Any body besides me got any preseason rituals , habits, or traditions?
Mine are:
1. get the deer stuff out of my closet and bring the turkey stuff in.
2. give my guns a good cleaning especially the barrel
3. change the oil in my truck
4. go though a process of getting use to mouth-calls with out gaging ( this is only in the last 4 years , but its here to stay)
5. take my wife out the night before the season starts , usually a nice seafood place.
What about you?
Numbers 1 and 3 .And make a point to check that I haven't knocked my scope off since last year.
Aside from that how have you been Robin. Haven't heard from you in awhile.
I usually:
Order new mouth calls, then proceed to annoy everyone in the house with them everyday.
Pick up another box of shells that I don't need, as I might shoot 2 rounds a year max and have enough to last me 20 years at least
Drool over custom pot calls in the classifieds (actually ordered another one for this season)
Check out the dsd website and try to find a way to fund a jake and hen (will do it someday, maybe when I get my tax return)
Buy another turkey hunting video and watch it over and over
Read all the posts of dead turkeys from the boys down south and try to contain my jealousy as my season doesn't start until mid April.
In no particular order
I seem to run my "broke in" mouth calls till there death before the season gets here.Well,not this year,once i have a call to where i want it, they are going in the fridge till im ready to use them during the season.
No real traditions for me, but it is good to see Preacher post!!
Greg
Welcome back Preacher, great to hear from you!!!
Quote from: Preacher on March 05, 2013, 08:52:57 PM
Any body besides me got any preseason rituals , habits, or traditions?
Mine are:
1. get the deer stuff out of my closet and bring the turkey stuff in.
2. give my guns a good cleaning especially the barrel
3. change the oil in my truck
4. go though a process of getting use to mouth-calls with out gaging ( this is only in the last 4 years , but its here to stay)
5. take my wife out the night before the season starts , usually a nice seafood place.
What about you?
You better take her to a nice restaurant more than once a year. BTW I send my buddies mouth calls before the season starts so they can gag on them. It's a tradition. LOL
TRKYHTR
I got the oil changed yesterday, will clean the guns, and since I had my teeth yanked I just can't work the mouth calls that well, so don't have to practice. Don't have to butter up the wife, just take her hunting, which makes her happy. I run a checklist every year, so I make sure I've got everything ready to go on my trips.
I change my oil and air filters. Always check my gun multiple times.
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1. Spend way too much money on calls, shells, and other doo-dads (new gun this year)
2. After duck season ends I get antsy about shooting at critters, squirrel hunting does the trick for a few weeks.
3. A week of teeth grinding and complaining.
4. Take my little brother opening day of youth and don't say shoot until I hear spittin' n drummin' (ideallly of course, I actually get way too excited about it and can't think :drool:)
Re-polish barrels
Check zeroes/pattern
Run calls several times per week
Spend every weekend in the woods scouting
Watch turkey hunting non-stop
Neglect everyone in my life that isn't a turkey hunter between now and June 1.
Get the turkey camo and vest out of the closet and condition all the calls.
Pattern the turkey guns to make sure everything is still okay.
Run my calls nightly much to my wife's dismay...
When I am not at work I am in the woods scouting and building ground blinds at strut zones.
And as VaTuRk said - if I am not at work, don't talk to me about anything other than turkey hunting until May 1!!!
Quote from: VaTuRkStOmPeR on March 06, 2013, 06:17:57 AM
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Neglect everyone in my life that isn't a turkey hunter between now and June 1.
I've tried that, the wife usually don't like that too well. What's your secret? :p
About the only things I do is shoot my gun a couple times, gather up my gear to put in my tote, run a few calls, scout and daydream. :)
This year Im hoping to make taking my wife turkey hunting a tradition, she been out a few times with me but never on a trip..
Same as most..
look at 53,000 things I dont need to buy
Buy atleast half them
Play with them until even my dog thinks im crazy
get the gun, camo, and gear ready about 3 times
Wish I had off the entire months of April and May
My big Tradition before any hunting season is to prepare physically.. about 2 months before a hunting trip or major hunting season I hit the gym
Making a music playlist on my iphone that pumps me up and drives anybody else with me crazy.
PRE SEASON
1. Restock turkey vest with old/new gear (always end up buying something new every year even though I don't need to).
2. Place a couple extra calls/strikers in my truck.
3. Check & update first aid kit (I am extremely allergic to bees & always must have my bee sting kit) & thermacell components.
