What is the worst bald face lie you have ever heard in a turkey hunting story?
"He was with hens"
That's the go to phrase when they don't come running into your lap....hehe
"I called him in by clucking once every thirty minutes,...he came sneaking into my calling." ::) :TooFunny: :toothy12:
Probably not exactly what you're looking for, but back in the 80's I heard of a 30+ lb gobbler being killed here. Never heard of one that big being taken locally, and everybody was talking about it. The guy that ran the local sports shop had a contest each year and a lot of the guys would bring their birds in to be weighed, whether they entered or not. Pete knew I was anxious to see the gobbler, so he called and told me when the guy that killed the big bird was coming in to have it weighed.
When the guy showed up carrying what looked to be a 18-20 lb bird, I looked at Pete and he was looking at me with a little grin on his face. Pete usually hung the birds by a foot when he weighed them, but this one he picked up by the neck and gave it a couple little bounces up and down like he was hefting the weight. On the second bounce, lead sinkers of all sizes started to fall out of the body cavity and land on the floor. The guy grabbed his "30 lb gobbler", headed out the door and I never saw him there again. ;D
Bob
Depends on who was telling the story. I have heard guys claim about pulling things off that are possible. Just not by them.
Quote from: Treerooster on February 16, 2016, 10:53:31 AM
I promise I won't tell anybody about this spot or hunt it without you.
True dat.
"That bird is old because he's smart."
I didn't know I was trespassing.
Had another trespasser tell me the truth. Man, that bird was tearing it up over here and I just had to.
I had a guy try to tell me that he called a gobbler in to him and had an eagle fly down, grab to gobbler and carry him off.
I have heard of eagles attacking turkeys, but never one big enough to actually fly away with one.
Knowing the sources of the comment, "he was a jake".
Quote from: Treerooster on February 16, 2016, 10:53:31 AM
I promise I won't tell anybody about this spot or hunt it without you.
Yep, that's a classic. :icon_thumright:
Bob
Quote from: OldSchool on February 16, 2016, 10:36:47 AM
Probably not exactly what you're looking for, but back in the 80's I heard of a 30+ lb gobbler being killed here. Never heard of one that big being taken locally, and everybody was talking about it. The guy that ran the local sports shop had a contest each year and a lot of the guys would bring their birds in to be weighed, whether they entered or not. Pete knew I was anxious to see the gobbler, so he called and told me when the guy that killed the big bird was coming in to have it weighed.
When the guy showed up carrying what looked to be a 18-20 lb bird, I looked at Pete and he was looking at me with a little grin on his face. Pete usually hung the birds by a foot when he weighed them, but this one he picked up by the neck and gave it a couple little bounces up and down like he was hefting the weight. On the second bounce, lead sinkers of all sizes started to fall out of the body cavity and land on the floor. The guy grabbed his "30 lb gobbler", headed out the door and I never saw him there again. ;D
Bob
Guy that hunted with my grandfather legitimately killed a 31 lb gobbler. It wasn't common knowledge until after the fact that it was an escapee from a neighboring farm. It was the last bird that Mac killed before he succumbed to cancer. Everyone was sworn to secrecy and Mac was none the wiser.
As for lies had a guy tell me once he was hunting near a set of railroad tracks. Was calling a bird and as the bird neared the tracks a train came by. He called louder and the bird flew over the train only to land 10 feet away. That's probably the worst.
"It's a Jake"
Best story I've heard in a long time. Short version. I set it up for two buddy's who are Undercover Ohio GW's to come down and hunt with me and a friend who has a good spot. They traded a future Ohio deer hunt for the Bama turkey hunt. I took one of the UC's with me and he killed a longbeard. My friend took the other one to a spot. Now my friend in Bama knew that they were both covert officers. Anyway their sitting on two different pine trees about 10 feet apart. My Ohio guy was napping, and my Bama guy woke him up by telling him turkey, turkey. My Ohio guy opened his eye's, saw the turkey and never raised a gun. So my Bama guy shot the turkey, which was a HEN ???. I have no idea how he did that, but then he started claiming it's a Jake.
So he woke up an Undercover GW and shot a hen in front of him in the spring. And to top it off my GW buddy videoed my Bama guy breasting out the hen, got him to say his name, date, county and state all while standing at the tailgate with his tag visible. They still own him and that was five years or so ago :TooFunny:
I get a kick out of guys getting excited about telling a story and say "he was a monster, that gobbler stood this tall" while holding their hand about 5 feet of the ground.
Now I realize turkeys may vary in size depending on the region, but only by inches, not 2 feet !!!
Some guy's just don't think before they speak.
"I've got a new choke that can kill birds at 82 yards..."
