Turkey hunting and BS welcome!

Looks like rain all week . From this Saturday until next Saturday. Chance of rain every day . opening day is Monday the first here but hens are nesting already . Bad weather for nesting birds

 

Got into them real good in South Dakota:

 

Got one the other morning here in MI. Wife and son were first on the list, but a beautiful morning during school hours left me no choice to jump ahead in line


Good luck to you all still after it!

 

Congrats

 

I got one and my brother got 2 was one of my favorite hunts ever

 

My rambling is over for the season. Took a spill while hunting with my son yesterday morning. Stepped into a 3' deep ditch in the dark, never hit bottom with my right foot and collapsed my left leg under me fracturing the fibula at the ankle. So booted and with crutches and wife policing my movements. Yall keep killing them and posting pics. I hunted on another half mile after the ditch dive and we worked a bird to 80 yards before cows pushed him off. Nothing left to say but dammit I guess.

 

O man that sucks I hope you have a easy recovery

 

Thanks. This is the bird I called for a friend from this past week. He flopped off a roadbed into a deep creek pool and had to be fished out. Always an adventure hunting with this fellow.

 

Awesome ,congrats

 

Oh crap ! That sucks . Hope you have a speedy recovery .

 

https://youtu.be/To3Y9XPnFnc

 

Spent 4ish hours out this morning. Light rain all morning. New spot for me and my buddy. Heard them gobble a bit first thing but went silent and never saw them. Did call in a coyote which may explain why they went quiet as well?!

 

That's a good video I have been rl washing my clothes in non uv detergent for years. I also don't usually go out to hunt at first light my success rate is really low early mornings and it just introduces the birds to my calls that have no intention of ever coming to them. Hard to compete with 5 to 10 hens that play the game right and run to the sounds of gobbles. I like to be out walking by 730 or 8 also as i get older i like bring up at 3 am less and less.

 

Nothing like calling one straight off the roost. Also, nothing like taking a sun bathed ridge top AM cat nap on a cool spring morning waiting for a tom to fire off on his own. Killed a plenty that way. Season timing has a lot to do with it, hens gone to nest.

 

I have one last tag to fill the other day when we took the birds we worked a pure Merriams white tipped fan like it had snow on it I'm gonna spend the last week of my vacation after him.

 

It must be different here the hens always roost near the gobbler and will assemble with him in the morning, feed for a few hours then break off to sit on their nests between 9 and 10 making the gobblers a much easier hunt.

 

It’s turkey time !
Rain moves out around 530-6 this morning. Saw 2 Toms and a couple hens on my side of the road in a cut corn field yesterday. Going to set up 2 hen decoys and and just sit on the edge and see what I hear .

 

Good luck

 

Done at 5:57 2 Tom’s flew right to my 2 hen decoys
9” beard
1” spurs
Brand new digital scale used once is broken something rattling around inside of it .

 

Nice! Congrats!
I'm going to try to get out a couple times this week between the rain systems.
Using the SxS Black Powder gun.

Couldn't go this morning as I'm heading out in a few to "work" to sign my Official retirement papers.