NIGHT BEFORE
1. Drive by my hunting areas and check to see if the gobblers are roosting where I expected.
2. Set up the coffee machine and lay out my gear before bed.
3. Fuel up my truck & check the fluids.
4. Have my daughters write whatever they want on one of my shells which I will use to harvest my first gobbler of the season (this is good luck & gets them involved in turkey hunting while their young) & if I eat tag soup, I retire it to a special box so that when they get older they can use it for their first hunt. This seems silly but I feel this is the most important thing I must do before the season starts & my daughters look forward & love doing it each year.
Good Luck Ladies & Gentlemen this season & God Bless.......
Quote from: Spring_Woods on March 06, 2013, 08:33:34 AM
Quote from: VaTuRkStOmPeR on March 06, 2013, 06:17:57 AM
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Neglect everyone in my life that isn't a turkey hunter between now and June 1.
I've tried that, the wife usually don't like that too well. What's your secret? :p
I'm not married, SW. If you want to stay that way, I recommend ignoring my last "tradition." ;)
A superstition of mine is getting a fresh haircut right before the season comes in. It started quite a few years ago when I was younger and kept my hair to a much longer length. I think the first turkey I killed I had just got it all cut off, and tagged out a few days after. The next year I still had long hair at the start of turkey season.. after the first week or so of doing nothing but get beat up, I made the decision to go for the hair cut.. next morning in the woods a turkey died. I just make sure its cut before the season now.
I also use this time before the season comes in to collect 4 leaf clovers.. I try to have one for every tag I intend to fill and fold them up in my wallet next to each tag.
Quote from: derek on March 06, 2013, 02:11:45 PM
I also use this time before the season comes in to collect 4 leaf clovers.. I try to have one for every tag I intend to fill and fold them up in my wallet next to each tag.
Now that is a cool idea!
All the usual get the gear out check the sights, etc. But I have a superstition I have been doing for close to 30 years now. Each season I pick up the hulls used to kill a turkey that year and store them in my vest. They stay in the vest till the following season. Then when I kill a turkey that season, I then store that hull away and discard the previous years hulls. So there is always successful hulls in my vest. Kinda carrys the luck of the previous season over into the new season.
I always clean the guns and start packing stuff into my vest. As of March 1st, any chance I get, I'm out in the mountains looking for sign and trying to find new places that I've never hunted. But the coolest thing I do is update all my Google Earth maps and draw new trails and logging roads on there and then print them off to use to help navigate me in my quest for that loaded up turkey hole way back in the mountains that nobody knows about.
1.Check in with HR Dept on sick days and vacation available.
2.Make sure favorite camo hadn't shrunk.
3.Locate super soft seat.
4.Run a few shells through favorite ole stick for a confidence builder.
5.Chalk find some chalk.
6.Reconfirm to self the diaphragm call will chock the life out of ya.
7.Have honey do list complete or a very complacated reason why its not.
I have the usual running of all the calls to finalize my starting line up, but my tradition is I always run into at least one beaver dam. When ever I find one, I kill a turkey so I always pick up a chip and carry it in my vest until the following season when I find a new one.
Clean out my freezer.
I sharpen my fillet knife and lay a few pork loins in the freezer for the season.
Scout,scout,scout and then scout.
Wife knows the drill..................................she don't even ask anymore, too many years.
Quote from: budtripp on March 05, 2013, 09:33:40 PM
I usually:
Order new mouth calls, then proceed to annoy everyone in the house with them everyday.
Pick up another box of shells that I don't need, as I might shoot 2 rounds a year max and have enough to last me 20 years at least
Drool over custom pot calls in the classifieds (actually ordered another one for this season)
Check out the dsd website and try to find a way to fund a jake and hen (will do it someday, maybe when I get my tax return)
Buy another turkey hunting video and watch it over and over
Read all the posts of dead turkeys from the boys down south and try to contain my jealousy as my season doesn't start until mid April.
In no particular order
SCARY - X2 All the way down to the every year trying to fund a DSD. I finally did get the jake last year - worth every penny.
Quote from: heathwesley on March 08, 2013, 05:36:43 PM
Quote from: budtripp on March 05, 2013, 09:33:40 PM
I usually:
Order new mouth calls, then proceed to annoy everyone in the house with them everyday.