One I read on here a while back " I can kill 75% of the gobblers that I hear gobble on the roost at least 4 times"
Quote from: wvmntnhick on February 16, 2016, 01:15:39 PM
Quote from: OldSchool on February 16, 2016, 10:36:47 AM
Probably not exactly what you're looking for, but back in the 80's I heard of a 30+ lb gobbler being killed here. Never heard of one that big being taken locally, and everybody was talking about it. The guy that ran the local sports shop had a contest each year and a lot of the guys would bring their birds in to be weighed, whether they entered or not. Pete knew I was anxious to see the gobbler, so he called and told me when the guy that killed the big bird was coming in to have it weighed.
When the guy showed up carrying what looked to be a 18-20 lb bird, I looked at Pete and he was looking at me with a little grin on his face. Pete usually hung the birds by a foot when he weighed them, but this one he picked up by the neck and gave it a couple little bounces up and down like he was hefting the weight. On the second bounce, lead sinkers of all sizes started to fall out of the body cavity and land on the floor. The guy grabbed his "30 lb gobbler", headed out the door and I never saw him there again. ;D
Bob
Guy that hunted with my grandfather legitimately killed a 31 lb gobbler. It wasn't common knowledge until after the fact that it was an escapee from a neighboring farm. It was the last bird that Mac killed before he succumbed to cancer. Everyone was sworn to secrecy and Mac was none the wiser.
As for lies had a guy tell me once he was hunting near a set of railroad tracks. Was calling a bird and as the bird neared the tracks a train came by. He called louder and the bird flew over the train only to land 10 feet away. That's probably the worst.
That was a beautiful thing you guys did for Mac. :icon_thumright:
Bob
"never heard a thing in there all morning"
"Birds are done gobbling for the year. I'm hanging it up and going fishing"
I only shot that hen because she suddenly got between the gobbler and me.
Quote from: guesswho on February 16, 2016, 01:26:55 PM
"It's a Jake"
Best story I've heard in a long time. Short version. I set it up for two buddy's who are Undercover Ohio GW's to come down and hunt with me and a friend who has a good spot. They traded a future Ohio deer hunt for the Bama turkey hunt. I took one of the UC's with me and he killed a longbeard. My friend took the other one to a spot. Now my friend in Bama knew that they were both covert officers. Anyway their sitting on two different pine trees about 10 feet apart. My Ohio guy was napping, and my Bama guy woke him up by telling him turkey, turkey. My Ohio guy opened his eye's, saw the turkey and never raised a gun. So my Bama guy shot the turkey, which was a HEN ???. I have no idea how he did that, but then he started claiming it's a Jake.
So he woke up an Undercover GW and shot a hen in front of him in the spring. And to top it off my GW buddy videoed my Bama guy breasting out the hen, got him to say his name, date, county and state all while standing at the tailgate with his tag visible. They still own him and that was five years or so ago :TooFunny:
Oh no not a couple of crooked ohio game wardens!
Quote from: Treerooster on February 16, 2016, 10:53:31 AM
I promise I won't tell anybody about this spot or hunt it without you.
:agreed:
Quote from: FullChoke on February 16, 2016, 12:52:37 PM
I had a guy try to tell me that he called a gobbler in to him and had an eagle fly down, grab to gobbler and carry him off.
I have heard of eagles attacking turkeys, but never one big enough to actually fly away with one.
Full Choke, don't know if this one could fly away with it but I wouldn't be surprised if it could.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp88qOHvc6w
i hear the ol i shot him at xx ridiculous yardage story alot. i dont care to hear turkey sniping stories.
Quote from: JLH on February 16, 2016, 10:19:15 AM
"He was with hens"
That's the go to phrase when they don't come running into your lap....hehe
Awesome!
I hunted a patch of public land for 2 seasons on a pretty regular basis. The birds had a pretty regular route for both seasons. As the season would progress and pressure became greater the birds would move farther back till they pretty much stayed on private land with exception to a small fallow patch.
I pulled up one morning and while I gather my stuff from the back of the car, a fellas pulled into the parking area behind me. He proceeded to tell me that he hunts there a lot and the only birds he ever sees were up front. From my previous experience here I've never seen or heard any sign of turkey where he was claiming but I said that's great that your hunting up front because I'm heading way out. He tried to reassure me of his helpfulness so I finally old him I will consider his advice. Little did he know that I rooted a nice Tom the evening before.
I proceeded with my plan and went to visit that Tom from the evening before. Got setup and began some soft yelping. After only a few minutes the Tom cut me off. I figured I would kick back and relax a bit till he got out of the tree. Only minutes after that bird gobbled, I see this joker and his buddy walking across the fallow patch coming towards me. They had went around to the other side of the property to enter from there. Before they noticed me they started yelping at this bird. Finally they saw me. The fella tossed up his hands in disgusted turned and started trying to get an angle on the bird. Finally they realized I was where I should be and they vacated.
