early,,, and........nothing, didnt see any hens no new tracks, no turkey crap, natta, for a spot that has been very nice to visit and lots of turkey sightings, now i wonder, i went both days on the weekend,and not one sign. maybe someone got that one bird i saw a few times, or did he move on?
im torn now for this upcoming up weekend, same old place or should i take a drive east...... very tough decision because i know my area really good and have never been past rock creek while hunting., i was thinking about grandforks or somewhere round there, but i would just be winging it?
i have a few more days to contimplate this, gut says stick it out, and stay but from the information ive read about say there is more turkey further east......
hmmmm,
definately let you know what happens, got my camera back this week,so i can take some pics this weekend and add to this report.
cheers
Circadian arrhythmia
stick it out, they're still there. Old man killed one on Sunday.
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Mandela
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There are two possibilities. Either other hunters were in the area and scared the birds away, or they caught on to you and left.
Usually turkeys do not go to far. Find them and then be very stealthy. A common mistake hunters make with turkeys is that they are not stealthy enough and with that let the birds know about their presence. Once turkeys has see or hear people wandering about they know what's up.
Good luck.
"Wouldn’t it be wise for us to be more tolerant of each other and pick our battles with the ones that really threaten our way of life?"
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hit my spot again this morn and surrounding area, saw lots of deer, few moose, tons of grouse, one bear and no turkey,
ill hit the bush again either tomorrow, or next weekend, but i will bypass my usual areas and push on eastward
time is flying,,, oh by the way turkey hunting is just like chasing steelhead, lots of work!
cheers
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turkey- 7
me- 0
Puttin Dinks in the Dirt
i know how you feel. i hunted a few turkeys for 3 days straight. First day out, i had 2 toms gobbeling up a storm within 100 yards of me. I set up, gave a couple calls, got some answers but could never get them to come up the hill towards me. They kept on getting further and further away.
Day 2 rolls around so i go back to the same place and find myself following another truck. So, i pulled over and started walking. I get about 20 yard sinto the bush and hear the truck stop a few hundred yards away. doors close./ then nothing. I am still standing in the bush. havent moved. Its a bit dark out still. And then i hear a gobble a few hundred yards away. Then those 2 guys started calling their heads off. It was a valian effort to say the least. As i am standing there, which i still havent moved, i hear a shuffle of wings and look up and here there is a tom roosting in a tree above my head. He flys straight down into those 2 guys setup but i hear no gunshot. They are still trying to call in the other bird. I move about 40 yards and bring up the binos and see that they have 2 decoys out in a little clearing and the tom that flew out of the tree landed inbetween their decoys and their truck. That was the last i saw of him that day. I sat down and watched from a distance as these guys tryed to call in this tom for a good hour and then i said ta hell with it and went back to camp.
Day 3
I was up even earlier that morning and brought along 2 other friends. We are first there and i slowly walk up to the tree trying to see if one was roosting there. Then we hear a gobble and set up down by where the other guys were the previous day. I make a few calls and realize that this bird is WAY far away and on private land. So we walk through the bush for an hour. Stopping and listening. Watching the grouse in their mating rituals like little turkeys. About 2 hours later we head back to the truck and who is standing not 20 yards from it is what i think the tom that flew outta the tree the previous morning. Little to say other then that they can run like the dickens!!!
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well guys, i had a great last day on saturday, lots of bears out, was playing tag with one for a few hours, i think he liked the smell of my lunch.
no turkey to take home this time but had some very good action, and i know where to go next spring i guess..
being my first time hunting turkey id have to say im hooked for life, the highlight of this spring was having that one gobbler respond to me and put a show on for me, i think if it was not for the 2 hens that distracted him, he would have kept coming my way, owell thats what keeps me coming back i guess and thats hunting for ya.
thank you all for your help and info to a newbie.
lets talk fall turkey tactics??? i see there is an opening than too, but i would assume it would be a different approach than spring hunting?
cheers
Last edited by boscheefish; 05-17-2010 at 05:47 AM.
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anybody hutning these turkeys in the fall? with any success?
i would assume that its more of a just stumble apon one and shoot, or do they still need to be " called "
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