Pick up another box of shells that I don't need, as I might shoot 2 rounds a year max and have enough to last me 20 years at least
Drool over custom pot calls in the classifieds (actually ordered another one for this season)
Check out the dsd website and try to find a way to fund a jake and hen (will do it someday, maybe when I get my tax return)
Buy another turkey hunting video and watch it over and over
Read all the posts of dead turkeys from the boys down south and try to contain my jealousy as my season doesn't start until mid April.
In no particular order
SCARY - X2 All the way down to the every year trying to fund a DSD. I finally did get the jake last year - worth every penny.
Congrats, you are now ahead of me lol. Maybe, just maybe, this year I will pull the trigger on one. :funnyturkey:
Quote from: heathwesley on March 08, 2013, 05:36:43 PM
Quote from: budtripp on March 05, 2013, 09:33:40 PM
I usually:
Order new mouth calls, then proceed to annoy everyone in the house with them everyday.
Pick up another box of shells that I don't need, as I might shoot 2 rounds a year max and have enough to last me 20 years at least
Drool over custom pot calls in the classifieds (actually ordered another one for this season)
Check out the dsd website and try to find a way to fund a jake and hen (will do it someday, maybe when I get my tax return)
Buy another turkey hunting video and watch it over and over
Read all the posts of dead turkeys from the boys down south and try to contain my jealousy as my season doesn't start until mid April.
In no particular order
SCARY - X2 All the way down to the every year trying to fund a DSD. I finally did get the jake last year - worth every penny.
Sums it up for me too for the most part.
Pray, Pray and Pray some more
practice with all my calls
clean my guns
scout and scout some more
Spray all my clothes with permethrine and gas up the therma cell
PRAY AND PRAY SOME MORE
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Not really. Shoot my bow, clean shotguns, and make a lot of turkey noises
Changed the oil in my Jeep, a once a year thing now that I don't drive it all that much. Cleaned my guns, and went through the bulk of my spring hunting gear, throwing away several items that I should have thrown away years ago. I have a tendency to keep old camo clothes and such, even if they are beginning to fade, have a couple of holes, or no longer fit "just in case." Then, after a dozen years or so, it finally dawns on me I'm never going to wear them again, so why in the heck keep them?
I need to do the same thing with some calls. I have turkey calls from back in the 80's that I absolutely never hunt with, but for some reason, just hate to get rid of them.
-Scout
-check the guns
-re-tool turkey vest
-Repeat Process Above.............................................................................
Scout
Piddle with my gear
practice to the point of annoying the crap out of the wife and daughter.
Repeat the above at every given chance.
Buy a package of Oreo's. No joke Oreo's and water breakfast of champions in the turkey woods.
I read The Old Pro Turkey Hunter by Gene Nunnery prior to each season. I've about worn the cover off of the book. I read it out-loud to my boys when they were little....they ought to read it to me now, the way my eyes have gotten.
Do lots of driving and checking spots for sign.
Pattern guns
Order new mouth calls
Wait
1. Shave my head.
2. Make sure the wife knows I :z-flirtysmile3: her and that everything will be back to normal in 46 days.
1. Buy new mouth calls
2. Grow a beard
3. Run new mouth calls till I either get really good or slapped by my wife. Whichever comes first.
4. Drive to my hunting spots every night for 2-3 weeks and roost birds with my wife and little boy.
5. Have my whole family over for a steak dinner and talk lots and lots of turkey the night before opening day.
Take note #2 is imperative! I hate face masks and I wear glasses so they fog when I get to breathing hard.
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Kind of Korny...My dad and I always hunt opening day together. When I was younger and we would go hunting he would always make me cheese toast for breakfast. So now I make us both cheese toast for breadfast every year. I don't know how it came about but it just did. Just something little to start the season off right. I'm heading to Alabama in a day or so and he won't be with me, but at camp on my first morning I'll be eating cheese toast. ;D
Quote from: Burney Mac on March 15, 2013, 04:28:13 PM
Kind of Korny...My dad and I always hunt opening day together. When I was younger and we would go hunting he would always make me cheese toast for breakfast. So now I make us both cheese toast for breadfast every year. I don't know how it came about but it just did. Just something little to start the season off right. I'm heading to Alabama in a day or so and he won't be with me, but at camp on my first morning I'll be eating cheese toast. ;D
nothing corny about it man. Tradition is what makes what we do so special.
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