It's that time. First Gooserbat Giveaway of 2016. I'm giving away a double pack of my new ICE diaphragms. It's a two reed easy blowing Incredible Calling Experience.
Rules are easy. You respond to this thread before Tuesday 10:00 pm and your entered for a call. Winner is decided as always with the serial # of a random bill from my wallet. Let's do the second and next to last numeric didget in the serial number.
What I want to know is a cold as ICE answer. Tell us the first thing that comes to mind that's ice cold you've encountered while turkey hunting.
I'll start out with, ICE cold creek water over the boots.
Cold as ice hands while riding my ATV to get to my hunting spot.
Ice covered boots from walking thru a frosty field.
Snow in April
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Sleet in my turkey vest.
My butt after I forget my seat and have to sit on the wet ground.
My water bottle after a long hike
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Huntin in the rain/wind
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Chasing Merriams in SD during a snowstorm last year.
Ice and sleet in NW Okla.....
Last year in Misissippi on a youth hunt it was 22 degrees when we stepped out of the truck. One was gobbling while we were still at the cabin. The youth killed him right off the roost. Got some cool pics next to some snow/ICE on the way out. Great hunt!
While camping in Missouri chasing thunder chickens it comes a snow storm over nite and the and the fiberglass poles on your tent folds up. And your ice is cold.
Cold shower at hunting camp after getting naughty texts from the wife but no pics. LOL.
Cold ride to the wma when it's 30 degrees out and your truck heater don't work! Hard to warm up after starting the day freezing.
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Sitting against a tree shivering at 9,000 ft. in twenty degree weather before dawn after getting soaked with sweat from climbing half-a-mile up a ridge in the dark to get to a roosted gobbler. ....Happens several times every year. You ain't never been cold until you do that!
cold chills after shooting a gobbler
Well considering I've only been out with a friend a fee times about 4 years ago and never killed one, I consider myself a compete newbie so no good stories......so I'll say my coldest experiance so far is the look my wife gives me when I mention buying more turkey stuff......and judging from deer hunting that look is never warm.
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The crisp cool mornings in the turkey woods waiting for the sun to rise and warm me up.
Riding shotgun in buddy's Rajun Cajun across various Kentucky reservoirs at 60 plus in sub 40 weather to get across to gobbling birds. Lot's warmer if you come back with a bird.
Ice Cold Eyeballs!!!!!!! Hurts thinking about it. But.......gotta get to the gobbler. :drool:
I would have to say the best is the feeling of an Ice cold beer in my hands after the end of a late spring hunt.
But first ice cold experience hunting would have been me chilled to the bone on a 35 degree, damp morning in early spring. Hunting buddy brought his Jacket. I brought my sweat wicking long sleeve shirt :(
Snow in april
last fall bird i killed a couple weeks ago,it was the coldest day of the year here where i am at
gun metal....as I rest my cheeck on the gun looking down the barrell on a cold spring morning
Gooserbat; Thanks for the opportunity to win some great calls again this year.
Carrying a youth on your back (he had on a pair of hiking boots and I had on my muck boots) across a shallow but wide creek in April in NY and slipping thus falling to your knees. Water filled boots and soaking wet clothes up to your waist is no fun but is ICE COLD......
fingers holding my aluminum bow
Tip of my nose getting ice cold in pre dawn dark waiting for morning gobble.
my girlfriend in the ground blind at 0530 in the morning. She was havin none of that.
Gman
my finger tips holding onto that cold gun with to thin of gloves on those not wanted cold mornings
The ice cold glare my wife gives me as she says "I can't wait for turkey season to be over"
As cold as my wife gets when I need more turkey gear! :turkey2:
ice cold hands when i gave my son my warm gloves because he forgot his on a snowy mothers day hunt in NY
ICE cold everything when I've had to swim or wade a slough to get to one!
ICE cold copper on my pot call.
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My feet, waiting for the sun to finally break over the big ridge and warm things up.
2 years ago on the youth hunt we had ICE and sleet. Gobblers were just the opposite, they were hot.
The ice cold water in the river I stripped down to my undies to cross to recover a bird my little brother has shot on the other side.
That gobbler that wants no lovin the day I'm hunting him!
The ice cold attitudes of some of the birds I've met over the years. ;D
Thanks for the chance, I appreciate it.
Bob
That first morning you forget to double check the weather. You're dressed in Spring gear and its 32 outside at daylight.
My wife when I bring in another turkey fan to display in the house.
My toes on occasion.
Quote from: Jwall on January 31, 2016, 11:23:05 AM
My wife when I bring in another turkey fan to display in the house.
Been there, done that. Good answer!
Last year's youth hunt. I was in the 20's with snow on the ground.
2013 in the Pine Ridges................ first day after the airport opened after a "storm of the century" and 3 days before another 15 inches. Hunted in 40 mph sustained winds the first morning with gusts to whatever. 50 mph sustained winds with gusts and heavy snow squalls the second day. Pic was taken 1 1/2 miles uphill from the truck. I'm 6'2" so I got to break trail for my buddy who is about 5'7". ;D
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Betty Jean's cold, cold heart.
The ice cold beer after a day's hunt!
I'm in Fla.. we don't have this stuff you call ice. ???
My ice cold butt when it is frosty out and i have to go #2.
Having to bathe in ice cold pond or stream after many long days at turkey camp
Cold wind on top of a mountain
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On an unusually cold morning last spring I wore mittens because it was sold cold. I got to work a bird and I slipped the mitten off my shooting hand when I got set up. After thirty minutes the Hurd changed direction and my hand was cold as ice after being exposed for that long.