I was astonished at the ploy of misinformation. The funny part is... Had the fella been honest in the parking area. I would have offered to hunt, the bird that I spent the time staking the evening before, with him. I would have even tried to get him the shot. I don't really care who shoots it, so long as I get to call it and someone gets it.
Long story short, I never got to see that bird that day. I think they kind of blew it but there is no way to say that with any certainty.
I shot him as soon as he hit the ground!!!
Quote from: Cane Cutter on February 16, 2016, 10:03:40 AM
What is the worst bald face lie you have ever heard in a turkey hunting story?
I don't know about worst...but I'm fairly certain about most common:
Hunter 1: "Hear any birds this morning?"
Hunter 2: "Nope...how 'bout you?"
Hunter 1: "Nope"I plea the 5th on this
"It's definitely a 2nd year bird..."
Worst season ever......
Quote from: SteelerFan on February 16, 2016, 08:12:36 PM
Quote from: Cane Cutter on February 16, 2016, 10:03:40 AM
What is the worst bald face lie you have ever heard in a turkey hunting story?
I don't know about worst...but I'm fairly certain about most common:
Hunter 1: "Hear any birds this morning?"
Hunter 2: "Nope...how 'bout you?"
Hunter 1: "Nope"
I plea the 5th on this
Why do we even ask in the first place? I guess we think that the person may be a nube that spill their guts. I had a few folks over the years get mad at me because I wouldn't divulge any info! ????
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I know one guy that sees 100 turkey's every trip and the whole woods gobbles every time he goes, so he says. I call bs.
Quote from: guesswho on February 16, 2016, 01:26:55 PM
"It's a Jake"
Best story I've heard in a long time. Short version. I set it up for two buddy's who are Undercover Ohio GW's to come down and hunt with me and a friend who has a good spot. They traded a future Ohio deer hunt for the Bama turkey hunt. I took one of the UC's with me and he killed a longbeard. My friend took the other one to a spot. Now my friend in Bama knew that they were both covert officers. Anyway their sitting on two different pine trees about 10 feet apart. My Ohio guy was napping, and my Bama guy woke him up by telling him turkey, turkey. My Ohio guy opened his eye's, saw the turkey and never raised a gun. So my Bama guy shot the turkey, which was a HEN ???. I have no idea how he did that, but then he started claiming it's a Jake.
So he woke up an Undercover GW and shot a hen in front of him in the spring. And to top it off my GW buddy videoed my Bama guy breasting out the hen, got him to say his name, date, county and state all while standing at the tailgate with his tag visible. They still own him and that was five years or so ago :TooFunny:
And they made some FINE wingbones too!!! Tell him I'll take all the "jake" bones like that he can come across!!
I started the thread and didn't even include mine.... "There has never been a turkey I couldn't call in" ;D
I had a guy that was selling box calls
tell me-If he's stupid enough to gobble
once I'll kill him.
Regards
Turk
I told the worst lie I ever heard.One fall I told a guy that I shot a big buck and wanted to give him time before I went to track him the next day. The area was loaded with turkeys and that gave me and my buddy that afternoon and the next day to pill em up. We never shot a bird but we had fun and the guy hunted a different area.
Quote from: FullChoke on February 16, 2016, 12:52:37 PM
I had a guy try to tell me that he called a gobbler in to him and had an eagle fly down, grab to gobbler and carry him off.
I have heard of eagles attacking turkeys, but never one big enough to actually fly away with one.
Dude I have had this happen to me and a buddy on 2 separate occasions. My encounter was one spring I had a eagle try and catch a hen on my field. I had a buddy that came to deer hunt a few years later. He was hunting the same field. I never told him about my encounter and he came back to camp telling me he had a huge eagle grab a hen on his field and flew off with it.........I Swear!
I had a old turkey hunter tell me that one morning he called a big Gobbler up. He went on to say that the bird was less than 18" from his face.And that he gobbled so much and so hard that his face (the hunters) was covered with slobber lol.
Nahhh, I don't Turkey hunt. I was at work couldn't have been my truck ya saw. These both work well.
Quote from: PASTRUTTER21 on February 16, 2016, 06:57:31 PM
I shot him as soon as he hit the ground!!!
I've actually done that, once.
Cant really think of a big tale at the moment but I've told a few actual tales in the presence of another guy that later told the same tale as if it had happened to him personally. With me standing there among the crowd. He couldn't even remember I was the one that told it first so he takes the story as his own. Heard him do that several times........
One of these so called pros around hear states he has killed every bird he sat down to in his last 20 years. Claims it's not a bird he can't kill if it gobbles once to his call. Funny thing is I only know of one bird he actually killed. I was working him and he was headed straight to me. Guy got between us and ambushed him coming in to me.
