It's been a grind this year, but the last week of the season has always been good to me. Took the day off and hit the woods. Got lucky and was able to slip in on some birds on the roost. After fly down I worked this guy the final few steps and plugged him with a 3 1/2 inch long beard #4. He went 23 pounds and some change. 11.5 inch beard, and 1.25 inch spurs.
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congrats on a nice bird, way to stick with them i have had great success the last week of season also.
Congrats on a great bird, It has been tough for me here in Southern WV as well this year. I finally connected this morning also, way to hang in there....
Good bird! Congrats
Awesome. Congrats
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Awesome bird bro, Congrats
Way to go, Kentucky has been tough on me this year. :boon:
Beautiful bird. Congrats.
Nice bird. This year has been a hard one. Seems like most of the birds in my part of the state have been gobbling on the roost then not much after they fly down and we haven't been seeing as many as we usually do.
Congrats!!!!
Congrats! After reading all the doom and gloom post from KY I spent a little time looking at telecheck. The counties I'm familiar with aren't doing that bad. We always did like the last week of the season. With the early season weather it should be even better this weekend.
Congrats.... I'm out now. Very slow
Congrats on a great bird. :icon_thumright:
Kentucky was very tough this year, I can only speak on the areas I hunt in West KY. Crittenden and Livingston predicting the lowest harvest in 20 years. The last time I checked Crittenden was down by about half for this same time last year.
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Quote from: spurman on May 05, 2018, 08:29:23 AM
Congrats on a great bird. :icon_thumright:
Kentucky was very tough this year, I can only speak on the areas I hunt in West KY. Crittenden and Livingston predicting the lowest harvest in 20 years. The last time I checked Crittenden was down by about half for this same time last year.
Bird numbers are way down on all but one of the places I hunt. I think we are about 12-14k fewer birds checked total than last year. Praying for a good hatch this year. After the season goes out Sunday I'm picking up my AR going on a predator jihad. Coons need to be thinned really bad too.
We are in the beginning stages of planning next years after FL hunt. Since I am very familiar with LBL it was going to be on the possibles lists although it overlaps with the FL north zone's season. Probably not now after all the negative reports from western KY. Maybe a few decent hatches will help. The habitat is certainly there. Anyone know how they did/are doing at Ft. Campbell? Some years Ft. Campbell was overrun with birds. Good luck next season.
Great bird!!!
Quote from: joey46 on May 08, 2018, 07:48:26 AM
We are in the beginning stages of planning next years after FL hunt. Since I am very familiar with LBL it was going to be on the possibles lists although it overlaps with the FL north zone's season. Probably not now after all the negative reports from western KY. Maybe a few decent hatches will help. The habitat is certainly there. Anyone know how they did/are doing at Ft. Campbell? Some years Ft. Campbell was overrun with birds. Good luck next season.
Harvest at the fort is as low as I ever remember since 1991. With 4 hunting days left the harvest is 80 birds. The turkey population is WAY down from what it used to be.
Quote from: Roost 1 on May 08, 2018, 08:08:46 AM
Quote from: joey46 on May 08, 2018, 07:48:26 AM
We are in the beginning stages of planning next years after FL hunt. Since I am very familiar with LBL it was going to be on the possibles lists although it overlaps with the FL north zone's season. Probably not now after all the negative reports from western KY. Maybe a few decent hatches will help. The habitat is certainly there. Anyone know how they did/are doing at Ft. Campbell? Some years Ft. Campbell was overrun with birds. Good luck next season.
Harvest at the fort is as low as I ever remember since 1991. With 4 hunting days left the harvest is 80 birds. The turkey population is WAY down from what it used to be.
Worst season since I started hunting FC in 89.
Scary - hope it stays a recoverable western Ky problem. Some of the DB NF areas seem to be ok at first look. A few are showing few jakes taken and that isn't a good sign. We'll see.
congrats