Cold chills as a skunk walks within 10 yards of me at daylight.
Hunting a power line ridge on a 20* morning and the wind is blowing. Nothing between my backside and the North Pole but a barbed wire fence!! I was nearly a block of ice before I left.
ICE cold feet after discovering my waterproof boots weren't so waterproof anymore when crossing a creek.
Your set up perfectly, make a few soft yelps to him on the limb and at fly down he sails seemingly 10 miles in the opposite direction. Now that's cold.
Yep, its hard to relate to real cold springs here in Fl.
But I can say, after waiting anxiously all year, the chills that run down my neck when I here that first thundering gobble of the season are definitely ice cold !!!
Ice cold water down the back of my pants when a gobbler sounds off too close and I plop down on my water bottle.
Killing a Tom one year in 20 degree weather and having him stick to the tailgate after setting him on there to get picks.
I don't have a cold as ice turkey story since I'm new to it, but falling in a chest deep hole during ohio muzzleloader season was pretty cold.
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ICE cold beer at camp after turkey hunting all day and listening and telling turkey stories!!!
The ICE COLD STARE from a big Tom that has just caught some movement!
Water falling off the tree while you are sitting at the base calling.
SD and Nebraska last May!
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The chill bumps when the gobbler you didn't know was in range gobbles from behind you....
My EX-wife when I was walking out the door to go turkey hunting, again. That's why she's the EX!!! :D
A cold snowy Iowa season 1 opener.
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Ice cold mornings
Wet, ICE cold TP :o ....when you didn't put it in a ziplock bag and got rained on.
Shivering cause you didn't wear enough clothes.
A cold Easter morning hunt last year with six gobblers hammering off all around me...
The ICE cold feeling of defeat as you think about what you could have done differently to close the deal on the gobblers you had one minute and lost the next!
Quote from: nsselle on January 31, 2016, 10:23:26 AM
That gobbler that wants no lovin the day I'm hunting him!
I should have read all the replies before posting. :-[
Bob
The ice cold creek water when you discover a hole in your boot.
Patterning a gun on sub-freezing days.
Dressing light because I'm in a blind with propane heater.
Except heater is out of propane.
The shivers that run up your spine when one sounds off right where he is suppose to on opening morning...
That freezing chill that runs up your spine when you hear a muffled buzz under you and realize that wasn't your cushion you just sat down on..
i know its been mentioned before ...
but i gotta say an ICE cold Bud at the truck after a long walk back on a hot day with a heavy tom over my shoulder
frigid rain water running down the crack in your backside but refusing to go to the truck!
Creek water at the head of a holler opening weekend.
your wife to you during turkey season b/c you are not getting any done around the house
Cold as your boss to you when you tell him you are taking more days off to hunt in your companys busiest season!
The stare of an old tom searching for the source of the calls he's heard.
reaching in an icy cooler after a long days hunt.
The door handle of my truck while pulling it up to quietly close the door getting out to head to my honey hole on an early cold spring morning.
Ice cold 24 degree draft from the pants getting ripped into a pair of chaps hopping that barbed wire fence
Midwest Wind
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The ice cold blood in my veins as I stare down an approaching gobbler.....
I think of a chilly morning on a snowy creek bank where I laid on my belly for over 1 1/2 hours with close to an inch of snow accumulating on me, while watching a field gobbler take his time working to me...that was cold.....when that bird got within 50-60 yards out he managed to find an unknown dip in the field...and next thing I heard was him hopping the ditch 30 yards behind me.....I could see out of the corner of my eye as he strutted down the opposite ditch bank behind me at 15 yards...I spun, he ran...I shot, he laughed....that was ICE cold
Accidentally bumping the thermostat in fridge and turning every liquid to ice.
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The Ice cold beer at the end of a successful day.
Wading a creek deeper than your boots in March right at dawn, knowing it's going to be a long morning.
one day during the fall season, 12 degrees with 15mph wind
my tongue stuck to the icy cold brass mouthpiece on my yelper like that kid in the BB gun movie.
Sleet two days in a row on my first Merriams hunt last year in Nebraska.
Quote from: Gooserbat on January 30, 2016, 10:15:04 PM
It's that time. First Gooserbat Giveaway of 2016. I'm giving away a double pack of my new ICE diaphragms. It's a two reed easy blowing Incredible Calling Experience.
Rules are easy. You respond to this thread before Tuesday 10:00 pm and your entered for a call. Winner is decided as always with the serial # of a random bill from my wallet. Let's do the second and next to last numeric didget in the serial number.
What I want to know is a cold as ICE answer. Tell us the first thing that comes to mind that's ice cold you've encountered while turkey hunting.
I'll start out with, ICE cold creek water over the boots.
Winner is post #6. Mote1977. Congratulations I'll be sending a pm for shipping details.
Congrats Mote I'm jealous ;). Really cool you did this gooserbat.
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Congrats Mote! And thanks to Gooserbat for the doing the giveaway
Quote from: jayjay on February 03, 2016, 07:49:08 AM
Congrats Mote! And thanks to Gooserbat for the doing the giveaway
Totally Agree.... Congrats & Thanks
Awesome , thanks for the chance. Your Bacon was my go to call last season. Can't wait to try this new call. Thanks again.
Thanks for doing this!
Congrats brother! And another pat on the back for Gooserbat.
Bob