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Title: How long?
Post by: supremepredator on April 30, 2017, 09:23:53 PM
How long did it take you to kill your first bird? It took me 3 seasons which would be 2 years. It was a jake.
Title: Re: How long?
Post by: MT elk slayer on April 30, 2017, 09:51:34 PM
My first bird was harvested my first day out of my first season, about 6 hours into the hunt. Called in a first year tom and let the lead fly at 8 yds. My bird this season (2nd season) was about 2 hours into the hunt on the first day out, laid down a beautiful bird 9.25" bird at 12 yds
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Post by: maddog3355 on April 30, 2017, 09:56:15 PM
It took me 3 seasons to. Not because there wasn't any turkeys though. Would of helped if I would of been old enough to drive.  If I knew then what I know now I could of killed a bird a day. Had endless farms to hunt now 30 years later farms are split up and houses or grandkids of the original owners are deer hunters and don't want nobody scaring there deer away.
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Post by: njdevilsb on April 30, 2017, 10:08:24 PM
I got my first bird during my first season when I was 12.  It was a hen in the fall followed by a jake during the next spring.  I have been hooked ever since.
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Post by: dublelung on April 30, 2017, 10:16:59 PM
I killed my first my 3rd season and I was 14 years old. He was a 2yr old with 9" beard. I remember the whole hunt like it was yesterday.
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Post by: appalachianassassin on May 01, 2017, 12:13:14 AM
my first season. had a 10in beard and no spurs.
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Post by: LaLongbeard on May 01, 2017, 03:44:06 AM
Killed my first gobbler in season 1.Took about 3 weeks of trial an error I'll never forget watching the first one walking into range its been an obsession ever  since.
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Post by: guesswho on May 01, 2017, 04:19:34 PM
First season with help from my Dad, a long time ago.
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Post by: Tail Feathers on May 01, 2017, 04:27:10 PM
Got a jake on my second hunt ever.  Got a longbeard on my next hunt and was seriously and totally hooked at that point.
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Post by: tha bugman on May 01, 2017, 05:09:31 PM
first season killed two....my crappie fishing career ended before it even started...
Title: How long?
Post by: Happy on May 01, 2017, 06:12:54 PM
I went many years as a kid tromping  through turkeyless woods just praying to get lucky. A single shot 20 guage new englander shotgun was my weapon. Once I had woods to hunt that had turkeys I killed one pretty quick. A jake.

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Post by: stinkpickle on May 01, 2017, 06:25:41 PM
Five years' worth of spring seasons!!!  I took a few fall birds during that time, though.
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Post by: fallhnt on May 01, 2017, 06:46:02 PM
Took me 6 years to kill one with a bow including two years of Fall archery. My area didn't have a Spring season. Killed one second day I ever Spring hunted in MO. I liked my two years of Fall hunting so much I went out of state to get more hunting time. I've killed 3x the birds with a bow than gun. So now I look for new challenges in the turkey woods.

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Post by: Farmboy27 on May 01, 2017, 07:24:57 PM
Killed one when I was 12, the minimum age in PA back then. Killed one every year after that for 22 years. The streak ended last year.
Title: How long?
Post by: TauntoHawk on May 01, 2017, 09:06:38 PM
Tried to figure turkey hunting out on my own usually only 1 day a year took me until I was 18 so 7th season to kill a longbeard but I was ate up after that and I've never killed less than 2 a season since then and have hunted more than 1 state every year the last 10 years

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Title: Re: How long?
Post by: Ontario_caller on May 01, 2017, 09:33:39 PM
Killed a jake my first season I hunted turkey. The third season ever in Ontario. Went to a public land spot where I had seen turkeys the year before while trout fishing.
Pulled into the parking lot just before first light , slammed the car door and one gobbled 80 yards from the lot . Shot the jake about 20 mins later.
Killed at least one every year since.