"If I can make one gobble at me just one time, I WILL shoot him"... :TooFunny:
Quote from: guesswho on February 16, 2016, 01:26:55 PM
"It's a Jake"
Best story I've heard in a long time. Short version. I set it up for two buddy's who are Undercover Ohio GW's to come down and hunt with me and a friend who has a good spot. They traded a future Ohio deer hunt for the Bama turkey hunt. I took one of the UC's with me and he killed a longbeard. My friend took the other one to a spot. Now my friend in Bama knew that they were both covert officers. Anyway their sitting on two different pine trees about 10 feet apart. My Ohio guy was napping, and my Bama guy woke him up by telling him turkey, turkey. My Ohio guy opened his eye's, saw the turkey and never raised a gun. So my Bama guy shot the turkey, which was a HEN ???. I have no idea how he did that, but then he started claiming it's a Jake.
So he woke up an Undercover GW and shot a hen in front of him in the spring. And to top it off my GW buddy videoed my Bama guy breasting out the hen, got him to say his name, date, county and state all while standing at the tailgate with his tag visible. They still own him and that was five years or so ago :TooFunny:
bhahahahahahahahahahah
Quote from: VAHUNTER on February 17, 2016, 08:27:37 PM
I had a old turkey hunter tell me that one morning he called a big Gobbler up. He went on to say that the bird was less than 18" from his face.And that he gobbled so much and so hard that his face (the hunters) was covered with slobber lol.
now thats intense.
no way that happened he would have died of a heart attack
Quote from: Gobble! on February 19, 2016, 10:37:05 AM
Quote from: VAHUNTER on February 17, 2016, 08:27:37 PM
I had a old turkey hunter tell me that one morning he called a big Gobbler up. He went on to say that the bird was less than 18" from his face.And that he gobbled so much and so hard that his face (the hunters) was covered with slobber lol.
now thats intense.
Guy I know casually likes to ask me how I am doing with turkey season. He then proceeds to tell me he is on #5-8 (depending on time of year). He only hunts Florida. He is FOS. One year I had enough of his lying and bragging. He asked me how turkey season was going. I said I was done. He said, oh, you got 2? I said "Yeah, 2 in Florida, 3 in Georgia, 3 in Alabama and 2 in Kansas. You got any turkey recipes?" He has never told me how many birds he has killed again.
"I NEVER heard you calling".....
After the knucklehead sneaks between you and the bird and kills it.....grrrrr.
:happy0064:That should shut him up! Good job
Quote from: g8rvet on February 19, 2016, 12:18:34 PM
Guy I know casually likes to ask me how I am doing with turkey season. He then proceeds to tell me he is on #5-8 (depending on time of year). He only hunts Florida. He is FOS. One year I had enough of his lying and bragging. He asked me how turkey season was going. I said I was done. He said, oh, you got 2? I said "Yeah, 2 in Florida, 3 in Georgia, 3 in Alabama and 2 in Kansas. You got any turkey recipes?" He has never told me how many birds he has killed again.
"The owners said I could hunt here."
Imagine my surprise, since I was the owner.
"I din't know y'all hunted turkeys. I thought it was just deer you hunted."
Here's some of the biggest lies I ever heard in the turkey woods.
"What do you mean, I'm across the property line?" "I must have got turned around in the dark." "I didn't know it was posted."
He walked in right across a wide open fire lane past some neon yellow paint on trees & posted signs that are so bright a man with bad vision can see them on a moonless night without his glasses on. Just sayin'
Jim
Naw, just a couple hens. You see any?
I had one gobbling 125 yards out the morning before opening day I a Florida wma. A guy comes driving up and asks if heard anything. While trying to be polite and not totally lie or give up my find, the Tom walks right out in fornt of his jeep. :help:
Turns out the guy hadn't drawn for that wma but loved to hear the birds. He was a big help... got a map out and pointed out some spots that helped my group take birds.
Quote from: shaman on February 19, 2016, 03:06:45 PM
"The owners said I could hunt here."
Imagine my surprise, since I was the owner.
"I din't know y'all hunted turkeys. I thought it was just deer you hunted."
Doh! I was that guy once. It was an honest mistake in my case. I miss understood which hedgerow was the property line. The owner was understanding but boy did I feel like a dumb @ss.
i also forgot the all out lie from a poacher year before last that swore he was leasing my property from a guy 3 miles down the road. he sure was surprised to find i own the place. i get when someone makes an honest mistake but my place is marked very well.
They come in on a string. I have never seen one person use a fishing pole when calling a turkey.
accidents happen...
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Quote from: Cut N Run on February 19, 2016, 03:46:05 PM
Here's some of the biggest lies I ever heard in the turkey woods.
"What do you mean, I'm across the property line?" "I must have got turned around in the dark." "I didn't know it was posted."
He walked in right across a wide open fire lane past some neon yellow paint on trees & posted signs that are so bright a man with bad vision can see them on a moonless night without his glasses on. Just sayin'
Jim