Your Mississippi and Alabama Team Roaring 20's terrorists are poised at the gates and hoping for some ragged sleep before the 30 minutes before sunrise witching hour in the morning which constitutes the opening of the 2017 turkey season down here. Join together with us to wish them safety, fun and big honkin' gobblers.
Ready, steady... :newmascot:
FC
Best of luck to everyone heading out!
Thanks.guys, gonna be the coldest opener I can ever remember, mid 20's the first 2 mornings. Colder than a lot of this past deer season. I'll be chasing them as best I can. May be posting a frozen turkey, if you know what I mean! ????
You all be safe today. And put a couple on the board.
gonna warm up some before I go
Good luck everybody, have fun, shoot straight, and stay safe!
So did we go 0 for Mississippi today?
Quote from: xarcher on March 15, 2017, 08:22:38 PM
So did we go 0 for Mississippi today?
Apparently. I know that Surehuntsalot and myself weren't able to get away from work Wednesday, and I haven't heard from the others yet. My guess is that their hunting will start on Saturday. As a side note, everyone that I talked to that was able to go said that although it was deer-hunting cold Wednesday morning, at sunrise it was clear and the birds were screaming. Most folks reported hearing around 100-200 gobbles yesterday morning.
FC
I'm in central AL the last 2 days. Almost no gobbling being reported w/ 6 hunters in the woods.
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I got a call from my boss at 6:55 this morning that I could have the day off, 8:00 getting to the woods and heard and saw nothing! Buddy said he heard a new member shoot 3 times in a spot I had planned on opening my season, after my work day tomorrow I will be after them every day for the next month, good luck to all!
Quote from: 3bailey3 on March 16, 2017, 08:05:24 PM
I got a call from my boss at 6:55 this morning that I could have the day off, 8:00 getting to the woods and heard and saw nothing! Buddy said he heard a new member shoot 3 times in a spot I had planned on opening my season, after my work day tomorrow I will be after them every day for the next month, good luck to all!
3 shots adds up to a miss and 2 running shots.
Alrighty then, tomorrow is the first weekend of the 2017 turkey season for the states of Alabama and Mississippi. I will be among the ravenous horde descending on the innocent woodland chickens for our annual ritualistic game of wits. I long to feel the discomfort of a pair of long spurs crushing down on my fingers and shoulders and to feel that rhythmic bloody thumping of an aerated head on the seat of my britches.
May our team mates be in rare tactical form, able to parse out an entire volume of information from the thinnest wisp of left behind evidence and fashion a fool-proof Close Encounter of the Bird Kind with the undisputed King of the Spring.
Let's stay safe out there, my brothers.
FC
Good luck to all tomorrow. Flip the bird as they say.
My 3rd day in Central AL and not the first gobble. Gonna move west and try MS this weekend and get ready for FL the following weekend. Hope the warmer weather opens up some mouths soon. Good luck to all.
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3 more weekends for me. Y'all hurry up and do some damage!
The temps are rising, the dogwoods are in full bloom, Saturday starts a little cloudy then clears, Sunday should be a Katey-Bar-The-Door kind of morning. It's all good.
Cheers ;D
FC
Still 6 weeks to go here. :'( :'( :'(
I'am out the door at3:45 in the morning, good luck to you guys!
Good luck you all! Shoot straight and take good pictures!
I'm taking off in about 10 minutes.
:anim_25:
FC
Slow start down in my neck of the woods. Was able to go for about an hour before work each morning last week.
Opening morning- went by my house heard one bird gobbled 8 times. He answered me 2 times and gobbled at me scratching the leaves. That's when I had a huge coyote almost jump on me. When our eyes met he was right at 5 steps away just over my left shoulder. He looked like Wiley coyote off of the roadrunner cartoon when he turned a 180 in mid strid and kicked leaves up when he left there. He has a little yelping pup running with him. The bird shut up and after a while I eased around and found the gobbler and a hen still in the tree at 8:3am. I watched them fly down deep into the neighbors hardwoods away from the sounds of the coyotes.
Thursday- by my house he gobbled 3 times deeper on the neighbors property.
Friday- nothing
Saturday I hit the forest. Nothing I walked 5 miles in 3 of my top producing areas and didn't see any sign nor hear anything. I didn't even see another hunter nor hear any shots. Very strange for opening weekend. I talked to 10 other friends that hunted Saturday morning and no one heard a bird. It was an almost perfect morning.
Sunday- back by the house I heard 3 birds gobble 8-10 times. I also heard another hunter that was way across the line. And my high pitched yelping coyote ran right to the gobbling birds and they all went silent. I did get permission to hunt this piece of property but it's really thick so I doubt I'll try to chase them there.
I'll be headed black out to the forest on my next off day. Hopefully they will be talking a little better
Good luck to all y'all.
I told my wife to go ahead and be prepared for me to be a little ornery because I haven't pulled the trigger yet, lol.
I have been on them two mornings now, lots of gobbling but they have been on the propety line and been in a calling contest with someone on the other side, I knew I should just walk way but they were gobbling so good, at lest 8 birds this morning slipped both of us! I have off tomorrow I hope the guy on the other side does not!
not one peep here in simpson co yesterday morning, Saturday was a work day at camp so I didn't get to hunt, but done some scouting that afternoon
guys ive managed 2 thus far but due to time constraints and them not really being high scorers i didnt take the correct pics. Good luck to all and hopefully i can manage a good un.
Georgia Season opened this past weekend. It is raining today but I plan to be out there in the morning.
Gun is sighted in, tape and scale are ready. Calls are chalked and sanded and I have sprayed my clothes with permanone.
Not supposed to be a great year here but I will be trying my best.
My friend heard one back in the swamp gobbling so that is where I will be tomorrow before the sun comes up.
My friend killed this one opening morning a few miles away on some property owned by a big dog Atlanta lawyer who won't let anyone else on the property. He said it was a classic hunt. Birds gobbled about 300 yards away and came right in first thing after daylight.
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